Prayers for prayer and spiritual life
My prayer life feels dry
For a faith that wants to go deeper but feels stuck.
Also for dry season · spiritual dryness · prayer feels empty · going through the motions · no feeling in prayer · distant from god · stuck spiritually · lukewarm · spiritual rut · cold faith · bored with prayer
As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.
Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
A prayer
Original writing, not a quotation of Scripture.
God, I still show up, but it feels like talking to the ceiling. The words come out the same every time and I don't feel much of anything. David prayed from dry ground too, and he kept praying.
So will I. Keep me faithful in the dry weeks. Draw near as I draw near, even when I can't feel it.
Water the tired parts of my faith, and bring back the joy of knowing you. In Jesus' name, Amen.