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Prayers for Strong Faith: For Doubt, Fear, Trials and Waiting on God

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Summary

  • The Gospels hold the shortest prayers for faith: “Increase our faith” (Luke 17:5) and “Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief” (Mark 9:24).
  • Short prayers cover doubt, God’s silence, fear, a long trial, loss, waiting, the future, acting on faith, forgiving and another person’s faith.
  • Traditional prayers are quoted from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer (Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity; Saint Thomas the Apostle) and the Act of Faith in the 1888 Catholic Manual of Prayers.
  • “The prayer of faith” comes from James 5:15; Mark 11:24 is read alongside 1 John 5:14 and Jesus’ “not my will, but thine, be done” (Luke 22:42).
  • The New Testament ties growing faith to Scripture (Romans 10:17), prayer (Jude 20) and trials (1 Peter 1:7), and holds up Abraham as “strong in faith” (Romans 4:20).

The shortest prayers for stronger faith are in the Gospels. The apostles asked Jesus, “Increase our faith” (Luke 17:5). A father with a sick son cried, “Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief” (Mark 9:24). Either can be prayed as it stands, or followed by a few words of one’s own. Prayers for faith in hard moments When doubts come Lord, I believe, and some days I am not sure I do. You did not turn away the father who…

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Bibliography (Click to show)
  • Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Psalm 56:3; Proverbs 3:5; Isaiah 40:31; Habakkuk 3:18; Mark 9:24; 11:24; Luke 17:5; 22:32, 42; John 20:28; Romans 4:20–21; 10:17; 2 Corinthians 5:7; Galatians 5:6; Ephesians 4:32; Hebrews 11:8; James 1:6; 5:15; 1 Peter 1:7; 1 John 5:14; Jude 20). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
  • The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. The Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity, Collect, p. 209; Saint Thomas the Apostle, Collect, p. 228. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
  • A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. Morning Prayers, “An Act of Faith,” p. 53. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
  • Challoner, Richard. The Garden of the Soul: A Manual of Spiritual Exercises and Instructions, enlarged edition “by the late Bishop England.” New York: D. & J. Sadlier, 1871. “A Shorter Exercise,” prayer “For the increase of the three divine virtues.” https://archive.org/details/GardenOfTheSoul1871

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