Father, I am tired.
I feel that I don’t have the strength to get to the end of the day sometimes.
It’s a weariness beyond merely a physical exhaustion, but a weariness of the soul.
Please help me to remember that when my circumstances are heavy and complex,
the truth is that you are a sovereign God.
Nothing is out of your control.
Nothing is beyond your control.
And yet sometimes you allow these seasons, not because you aren’t good,
but because you know that even these things are being used
for your glory, and my good.
When I am tempted to listen to Satan’s voice that whispers
‘Is God really good when things are so burdensome?’
would you help me lift up my shield of faith
and the sword of the spirit and combat his lies with the truth.
And never let me doubt your goodness and your faithfulness.
When I am tempted to give in, would you remind me that
suffering produces endurance, endurance produces character
and character produces hope.
And my hope in You is what keeps me getting up again and keeping going.
When I am tempted to feel overwhelmed at the sheer amount of sin,
suffering and apparent hopelessness in the world,
would you help me to remember that I cannot fix everything.
You have not called me to carry the weight of the world’s suffering on my back.
I pray that you can help me turn off my social media
and instead look at the ways that I can serve in the places you have put me in.
I know a simple text, praying with a friend, taking someone to an
appointment or making a hot meal for someone are provisions of grace
that you provide through me. I pray you would help me to be faithful in the
small deeds that you have appointed for me, rather than feeling
so hopeless over the world that I crawl into a dark hole and
forsake the people you have put around me to love.
When I am weary of the sins that still beset me,
and I feel i am a hopeless case,
remind me of the truth that I am loved and precious child of God.
You began a good work in me,
and you have promised to continue that until the day of completion.
When I feel dry, listless and overwhelmed,
would you remind me that you are a God who has promised
to refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.
Oh Lord, i need that from you today.
The day ahead is beyond me in my strength.
But I am not called to live this day in my strength, but in yours.
You will use my weakness to show your strength.
You have lavished endless grace, mercy and love on me.
I am more loved than i could even imagine.
The God of Heaven gave his Son,
so that I could come before your throne in my weariness every minute of every day.
And so I am come again to you Lord,
like a child in my weakness,
but in joy that you are the God who renews my strength
and is my portion forever.
Be my strength today.
Amen.
A prayer to give you strength in difficult times.
