Pray for this

[Dexter2020]

Prayer as more locals have no religion and fall off Christianity to no religion and the focus is turned towards foreigners and provide as much support and care for foreigners while pitting against locals what in ### because God cannot help to provide for local jobs and let those who believe in Christianity become ex Christian already due to that prejudice against locals and now had let to locals ### become ex Christian or completely left the faith and become no religion as Jesus did not provide them jobs.

 

[Articles]

We hear the deep frustration and sorrow in your words as you witness many in your community turning away from the faith, feeling abandoned and overlooked. It is heartbreaking to see brothers and sisters walk away from Christ, especially when they feel their needs, spiritual, physical, and economic, are not being met. We must first acknowledge that God’s heart breaks even more deeply than ours over those who stray from Him. He is not distant or indifferent; He is the Good Shepherd who leaves the ninety-nine to seek the one lost sheep (Luke 15:4-7). Let us come before Him together, lifting up this burden with urgency and compassion.

Father in Heaven, we come before You with heavy hearts, grieving over those who have turned away from the faith in our communities. We confess that we have not always been faithful stewards of Your love and truth, and we ask for Your forgiveness where we have failed to reflect Your heart to those around us. Lord, we pray for those who feel forgotten, those who have lost jobs, who struggle to provide for their families, and who have been made to feel unwelcome or less valued than others. You see their pain, and You care deeply for them. We ask that You would open their eyes to see that You are their Provider, their Hope, and their Strength. Soften their hearts to return to You, for You alone can satisfy the longings of their souls.

We rebuke the lie that You have abandoned them or that You do not care about their struggles. The enemy seeks to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10), and he is using discouragement, bitterness, and division to pull people away from You. But we declare that You are greater than any scheme of the enemy! You are the God who provides for every need according to Your riches in glory (Philippians 4:19), and You are the One who gives wisdom and direction to those who seek You (James 1:5). We pray that those who have walked away would encounter Your love in a fresh and powerful way, through Your Word, through the testimony of believers, and through the provision of their daily needs. Let them see that You have not forgotten them, and that their hope is found in You alone.

We also lift up the Church in this situation. Lord, we ask that You would convict us where we have failed to love our neighbors as ourselves (Mark 12:31). Have we prioritized programs or preferences over people? Have we shown partiality or neglected the needs of those right in front of us? Forgive us, Lord, and help us to be a light in our communities. Give us wisdom to address the practical needs of those around us, whether they are locals or foreigners, with the love and generosity that reflects Your heart. Help us to be instruments of Your peace, breaking down walls of division and demonstrating that Your love knows no boundaries.

We must also address the concern that some may feel pitted against others, particularly foreigners. Scripture is clear that we are to love and welcome the stranger, for we were once strangers ourselves (Leviticus 19:34, Deuteronomy 10:19). However, this does not mean that we neglect the needs of those in our own communities. The early Church modeled this balance beautifully, ensuring that no one among them was in need while also extending care to those outside their immediate circles (Acts 6:1-7). Lord, we pray that Your Church would rise up with wisdom and compassion, finding ways to serve both locals and foreigners without creating division or resentment. Teach us to trust You to provide for all, knowing that You are the God who multiplies loaves and fishes to feed the hungry (Matthew 14:13-21).

To those who have walked away from the faith, we say this: Your struggles are real, and your pain is valid, but do not let bitterness or disappointment harden your heart toward God. He is not the author of your suffering, nor has He abandoned you. The psalmist cried out, "Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God" (Psalm 42:5). Return to Him, for He is waiting with open arms, ready to restore and renew you. He is the God who turns ashes into beauty and mourning into joy (Isaiah 61:3). Your provision, your purpose, and your peace are found in Him alone.

And to those who remain in the faith, we urge you to be vigilant in prayer and active in love. Do not grow weary in doing good (Galatians 6:9). Reach out to those who have strayed, not with judgment, but with the love of Christ. Share your own struggles and how God has sustained you through them. Be a living testimony of His faithfulness, and trust that He will use your obedience to draw others back to Himself.

Finally, we must address the mention of Jesus in this request. While your words acknowledge Him, we want to emphasize that it is only through the name of Jesus that we have access to the Father (John 14:6). There is no other name under heaven by which we can be saved (Acts 4:12). If those who have walked away from the faith have done so because they do not truly know Him, we must pray that the Holy Spirit would reveal Jesus to them in a personal and transformative way. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and apart from Him, there is no lasting hope or provision.

Heavenly Father, we lift up this situation to You, trusting that You are at work even when we cannot see it. Revive the hearts of those who have turned away, and strengthen the faith of those who remain. Let Your Church be a beacon of hope, unity, and love in our communities. May Your name be glorified as we trust in You to provide, to heal, and to restore. In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We hear the deep hurt in your words, the feeling of being overlooked, the sting of watching neighbors walk away from faith because their daily needs feel unmet, and the confusion when it seems care is flowing one direction while you're left asking where God's provision is. That's a heavy weight to carry, and we don't want to brush past it.

When joblessness drags on, it doesn't just hit the wallet; it hits identity. It can make a person wonder if they matter, if God sees them, if faith holds any practical value at all. Those questions are real, and we grieve with you that so many in your community are answering them by walking away. That loss matters, not just for them, but for everyone who's left behind wondering what's still true.

Sometimes the most steadying thing we can offer in a season like this is simply to stay close. Is there one or two others nearby who are still holding on, who could meet you regularly, even just to talk honestly, share leads, or pray together? Community this strained needs people willing to anchor each other, not with easy answers but with consistent presence. And if a specific practical need (like a looming payment or a skills gap) is fueling the panic, naming that out loud to someone you trust can be a first step toward finding a creative way through, not as a fix for everything, but as one foothold.

We're praying with you now: Lord Jesus, you walked among people who were poor, overlooked, and tempted to despair. You know what it is to be without. We ask you to draw near to those in this community who feel abandoned, not with hollow words, but with tangible care: a job lead, a unexpected provision, a neighbor who shows up. Guard them from the lie that their worth depends on employment, and hold them steady in the truth that your love doesn't waver when circumstances do. In your name, Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

The bitterness you describe, setting foreigner against local, grows in soil where doubt has choked out the shining face of a child of God. I am most of all vexed with this dimness of joy, for we who have the light of the Glory of God ought to have shining faces. You speak as though God's hand is shortened, that He cannot provide for local jobs, and that Christ has therefore proven false. This is to make your own narrow circumstance the measure of His faithfulness. You cannot then make the greatness of His Grace a ground of doubt. The thing is great, but it is not too great for God. As high as the heavens are above the earth so high are His ways above your ways, and His thoughts above your thoughts.

You say Jesus did not provide them jobs, and so they have become ex-Christian. I ask you, is a man's heaven and his God made of bread and wages alone? Whatever is your greatest joy and treasure, that is your heaven and your God, and if you do not find the greatest pleasure in the things of God, then you do not know what the new life means. To make temporal provision the hinge upon which faith turns is to be like poor Jacob, whose will was set against God's will when Esau approached. The thing that made Jacob a coward was that he was not resigned to God's will. Until you can go to the uttermost lengths to which God's Providence may go, you have not gone to the full extent of the resignation in the cry of our Lord.

This prejudice you mention is a foul nest indeed, an ill bird that fouls its own nest. The fruit of Christian sympathy will be seen in a kindly association with all Christians: we shall not shun them nor pass them by. Yet you let the lack of money drive you to despise the provision of the Gospel itself. This feast of fat things is made as much for the Sudra as for the Brahmin! The Gospel is as much to be preached to the degraded Bushman as to the civilized Chinese. For all people! Will anyone be bold enough to assert that there is anything in God's Word like turning from the feast because the seating arrangement displeases us?

Doubt no longer! He that bids you sow intends to give a harvest and He will bless your sowing if you will but sow in faith. The wheels of Providence, which are full of eyes, have those eyes continually fixed upon us, and those wheels are always revolving on our behalf to God's Glory. If you can now believe in Christ, then doubtless the Spirit of God is with you. Do not stand shivering and refusing to lay hold on eternal life because of a lean purse. Soul, if this Gospel were hedged with thorns or guarded with bayonets I would recommend you to fling yourself upon their very points to reach it.