Category: Prayers

Uncertainty

Friends, I’m going through some of this now but am not desperate as this prayer indicates. However, I know the Holy Spirit gave this writing to me to help someone who is struggling right now. As I wrote it, I felt that struggle and understood how much misery that person feels. I pray whomever you are that you find this blog and it helps you trust God with all the challenges you face. . . . . .

Lord, I’m not ready for this. So many changes, so much wonder about how it will all work out, if it will all work out in any way that I can be happy with. It seems that the older I get, the more temporary everything becomes. Will it always be that way? Why does change have to occur so often and so interrupting of my life? What comes next?

Can I really depend on you to work out all the changes so I’m at least satisfied with them, if not happy with them? I know your Word says I can depend on you in all circumstances, but sometimes it’s hard when I don’t know how things will end. Give me more faith to believe that you’ll work this all out. So many things have to change, and I have so much to manage right now, most of which is out of my control.

Forgive my questioning, Lord. I know that you’ll take care of me, whatever happens, and that I can trust you to be with me, even when I don’t like my circumstances. I remember how much I felt your presence with me, even when I was having so much trouble and trying to run away from you. You wouldn’t let me go but kept on letting me feel your presence with me, even when I couldn’t do much for myself, when I needed so much help and was in so much pain that I didn’t want to do anything.

I know that as you were with me then, so you’ll be even more with me now when I’m seeking your answers. I love you, Lord, and all I can do is to leave everyone of these complicated circumstances in your hand, and trust you to work out the whole thing.

“For I know the plans I have for you” — this is the Lord’s declaration — “plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope” (Jeremiah 29:11 Christian Standard Bible)

A Prayer for Hard Times

God put it on my heart to write this prayer that I believe someone needs today. If that person is you, please know that God loves you no matter who you are or what you’ve done. He is there waiting for you to respond to him. His arms are open wide, ready to receive you.

Lord, I need you. Times are hard and I don’t know where to turn. Everything looks black and I can’t see any light. My head is full with ideas, but they all seem to lead nowhere. How can I look up and see you? How can I find any light? Guide me, holy God! Lead me as you’d lead a small child. Be the light of my life, for without you I am lost and have nowhere to turn. Help me, Lord!

A Prayer for Tough Times

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God put it on my heart to write this prayer that I believe someone needs today. If that person is you, please know that God loves you no matter who you are or what you’ve done. He is there waiting for you to respond to him. His arms are open wide, ready to receive you.

The prayer: Lord, I need you. Times are hard and I don’t know where to turn. Everything looks black and I can’t see any light. My head is full with ideas, but they all seem to lead nowhere. How can I look up and see you? How can I find any light? Guide me, holy God! Lead me as you’d lead a small child. Be the light of my life, for without you I am lost and have nowhere to turn. Help me, Lord!

Prayer for Those with Debilitating Diseases

(This prayer is for three people close to my heart, but I extend it to others in this situation.)

Father, my heart hurts for people close to me who are enduring debilitating diseases that Satan has inflicted upon them. I know many others face the same or different issues, all of which prove difficult to cure. Only you can touch these loved ones and heal them, Father. Whether you use doctors and medicine or whether You divinely heal them, I pray you touch their lives.

In the meanwhile, give them peace in the journey; comfort them in pain; let them know you stand beside them and your Spirit within them each moment of the day and night.

Father, you know each of their life situations, and I lift those up to you, for you alone know what each one needs at this very moment and in the coming days as they walk through these life-changing challenges. Give them courage, strength, energy, hope and peace. Let them know your very real presence upon them.

Father, if I could, I’d instantly remove each of these illnesses from them; but I can’t. I know you can. That is not a difficult thing for you, Daddy-God! However, sometimes you allow us to walk through these challenges, teaching us more about you along the way. I pray each one learns the lessons you have for them during this time, drawing them ever closer to you, Holy God.

I pray your glory comes out of these situations in whatever way you choose. May you be honored and exalted; and may all these close to me – and others also – have a greater testimony of your mercy and grace in the future than they do presently.

Father, I love and exalt you, for you alone are holy, high and worthy of worship.  You sent Jesus to pay the price for our sins and our healing, as the Bible says in 1 Peter 2:24 (NASB) “He Himself [Jesus] bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness, for by His wounds you were healed.” In Jesus’ precious and holy name, I ask for your mercy, Holy God. Amen.