What happens when you run out of words

Dear friend.

Have you ever sat down to pray at the end of a long, heavy day - and found that there was just nothing there?

No words. No feeling. Not even a properly formed thought. Just silence, and a kind of exhaustion that goes deeper than tired.

I’ve been there. More times than I’d like to admit.

And for a long time, I carried a quiet guilt about it - as if the silence meant I was failing at faith. As if real Christians always knew what to say to God.

Then I sat with Romans 8:26, and something shifted.

Paul writes that the Holy Spirit “prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.” Not instead of us - alongside us, in us. The Spirit doesn’t wait for you to find the right language before stepping in. He’s already there. Already carrying what you can’t form into a sentence.

And Hebrews 7:25 adds something extraordinary: Jesus, the risen Christ, lives forever to intercede for you before the Father. Right now. Even when your lips are still.

Put those two passages side by side and you land on something remarkable: you are never, not even for a moment, left unrepresented before God.

Your silence isn’t a failure. It’s simply the edge of your own capacity - which is exactly where the Spirit takes over.

Today’s five-minute devotional unpacks both passages and ends with one small, honest prayer you can pray when you have nothing left.

I think it might be exactly what you need today.

Watch the full devotional here -

With love.

Rob

Read this week’s devotionals here - https://open.substack.com/pub/battledrilldevotional/p/you-dont-have-to-keep-feeling-stuck?r=643q6o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true