A Short Prayer To Ask God For Patience (When You Want Answers Now)
· Thought Catalog
Updated 7 hours ago, December 16, 2025
Waiting can feel like a spiritual test you didn’t sign up for—especially when you’re doing your best and nothing is moving. If you’re tired of rehearsing worst-case scenarios while you wait, this prayer will help you hand the timeline back to God.
Dear God, give me patience.
I want everything according to my plan, my will. I want the answers right now, at the exact moment I need them. I want you to bend to my desires, my hopes. But time after time I’m reminded that life doesn’t work that way. And I’m so sorry for thinking that I can tell you how to be.
God, what I need more than ever is a patient heart. A heart that serves you, not asks you to serve me. A heart that knows you love me and, yet, is filled with peace, knowing that you hear my voice and that you care, even if you aren’t answering my prayers in the way I wish.
God, please give me the ability to wait, to trust, to seek you, even when it feels like you don’t care. Help me to know that in time, you will make all things good and according to your will. And please show me that your desires for my life are far greater than the ones I have.
Amen.