Prayer for Hope
Hope After Disappointment
1 min · Good for: Hurting, Tired
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Lord,
what I hoped for did not happen, and I feel the loss.
Receive my disappointment without asking me to hide it.
When I am ready, help me see paths I could not see before.
Keep this setback from defining my worth or ending my willingness to try.
Restore hope slowly, honestly, and deeply within me.
Give me patience with the empty space between what ended and what begins next.
Let this season deepen me rather than diminish me, and keep my heart open to goodness.
Let hope become more than a distant wish.
Give it hands and feet through the choices I make, the support I accept, and the encouragement I offer to someone else who is struggling.
I place both my desire for change and my uncertainty about how it will happen into Your hands.
Lead me through the next small step, and give me grace when growth is slower than I hoped.
Amen.
Bible verses to pray with it
“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.”
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says the LORD, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.”
“It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.”
“let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.”
Reflect
What are you looking forward to?
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