7 Prayers for Insecurity: When You Wonder If You Fit in
Do you ever walk into crowded places and wonder where you fit in? Maybe you feel like you don’t fit in at all. Most of us have felt this way. Today, I’ll share seven empowering prayers for insecurity as we aim to overcome our fears of rejection.
I invite you to join me as I navigated these feelings among a group of beautiful and talented women. Be sure to read to the end of today’s post for a free devotional eBook to help you overcome insecurity by shifting your focus.
Prayers for Insecurity
I make my way cautiously from the ornately decorated lobby of the exquisite hotel and follow the lavender banners that lead to the conference room. I’ve just traveled eight hours to attend a women’s conference.
This seemed like a wonderful idea from afar. Now that I’m here, I’m reconsidering.
I imagine the hundreds of women who will sit among the rose-colored decorations. I wonder if I’ll make a friend, if I’ll fit in, or if this will feel strangely similar to the first day of middle school.
My shirt feels too wrinkled, my pants too tight, and my carefully curled hair too frizzy in the Carolina humidity.
I’m heading toward the registration table, wondering why in the world I thought it was a good idea to undertake this adventure all alone, when I remind myself to keep praying.
7 Empowering Prayers for Insecurity
Most of us know how it feels to walk into crowded rooms and feel awkward.
In these moments, we face a choice: We can focus on ourselves as we attempt to fit in, or we can pause in prayer and ask God to empower us.
Imagine what might happen if we paused to pray in moments of insecurity.
Maybe God would realign our priorities with his priorities. We might take our eyes off of ourselves and remember the higher calling: We are called to love others, and we cannot love well if we’re preoccupied with ourselves.
If you ever feel the way I felt that humid morning, here are seven empowering prayers for insecurity.
1. Ask God to help you shift from inward to outward focus.
When we’re feeling insecure, it’s easy to think only about ourselves. We focus inward and wonder who will make us feel included.
Instead, imagine what might happen if we asked God to help us stop focusing on our insecurities and focus on others instead.
Perhaps God would help us love others, enabling us to be his vessels.
Perhaps we’d stop thinking about ourselves as we listened to and loved other people.
Here is a prayer: “Father, please help me to stop looking inward and, instead, look outward. Help me to love the people you have placed in front of me with your love, thinking about them and not thinking only about my insecurities.”
2. Pray for eyes to see the needs around you.
As I walked cautiously toward the women at the conference registration table, I reminded myself that the calling in my life is to love God and love others.
Stopping in my tracks, I paused to ask God for eyes to see the needs of the women around me. This single prayer reframed my entire weekend. Instead of thinking about my needs, I became focused on loving and encouraging others.
Here is a prayer: “Lord, please give me your eyes to see the needs around me. Lead me to someone who needs an encounter with your love and kindness. Empower me to be your vessel.”
This leads to our next prayer.
3. Pray that God will show you how to encourage someone else.
God knows what we can’t see on the surface. He knows about the coworker who needs a friend. He loves the lonely cashier whose day might be rescued by a single compliment. God sees the tired mom who is desperate for just a few minutes of adult conversation.
Ask God to show you how to encourage the people he sets before you. You will soon find that the anxiety-inducing social situation becomes an exciting journey of loving others alongside your heavenly Father.
Here is a prayer: “God, please show me how to encourage those you have placed in front of me. Show me where you want to move and work, and I will join you by encouraging others.”
4. Thank God for your unchanging identity as his beloved child.
We aren’t free to love others selflessly until their approval is not what matters most.
When I’m afraid I might say the wrong thing or embarrass myself, my concerns rest on the approval of others. I’m more concerned with being liked than being God’s vessel of love.
Adversely, when I grasp that my core identity is firmly fixed on God’s love, I don’t need to fear looking foolish in the eyes of others. I have the approval of the only One who matters. This love sets me free to love others without fear—without needing anything in return.
Here is a prayer: “Father, thank you that I am your precious and dearly loved child. Above all else, I am loved by you. Help me to stand on this identity as I connect with others today. Regardless of whether I am accepted or rejected, you love me. This is what matters most.”
5. Pray for the courage to step out.
One of the best pieces of advice I have ever received regarding insecurity and social anxiety is this: When you feel left out, step out.
In other words, don’t cower in a corner hoping someone will include you. Instead of overthinking your insecurities, ask God to show you a group to plug into, walk over to that group, and warmly insert yourself.
Most of the time, other people are not thinking about including or excluding you. Insert yourself into a group of people, and you will most likely be included. If you’re not included, look for a different group.
Here is a prayer: “God, please give me the courage to step out and step into a group of people. Help me rest in the fact that you go with me, not fearing their rejection. Enable me to carry your joy, love, and kindness into this group.”
6. Thank God that his presence makes you sufficient and strong.
Second Corinthians 12:9 reminds us that God’s power is made perfect when we feel weak: “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me” (ESV).
When you feel weak and insecure, you are in the perfect position for God to reveal his power and love through you.
Ask him to make you a vessel of his love.
Here is a prayer: “Father, thank you that when I am weak, you are strong. Help me embrace my weak moments as opportunities to press into you so that you might reveal your love and power through me. I surrender to you. Please work through me.”
7. Thank God that you are his beloved child, and nothing can take that away from you.
When we are able to rest in our identities as God’s children, we are free to share God’s love with others according to his will.
We aren’t overly concerned about being accepted because we know who we are.
1 John 3:1 reads, “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.”
Here is a prayer: “Heavenly Father, thank you for calling me your child. I rest in this identity as I carry your love into the world. Help me rise above my insecurities and give me strength in your love.”
Let’s now apply these prayers for insecurity to our lives.
Apply These Prayers for Insecurity to Your Life:
God calls us to be his vessels of love in the world. Sadly, we cannot fulfill God’s calling when we’re looking at ourselves or chasing the approval of others.
God calls us to be his vessels of love in the world. Sadly, we cannot fulfill God’s calling when we’re looking at ourselves or chasing the approval of others. #GodsLove #GodsVessel Share on XFriend, God has not called you to fit in. He has called you to go into the world and carry his love.
The next time you catch yourself feeling insecure in a crowded room, shift your focus. Lift your eyes and find someone who needs God’s love. The most powerful prayers for insecurity are prayers to see the needs surrounding us.
Bible Verses to Support These Prayers for Insecurity
I’ll leave you with eight Bible verses about the way God sees you.
Spend time meditating on these verses, and God will help you overcome insecurity.
1. 1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
You are God’s precious possession, and you are called to declare his praises. God chose you because he delights in you. You don’t have to do anything to earn this love.
2. John 1:12
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
If you have received Jesus as Lord and Savior, you are a child of God, and you are worthy of his love.
You are not worthy because of anything you have done. You are worthy because Jesus paid the price for your sins. Have you decided to follow him? If not, what is stopping you?
3. Ephesians 1:5
He predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will.
You are adopted as God’s precious child, and you bring him great pleasure. You are worthy because you are his.
4. 1 Corinthians 6:17
But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
Did you know that you are one with the Lord in spirit? If you follow Jesus, the Living God dwells within you. You are of great worth because the Living God dwells within you.
5. Genesis 1:27
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
You are created in God’s image. This, alone, makes you worthy.
6. Colossians 3:3
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
If you follow Jesus, your life is hidden with Christ in God. You are of great value to him.
7. Song of Solomon 2:16
My beloved is mine, and I am his.
In the same way that a groom pursues and adores his bride, Jesus pursues and adores you. The truest thing about you is this: You are his, and he is yours.
8. Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
God created you to do good works, which he prepared before you were born. These works include loving others freely, from the heart.
Rise above insecurity as you remain anchored in your identity. Continue praying these prayers for insecurity, and God will give you the strength to walk in freedom and victory.
Rather than looking for someone to make you feel included, look for someone to love. Read here for seven prayers for insecurity. #prayer Share on X~~~
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