Justbecause5
Servant
There is power in prayer (James 5:16)!
In August 2022, my job in Alaska was complete. My two young sons and I are headed to Texas to start a new job and set up our new home. My wife and older daughter were headed overseas in mid-September to visit family.
After leaving Alaska, my wife hired an attorney, and together they went to court and convinced the judge that I had stolen the boys and taken them across state lines. I was 5000 miles away in Texas teaching school. In court, there was no mention of plane tickets overseas or the fact my job in Alaska was complete.
In late September 2022, my wife and a sister in Christ went to Texas and took my sons. I have not seen them since.
From the summer 2022 until the present day, I must’ve prayed well over 1 million times. I pleaded with God to take me back to Alaska. I pleaded with God to restore my marriage in my family.
In the summer of 2024, a series of peculiar events occurred that resulted in my move to Alaska. It’s amazing looking back at the things that just happened. So, I received a free first-class flight from California to Alaska. I had a teaching job and a coaching job, but no place to live or a car to drive. I still moved.
On the plane, I quoted 2 Cor 5:7 at least 500 times. I was so convinced that before my plane landed, my wife would contact me and I would have a place to live and a car to drive. That’s how incredible the connection of events were in the summer 2024.
Unfortunately, the events did not include my wife and I being reconciled in our family together. Instead, the next 21 months I would suffer tremendously in Alaska and every way possible. I was homeless. My life was very unstable. I lost multiple jobs due to no fault of my own. I had terrible car issues.
I could probably write a book about everything that’s happened. In the midst of so much despair, depression, sadness, etc., I have regularly seen the hand of God. Little blessings when it rained or a moose wandered into the yard or northern lights did what they do, etc.
Because I lost multiple jobs, I began doing gig work. I actually began doing gig work while I was in HR limbo waiting for my teaching job to start. I was in HR limbo 10 days and I started doing gig work. Little did I know, gig work would play a huge part in my life for my time in Alaska. It has literally saved my life and kept my head above water financially.
Of course, even gig work was not safe from Satan and his cohorts. As soon as I started having success during gig work, I started having car issues. Because of the car issues, I had to rent a car from November 2025 until June 2026. I did not have a car the whole entire time but most of the time.
My car issues and rising rental car rates caused me to not work for a few weeks. I got behind on my rent. My Landlord, the husband, was recovering from a hard procedure. So, I worked things out with his wife. However, when Mr. Landlord got better, he came to my apartment banging on the door, demanding payment that I was behind. I tried to explain to him the deal I had with his wife, but he did not care.
For three days straight, he banged on my door like I was his teenage son that had sneaked out of the house the night before. He yelled at me and said all kinds of evil things about me in front of others. It was pure harassment then he did a self-eviction where he turned off my water and then electricity and then made it to where I could not access the apartment. Everything he did was completely illegal.
When he made it where I could access the apartment, I lost everything. My brand new jacket gone. My personal paperwork gone. Everything I had that apartment was everything I had in life and it was all gone. In fact, I am still wearing the same pants and shirts that I wore like 17 days ago. I’ve changed the other garments, but the outside garments are the same.
I have now lived in my car going on three weeks. I have not slept in a horizontal position since before then. It’s been very very cold at night and I had to purchase a blanket. In the daytime it’s so miserably hot the car that I’m running from a friend for $30 a day has no AC and no heat. Each day I go out and try and work as much as I can.
Right now as I write this, it is nearly daylight and 1:43 AM. Each day I usually spend about an hour or so fighting off mosquitoes trying to get them off out of the car. It’s Alaska and mosquitoes are sometimes referred to as the state bird. My ankles are all bit up.
I contacted legal aid to help with my Landlord. It’s been nearly 2 weeks since I talked to them and they said they were working on it. I called them every few days and I get no response. I so hope my Landlord does not get away with what he’s done. Apparently he’s been doing this for a while to people.
I am exhausted.
In all the trials that have faced in my 21 months back in Alaska, I feel like my faith and God is stronger than it’s ever been. I feel like my love for God is strong and it’s ever been. Even though I’m in the midst of the valley of the shadow of death, I am confident that God is fully aware and that he is working to help me.
A few days ago, I had an interview for a branch manager at a company that is found all around the world. It would be incredible. If somehow I were to get that position, the financial leverage would greatly help me overcome some obstacles that have plugged me over the last 21 months.
It just seems like I’m a guy grasping for air. My hand is raised above the waterline, but I just can’t get a grasp on anything permanent. I keep sinking back down. I feel like that wacko a-mole game, every time my head goes up my head is punched back down. God, I need your help.
Please pray for me.
Right now as I write this, I am sitting in a parking lot. It is 1:49 AM. I’m still battling mosquitoes in the car hoping that I can get a few extra hours of sleep before the sun is fully up. It’s daylight 24 hours a day right now, but the sun is still below the line so it’s not as bright. I just hope I can get a few hours of sleep.
Join the gym mainly for the shower and bathroom access. So every day or two I’ll go get a shower to try to maintain my sanity. I need to buy some more pants and shirts so that I can wash these for the first time in probably three weeks. I can smell myself.
I need prayers.
Every day I deal with deep sadness. I miss my children. I see them in my dreams. I am playing with them and then suddenly they have to go. I miss him so much. I have shared so many tears about my kids, knowing all the things that I have missed.
I am not a perfect man, but I’ve always been a forgiving man. I stay prepared to forgive my wife for what she’s done to me. She’s done some horrible things to me. I honestly do not understand how she can look in the mirror and think that she’s done right by the way of the Lord. She has been 1000% wrong and sinful. Shameful in her. I think she’s done.
Please pray for her. I hope that God will help her to see the waywardness in their life. Often and pray that God will help to see. I pray that God will bring her to repentance.
I’ve learned in the midst of despair keep counting those blessings. For me, I do not have a horizontal bed to sleep on, but I can breathe and I can walk and I can see. I can go out and do gig work and make a necessary income each day by simply delivering food. I am thankful for those things and many more things.
Thank you for praying for me in my situation.
In August 2022, my job in Alaska was complete. My two young sons and I are headed to Texas to start a new job and set up our new home. My wife and older daughter were headed overseas in mid-September to visit family.
After leaving Alaska, my wife hired an attorney, and together they went to court and convinced the judge that I had stolen the boys and taken them across state lines. I was 5000 miles away in Texas teaching school. In court, there was no mention of plane tickets overseas or the fact my job in Alaska was complete.
In late September 2022, my wife and a sister in Christ went to Texas and took my sons. I have not seen them since.
From the summer 2022 until the present day, I must’ve prayed well over 1 million times. I pleaded with God to take me back to Alaska. I pleaded with God to restore my marriage in my family.
In the summer of 2024, a series of peculiar events occurred that resulted in my move to Alaska. It’s amazing looking back at the things that just happened. So, I received a free first-class flight from California to Alaska. I had a teaching job and a coaching job, but no place to live or a car to drive. I still moved.
On the plane, I quoted 2 Cor 5:7 at least 500 times. I was so convinced that before my plane landed, my wife would contact me and I would have a place to live and a car to drive. That’s how incredible the connection of events were in the summer 2024.
Unfortunately, the events did not include my wife and I being reconciled in our family together. Instead, the next 21 months I would suffer tremendously in Alaska and every way possible. I was homeless. My life was very unstable. I lost multiple jobs due to no fault of my own. I had terrible car issues.
I could probably write a book about everything that’s happened. In the midst of so much despair, depression, sadness, etc., I have regularly seen the hand of God. Little blessings when it rained or a moose wandered into the yard or northern lights did what they do, etc.
Because I lost multiple jobs, I began doing gig work. I actually began doing gig work while I was in HR limbo waiting for my teaching job to start. I was in HR limbo 10 days and I started doing gig work. Little did I know, gig work would play a huge part in my life for my time in Alaska. It has literally saved my life and kept my head above water financially.
Of course, even gig work was not safe from Satan and his cohorts. As soon as I started having success during gig work, I started having car issues. Because of the car issues, I had to rent a car from November 2025 until June 2026. I did not have a car the whole entire time but most of the time.
My car issues and rising rental car rates caused me to not work for a few weeks. I got behind on my rent. My Landlord, the husband, was recovering from a hard procedure. So, I worked things out with his wife. However, when Mr. Landlord got better, he came to my apartment banging on the door, demanding payment that I was behind. I tried to explain to him the deal I had with his wife, but he did not care.
For three days straight, he banged on my door like I was his teenage son that had sneaked out of the house the night before. He yelled at me and said all kinds of evil things about me in front of others. It was pure harassment then he did a self-eviction where he turned off my water and then electricity and then made it to where I could not access the apartment. Everything he did was completely illegal.
When he made it where I could access the apartment, I lost everything. My brand new jacket gone. My personal paperwork gone. Everything I had that apartment was everything I had in life and it was all gone. In fact, I am still wearing the same pants and shirts that I wore like 17 days ago. I’ve changed the other garments, but the outside garments are the same.
I have now lived in my car going on three weeks. I have not slept in a horizontal position since before then. It’s been very very cold at night and I had to purchase a blanket. In the daytime it’s so miserably hot the car that I’m running from a friend for $30 a day has no AC and no heat. Each day I go out and try and work as much as I can.
Right now as I write this, it is nearly daylight and 1:43 AM. Each day I usually spend about an hour or so fighting off mosquitoes trying to get them off out of the car. It’s Alaska and mosquitoes are sometimes referred to as the state bird. My ankles are all bit up.
I contacted legal aid to help with my Landlord. It’s been nearly 2 weeks since I talked to them and they said they were working on it. I called them every few days and I get no response. I so hope my Landlord does not get away with what he’s done. Apparently he’s been doing this for a while to people.
I am exhausted.
In all the trials that have faced in my 21 months back in Alaska, I feel like my faith and God is stronger than it’s ever been. I feel like my love for God is strong and it’s ever been. Even though I’m in the midst of the valley of the shadow of death, I am confident that God is fully aware and that he is working to help me.
A few days ago, I had an interview for a branch manager at a company that is found all around the world. It would be incredible. If somehow I were to get that position, the financial leverage would greatly help me overcome some obstacles that have plugged me over the last 21 months.
It just seems like I’m a guy grasping for air. My hand is raised above the waterline, but I just can’t get a grasp on anything permanent. I keep sinking back down. I feel like that wacko a-mole game, every time my head goes up my head is punched back down. God, I need your help.
Please pray for me.
Right now as I write this, I am sitting in a parking lot. It is 1:49 AM. I’m still battling mosquitoes in the car hoping that I can get a few extra hours of sleep before the sun is fully up. It’s daylight 24 hours a day right now, but the sun is still below the line so it’s not as bright. I just hope I can get a few hours of sleep.
Join the gym mainly for the shower and bathroom access. So every day or two I’ll go get a shower to try to maintain my sanity. I need to buy some more pants and shirts so that I can wash these for the first time in probably three weeks. I can smell myself.
I need prayers.
Every day I deal with deep sadness. I miss my children. I see them in my dreams. I am playing with them and then suddenly they have to go. I miss him so much. I have shared so many tears about my kids, knowing all the things that I have missed.
I am not a perfect man, but I’ve always been a forgiving man. I stay prepared to forgive my wife for what she’s done to me. She’s done some horrible things to me. I honestly do not understand how she can look in the mirror and think that she’s done right by the way of the Lord. She has been 1000% wrong and sinful. Shameful in her. I think she’s done.
Please pray for her. I hope that God will help her to see the waywardness in their life. Often and pray that God will help to see. I pray that God will bring her to repentance.
I’ve learned in the midst of despair keep counting those blessings. For me, I do not have a horizontal bed to sleep on, but I can breathe and I can walk and I can see. I can go out and do gig work and make a necessary income each day by simply delivering food. I am thankful for those things and many more things.
Thank you for praying for me in my situation.
Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. 
