When Everything Falls Apart, Pray with Jesus

WHEN WORDS ARE MISSING, PRAYER CAN STILL BEGIN.

There are days when anxiety tightens your chest, grief weighs heavily, loneliness settles in, and faith begins to falter.

You want to pray, but you no longer know what to say. Or perhaps you simply do not have the strength to search for the words.

This book was written for those moments.

It brings together 50 deep yet accessible Christian prayers for real-life struggles: anxiety, sleeplessness, panic, loneliness, guilt, grief, betrayal, financial hardship, illness, exhaustion, doubt, anger with God, and the desire to begin again.

A STRUGGLE ON THE LEFT. A PRAYER ON THE RIGHT.

On the left-hand page, a few compassionate words help you recognize what you are carrying and begin to lay it down.

On the right-hand page, a guided prayer helps you bring it before Jesus, without complicated language and without asking you to feel better too quickly.

You can open the book directly to the chapter that most closely reflects what you are going through, read slowly, pause when a sentence speaks to you, and return to the same prayer as often as you need.

ACROSS 8 MAIN SECTIONS, YOU WILL FIND PRAYERS TO HELP YOU:

• move through fear and anxiety;
• stop carrying everything alone;
• lay down guilt and learn to receive forgiveness;
• walk through grief and absence;
• bring family and relationship wounds before Jesus;
• face financial pressure and major decisions;
• keep praying when faith feels fragile;
• entrust illness, exhaustion, and the passing years to Jesus.

Rooted in the words and scenes of the Gospels, these prayers are not meant to pray in your place. They offer you words when your own are missing, until your personal prayer can begin again.

YOU HAVE NOTHING TO ACHIEVE.

You may come with strong faith or fragile faith, with a peaceful heart or one still full of noise. You may read an entire prayer, keep only one sentence, speak only the name of Jesus, or remain silent for a while.

READ IT ON ITS OWN OR WITH THE COMPANION BOOK

This book offers a complete journey on its own.

It is also the companion to When Everything Falls Apart, Jesus Speaks: the first book helps you hear what the words of Jesus can open within your struggles; this one helps you answer Him and pour out your heart in prayer.

Simply open this book where it hurts.