Stuck In A Hard Season? Why God Hasn't Rescued You Yet

Daily Hope with Pastor John S. Dickerson · Sep 1, 2026 · 4m

If you feel stuck in a hard season, a painful marriage, a job you hate, a hospital room, a broken family, you've probably asked God why He hasn't rescued you out of it yet. In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson unpacks a short phrase the apostle Paul wrote from an actual prison cell. In Ephesians 6:20, Paul calls himself "an ambassador in chains" and asks believers to pray for him, not that his chains would break, but that he would boldly share the good news of Jesus right where he was. Paul saw something the Roman guards chained to him could not see: he was in that cell so he could…