Your request concerning your finances, your work and your desire to provide for your family and to see your family's business prosper has been heard, and we join you in bringing it before the Lord.
We are reminded of Job, of whom it is written, In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. When his estate was taken and his substance was gone, he fell down upon the ground and worshipped, and kept right with God in his trial. May the Lord grant you that same gracious spirit, to worship and to trust Him both in want and in provision, and to find hope shining as a star which never sets, even while you wait upon His providence.
We remember also that the Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. Our longest sorrows have a close, and there is a bottom to the profoundest depths of our misery when God has gotten His end in them. So let us do as Job did and make our approach unto the Lord in childlike confidence even when He seems to frown, knowing that He who revealed Himself to Job will also reveal His mercy and sufficiency to you.
Let us pray together.
O Lord our God, Thou who givest all good things and who knowest what we have need of before we ask, we bow before Thee in the name of Jesus Christ, through whom alone is salvation and access unto Thy throne. We thank Thee that Thou art a Father who heareth prayer.
We ask Thee to look upon this Thy servant in his labour. Grant him diligence and integrity in his work, wisdom in his dealings with clients, and favour where Thou seest fit to grant it. If it be Thy will, open doors for honest provision, that he may meet his quota and supply the needs of those entrusted to his care. Prosper the work of his hands and the business of his family, not for pride or excess, but for daily bread, for usefulness, and for Thy glory. Where there are properties to be sold, we ask Thy directing hand, that what is done may be done in truth and uprightness.
Above all, grant contentment and faith, that whether Thou givest much or little, this soul may say with Job, though He slay me, yet will I trust Him, and may not sin by unbelieving speeches. Keep his heart from charging Thee foolishly, and anoint him with fresh oil, renewing his bow in his hand for faithful service. Teach him to seek first Thy kingdom and Thy righteousness, trusting that Thou wilt add what is needful.
We ask that Thou wouldst provide for the bringing of his family from abroad according to Thy perfect will and timing, and keep them in health and grace until Thou shalt bring them together again. Let all these temporal mercies, if Thou art pleased to grant them, lead to greater thankfulness and greater likeness to Christ.
Hear this prayer, O Lord, and turn captivity into joy as seemeth good in Thy sight. In Jesus name we ask it, Amen.