Prayers for the Days You Can't Find Words

These are written to be said out loud exactly as they are. No performance. No vocabulary you'd never use.

When “God, help me” is all you have

God, help me — a short prayer for the moment you're overwhelmed and can't get further than three words.

When you're worn all the way down

A prayer for strength when you have nothing left — for depletion that has lasted longer than a bad day.

After a relapse

There's a prayer inside what to do after a relapse, written for the hour right after.

How to pray when you feel nothing

“In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered.”Romans 8:26, WEB

Read that again. Not knowing how to pray is described as the normal condition, not the disqualifying one. And the answer to it isn't better technique — it's Someone praying from inside you in a language that doesn't need words.

Prayers you can keep

If you want a month of first-person prayers written for the seasons when the words won't come, explore the 30 Days of Daily Prayer guide alongside the free 30-Day Devotion Guide.