Alaska Update … 6/3/###.

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There is power in prayer (James 5:16).

Dear friends, I believe in prayer and so I keep coming back here updating everyone. I need your continued prayers. Ty.

In February 2019, my family, and I moved to Texas to work with a small congregation of God‘s people.

In August 2022, my job was complete. I had secured a teaching position back in Texas my home state. So, my young sons and I prepared to go to Texas while my wife and older daughter we’re headed overseas to visit family.

After my sons and I left, my wife had an attorney and together they went to court and argue that I had taken the boys across state lines, etc. there was no mention of my job being complete or the fact that my wife had tickets to go overseas for her and the daughter only… the judge sided with her and gave her permission to go get the boys.

In late September 2022, the boys and I have been struggling for weeks. I was waiting for my first paycheck and everything was tough. Finally, payday had arrived and it was going to be an exciting day. My youngest son wanted some sunglasses. Both of them needed clothes and backpacks, etc. I could not wait to take them shopping.

I was in my room during my conference period when the principal and HR lady came to my room. They told me that my wife had come and taken the boys with her. She had a court order and the police, etc.. I immediately started crying like a baby. I could not stop crying. I was so emotionally moved by that news. It was one of the saddest days of my life.

I have always been a praying, man. I love to pray. I immediately started praying fervently for my wife and for my family. I prayed for reconciliation. I pleaded with God to take me back to Alaska.

Initially, I heard an attorney. But eventually, the attorney fired me because I was unable to communicate. I was suffering with so much depression. I played it with her to take me back and she did but two weeks later she fired me again. I was so distraught by what was going on. I decided I would do nothing. I decided to put it 1000% in God’s hands.

God bless me in the journey in a lot of different ways. When I get really depressed, I look back at all the things that God did. The people that suddenly appeared in my life may be for just one conversation or four months of conversation. Other others that bless me for example, the lady that let me stay in a cabin/ office on her 3000 acre property for free.

I feel like I could write a book about this journey.

God finally answered my prayer in the summer of 2024. It’s absolutely amazing to look back at God’s providential hand. I was flying home from California after working a job for 17 weeks and while flying I received a text from the talent supervisor asking me if I could go back to California. I agreed.

In actuality, we didn’t go back till Father’s Day. It was a 30 day job. So I went back. I worked with my old partner. We stayed in an incredibly nice hotel. We had per diem. The pay was pretty good, etc..

We were working on autonomous vehicles. The job was extended for 30 days. A group of engineers were going to Germany to have meetings and we thought for sure they would send us home and then bring us back for a longer period of time. They did not.

In late July 2024, I received a job offer to teach school in Alaska and Coach basketball. I accepted the position. The irony is that school is where my son used to play a soccer games on Saturday.

So when the job in California was complete and mid August, the company had to pay for my flight to go to Alaska. So, I flew first class from San Francisco to Alaska and the company paid for it nearly $850.

However, I had trouble finding a place to live in a car to drive. I had contacted a number of people. I had found vehicle vehicles, but I could not get financed because they required that I live in the state for at least six months and be on the job six months, etc., but I went anyway I was walking by faith and not by sight .

When I boarded the plane on August 19, 2024, I was on fire in my heart my mind I must’ve quoted the passage we walked by faith and not by site 500 times I was so convinced that before the plane landed, my wife would contact me. I didn’t know how she would contact me, but I just knew she would. I felt like Abraham when he was convinced that if he killed Isaac, God would raising from the dead I felt like that.

I landed in Alaska around 12:15 AM on August 20, 2024, and I had no place to go. Little did I know the next 21 months would test me in every single way possible

I would live in the homeless shelter 4.5 months. I would live in a primitive basement with no toilet for 4.5 months. I would live in the back of my van for 28 nights.

I would lose my job as a teacher due to no fault of my own thus I also lost the basketball coaching job and my team was 6-1.

With each disturbing event, I felt like God was doing something. I moved to Alaska, hoping to be a teacher for the next 15 years and a coach. And all of a sudden, and just a few moments all of that was gone. However, God made provision. The school had to pay my salary through the end of April 2025.

Later on, I got a job as a laboratory manager. I was doing everything right I was replacing the outgoing manager who had helped to get everything started. I hired five people. I created a new bonus structured that the board had their approved and did. I was getting to know all the employees and trying to figure out what we could do to make their jobs easier and better and safer. However, despite all those things, my job was over on June 16, 2025.

I have been living in my van for 28 nights. The day that I was let go it was raining when I walked out of the building. I have always loved the rain and it has given me comfort (Acts 14:17). Also, the lady that I’ve lived in one of her apartments for five months, she told me I could live in the primitive basement for free. So, the day I lost my job at the lab I moved out of my van and into the primitive basement, which was 1000% better

I have done a lot of gig work. I delivered food and groceries. I had learned how to do it in such a way to make a full-time salary. However, then I started having car issues. I had three blowouts in six weeks. Then my front wheel bearing went out, etc. in my van sat at the McDonald’s parking lot for 10 days.

I have seen the hand of God again and again.

I did not even mention the time that I went to Murphy Dome to worship God on a Sunday afternoon it was really cold but it was going to be a beautiful sunset right behind Denali. In fact, my profile picture is the sun setting behind Denali. It was about -35°F or so I got out of my van for about three minutes. That’s how cold it was, and when I went to went back to my van, the van was locked. I could not get in.

I did not panic. I just started praying. It did not take long and my hands were so numb and hurting. My face was numb. My ears were hurting and I could not talk. I tried to break the window but was unsuccessful. I finally decided to run down to the bottom of the hill about a quarter of a mile and see if anybody was down there. I went down there and there were two beautiful women sitting in an old but nice truck. They ended up saving my life. I’ll never forget those two women. I’ve wondered if they were angels or if God just put them there, knowing that I would face a great difficulty

There’s no doubt in my mind, if those two women had not been there, I would probably not be typing this prayer request. I would be dead. I would have frozen in those cold temperatures.

I have suffered in so many different ways that I’m exhausted. Not to mention the deep sadness and depression that I have experienced ever since my wife left me and stole my children. There are days that I can barely function. There are days I can barely get out of bed. My persistent prayer has been God give me strength and somehow in someway I would pray that prayer and minutes later I’ll be getting my shoes on to go do gig work.

Again, I feel like I could write a book.

I believe God has sent me signs that I have requested. Rain is my favorite. If it rains, I instantly feel stronger. I love the rain.

Also, I love the moose. I have often prayed that God would let me see a moose, and usually within that day or the next day, I would see one. It’s amazing.

But I’m still weak

I kept having car issues which hindered me from doing gig work. I began renting a car in November and did so until late February when the prices went too high. Then the prices went down in April and I began raining again. In fact, I’m sitting in the rental right now and I’m paying probably $71 a day. On Saturday the price will go up to $92 a day probably in mid July it’ll be $150 a day. I can’t afford it.

So I keep asking God, God what do you want me to do. I’m here in Alaska. I came here, hoping that you would restore my marriage and family and I’ve struggled so much. One of the worst things is just being unstable. Instability is not fun at all.

I was in an apartment from November until a few days ago. I got behind when I started having car issues. The apartment complex even accidentally removed my van from the complex. They say it was stolen, but I say it was taken by them because my timing belt had just broken in a few days before. It was not movable. They refused to look at the camera.

So the Landlord beat on my door like I was his disobedient teenage son. Every time, I answered the door like a man. He yelled at me and screamed at me and called me all kinds of horrible names that honestly hurt me and we’re untrue.

He came to my door three days in a row, violently being ugly and rude and mean in front of other tenants on the same floor it was embarrassing and humiliating

A few days later, he turned off the water to my apartment. As I sit here in this car, I am wearing the exact same clothes that I wore the last time I had water in my apartment. I have not taken a shower like in 10 or 11 days I think.

A few days later, he turned off my electricity. Now I couldn’t cook food. I couldn’t make a smoothie. I had no lights. Thankfully, it’s Alaska and it’s daylight 22 hours a day right now, so I was able to open the blind and see. At that point I just wanted the horizontal place to sleep.

Then two days ago, I went to my apartment and the door would not open. My key would not work. So for the last two nights, I’ve slept in the car, the rental car, which is due back on Friday.

I am exhausted. I am literally and physically exhausted and mentally exhausted. In fact the last two days I’ve not done a lot of work. I need to go work here in a few minutes. I just don’t feel like it cause I’m tired and I looked terrible because I haven’t had a shower in like 11 days. It’s amazing the power of being clean and what that means to your everyday existence.

I keep praying for the God will do something.

This morning, I was sitting in the parking lot and I received a message from the company that I previously worked about a position that they were sending me about. I was so excited because I was sure it was the hand of God. However, after reading the description, I realized I was not really qualified for the position, maybe 70% of it, but not some of it

Then a few minutes ago, I received a phone call from Anchorage about a position that I guess I had applied for up here for a branch manager. They want to interview me tomorrow. Thankfully, it’s gonna be on Zoom because I have no clothes to wear.

I don’t know what God’s doing. I am lonely like Adam was. I feel like Job after being beaten down in every way possible. I’m exhausted beyond repair. It seems.

I need prayers

It’s weird to think that my wife caused all this by her behavior. So much of what she’s done is contrary to the will of God.

Please pray for her - ###. I bet I have prayed 1 million times for her. I have prayed that God would work in her life to help her to see the need for her family to be together as one.

It’s so boring to think that many times I am probably less than 15 to 20 minutes away from my kids. I don’t know exactly where they live because I have not stalked them or anything like that. I put everything in God’s hands, 1000%. But I would estimate. I am probably less than 10 minutes for my kids right now as I typed this.

If you’re reading this, I always cherish your children. Love them with all of your heart. Tell them you love them forgive them when they break the rules or when they make mistakes. Love them through it share with them. God’s were why it’s wrong and why they can do better with God‘s help love them and love them some more.

My kids are probably 10 minutes from where I’m at right now and they may be even closer that I don’t know. They could be in the store right behind me right now. I don’t know, but I missed him with every answer. Am I being

I am not suicidal. But I have prayed many times that God would take my life. I have never done that in my entire life, but that’s how much pain I’ve been in during this situation.

I pray the God will do something.

I love God and Christ and the spirit, and I trust that God is fully aware of my situation. I really believe in God.

I have prayed firmly, God if you are not going to restore my marriage would you please take me far away from here and give me a great job. So far, even though there have been opportunities they’ve suddenly disappeared. I feel like God is keeping me here for a reason.

I so hope my morning will be turning into dancing. I hope that my weeping that endurance for a night will be joy in the morning. I’ve read the psalms like 30 times in the last two years and I love them so


Thank you for praying for me

 

[Articles]

We stand with you in this season of profound trial, lifting your heart and circumstances before the throne of grace. The pain you carry is deep, and the weight of separation from your children and the betrayal of your wife is a burden no man should bear alone. Yet we see in your story a man who has clung to faith even when the storm rages, who has walked by faith and not by sight, just as Scripture commands. "For we walk by faith, not by sight" (2 Corinthians 5:7 WEB). Your persistence in prayer, even when answers seem distant, is a testament to the work of the Holy Spirit in your life.

First, we must address the brokenness in your marriage with biblical truth. What your wife has done, taking your children without just cause, manipulating the legal system, and abandoning her God-given role as a helpmeet, is a grievous violation of the covenant of marriage. Scripture is clear: "Therefore what God has joined together, let no man separate" (Matthew 19:6 WEB). Marriage is a sacred bond, and the tearing apart of your family is not God’s design. We rebuke the spirit of division and deception that has entered your home in the name of Jesus. We pray that God would convict your wife’s heart, soften it, and turn her back to Him and to the family she vowed to cherish. "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9 WEB). May she repent and seek reconciliation, not just with you, but with the Lord.

Yet we also recognize the pain of unanswered prayers. You have cried out for restoration, for stability, for provision, and while God has provided in miraculous ways, shelter, jobs, even strangers who became lifelines, you still walk through the valley. We want to remind you that God’s delays are not denials. "The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9 WEB). Even now, He is working in ways you cannot see. The rain you love, the moose you encounter, the strangers who appear at just the right moment, these are not coincidences. They are the fingerprints of a God who has not forgotten you.

We must also speak to the darkness that has crept into your thoughts. You have prayed for God to take your life, and we cannot ignore the severity of that cry. Depression and despair are real, and they can distort our perception of God’s love. But hear this truth: "The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly" (John 10:10 WEB). The enemy wants to isolate you, to make you believe that your suffering has no purpose. But God has a plan for you, even in this pain. "For I know the plans I have for you," says Yahweh, "plans for peace, and not for evil, to give you hope and a future" (Jeremiah 29:11 WEB). You are not forgotten. You are not abandoned. You are being refined like gold, and though the fire is hot, the outcome will be glorious.

Now, let us pray over you:

Heavenly Father, we come before You in the mighty name of Jesus, lifting up our brother who is weary and heavy-laden. Lord, You see his tears, You hear his cries, and You know the depth of his pain. We ask that You would wrap Your arms around him in this moment, reminding him that You are his refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble (Psalm 46:1 WEB). Father, we rebuke the spirit of despair and depression that has sought to overtake him. We declare that no weapon formed against him shall prosper, and every tongue that rises against him in judgment, he will condemn (Isaiah 54:17 WEB).

Lord, we pray for restoration in his marriage. Soften his wife’s heart, convict her of her sin, and draw her back to You and to her family. Let her see the destruction her choices have caused, and grant her the humility to repent and seek reconciliation. If it is Your will, restore what has been broken, but if not, give our brother the strength to accept Your plan, even when it is painful.

Father, we ask for provision in this season. Open doors of opportunity that no man can shut (Revelation 3:8 WEB). Provide him with stable employment, a place to call home, and the resources he needs to care for himself. Remove the obstacles that have hindered his work, and let his hands be blessed in all that he does. We declare that he will not be homeless, he will not be without transportation, and he will not be without hope.

Lord, we pray for his children. Protect them, draw them close to You, and let them feel the absence of their father in a way that turns their hearts toward him. Guard their minds and spirits from the lies of the enemy, and let them grow up knowing the love of their Heavenly Father, even if they do not yet know the love of their earthly one.

Finally, Father, we ask that You would fill him with Your peace that surpasses all understanding (Philippians 4:7 WEB). Let him feel Your presence in the rain, in the moose, in the strangers who cross his path. Remind him that You are with him, that You are for him, and that You will never leave him nor forsake him (Hebrews 13:5 WEB). Strengthen his faith, renew his hope, and let him rise from this season as a man who has seen Your faithfulness in the fire.

We pray all these things in the precious and powerful name of Jesus Christ, the name above every name, the name by which we are saved and through which we have access to You. Amen.

Brother, we want to leave you with this encouragement: You are not alone. The same God who parted the Red Sea, who raised Lazarus from the dead, and who conquered the grave is fighting for you. "He who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ" (Philippians 1:6 WEB). The road is hard, but it is not endless. Keep your eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of your faith (Hebrews 12:2 WEB). He is writing a story in your life that will one day be a testimony of His goodness and faithfulness.

If you have not already, consider seeking biblical counseling or joining a local church where you can find support and accountability. The body of Christ is meant to bear one another’s burdens (Galatians 6:2 WEB), and you should not walk this path alone. There are brothers and sisters who will stand with you, pray with you, and remind you of God’s promises when the night feels darkest.

Lastly, we want to address the instability you’ve faced. It is not God’s will for you to live in uncertainty or lack. We pray that the job interview you have today would be fruitful, and that God would open a door that no man can shut. But even if it is not this opportunity, trust that God has something greater in store. "But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well" (Matthew 6:33 WEB). Keep seeking Him, and He will provide.

You are loved. You are seen. And you are being held by the One who holds the universe in His hands. Do not lose heart. The dawn is coming.

 

[hostadmin]

We’re praying with you right now, brother, and we see how deeply you’re trusting God even when the path feels like it’s crumbling beneath you. There’s something powerful about the way you’ve walked through this season, choosing faith over fear, even when the storms raged. That’s not just endurance; that’s faith in action.

We want to speak to the instability you’re facing right now, the lack of a stable home, the uncertainty of work, and the weight of not knowing where your kids are. It’s hard to believe God could be at work in this, especially when it feels like chaos. But we’ve seen how He’s provided in unexpected ways before, strangers becoming lifelines, rain bringing strength, moose appearing as reminders of His presence. He’s not done with you yet.

Right now, we’re lifting up your job interview tomorrow. We declare that God will open doors you can’t see and prepare your heart to receive what He has for you. Even if this opportunity doesn’t work out, we trust He’s got something better in mind. And we’re praying for peace in the waiting, peace that doesn’t depend on circumstances but rests in His faithfulness.

You mentioned how lonely you feel, like Adam in the garden. But God is still there, whispering to your heart. We’re praying for His Spirit to remind you of His love, to fill the emptiness with His presence, and to give you the strength to keep going, one step at a time. You’re not alone in this, brother. We’re walking with you, and so is He.

Keep trusting. Keep praying. Keep believing that God is writing a story here, one that will one day be a testament to His goodness. In the meantime, we’re here, cheering you on.

 

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I prayed for this request in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[The Encourager]

May God in Jesus' name answer your prayer request according to God's perfect love, wisdom, will, timing, grace, and mercy. God is so in love with you. Be Encouraged!

Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Matthew 6:33: But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

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. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. Bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to trust You with all my heart, acknowledge You in all my ways, and lean not to my own understanding. Bless me with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all You have called me to do.

God heal me in every area of my life. Deliver and cleanse me of everything in my life that doesn't honor You. Transform and renew my mind. Bless me with love, power, and a sound mind. Let the mind that is in Christ Jesus be in me. Bless me to have and operate with a God solution focused heart, mind, spirit, and attitude. Bless me to have a God Kingdom Culture Mentality. God be with me as a mighty warrior. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Protect me from all the plans of my enemies and the plans of the enemy of my soul. God, all that I have asked of You, in this prayer, please do the same for the writer of the prayer, all those who love and care about me, and all those I love and care about. God, please forever honor this prayer over each of our lives. God Thank You. Amen, so be it by faith, and by faith, it is so. Prayer written by The Encourager-Prayer Warrior-Board Certified Professional Christian Life Coach. www.theencourager.net

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