What if the moment God seemed most cruel turned out to be the most loving thing He ever did for you?

In this deeply moving episode of Supernatural Prayer Stories, Rick Osborne sits down with Jenny Wise Black — licensed marriage and family therapist and founder of MediaTalks.net — for one of the most raw, honest, and theologically stunning conversations the show has ever had.

Jenny came prepared with safe answers. Instead, she chose to share her deepest, truest stories. What followed left both of them in tears.

Story One: The Candle At 23, Jenny was on fire for God — deep in ministry, deep in the Word, deeply devoted. Then a devastating experience with a church community left her crushed and confused, unable to distinguish between how people were treating her and how God felt about her. Lying face-down on her basement floor with her Bible open, she showed God the tiny birthday-candle flame that was her remaining love for Him and said, "Please be gentle — it's about to go out."

Then God blew it out.

What followed was seven years of not opening her Bible. And what God whispered to her years later in five stolen minutes at a Target Starbucks — while she had a grocery cart and somewhere to be — is one of the most beautiful revelations of grace you will ever hear. "That was your love for me. Not my love for you. And my love for you can never go out."

Story Two: The Miracle When Jenny's 26-year-old son Brandon suffered a concussion that left him functioning for only 20 minutes a day, she prayed the prayer every parent knows: "If I only get one miracle, Lord — let it be this." What happened next wasn't a dramatic divine intervention from the sky. It was something she almost missed — God inviting her into co-creation, her mind assembling puzzle pieces no one else could see, leading to an experimental treatment that brought Brandon back to 90% in three days. And during the months he was nearly comatose, Brandon wrote a book — currently titled While I Was Sleeping — about discovering his value when he had nothing to offer.

Also in this conversation:

• Why Jenny carries a "Wise Phone" instead of a smartphone — and what it's doing for her prayer life
• The simple household boundary exercise that will change how you think about who you let into your most vulnerable spaces
• Why she believes constant digital noise may be the most overlooked threat to our ability to hear God
• How God uses painful seasons — not despite His love, but because of it — to orient us away from people-pleasing and toward the truth of who He says we are

This is an episode you'll want to listen to twice.

🌐 Learn more about Jenny's work: mediatox.net

️ Supernatural Prayer Stories is part of the Face to Face with God broadcast with Rick Osborne — real stories of people who pray and expect God to show up.

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