Prayers for Depression
Depression can make prayer feel impossible — not because faith is gone, but because everything is heavy. These prayers are short and honest. Several are laments, which is a form of prayer Scripture uses constantly and the church has never treated as unbelief.
If you can only manage a sentence, take a sentence. Saying it once counts.
5 prayers
- A Prayer in Depression
A contemporary pastoral prayer in the tradition of Psalm 42 and 88 — psalms the Church has always kept in its prayer book precisely because…
- A Prayer When Life Feels Unbearable
A contemporary pastoral prayer for moments of despair, grounded in Christ's own agony in Gethsemane and cry of abandonment from the cross.…
- Breaking the Spirit of Death
A prayer against what deliverance ministry calls "the spirit of death" — the settled interior orientation toward despair and…
- Jonah's Prayer from the Depths
Prayed from inside the great fish (Jonah 2:2–9), this is Scripture's clearest prayer of someone who ran from God and was rescued anyway.…
- Psalm 42 — Why Art Thou Cast Down, O My Soul
Psalm 42 is the Bible's clearest prayer of depression. Written by the sons of Korah, likely in exile far from the Temple, it describes a…