You feel trapped: in a season, a situation, a place you cannot seem to get out of. Nothing changes, and hope wears thin. These verses are for feeling stuck, to remind you that God makes ways where there are none and is working even when you cannot see it.
What God says over feeling stuck
“Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.”
The Lord shall fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.
“I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.”
He brought me up out of the miry clay and set my feet upon a rock.
“For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.”
Though the vision tarries, wait for it; it will surely come.
“But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”
God works all things, even this stuck season, together for good.
“Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.”
Feeling stuck is not the same as being forgotten. God lifted David out of the miry clay and parted a sea when His people were trapped with nowhere to go. Even in the standstill, Jesus is at work, making a way you cannot yet see. Keep waiting on Him, keep trusting Him, and the God who never stops working will move in His time.
Lord, I feel stuck and nothing seems to change. Make a way where I see none. Lift me out of this place in Your time, and while I wait, keep my hope alive. Help me trust that You are working even when I cannot see it. Lead me forward. In Jesus name, amen.
You were never meant to walk this alone
The family here will pray with you, and you can hear how Christ has met others in the same place.
Isaiah 43:19 ('I will make a way in the wilderness'), Psalm 40:1-2 (lifted from the miry clay), and Habakkuk 2:3 (the vision will come) speak to feeling stuck.
What does the Bible say when you feel trapped?
It promises God makes a way where there is none (Isaiah 43:19, Exodus 14:14), lifts us out in His time (Psalm 40:2), and is working all things for good even in the standstill (Romans 8:28).