Prayers Against Fear
Fear is one of the most common cries in Scripture, and God never treats it as shameful. These prayers meet fear where it is — before a diagnosis, a confrontation, a storm, a decision you cannot unmake.
Some ask outright for deliverance. Others simply name God's presence and refuse to face the fear alone. Both are valid prayers. Pray whichever one your voice can carry today.
12 prayers
- A Collect for Aid Against All Perils
The evening collect of the Book of Common Prayer, drawn from the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary. Written in an age when night meant real…
- A Prayer Before Surgery
A contemporary prayer before an operation, closing with Christ's own words from the cross (Luke 23:46), which the Church has prayed at…
- A Prayer in Anxiety
A contemporary pastoral prayer shaped around Philippians 4:6–7 and Christ's words in Matthew 6. Anxiety is not treated as a failure of…
- Binding Prayer to Blind the Demons
A petition drawn from a consistent theme in Catholic ascetical literature: demons are creatures, not God, and have no direct access to the…
- Evening Prayer of St. Basil the Great
One of the evening prayers of St. Basil the Great (330–379), Archbishop of Caesarea, preserved in the Orthodox prayer book and in the…
- Jacob's Prayer at Peniel
On the night before meeting the brother he cheated, Jacob prays that he is 'not worthy of the least of all the mercies', then wrestles…
- Psalm 27 — The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation
A psalm of David that moves from confident praise to urgent petition and back to trust — a pattern that has made it a favorite of…
- Psalm 34 — I Will Bless the Lord at All Times
Written, the title says, when David feigned madness before Abimelech and escaped. Its line 'O taste and see that the LORD is good' entered…
- Psalm 91 — He Shall Cover Thee
Psalm 91 is the Church's great prayer of protection. Ancient Jewish tradition called it the "song of plagues," and Christians have prayed…
- Te Lucis Ante Terminum (Before the Ending of the Day)
The ancient hymn of Compline, in use since at least the seventh century and translated into English by J. M. Neale in 1852. Monks have sung…
- The Second Collect, for Peace (Evening Prayer)
The evening collect for peace from the Book of Common Prayer, itself a translation of an ancient Latin collect used in the Gelasian…
- Thomas Merton — The Road Ahead
Written by the Trappist monk Thomas Merton and published in Thoughts in Solitude (1958). It has become one of the most widely prayed modern…