Prayer About Failure in Doing God’s Will
Heavenly Father, I want to pray for myself and everyone else who has tried to do something, large or small, out of love for You, and have failed. Failed big, like people who try to start a church or charity and it fails financially and closes, wasting huge amounts of money dedicated to Your service. Or something small but upsetting, like I bend to help someone on the ground and they curse and say, “Get your hands off of me!”
Or even the little failures of everyday life. When I start to pray to you and my mind drifts, and suddenly I am thinking how angry I am at someone, or how nice I look in my new shirt. If I get dressed for church but lose track of time, and I’m ten minutes late again.
Dear God, I pray for myself and for everyone who is carrying a burden of guilt or pain for such a failure. Let us know 100% that when we fail, trying to do something out of love for You or our fellow man, that You are with us and love us with a huge powerful love that only You can give. Let us feel joy in Your love and in our salvation.
You never said, “Blessed are the successful.” You said, “Blessed are those who are poor in spirit,” and “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.” For we are not going to find real success in this life, are we, Lord? So I pray, let us know joy and fulfillment instead of depression and guilt when we fail in Your name. For you have not commanded us to succeed; you have commanded us to love.
In Christ’s name I pray,
Amen.
