Compensation

[Kensem]

Please pray in Jesus mighty name that the landlord will pay compensation for the problems (###) that occurred in the apartment due to the lack of electrical safety, as well as for the illness that developed as a result, ### problems, ###, the cost of alternative shower facilities or a shower pass, threats, and other inappropriate actions.

Please pray the landlord's conscience is awakened and stirred by the Holy Spirit to do good and repent.

Update: I have been asking for prayers for almost three months, but there has been no communication, remorse or willingness to compensate me for my suffering.

Update: The landlord hasn't returned the security deposit or the repair costs I paid the technicians... Please pray that he repays everything he owes us!

Update: The community house manager hasn't returned the repair costs, though she promised to do so three months ago. I also paid to repair the house's electricity system which is not lawfully my responsibility to cover the cost as a tenant.
My skin has become ### and ### in the areas where I received ###. It may take years for ###, which is awful. Please pray that ### heal and that ### is rebuilt where the ### was damaged.

 

[Articles]

We join with you in prayer in Jesus' mighty name and we lift up your suffering before the Lord who sees all injustice and hears every cry for help.

We are deeply grieved to hear of the ongoing problems in your apartment from the lack of electrical safety, the illness and skin affliction that followed, the financial burden of repair costs and alternative shower facilities that were not your responsibility to bear, the unreturned security deposit, and the threats and inappropriate actions you have endured. To wait almost three months without communication, remorse, or restitution is a heavy trial, and we stand with you asking God for justice, provision, and healing.

The Lord is a God of justice and mercy. He commands those in positions of responsibility to act with honesty and fairness. Proverbs 11:1 says, A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight. And Micah 6:8 reminds us, He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God. It is right for you to seek what is owed to you, for Scripture teaches that restitution should be made when harm or loss has been caused, Leviticus 6:4-5, and that wages and deposits should not be withheld unjustly, Leviticus 19:13. At the same time we are called to entrust vengeance and ultimate justice to God while we pursue what is right through lawful and peaceable means. Romans 12:19 says, 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. We encourage you to continue to commit your cause to Him, Psalm 37:5-6, while also seeking wise counsel and using the lawful avenues available to you to document and pursue the return of what is owed, for the authorities are appointed to uphold what is just, Romans 13:3-4.

We also pray for your healing. Our bodies are fearfully and wonderfully made, Psalm 139:14, and the Lord is the one who heals us. Psalm 103:2-3 says, Praise Yahweh, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits, who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases. And Jeremiah 30:17 declares, For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says Yahweh. We ask Him to touch your skin where it has been damaged, to restore what has been broken, and to bring complete healing in His time, even where you have been told it may take years.

We pray together now.

Father in heaven, in the name of Jesus Christ we come before Your throne of grace on behalf of our dear one who has suffered so much. Lord, You see the faulty electrical system, the illness, the damage to skin, the financial loss, the threats, and the hard heart that has not yet shown remorse. We ask that You awaken and stir the conscience of the landlord and the community house manager by Your Holy Spirit, that they would be convicted to do good, to repent where they have done wrong, and to repay everything they owe, including the security deposit and the repair costs that were unjustly laid upon a tenant. Let justice roll on like rivers, Amos 5:24, and let their hearts be turned toward honesty and mercy.

Lord, we ask for Your healing hand upon our friend. Touch the skin that has become damaged, rebuild what has been harmed, and restore health fully. Psalm 147:3 says You heal the broken in heart, and bind up their wounds, and we ask You to bind up these physical wounds as well. Give peace in the waiting, strength to endure, and freedom from bitterness, helping our friend to forgive as You have forgiven us, while still seeking what is just and right, Ephesians 4:32. Provide for every financial need, open a way for rightful compensation, and let Your favor and protection rest upon this home going forward. We trust that You are our defender and provider, and that You will not forsake those who trust in You.

We thank You that we can come to You only through Jesus, John 14:6, and we praise You that in His name there is hope, healing, and justice. We commit this whole situation into Your hands and ask for Your will to be done. In Jesus' mighty name we pray, amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We've been following your updates and we hear how wearing these last three months have been. Waiting for any communication or willingness to make things right, while you are still carrying the costs for repairs, the electrical work, and the security deposit, and dealing with ongoing skin trouble and other health effects after the electrical problems, would leave anyone feeling overlooked and exhausted. The threats and dismissive responses make it even harder to feel safe at home.

It makes sense you are asking not just for words but for what is actually owed to make you whole again. When harm has been done, a fair repayment is often the clearest sign that someone has taken responsibility, and it is right to pray the Holy Spirit would stir conscience toward doing what is good and just.

While we keep praying with you, one steady step that often helps in these situations is to keep everything together in writing in one place, copies of receipts you paid to technicians, the manager's promise from three months ago, your written requests for the deposit and repair costs, and any photos or medical notes. If you haven't already, it can help to have a trusted local person walk through it with you, like a pastor, a tenant advice service or legal aid clinic familiar with tenant responsibilities where you live, so you are not carrying the follow up alone. For the skin that is still irritated and slow to heal, please keep seeing a clinician who can follow you over time alongside our prayers.

Father, we lift our friend to You in Jesus' name. You see the apartment, the electrical danger, the money spent that was not theirs to carry, and the skin that is still tender where it was injured. We ask for healing and for rebuilding where tissue was damaged, for wisdom for each next step, and for You to move on the landlord and manager to do what is right and return what is owed. Guard and guide and provide what is needed day by day. Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

Your heavy burden and long waiting have been heard with sincere compassion before the Lord. For almost three months you have sought prayer while suffering illness, injustice, and the painful injury to your skin, and with no communication or willingness from those who owe you what is just. Be assured that though man may delay and forget, the Lord neither slumbers nor forgets, and He hears the cry of those who seek Him.

We would encourage you to persevere in prayer as the poor woman of Canaan did, who would not bear to be refused but cried with all her heart, Have mercy upon me, O Lord. Our Lord teaches us that perseverance is not presumption when it clings to Christ. He has promised that they shall never perish who are His, and the same faithful God who keeps His people to the end will keep you as you wait upon Him. Let not the delay of three months cause your heart to faint. The Lord brings down the heart with labour that He may lift it up in His own good time, and He will not despise a broken and contrite heart that desires His help.

You have asked that the conscience of the landlord and of the manager might be awakened and stirred by the Holy Spirit to do good and to repent. This is a right and godly prayer. We join you in asking the Lord to convict where there has been hardness, to grant repentance where there have been threats and inappropriate actions, and to move those who are indebted to you to restore what is justly owed, the security deposit, the costs you bore for technicians and for the electrical repairs which were not lawfully your burden, and compensation for the suffering and expense you have endured. The Lord loves justice and He will require an account. We pray that He would grant that what has been promised would be performed, and that no legal claim or force would be needed beyond what is right and lawful, but that a willing conscience would do what is honest in the sight of all men.

And we pray also for your healing. In the gospel we see that the Saviour first pronounced forgiveness and then gave healing, to show that His power reaches both soul and body. There is forgiveness with God, a divine forgiveness, surprising and complete, purchased by Christ who bore our punishment so that God will never exact the penalty twice. If we have such complete forgiveness from Him, how we should seek to walk in holiness and to forgive as we have been forgiven. We pray that you would know more and more of that full and eternal forgiveness which is found in Christ alone, for there is salvation in no other, and that knowing it, your heart may be kept in peace while your body waits for restoration. We ask the Great Physician to look upon your skin where it has become so afflicted and where the injury was received, to give healing where human skill is limited, and to rebuild what has been damaged, though it may take long time. He who formed our frame is able to restore it according to His wise mercy.

Let us pray together. O Lord our God, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ Thy Son, look upon Thy suffering child who has been brought low by illness and injustice. Thou seest the unsafe dwelling, the costs borne, the deposit withheld, and the pain of body. Awaken, we beseech Thee, the conscience of the landlord and of the manager by Thy Holy Spirit, grant them repentance and a desire to do justly and to repay what is owed. Restrain all threatening and wrong, and establish what is right. Lay Thy healing hand upon the afflicted skin and body, and in Thy time bring restoration. Keep Thy servant from despair, strengthen faith to persevere in prayer, and let the forgiveness that is with Thee be the comfort and hope of the soul, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Cast your burden still upon the Lord, and continue to seek Him. He is faithful, and what He has begun He will perform until the day of Christ.