No matter how much you practice or train, sports tryouts can be a little intimidating. Athletes see the field and they are excited, while others are nervous and anxious. Prayer is a good way to calm this anxiousness, by reaching out to God through prayer.
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Father in Heaven, we ask your blessing on the game we are about to play. Give each one of us the courage to play this game in a manner which by our words and our actions is pleasing to you. Let us enter into this competition in a spirit of sportsmanship and with a respect for the members of the opposing team.
Catholic Prayer Before Sporting Event
I come before you, at the edge of sports trials, looking for a deep wellspring of confidence. Please give me the remarkable capacity to nurture a firm conviction in my innate qualities. Allow me to rejoice in the knowledge that you have given me extraordinary ability.
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Please remove all traces of doubt, no matter how small, from my thoughts and replace them with unwavering confidence. Give me permission to be filled with your holy light so that I can give my best effort. I put all my faith in the carefully thought-out strategy you have for me, and I sincerely appreciate the limitless strength you so kindly give.
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This page includes some contemporary prayers that sportsmen and sportswomen can say before a competition. There is a prayer for a coach or fans to say as a blessing over their players, and some of these are also appropriate to pray as a team (for example, for a baseball or football team). There are also two brief sport prayers that can be printed out on cards and carried or memorised before to a competition or game, as well as the prayer of Jabez for victory, favour, and protection from God.
Prayer For Sports Tryouts
Dear Lord,
We come before you today to ask for your blessing on our sports teams, and on the players and coaches who have been chosen to represent them. We know that there are many factors involved in a team’s success, but we also understand that you play a role.
As you know, our team has been struggling lately. We ask that you would help them to focus on what’s most important—the game—and not let outside distractions get in their way. We pray that you would give them strength and endurance during these difficult times, so that they may persevere through any challenges and emerge victorious.
Facing someone you love as they approach a big sporting event can be nerve-racking. The nerves and adrenaline that go into the event are often times more than the actual event. This can cause fluctuations in moods, irritability, and a general inability to focus on anything else. When this happens, we often turn to prayer for Sports tryouts help. Through prayer, our attention is put back where it belongs – on God.
For whatever reason, God chose not to receive credit for His actions in your life through sports tryouts. The result was disappointing, but you hope that having been so faithful in your prayers He might still want to provide you with a touch of grace regardless.
We also pray for their opponents, that they may be able to overcome adversity with grace and humility. Help them recognize your hand in their successes as well as failures; teach them to be gracious in victory and humble in defeat. And help us all to remember that even when we are unable to win every game, we can still benefit from playing the game with integrity and honesty.
Thank you for hearing our prayer today; we praise you for your unlimited wisdom and power! In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen
Short Sports Prayer (suitable to pray before a sports event) Dear God, Thank you for the joy of sports, for the challenge of becoming stronger and fitter. Please help me to embrace this event, and to release all the training, commitment and skills that I have. Lord, you are my inspiration and companion, and I worship you. Amen. Prayer for coaches (a prayer for before an event or competition) Lord, thank you for the privilege of coaching this team and seeing them grow in their skills, confidence and potential. I ask for your guiding love, hope and strength to be with each of them. May they give of their best, compete as one and succeed in every way. We ask for your blessing to rest on our team now. Amen.
Parents Prayer For Athletes
Dear Lord, please bless our children out there. Help them have good sportsmanlike conduct and help them to stay safe today. Give them the strength to do their best for You. We ask this in Your name, Amen
1Thess 5:16 says “pray without ceasing.” Sports are no exception. Prayer is a way to humble ourselves, honor God, express our needs to Him, and have fellowship with Him.
Prayer also gets us in the right mindset and helps us we things through the lens of Christ. We can never pray too much!
1Thess 5:16 says “pray without ceasing.” Sports are no exception. Prayer is a way to humble ourselves, honor God, express our needs to Him, and have fellowship with Him.
Prayer also gets us in the right mindset and helps us we things through the lens of Christ. We can never pray too much!
1Thess 5:16 says “pray without ceasing.” Sports are no exception. Prayer is a way to humble ourselves, honor God, express our needs to Him, and have fellowship with Him.
Prayer also gets us in the right mindset and helps us we things through the lens of Christ. We can never pray too much!
Lord, You have watched them grow in our care, to develop and flourish and to find their own way. Bless them today as they go into this sporting event.
May they seek to be the best they can be and push themselves to new excellence. Come guard their hearts, their minds and their souls with the gentleness of your grace, that they might be humble in victory and gracious in defeat. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen.
Prayer Before Competition
Almighty Father, Bless us as we take this court. We pray that we may put into action the things we have learned in practice about life, sportsmanship and skill. May you keep us safe in our endeavor and protect all who participate today from injury.
Dear God, Thank you for the joy of sports, for the challenge of becoming stronger and fitter. Please help me to embrace this event, and to release all the training, commitment and skills that I have. Lord, you are my inspiration and companion, and I worship you. Amen.
Dear Lord God, Thank you for all the gifts you have given us. Help us to enter into this event with love, wisdom and strength in our hearts. We pray that we would look to you in awe and worship. May we put into practice all that we have learnt in our training, and bring to mind all the skills and planning from our preparation times. May each of us be aware of your goodness in our lives, and may this goodness pour out of us as a witness to your endless grace. You Lord are our inspiration, our teacher and our protector. Our trust is in you today and always. Amen.
“…I am bringing all my energies to bear on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize for which God is calling us up to heaven because of what Christ Jesus did for us.” (Philippians 3:13-15, TLB)
Lord, thank you for the privilege of coaching this team and seeing them grow in their skills, confidence and potential. I ask for your guiding love, hope and strength to be with each of them. May they give of their best, compete as one and succeed in every way. We ask for your blessing to rest on our team now. Amen.