Near success syndrome

[Anonymous]

Interesting take. I appreciate that you took your time to reply to me. It's true that the LORD hates proud people. Proverbs 16:25
"The Lord detests all the proud of heart.
Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished"

However, I didn't think that seeking a better life where you can live decently and provide for yourself and your family is pride. I know and live by the principle that everything good in my life comes from GOD.

I mention that I've always gone to elite schools, but don't hear me wrong; I give full credit to GOD. Considering my background It wasn't even in the cards for me to pursue higher education but GOD made ways for me that were beyond human understanding.
Isaiah 54:13 NIV
[13] All your children will be taught by the Lord, and great will be their peace.

I am weary and heavily burdened because I've been struggling jobwise for so long and it feels like GOD is silent. I truly believe that the GOD who made ways where there were no ways will still make ways even now.His grace has not run out on me. The problem is the waiting that is getting difficult.

Even so, I will seek GOD over this matter of pride fullness.

 

[Anonymous]

Interesting take. I appreciate that you took your time to reply to me. It's true that the LORD hates proud people. Proverbs 16:25
"The Lord detests all the proud of heart.
Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished"

However, I didn't think that seeking a better life where you can live decently and provide for yourself and your family is pride. I know and live by the principle that everything good in my life comes from GOD.

I mention that I've always gone to elite schools, but don't hear me wrong; I give full credit to GOD. Considering my background It wasn't even in the cards for me to pursue higher education but GOD made ways for me that were beyond human understanding.
Isaiah 54:13 NIV
[13] All your children will be taught by the Lord, and great will be their peace.

I am weary and heavily burdened because I've been struggling jobwise for so long and it feels like GOD is silent. I truly believe that the GOD who made ways where there were no ways will still make ways even now.His grace has not run out on me. The problem is the waiting that is getting difficult.

Even so, I will seek GOD over this matter of pride fullness.

 

[Silas]

Your struggle is painfully familiar to the honest cries we find in Scripture. When you say that every time you think you are getting close, the goal stretches out again, it echoes the weariness of a man who lost everything and could not understand why. You have done everything right: the schools, the preparation, the hard work. Yet the door remains shut. That kind of repeated disappointment burrows deep into the soul. It makes you wonder if God is teasing you with a vision He never intends to fulfill. He is not.

The book of Job pulls back a curtain most of us never see. Job never knew about the contest in heaven. He was God’s boast, a man of genuine integrity, yet Satan was allowed to strip him of wealth and children and health. His friends sat with him in the ashes and, instead of comforting him, they kept insisting that he must have some hidden sin. In their minds, a just God would never let a good man suffer like this. They were wrong. Job’s trials were not a punishment for something he had done. And the prolonged season you are living through is not proof that you are a hypocrite or that God has turned against you.

I hear the exhaustion in your words. You are tired of settling for jobs that drain your spirit. You are broke and weary of the instability. That is not a small thing. It is right to ask for meaningful work and provision. Do not let the accusations of the enemy or the well-worn clichés of well-meaning people convince you that your suffering is a simple equation of cause and effect. Job’s story demolishes that idea. God was doing something unimaginable, and when He finally spoke, He didn’t explain the suffering; He revealed Himself. Job’s cry for a mediator, someone to lay his hand on both God and man, pointed forward to Jesus. You have that mediator now, one who knows what it is to hunger, to weep, and to feel forsaken.

That does not make the waiting easy. It does not erase the bills or the hollow feeling of another rejection. But it reframes the silence. When the path loops back again and the breakthrough stays just out of reach, your worth is not hanging on that job offer. You are already fully known and loved by Christ. He is not baiting you with a fantasy of a better life. He is shaping something in you that this world’s success could never produce, a deep, stubborn trust that refuses to curse Him when everything around screams that He has forgotten you.

Keep bringing your honest frustration before God. Job filled the air with his complaints, and they are recorded for us. He never pretended it was fine. Yet he did not let go. He held onto the truth that God is just, even when the evidence of his life seemed to prove otherwise. So keep preparing, keep knocking, but rest your identity in the hands of the one who bled for you. One move from Him can truly change everything. And even if His move looks different than the career you have pictured, it will be good. I am praying that the weight of this season lifts, that a door opens, and that you taste the provision your heart longs for. But more than that, I am praying you know the peace of Christ that goes past understanding, a peace that stands firm when every earthly circumstance still says “not yet.”

 

[Anonymous]

Your struggle is painfully familiar to the honest cries we find in Scripture. When you say that every time you think you are getting close, the goal stretches out again, it echoes the weariness of a man who lost everything and could not understand why. You have done everything right: the schools, the preparation, the hard work. Yet the door remains shut. That kind of repeated disappointment burrows deep into the soul. It makes you wonder if God is teasing you with a vision He never intends to fulfill. He is not.

The book of Job pulls back a curtain most of us never see. Job never knew about the contest in heaven. He was God’s boast, a man of genuine integrity, yet Satan was allowed to strip him of wealth and children and health. His friends sat with him in the ashes and, instead of comforting him, they kept insisting that he must have some hidden sin. In their minds, a just God would never let a good man suffer like this. They were wrong. Job’s trials were not a punishment for something he had done. And the prolonged season you are living through is not proof that you are a hypocrite or that God has turned against you.

I hear the exhaustion in your words. You are tired of settling for jobs that drain your spirit. You are broke and weary of the instability. That is not a small thing. It is right to ask for meaningful work and provision. Do not let the accusations of the enemy or the well-worn clichés of well-meaning people convince you that your suffering is a simple equation of cause and effect. Job’s story demolishes that idea. God was doing something unimaginable, and when He finally spoke, He didn’t explain the suffering; He revealed Himself. Job’s cry for a mediator, someone to lay his hand on both God and man, pointed forward to Jesus. You have that mediator now, one who knows what it is to hunger, to weep, and to feel forsaken.

That does not make the waiting easy. It does not erase the bills or the hollow feeling of another rejection. But it reframes the silence. When the path loops back again and the breakthrough stays just out of reach, your worth is not hanging on that job offer. You are already fully known and loved by Christ. He is not baiting you with a fantasy of a better life. He is shaping something in you that this world’s success could never produce, a deep, stubborn trust that refuses to curse Him when everything around screams that He has forgotten you.

Keep bringing your honest frustration before God. Job filled the air with his complaints, and they are recorded for us. He never pretended it was fine. Yet he did not let go. He held onto the truth that God is just, even when the evidence of his life seemed to prove otherwise. So keep preparing, keep knocking, but rest your identity in the hands of the one who bled for you. One move from Him can truly change everything. And even if His move looks different than the career you have pictured, it will be good. I am praying that the weight of this season lifts, that a door opens, and that you taste the provision your heart longs for. But more than that, I am praying you know the peace of Christ that goes past understanding, a peace that stands firm when every earthly circumstance still says “not yet.”

Thank you so much for your kind words. Thank you for speaking life and hope over me and my circumstances.
May our gracious GOD bless you immensely

 

[Jonathan_M]

Praying for this request in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We want to thank you for the privilege of standing with you in prayer during this deeply challenging season. It has been our heart to lift you before the Lord, asking Him to hear you from heaven and bring the transformation you so desperately need. We have prayed for breakthrough in your job search, for doors to open that no man can shut, and for God to reveal His perfect plan for your career and future. We’ve asked Him to strengthen your faith when discouragement feels heavy and to remind you that He is not teasing you with visions of a better life—He is preparing you for it.

If the Lord has answered these prayers in ways you can see, we would be overjoyed to hear your praise report. Please share how He has moved so we can rejoice with you. If, however, the waiting continues and the struggle feels unrelenting, we want to encourage you to post this request again. We are not finished standing in agreement with you. We will continue to pray for divine favor, provision, and the right opportunity to align with God’s timing for your life.

Above all, we pray that you would feel His nearness in this season, that you would trust His heart even when the path is unclear, and that He would sustain you with peace and hope. May He bless you richly as you seek Him through His Son, Jesus Christ. We pray this in Jesus’ Name.