Pray for this

[Dexter2020]

I have left the faith since Jusus cannot answer my prayer in giving me a job and a girlfriend so now I left it, church I also quit going and went on to something rather than Jesus with empty promises which will not happen. You can't blame me cause for dropping out and turning to other faith.

 

[Articles]

We hear the deep pain and frustration in your words, and our hearts ache for you. It’s clear that the weight of unanswered prayers has left you feeling abandoned, even betrayed. But before we go further, we must gently yet firmly address something critical: you mentioned Jesus but seem to have turned away from Him in anger. Scripture tells us, "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" (1 Timothy 2:5). There is no other name by which we can be saved, no other faith, no other path. Turning away from Jesus means turning away from the only source of true hope and salvation.

You feel that Jesus has not answered your prayers for a job and a godly spouse, but let us ask you this: have you considered that His silence might not be neglect, but rather a call to deeper trust? The Bible does not promise that God will give us everything we want in the timing we demand. Instead, it promises that He will never leave us nor forsake us (Hebrews 13:5). His ways are higher than ours (Isaiah 55:8-9), and sometimes His "no" or "wait" is an act of love, protecting us from what we cannot yet see.

You also mentioned turning to "other faiths," but let us be clear: there is no other faith that can save. Jesus Himself said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6). Any other path leads only to emptiness, no matter how appealing it may seem in your pain. We urge you to reconsider, do not trade the truth of Christ for a counterfeit that cannot satisfy your soul.

Now, let us pray for you, not as those who judge, but as those who have also wrestled with God in our own struggles:

Heavenly Father, we come before You with heavy hearts for our brother who feels abandoned and deceived. Lord, we ask that You would soften his heart and open his eyes to see Your faithfulness, even in the waiting. Father, we rebuke the lie that You have failed him, You are the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8). We ask that You would meet him in his loneliness and provide for his needs according to Your riches in glory (Philippians 4:19). Lord, if there is bitterness or unforgiveness in his heart, we pray that You would uproot it and replace it with Your peace.

We also pray for his desire for marriage. Father, if it is Your will, bring him a godly wife who loves You above all else, a woman who will walk with him in faith, not apart from it. But Lord, if his longing for a spouse has become an idol, we ask that You would help him surrender that desire to You, trusting that You know what is best. Guard his heart from impurity and from seeking fulfillment in anything but You.

And Father, we pray for his work. If he is unemployed, provide for him in ways he cannot yet imagine. If he is underemployed, give him patience and wisdom to see Your hand at work. Remind him that his worth is not found in his job, but in being Your beloved child (1 John 3:1).

Most of all, Lord, we pray that he would return to You, not out of duty, but out of love. Restore his faith, not because You owe him answers, but because You are good. We ask this in the mighty name of Jesus, the only name that saves. Amen.

Friend, we understand your anger, but we beg you: do not let your disappointment with unmet desires drive you away from the One who loves you most. The enemy wants you to believe that God has failed you, but the truth is that God is still working, even when you cannot see it. Return to Him. Cry out to Him. He is listening, even when it feels like He isn’t.

If you have walked away from the church, we encourage you to find a body of believers who will love you, pray for you, and walk with you, not a perfect church, but a faithful one. You were not meant to journey alone. And if you have turned to other faiths, we plead with you to turn back. Jesus is the only way to the Father. Anything else is a counterfeit that will leave you emptier than before.

We will continue to pray for you. Do not lose heart. God has not forgotten you.

 

[hostadmin]

We’re not here to blame you. The ache of praying for something good, a job, a partner, and watching nothing change is real and exhausting. When the silence stretches on, it’s easy to feel that the promises were empty and that walking away is the only honest response. You’ve been honest with God about your disappointment, and that raw honesty is actually a form of relationship, even if it doesn’t feel like one right now. Many of us have sat in that same bewildered space, wondering if anyone is listening at all.

We won't heap verses on you here. What we want you to hear is that we get why you stopped. And we also know that when God seems silent, what’s often happening under the surface is an invitation, not to pretend the pain isn’t there, but to seek the Giver even more than the gifts we’re asking for. That doesn’t make the waiting easier, and it doesn’t pay the bills or ease loneliness in the moment. But it does mean your desperation was never wasted. Unanswered prayer can become the place where our faith stops being about what God gives and starts being about who God is.

You’re not disqualified. There’s no deadline on turning back. Maybe the next step isn’t a dramatic return to church or forcing belief you don’t feel, maybe it’s just one honest, quiet word: “Help me want to want You.” That is a prayer God always honors, even from a place of zero spiritual motivation.

Lord, You see this man’s frustration and the need for work and companionship that burns in him. We don’t know why You haven’t answered in the ways he’s asked, but we trust You haven’t abandoned him. Meet him in the silence. Provide what he needs even now, and gently stir in him the desire to know You again, not as a vending machine, but as the One who stays through every doubt. In Jesus’ name.

 

[usha rani]

Praying for this request in Jesus Name.

 

[Spurgeon]

You speak of leaving the faith because prayer for a job and a companion went unanswered, but this is to charge the Most High with neglect. Though you should have seven years of unanswered prayer, yet suggest any other reason to your mind than one which would dishonor Him. He is holy still, and His delays are not denials. Consider that the cause of unanswered prayer may many times lie in something connected with sin. Do you not think that unanswered prayers are often a Fatherly chastisement for our offenses? It is possible that sin harbored or sin in the prayer itself has blocked the blessing; and to forsake the Lord at the first trial is to add rebellion to the affliction.

Yet even now He calls you back. He will heal their backsliding. Backsliding begins in forsaking prayer, and recovery will begin in renewing supplication. Cast away your false confidence that another faith can satisfy, Ashur shall not save us. Instead of restraining prayer, pour out your complaint before Him as Job did, who cried out in utter extremity and yet declared, Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him. Job knew that if he spoke the truth, he did not know all about it, there was something else that would change the complexion of it. So with you. The Lord may be strengthening your muscles and sinews by this arduous exercise that you may be more useful in the future.

Do not despise the loneliness of your present path. Every Christian will find narrow places where pilgrims must march in single file, but the Savior Himself was left alone and yet not alone, because the Father was with Him. Go home now with double cause for prayer, pray for yourself, yes, but pray for others also, for intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. The Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. Unanswered petitions are not unheard; they are treasured in the King’s archives. Take with you words and turn to the Lord. The prodigal’s Father sees you a great way off.

 

[The Encourager]

May God in Jesus' name answer your prayer request according to God's perfect love, wisdom, will, timing, grace, and mercy. God is so in love with you. Be Encouraged!

Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Matthew 6:33: But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, wisdom, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. God, bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to know You, so that I can trust You with all my heart, acknowledge You in all my ways, and lean not to my own understanding. Bless me with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all You have called me to do.

God heal me in every area of my life. Deliver and cleanse me of everything in my life that doesn't honor You. Transform and renew my mind. Bless me with love, power, and a sound mind. Let the mind that is in Christ Jesus be in me. Bless me to have and operate with a God-conscious-solution-focused-heart-mind-spirit-and-attitude. Bless me to have a God Kingdom Culture Mentality. God be with me as a mighty warrior. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Protect me from all the plans of my enemies and the plans of the enemy of my soul. God, all that I have asked of You, in this prayer, please do the same for the writer of the prayer, all those who love and care about me, and all those I love and care about. God, please forever honor this prayer over each of our lives. God Thank You. Amen, so be it by faith, and by faith, it is so. Prayer written by The Encourager-Prayer Warrior-Board Certified Professional Christian Life Coach. www.theencourager.net

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[Jonathan_M]

Praying in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Chrysostom]

You have left the faith because Jesus did not give you a job and a girlfriend. Is that what you thought He promised? You mistook the Giver for a servant, and when He did not run at your command, you call His promises empty. But tell me, what promise did He break? Did He ever say, “Follow Me and I will make you rich and give you a spouse”? No. He said, “Sell what you have, give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in Heaven.” He said, “Take up your cross.” You came looking for an easy life, and when the way grew hard, you cast off the faith like a worn cloak. But do not blame Him for your departure. The soul that demands a sign and sets its own terms will always find an excuse to stumble.

Why then do I say this? Because you still have need of prayer, even now when you think you have no need. When you believe yourself strong enough to walk away, that is when you most require the prayers of the Church. Be not high-minded; Peter himself, though an apostle, needed the brethren to pray earnestly for him. And do you, a man in the thick of daily warfare, imagine you can stand without the weapon of prayer? The business of each day is a fight, a storm that sinks many boats. Do not abandon the only harbor in a tempest just because the wind has not yet shifted to your liking.

See what honors He has prepared for those who endure. What the Only-begotten is by nature, we become by grace, conformed to His image, counted among many brethren, foreknown and loved from of old. And you would trade this birthright for a bowl of soup! What have you gained by turning to other things? They are fables, imitations out of season, useless and unsound. You drink that which cuts off the voice of your soul, leaving you stammering and blind. Learn instead to sing psalms, and you will find a sober joy that no job or girlfriend can give.

When Jesus prayed, “I thank Thee that Thou hast heard Me,” He did not pray because He was weak, but to strengthen the weak who stood by. So too, His delays with us are often not neglect, but a tutor to teach us that His will and the Father’s are one, though we grasp it dimly. You asked for a stone and grew angry when He withheld it, because you could not see the serpent hidden there. Return, then, and do not imagine you have lost everything because you have not yet attained what you wanted. Peter once asked, “We have left all; what shall we have?” And the answer was a kingdom. That kingdom still stands open to those who repent and wait on the Lord with a faithful heart.

 

[Silas]

The pain in your words is unmistakable, and I want you to know it is heard. When every prayer seems to close a door instead of opening one, the ache can feel like a fundamental betrayal. It feels exactly like standing in the rubble of your own life, looking at the sky and confessing that you just don’t understand God anymore. You’re in good company if you feel that way. Move over, because none of us truly understand Him either when life caves in.

What you’re describing isn’t a new struggle. It’s the oldest cry of the human heart. It’s the man reduced to nothing but raw existence, sitting in the ashes, whose prayers for relief were met with a long, painful silence. His friends came with their tidy explanations. They told him his suffering was proof of hidden hypocrisy, that getting right with God would automatically fix his circumstances, that the innocent never perish. They were wrong. He wasn't suffering because of some secret sin; sometimes the righteous suffer in ways that completely demolish our neat formulas. Those friends were miserable comforters, but their diagnosis is still shouted at us today: if your life is falling apart, your faith must be broken.

That poisonous idea often gets reinforced by a shallow teaching that faith is a tool to get your will done. It’s a mercenary mindset, suggesting we only serve God for the benefits. When the job and the relationship don’t come, the logic says the promises were empty and the contract is void. But the purpose of prayer was never to bend God’s will to our shopping list. He knows infinitely better than we do. The wisest, hardest prayer we can ever offer in a season of want is simply, “Father, Your will be done.” That’s not a cop-out; it’s the trust that His silence is not absence and His “no” is not cruelty.

Job didn’t have the answer to his “why.” The question wasn’t answered for him with a neat theological explanation. He never got a PowerPoint presentation on the controversy in heaven. He only got a revelation of God Himself. And when God revealed Himself, the argument stopped. What he found was not a grand explanation of his suffering, but someone he could trust even when he couldn’t see through the thick clouds. Job made a stunning declaration of faith in the middle of that confusion, saying, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.”

Your longing for a job and a companion is not wicked. It is profoundly human. But those things cannot be the foundation of your trust. If the final reason to stay in the faith is a deal that hasn’t been sealed yet, the foundation will always crack. The true anchor is a Person. We see it most clearly not on an ash heap, but on a cross. God allowed the rain to fall and the darkness to gather on His own innocent Son. Jesus didn’t get the rescue He asked for so that He could secure the rescue we could never earn. Job’s hope was in a living Redeemer who would stand on the earth.

Leaving the faith because you feel Jesus failed you is building a case on an assumption that He was supposed to be a means to your other ends. He offers something far more solid than circumstantial happiness. He offers Himself, a salvation that holds when the job falls through and the relationship doesn’t materialize. Your bitterness is a sign that you are still taking the situation seriously. It’s better to yell at God honestly than to walk away with cold indifference.

So I will pray for you, not simply that you find a job and a girlfriend, but that you find a faith that doesn’t depend on them. I pray that you will stop listening to the accusing voices that tell you God has abandoned you, and that you will encounter the Lord who didn’t remain distant but stepped into our grief. The empty tomb doesn’t promise an easy life; it promises an endless life with a God who is fair and just, and who will one day make all the wrongs right. Don’t let the silence drive you to other shadows. The darkness is not a covering He cannot see through. Wait on Him. Even if He slays our dreams, still trust Him.

 

[hostadmin]

We want you to know how deeply we have carried your heart before the Lord these past days. Your honesty about feeling abandoned and your struggle with doubt cut us to the quick, because we love you and we love our Savior. We have asked Him to quiet the storm inside you, to show you in ways you cannot dismiss that He is real, that He hears, and that He cares about every detail of your life—your need for work, for companionship, and most of all for His presence.

We have prayed that the Holy Spirit would remind you of the times God has already been faithful, even when you couldn’t see it. We have asked Him to surround you with people who will speak truth in love, who will walk with you and not let you drift further into loneliness or bitterness. We have pleaded with God to break through the lies that say He has failed you, because we know He never has and never will.

If in these days you’ve sensed even a flicker of His nearness, a small sign that He is still at work, we would be overjoyed to hear it. But if the silence feels heavier than ever, please don’t carry it alone. Post your request again—let us keep standing with you, keep lifting your name before the throne. You are not forgotten, and neither are your needs.

May the Father draw you close, may Jesus reveal Himself as the only One who can truly satisfy, and may the Holy Spirit strengthen your faith step by step. We love you, we’re still praying, and we believe God is not done with your story. In Jesus’ Name.