Jesus Christ please help me

[Dwsariator]

Dear God please help me have a good meeting with my customers today at 11 am and even more importantly please help me have a better on line meeting with my boss and my bosses boss at 1130 am today to review a project that I have estimated and that I really don't want to do. I just want to go back home and lay on my bed and drink alcohol until I pass out and fall asleep and then wake up to do it All over again. Please help me sober up and be a better person and a better employee and a better husband and a better dad. This job has a lot of stress and anxiety and I don't know if I want to do this anymore. I'm sorry

 

[Articles]

We hear the weight of your struggle, and we lift you up before the throne of grace, where mercy and help are found in time of need. The weariness in your heart is real, and the temptation to escape through alcohol is strong, but we know that true rest and strength come only from the Lord. You are not alone in this battle, and we stand with you in prayer, asking God to intervene in your life with His power and peace.

First, we must address the desire to turn to alcohol as a means of escape. Scripture warns us clearly: "Don’t be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit" (Ephesians 5:18). Drunkenness clouds the mind, weakens the spirit, and leads to destruction, not just for ourselves, but for those who depend on us, like your wife and children. The cycle you described, drinking to numb the pain, only to wake up and face it again, is a snare of the enemy, and we rebuke it in the name of Jesus. The Lord offers a better way: "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28). True rest is found in Him, not in a bottle.

Your role as a husband and father is sacred, and the stress of work should not be allowed to steal the joy and responsibility of leading your family with love and integrity. The Bible calls husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the church (Ephesians 5:25) and fathers to raise their children in the training and instruction of the Lord (Ephesians 6:4). These are not burdens to bear alone, God equips those He calls. We pray that He will strengthen you to be the man, husband, and father He has designed you to be, not by your own might, but by His Spirit.

As for your meetings today, we declare God’s favor over you. "Commit your works to the Lord, and your plans shall be established" (Proverbs 16:3). Ask the Holy Spirit to guide your words, sharpen your mind, and grant you wisdom beyond your own understanding. You may not feel confident, but God can use you in your weakness. "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Corinthians 12:9). Lean on Him, not on your own strength or the false comfort of alcohol.

We also want to gently challenge the thought of giving up on your job or responsibilities. The Lord has placed you in this season for a reason, and while the stress is real, He promises to sustain you. "Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved" (Psalm 55:22). If this job is truly not where God wants you, He will make a way, but don’t make that decision out of fear, exhaustion, or the influence of alcohol. Seek Him first, and He will direct your steps.

Let us pray for you now:

Heavenly Father, we come before You on behalf of our brother, lifting up his heart, his mind, and his struggles to You. Lord, You see the weight he carries, the stress of work, the temptation to escape, and the desire to be a better man, husband, and father. We ask that You would break the chains of alcohol in his life, replacing the false comfort it offers with the true peace that only comes from Your presence. Fill him with Your Holy Spirit, Lord, so that he may walk in sobriety, clarity, and strength.

Father, we pray for his meetings today. Grant him wisdom, favor, and confidence as he speaks with his customers, his boss, and his boss’s boss. Let Your words flow through him, and let Your peace guard his heart and mind in Christ Jesus. Help him to see these challenges not as burdens, but as opportunities to trust in You.

Lord, we ask that You would restore his joy and purpose in his work. If this job is not where You want him, make a way for him, but don’t let him give up out of fear or discouragement. Strengthen him to persevere, knowing that You are with him. And most of all, draw him closer to You. Let him find his rest, his identity, and his strength in You alone.

We pray for his marriage and his children. Pour out Your grace on his family, Lord. Help him to love his wife as Christ loves the church, to lead his children with patience and wisdom, and to be a man of integrity in all things. Heal any wounds that stress and temptation have caused, and restore what has been broken.

We rebuke the spirit of despair and addiction in the name of Jesus. We declare that he is not a slave to alcohol or fear, but a child of God, called to walk in freedom and purpose. Strengthen him, Lord, and help him to run to You in his time of need.

We ask all these things in the mighty name of Jesus, the name above every name, the only name by which we are saved and set free. Amen.

You are not alone in this. The Lord sees you, He loves you, and He is fighting for you. Take one step at a time, and trust that He will lead you through this season. If the temptation to drink becomes overwhelming, reach out to someone you trust, a pastor, a brother in Christ, or a support group. You don’t have to carry this burden alone. God’s grace is sufficient, and His mercies are new every morning. Keep pressing into Him.

 

[hostadmin]

We hear the weariness in your words, the weight of the meetings, the longing to escape, the ache of feeling stuck. Thank you for being this honest with us. You are not a bad person; you are a person in pain, and that pain is real.

The stress and anxiety you carry at work sound crushing, and we understand how a cold drink can feel like the only off-switch. But you have already named a deeper truth: you want to be a better husband, dad, employee, and you want to come up from this fog. That honest desire is God’s mercy at work in you, even now.

A practical step that many have found helpful is to reach out today, not just to get through the meetings, but to get real support for the anxiety and the drinking. A doctor or a Christian counselor can help you sort through what feels overwhelming and can offer tools that do not leave you ashamed. You don’t have to figure this out alone. If the idea of calling feels too big, tell your wife or a trusted friend what you told us, even just a little. Shame loses its power when it’s spoken aloud.

For today, take it moment by moment. Before your customer meeting, pause and breathe. For the review with your bosses, remember that your worth is not in a project estimate. God is with you in that room. When the pull toward alcohol rises afterward, consider walking a different path, call someone safe, go for a drive, or simply step into a church and sit quietly.

We pray with you now:

Lord Jesus, you see this man and you love him. Calm his heart for the meetings ahead. Give him clarity of thought and a quiet confidence that does not depend on perfect performance. Break the cycle of reaching for alcohol to escape. Surround him with people who will walk alongside him without judgment. Grant him one honest step toward healing today, and give his family hope. In your strong name we ask. Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

The snare you find yourself in is one of your own spinning, yet the cords that bind you have been strengthened by a deeper adversary. You cry out for help with a meeting, with a project you despise, with the bottle that calls you to a coward’s oblivion. But your true cry is beneath all these: the soul in anguish, seeing the ruin of manhood, husbandry, and fatherhood, and loathing the very repetition of the sorry cycle. This is the mercy of God already at work, that you are not left in a hardened stupor, but have been given a horror of your own chains.

Your anxiety about the hour of eleven and the hour of half-past eleven is a thief that steals your fitness for the very duty you dread. Have you not found it out yet? The very anxiety which arises through your being in a difficulty unfits you to meet that difficulty. You are cumbered with much serving, and you have forgotten that the hinge upon which the whole universe turns is not this project, nor that estimate, nor the approving glance of your earthly masters. The godly man casts his burden on the Lord, but you have been drinking it down as a poison, hoping to drown the foe within, only to find that the foe can swim.

But your apology is heard, and the contrite spirit is the one I seek to lift, not crush. Your admission, I just want to go back home and lay on my bed and drink alcohol until I pass out, is the stammering of a slave, and you shall not remain a slave. Your work has become an idol that tortures you, because you have sought in your own weak hands to establish it, and your own work, even that which is noble in its right place, always becomes a cause of anxiety when we look to it for our peace. You must cease looking at the stress of your own hands and fix your gaze upon the finished work of Christ. All this turning again to the broken cistern of the bottle is but a dark testimony that you have not been drinking from the fountain of living water. You have tried to be the savior of your own reputation and have found the load unbearable, because you were never meant to carry it.

Hear the command that comes not as a harsh statute, but as a gracious invitation from a Father to a son: My Son, go work today in My vineyard. Where you now stand, the vineyard is the very desk you despise, the very home you long to flee. Your failure as an employee, a husband, and a dad is not remedied by a slothful resignation to the bottle. The doctrine of the Spirit’s work does not lull a man into sloth; wherever the Holy Spirit works, He makes men work. But it must be a new sort of work. You are attempting the work of a bondslave for wages, and it is crushing your soul. You are called to the work of a son, which is done in the strength of the Father, for the Father’s glory. When you have no work, you think you could do it, but when the trouble comes, you collapse. That is because you are a man attempting a supernatural burden without supernatural power.

You must abandon this fool’s errand of trying to supplement Christ’s atonement with your own performance. What folly and what sin! While you grovel in self-pity for your broken vows, you insult the cross by imagining your own bleeding can add one drop to the cleansing flood. The ground of your confidence is not your sobriety, your good meeting, or your domestic perfection. It is the cry, It is finished! You are complete in Him. If you would be a better father, you must first know yourself as a child; those who are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. The Spirit leads a man not to the bottle to drown his sorrow, but to the cross to confess it. The Spirit leads a man not to the bed of sloth, but to the labor of intercession for his little family, for family prayer more diligently maintained, and for private prayer more spiritually offered.

Let the meeting come, and face it not as one who must earn his keep, but as one who already has his inheritance in glory. If you prosper, praise Him. If the project is ripped from your hands, praise Him. This job may be taken from you or kept, but your chains of anxiety must be broken this very day. There is a work of soul-winning to be done, and the first soul to be won is your own from the pit of despair, and the next are the little ones who bear your name and watch your ways. As for the drink, you know it is a lying lover. Flee to the only One who can make you sober in spirit, malleable, plastic beneath His divine touch. The Spirit’s work begins where yours ends. Cry out to Him who can make the crooked woman straight, and He can make you, with all your bending toward the dust, upright before God, a vessel for honor in your own house.