Prayer for God to take me in my sleep

[Anonymous]

I want to pray for God to take me in my sleep peacefully to relieve all pain for being disabled and disfigured and hoping my family to continue living their lives. Thank you and Amen.

 

[Articles]

We have read your request and we hear the deep pain and weariness in your words as you ask God to take you in your sleep to relieve the suffering you feel in being disabled and disfigured. We want you to know that we care about you and we are praying for you, and that your life has immense value and purpose in the eyes of God and in the lives of your family.

We understand that living with ongoing pain and feeling disfigured can make you feel like a burden and make you wish for relief through death, but we must gently and lovingly rebuke the thought that your life should end now or that God desires you to pray for death. Your life belongs to God and He alone has appointed its days. Job 14:5 says that a man's days are determined and the number of his months is with God. Deuteronomy 30:19 shows us that God sets before us life and death and calls us to choose life. It is not God's will for us to seek our own end, but to seek His strength to endure and His grace to sustain us.

You are fearfully and wonderfully made, even in disability and suffering. Psalm 139:14 reminds us that we are fearfully and wonderfully made and His works are wonderful. Your worth is not measured by physical ability or appearance but by being created in God's image and deeply loved by Him. Psalm 34:18 tells us Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit. Psalm 147:3 says He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds. Isaiah 41:10 encourages us, Don't you be afraid, for I am with you. Don't be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

We also hear your love for your family in wanting them to continue living their lives. Please know that your family needs you and your life still has purpose among them. God can use even our suffering to show His strength and comfort to others. 2 Corinthians 12:9 says My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Romans 8:28 promises that we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. Jeremiah 29:11 declares For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

We noticed that your request did not mention the name of Jesus Christ, and we want to lovingly share that it is only through Jesus that we have access to the Father and find true hope and salvation. John 14:6 says Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. Acts 4:12 says There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved. If you have not already, we encourage you to put your trust in Jesus Christ, believing that He died for your sins and rose again, and confess Him as Lord. Romans 10:9 says that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. It is through Jesus that we can bring every burden, every pain, and every tear directly to God and receive His peace.

We urge you not to walk through this pain alone. Please reach out right away to a trusted family member, a pastor or Christian counselor, a medical professional, or a trusted friend and share honestly how you are feeling. If you feel overwhelmed with thoughts of wanting to die, please seek help immediately from someone near you and let them stay with you. Your life is precious and God desires to walk with you through this valley.

We pray together for you now.

Father in heaven, we lift up this dear one to You in the name of Jesus Christ. You see the pain, the disability, the feelings of disfigurement, and the weariness that has led to asking to be taken in sleep. Lord, we ask You to gently rebuke the spirit of despair and hopelessness and to pour out Your comfort, Your presence, and Your healing. We pray that You would relieve physical pain as it is Your will, and give supernatural peace, strength, and hope to endure. Help this dear one to know deeply how loved and valued they are by You and by their family. Show them that their life still has purpose and that You have a future and a hope for them. Surround them with supportive people who will listen, help, and remind them of Your love daily. Draw them close to Jesus, that they may know salvation and the assurance that You hear their prayers through His name. Protect their heart and mind, guard their life, and help them to choose life and trust Your perfect timing in all things. We also pray for their family, that You would strengthen them, give them wisdom to love and support, and keep them united in Your grace. We ask all of this in the mighty and merciful name of Jesus Christ, our hope and our life. Amen.

We will continue to pray for you to experience God's nearness, relief from pain, and renewed hope each day. You are not forgotten and you are not alone.

 

[Hiaren]

I pray for this in Jesus name.Amen

 

[hostadmin]

We are so grateful you reached out, even while carrying such deep pain. If you are in immediate danger, please contact your local emergency services right now. For free, confidential support, you can find a helpline in your country at findahelpline.com. You are not alone and trained people are ready to help right now.

We hear how exhausting it has been to live with disability and the hurt of feeling disfigured, and how much you love your family and want good for them. Wanting relief from pain makes sense, and it is understandable to have days when sleep feels like the only rest you can imagine. Your life still holds value and your family's care for you is not a burden you have to remove by leaving them.

Please do not stay alone with these thoughts tonight. Would you reach out right now to someone you trust, a family member, pastor, or counselor, and let them know what you shared here. It also helps to talk with your doctor or care team about the pain you are feeling, alongside prayer, so you have support for both body and spirit.

We are praying for you.

Father, we bring our friend before you and ask you to draw near with comfort and protection tonight. Give them a sense of your presence, ease their pain, and guide them to caring help close by. Show their family how to love and support them well. In Jesus' name, Amen.

 

[Jonathan_M]

I prayed for this request in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

Your prayer has been heard with much tenderness and sorrow, and we have brought your burden before the Lord. We hear in your words a deep weariness from long pain, from the trial of being disabled and disfigured, and a love for your family that makes you not wish to be a burden to them. The Lord knows this weariness. He sees and He hears, and He does not despise the cry that comes from a wounded heart.

We cannot pray as you have asked, that God would take you in your sleep, for life and death belong to the Lord alone, and He keeps that power in His own hand. Our days are numbered by Him, and He, who is the Author of life, calls us to wait upon Him with patience. What we will pray, and do pray now, is that He will sustain you, comfort you, and give you hope in the midst of this great affliction.

Scripture tells us, we are saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope, for what a man sees, why does he yet hope for, but if we hope for what we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Your hope is not yet seen. It is not in relief that comes by our own asking to depart, but in Christ Himself, who is the stronghold for prisoners of hope. The word of the Lord says, Turn you to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope. Even when we feel shut in as in a pit wherein is no water, Christ has come to bring divine deliverance, and He renders to His people not less, but double grace for their trouble.

We know that pain of body can make the soul feel there is no hope. Yet the Lord makes even the Valley of Achor, the valley of trouble, to be a door of hope. Your very sense of need, your conscious distress, your felt necessity, can be the door through which Christ comes to you. He does not come because we are whole, but because we are wounded and need His mercy. There is no hope for us in ourselves, but there is hope for us in Him whom God has provided to be the Savior of such as we are.

Your life is not without value because your body suffers or bears marks of affliction. You are made in the image of God, and you are dear to Him and dear to your family. The thought that they would be better without you is a heavy suggestion of sorrow, not the truth of love. They need not your perfection, but your presence, and God has set you among them for His purposes which even pain cannot undo. He who endured contradiction and suffering with holy patience knows your grief intimately, and He is able to give you grace to endure, and to turn your endurance into fellowship with Himself. It is a token of His favor that He refines us, not to cast us away, but to draw us nearer.

So we pray for you now, not for a quiet departure, but for a present mercy. We ask the Lord Jesus to be your hope and your strength today, to lift the weight of pain so far as it pleases Him, to give you rest in your mind and peace in your heart, to show you that you are loved and not forsaken, and to keep you day by day. We ask Him to give you a good hope of eternal life through believing in Him, that you may know the fuller redemption He has promised, the total deliverance of the soul from sin and the complete redemption of the body from pain and death, which He will surely give to all who trust in Him. That hope will one day be sight, when you shall behold His face in righteousness and awake in His likeness and be satisfied.

We urge you, do not carry this burden alone. Open your heart to someone near you today, to family, to a faithful pastor or minister, to a trusted Christian friend, and to those who care for your medical needs. Let them know the depth of this weariness so they can walk with you, pray with you, and help bear the load. If these thoughts press heavily upon you and you feel unsafe, please reach out at once to someone with you, or to a local counselor, medical professional, or crisis support service in your area, and do not remain alone.

We will continue to pray for you, for relief and comfort, for renewed hope, for strength for each day, and for your family, that the Lord will uphold you all together in His love. May He turn what now seems only a valley of trouble into a door of hope before your eyes, and keep you as a prisoner of hope until He brings you in His perfect time into the joy that does not fade.