A Prayer for Person Strength in Times of Crisis

The enemy often seeks to undermine our faith by magnifying our problems and questioning God’s ability to deliver us. In Isaiah 36, the Assyrian commander attempts to intimidate the people of Jerusalem, using fear, deception, and the record of past military victories to persuade them to abandon their trust in the Lord. His message was designed to make God’s promises appear unreliable and surrender seem inevitable. Yet the people responded with silence rather than allowing themselves to be drawn into an argument. This passage reminds us that not every threatening voice deserves our attention or response. When circumstances challenge our confidence in God, we must learn to distinguish between the voice of intimidation and the promises of the Lord. As you pray today, ask God to strengthen your faith, guard your heart against fear, and help you remain steadfast when the enemy challenges His Word.

Prayer

Father, when demons, critics and circumstances come and directly attack my trust in You, give me the faith, courage and knowledge to stand. Help me keep my mouth shut and my composure in place. Give me the inner fortitude to never crumble under pressure. I pray that I’ll be calm and never panic. Remove rashness from me. Impress Your will upon my mind as a definitive coarse of action in the name of Jesus, the friend that sticks closer than a brother.

Isaiah 36:1-12

In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. When the commander stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field, Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to him.

The field commander said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours? You say you have counsel and might for war—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me? Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. But if you say to me, “We are depending on the Lord our God”—isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before this altar”? Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them! How then can you repulse one officer of the least of my master’s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this land without the Lord? The Lord himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.’”

Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”

Pray the Scriptures With Us on YouTube

Our YouTube channel, Royal Perspectives Media, is an extension of these written prayers where we pray the scriptures together and equip believers to walk closely with God. Visit and subscribe here: 

https://www.youtube.com/@RoyalPerspectivesMedia