Wilderness Season: When God Feels Silent with Girls Gone Bible

Stay True with Madison Prewett Troutt

Madison Prewett Troutt

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to another episode of Stay True Podcast! This week, Madi sits down with the bold and faith-filled hosts of Girls Gone Bible, Angela Halili and Arielle Reitsma, for a conversation about wilderness seasons– where loneliness feels heavy, waiting feels long, prayers feel unanswered, and God feels distant. Together, they unpack what it looks like to walk through pain without losing faith, how to cling to truth when the enemy tries to take over, and why the wilderness isn’t a punishment– it’s preparation.
This episode is for the one who feels forgotten, walking through heartbreak, and clinging to hope even when it’s hard. Let this be your reminder: God wastes nothing—and He is working, even in the wilderness. You are not alone. There is purpose in the wilderness, and even when God feels silent, He is never absent.

Remember to stay you and stay true!

Questions/topics discussed and answered:
-What to do when you feel like you can’t hear God
-How to navigate wilderness seasons without losing faith
-Why pain can be a doorway to deeper intimacy with Jesus
-Finding identity in Christ when your plans fall apart
-How to hold onto hope in seasons of suffering
AND SO MUCH MORE!

Helpful Resources:

Out of the Wilderness by Angela Halili and Arielle Reitsma: https://a.co/d/4imQ7oO

Dare To Be True: Defeat The Lies That Bind You and Live Out The Truth That Frees You by Madison Prewett Troutt: https://a.co/d/gdfpHX5

Stay True Website: https://www.staytruepodcast.com

Stay True Merch: https://www.staytruepodcast.com/merch

Transcript

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0:00.0	How would you guys describe like what a wilderness season is and why we have to go through them?
0:06.0	The wilderness season is basically a time where you don't know where God is, you don't see him anywhere.
0:12.0	Do you know how many times I have fallen short of his glory?
0:16.0	He picks me up and he redeems me. That's love.
0:20.0	When he's not showing up, it's because something is happening
0:22.9	within you. What would you say to the person who is in the middle of a battle of the mind?
0:27.4	When I really captured what God's love was really like, it naturally made me say, what
0:32.8	have I been doing my whole life? What has been like a wilderness season for you and what
0:36.6	did God teach you
0:37.5	about himself through it? In those moments where everything is being stripped, that's where he's
0:42.5	producing something. That's so much better on the other side of what you thought was the best for you.
0:47.7	Life can be really, really hard. And if you don't have Jesus, you cannot survive. I was just a girl
0:53.2	with like no father's voice.
0:55.3	And he like has always bothered me so well.
1:05.6	What's up guys?
1:06.6	Welcome back to another episode of Stay True podcast.
1:09.2	I'm your host, Madison Pruitt Trout,
1:11.8	here with my best friends. I'm so excited that I have Angela Halili and I have Ariel Ritzma.
1:20.8	I literally had to ask them right before this podcast. I've never said y'all's last names before
1:25.3	and we call each other best friends, SOS. But I just call them Anginar.
1:28.8	They have been on the podcast before, but only individually.
1:32.1	I know.
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