Prayers in this series:
Life, Strength, The Church, Temptation, Gifts, Contentment
This prayer is part of a series of prayers influenced by the Hebrew dayenu prayer. A dayenu prayer is part of the traditional Jewish celebration of the Passover. "דַּיֵּנוּ/Dayenu" is Hebrew for "it would have been enough." The traditional dayenu prayer remembers God's miraculous deliverance of the Hebrew people from slavery in Egypt, recognizing that each step along the way of that deliverance would have been enough, even if God didn't bring them all the way to the promised land.
These prayers are meant to help us submit to the will of God, recognizing that anything God does for us is more than enough. As you pray, you might not always completely agree with the statement you are reading. Allow the prayer to bring you to a deeper level of surrender. Let God stretch your ability to submit more completely to his will. Whatever God does through these prayers, you can know, it's enough.
A Dayenu Prayer—Strength
Father, we thank you for your strength,
made perfect in weakness.
And even if all I have is your strength,
if my body, mind and my soul are exhausted…
It would be enough.
And if my faith was strong,
but my body was fragile,
just a shell of the physical strength I once enjoyed...
It would be enough.
And if my faith was strong,
and my body was healthy,
but tears flowed for no reason,
or I simmered in anxiety,
or my thoughts were dark and empty,
or my feelings were flat, still...
It would be enough.
If my mind and body and soul felt strong,
if I was wealthy and healthy and energetic,
but I knew that none of that mattered...
It would be enough.
Because when I’m weak,
that’s when you are strong.
I embrace my weakness.
I boast about my weakness.
I delight in weaknesses!
You have placed your treasure in this fragile jar of clay....
And that’s enough.
—Gary Brouwers © 2026 ReformedWorship.org, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
