I completely understand.
But please — 30 seconds.
It's Susan Abun. The full Intercession Library isn't right for you today — and that's okay. But there is something smaller I put together that could matter more than you realise.
You have been showing up for your children. Morning after morning. Prayer after prayer. You have been the one standing in the gap — covering their school runs, their friendships, their futures, their faith.
And in all of that faithful intercession, there is a woman you have probably not prayed for in a very long time.
Yourself.
Not because you do not matter. Because you have been so busy being the one who prays that you have forgotten you are also one who needs prayer. The intercessor needs intercession. The woman who pours out needs to be poured into. The mother who covers everyone else needs to be covered too.
Every other book in this vault prays for your children. This one is the only book in the entire library that prays for you.
I think about the mothers who are reading this. The ones who are carrying a marriage that is under strain. The ones whose bodies are exhausted but who cannot stop because the children need them. The ones whose faith has thinned in this season of heavy intercession. The ones who are grieving something — a loss, a season, a version of the future that will not arrive — but who have not had a space to fall apart because someone always needs them to be okay.
This book is thirty prayers written specifically for that woman. Thirty times someone sat down and said: what does she actually need? What has she not been bringing to God? Where is she carrying weight that she was never meant to carry alone?
When the Mother Needs Prayer Too
What's Inside: 30 Prayers Across 6 Sections
Organised by the areas of your life most mothers never pray about for themselves
Her Relationships
Prayers for your marriage, for the single mother carrying alone what was designed to be shared, for your friendships, for the marriage that has ended, and for the relationship with your own mother.
Prayers 1–5Her Physical Life
Prayers for your body, for rest, for healing, for your finances, and for the energy that exceeds what you have available by midday.
Prayers 6–10Her Emotional and Mental Health
Prayers for your mental health, anxiety, grief, loneliness, and anger — all the things a mother carries without a space to set them down.
Prayers 11–15Her Faith
For the mother whose own faith has thinned while she intercedes for everyone else. Prayers for when belief is thin, prayer life has slipped, and joy in God has gone quiet.
Prayers 16–20Her Calling and Identity
Prayers for the woman who is more than a mother — her identity beyond the role, her dormant gifts, the working mother, the invisible calling, the dream she has not yet dropped.
Prayers 21–25The Hard Seasons
For the seasons that arrive without warning — crisis, loss, burnout, fear of the future. Prayers for when the ground beneath you does not feel stable.
Prayers 26–30You offer rest. Not the rest of stopping — the rest of coming to you. The rest that comes from releasing the yoke I have been carrying in my own strength and learning from the one who describes himself as gentle and humble in heart.
I come today...
Why This Book Is Different From Every Other Prayer Book You Own
- Every prayer is written in first person — you are the one being prayed for, not your child, not your husband, not anyone else.
- Each prayer is anchored in a specific scripture for a specific situation — not generic "Lord bless me" prayers but precise, named intercession for named struggles.
- Journal lines after every prayer — space to write the version that is specific to your life, your name, your week.
- The Self-Care Prayer Card gives you one scripture for every emotional emergency — when you can't carry the book, carry the card.
- 30 Declarations to speak over yourself — because the mother who covers everyone else deserves a covering too.
Sister, I know how this goes. You will read this page, feel that it speaks to you, and then close it because someone needs lunch, or the school run is in twenty minutes, or you tell yourself you will come back to it later.
Later never comes. Because someone always needs something first.
Come to the altar for yourself today. Not because your children matter less. Because you cannot pour from an empty cup, and the cup has been empty for longer than you want to admit.
This book is 30 pages. You can read one prayer tonight, in five minutes, before you sleep. That is all. One prayer for yourself, for once.
You are worth praying for.
— Susan Abun 💛