When you need to ask the Lord for help, Bible verses for God giving strength put a promise and a prayer on your lips. Many are short lines from the Psalms that believers have prayed for centuries in weakness, illness and fear. Use them to begin your prayers, repeat them during a demanding day, or share them with someone who feels spent.
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Isaiah 41:10 (KJV)
Pray this back to God when afraid: He has promised to strengthen you, help you and hold you up.
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
Psalms 28:7 (KJV)
David praises the Lord as his strength and shield, saying his heart trusted Him and he was helped.
In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.
Psalms 138:3 (KJV)
A testimony worth claiming: when David called, God answered and strengthened his soul.
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Isaiah 40:29 (KJV)
For exhausted days, this verse says God gives power to the faint and increases the strength of the weak.
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
Psalms 119:28 (KJV)
The psalmist, melting with heaviness, asks God to strengthen him according to His word.
Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
Psalms 27:14 (KJV)
Wait on the Lord and be of good courage, David urges, and He shall strengthen your heart.
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Philippians 4:13 (KJV)
Short and memorable, this verse is a quick reminder that Christ supplies the strength for what lies ahead.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Psalms 46:1 (KJV)
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help, so we can call on Him right now.
But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble. Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.
Psalms 59:16-17 (KJV)
David resolves to sing of God’s power each morning, calling Him his strength, defence and refuge.
The Lord is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
Psalms 118:14 (KJV)
A line to sing or pray: the Lord is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
Isaiah 33:2 (KJV)
Isaiah asks God to be gracious and to be His people’s arm every morning and their salvation in trouble.
But be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
Psalms 22:19 (KJV)
A plea from deep distress: O Lord, my strength, do not be far off, but hurry to help me.
Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
Deuteronomy 33:25 (KJV)
Moses blesses Asher with the promise that as your days are, so shall your strength be.
O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
Psalms 86:16 (KJV)
David asks God to turn to him, have mercy, and give His strength to His servant.
Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
2 Timothy 4:17 (KJV)
When everyone else deserted Paul, he says the Lord stood with him and strengthened him.
O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.
Psalms 68:35 (KJV)
This verse praises the God of Israel who gives strength and power to His people.
Seek the Lord, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
Psalms 105:4 (KJV)
We are encouraged to seek the Lord and His strength, and to seek His face continually.
Isaiah 40:29 works well prayed as a direct request, naming the specific area where you need God to give you strength.
For a related angle, see Bible Verses About Strength and Hope or Bible Verses About Forgiving Yourself.
Want the wider context? The complete King James Version is available at Blue Letter Bible.
If you want to keep reading, Bible Verses For Believing God's Promises and Bible Verses For Wives sit close to this topic.
You might also turn to Bible Verses For Comfort and Strength and Bible Verses For Perseverance.
Readers of this page often go on to Bible Verses For Strength or Bible Verses For God's Purpose.
Bible Verses For Finding Strength in God and Bible Verses About Finding Strength in God pick up threads that run through these verses.
If the KJV wording feels unfamiliar, Bible Gateway lets you set it beside a modern translation.
Bible Hub offers commentary and cross-references for each verse.
Return to this verse as a direct request for strength, not an attempt to generate it yourself.
The language of God giving strength positions it as a gift received, not a reward earned through sufficient spiritual effort or performance. This distinction matters if you have felt that you need to somehow deserve or qualify for strength before it becomes available. Scripture describes it as given, freely, to those who genuinely need it — not distributed only to those who have already proven themselves worthy of receiving it.
If you are approaching God for strength right now feeling unworthy or insufficient, that feeling does not disqualify you. The strength described is specifically for people who recognize their own insufficiency, not for those who have none.
Isaiah 40:29’s statement that God gives power to the faint names its specific recipients directly — not the already-strong, but the weary and faint. This specificity matters. If you are currently exhausted, worn down, or genuinely faint, you are named directly as exactly who this giving is described as being for, not an exception to it.
Scripture repeatedly instructs asking directly for what is needed, including strength specifically. This active asking is worth doing deliberately rather than assuming strength arrives automatically without being sought. If you have not yet asked directly and specifically for strength in your current situation, doing so now, in plain and honest language, is consistent with the pattern Scripture describes.
Scripture does not attach a specific timeline to when strength will be given — sometimes it arrives quickly, sometimes only after sustained waiting. This uncertainty about timing is worth accepting rather than expecting a predictable, fixed schedule. If strength has not yet arrived the way or the speed you expected, that delay does not mean the giving described here has failed — only that its timing has not matched your own preference.
Whatever specific weakness or exhaustion you are carrying right now, these verses are meant to be prayed directly over that actual condition, not read only as distant reassurance for someone else’s situation.
Return here whenever you find yourself running low again, trusting that asking is not a sign of weakness but the very pattern this promise was written to invite.
This gift does not run out the way ordinary strength does, offered again exactly when it is needed, however many times that turns out to be.
Come to this list honestly, exactly as tired or weak as you actually feel today.
No performance required, no pretending to feel stronger than you do. Just honest asking, exactly as things are.
Elisha’s servant woke early one morning to find a Syrian army with horses and chariots surrounding the entire city, sent specifically to capture the prophet who kept warning Israel’s king of enemy ambushes in advance. Panicking, he ran to Elisha asking what they should do, certain there was no way out of a siege that large.
Elisha’s answer was startling: those who were with them were more than those with the enemy, a claim that must have sounded absurd to a servant staring at real chariots surrounding a real city with no visible army of their own anywhere nearby. He then prayed a very specific prayer, asking God to open the young man’s eyes, and God did, revealing a mountain full of horses and chariots of fire surrounding Elisha for protection, invisible until that exact moment.
These Bible Verses For God Giving Strength were not about the servant developing courage on his own; they describe God simply letting him see resources that had already been there the whole time. Sometimes the strength being asked for is not more power added to a situation, but eyes opened to help that was never actually missing.
King Asa faced an Ethiopian army of a million men and three hundred chariots with a force of far fewer soldiers, an imbalance no reasonable military strategist would consider survivable. Rather than negotiating or retreating, he cried out to the Lord his God, saying plainly that it was nothing for God to help, whether with many or with those who had no power.
His prayer specifically named his own weakness rather than downplaying it: Lord, we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. He did not pretend confidence he did not feel, and he did not claim his own army was secretly strong enough, or that morale alone would somehow carry the day against odds that lopsided. He simply stated the mismatch out loud and asked God to act inside it, publicly, in front of his own soldiers before a single arrow had been fired.
The Lord struck the Ethiopian army before Asa’s forces, and they fled, leaving an enormous amount of spoil behind for Judah to collect. These Bible Verses For God Giving Strength show up clearly in Asa’s specific wording: rest, rather than effort, was the posture that preceded the victory.
Peter was in prison the night before his scheduled execution, bound with two chains and sleeping between two soldiers, with additional guards posted at the door, an arrangement designed to make escape completely impossible. He was apparently calm enough to be genuinely asleep, since an angel had to strike him on the side to wake him up.
The chains fell off his hands immediately, the angel told him to get dressed, put on his sandals and follow, and Peter walked past two more sets of guards and through an iron gate leading into the city that opened by itself, all without fully realizing at first that any of it was actually happening rather than a vision he was watching from a distance. He assumed he was dreaming until the angel suddenly left him and he found himself standing alone in the street, fully awake, with the night air on his face.
Peter’s escape adds a striking layer to these Bible Verses For God Giving Strength, because he contributed almost nothing to his own deliverance beyond waking up and following instructions. The chains, the gate and the guards were all handled before he had time to strategize a way out on his own.
Samson had already lost his strength once his hair was cut and his eyes had been gouged out by the Philistines, who put him to work grinding grain in prison like an animal, a humiliating end for a man once famous across the region for tearing lions apart with his bare hands and carrying off city gates on his shoulders. His hair had slowly begun growing back, though his captors seemed not to notice or care.
Brought out to entertain a large crowd gathered to mock him, Samson asked a servant to let him lean against the temple’s support pillars, then prayed a short, honest prayer asking God to strengthen him just once more so he could be avenged for his eyes. He pushed against the pillars with all his remaining strength, and the entire crowded building collapsed on everyone inside, including Samson himself, who died there alongside far more Philistines than he had killed in his entire lifetime up to that point.
His final request rounds out these Bible Verses For God Giving Strength with an uncomfortable but honest example: even a man whose earlier choices had led him into exactly this disaster could still ask God for strength in his last moments, and God still answered him. Readers exploring Bible Verses About God Giving Strength will find more on how this promise reaches people regardless of how they got into their current situation.
Israel was fighting the Amalekites in the wilderness, and Joshua led the battle on the ground while Moses stood on a hilltop overlooking the fight, holding up a rod in his hand. As long as Moses kept his hands raised, Israel prevailed, and whenever his arms grew tired and dropped, Amalek began to prevail instead, a direct, visible link between his posture and the outcome below.
Moses’ arms eventually grew too heavy to hold up on his own, a completely human limitation with no shame attached to it. Aaron and Hur found a stone for him to sit on, and each took one of his arms, steadying them until sunset, when Israel finally won the battle decisively.
Moses’ strength that day was never really his own arm strength at all; it depended entirely on two other men willing to stand beside him and physically hold him up when he could no longer manage it alone. These Bible Verses For God Giving Strength often arrive exactly that way, delivered through the ordinary, unremarkable help of people standing close enough to notice someone else fading.
Elisha’s servant needed his eyes opened rather than a new weapon. Asa needed to admit his own army was outmatched before the battle even started. Peter needed only to wake up and walk. Samson needed one final answer to a prayer he had no right to expect after everything that had led him there. Moses needed two friends willing to hold his arms up until sunset. In each case, the strength came from outside the person entirely.
That pattern still shapes how these Bible Verses For God Giving Strength function today: they are rarely a description of someone finding an inner reserve they did not know they had. They describe God stepping directly into a mismatch, an ambush, a locked cell, a ruined life or a battlefield stalemate, and supplying exactly what the moment required, often through the plain, unremarkable help of someone standing close by.
“Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness” (Isaiah 41:10). The first listeners were not comfortable people. They were Judeans dragged to Babylon or watching from the ruins, wondering whether their God had been outmatched by the gods of a bigger empire.
Look at how the promise is built. God says I am with thee before He says I will strengthen thee, and the strengthening comes with two more verbs, help and uphold. The order matters. Presence first, then power. A frightened person usually wants the power right away, and God keeps giving the nearness instead, trusting it to be enough. The right hand He mentions was the hand of authority and rescue in that culture. Picture a father catching a toddler on a staircase and you have the gist.
Moses was near the end of his life when he blessed the tribes one by one. To Asher he said, “Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be” (Deuteronomy 33:25). Asher’s hills were rough and rocky, so tough footwear was a real promise, and not just a figure of speech.
The second half is the part people quote at funerals and in nursing homes: as thy days, so shall thy strength be. Read it slowly and you notice it does not say strength will be stockpiled ahead of time. It says it will match the day. A tired nurse starting a double shift will not feel that supply in advance, and that is exactly the point. The provision is sized to the day when the day arrives, like manna gathered each morning in the wilderness. Most of us want to see the whole warehouse. God tends to hand over one box at a time.
Psalm 28 begins in a dark place, with David crying out and fearing he will be like those who go down to the pit. Then the tone turns: “The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him” (Psalm 28:7). Nothing about his enemies has been described as changed, yet the music has started.
Strength and shield sit together in that line, one for moving forward and one for standing still under attack. Both are given, neither is manufactured. It is worth noticing that the help came and then the rejoicing followed. Many of us try to feel joyful first and ask for help second, which gets the sequence backward. If your prayers have been all petition lately, you could try ending one with a single honest line of thanks and see whether it loosens something in your chest.
“Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD” (Psalm 27:14). David repeats the word wait as though he knows his listeners will resist it. Anyone who has sat by a phone for a biopsy result or a job offer knows why. Waiting feels like doing nothing, and doing nothing feels like losing.
Yet the verse ties waiting to strengthening. The heart gets stronger in the waiting, not only at the end of it. Think of a long-distance runner pacing a hill. Holding back early is part of how she gets over the top. The Hebrew idea behind the word is closer to a stretched cord than a limp one, a hope pulled tight toward God. So a good week of waiting might look like short prayers, plain meals, an honest talk with a friend and a decent night of sleep, a small stack of ordinary faithfulness while the answer is still in the mail.
The psalmist writes, “My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word” (Psalm 119:28). The old word for heaviness points to a kind of dripping sorrow, like a candle burning down to the wick. It is an unusually frank sentence in a psalm otherwise full of praise for God’s law.
His request is specific: strengthen me according to your word. He is not asking for a vague lift in mood. He wants his strength to come through what God has already said. In practice that can look very plain. You read a short passage aloud while the dishes soak, you write one verse on a card and tape it to the dashboard, you repeat it at red lights. None of it feels dramatic. But over weeks the words begin to hold some of your weight. If the heaviness lingers for months, seeing a doctor or counselor alongside this kind of prayer is a wise and faithful step, not a lack of faith.
Near the end of his life Paul wrote to Timothy about a courtroom in Rome where nobody came to stand beside him. “Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known” (2 Timothy 4:17). Friends had scattered. Demas had left for love of the present world. Paul faced the judges alone, at least by human measure.
Here the strength was not a feeling and it was not a miracle of escape. It was courage to speak plainly in a room where silence would have been safer. Notice the purpose clause at the end of the verse: so that the message would be fully heard. The gift was tied to a task. Many of us ask for strength simply to survive a day, and that is fine. Yet Paul’s example invites a second prayer, asking what the strength is for and who might hear something true because you were steadied.
Other collections you may find useful: Bible Verses About God Giving Strength, Bible Verses For Finding Strength in God, Bible Verses About Finding Strength in God, Bible Verses For Strength and Bible Verses About God's Purpose.
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Isaiah 40:29 works well prayed as a direct request, naming the specific area where you need God to give you strength.
This page brings together 1 King James Version references about god Giving Strength, drawn from 1 different books of the Bible.
The verses about god Giving Strength on this page are drawn from the Old Testament, including passages such as Isaiah 40:29.
Isaiah 40:29 is one of the verses about god Giving Strength referenced in this collection.
Yes, the verses referenced on this page, including Isaiah 40:29, are quoted according to the King James Version (KJV), and are suitable for daily reading, memorization, or devotional use.
