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 3 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. The Previous Hospital asked to pay salary in lieu of Notice Period and that amount is also huge according to me and there was no option for me to force to given a Cheque for that amount in favour of the PAO, Hospital name which God have to return to me immediately and reduce my critical financial situation and moreover to pay my salary for working period and settle for my satisfaction and without any amount loss. Also the new Hospital/Institution has to pay the salary which I have worked for the last month.

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) To buy own individual house

(4) 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.

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

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

(7) 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 18 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.


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.

 

[Articles]

We join together with you in prayer before our Father through Jesus Christ our Lord, giving all praise to God for His goodness and mercy even in the midst of trials. We have heard your many requests and we bring them before the throne of grace together, seeking His perfect will.

We thank you for acknowledging that we come to God via Jesus, for there is no other way to the Father. As it is written John 14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. And Acts 4:12 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. It is only through faith in Jesus Christ, His death and resurrection, that we have access to God and the assurance of eternal life. If we confess with our mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in our heart that God raised Him from the dead we shall be saved Romans 10:9.

We pray first for the employment needs of your family. We understand the burden of temporary and contract work, delayed salaries, and the desire for stable permanent government and public sector positions according to your qualifications so that you may glorify God in your work. We pray that God will provide for your needs and open doors no man can shut. Philippians 4:19 My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Proverbs 16:3 Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed. We pray for the family member who has recently joined a new hospital on a temporary basis, that God will grant favor, protection from obstacles, and peace with superiors and colleagues, and that there will be no hindrance or injustice in the transition from the previous hospital. We pray that what is rightfully owed in salary and settlement, including the cheque given in lieu of notice period, will be returned without loss, and that the new institution will pay wages justly and on time. For your other family member we pray for an urgent temporary government position and in God's timing a permanent one, trusting Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. We encourage you to continue to work diligently and honestly, trusting God while also following right and lawful processes to seek what is due.

For the marriage request, we join you in praying for a godly bridegroom for your family member. We affirm with you the sanctity of marriage as a lifelong covenant between a man and a woman ordained by God, and we pray that this courtship will be entered into with prayer and purity with the goal of a Christ centered marriage. We pray for a believing husband who is a doctor with good earnings and above all good habits and no bad habits according to the Bible, a man who fears the Lord and walks in integrity. 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity, Psalm 37:4 Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Proverbs 31:30 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised, and the same is true for a man who fears Yahweh. Regarding the proposal now under process, we pray for clear discernment. If it is God's will let it succeed, and if not let God close the door in His wisdom. James 1:5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. We pray that you will seek not only profession and earnings but most importantly a spouse who loves Christ and will lead the family in faith.

We also lift up your healing. We are sorry to hear that you fell from your two wheeler and are now admitted as a patient facing a critical time needing one to two weeks to recover. We pray for the Lord's healing hand upon you. Isaiah 53:5 But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. James 5:15 And the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. Psalm 147:3 He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds. We pray for complete restoration so you may return to your routine and household duties, and for peace for your family during this pain.

For your desires to buy your own house, to establish clinics according to your medical qualifications, to use your earnings wisely without waste, and to give jobs to the poor and educated to improve their lives, we pray that God will grant wisdom in stewardship. Proverbs 21:5 The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit, and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty. Luke 14:28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it. Matthew 6:33 But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. We pray that God will help you to manage money faithfully, to avoid unnecessary and forced expenses, and to be a blessing to others as He enables you.

Concerning the house lease matter, where a large amount was paid and the owner has not handed over the house nor returned the money for more than eighteen months, and has not paid the promised rent to cover your gold loan interest, we understand your deep distress, sleeplessness, and family misunderstandings. It is right to seek justice and the return of what is owed, and we pray that God will move upon this man's heart to repay what is due promptly and justly, including the rent or interest that would allow you to manage. Proverbs 11:1 A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight. We encourage you to continue to seek lawful and peaceful means to recover what is yours while trusting God as your defender.

Yet we must lovingly rebuke and correct the prayers for severe physical and material destruction upon this man and his family. You have asked for lifelong suffering, loss of jobs, tongues to decay or be cut off, hands to be cut or paralyzed, children's education to be spoiled, houses to be demolished, and tenfold cheating, and that they live with suffering without death so they may repent. This desire for vengeance does not align with the heart of Christ. The Scripture is clear Romans 12:19 Do not seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, Vengeance belongs to me, I will repay, says the Lord. And Romans 12:14 Bless those who persecute you, bless, and do not curse. Matthew 5:44 But I tell you, 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. Ezekiel 33:11 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live.

We are called not to wish mutilation or destruction upon anyone, including their wife and children who are not responsible for the debt, but to pray for their repentance and salvation, and to leave justice in God's hands. He will judge righteously in His time, and He desires mercy. Lamentations 3:22-23 It is because of Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion does not fail. They are new every morning, great is your faithfulness. Our prayer should be that this man will be convicted, will repent, will tell the truth and repay, and will come to know the fear of the Lord that leads to life, not that his tongue or hands be destroyed. We must also not curse his children, for each person will give account for his own deeds.

We also hear your anguish when you ask why the honest suffer while the wicked seem to prosper, and you feel God is silent, inactive, powerless, like a stone in a well, or even dead, and that His time is so slow that His grace and mercy will only come after death. We gently correct this thinking with truth. God is very much alive, faithful, powerful and present. Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He still does miracles today. Psalm 121:4 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness, but is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance. What feels like delay is His patience and mercy, even toward the wicked, giving them time to repent, and His refining of our faith. Psalm 73 shows the psalmist also struggled seeing the wicked prosper, but he understood their end when he entered God's sanctuary. Romans 8:28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. Your suffering is not a sign that God has punished you unjustly or abandoned you, and it is not true that God only punishes those who love Him. He disciplines those He loves for their good Hebrews 12:6, but He also allows trials to strengthen faith James 1:2-4 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

When your husband says God is nowhere and that believing brings punishment, we pray for him. God is not nowhere, He is now here, near to the brokenhearted Psalm 34:18 Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit. Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that Yahweh your God, he is God, the faithful God. Do not let your faith decrease minute by minute. Hold fast Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. The enemy would have you lose hope, but God is your protector and saviour. Psalm 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

We pray together now. Father in heaven, in the name of Jesus Christ we come to You. We thank You that You hear us. We ask for Your provision of stable and permanent work for this family according to Your will, for justice and full settlement of wages without loss, and for favor in the new hospital. We ask for healing for our dear one injured in the fall, touch the body, ease the pain, restore strength quickly. We ask for Your clear guidance in the marriage proposal, that You will lead to a godly, Bible believing husband, a man of good character with no bad habits, and that the marriage will honor You and occur in Your perfect timing. We ask for wisdom to manage finances, to buy a home in Your time, to establish clinics for Your glory, and to be a blessing to the poor. For the house lease debt, Lord we ask for conviction upon the debtor, that he will speak truth and repay quickly what is owed with rent and interest, and that this family will have peace and sleep again. Forgive us where we have desired vengeance, help us to forgive as You forgive us, and to pray for the repentance of those who have wronged us. Strengthen this family where faith is wavering, encourage the husband who doubts, reveal Yourself as alive and mighty and full of mercy. Let them know You are not slow or powerless, but faithful and able to do miracles today. Restore hope, remove anxiety and misunderstanding, and let Your peace guard their hearts. We ask all this in the precious name of Jesus our Saviour, Amen.

 

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We have read all you shared and we hear how heavy this season has been for you and your family. So many important needs at once, and now this fall and hospital stay on top of everything else. We are praying for you with care.

We are especially holding up your healing from the two wheeler accident. Please keep following your doctors' guidance closely while we pray for steady recovery over these next weeks, and let family or trusted friends help with daily work so you can rest as you heal.

For the jobs, the delayed salary and the notice period burden, and for the marriage proposal that is still being discerned, we are asking God for clear direction, for fairness in what is owed to you, and for doors to open in His timing. It helps to keep careful written records of payments, agreements and communications, and to seek wise counsel from a trusted pastor or a local advisor who can look at the job and house lease matters with you in person.

We also hear the deep pain and sleeplessness around the house lease and the long wait for the money to be returned. It is understandable to feel angry and weary when you have acted honestly and still carry the loss. We are praying for provision for the loan interest, for peace in your home, and for God to bring a just and merciful resolution where you can be made whole.

Father, we lift this dear family to You in Jesus' name. Bring healing to this body, provide for every financial need, guard their hearts from bitterness, and lead each decision about work and marriage with Your wisdom and peace. Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

Your many burdens have been laid before the Lord and they call for prayer, for patience, and for a heart instructed by the Word of God. There is a right way to bring our wants to Him, and that is through Jesus Christ alone, for He was sued and summoned at the court of Eternal Justice for the sins of His people and discharged the whole tremendous debt that was due to God. Apart from Him there is no access, no forgiveness, no healing. It is cheap faith to take Christ as the saints Savior, but it is the faith of Gods elect to take Him as the sinners Savior, and to come to Him as such now.

We will pray with you for those things which may be asked according to His will.

For your family members who seek work, we pray that the Lord will provide what is needful and honourable, whether it be permanent government service or such other honest labour as He appoints. We pray that He who sees the tradesman who must do business in great waters will make it your constant habit to commit your way unto Him, that you may be stronger to do battle against these difficulties. We ask that what is due for labour done may be paid without loss, that relief from the former hospital may be obtained with integrity and without strife, that no hand of man may hinder unjustly, and that in the new place there may be quietness and diligence to the glory of God. If it please Him to grant permanent posts according to qualification, we will give thanks, and if He appoint otherwise, we will still trust His wisdom to enable you to show forth His glory where He has placed you.

For the marriage sought for your family member, we pray as you have asked, for a godly bridegroom of good habits and no bad habit according to the Scripture, a man who fears God and will keep covenant as one man with one woman for life. That is the holy estate ordained of God, and it is right to seek it in the Lord and not otherwise. For the proposal now under process we pray, as you have wisely said, if it be Gods will let it prosper, and if not, let the Lord in His mercy stop it. We pray also for your own body, for you have fallen from your two wheeler and lie as a patient in need of cure. The Scripture joins healing and pardon together, and says, He sent His Word and healed them. That Word is Christ Himself. We pray that the Lord would raise you up within these weeks, restore strength for your routine and home duties, and teach you in sickness to cry, Lord save me, and in healing to declare His works with rejoicing.

For a house of your own, for the wise stewardship of your earnings that they be not wasted upon unnecessary and unavoidable expenses, for the establishing of clinics according to medical qualification, and for the desire to give work to the poor and unlearned that their life may be improved, these are lawful desires when they are sought for the Lords honour and not for pride. We pray that God would grant you prudence to spend usefully, to owe no man anything but love, and to use whatever He entrusts to you as those who must give account.

Concerning the great sum paid for the house lease and the long delay of eighteen months, with interest increasing upon the gold loan and distress brought into your family, with sleepless nights and misunderstanding at home, we hear your sorrow and we do not make light of the wrong. It is just to ask God for justice and for the return of what is owed, whether it be the rent promised for those months or the interest and charges that press upon you. We will pray that the man who has dealt falsely may be led to repay what is due speedily and without further loss to you, and that lawful and peaceable means may be blessed to that end.

But here we must speak plainly in love, for you have asked God to inflict lifelong sufferings, to take away livelihood until death, to cut off tongue and hands, to paralyze, to spoil the education of children, to make a house fall and to bring tenfold cheating upon this man and his wife. We cannot pray thus, and we must not ask God to bless such imprecations. Vengeance belongs unto the Lord. The Word says, there is forgiveness with God that He may be feared, and that forgiveness is to be had now, for behold now is the accepted time. The gifts and calling of God are without repentance, and He who is once forgiven is forgiven to all eternity. Even so He teaches those whom He has forgiven to forgive as they have been forgiven. To win a battle with love, patience and forgiveness is the most glorious of victories. We are to pray for those who wrong us that God would bring them to repentance and faith, not that they should live under mutilation and endless torment without death. To pray for sleeplessness, sickness and emptiness upon them that they may be forced to pay is still to ask for evil upon them. Rather we pray, forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors, and leave justice in the hands of Him who does all things rightly. This does not deny that God will judge the wicked, for He watches over all who love Him and will not clear the guilty who persist in impenitence, but it leaves the measure and the time to Him.

You have written also in great anguish that God seems slow, inactive, powerless, that He hears but does not act, that Satan does miracles while God does none, that to wait for Gods time is to wait until death, and that therefore the honest suffer while the wicked prosper. Your husband says, God is nowhere. Hear the better word, God is now here. What time I am afraid, I will trust in Thee. Among the best and most careful of believers this fear intrudes, lest after all I should be cast away, and the answer is not to cast away confidence but to trust really and intensely, and because of this not to be afraid. Gods thoughts of His people are everlasting thoughts of love and faithfulness. Thought leads to action, and His thinking of us leads to His drawing us nearer to Himself. He is not a stone in a well. He sent His Word and healed them, and He has exalted Christ with His right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour to give repentance and forgiveness of sins. He does not grant forgiveness until we bow in penitence and honour His justice, but when we do, it takes no appreciable period of time for God to forgive sin. Believe right now in Jesus Christ, Gods Son, and you have forgiveness now in a moment.

Do not let faith decrease minute by minute under this trial. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise as some count slackness. One day with Him is as a thousand years, not to teach that He withholds grace until death, but that He is patient and His counsel stands. The wicked may prosper for a season, but that prosperity is not the blessing of God. The honest man who is forgiven and healed has the fountain of love opened within him, and though he pass through waterspouts and billows, he learns to commit his cause to God and to do good and to wait.

Let us then pray thus together. O Lord our God, for Jesus sake forgive our sins and heal our diseases. Provide for this family daily bread and honest work, guide the marriage according to Thy holy ordinance, raise up the sick, teach stewardship, and in Thy mercy move the heart of the debtor to restore what is owed. Give to those who have been wronged a forgiving spirit, and to him who has wronged, repentance. Keep us from fear by teaching us to trust, and let us know that there is forgiveness with Thee, everlasting and free, that Thou mayest be feared and loved. We ask all through Jesus Christ our Lord, who alone is Saviour. Amen.

 

[Jonathan_M]

Praying in Jesus Name. Amen.