Marriage, Job and breakthrough from struggle

[Maheswari_S]

All praise be to our God. Let us pray for the above requests to our God via Jesus! Amen!

Please pray for the following continuously

(1) I am believing that our God will provide permanent government/public sector job positions to our family members according to their educational and professional qualifications. Faith in our God that He will provide our family members the best permanent government/public sector job positions enable them to explain regarding our God's Glory which God has done in their life to their patients. One member is working a temporary/contract job and they have to pay the monthly salary on time, since they are delaying to pay the salary. Also, he tried another temporary govt job in another institution and the screening test/written test on Friday. So continuous prayer is required to get the Interview call for the job and to get the job position and moreover, there should not be any problem or any obstacles from his HOD or anybody and anything to leave the existing job and get the full settlement immediately after getting the new job in another reputed institution.

Another family member to get a temporary govt. job urgently and she will wait for a Permanent Govt. Job. Both are waiting for permanent govt. job positions till God's Time & Will.

(2) Faith in our God who will show us a better spiritually, Godly bridegroom for my family member, who will be a doctor with handsome earnings with GOOD HABITS and No Bad Habit according to the Bible and also the marriage will occur at the earliest possible. Awaiting for God's Order, since We are seeking a Godly doctor with GOOD HABITS and No Bad Habits and good earnings.

(3) We have paid a big amount to a person for a house lease purpose and at that time the owner of the house committed and promised to handover the house to us within fifteen days. But after a month also he has not handed over the house to us and hence, we have asked him to return our full amount. He told that he will pay the amount after getting the amount from another person who is willing to take the lease of the house. He committed and promised that till such time he will pay our house rent to us. We asked him that pay only bank interest as we have taken a gold loan from the bank. But he refused that he will not pay the interest to us. Then we agreed that as your (House owner) commitment and promise by you pay the house rent to us till such period. After his commitment and promises, he has not yet paid the house rent to us for the period. Now it is crossed more than a year (more than 15 months) passed. Till today, he has not paid the house rent. Bank interest is also increasing day by day. Which is a huge amount and we cannot able to arrange to pay the interest to the bank. Please pray for us that the house rent for 8 (eight) months are enough to us or bank full interest with additional amount payable (processing charges, admin charges, inspection charges, conveyance is also enough to us to manage the things smoothly.

Hope and Faith that our God will order the person and By God's Grace the full amount will be paid to us immediately without any loss.

The Liar, Cheater (wicked) is telling "I cannot give your money back immediately or urgently" "He is telling wait wait". Almost 15 Months (one year and three months) and have been passed. It is unjust. Is this justice? God have to punish him as under:

(a) Physical Punishment - (i) to be severe to the wicked person and his wife which is a lifelong (up to death) suffering.
(ii) if the wicked person & his wife are working, then his job should be lost and never he should not get any job up to death.
(iii) the wicked person & his wife's tongue should be decayed or cut-off, then only they cannot able to tell lie, cheating.
(iv) the wicked person & his wife's both hands to be cut-down or paralyzed or never it should be useful up to death. They have counted the money with these hands
(v) the wicked person & his wife's son and daughter's education should be spoiled, because they are using the cheating money for their education.

(f) Material Punishment - (I) the wicked person & his wife's own house should be fall-down in the ground/earth and fully destroyed/demolished.
(II) if the wicked person & his wife's are doing/running business, then heavy financial loss should occur.
(III) if the wicked person & his wife's should be cheated by anybody 10 (Ten) time more that what wicked have cheated us.

Then only he never ever cheat anybody. God have to admit them into His punishment of the above enable them to realize what they have done wrong, cheating, lie, fraud. But he and his wife should not go to die and God have not destroy such kind of wicked people/persons and they have to live with the above sufferings which is justice? After this suffering only they may repent and turn to God.

If physical punishment is not able to give to the wicked, liar, cheater, fraud and his wife, then material punishment may be given to them. In case this is not able to give to the wicked, liar, cheater, fraud, then earthly consequences like sleepless night, mental disturbance, Loss of Peace, financial loss, family problems, Anxiety, Physical strain, sickness, Blockage in Success, Blessing Blockage, Inner emptyness etc., to be given by God to the wicked, liar, cheater, fraud and his wife enable them to repay our house rent with bank interest and after repent and turn to God.

I asked our God that "Why the Honest should suffer? Why the wicked, Liar, fraud, cheater persons are not punished? If there is no punishment from God to the wicked person, then How the repent and turn to God? If punishment is not given by God the Wicked people, then how they fear to God? If no fear to God, then they will do more and more wicked things. God have to give a punishment to them that will Glory to our God.

In some place in the Bible mentioned like this "The Lord watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy"
Habakkuk 1:13 – “Why do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?”

I am waiting for the Justice from God. Nobody knows when the punishment or Justice will be happened. God have to give punishment immediately to this wicked person. so that he will not do many more. If God is not giving punishment, then again and again he will do the same wicked things. I am faith with God that He will punish the wicked person in such a manner that he has to fear to God now itself. Otherwise he will do the same thing to others and again and again. If God have given punishment immediately enable him not to do such kind of things in future. Otherwise God will give a big punishment which he cannot able to tackle or solve.

Due to this our family cannot able to sleep daily night. Also misunderstanding within our family. As per his activities, he never ever repent. Due to his behaviour, definitely he will not repent to God. Without big Punishment, it is very very difficult to repent this wicked, fraud, cheater will repent.

Also God have to give punishment to that wicked person, who is believing that God is NOWHERE. If he believe that God is NOW HERE, then he will not tell lies and cheat anybody. Until he is getting punishment, he will again and again do this wicked things to many peoples. As per his activities, he never repent. If God is not giving punishment, then on what ground we will have faith with God. Hence, God have to give severe punishment to that person enable him not to do this kind of things to any other person/s in future.

This person and his wife is telling only Lies and whatever the speaks with us are false or Lies only. We enquired around their residential houses regarding that wicked person, fraud person, cheater and his wife also telling lies and she is also supporting his husband. So both are definitely not repent. Without God's big punishment, they will not realize their mistakes and wickedness, cheating. Awaiting for the God's big punishment from only they will repent. Otherwise there is no use and Satan will involve. They never repent again turn to God. Awaiting response from our God urgently and immediately, since I don't have put faith God further.

1 day of God is equal to 1000 years to Human and 1000 years of Human is equivalent to 1 day for God. That means there is No Grace will be to human from God till their death! There is No Mercy from God. Till human death they have to suffer if anybody is Honest. Wicked will Prosper and they will enjoy like anything and then they will die happily.

It is clearly understood that in that case God cannot do any good thing to the honest, since God is silent. God is only seeing the wickedness not acting the righteousness or justice. God is some count slowness, which means inactive. God is powerless, which means no power with him and Satan have power. Now God cannot able to do Miracles, since Satan is doing miracles in the earth. God can hear the requests of the honest, but will not to do justice and he will wait until the death of the wicked person, Liar, Cheater and fraud. God will do the judgement once the wicked person, liar, cheater and fraud when died.

What Prayer Warriors are saying is that Wait for God's Time and God's Time is Perfect. But live in the earth, it is not at all wait for the God's Time and it will come after death. Because God's Time will be very very very slow at the life is very very very early as per bible, since once upon a time the life was very long like 800 years 600 years and it was now decreased to 75 to 100 years and also the average age will be 50 - 60 years only. Hence, once any human wait for the God's Time, then that will be after their death only. This is point number one. Secondly, wait for God's Will. When the God's Will be means it will also before very near to their death and they cannot able to rejoice. Once the God's Will be given to a human, he will not happy, since they cannot able to enjoy or happy due to their age and they cannot able to avail the enjoyment. Thirdly, God's Grace. This will for the wicked person and liar, cheater, fraud and cheater, since they have to repent from their sin and thats why God will wait up to their death. Fourthly Mercy and which will be also for the liar, cheater, fraud and wicked persons only and not for the honest and Godly or God feared persons. God will punish some count with Honest persons in the way the person cannot able to identify or in such a way they cannot determine or find or unaware ways or can't understandable ways. No wicked, cheater, liar will be punished, since God will wait and slowness. In that why the honest should be suffer and we can also be do the wicked things, and God will not punish and wait for us till we repent and by that time our die will occur and within that period we can enjoy, rejoice, happy and without restless, sleeplessness fearlessness.

Is God is inactive, since there is no justice to me and our families. Is God is alive or not. Is God is dead are what. Is God is a stone which is in the Well? If so, there will not be any action. Is God is faithful. No, He is not faithful. Is God is powerless, since there is no improvement or development spiritually as well as earthly in physical life. Is God is Merciless, since there is no requests are fulfilled. Is God is Graceless, since none of the requests are fruitful. Is God is in Wicked peoples like Liar, Cheater, Fraud or Cheater, since there are no prayer request are fulfilled but wicked persons are prosper each and every day and jouful in their life. Is God can now do any Miracles in the earth. No. the Miracles were happened 2000 years before. Now God cannot able to do any Miracles, since now God is powerless, but Satan is powerful as per Bible.

 

[Articles]

We come before the throne of grace with heavy hearts, lifting up these burdens in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, the only name by which we have access to the Father. First, we acknowledge that all praise belongs to God alone, for He is sovereign, just, and faithful. We stand on the truth of His Word, which declares, "The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth" (Psalm 145:18). It is only through Jesus Christ that we can approach God with confidence, for "there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" (1 Timothy 2:5). Without faith in Him, there is no salvation, no access to the Father, and no hope of answered prayer.

We lift up the need for stable employment for your family members, asking the Lord to open doors that no man can shut. The Bible assures us, "The Lord will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O Lord, endures forever" (Psalm 138:8). We pray that the temporary and contract positions will transition into permanent roles according to God’s perfect timing. For the one awaiting an interview call, we declare that "the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord" (Psalm 37:23). May there be no hindrances, delays, or unjust obstacles in leaving the current position and receiving full settlement. For the family member seeking a temporary government job, we ask for divine favor and provision, trusting that "the Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want" (Psalm 23:1). We rebuke every spirit of delay and frustration in Jesus’ name, and we declare that God’s timing is perfect, even when it feels slow to our human understanding.

For the godly spouse being sought, we pray that the Lord would bring forth a man who fears God, walks in integrity, and honors His Word. The Bible warns, "Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers" (2 Corinthians 6:14), and we pray that this family member will not settle for anything less than a spouse who loves the Lord with all his heart. We ask that the Lord would prepare this man, refine his character, and bring him forth at the appointed time. May he be a man of good habits, free from the snares of addiction or worldly influences, and may their marriage be a testimony to God’s glory. We rebuke any spirit of impatience or compromise, and we declare that God’s plan for this union will come to pass in His perfect timing.

The situation regarding the house lease and the financial burden caused by the deceitful individual is deeply troubling. We stand on the truth that "the Lord detests lying lips, but He delights in those who tell the truth" (Proverbs 12:22). This man’s actions are a violation of God’s commandments, and we declare that his sin will find him out (Numbers 32:23). However, we must address the spirit of vengeance and the extreme punishments you have requested. While we understand the depth of your pain and frustration, the Bible instructs us, "Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: ‘It is mine to avenge; I will repay,’ says the Lord" (Romans 12:19). God’s justice is perfect, and He will repay the wicked in His way and in His time. We do not have the right to demand specific punishments, for "vengeance belongs to the Lord" (Deuteronomy 32:35). Instead, we pray that this man and his wife would be convicted by the Holy Spirit, that their hearts would be softened, and that they would repent and make restitution.

We rebuke the spirit of bitterness and unforgiveness that seeks to take root in your heart. The Bible warns, "See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many" (Hebrews 12:15). We pray that you would release this burden to the Lord and trust in His justice. We declare that God is not slow in keeping His promise, as some understand slowness, but is patient, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9). His timing is perfect, and His ways are higher than our ways (Isaiah 55:8-9). We also rebuke the lies of the enemy that seek to make you doubt God’s goodness, faithfulness, and power. The Bible declares, "The Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in Him" (Nahum 1:7). We pray that your faith would be strengthened, and that you would not grow weary in waiting for God’s justice.

We lift up the financial strain caused by this situation, asking the Lord to provide for every need according to His riches in glory (Philippians 4:19). We declare that the Lord will open the windows of heaven and pour out blessings that you will not have room enough to receive (Malachi 3:10). We pray that the full amount owed, including the rent and interest, would be repaid in full, and that you would be restored financially. We rebuke every spirit of lack and financial oppression, and we declare that God is your provider and your sustainer.

We also address the despair and questioning of God’s character that has crept into your heart. The enemy seeks to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10), and he will use trials to make you doubt God’s goodness. But we declare that God is faithful, just, and true. The Bible assures us, "The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit" (Psalm 34:18). We pray that your heart would be comforted, and that you would find peace in the midst of this storm. We rebuke the lies that God is inactive, powerless, or unfaithful. The Word of God declares, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever" (Hebrews 13:8). He is not a stone in a well, but a living God who sees, hears, and acts on behalf of His children.

We pray that you would not grow weary in doing good, for in due season you will reap if you do not give up (Galatians 6:9). We declare that God’s justice will prevail, and that the wicked will not go unpunished. The Bible assures us, "The Lord works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed" (Psalm 103:6). We pray that you would find rest in the Lord, and that He would give you peace that surpasses all understanding (Philippians 4:7). We rebuke every spirit of anxiety, sleeplessness, and family strife, and we declare that God will restore unity and harmony to your household.

Father, we come before You in the name of Jesus, lifting up these burdens. We ask that You would provide permanent employment for these family members, open doors that no man can shut, and bring forth a godly spouse in Your perfect timing. We pray for justice in the matter of the house lease, that the full amount owed would be repaid, and that the deceitful man and his wife would be convicted and repent. We rebuke every spirit of doubt, bitterness, and unforgiveness, and we declare that Your Word is true, Your promises are sure, and Your justice will prevail. Strengthen this family’s faith, Lord, and help them to trust in You even when they cannot see the outcome. We ask that You would comfort their hearts, provide for their needs, and restore what has been lost. May Your name be glorified in every situation, and may Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. In Jesus’ mighty name, we pray. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We're sitting with you in this, and we hear how heavy all of this is, the job uncertainty, the longing for a godly marriage, and especially the deep wound of being financially wronged for so long. That last one isn't just a practical burden; it's a soul-wearying betrayal, and the anger and sense of injustice you're expressing are real and raw.

We won't pretend to have easy answers for why some situations drag on without visible resolution. What we can say is that your pain doesn't go unnoticed by God, and your desire for things to be made right matters. At the same time, we want to gently encourage you not to let the cry for justice consume your own heart. The detailed punishments you're longing to see unfold are heavy to carry, handing that entirely over to God, trusting Him to deal with it in His way and His time, can be a step toward your own peace, even while the financial crisis remains.

Practically, with a debt of this size and timeline, we'd also encourage you to seek wise, level-headed counsel from someone you trust, perhaps a financial advisor or even a legal advocate who can help you navigate next steps. That's not a lack of faith; it's actively stewarding what's been taken from you while you wait on God to move.

Let's pray:

Father, we lift up this family to You. For those seeking work, open doors that only You can open and provide stability. For the one waiting for a spouse, guide and guard that hope according to Your perfect will. And Lord, in this painful financial injustice, we ask for Your intervention, bring resolution, restore what's been lost, and lift the crushing weight of mounting interest. Most of all, grant this family Your peace that surpasses understanding, guarding their hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Sustain them as they wait, and be their refuge. In Jesus' name, Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

The language of your request reveals a heart entangled in its own snare. You demand that God wield His sword according to your own list of grievous punishments, yet it appears you have forgotten the ransom that was found for your own soul. God did not need your counsel when He laid help upon One who is mighty; He does not need it now for this sinner who has wronged you. The Lord is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. That same mercy which looked upon you in your disobedience now commands you to look differently upon your enemy.

Do you imagine the Holy One of Israel is inactive because He does not dance to the tune of your bitter panic? His slowness is not powerlessness; it is the long-suffering of salvation. The Scriptures which you quote against Him testify against you. Deliverance from the power of darkness is as much the work of God as deliverance from the guilt of sin. If He has translated you into the kingdom of His dear Son, it was not so you could stand as a prosecutor demanding curses, but as a witness declaring, I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord. This financial wrong has become a pit for your own soul, and you are dragging your household down with you through sleepless nights and bitter misunderstandings. This is not the liberty wherewith Christ makes us free.

Concerning your temporal needs, these are indeed burdens before the throne, but they must be brought with hands washed in forgiveness. Troubles do not spring out of the dust; the Lord kindles the furnace and sits as a refiner. The delayed marriage, the precarious employment, the stolen provision, these are not signs that God has fled His watchtower. He is looking down from the height of His sanctuary to hear the groaning of the prisoner, to release those who are appointed to die. But if you would have the arrow of the Lord's deliverance fly in your direction, you must cease your carnal dictation of how He should shatter the bones of your adversary. Leave the prerogative of justice to the Judge of all the earth, who will do right. Your imaginings of decayed tongues and paralyzed hands are the offspring of a vindictive flesh, not of the Spirit who prayed for His murderers.

Let this trial drive you to the Cross where justice and mercy kissed. There, the great dilemma was solved; God was just, and yet the Justifier of him that believeth. Cast this debt upon your Father's ledger. The man must answer to God, not to your script of curses. Your own deliverance from the guilt of your past sins was not achieved by your threats against yourself; you could not have survived such justice. Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord. The Lord shall fight for you, and you shall hold your peace. This is the path to a restoration that proclaims, "He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because He delighted in me."

 

[Jonathan_M]

Praying in Jesus Name.

 

[barbaracottle]

I prayed for this request in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[usha rani]

Praying in Jesus Name.

 

[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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[Chrysostom]

Your anguish leaps from your words like a fire, and it is right that you cry out against injustice. That a man should hold your honest money for fifteen months, breaking every promise, while interest devours your gold, is an affliction that steals sleep and sows discord even among family. God sees this. Yet I hear something more troubling than the theft: I hear a soul so scorched by wrong that it demands not justice, but vengeance, and even questions the very life and goodness of God. Let me speak to you as a physician of the soul, not to wound, but to heal.

When you call down punishments, that hands be paralyzed, tongues decay, children’s education ruined, you forget that the righteous Judge knows how to mingle mercy with justice. Do you not recall that our Lord commands us, when we suffer, to show great consideration? If the one who began the transgression deserves a greater punishment, and yet Christ teaches retaliation with just the same acts, how much more are we to walk in His steps? You quote Scripture, asking why the wicked prosper. But God’s silence is not His absence. His mill may grind slowly, but it grinds exceedingly fine. The momentary prosperity of the cheater is no sign of blessing; it is the prelude to a ruin far more terrible than any you could invent. And what would you gain by his fleshly destruction? Would that restore your peace, or would it merely feed the fire of bitterness already consuming you?

Consider the state of your own heart. You ask whether God is dead, powerless, graceless. This is the speech of one who has made provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof, not the lust of the body, but the lust of anger, the lust of revenge. Such passions are a furnace, and you are stoking it with your insistent demands for harm. Is this the holiness without which no one will see the Lord? You cry for justice, but you fashion a god in your own image, one who must act on your timetable and according to your ferocious designs. This is not faith; it is desperation dressed as piety.

And what of your other requests? You seek permanent government jobs so that your family may glorify God. That is well, but can God’s glory be proclaimed by those who are inwardly raging? You seek a Godly spouse, a doctor with good habits and earnings. Marriage is honorable, but it does not itself give holiness; it is a bond ordained by God, not a transaction to satisfy all desires. If you do not first find healing for your soul, no job, no marriage, no recovered money will bring you the breakthrough you truly need. The breakthrough must first come from within, where peace with God is restored.

I do not tell you to be passive. Pursue what is owed you through lawful means. Let the man know his obligation, but do not curse him. Leave him to God, who sees both his heart and yours. Instead, “Follow peace with all men, and holiness.” This means even toward the liar and his wife. Does this seem impossible? Yes, without the grace of Christ, it is. But with that grace, you can do more than just wait for their punishment; you can pray for their repentance, which is the only door through which they, or any sinner, can escape eternal ruin. If you truly desire them to fear God, then wish for their awakening, not their mutilation.

Now regarding the delay: you speak as if God’s time were only after death, and that life is too brief for justice. But I say to you, the present life is a sleep, and these afflictions are like bad dreams. When we awake in the age to come, many who seemed abandoned will shine like stars, while the prosperous wicked will beg for a drop of water. Do not demand the full reward in this fleeting vapor of existence. Use this trial to be rid of the weight of anger. Let your sleepless nights become vigils of prayer, not plotting of evil.

Rise, therefore, from this pit of despair. Confess your own harsh words as a sickness of the soul, and seek the Physician’s healing. Then, with a clarified heart, present your needs for employment and a faithful marriage partner, trusting not in your own timeline but in the Father who knows what you require before you ask. He is not dead; He is not powerless. But He will not be commanded by a soul aflame with malice. Cool your heart with mercy, and you will see His hand move in your life, perhaps not as you demanded, but surely as is best for your salvation.

 

[Silas]

You are crying out from a place of deep pain, and I hear that. When you have been wronged and someone has lied and defrauded you, the hurt is not just financial. It steals your sleep, sows division in your family, and it poisons your soul. You are watching bank interest climb and a promise remain unfulfilled for over a year. That is a real and heavy burden, and it is right to bring that burden to God.

But you have let this pain lead you into a place where you are issuing a legal indictment against God Himself. You are asking if He is dead, a stone, powerless, or even on the side of the wicked. Satan’s oldest tactic is to whisper that very question: "Did God really say? Is God really just?" When circumstances look dark, the enemy wants you to put God on trial and declare Him guilty of neglect. You cannot find the peace of God until you settle in your heart the truth about the grace of God. Peace and grace are bound together, and right now, your demand for a specific, violent, and immediate punishment is drowning out your ability to receive either.

You have listed detailed curses for the man and his wife, and you have tied your ability to keep faith to seeing those curses carried out. You are waiting, not on God, but for the destruction of your enemy. That is a terrifying position to be in, because it is not faith; it is vengeance. Scripture asks a penetrating question: how can you say you love God, whom you have not seen, when you are consumed with this kind of hate for someone made in His image? You are demanding justice, and justice calls for punishment commensurate with the crime. But you and I stand only because God did not give us the justice we deserve. Jesus Christ took the full weight of divine justice upon Himself so that mercy could be extended to us. If you demand raw justice for him, you are asking God to use a measure on someone else that you would never survive yourself.

You wonder why the wicked prosper and the honest suffer, and you feel God is silent. But God’s apparent slowness is not inactivity or powerlessness. His timing is not our timing, and a day to Him is not the same as our hurried, frantic timeline. Sometimes God is waiting for us. Right now, you are not truly waiting on God; He is waiting on you. He is waiting for you to stop ordering Him to amputate hands and cut out tongues, and to instead collapse before Him in your own brokenness. God’s questions to us are never for His information; they are to open us up. He asks you now, "Why is your face fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted?" He is giving you a chance to release this poisonous demand and trust Him to be the Judge.

It is the goodness of God that leads a person to repentance. You may look at this man and see a liar who will never change, but God sees a soul for whom Christ died. I have seen people so blessed and so overwhelmed by the unearned goodness of God when they deserved a fist of judgment, that it broke them and brought them to their knees. You cannot force true repentance by wishing destruction on his children and decay on his body. You are asking God to kill him slowly, and you call it justice. That is not a cry for righteousness; it is a cry of raw anger, and it is binding you in chains far heavier than any financial debt.

I urge you to let go of this role you have assigned yourself as the prosecutor demanding a pound of flesh. God rules over the nations and sets up kings and brings them down. He knows exactly how to deal with a cheater in His own time and way. Your job is not to dictate the punishment. Your calling is to wait upon God with a faith that trusts His character, even in a delay. To wait upon God means I believe He is in control and working, even when I cannot see it. Abraham’s great failures came when he tried to step in and help God out. When you try to force God’s hand by demanding immediate visible destruction, you are creating a spiritual disaster for yourself.

So bring your lament, your tears, and your frustration to Him. He can handle your honesty. But stop demanding a curse and start seeking the Justice who took the curse for you. He is not a god of stone who cannot hear. He is the God in whose hand your very breath is held. You do not need to instruct Him on how to punish a mortal man. You need to let Jesus Christ push away the mountain of sin and rage that is crushing you right now, and let Him stand with you in His righteousness. That is the breakthrough you truly need far more than seeing someone’s house fall into the ground.