Reflection & Prayer Prompts
Making Decisions When You Feel Stuck
These prompts are designed to help you sit with a decision you're facing—or with your patterns around decision-making in general. There's no pressure to resolve anything. The goal is honest reflection, gentle self-awareness, and opening yourself to God's wisdom.
Use these during quiet time, journaling, or whenever you need space to process.
Personal Reflection Questions
Take your time with these. You don't need to answer all of them in one sitting. Let one or two speak to where you are right now.
1. What decision have you been carrying that you haven't been able to make?
Not the small ones—the one that sits in the back of your mind, that you think about in the shower, that you keep putting off. What is it, really?
2. When you imagine making this decision, what happens in your body?
Do you feel tightness? Heaviness? A flutter in your chest? Where does the tension land? Our bodies often know things before our minds do.
3. Whose voice is loudest in your head about this decision—and should it be?
Is it a parent? A spouse? A friend? A critic? An imagined audience? Is that voice helping you think clearly, or is it noise that doesn't belong in this particular decision?
4. What are you most afraid will happen if you decide?
Name it specifically. Not "something bad"—but what exactly? That you'll fail? That someone will be disappointed? That you'll lose something precious? That you'll regret it? Get honest about the fear.
5. What are you most afraid will happen if you don't decide?
Sometimes staying stuck has its own costs. What might you lose by waiting? What opportunity might pass? What does the cost of indecision look like?
6. Is there something from your past that's speaking into this present decision?
A previous decision that went badly? A time you trusted and got hurt? A pattern you're trying to avoid repeating? Sometimes the past makes the present feel more dangerous than it is.
7. If you knew you could handle whatever comes next—if you trusted yourself to adjust, recover, and keep moving—what would you decide?
So much indecision comes from not trusting ourselves to navigate the aftermath. What would you choose if you believed you were resilient?
8. What would it mean about you if you made this decision and it turned out well?
And what would it mean about you if it didn't turn out the way you hoped? Are those meanings true—or are they stories you're telling yourself?
Guided Prayer Language
These prayers are offered as starting points. Change the words to fit your own voice. Prayer is honest conversation, not performance.
Prayer for Clarity
God, I've been circling this decision for a while now. I've thought about it, researched it, talked about it—and I'm still stuck.
I don't need certainty. I know you rarely give that. But I'm asking for clarity—enough to take the next step.
Help me see what's really keeping me frozen. Is it fear? Whose voice am I listening to that doesn't belong here? What criteria actually matter, and what's just noise?
Show me what I already know. Give me courage to act on it.
I trust that you can work with imperfect decisions. I trust that you're not waiting for me to get it exactly right before you'll show up.
Help me move. Amen.
Prayer for Freedom from Fear
Lord, I'm afraid.
I've tried to name the fear, and I think it's [name it: failure, loss, conflict, change, repeating the past, disappointing someone, the unknown].
I don't want this fear to make my decisions for me. I don't want to live a small life because I was too scared to move.
Help me hold this fear without being controlled by it. Remind me that you are with me in uncertainty. Remind me that I can recover from mistakes. Remind me that staying stuck has its own costs.
Give me the courage to decide—not recklessly, but faithfully. I'd rather take an imperfect step forward than remain perfectly frozen.
Free my "chooser." Help me walk forward. Amen.
Prayer for Peace with Loss
God, I'm stuck because I don't want to lose anything.
Every option means giving something up. And I keep holding onto all of them in my mind, as if not deciding lets me keep them all.
Help me accept that every yes means a no. Help me grieve what I won't choose, and embrace what I will.
This is what maturity looks like—accepting limits, making choices, living with the consequences. I want to be someone who can do that. I want to stop being paralyzed by the fantasy of having it all.
Give me peace with the losses that come with living a real life—not a theoretical one.
I choose to move forward. Help me trust you with what I leave behind. Amen.
Journaling Prompts
Use these for written processing—in a journal, on your phone, or just as thinking prompts. Let yourself write freely without editing.
1. "The decision I keep avoiding is... and the reason I tell myself I'm avoiding it is... but the real reason might be..."
See if you can get underneath your surface explanation to something truer.
2. Write about a time you made a decision that felt scary but turned out okay.
What happened? How did you get unstuck? What does that memory tell you about your capacity to navigate uncertainty?
3. "If I trusted God more with the outcome of this decision, I would..."
Finish that sentence and see where it leads. What would actually change in your behavior, not just your feelings?
4. Describe the person you want to become in how you make decisions.
What does that person look like? How do they handle uncertainty? What relationship do they have with fear? With other people's opinions? With regret?
What's one step you could take today to become more like that person?
5. "The cost of staying stuck on this decision is..."
Get specific. What is indecision costing you in time, energy, relationships, opportunities, peace of mind? Make it real.
A Final Word
Decisions are not just logistics. They're spiritual acts. Every time you choose, you exercise the freedom God gave you. Every time you move forward in faith—without certainty but with wisdom—you grow.
You don't need to get it perfect. You need to be honest about what's keeping you stuck, courageous enough to name your fears, and willing to take the next step even if you can't see the whole path.
God is not waiting on the sidelines for you to figure it out. God is with you in the process—in the confusion, the fear, the weighing, the wondering. And God will be with you in whatever comes after you decide.
You have permission to move forward.
If you find that anxiety or past wounds consistently interfere with your ability to make decisions and function in daily life, consider talking with a counselor or therapist. Sometimes the path through indecisiveness includes healing work that goes deeper than reflection and prayer alone. That's not a failure of faith—it's wisdom about how God often works through skilled helpers.