A Prayer about Trusting God to Deliver from Trials

The Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials…. 2 Peter 2:9

All-Seeing God,

We confess, sometimes your Word seems to mock us. 

We read that you “rescue the godly from trials,” 

that you will “deliver…from the snare of the fowler…” 

and that danger will not come near your children (see Psalm 91:3, 7). 

And yet, daily we dodge fiery arrows shot by the evil one. 

Wise Pastor Spurgeon writes, “God loves the godly, or godlike, 

and he makes a point of knowing 

where they are and how they are.”* 

Stop us in our prayer 

to ponder this profound truth, 

massage it deep into our hearts and minds. 

You know where we are 

and how we are this very moment. 

Help us to believe that you know 

“whom to deliver, 

when to deliver, 

and how to deliver.” 

Help us to believe that you deliver in a way 

“that is most beneficial to the godly, 

most crushing to the tempter, 

and most glorifying to [your]self.” 

Help us to trust your goodness 

as we wait to see that goodness 

in the land of the living (See Psalm 27:13). 

Because of your Son 

who delivered us from all our sin and trials, 

we pray. 

Amen. 

Read 2 Peter 2:9; Psalm 91.

*This prayer was inspired by a devotion in The Promises of God by Charles Spurgeon, July 12.