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5 Prayers to Pray When You Feel Forgotten by God (And One That Always Gets Answered) | THIS IS HOW YOU GET YOUR BREAKTHROUGH
1. The Psalm 13 Prayer: “How long, Lord?”
When David felt abandoned, he didn’t pretend to be okay. He cried out, “How long will You forget me, Lord? Forever?” (Psalm 13:1). This is your permission to be honest with God. Don’t stuff it down. Don’t try to be strong… you’ve done that for so long. Speak to Him directly. Talk to Him like He’s sitting across from you. Your head may be hanging down, but feel Him sitting or kneeling in front of you. Maybe even see His Feet. His sandals. Let your grief, your tears, wash His Feet. Grief is a doorway to much deeper intimacy. God is closest to the broken-hearted… the downtrodden… the burnt-out and barely-holding-on. HE HEARS YOU. I PROMISE.
Pray This:
Lord, I feel forgotten. I feel like You stopped listening. I know You haven’t, but it hurts. Meet me in this pain. I don’t need an answer. I just want You.
And then, don’t move on immediately like you’re talking into a void. Listen as you would when you’re in conversation with another human. Stop. And listen. You spoke. You said your peace. Now let God speak His Silence. Let Him speak His Love. LISTEN. And even though you may hear nothing, everything changes in that Nothing. LISTEN.
2. The Identity Prayer: “Remind me who I am.”
When you feel far from God, your identity starts to blur. You begin to believe the lie that you’re unworthy of His attention. That you’re not qualified for your desires, for His Promise, and Calling on your life. Like somehow, you were left out of the Covenant. But Romans 8:16 reminds us: “The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.”
Pray This:
Holy Spirit, testify to me again. Whisper to my soul that I am Yours. I belong to You. Remind me of my authority, my purpose, and my place in Your heart.
3. The Stillness Prayer: “Help me hear again.”
God often speaks in a whisper. If you’re surrounded by noise, in your mind, your schedule, your scrolling, you may miss Him. Ask for help to enter the quiet again, because in the stillness is the sound of Love. His Original Language.
Pray This:
Jesus, quiet my thoughts. Still my mind. Bring my racing heart into Your Peace. I want to hear You again, clearly and deeply.
And again, STOP, and listen. Don’t resume scrolling or thinking just yet. Every time your mind tries to escape back into the future or the past, bring it back to Jesus. Stay focused on Jesus. STAY FOCUSED ON JESUS. He sounds like silence and feels like Love.
4. The Tongues Prayer: “Speak through me what I cannot say.”
Sometimes the deepest cries can’t be put into words. That’s where the Holy Spirit comes in. In 1 Corinthians 14:2, Paul says, “For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit.”
This is Jesus praying through you. It is divine, fiery, encoded communication. If you feel forgotten, pray in tongues. It’s the Spirit’s language of intimacy. The enemy can’t decode it. You won’t even understand… but you will. 😉
Pray This:
Holy Spirit, pray through me. Speak what I can’t. Let this groaning reach the Father in perfect clarity. Let Your fire remind me I’m not alone.
And then, just FLOW. I heard someone describe it like getting on a slide and letting go. Willingly, and willfully like Paul said, start to pray in the Spirit. It will take over. Start with a whisper. Start tonight.
5. The Reconnection Prayer: “I want to feel You again.”
Sometimes we don’t feel God because we’ve subtly drifted from Him, into performance, fear, comparison, or spiritual busyness. This prayer returns you to love, to the present moment, and to Presence Himself.
Pray This:
Jesus, I come back. I lay down striving and suspicion. I put down superstition and trinkets. I choose Presence over performance. I choose to believe You never left me.
+ The Prayer That Always Gets Answered: JESUS.
When Peter was drowning, he didn’t have time for long prayers. He simply cried, “Lord, save me!” (Matthew 14:30). The name of Jesus IS the prayer. And it always works.
Whisper it now. Say it again. It will carry you.
Pray This:
Jesus. Jesus. Jesus.
You are not forgotten. You are being fortified. Re-formed. Sometimes the Silence is the clearest sign that Heaven is near. God hides to be sought, not to punish. Seek Him now. Speak. Whisper. Worship. SMILE! He’s right here.
If you feel this, drop a “JESUS” in the comments and share this with someone who needs to know they’re not alone.
Finally- Walk with Him. Literally.
Moses walked with God. Enoch walked with God. Joshua walked around Jericho until the walls fell. Even Jesus walked as He prayed, step by step, from silence to glory. This kind of movement is a form of prayer.
Sometimes, when I feel forgotten, I lace up my shoes and walk. I pray in tongues with every step. The rhythm of movement becomes the rhythm of heaven. You don’t have to sit still to be still. Go walk with God. Watch how He shows up. Then share with us here!
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