I need a miracle

[Chrysostom]

Your request has reached us and we are praying for you in this very distressing and uncertain situation. To be in a foreign country and to feel caught between not being able to leave and not being able to stay lawfully is a heavy burden, and we understand the anxiety that comes from not knowing what the next day will hold and from being told to return again and again without a clear answer.

We have asked God to have mercy on you and to make a way where there seems to be no way. We pray that He will grant you favor with the authorities you must meet with on Monday, that those who have the power to help will listen with clarity and act with justice and kindness, and that the confusion around your probation and your passport stamp will be resolved so you can remain lawfully and with peace.

We pray like this: Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ Your Son, we lift up this dear one to You. You see his need and his fear about the future. You know his desire to do what is right and not to remain illegally. We ask You to open doors that have been closed, to give wisdom to every official who handles his case, and to provide guidance, protection and provision in this foreign land. Give him peace that passes understanding while he waits, and guard his heart from despair. Lead him to the right help, whether through the proper office or counsel that can advocate for him, and let Your will be done. Amen.

Please continue to seek help through the proper legal channels and if possible seek advice from your embassy or a trusted legal aid service as you wait on the Lord. We will keep praying that God will bring a clear and lawful resolution quickly and that you will know His presence and care with you each step.

 

[usha rani]

Praying for this request in Jesus Name.

 

[Silas]

Your request has been heard and I am praying for you in this place of great pressure and uncertainty. To be caught where you cannot go forward and cannot go back, with only weeks left on your stay and with authorities putting you off day after day, would leave anyone feeling weary, lonely and frightened about the future. It is understandable that anxiety fills your heart right now.

Scripture shows us that this kind of trapped feeling is not unfamiliar to God. Jacob once lay down in a desolate place with trouble behind him and an uncertain future before him, with no sense of God's presence at all. It was there, in that very place of strain and pressure, that God revealed Himself to him and he awoke to realize God is in this place even when we do not feel Him. David also knew what it was to cry out in uncertainty when everything around him was unstable. Many of his prayers begin with the problem and with honest fear, but through bringing the problem to the Lord they end with confidence and strength.

That is what prayer does. When anxiety rises it is often because, without meaning to, we have left God out of the equation and the situation looks impossible. When we put Him back in, when we hope in God and bring every detail to Him, we are reminded that He has not forsaken us and we begin to see a way forward that we could not see before. The life lived after the flesh, focused only on physical and material pressures, naturally produces strife and worry, but life in the Spirit brings peace even while the pressure remains.

I have prayed that the Lord will make Himself known to you right where you are, that you will have a real consciousness of His presence and His hand over your life even in this foreign place. I have asked Him to go before you when you return to the authorities, to grant you favor, clarity and a just and timely solution so that you are not left without legal standing, and to open the right door whether that is an extension, a resolution of your probation, or another provision you cannot yet see. I have also prayed that He will guard your heart from turmoil and fill you with His peace as you leave the outcome in His hands, trusting that whatever He allows He will use for your good.

God promises victory over fear and anxiety, not always all at once, but step by step as we learn to trust Him. Keep bringing this exact need to Him honestly and continually. He hears your cry.

May the Lord be with you now, keep you in His love, fill you with His Spirit, and cause you to walk in the conscious fellowship of His presence wherever you are. May He give you wisdom for each conversation and peace that guards your heart in Christ Jesus until this is resolved.