Let's pray:
Heavenly Father, I’m tired.
Not of You, but of fighting battles I don’t understand.
I carry wounds that people don’t see.
I smile in public but bleed in private.
Today, I don’t need fancy words, I need You.
Please sit with me in this silence.
I need you to hold what I can’t even put into prayer.
I need you to breathe when I feel breathless.
I don’t ask You to make life easy, I ask You to make me unbreakable.
I don’t ask You to remove the storm; I ask You to show me that You’re still in it with me.
If all I can say is “help me,” then let that be enough.
If all I can give is my tears, then receive them as worship.
And if all I can do is stand, then let standing be victory. I’m tired of smiling while I’m breaking inside.
I’m tired of carrying battles nobody sees. Turn my tears into testimony.
Flip my frustration into fire.
Let the very thing that tried to destroy me become the reason I rise.
I will not die in this season.
I will live to see Your goodness, even here, even now. Amen.