Prayers for strength

Prayers for endurance, courage, and the long road.

The prayers in this collection ask for strength: not the kind that wins, but the kind that endures. They come from people who knew what they were asking for. Charles Spurgeon wrote his prayers for strength while preaching through long bouts of depression. The Psalms were written by a people repeatedly defeated and exiled. Paul's prayers in the New Testament were sent from prison. The tradition of prayer for strength is not optimistic. It is realistic about how hard things can get and how much grace it takes to keep going.