15 Prayers for Emotional Abuse to Heal and Move On

Emotional Abuse is a terrible burden. It can make you feel isolated, weak, and afraid. You may feel that you do not know who you can trust, and you may even start to doubt your worth.

Remember, God loves you. He values you and wants to heal you from the wounds that others have inflicted on you. Turn to Him in prayer, and He can help you find peace and healing.

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Short Prayer For Emotional Abuse

Dear Father in Heaven,

Please hear my prayer and help me find healing. My emotions have been damaged, and I need Your divine power to heal me.

Please grant me the strength to escape this abuse. Fill my heart with the love I deserve but have not received.

Help me feel my worth and help me find emotional health and well-being.

I pray in the powerful name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

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Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. – Peter 3:7

Prayer For Someone In An Abusive Relationship

Dear Father God,

Please hear my earnest prayer and intervene on behalf of my dear friend suffering in an abusive relationship. Relationships ought to be a place to find love and support. Instead, my friend is finding pain, heartache, and turmoil. Please save them from this situation.

Help them find a way out of this relationship. Give them the courage to pursue a path that will lead them away from this abuse. Withhold the grips of their abuser so that my friend can take their freedom and flee from the abuse.

God, please help my friend know that You love them. Right now, they are unable to feel the love they deserve. Your holy love is mighty. Fill their heart with Your love, so they can experience the love they deserve.

Please help my friend heal from the abuse. Give their body back the strength they may have lost. Fortify their mind, so they may feel more hope and strength. Please help my friend cope with the painful emotions they are feeling. Teach them emotional regulation.

Please help my friend find support. Let them know that I am here for them. Guide them to other loving individuals who will help them find a better, more hopeful way to live. Please remind my friend that they are valuable in Your blessed eyes.

I offer this prayer with hope and empathy. Amen.

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The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed. – Psalm 103:6

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Prayer For Healing From Emotional Abuse

Dear God,

Thank You for giving me the chance to pray today. I need this time to commune with Your divinity and find peace and comfort.

God, I need Your power to heal me. I have been suffering from emotional abuse and turmoil. I miss the peace I had before this trial entered my life. I crave peace, love, and joy again. I yearn to trust the people in my life again.

God, reach into my heart. Find all of the cracks and the pain left by this abuse. Please remove them. Take them away. In their place, leave Your perfect love. Fill my heart with harmony, comfort, and hope.

Give me the courage to learn to love again in due time. Give me the strength to move on and find a better way to move forward.

I pray that through Your power, I will be able to find myself and my strength again. Remind me of Your love throughout everything I pursue.

I pray in Your name, Amen.

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Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. – Peter 5:8

Prayer To End Emotional Abuse

Dear Father in Heaven,

I plead with You today to intercede in my life. Save me from my current circumstances. I know that You have the power to create miracles, and I need a miracle to help me find hope.

Father, please end the emotional abuse in my life. I am so tired of doubting my worth and my value. I am exhausted by feeling afraid all of the time. I need peace and comfort to help me find rest and refuge.

Father, please save me from this abuse. Show me how to escape this situation. Give me the courage and the strength to find a way out. Please send angels to help me and protect me as I get away from this abuse.

I pray that You will send kind people into my life to help me find support. Help me know that I am never alone, thanks to my savior.

Please help me find a way to trust and love again. Help me remember that I am a valuable person and that I deserve to be loved and treated with kindness and respect.

I offer this prayer in Jesus Christ’s name, Amen.

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Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. – Romans 8:1

Prayer For Strength After Emotional Abuse

Holy Father,

Hear my prayer and acknowledge my pleading. I have suffered emotional abuse that has left me feeling battered and torn. I need Your strength and power to help me find healing and confidence again.

Father, give my soul peace and strength. Help me remember that I am a valuable person loved by You. Give me the strength to try again.

Show me safe places where I can be vulnerable. Teach me to rebuild the soft parts of me that were damaged and hardened by the abuse. Help me find the strength to believe in myself and my value again.

Strengthen me through the power of Jesus Christ. Christ can heal all wounds, including those of the heart, and I pray that You will fortify me.

I pray in Christ’s powerful name, Amen.

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and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. – John 8:32

Prayer For Peace After Emotional Abuse

Dear Jesus,

Thank You for helping me in this time of need. You know that I have been hurt and treated like I do not have worth. It has left me with heartache and pain of all kinds. Jesus, I need Your help to find mental peace again.

Please comfort me. Slow the thoughts in my head so that I may focus on what is truly important. Calm the anxieties I face. Let my brain and body know that I can be safe again. Remove the tension I am carrying as a result of this abuse.

Help me find peace in my relationships again. Show me the people I can trust with all sides of myself. Help me know that they will help me and support me through the difficult times in my life.

I pray in Your name, Amen.

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If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless. – James 1:26

Prayer For Deliverance From Emotional Abuse

Dear Lord Jesus,

Please save me. I am suffering pain in my heart as a result of someone else’s choices. My spirit is weakened and I am in turmoil emotionally. I know that You have the power to deliver me from this situation.

Fly me far away from this situation. Help me find a new life with peace and love. Remove this abuser from my life so that I can move forward and find hope and joy again.

Jesus, please save me. I know that You are the savior of all humanity. I pray that You will save me. Grant me the grace to find salvation both in this life from this abuse and in the next life.

Help me, Lord. I need You, and I have faith that You will save me.

Amen.

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For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that divisions exist among you and in part I believe it. – Corinthians 11:18

Prayer For Victims Of Emotional Abuse

Dear Lord Almighty,

You are all-powerful, and You know each of us by name. You know that this precious individual is suffering from emotional abuse. They do not deserve to suffer and be treated this way. They are kind, loving, and generous.

Please bless them. Help them escape this treatment. Give them a way out, and fill them with the courage to pursue the way out of this abuse.

Please tell them they are loved. Remind them of their value and worth. Erase the thoughts their abuser has placed in their head. Let them know that their abuser has lied and that they need not believe the abuse.

Lord, please bless this individual with healing. They will need help to process the pain they have suffered. Send them angels to help them work through these feelings. Tell them that they are not alone.

Amen.

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Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. – Ephesians 6:4

Prayer To Recognize Emotional Abuse

Holy Father God,

Bless me with discernment. Help me recognize which feelings are coming through the guidance of Your holy spirit and which feelings come from my fears and anxieties.

God, please help me to recognize emotional abuse in my relationships. Show me the signs before the abuse has a chance to damage me. Help me know what I can do to avoid abuse and escape abusive relationships.

Father, please help me see abuse in the lives of those around me. Help me know when my friends are suffering, so that I may intervene and help them. Guide me so that I will know what I need to say and the right way to say it.

Please help me stop cycles of abuse in myself. Let me recognize behaviors I need to change and give me the courage to make those changes.

I pray in Your name, Amen.

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And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, – Ephesians 5:18

Prayer To Flee Emotional Abuse

Dear God,

You are divine. You can see everything. You know that I am struggling.

I pray that You will give me the strength to flee the emotional abuse that I am suffering in my personal life. I need Your mighty power to help me flee.

Give me the will to overcome this fear. I am afraid to leave. I am scared of what my abuser will do if I try to leave. Please help me escape without invoking the wrath of my abuser.

I know that You can protect me. Watch over me while I am struggling with this abuse. Show me how to escape and give me protection as I take those steps.

God, give me strength. Amen.

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Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. – Ephesians 4:32

Prayer To Feel Worthy After Emotional Abuse

God Almighty,

I have been treated like I am worthless. A person in my life has chosen to devalue me and demean me. It makes me doubt who I am. It makes me question my worth and value.

God, please bless me with the power to feel my worth again. Rebuild my confidence and emotional resilience.

Remind me of who I am and the worth that I have. Let me remember that my worth comes from You, not from my relationships or external factors.

Please help me feel worthy again. Erase the pain from the abuse in my life.

I pray earnestly in Your name, Amen.

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But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. – Matthew 5:32

Prayer To Receive Healing From Emotional Abuse

Holy Father,

Please open my heart to receive healing. I have been mistreated and my emotions have been weakened. Please heal me. Help me be receptive to that healing.

Open my spirit to receive Your miraculous power. Send Your strength as a channel through my mind. Give me healing instead of the pain that I currently feel.

I know that true strength and healing come from You. I pray that You will open my mind to receiving newer, positive thoughts. Let me turn towards healing and away from pain.

Bless me with health and healing. Shower my mind with peace.

Amen.

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If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. – Romans 12:18

Prayer To Forgive After Emotional Abuse

Lord,

I am filled with frustration and anger at the person who hurt me. I am filled with frustration towards myself for not escaping the abuse sooner. I need Your gracious healing power to help me forgive so that I can close that chapter of my life.

Forgiveness is difficult. I do not want to forgive and slip back into an abusive relationship. Protect me from that abuse but open my mind to forgiveness. Let me recognize that forgiveness does not mean inviting further pain, but rather that it invites Your power to heal me.

Give me the strength to forgive myself. Let me have grace for my mistakes.

Amen.

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do not despise prophetic utterances. But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; abstain from every form of evil. – Thessalonians 5:20

Prayer For Emotional Healing

Holy God,

You have the power to heal me from any heartache, pain, injury, or illness. I have suffered deep emotional wounds, and I need You to intervene.

Heal my heart. Fill it with love. Remove any residual pain and suffering.

Ease my rushing mind. Let me know that this pain can go away. Remind me that this pain is only temporary and that tomorrow I can have a brighter day.

I pray for Your help in Your name, Amen.

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Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. – Colossians 3:19

Prayer For Patience When Recovering From Emotional Abuse

Dear Father in Heaven,

I am recovering from an emotionally abusive situation. Thank You for saving me from that. I am so grateful for Your grace.

I am working to recover, but it takes time. it hurts. I get frustrated when I would like to move on.

Father, please give me the patience to let the healing process take the time that it requires. Help me not rush the process. Let me live in each stage of recovery as long as I need to heal the wounds and the scars I have.

Amen.

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If Cain is avenged sevenfold, Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold. – Genesis 4:24

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