Sunday, March 14, 2010

Prayers for Those in Despair


Heavenly Father, I know I am close to despair. I feel so tempted to give up, to withdraw from life and religion and let the world simply carry me along.

Everything seems so meaningless and nothing appeals to my better instincts.

Help me to remember that Jesus gave meaning to everything in the world.

Let me bank on that fact and get over this time of despair, to really believe in the depths of my being that there is a reason for living.

Show me the reason for my life and tell me what I must do.

Bring home to me that I am never alone, but that You are with me even in the depths of despair. Remind me that no matter what I may endure now, an unending joy awaits me in the future if I but cling tightly to You and your Son Jesus in the unity of the Spirit.

Amen.

24 comments:

  1. Lord bless my efforts to seek Thee in all that I do. Help me hang in there. I really need my car back....repaired...for this I pay

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  2. AnonymousMay 20, 2011

    I ask dear Lord that a wonderful holy priest on a leave of absence return to active ministry if that be your will.

    I pray that my friend get a good job quickly.

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  3. AnonymousJune 08, 2011

    I pray that justice is given to me in my work situation and that my family will survive all the recent upheaval

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  4. AnonymousJuly 21, 2011

    Dear Lord,
    My heart is in great pain. Why is it that I try to be the best mom wife and still I am not good enough. I do not expect nothing in return,not even a thank you. Please let me get past this feeling of despair.My soul is aching with sadness and let me see things differently. Let me know that I am doing ok with my raising of my kids.I don't have much to offer but what I do have I give to them with slot of love. Please ease my pain. I don't mean to be selfish and think of me me me bit I have no one to run too. Please just give me peace int heart. Amen

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  5. DEAR LORD, I NEED YOUR GUIDANCE. MY CHILDREN ARE NOW RAISED AND I AM LONELY AND NEED TO FIND A PATH. I AM FEELING JUST SO SAD. PLEASE PLACE ME WHERE I NEED TO BE.

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  6. Oh Lord, help me to have zeal again, to love life as You want me to. Help me to gain interest in what that used to interest me. Deliver me O, Lord from this time of despair.
    Amen

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  7. For my anger, for my sorrow, for my pain - for all of my negativity and self loathing - for all those in my life who either deceive or I have deceived. Lord lift me away from this hell I find myself in - take me away to a new type of life - one that is not shattered by my wretched past -one that will give me a new life - make me a new person, and a new warrior for you Christ. Amen

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  8. For working with difficult people, for peace at work, for better self esteem and forgiveness of self loathing and negativity

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  9. AnonymousMay 18, 2012

    Dear Lord, please pray for my two best friends. They are in need of your guidance. Friend #1 Has come so far to defeat his addiction I am greatful for your help in him finding a job but he is stll weak Lord and needs strength to keep this job and find a stable place to live. Friend #2 needs your help lord finding a way to build his life again and to fullfill his dreams...I love this man with all my heart and know that one day we will be together again if it is your will. He is such a kind hearted special person who has been down a bumpy road. Pleas lord, i lift these men up to you embrace them with your love show them that with you all things are possible. Thank You lord....praise your name!

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  10. AnonymousJune 04, 2012

    Ever loving Lord and ever generous God, I am at the point of deep despair for I have lost everything i have worked hard due to my addiction. There is no meaning in my life right now and there is a sense of hopelessness. I don't want to live any longer. I just want to end it all. But I believe You are present in my life. Please,dear God, grant me the grace to bounce back and to have hope in you. Have mercy on me, Lord, my God.

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  11. Lord I fear that everything I have worked so hard to accomplish in my life may be lost due to my addiction and the poor choices i made while struggling with my addiction. I have been sober now for 8 months and by my faith and hope in your power will continue to stay sober. I ask that the consequences I am now facing and those who will stand to judge me on the 18th, will see the direction and action i have chosen to take in becoming sober and choosing to do the next right thing. when judgement is past on me it will have compassion, and will allow me to earn my life back rather than close the door on the positive parts of my past. Have mercy on me and my future Lord

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  12. Lord help my husband and I find jobs. We are close to losing our house, with no where to go. I pray to you each day we will find work that will just help us get by.

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  13. Lord please help me and take my hand to the path that you have designed me with love and cared. I am really in despair, living a miserable life after knowing infidelity from my husband. Lord, i have lost confidence and worst the essence of my being with what happened. Lord please help me, I am really confused and desperate and caused too much trouble to friends and family who care for me.
    Lord, please help me.

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  14. Lord, I am really confused whether to stay with my husband and go on with our marriage. Each day is like a battle to keep my sanity and my self in tact. I feel his coldness, I know he is lying, everyone says he is still on with the illegal affair.

    Lord,I have received all the worst humiliation and been slap on the face with words no wife sever deserve to hear and experience. I acted stupidly and eaten my pride and respect. Lord, I am really sorry for causing all these things to myself and allowing this to happen to me.

    Lord I am really confused is this how marriage should go, is this still love that I feel. Should the marriage continue? Lord, please help me and my husband. We have been married for nearly 11 years. Lord, please help and take my hand and please soothe my aching heart.

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  15. LORD, I am not worthy of your love and forgiveness. I have so much self loath because I am a weak individual who is stirred by the world and not YOU. LORD, I am weak, and I don't believe in myself. I feel as if I don't have a solid foundation and that I'm a wispy feather that is easily blown in any direction. If it is at all possible to turn this wispy, dowdy feather into a strong and solid object, please LORD, I pray for this. I need a miracle because I am not capable of anything. I need you LORD. Help me seek you out, help me listen, help me focus on you, and help me to let go and give you complete control.

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  16. Father, I have been tortured with doubts and suspicions about my husbands fidelity since 2007. It has been six years of torment and anguish and I can take it no longer. I beg you father in the name of Jesus your son to please reveal the entire truth about my husband,to me, conclusively, that I may have closure and move away from the tortured half-life I have endured the last six years, onto a peaceful and blessed existence worthy of a child of God. All this I ask Father, in the name of Jesus your son, in union with the Holy Spirit. Amen.

    St.Jude patron saint of hopeless cases please interceed for me. Amen.

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  17. Blessed St. Jude, intercede for me with Our Lord so that which I dread will be averted.
    Blessed St Jude, I will publish news of your help so that all will know of your work

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  18. St. Jude where I am now am the point of lost hope, despair and am falling. please remember me and my family and intercede for us because now more than ever we need you. I promise to publish this prayer once our requests are granted. We ask all this through Christ our Lord. Amen

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  19. AnonymousJuly 16, 2014

    Dear Divine Spirit,
    (If there is one), I am, once again, in the depths of the deepest despair. I would take my life were it not for Elliot. I am beaten down, & hopeless.
    I need to know that "you" exist, love me, and be shown the way. I need assistance, help, & support! Please help me! Reveal thyself & help me! Please! Please help me!

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  20. Give me hope Lord for belief in better times ahead, that my despair and sadness will be lifted.

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  21. I give God the Glory and I thank St. Jude for his intercession to God for me. I was in dire need of a car. I was blessed with a car unexpectedly. I am in dire need of money to pay my untilities bills for the house that I and my grandchildren live in right now. Soon, My God I will need a home. This time I want the money I need to get my own home for me and my grandchildren. I do not ever want to be put out almost every month with insulting, deceiveful words. I have been very sick and the owner of the house tells me to go to work. Lord God, my life has been awful. I need and want my own. I want only what comes from You, Lord Jesus Christ. Help me, allow the gates of Heaven to overflow with Your perfect will for me. Shower me with happiness, joy, peace of mind and money to always be able to take care of me and my grandchildren. I want to never be in debt again under no circumstances in Jesus' name. Amen

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  22. I pray that you may intercede for me St. Jude, I have reached a point of despair in my financial situation. However hard I try, I seem to hit a snag. I pray that I may see the light before I give up. Dear God please help me. Amen.

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  23. God please intercede with St Jude to grant through all my despair and financial ruins that I secure a job in the next week, I am so lost and panicked that my house will be lost, that my children will go hungry and that my bills will not be paid. Pray for me and guide me down the right path and please answer my prayers.

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  24. I trusted the wrong person. I married my friend after 10 years of friendship and two of dating. He filed for divorce after 6months of marriage and I started to discover that he was cheating and had several sexual affairs with women. WHY dear God did you allow me to be so gravely deceived? I prayed to you each step of the way to guide me through...I asked for a husband from you.. why did you shame me? Why Lord...why?

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