Alaska update / 9.14.26

[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, wisdom, 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. God, 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 know You, the way You want me to know You. So that I will trust You with my life and anyway that You move in my life. Bless me to trust You with all my heart, lean not to my own understanding, acknowledge You in all my ways, and allow You to direct my footsteps and actions. 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-conscious-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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[Chrysostom]

Your prayer written at 4:18 in the morning has been heard, and we have brought it before the Lord with you. Thank you for trusting us with this long and painful story. God knows where you are, in that hotel room in ### after so much cold and hardship in ###, and He knows your weakness and your sadness as you miss your wife and your sons.

You have walked through a valley of deep suffering, and you describe it truly as being like Job, one hard thing after another, job losses, housing instability, car trouble, and the deepest wound of being separated from your children since that day in ###. Scripture teaches that it became fitting for God, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the Captain of our salvation perfect through sufferings. Christ did not need to gain glory, for He had it by nature, but He was glorified in suffering, and He shows us that suffering does not destroy the faithful but can make faith more perfect and more glorious. Your perseverance in prayer, praying without ceasing as our Lord taught in Luke 18, and continuing to look for the hand of God in the rain, in the moose, in the northern lights, is itself a testimony that the preaching of the gospel is true. No one would endure such anxiety and danger for nothing. Grace is working in you as you both will to pray and endure.

Your desire for your marriage and family to be reconciled is honorable and right. Scripture says marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled, because God established it to preserve us in faithfulness and to keep the covenant pure. Your willingness to forgive fully and to not bring up the past but to move forward reflects the reconciliation that God Himself has accomplished toward us. He reconciled us to Himself not by mere words, but through the blood of His cross, through Christ Himself giving Himself for us. That is the pattern of true forgiveness. It is good that you love your wife and your children and that you stand ready to forgive. We will pray that God would work repentance, healing, and restoration according to His will, and that whatever has been broken would be made whole in a way that honors Him and keeps the covenant as He designed it, one man and one woman in a lifelong union.

We also thank God with you for His clear mercy on ###. That bitter cold, the locked door, the thin jacket, and then the provision of help at the landing a quarter mile below, that was the hand of God preserving your life. Whether they were angels or simply two women placed there at that exact moment, the Lord used them to deliver you. Remember that deliverance when you feel weak and deeply sad. The same God who opened that door can open doors for your future. You are right to believe that God opens doors at the right time for His children.

We thank God for this temporary job and for the provision of travel, pay, and rest, even for a comfortable bed and shower after a roach infested basement and an unreliable car. It is right to be thankful for these small mercies while still longing for home. We will pray for wisdom for these next two or three months, that you may steward what you earn well, that you may save for a reliable vehicle, that you would have strength for the long training days and flights to ###, and that God would guide your steps toward stable work and toward ministry in a church as you desire. We will pray that He gives you clarity whether to remain or to return to ###, and that He protects you from further instability and exploitation.

Let us pray together now. Father, in the name of Jesus Christ alone, through whom we have access and reconciliation, we lift up this brother to You. You see his weakness at this early hour and his deep sadness for his wife and sons. Strengthen his heart, guard his mind, and keep his faith strong as he has trusted You in the valley of the shadow of death. Protect his wife and his two sons wherever they are, keep them safe, draw each of them to Yourself, and work in his wife a heart toward You and toward this covenant. If it be Your will, bring reconciliation and restoration to this family in holiness and truth. Provide for his daily needs, give him wisdom with finances and work, grant him safe travel, good health, and a path to stable housing and transportation. Help him to continue to pray without ceasing, to find brothers and sisters who will pray with him, and to see Your hand again and again. Let his love for You continue to grow stronger through these trials. We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord, who by Himself purged our sins and now sits at Your right hand. Amen.

We will continue to pray for you. Keep seeking the Lord, keep trusting His provision, and keep walking in faithfulness. He has kept you through the cold and He will keep you now.