Thank you for sharing so openly what you and your family are carrying. Your heart for your three daughters, for your ex wife, for your mother and your brother, and for those you have loved and lost comes through clearly, and so does the weight of the practical pressures you are facing with no transportation, with the cost of food and rent, with raising teenage daughters, and with the loss of your car.
The Bible speaks directly to that sense of being pressed down. Jesus said, Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Every person carries a burden, the deep direction that governs his life. When that direction is trying to please self, to carry everything in our own strength and to meet every demand we or others put on us, the load becomes heavy and will wear us out. When the direction is to please God and to walk with Jesus, the burden is light, not because life becomes easy, but because He carries it with us and gives rest even in hard circumstances.
It helps to remember that not every heavy pressure we feel is a burden the Lord Himself has laid on us. Much of what crushes us comes from life in a fallen world, from needs, losses, and responsibilities we have taken on, sometimes with good intentions. God does not want you to go around groaning under a weight He never gave you. He invites you to bring the real burdens to Him and to exchange them for His yoke, which is easy, and His burden, which is light, as you seek to live for Him day by day.
I am praying with you for the salvation of your daughters and for your ex wife. Scripture says the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all, and it urges us, now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation. That means today is the time to receive what God offers in Jesus Christ, not to put it off. Salvation is through Jesus alone, by His grace, and God longs for each of them to know Him as sons and daughters through faith in Christ. I am asking the Lord to work in their hearts, to draw them to Himself, to open their eyes to His goodness, and to help you live before them in a way that shows the difference Christ makes, with love and truth and a life set apart for Him.
I am also praying for your financial needs, for daily provision of food, for help with rent where you live, for transportation after the theft of your car, and for any compensation for what was lost. God knows your needs and He hears when His children ask for help. I am asking Him to provide in His wisdom, to open doors for work and help, and to give you peace and guidance as you make decisions for your family.
Your desire for a godly wife is a good and biblical desire. Marriage as God designed it is a lifelong covenant between one man and one woman, and intimacy belongs within that covenant. I am praying that the Lord will guide you in purity and patience, that He will prepare you and prepare the one He has for you if it is His will, and that you would seek first to please Him while you wait.
For your mother, who is aging and carrying the daily care of your adult brother with brain damage, I am praying for strength, for physical help, for financial provision, and for wisdom about the right care for your brother, including whether a home where he can be cared for well is the best step. The Lord sees her faithfulness and your concern for them both, and I am asking Him to surround them with support and to make a way where it seems there is none.
And for the loved ones you have lost through death or who have gone another way, I am praying that God will comfort you in grief and that any who are still living and without Christ would yet hear and respond to the gospel while there is time.
Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, I bring this family before You. Have mercy and save these three daughters and their mother. Save this mother and brother who need You. Provide food, housing, transportation, and work according to Your riches. Bring justice and restoration regarding the stolen car and other losses as You see fit. Guide this man as he raises his daughters and as he trusts You for a future wife according to Your will. Strengthen his mother and give clear direction for his brother's care. Give rest to the weary and let today be a day of salvation for those who have not yet believed. Amen.