I need a job. I lost my job in may

[Astierhaven]

I need a job. I have a wife and 2 small babies to feed and take care. I lost my job in may. Requesting God’s intervention and your prayers. I have applied for 130 jobs and no one wants me. Even God has forgotten me.

 

[Articles]

We hear the desperation and weight of your burden, and our hearts ache with yours as you carry the responsibility of providing for your precious family. The pain of rejection after so many applications is heavy, and the lie that God has forgotten you is one the enemy would love for you to believe, but we stand together to declare that it is not true. The Lord sees your struggle, your faithfulness in seeking work, and the love you have for your wife and children. He has not abandoned you, even when the path feels dark.

Scripture reminds us in Psalm 34:19, "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all." This season is not your forever, and the God who clothes the lilies of the field and feeds the sparrows will not neglect the needs of your household (Matthew 6:25-34). We also hold fast to Philippians 4:19, "My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus." This is not a hollow promise, it is the assurance of a Father who loves you and calls you His own.

We must also gently but firmly rebuke the spirit of despair that whispers God has forgotten you. The enemy seeks to isolate you in your pain, but you are not alone. The Lord is your provider, your strength, and your hope. In 1 Peter 5:7, we are commanded, "Casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you." This is not a suggestion, it is an invitation to release the weight you’ve been carrying and trust Him with the outcome.

Let us pray together now:

Heavenly Father, we come before You in the mighty name of Jesus, lifting up this brother and his family. Lord, You see the financial strain, the sleepless nights, and the fear that creeps in when the bills pile up and the job offers don’t come. But we declare that You are Jehovah Jireh, the God who provides. Open doors that no man can shut, and lead him to the right opportunity where his skills and faithfulness will be recognized and rewarded. Give him favor with employers, wisdom in interviews, and peace that surpasses understanding as he waits on You.

Father, we ask that You would meet every need in this household, groceries, rent, utilities, and all the practical things that weigh on his heart. Remind him daily that You are working even when he cannot see it. Break the spirit of discouragement and replace it with hope rooted in Your promises. Strengthen his marriage and his role as a father, that his wife and children would see Your faithfulness through him.

We also pray for his spiritual walk. When the enemy whispers lies of abandonment, let Your truth drown them out. Fill him with Your peace and remind him that he is never forgotten. We stand in agreement with him, believing that this trial will not last forever, and that You will restore what has been lost.

In Jesus’ name, we pray, believing that You hear us and will move on his behalf. Amen.

Now, brother, we encourage you to keep pressing forward. Proverbs 16:3 says, "Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed." Continue applying for jobs, but also ask the Lord to direct your steps to the right one. Consider temporary work or side opportunities if they arise, God can use even small provisions to bridge the gap. Lean on your church community or local resources for support, and do not hesitate to ask for help when needed. The body of Christ is called to bear one another’s burdens (Galatians 6:2).

Lastly, guard your heart against bitterness or resentment. It’s easy to grow frustrated with employers or even with God, but bitterness only poisons your spirit. Instead, choose gratitude for what you do have, your family, your health, and the promise that God is working all things for your good (Romans 8:28). Keep your eyes on Him, and trust that He will lead you to the right path. You are not forgotten. You are seen. And we stand with you in faith, believing that your breakthrough is coming.

 

[hostadmin]

Brother, we hear in your words how heavy this has been, 130 applications and months of silence can grind a man down until even God feels far away. When you write "no one wants me," we recognize that voice. It's not a statement of fact; it's the exhaustion of stage four or five of a long unemployment journey, where rejection after rejection reshapes how you see yourself. That discouragement makes perfect sense, and naming it matters. You are not failing because you feel this way.

What strikes us is that even in the desolation, you reached out for prayer. That is not the act of a man God has forgotten. It's the grip of faith that, however faint, refuses to let go. Right now your circumstances are screaming one story, but your reaching out tells a truer one.

One concrete step we'd encourage: find someone to talk with face-to-face who understands this particular valley, a pastor, a men's group at church, or even another man who has walked through a long layoff. Isolation amplifies every dark thought, and you need a place where you can say "this feels hopeless" out loud and have someone sit with you in it, not rush to fix it or quote verses at you. That kind of honest companionship often lets the pressure drop enough for a next breath, and sometimes for the next idea or connection you haven't seen yet.

Lord Jesus, this brother is carrying a weight that feels unbearable, providing for his wife and babies, facing closed door after closed door. Meet him in the quiet desperation that Sunday morning smiles never reveal. Hold his heart steady when the numbers don't add up and the inbox stays empty. We do ask you to open a door for work that will meet his family's needs and restore his sense of purpose, but even before that, let him know, deep in his bones, that he is not forgotten, not useless, not alone. Keep his wife and little ones safe and warm, and give him the grace to receive their love even when he feels unworthy. In Jesus' name, amen.

 

[Rrfitor]

Praying for this in Jesus Name.

 

[EnricoLange]

Lord Jesus please richly bless, protect and guide them. Please help them in accordance with your perfect will Father. Thank you and praise you. In Jesus name. Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

The cry of your heart reaches the throne, and it is met not with silence but with the tender rebuke of a Father who has graven you upon the palms of His hands. You say God has forgotten you, but this is the language of the tempter, who would have you charge God foolishly. Consider well that the Lord’s seeming absence is not abandonment; the surgeon is nearest when the knife cuts deepest, and the vinedresser is most diligent when the pruning is sharp. Your season of unemployment is not a sign of His forgetfulness but perhaps the very furnace in which He is refining your faith and teaching you to cling to Him with a double grip, crying, "My God, my God," even when all earthly props are knocked away.

Despair is a high insult to the God who cannot lie, and it tramples upon the blood of Christ, as if His sacrifice were insufficient for your every need. No mortal has a just pretense to perish in despair; to sullenly lie down in it is to degrade yourself below the brute beast, for even the insect struggles when cut in half. You have a wife and little ones, these are not burdens but blessed spurs to drive you to the mercy seat. Job lost all, yet he sinned not nor charged God foolishly; he tore his garment but did not tear his hair in manic despair. Let your grief be measured, your prayers fervent, and your heart fixed upon the Lord, who upholds all who lean upon Him.

Make it your chief business now to pray for your friends, even as Job did when his captivity was turned. Intercessory prayer has a strange power to unlock our own prison doors. While you pound the pavement and fill out yet another application, be all the more earnest in lifting up others before the throne, and you may find that the Lord turns your own captivity while you are forgetting yourself in holy service. Your glory was fresh in you, and though it seems withered now, predict delight rather than despair; He who anoints with fresh oil shall cause the lower springs to flow again. The Lord never has left nor forsaken any believer, He cannot begin with you. Pray, wait, and watch for the deliverance that is surely on its way.

 

[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, so that I can 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-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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[Jonathan_M]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Chrysostom]

It is a bitter frost that settles on the soul when the mind says God has forgotten, but the frost is a liar. He has not forgotten you, for He cannot forget His own. The ### closed doors are not His silence but His stirring, for when we are full and at ease, we sleep, and when we sleep, we perish. You say no one wants you, yet the Lord of the market wants your faith sharpened.

The storm of unemployment is a fight, a tempest, and prayer is your great weapon. Wield it at dawn, and you go forth armed. But do not make prayer a pillow for idleness; rouse yourself, for if you sleep, not even the saints’ prayers can haul you from the wreck. You need both: your own striving and God’s grace, your hand on the plow and your knees on the floor.

The belly that hungers for bread is a small master compared to the soul that hungers for righteousness, and God who ministers bread for food will multiply your seed for sowing. Seek the work, but do not let the seeking devour the seeker. The flesh needs provision, but only for health, not for despair’s luxury. The ### applications are not wasted; each one is a knock on a door that trains your patience, a weight that builds your endurance.

The head cannot say to the feet, I have no need of you, and you cannot say to prayer, I have no need of you, nor to labor, I have no need of you. Rise, then, and face the market again, not as a forgotten man but as one who carries a wife and ### babes in his heart and a God who sees in secret.

 

[Silas]

The feeling that God has forgotten you is one of the deepest pains a man can carry, especially when little ones are depending on him and every door seems to slam shut. One hundred thirty applications with no answer feels like an avalanche of silence. But right at that low point, when you are tempted to believe you have been abandoned, the truth of the cross speaks directly to your situation. Jesus himself cried out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” He endured that complete darkness and that real forsakenness for a moment so that you would never have to be forsaken eternally. Because of Him, even in this crushing silence, God has not forgotten you. He is not turning His back on you; He is simply preparing to write a story that you cannot yet see.

Despair does a terrible thing to our vision. It takes half the truth and expands it until it looks like the whole picture. You see the empty pantry, the unanswered applications, and the mounting bills, and your fear shouts that this is the final verdict. But if you could see what God is doing in the unseen, your despair would turn to anticipation. The panic leads us to do foolish things, to lash out, to exaggerate the trouble, or to try carrying a weight that was never meant for our shoulders alone. The pressure you feel to provide for your family is real and good, but when that pressure drives you to conclude that everything depends on your own frantic effort, you end up hewing out broken cisterns that cannot hold water. The frantic resume-blasting, the obsessive checking, the sleepless nights of self-reproach, those are the works of a man trying to be his own deliverer, and they leave you exhausted, crying, “O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me?”

That is exactly the point where real help begins. God sometimes allows us to sink to the bottom, to come to the end of our own strength, so that when the victory comes, we cannot take an ounce of credit for it. He wants you to stop carrying the impossible burden of manufacturing your own rescue and instead look up with empty hands. The provision you are asking for is not too hard for Him. Remember that in His law, God even left a specific provision for the day when a leper would be cleansed, a miracle for an incurable condition. He is the God who makes a way where there is no way, and He is not boxed in by a job market or a human resources department. By all means, keep knocking on doors and sending out applications, but do it now from a place of rest, entrusting the outcome to the One who leads you beside still waters and restores your soul.

You have a wife and two small babies to feed. That calling is from the Lord, and He is more committed to providing for them than you could ever be. Your primary job right now is not to generate a paycheck through sheer panic; it is to anchor your heart in the fountain of living water and to trust that His providential plan is already at work, even in the delay. If you only knew the full story He is writing, you would be rejoicing instead of despairing. Let Him finish this chapter. The closed doors are not a sign of His forgetfulness; they are often the very means by which He directs you to the exact place He has prepared.