Have you ever experienced Monday morning anxiety? Mondays can be incredibly stressful for business professionals, with panic and anxiety, often building the evening before. If you’re depressed about Mondays, these three scripture-based prayers, designed for the morning, noon, and night, will help you commit the day to the Lord and set a positive tone for your workweek.
Laura Woodworth
Day 1
Scriptures: Proverbs 16:3, 1 Peter 5:7, Psalms 18:35
Monday Morning – Declare Dependence
Monday can be the most stressful day of your week and even more so if you’ve allowed Monday morning anxiety to creep into your Sunday. The bible says if we commit our works to the Lord, we will succeed. Our thoughts will be established. If you have a habit of starting your day by checking emails, adjust your early morning routine, and focus on handing the day and the week over to the Lord.
Dedicate your day to him. Consciously cast your anxieties over to God. He cares about the minutest detail of your business, including the relational dynamics of your workplace. You can trust him to work on your behalf through the day when you’ve commended it over to him.
Monday morning prayer:
Lord, I acknowledge the finiteness of who I am – and the absolute infinity of who you are. As I enter my workweek, I stretch myself past my limitations and into the expansiveness of your presence.
You make me great.
I am nothing without you by my side.
I declare my complete dependence upon you for wisdom, guidance, and strength.
I commit every decision and conversation I will have today into your capable and trustworthy hands.
I ask you to help me meet every deadline with skill, proficiency, and brilliance. I ask you for favor and open doors. I pray that you would help me approach each project and opportunity with a vision for what could be and a plan of action to bring it to pass.
Help me to walk rightly among my co-workers and colleagues and to be a blessing and an asset to my workplace. I lift this day before you now, and I ask you to enable and inspire me to accomplish the needful and succeed in the hopeful. Grant me success, Lord. I depend on you.
Day 2
Scriptures: Psalms 55:17, Proverbs 8:14, Ephesians 2:6, Colossians 4:6, Ezekiel 37:9
Monday Noon – Pause and Breathe
It’s noon or 1 pm, and you’ve been at it for hours, but between Monday emails and meetings or phone calls, you may feel like the day is half over and you’ve hardly touched the day’s priorities. It’s tempting to eat lunch on the run or over your keyboard or arrange a working lunch all under the banner of productivity.
King David recognized the importance of acknowledging the Lord throughout the day. “Evening and morning, and at noon, I will pray and cry aloud. And He shall hear my voice.” (Psalm 55:17 KJV) Pausing to pray midday can be empowering! Taking a moment to walk away from your desk to breathe, clear your mind, and rededicate the day to the Lord can help you approach the afternoon’s tasks or meetings with fresh eyes and renewed perspective.
Monday noon prayer:
God, I acknowledge your goodness, and I thank you for guiding me through this morning. As I pause in my workday, I breathe in your life, and I receive your perspective for the work and challenges still before me today.
Your wisdom brings peace into situations.
You gird me with the strength to approach every circumstance and every conversation with grace.
You give me understanding beyond my human comprehension to recognize spiritual warfare in my workplace and to diffuse spiritual opposition.
I humble myself before you and acknowledge that in you, I am well able to approach this afternoon’s appointments and phone calls, deadlines, and ongoing projects with joy and confidence.
I ask you to stir creative solutions and ideas within me for the tasks at hand. Reveal what’s hidden and make possible what seems impossible as I strive to do your will in my workplace. I love you, and I declare that this day belongs to you.
Day 3
Scriptures: Psalms 127:2, Acts 17:28, Psalms 94:19
Monday Night – Let It Go
Mondays can be treacherous. You may feel like you made no headway at all and that the mountain of work only grew and is more complicated. Worse yet, you may have missed a deadline or miscalculated something, or made a mistake. But at some point, you have to close down your computer, shut the door to your office, and walk away.
Remember – it’s only one day, one Monday in the scheme of 364 other days of the year. Do what you can to make things right, but then it’s time to let this day go so you can receive God’s rest and renewal for tomorrow.
Monday night prayer:
Father, I release this day into your hands. I thank you for the victories and the pleasant moments. I turn over my frustrations to you, and I ask you to cover my shortcomings with your grace. Restore my soul as I shift my mind off work and purpose myself to enjoy this evening.
You give rest to those you love, and as I turn this day over to you, I push off anxiety and depression to receive your rest.
I cast off every weight that would try to keep me from pursuing your plan for my life and work.
I fix my eyes on Jesus, the author, and finisher of my faith and all that concerns me.
I quiet my soul before you. I trust you to prepare and enable me for tomorrow and all that it brings. Your comforts delight my soul. My life and my work are in your hands, and I look forward to a better tomorrow. In Jesus’ name, amen.