Father, I have nothing left. I am running on fumes and even the fumes are running out. My body is tired. My mind is tired. My soul is tired. I have been carrying things that are too heavy for one person to carry, and I have been doing it for so long that I forgot what it felt like to not be exhausted.

I have been strong for everyone else. I have held it together for my family, showed up for my job, cared for the people who depend on me, and smiled through my own pain because I didn’t want to be a burden. But Lord, I am breaking. The cracks I’ve been hiding are spreading, and I don’t know how much longer I can hold this together before I fall apart completely.

I am tired of fighting. Tired of enduring. Tired of hearing “stay strong” when I have nothing strong left in me. Every morning I wake up and wonder how I’m going to make it through another day. And every night I collapse, only to do it all over again. It feels like an endless cycle of pouring out with nothing being poured back in.

But Your Word says that You give strength to the weary and increase the power of the weak. Lord, I am the weary. I am the weak. I qualify. And I am asking You — not out of religious obligation but out of raw desperation — to fill me with a strength that is not my own. The strength I have manufactured has run dry. I need the kind that comes only from You.

Renew me, Father. Like the eagles that mount up on wings, lift me above this exhaustion. Not around it, not through some shortcut, but above it — to a place where I can see that this season will not last forever, even though it feels like it will. Give me strength for this hour. Not tomorrow’s strength — just enough for right now. And when the next hour comes, give me enough for that one too.

Carry the things I cannot carry. Take the burdens I was never meant to bear alone. If I have been playing God in my own life — trying to control everything, fix everyone, hold the world together by sheer willpower — forgive me. Teach me to rest in You, even in the middle of the chaos. Teach me that resting is not quitting. Teach me that asking for help is not weakness.

Lord, I don’t need to understand why this season is so hard. I just need to survive it with my faith intact. And on the other side of this, I want to look back and say that it was Your strength, not mine, that carried me through.

In the mighty name of Jesus, who endured the cross and is alive forevermore, I pray.

Amen.

Scripture

Scriptures for Strength

He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Isaiah 40:29-31

I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

Philippians 4:13

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.

Psalm 46:1

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

2 Corinthians 12:9

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.

Joshua 1:9

Guidance

How to pray this prayer

Stop and be still

Before you pray, stop doing. Put everything down. You cannot receive strength while you are still sprinting. Be still for two minutes. Just breathe.

Read it slowly, out loud

Let yourself hear the words. Don’t perform them — receive them. When a line hits you, stop and repeat it. Let it settle into your bones.

Make it personal

Name the things draining you. The caregiving, the job, the fight, the grief. Tell God exactly where you are empty. He fills what you name.

Pray it daily

Strength for today is a daily prayer. Manna didn’t keep overnight. Come back to this every morning and let God refill what yesterday emptied.

Don’t carry it alone

If you are burned out, you need people. Ask someone to share the load. Request free prayer from our team. Let the body of Christ be a body to you.

Prayer for Strength