Bible Verses About Burnout
Verses for when you are completely depleted.
When the weight of responsibility leads to exhaustion and your spirit feels completely spent, remember that your Creator intimately knows your frame. He does not demand more than you can give, but instead invites you to find a true and holy rest in His presence. By leaning into His strength rather than your own efforts, you will find the nourishment needed for the journey ahead. Trust that His peace is available to sustain you even in the most demanding seasons of life.
Key Passages
"He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it."
"For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes."
"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
"Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended."
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"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."
"Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you."
"There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God."
"For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;"
"For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day."
"Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered."
"And he said unto them,Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while:for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat."
"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."
"¶ It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness."
"And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not."
"It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep."
"My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever."
"Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation."
"Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved."
"The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake."
"But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."
"There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest."
"If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small."
"To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear."
"For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not."
"¶ Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding."
"He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength."
"Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:"
"Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest."
"¶ Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
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