Debi

[Guest]

I feel so lost. I am a pastor and a pastor's wife... yet I feel God has abandoned me. I have been praying and praying and seeking His will for over 2 years... yet... I am still without answer. We have lost everything... our home... our credit... we have had to start over being in our 50's after losing our jobs in 2007... only to find ourselves in a desert place still. My husband found work last August for a third of what he was making before... and I am trying to make extra money doing websites and photography. I feel I have no purpose... no friends... no ministry... my children are so far away and I am so lonely. My husband seems so consumed in his own worries, or ministering to others... he has no time for me. I find myself so depressed and worthless. Please pray for God to just speak to me. If He would just say my name.. I could carry on a little longer. Please pray for me.

Thank you.

Debi

 

[Christine]

Debi,

I prayed for you this evening, that the Lord would guide you and renew hope and purpose in your life. I asked Him to speak to you directly and personally through His Amazing Word. I prayed you would read it as if for the first time, that message after message would touch your soul and you would know it was His loving message to You. I prayed your faith would be increased and you would know that life can change on a dime. Just as things went south 2 years ago, they can turn around for the better today. God is a God of miracles! And He has never stopped loving You. He is the same loving, merciful, patient, and forgiving God today, yesterday and forever. And He longs for your full surrender and childlike trust. Come to Him asking for nothing but to KNOW Him and His power, Who He is and What pleases Him. And as He shows You, "obey Him and leave the consequences to Him" .. as one of my favorite Pastors, Charles Stanley likes to say.

Below is a link to a wonderful free resource to some great teaching. They will send you the sermons you choose for free. They came to mind because when I was at a down point in my life, somehow I got ahold of a set of tapes by firefighters and the teaching was so profound and practical all at the same time. God spoke to me through it and gave me amazing comfort and direction. Two teachers I would STRONGLY recommend are Kay Smith and Chuck Smith. They are husband and wife. I've never met them personally, but their teaching has been powerful in my life. At that down point in my life, Kay's messages in particular were like fresh water to someone dying of thirst in the desert. I hope you will order the two offered on the list and whatever else the Lord leads you to request. Ask Him to help you select. And please don't give up and don't stop crying out to Him, He wants to show You the way! God Bless You.

Also, I just noticed there are three on the list by Nancy Missler. Please order these! Her testimony is amazing and inspiring!

http://server.firefighters.org/catalog/catalog1.pdf

 

[Harold]

Father, I pray for this woman, and for the things that they are going through right now. Father, I know that feeling, the feeling we sometimes get when we feel overwhelmed with what is going on around us. Help her to keep her faith in You, that she has not been deserted, and that You are seeing them through this trial for reasons known only to You. Lord, may we all have an increase of faith, be comforted in the knowledge that You see all we go through, and that You have it all in control. Father, may she hear Your voice in the scripture, through a word spoken to her from someone, or from some willing vessel. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.