Given the simultaneity of our multiple parallel lives, all trauma is essentially current and ongoing. Strength helps us to weather the storm, rather than wishing for its termination. But clearly, life presents circumstances where the individual just KNOWS that trouble cannot be completely avoided, even with prayer, and so strength rather than deliverance is prayed for. Yet with what we’ve learned about prayer, it would seem to be the better strategy to pray for BOTH strength AND deliverance. Can Creator comment?

There is a danger here with vague understanding of the terminology. What is needed as a priority is strength to mount the tasks at hand, and to sustain the effort so that you prevail in the end in the contest between good and evil. If by "deliverance" you mean "a rescue," this is, in effect, a disempowerment, by surrendering the responsibility for your safety and progress for the divine to take care of on your behalf, and to provide this for you because you are unable to achieve it on your own. There are times when surrender is appropriate. If you are so depleted that things have become unworkable and to continue living is to continue suffering great pain, it is far better to exit the body and return home to the light than to continue living in torment if that cannot be turned around. If the deliverance requested is for a temporary respite so one can lick their wounds, regroup, have some restoration and replenishment for a return to the fray, then deliverance might well be prudent as a near-term goal. One can be in the throes of combat but in a hopeless situation, and there is no virtue in sustained torture and torment, if they can accomplish no forward movement. To be rescued from that circumstance would be the humanitarian thing to do and a more intelligent use of energy, despite the consequences constituting a kind of surrender. We would say it is good to include all possibilities that are favorable in a prayer request and with a healing effort. So to ask for both strength and deliverance if appropriate, would cover the bases nicely and give some discretion to the divine realm, especially the higher self, to weigh in concerning whether you have reached your limits of tolerance for terrible circumstances and truly need a rescue to be delivered from that torment. Or simply need enough strength to soldier on and persist, to hold out until things begin to improve, where a sustained effort might well be needed to win the day and it is all too easy to give up prematurely, and then seal your fate. So what might be ideal would be to pray for strength, wisdom, and deliverance so that you can be assisted with inner knowing and inspiration, to have the best possible discernment in the moment what is most appropriate and beneficial, to strike the right balance in having the strength to persevere but the wisdom to avoid the folly of endless but futile conflicts and confrontations that will be fruitless and debilitating, and when to stand down, hand the fight over to others, or take a different tack altogether, including a decision to leave your current incarnation, and withdraw.