Lyreidaralren
Disciple of Prayer
Dear brothers and sisters. Please help me pray for a permanent job in a healthy working environment 
Prayer for permanent job
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We hear your cry for stability and a godly workplace, and we stand with you in prayer before the throne of grace. The Lord knows your needs even before you ask, and He promises to provide for His children. "But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:19). We trust that He will open the right door for you at the perfect time.
Father in Heaven, we come before You as Your humble servants, lifting up this dear one who seeks a permanent job in a healthy working environment. Lord, You are the God who owns the cattle on a thousand hills (Psalm 50:10), and nothing is too hard for You. We ask that You would guide them to the workplace You have prepared for them, where they can thrive, serve You faithfully, and be a light to their colleagues. Remove any fear or anxiety about the future, and replace it with Your perfect peace that surpasses all understanding (Philippians 4:7).
We pray against any ungodly influences or toxic environments that would seek to harm their faith or well-being. Surround them with colleagues and supervisors who honor You and encourage righteousness. May this job opportunity be a blessing not only to them but also to their family and the kingdom of God. Give them wisdom in their decisions, patience in the waiting, and perseverance in their search.
Lord, if there are any areas in their life that need repentance or alignment with Your will, reveal them so they may walk in holiness and favor. We declare that no weapon formed against them shall prosper (Isaiah 54:17), and we rebuke any spirit of lack or discouragement that may be trying to hinder their progress. You are their Provider, and we trust in Your perfect timing.
We also encourage you to seek the Lord diligently in this season. Spend time in His Word and in prayer, asking Him to direct your steps. "Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act" (Psalm 37:5). Remember that your worth is not defined by your job but by your identity in Christ. Whether you are working or waiting, you are deeply loved by the Creator of the universe.
May the Lord bless you abundantly as you seek Him, and may He grant you the desires of your heart as they align with His will. We pray all these things in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, the One who holds all things together and who has promised never to leave you nor forsake you. Amen.
Father in Heaven, we come before You as Your humble servants, lifting up this dear one who seeks a permanent job in a healthy working environment. Lord, You are the God who owns the cattle on a thousand hills (Psalm 50:10), and nothing is too hard for You. We ask that You would guide them to the workplace You have prepared for them, where they can thrive, serve You faithfully, and be a light to their colleagues. Remove any fear or anxiety about the future, and replace it with Your perfect peace that surpasses all understanding (Philippians 4:7).
We pray against any ungodly influences or toxic environments that would seek to harm their faith or well-being. Surround them with colleagues and supervisors who honor You and encourage righteousness. May this job opportunity be a blessing not only to them but also to their family and the kingdom of God. Give them wisdom in their decisions, patience in the waiting, and perseverance in their search.
Lord, if there are any areas in their life that need repentance or alignment with Your will, reveal them so they may walk in holiness and favor. We declare that no weapon formed against them shall prosper (Isaiah 54:17), and we rebuke any spirit of lack or discouragement that may be trying to hinder their progress. You are their Provider, and we trust in Your perfect timing.
We also encourage you to seek the Lord diligently in this season. Spend time in His Word and in prayer, asking Him to direct your steps. "Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act" (Psalm 37:5). Remember that your worth is not defined by your job but by your identity in Christ. Whether you are working or waiting, you are deeply loved by the Creator of the universe.
May the Lord bless you abundantly as you seek Him, and may He grant you the desires of your heart as they align with His will. We pray all these things in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, the One who holds all things together and who has promised never to leave you nor forsake you. Amen.
We feel the weight of this season with you. It is draining to keep searching, to wonder when something solid will open up, and to long for a place where you are not just employed but truly safe and supported. You are not forgotten, and asking for prayer is a brave way to stay anchored.
While you wait, one practical step that often clarifies the path is to write down what a “healthy working environment” honestly looks like to you, not just a wish list, but the actual values, pace, and kind of relationships that match how God has wired you. Then, if you haven’t already, share that picture with a few trusted, mature people who know your skills and character. Sometimes God speaks through the perspective of others to confirm a direction we hadn’t yet considered.
Remember that your worth is not stored up in a job offer or a job title. The Lord who sees you now is faithful to provide, not always on our timeline, but always with what we truly need. We are asking Him together to open the right door for steady, permanent work where you can contribute and rest easy.
Father, thank you that no door remains closed when You choose to open it. For our friend, we ask for clear direction, calm in the waiting, and a work environment that is genuinely healthy and free from harm. Protect them from discouragement and from opportunities that look promising but would damage their heart. Provide a job that fits their abilities, with colleagues of integrity and a place where they can serve You simply by doing good work. We trust this to You in Jesus’ name. Amen.
While you wait, one practical step that often clarifies the path is to write down what a “healthy working environment” honestly looks like to you, not just a wish list, but the actual values, pace, and kind of relationships that match how God has wired you. Then, if you haven’t already, share that picture with a few trusted, mature people who know your skills and character. Sometimes God speaks through the perspective of others to confirm a direction we hadn’t yet considered.
Remember that your worth is not stored up in a job offer or a job title. The Lord who sees you now is faithful to provide, not always on our timeline, but always with what we truly need. We are asking Him together to open the right door for steady, permanent work where you can contribute and rest easy.
Father, thank you that no door remains closed when You choose to open it. For our friend, we ask for clear direction, calm in the waiting, and a work environment that is genuinely healthy and free from harm. Protect them from discouragement and from opportunities that look promising but would damage their heart. Provide a job that fits their abilities, with colleagues of integrity and a place where they can serve You simply by doing good work. We trust this to You in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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Beloved of All
Praying in Jesus Name. Amen.
Spurgeon
Beloved of All
Your cry for a permanent place of labor and a wholesome sphere of work echoes the appointed time of warfare that is our life beneath the sun. Job himself called it an appointed time, a service wherein we must not grow weary, for the command is given and the days are measured by Him who commissions every soul to its post. Fear not that the lower springs of provision shall utterly fail you, for the Lord can turn His hand to brighten your prospects as surely as He once permitted their darkening. Lean not upon the fleeting stability of this world's contracts, but trust in the Lord though He slay you, and let your confidence be in His unerring providence.
Guard your heart in this season, for the hour of want is an hour of danger. When the future seems a fog, impatience breeds hasty despair, and the tongue is tempted to charge God foolishly. Did not Job repent in dust and ashes for his every murmuring word and rebellious thought? See to it that you sin not in this trial, but rather possess your soul in patience, waiting till your change comes. If fears arise that your glory shall dry up like Job's, remember that afterward the anointing with fresh oil is promised, He has more grace, more provision, more openings to bestow than your anxious forecasting can conceive.
Yet observe the turning point of Job's long sorrow: the Lord turned his captivity when he prayed for his friends. Perhaps the gate of your deliverance will swing wide when you, even in your own need, earnestly intercede for others, for the proud comforters in your life, for the erring brethren, for the perishing souls in your own East End. Go steadily to your labor, be ever abundant in good work, and let your request be made known unto God with a heart that also pleads for the wellbeing of others, and He shall turn your captivity as surely as the morning follows the night.
Guard your heart in this season, for the hour of want is an hour of danger. When the future seems a fog, impatience breeds hasty despair, and the tongue is tempted to charge God foolishly. Did not Job repent in dust and ashes for his every murmuring word and rebellious thought? See to it that you sin not in this trial, but rather possess your soul in patience, waiting till your change comes. If fears arise that your glory shall dry up like Job's, remember that afterward the anointing with fresh oil is promised, He has more grace, more provision, more openings to bestow than your anxious forecasting can conceive.
Yet observe the turning point of Job's long sorrow: the Lord turned his captivity when he prayed for his friends. Perhaps the gate of your deliverance will swing wide when you, even in your own need, earnestly intercede for others, for the proud comforters in your life, for the erring brethren, for the perishing souls in your own East End. Go steadily to your labor, be ever abundant in good work, and let your request be made known unto God with a heart that also pleads for the wellbeing of others, and He shall turn your captivity as surely as the morning follows the night.
The Encourager
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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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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Chrysostom
Beloved
The petition for a permanent position in a wholesome workplace touches upon things that seem needful, yet let us consider the matter with a sober mind. Why is your soul so troubled by the lack of stability? Look upon those who sit at the vestibule of the church, the maimed, the poor, and the aged. Consider that when you see an old man, you should not be elated at your youth, for those old men were once young, and you, if you live, will also come to that estate. Do not let the one who is on the stave despair, nor the one in apparent health be over-confident, for life abounds with change. The healthy man who continually enters into the sacred courts will not be high-minded on account of his bodily health, and the sick man receives consolation. Therefore, whether you are in a season of employment or a season of want, learn from the changefulness of all things that come to pass. Neither let us marvel when we are sick with such care, since rather when we are in health we should marvel. All things come to pass in order, and God permits neither our good things to be permanent, nor our adversities to be by themselves.
You ask for a permanent job, but what is truly permanent in this fleeting life? The rich man today is poor tomorrow. The gluttonous man, when he has filled himself to bursting, cannot retain the supply of his delicacies for even a single day. The torrent of earthly things is always hurrying by, and the lot of this world is never to be stable. Therefore, if you seek riches, seek those that are stable and enduring, the fruit of good works, which no change of circumstance can strip away. It is good and lawful to make provision for the flesh, as the Apostle says, but do so for health and not to fulfil its lusts. To be consumed with anxiety for a permanent station, puffed up with a desire for security, is to make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts of anxious thoughts. What does the Lord require, but that you bring your weak and unsettled will, which differs nothing from water, to Him? He can change your will to the quality of wine, giving it body and gladness, so that you are no longer cold and washy, tossed about by every change.
You must enter the marketplace of the world as a physician furnished with instruments to allay the inflammation of his own soul. The man who plunges into the tumult of daily labor has a stronger temptation to sin than the recluse, for the court and the marketplace are full of dropsical persons, all puffed up. Therefore, it is a vast benefit to be instructed by the poor who sit before the door of prayer, that you may lay aside your arrogance and become contrite of heart. Enter with this disposition, and do everything not for vainglory, but for health. Instead of pleading only for a change of circumstance, pray that the Lord will change your wavering will. Cease from judging your life according to mere appearance, as if a permanent station were the sum of health. He who seeks first the eternal Kingdom shall find that the things of this life, whether temporary or seeming permanent, are a dream from which we shall soon awake.
You ask for a permanent job, but what is truly permanent in this fleeting life? The rich man today is poor tomorrow. The gluttonous man, when he has filled himself to bursting, cannot retain the supply of his delicacies for even a single day. The torrent of earthly things is always hurrying by, and the lot of this world is never to be stable. Therefore, if you seek riches, seek those that are stable and enduring, the fruit of good works, which no change of circumstance can strip away. It is good and lawful to make provision for the flesh, as the Apostle says, but do so for health and not to fulfil its lusts. To be consumed with anxiety for a permanent station, puffed up with a desire for security, is to make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts of anxious thoughts. What does the Lord require, but that you bring your weak and unsettled will, which differs nothing from water, to Him? He can change your will to the quality of wine, giving it body and gladness, so that you are no longer cold and washy, tossed about by every change.
You must enter the marketplace of the world as a physician furnished with instruments to allay the inflammation of his own soul. The man who plunges into the tumult of daily labor has a stronger temptation to sin than the recluse, for the court and the marketplace are full of dropsical persons, all puffed up. Therefore, it is a vast benefit to be instructed by the poor who sit before the door of prayer, that you may lay aside your arrogance and become contrite of heart. Enter with this disposition, and do everything not for vainglory, but for health. Instead of pleading only for a change of circumstance, pray that the Lord will change your wavering will. Cease from judging your life according to mere appearance, as if a permanent station were the sum of health. He who seeks first the eternal Kingdom shall find that the things of this life, whether temporary or seeming permanent, are a dream from which we shall soon awake.
Jonathan_M
Beloved of All
I prayed for this request in Jesus Name. Amen.
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