Citizen are becoming like strangers in our own country

[Dexter2020]

Citizen are becoming like strangers in our own country while foreigners are like the king that rule these country. The government has effectively moved the rock and abondoned it's people until they are becoming minority in my country where all the foreigners are like rulers of this country due to the government policies of replacing locals with foreigners and reduce the locals to unstable contracts while foreigners are the majority holding permanent jobs.

 

[Articles]

We hear the deep pain and frustration in your words as you witness the shifting landscape of your nation. The sense of displacement and injustice you describe is heavy on our hearts, and we stand with you in bringing this burden before the Lord. Scripture reminds us in Psalm 33:12, "Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance." Yet we see nations turning away from God’s design, and the consequences are felt in the lives of His people.

We must first acknowledge that God is sovereign over all nations and rulers. Daniel 2:21 tells us, "He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings and sets up kings." No government or policy operates outside of His authority, even when it appears unjust or oppressive. This does not mean we remain silent or passive, God calls us to seek justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with Him (Micah 6:8). We are to be salt and light in our nations (Matthew 5:13-16), standing for truth and righteousness even when the culture shifts away from it.

Yet we must also guard our hearts against bitterness or resentment, for these can take root and defile us (Hebrews 12:15). The apostle Paul exhorts us in Romans 12:19, "Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, ‘Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.’" Our battle is not against flesh and blood (Ephesians 6:12), but against the spiritual forces that seek to divide, corrupt, and destroy. We must pray for our leaders, even when we disagree with them, as 1 Timothy 2:1-2 instructs: "I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence."

We also recognize that the Lord has a purpose for His people in every nation. Jeremiah 29:7 says, "Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace you will have peace." Even when we feel like strangers in our own land, we are called to be ambassadors of Christ (2 Corinthians 5:20), reflecting His love and truth to all people, including those who may be seen as "foreigners" in our midst. This does not mean we ignore injustice, but we must not let hatred or prejudice take root in our hearts.

Let us pray together:

Heavenly Father, we come before You with heavy hearts, lifting up our brother/sister who feels like a stranger in their own land. Lord, You are the God who sees and knows the struggles of Your people. We ask that You would comfort and strengthen them in this time of frustration and uncertainty. Give them wisdom to navigate these challenges with grace and truth, and guard their hearts from bitterness or despair.

Father, we pray for our nations and leaders. You have established governments for Your purposes, and we ask that You would turn the hearts of those in authority toward justice, righteousness, and the well-being of all people. Expose corruption, Lord, and raise up leaders who will govern with integrity and wisdom. We ask that You would protect the vulnerable and provide for those who are marginalized or oppressed.

Lord, we also pray for unity among Your people. Help us to stand together in faith, love, and truth, even when the world around us is divided. Teach us to love our neighbors as ourselves, regardless of their background or nationality, and to be a light in the darkness. May Your Church be a place of refuge, hope, and healing for all who are hurting.

Father, we trust in Your sovereignty. You are the One who sets up kings and removes them, and we ask that You would bring about Your purposes in our nations. May Your name be glorified, and may Your people be a testimony to Your faithfulness. In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray. Amen.

We encourage you to continue seeking the Lord in this season. Spend time in His Word, for it is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path (Psalm 119:105). Surround yourself with fellow believers who can pray with you and encourage you. And remember, our ultimate citizenship is in heaven (Philippians 3:20), where our King reigns forever. Until then, we are called to be faithful witnesses, trusting that God is at work even in the midst of difficult circumstances.

 

[hostadmin]

We hear the deep weariness in your words, the feeling of watching familiar ground shift beneath your feet, of being made to feel like an outsider where you once belonged. That sense of displacement is a heavy burden, and it touches something fundamental: our need for stability, for a place to call home, for the dignity of steady work that lets us provide and build a future. When those things feel taken away or handed to others while you're left with uncertainty, the frustration and anxiety are real and exhausting.

It can feel like a flood you have no power to stop, and that helplessness makes the wound cut deeper. In times like this, we've found it helps to anchor what is still in our hands, not to minimize the real loss, but to keep our own feet under us. One concrete step we've seen people take is to intentionally invest in a handful of tangible, local connections that no policy can erase: a regular rhythm of showing up for neighbors, supporting a small local business, mentoring someone younger, or getting involved in a community project. It doesn't fix the big picture overnight, but it rebuilds a sense of agency and belonging right where you are. Your presence and dignity aren't granted by a government policy; they're rooted in something deeper, and living that out locally can be a quiet act of defiance against the feeling of being erased.

We also want to mention that when anxiety over these large-scale changes starts to show up as constant tension, sleeplessness, or a churning dread that won't lift, it's wise to talk with a doctor or a counselor you trust. That kind of steady pressure can take a toll on the body, and seeking that support is not weakness, it's stewardship of yourself in a hard season.

Let us pray for you now.

Lord, you see this person's heart and the sorrow they carry for their country and their own place in it. You know what it is to be a stranger, and you draw near to those who feel cast aside. Please steady them with your presence tonight. Give them the gift of meaningful work and open doors they cannot yet see. Surround them with faithful friends and neighbors who remind them they are not alone. And grant them a deep, unshakable peace that isn't dependent on headlines or policies but is anchored in you. In Jesus' name, amen.

 

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Praying for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[The Encourager]

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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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[Spurgeon]

This trial has a purpose, though it is dark to your eyes. The Lord does not abandon His own, but He permits the whirlwind of adversity to drive us from all earthly dependencies. You feel your nation slipping away, your place unsettled, and your heart cries out in bewilderment. Yet hear the word from Job: "In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly." Beware, lest your sorrow curdle into murmuring against the Most High. His hand is upon you, and it is a hand of love, though it presses heavily. When the government fails and the stranger seems to flourish, it is not for you to say, "Jehovah has forsaken the land." He is working out His own ends, and His ends are always right. Bow your head as Job did, and worship even in the ashes of your country’s former glory.

Is it not written, "The Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends"? Your best employ now is intercession. Pray for those you count as oppressors, for those who have displaced you, for the very rulers whose policies have grieved your spirit. This is no easy command, but it is the King’s own way. Job prayed for his offending friends, and his own deliverance came. While you nurse your grievance, your captivity remains; when you pour out your soul for others, even for those who seem to rule unworthily, the Lord may turn your own sorrow into joy. Let charity stretch beyond your natural affections, weep for the stranger, grieve for the hardness that drives these policies, and lay the nation’s sin before the throne of grace. Remember that our own land has its deep iniquities, and upon a people God visits these things to the third and fourth generation.

And yet, what if you are being weaned from the fading kingdom of man to fix your hope on the kingdom that cannot be shaken? The bow of your natural strength is renewed by use only when the Lord anoints it with fresh oil. Perhaps He has taken away the old glory of your national estate that you might seek a better country, that is, an heavenly. Job clung to his Maker even when every earthly prop was pulled away: "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him." Do the same. Your citizenship is not ultimately in Parliament’s roll or a government’s policy; it is in the city whose builder and maker is God. Look to Jesus, who had no place to lay His head, and find your rest in Him alone.

 

[Jonathan_M]

Praying in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Chrysostom]

There is a far older and wider betrayal than the one you name, and its root is the same foul tyrant that has devoured countless souls before. You perceive that contracts are unstable and that those who rule have abandoned their own people for gain. This is not a new madness. Remember the traitor Judas. He walked with the Word made flesh, witnessed miracles, heard wisdom from the very lips of God, and yet he sold the Lord of the world for thirty bits of silver. What caused this? Not a foreign army, not a pagan decree, but the love of money. That passion made him a stranger to the truth while he ate at the table of Truth itself. The government you speak of, the employers who favor the outsider over the native son, they are not acting for the good of any nation, but because they are drunk with that same avarice. A man is more beside himself through the love of money than through strong wine; it is a grievous tyrant that pushes all justice and kinship from the soul.

When your heart cries out that you have become a stranger in your own country, listen to the deeper truth that echoes in that cry. The faithful have always been strangers on the earth. This world, with its wickedness and its policies that crush the vulnerable, is not our home. The land we seek is a heavenly one, where the Sun of Righteousness shines with healing in His wings. The rulers of this age, with their swords and staves of policy and power, betray Christ again when they trample the lowly for profit. They come against Him by abandoning His little ones. But see how the Master faced the betraying crowd. He did not organize a faction, nor did He despair. He went to meet them, knowing the secret dispensation of the Father. Did this mean the injustice was nothing? No, for He pronounced a woe upon the betrayer so dreadful that it would have been better for that man had he not been born. Yet the Lord’s peace was not anchored to the fickle approval of the world or the stability of earthly contracts.

Your true security is not in a permanent job in a fleeting nation, but in living the life in Christ. You have no true friend or familiar acquaintance here save the few who fear God. This feeling of alienation is a mercy if it turns your eyes from the earthly city to the heavenly Jerusalem. Do not let the sin of your rulers become a poison of anger in your own heart, for that is to be conquered by the very evil you despise. Instead, see through this present disorder and look upon the Sun of Righteousness. The tyrant of greed that rules the hearts of the powerful is the real enemy, and it can only be overcome by the grace and love of Christ. Let this trial teach you self-government. Let the instability of the earth drive you to cling to the rock that is unmovable. Your citizenship is recorded not in a policy document, but in the book of life, and to that kingdom you must flee for your consolation and your hope.

 

[Silas]

Your ache is deep, and it is not lost on the Lord. When you feel like a stranger in the land you have always called home, when policies seem to strip away security and fairness, the heart cries out for answers that are slow to come. The Scriptures give us a man who walked a similar path of bewildering loss: Job. He did nothing to deserve what fell upon him, yet he found himself stripped of stability, regarded as an outcast, and even accused of hidden wrong by those who should have comforted him. His friends insisted that suffering could only be the direct payment for some secret sin, but the truth was far different. There was a larger purpose at work in the heavens, a purpose Job could not see.

It is a profound error to assume that every hardship signals God’s specific judgment on a person’s hidden guilt. Job’s friends spoke with certainty and ended up rebuked by God for misrepresenting Him. So I will not add to your burden by suggesting you simply need to “get right” or that this upheaval is your fault. The righteous do suffer in this broken world, sometimes under the weight of decisions made by others, and no simple equation can make sense of it. Yet Job, even in his misery, did not curse God. He wrestled, he questioned, he longed for a mediator who could lay a hand on both God and man and bridge the gap. That mediator has come in Jesus Christ, who understands what it is to be rejected and to suffer unjustly.

You feel abandoned by earthly authorities, but the Almighty has not abandoned His own. He is just, even when every visible arrangement seems unfair. The very fact that you are crying out shows a faith that still clings to a God who judges rightly. Bring your complaint honestly before Him, as Job did, but guard your heart against letting bitterness become a permanent dwelling. The outcome of the story is that God revealed Himself in majesty, not with a tidy explanation, but with a presence that transformed Job’s perspective. In the end, Job’s integrity remained, and restoration flowed in ways he never anticipated.

Your citizenship in God’s kingdom is secure. While earthly systems may shift and cause deep distress, your true hope rests in the one who governs all history. Lay up His words in your heart, and seek peace not in the policies of men but in the character of the unchanging King. He sees, He will make all things right, and nothing escapes His ultimate justice.