When You Don't Know What to Pray

When you don't know what to pray, you are not failing. You are not alone.

There are seasons when you sit down to pray and the words simply will not come. Your mind goes blank. Your heart is tired. You wonder whether God is listening, whether you are praying the right way, or whether you have been away too long to come back.

When You Don't Know What to Pray is a 90-day Christian devotional for those seasons.

Each day offers a Scripture passage, a short reflection, a written prayer, questions for personal reflection, and one small step you can take into the day. The journey begins with the silence, shame, and uncertainty that can make prayer difficult, then moves through honest prayer, lament, confession, the prayers of Jesus, unanswered prayer, waiting, stillness, surrender, gratitude, hope, and learning to pray through every season of life.

You will encounter prayers for the moments when all you can say is "help," when you are angry, when you are hurting, when you are waiting for an answer, when doubt is present, and when you simply don't know what to ask for.

This is not a formula for getting God to give you the answer you want. It is an invitation to come honestly-to pray with the words you have, and to trust God even when you don't have words at all.

Use it one day at a time. Five to ten minutes. One Scripture. One reflection. One prayer. One small step.

At the end of the 90 days, seven additional days of reflection help you look back, recognize what God has taught you, and continue the journey.

When the words won't come, come anyway.