A Prayer For When You Need God To Carry What You Can’t

Finding peace starts with surrendering our worries to the universe and trusting that God’s guidance will meet us in the middle of our uncertainty. Best-selling author of Finding God Every Day, Rebecca Simon, reminds us to trust God’s timing, embrace patience, and lean on His presence through every season of life.

If your heart feels heavy today, let this prayer remind you that surrender isn’t giving up. It’s placing your burdens into the hands that were always strong enough to carry them.

God,

I’ve reached the end of what I can carry on my own. I’ve been holding this for longer than I should have, trying to manage it, trying to push through it, trying to convince myself that I’m strong enough to keep going without putting it down. But I’m not. And today I’m finally admitting that.

I need you to carry what I can’t. The weight of this situation that won’t resolve. The anxiety about what I can’t control. The grief l’ve been stuffing down because life doesn’t stop long enough for me to feel it. The fear about what’s coming that I can’t prepare for no matter how hard I try.

God, I was never designed to carry all of this alone. You never asked me to. So I’m releasing it to you today — not because I have it all figured out, but because I trust that your shoulders are stronger than mine. That what crushes me barely burdens you. That what keeps me up at night is already resolved in your hands.

Take it, God. All of it.

I’m done trying to carry what was always yours to hold.

Amen.