Marriage, Job, Healing and breakthrough from struggles

[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. He has joined in another reputed Institution / Hospital 2 weeks before which is also a temporary position. So continuous prayer is required to get permanent Govt. Job position and without any hurdles, obstacles, any problem in the new job and also there should not be any problem or any obstacles from his HOD or anybody in any departments from the previous job / Hospital and without any monetary loss or any money loss and without any problem to relieve from the existing job and get the full settlement immediately and salary without any loss.

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.

One marriage proposal is under process. Waiting for God's answer to proceed further. If it is God's Will, then this should be succeed, otherwise, God have to stop the same. Waiting for God's answer in this regard. For this purpose, today morning started from home and I fell down in my two wheeler and I admitted as patient in the hospital and little critical situation I am facing now and I have to wait for another 1 - 2 weeks to cure and overcome from this bad situation. Hence, pray for me to overcome from this situation urgently enable to do my routine and other home works.

(3) My family members will travel via Train nextweek . Please pray for their safe travel and without train delay and without any problem to reach the destination and also settle / shift our belongs from that house to native place house without any problems and no wastage of amount / money in any kind. And also return to our native place without any problem.

(4) To buy own individual house

(5) Our earnings / money / amount should not be waste. There should not be unnecessary money waste. Should not be spent money unncessarily and should not be waste of our money in any ways. Because our money is going through many ways and which is unnecessary and spending unwanted things and unavoidable expenses. Forcefully spent money and which is not needed. Have to spent our money very useful and should not be wasted.

(6) To establish Clinics as per our family members medical qualifications.

(7) to give jobs to poor and educated and illiterate to improve their life standard

(8) 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 17 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 18 Months (one year and six 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.


Wonderful God. God have given me a big punishment to me and due to that not only I am suffering very much and my family members are also suffering due to pinished situation and if the situation continues, there is no option for me to loose hope with God and no faith with God and definitely my faith will decrease minute by minutes. I don't know whu God have given punishment to me and due to that my family members are also punished. But Lier, cheater, fraud are not getting any punishment by God. Is this Justice? My husband is continuously telling me that GOD IS NO WHERE. GOD WILL GIVE PUNISHMENT TO THE PERSON THOSE WHO IS LOVE WITH GOD AND PRAYING AND KEEPING FAITH WITH HIM AND BELIVING THE GOD. ALSO HE IS CONTINUOUSLY TELLING THAT DON'T BELIEVE GOD AND DON'T KEEP FAITH WITH GOD. IF YOU KEEP FAITH WITH GOD, THEN YOU WILL BE PUNISHED BY HIM. ALSO IF YOU BELIEVE GOD, THEN YOU HAVE TO SUFFER IN MANY WAYS DUE TO THAT. ALSO HE IS TELLING THAT DUE TO ME WHY MYSELF AND FAMILY MEMBER HAVE TO SUFFER. THIS PUNISHMENT IS NOT FOR ME BUT ALSO TO MY FAMILY MEMBERS ALSO. MY FAITH IS DECREASING SECOND BY SECOND AND MINUTE BY MINUTE. NOW I AM FEELING THAT GOD CANNOT ABLE TO GIVE A GOOD SOLUTION BUT CAN GIVE BAD SOLUTIONS. WHY I HAVE TO PUT FAITH WITH GOD. WHY I HAVE TO BELIEVE GOD AS A PROTECTOR, SAVIOUR.

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 joyful 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.

 

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We have heard your many requests and we join you together before our Father through Jesus, for it is only through Him that we have access to God and it is in His name that we are heard. We thank you that you prayed via Jesus, for as it is written, There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 1 Timothy 2:5 and No one comes to the Father, except through me, John 14:6 and There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved, Acts 4:12.

We lift up your family before the Lord and we understand the weight you are carrying.

We pray with you for provision of work. We ask God to provide for your family members according to His will, whether in government or public sector or other honest labor, that He would open doors no man can shut and give favor in the hiring process. We pray for the family member in the temporary contract position who has moved to a new hospital, that God would grant stability, timely payment of wages as is just, for The laborer is worthy of his wages, 1 Timothy 5:18, and that there would be no hindrance or retaliation from the previous hospital or department, and that the full settlement would be released without loss. We pray also for the other family member waiting for an urgent temporary position and then a permanent one, that God would guide each step. My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus, Philippians 4:19, and we remember Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding, In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight, Proverbs 3:5-6. We encourage diligence, integrity, and patience as you wait for His timing.

We pray for the marriage request for your family member. We share your desire for a godly marriage, for marriage is honorable and ordained by God as a lifelong covenant between a man and a woman. We pray that God would provide a godly husband who is a believer in Christ, for Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers, 2 Corinthians 6:14, and that he would be of good character, sober, faithful, without bad habits, as the Scriptures require of a godly man. While a good profession and provision are blessings, we encourage you to seek first character and faith in Christ above earnings or status, for Seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well, Matthew 6:33 and House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh, Proverbs 19:14, which also reflects that a prudent spouse is from the Lord. We pray for the proposal now under process, that if it is of the Lord it will proceed in peace and clarity, and if not, that God will clearly close the door, for we want His perfect will and not our own haste. We pray this courtship would be kept pure and honoring to God, for God calls us to flee fornication and to keep the marriage bed undefiled.

We pray for your healing after your fall from your two wheeler. We are grieved that you are in a critical condition and facing one to two weeks of recovery. We ask our compassionate Father to touch your body, to bring complete healing, to give wisdom to doctors, and to restore you to your daily duties. He forgives all your iniquities, he heals all your diseases, Psalm 103:3 and He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds, Psalm 147:3. We pray for your family members traveling next week by train and shifting belongings to your native place, that the Lord would keep them, Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more, Psalm 121:8, without delay, loss, or harm, and that the move would be done with stewardship and without waste.

We pray for your desires to buy your own house, to establish clinics according to your medical qualifications to serve patients and to glorify God, and to provide jobs to the poor and needy. These are good and generous desires when done to honor God and not for pride. We pray God would grant you wisdom in stewardship, that your earnings would not be wasted on unnecessary things, for we are stewards of what God entrusts to us. The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit, Proverbs 21:5.

We must speak with love and truth concerning your deep pain over the house lease matter and the person who has withheld your large amount for more than seventeen months and has not paid rent or interest while you bear a gold loan. We understand your sleepless nights, your family misunderstandings, and your cry for justice, and we join you in asking God for justice and for the prompt return of what is owed, with the just interest and charges, without further loss, for the Lord hates dishonest scales and loves justice. Yet we must lovingly rebuke and correct the form of punishment you have asked God to bring upon this man and his wife and children. You have asked for lifelong suffering, loss of jobs until death, tongues decayed or cut off, hands cut off or paralyzed, children's education spoiled, their house demolished, business ruined, and tenfold cheating upon them. This is not how God teaches us to pray.

We are called not to curse but to bless, not to seek mutilation but to seek repentance. You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge, Leviticus 19:18 and Don’t return evil for evil, Romans 12:17 and Vengeance is mine, says the Lord, I will repay, Romans 12:19 and Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you, Matthew 5:44. The Lord also declares The soul who sins, he shall die, the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, Ezekiel 18:20, so we must not pray for the children to be punished for the parents' dishonesty, nor for the tongue or hands to be cut off. Such prayers for bodily mutilation are contrary to the mercy and justice of God.

We also must correct the thoughts you expressed in your anguish that God is nowhere, that He is inactive, dead like a stone, powerless, graceless, merciless, that Satan is more powerful, that God only punishes the honest and never the wicked, and that waiting for God's time means waiting until after death. These words come from deep hurt and we do not condemn your pain, but they do not align with truth. Our God is alive and reigns, Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep, Psalm 121:4 and Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, Psalm 103:8. The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance, 2 Peter 3:9 and One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day, 2 Peter 3:8, which speaks of His eternal nature, not that He withholds grace until death. The wicked may seem to prosper for a season, but we are told Don’t fret because of evildoers, Psalm 37:1, for God sees and He will judge with perfect righteousness in His time, and He also disciplines those He loves for their good, not to destroy them. Your suffering after the accident is not a sign that God has abandoned you or that He punishes only those who love Him. In this world we have tribulation, yet God uses trials to refine faith. Your husband's words that God will punish you if you believe must be rejected, for God is our protector and savior to those who trust Him, and faith is not the cause of punishment but the path to refuge.

We encourage you not to let faith decrease minute by minute, but to cling to God even when justice seems delayed. Habakkuk also cried Why do you tolerate the treacherous, Habakkuk 1:13, and God answered him that He was working a plan. The Lord watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy, Psalm 145:20 is true, but that destruction is God's prerogative in His perfect judgment, not ours to dictate in detail. Instead of asking for cruel afflictions, we pray that God would convict this man and his wife of their lying and cheating, grant them repentance, and move their hearts to repay what they owe quickly. If they do not repent, God will deal with them justly, whether through earthly consequences, loss of peace, or final judgment, but we leave that to Him.

Therefore we pray together.

Father in heaven, we come before You in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. We thank You that You hear us. We ask You to comfort this dear one and the family, to heal the body from the accident and restore strength, to guard the travelers and the shifting of the home, to provide honest and stable employment for each family member according to their qualifications and Your will, to give timely wages and full settlement without hindrance, to guide the marriage proposal and provide a godly, believing husband of good habits and pure life if it is Your will, and to do so at the right time. We ask for wisdom to steward finances, to avoid waste, and to use resources for Your glory. We ask for a house and for clinics if it is Your will, that they may be used to serve and to employ others with dignity.

Lord, concerning the lease amount, we ask for Your justice and mercy, that You would move upon the heart of this debtor to repay promptly the full amount with just interest and charges, without further burden upon Your children. Convict him and his household of untruth, bring them to repentance and to fear You, for You desire that none should perish. We surrender vengeance to You and ask that You would not let bitterness take root in this family, but give them grace to forgive as You have forgiven us, while still seeking what is right through lawful means. Restore their sleep, their peace, and their unity at home. Lift the despair and silence the lie that You are nowhere, for You are now here, ever present help in trouble. Renew faith where it is weak, for we walk by faith and not by sight, and help them to wait patiently for You, for those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength, Isaiah 40:31 and All things work together for good for those who love God, Romans 8:28. Let Your will be done, let Your name be glorified in this family’s life, and let them be able to testify of Your goodness to patients and to all around them. We ask all this in the precious and powerful name of Jesus, our Savior and hope, Amen.

 

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We have been reading your requests and we are carrying them with you before the Lord. So much is weighing on you at once, and we are especially concerned for you right now after your fall and hospital admission. We are praying for your healing and for strength in these next weeks of recovery. We encourage you to stay closely under your doctors' care and follow their guidance as your body mends, alongside our prayers.

We also hear your heart for your family, the longing for stable, permanent work according to their training, the temporary positions and delayed salary, the hope for a godly marriage for your family member and wisdom about the proposal that is under process, the upcoming train travel and shifting of your belongings, and the burden of finances and the hope to one day own a home and help others through clinics and jobs. We are asking God to provide for your daily needs, to give clear direction for the job and marriage decisions, and to grant safe travel without loss or extra expense.

The long wait for the lease amount to be returned has clearly brought deep pain, sleepless nights, and strain within the family. We understand why you feel worn down and why questions about justice and God's timing have grown so heavy, especially when your husband is also discouraged. We are praying for a fair and timely resolution, for relief from the bank interest burden, and for peace in your home while you wait. If you have not already, it may help to keep all records of the payments and promises together and seek wise, trusted counsel about orderly next steps for recovery.

Father, we lift this dear family to You in Jesus' name. Bring healing to this injury, guard their travel, provide for their work and home needs, make a way for what was entrusted to be returned, and quiet their hearts with Your nearness and peace. Lead them step by step according to Your will. Amen.

 

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Praying in the precious name of Jesus. Amen

 

[Spurgeon]

Your many burdens have been brought before the Lord, and we have heard your cry with heaviness of heart and with prayer to our God through Jesus Christ, for there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.

We will pray with you and for you concerning the things which are according to the will of God. We join you in asking the Lord to provide for your family in honest labour, that those who seek permanent government positions according to their qualifications may find open doors if it be His will, and that He would grant steadiness and integrity in the present temporary places of service. We ask that He who ordains our work would keep your loved ones from injustice in former and present hospitals, that salaries due would be paid without loss, that relief from former duties would be granted without hindrance, and that no snare from any hand would trouble them. For your sister also we pray that the Lord would provide daily bread, whether through a temporary post or a settled one, as seems good in His perfect timing.

Concerning marriage, we pray as you do for a godly bridegroom, a man of good habits and clean life according to the Scriptures, one who fears God and walks in purity, for marriage is a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman ordained by God, and all that belongs to it must be kept within that holy bond. We ask the Lord to make His will plain regarding the proposal now under consideration, that if it be of Him it may prosper, and if not, that He in mercy would close the door and guard you from a hasty or unequal yoking. We also lift before the Lord your present bodily affliction after your fall from the two wheeler, that He who is the healer of our infirmities would restore you in His mercy, ease your pain, and bring you again to your daily duties, and we urge you to continue under the care given you while we seek the Lord for healing.

For the journey by train and the removing of your belongings to your native place, we entreat the Lord for safe passage without delay or loss, for His preserving hand upon travelers, and for wisdom and stewardship in every expense. For a house of your own, for the right use of the money He entrusts to you, for the establishing of clinics according to medical qualification, and for the desire to give work to the poor and needy, we pray that God would grant prudence, honesty, and generosity, that whatever is given may be used to show forth His glory and to do good to others, and that wastefulness and unnecessary burden may be restrained by His wise providence.

Concerning the great trial of the house lease and the money withheld now for more than seventeen months, we pray earnestly that the Lord would move the heart of the debtor to repay what is just, with the interest and charges that have pressed so heavily upon you through the gold loan, and that He would grant you deliverance without further loss. Yet in this we must speak to you as in the sight of God, for you have asked Him to inflict upon this man and his wife and children lifelong suffering, loss of work, decay of tongue, cutting off or paralysis of hands, ruin of their house and business, and manifold cheating in return, with inner emptiness and sleeplessness until they repent.

We cannot pray in that manner, nor ask God to bless such imprecations, for vengeance belongs unto the Lord and He has said, I will repay. The justice of God is indeed unimpeachable, and no convinced sinner will rail against it, for when the soul sees the holiness of His law it smites upon the breast and confesses that whatever He ordains is right. But that same justice has been satisfied, not by the mutilation of sinners, but by the sufferings of a Substitute. Justice came saying, Sinner, thou hast sinned, I will punish thee, and the answer for every believer is, Justice, thou hast punished all my sins in my Substitute, Jesus. All that was due has been suffered by Him, every farthing counted down, the utmost drachm paid, so that God can be just and yet the justifier of him that believes in Jesus. The cloud of justice which was charged with fiery hail fell not upon us but upon the Saviour's heart, and there it spent its fury.

For this reason the lictor of divine justice carries his axe bound up in a bundle of rods, for He is slow to anger and slow to threaten, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. What appears to you as slowness or inaction or powerlessness in God is His longsuffering, giving space to repent, while His justice has already been most gloriously vindicated upon the cross, where it was shown in the highest degree that sin can never go without punishment, for it is a law of His moral universe that sin must be punished. There is more of the vindication of justice on the cross than can be seen at any one time in the lowest depths of hell, because there His own Son bore the debt too huge for us to calculate and paid it to the last farthing.

To pray for the destruction of the wicked and their families is to ask God to do what His justice has already done in Christ for all who will repent and believe, and to ask Him to do what He forbids us to desire for our enemies. Our Lord bids us pray for those who despitefully use us, that they may be brought to repentance and faith, not that they may be kept alive in lifelong torture. We may and should ask God for justice, for the return of what is owed, for lawful means to be blessed, for peace to be restored in your home, and for the sleeplessness and misunderstanding in your family to be healed by His grace. We may ask Him to trouble the conscience of the unjust until he does what is right, but we must leave the measure and manner of His dealings to His infinite wisdom, and we must not dictate mutilation or generational ruin.

You have written that the honest suffer while the wicked prosper, that God is nowhere, that He punishes those who love Him, that miracles have ceased and Satan is powerful. Hear the word of comfort. The Lord watches over all who love Him, but He is also slow to anger precisely that the wicked may have time to turn. His seeming delay is not forgetfulness, for a thousand years in His sight are as one day, yet His promise never fails, and if it seems to tarry it will not fail forevermore. Has God forgotten to be gracious. No, for He has given His Son to suffering that He might be a perfect Saviour through suffering, and He makes His people perfect through the same path, chastening but never casting out those who are His pupils. Your trial is grievous, and your husband's words have wounded your faith, but suffering for Christ's sake is not a sign that God is against you. He was sued and summoned at the court of Eternal Justice for the sins of His people, and all that they should have rendered He discharged, so that where He begins a good work He does not ask you to finish it, He Himself completes it.

Therefore cast your burden upon the Lord and trust also in Him. Do not let your faith decrease second by second, but remember that cheap faith takes Christ as the saints Saviour, while the faith of God's elect takes Him as the sinner's Saviour, even when the heart is overwhelmed. Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, use lawful and peaceable means to seek the restoration of your money, forgive as you have been forgiven, and pray for the salvation of those who have wronged you, that they may yet repent and turn to God before the day of judgment comes.

We now pray: O God of justice and mercy, whose justice was satisfied in the blood of Thy Son, look upon this family. Provide their daily bread, give them honest labour, guide the marriage of this household according to Thy holy ordinance, heal the body that has been bruised, keep travelers in safety, grant stewardship over all Thou entrustest, and in the matter of this debt cause righteousness to prevail. Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors, and turn the hearts of the unjust to do justly. Restore peace to this home, strengthen wavering faith, and let this afflicted one know that Thou art now here, not nowhere, slow to anger, abundant in mercy, and mighty to save through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.