A Prayer For God To Expose What Has Been Working Against You In Secret

Finding peace starts with surrendering our worries to the universe and trusting that God’s guidance will meet us in the middle of our uncertainty. Best-selling author of Finding God Every Day, Rebecca Simon, reminds us to trust God’s timing, embrace patience, and lean on His presence through every season of life.

Some of what has been holding you back isn’t something you did wrong — it’s something working against you that you were never meant to see on your own. This prayer is for the moment you stop trying to figure it all out and instead ask God to be your vision. Because the truth doesn’t just set you free. It exposes everything that was keeping you in chains. 

God, I’m asking you to turn on the light. Expose every hidden thing that has been operating against my life in the dark — every plan formed in secret, every sabotage I couldn’t see, every force that has been quietly working to delay, derail, and destroy what you have for me. I don’t always know what I am up against. But you do.

Show me what I need to see. Expose the lies I’ve been told and the ones I’ve started to believe. Reveal the relationships that look like support but function like opposition. Let nothing stay hidden that has been stealing my peace, blocking my progress, or poisoning my purpose. What is done in darkness will be brought to light — and I’m standing on that promise today.

Give me the discernment to recognize what isn’t for me and the courage to act on what you reveal. Let every trap be dismantled before I walk into it. Let every assignment against my life be cancelled before it lands. I trust you — not because I understand everything that’s happening, but because you do. And I believe that what you expose, you also heal.

Amen.