Prayer request

[Gideon_Narayanan]

We have paid a very huge lumsum amount to a person for House Lease. More than 17 months have been passed, the wicked person & his wife have not yet returned the full amount with Bank Interest to us. We are praying to our God through the name of Jesus that the wicked person and his wife return the full amount with Bank Interest to us without any loss. We have taken Gold Loan for this Lease House and the interest is already increased and increasing day by day and which is a huge amount to be paid by us and it is very very difficult to repay the Gold Loan amount and interest to Banks.

The wicked person and his wife (both) are telling Lies and to hide one Lie, they are telling many more Lies. They are telling more lies to cover up a lie. We have met many times personally with the wicked person and his wife and explained over phone also our critical, problematic situation we are facing. Even though both the wicked person and his wife are telling more and more lies and purposely cheating us, they are not ready to return the full amount to us according to our critical situations.

If physical punishment is not able to give to the wicked, liar, cheater, fraud and his wife, then material punishment may be give to them. In case this is not able to give to the wicked, liar, cheater, fraud, then earthly consequences like sleepless night, mental disturbance, Loss of Peace, financial loss, family problems, Anxiety, Physical strain, sickness, Blockage in Success, Blessing Blockage, Inner emptyness etc., to be given by God to the wicked, liar, cheater, fraud and his wife enable them to repay our full amount with bank interest and after repent and turn to God. Without this earthly punishment, the wicked, Liar, cheater, fraud couples never ever repent and turn to God, since more than 17 months have been passed and the wicked couples not have the God Fear and they know very well that God will not do any kind of punishment for their sin. Moreover, they know very well that God will wait till their death for repent and turn to God. Also the wicked couples know very well that God will wait up to their death to forgive them until their earthly life time to repentance, that is up to their death. If not repent and turn to God, then not punishment will be given, but judgment will be given by God to them.

Due to that we are facing a lot of consequences and problems in and around us and within our family. Due to Injustice we are facing a lot of problems in the family itself. Misunderstanding of each other within our family. Financial burden. Sleepless, mental tension, restless, unwanted thinking, wrong thinking, deciding bad decisions, etc.

We are very much upset with the wicked person who has received our money (Amount) and not yet returned our full amount to us. Why is God slow in acting? Due delay in Justice by God, we are losing hope, faith with God.

We have enquired about the wicked person and his wife in around that area and everybody has confirmed that he & his wife are Number one fraud, cheater and cheated many persons like us and also cheated local government department also. Hence, they have shifted far away from their own house and nobody knows their address. Whatever he speaks everything is Lies only. With this property (House) both are cheating many persons to give their house for lease till now.

No Justice to me. Injustice!!! This matter should be very very serious which should be solved immediately or urgently. Paying interest to Bank is huge. Hence, My hope with God ends today. My faith with God also decreased to Zero.

Without punishment how will human realize their wickedness, cheating, Lies, fraud? Also how will the wicked person/s realize their wrongdoing and which is correct to do?. On what ground or on what basis will the wicked person and his wife fear with God? or How will they have fear of God? The wicked person/s have more opportunities or more provisions to do such kind of activities like cheating many more, fraud, more lies with false commitments then cheating, etc... without punishment in the earth up to their death.

“Why should I be honest if the wicked are never punished?” - But not only myself but also my family is punished by many ways like financially, mentally, physically. We are suffering because of our honesty. No repentance, no turn to God, which is human nature without a severe punishment to the wicked person and his wife on earth. After death only final judgement, which is of no use to anybody. Or otherwise at the time of going to death i.e. after the life age is over, then only he will be punished and that is also of no use to anybody. Till that period he will again and again cheat many persons and spoil their lives. Also the honest persons' family will be destroyed against this wicked person and his wife.

God's Time is Perfect, but God's Time will be after 1000 years and that means after death only Justice!!! That means the wicked, fraud, and cheater will get Judgment after their death.

Then how can anybody put faith with God?. On what basis will human have put faith with God?. Without any good things happening, on what basis can anybody put faith with God?.

No Hope with our God. No Faith with our God.

The wicked person/s are not believing that God is there thats way they are doing cheating, fraud & forgery, theft, since God is Nowhere and they cannot get any kind of punishment will be in the earth. It is sure that without a severe punishment God to the wicked person and his wife WILL NOT REPENT AND TURN TO OUR GOD, since the both the wicked person and his wife is under control of Satan.

The Satan already stealing our peace, our faith, and even our hope in God’s goodness via this wicked person and his wife by the way of cheating, Lies, fraud, theft. Why has God not fought with the Wicked person/s and given punishment to both of them to enable their Satan (who is activating within the wicked person and his wife's heart) and the Satan's plan be destroyed by giving big punishment to the wicked by God.

(a) Physical Punishment - to be severe to the wicked person and his wife which is lifelong (up to death) suffering.
(b) Physical Punishment - if the wicked person & his wife are working, then his job should be lost and never should he get any job up to death.
(c) Physical Punishment - the wicked person & his wife's tongue should be decayed or cut-off, then only they cannot be able to tell lies, cheat.
(d) Physical Punishment - the wicked person & his wife's both hands to be cut-down or paralyzed or never should it be useful up to death. They have counted the money with these hands.
(e) Physical Punishment - the wicked person & his wife's son and daughter's education should be spoiled, because they are using the cheating money for their education.
(f) Material Punishment - the wicked person & his wife's own house should fall down in the ground/earth and be fully destroyed/demolished.
(g) Material Punishment - if the wicked person & his wife are doing/running a business, then heavy financial loss should occur.

God has to do the above, then only the wicked person and his wife will realize their mistakes, lies, cheating, fraud are sins and they will repent and turn to God.

(2) Members of our family have to get permanent jobs in government or public sector as per their educational qualifications. Till getting permanent jobs, God has to provide temporary jobs in Govt./PSU for another member.

(3) Marriage - For Family member: God has to show or give the identity of a better bridegroom who will be a doctor with better earnings or an engineer who is working in Govt./PSU with better earnings and with GOOD HABITS and no bad habits according to the Bible and marriage should occur at the earliest according to our God's time & will.

(4) My family member has attended a very important state government recruitment examination. Please pray that he gets this job position to enable him to glorify our God and explain regarding our God to the patients.

(5) We have to provide employment opportunities to educated & non-educated persons.

(6) We have to provide education to poor persons.

Why God not fight with the Wicked person/s and given punishment to both of them to enable the Satan and his plan be destroyed?

Also, no prayer requests are fulfilled (2 TO 6 also). Nothing is answered well. When will human keep faith? If any supernatural things happen or any promises given by anybody and which are to be fulfilled or done. But in my case nothing is fulfilled/solved/completed/success. In that case how can I believe God? On what ground do I have to put faith in God? Up to what time do I have to keep faith with God? How can you determine God's Time? How can you say God's Time is perfect? On what ground is God's Time Perfect? When will God's Time come?

You say God is the Judge!!! God will do the Justice!!! Also Provider!!! God is Powerful!!! If this is right, then why is our amount not arranged by God by the Liar, Cheater to us? Or returned the full amount without any loss to us by the wicked person/s? If God is maintaining Justice, then why should I seek through Legally? Why should I go to Court? Why should I believe or put faith in Human? That means you want to convey to me that God is now Powerless, Not Judge, in His Kingdom Injustice. God is Merciless!!! God is Graceless!! God cannot do anything on Earth? Judgement will be after the death of the wicked persons!!! God is not faithful!!!

I was keeping faith till now. But unfortunately, I have been forced to inform the above due to lack of Justice from God. Injustice is given to me and our family by God to suffer because of our Honesty. Honesty is not the best policy to live in Christianity that I have learned for the past 17 months. I was 100% faith with God that He can do anything for me and He will fight with the enemies, Liar, Cheater, Fraud. But God will not fight up to the death of Cheater, Fraud, Liar's but final judgment will be give after death of the Liar, Cheater, Fraud. God have given a big punishment to my wife and due to that our entire family is suffering. Why God have given punishment to her? Nobody's knows but why God have not given punishment to the Lier, Cheater, fraud who have cheated us and telling lies lies whenever he & her wife open their mouths. The Lier, Cheater, fraud is enjoying like anything but honest and God's Lover, Beliver of God is suffering due to their God's Faith. If believer is suffering and getting punishment, then why should we pray with God ? why we have to keep faith with God? If none of the requests are fulfilled, then where is God? Keeping faith with God may suffer more and more and getting punishment and more and more punishment till death, but till death the Lier, cheater, fraud will prosper and if punishment or final judgement will be given to the Lier, cheater, fraud after their death, then what is the witness in the earth and which will be encourgement for the Lier, Cheater and fraud in the earth upto their death.

 

[Articles]

We have heard your heavy burden and we are standing with you before the throne of grace in the name of Jesus, for it is only through His name that we have access to the Father and it is only by His name that we are saved. As it is written, Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. John 14:6 and There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved. Acts 4:12. We thank you that you have called upon the name of Jesus in your distress, and we join our faith with yours, even as you feel your faith has fallen to zero.

We lift before the Lord your deep financial wound. For more than seventeen months you entrusted a very large lump sum for a house lease, you took a gold loan to do so, and the interest grows daily and is crushing your family. The persons who received it have not returned the full amount with rightful interest, they have hidden themselves, they speak lies to cover lies, and you have learned they have done this to many others. We understand your sleeplessness, mental tension, restless thoughts, misunderstandings in the family and the feeling that honesty is being punished while dishonesty prospers. The Lord sees this. He is not blind to injustice. As it is written, Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him. Isaiah 30:18 and The wicked borrow, and do not pay back, but the righteous give generously. Psalm 37:21. We pray together that God in His mercy would move upon the hearts of this man and his wife to repent and to restore what they have taken, with what is just and due, and that He would provide for you a way out of the gold loan burden. We ask the Lord to give you wisdom, favor, and lawful means to seek recovery, for God has ordained governing authorities to maintain justice in the earth. Romans 13:1-4. We encourage you to continue to seek godly counsel and lawful help to document what is owed and to pursue every peaceful and legal avenue, for that is not a lack of faith but a right use of the means God has provided.

We must also speak to you in love about the desire for severe punishment upon this couple and even upon their children. We understand the pain that has driven you to pray for lifelong suffering, loss of work, decaying of tongue, cutting off of hands, destruction of their house and business, and spoiling of their children's education. Yet this is not the heart of Christ for us to pray. Vengeance belongs to the Lord alone, and He has commanded us not to repay evil for evil nor to curse those who have wronged us. As it is written, Avenge not yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord. Romans 12:19 and But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you. Matthew 5:44. The soul who sins, he shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father. Ezekiel 18:20. To pray for harm to come upon their son and daughter for the parents' fraud is not according to Scripture, for children are not to be punished for their parents' sin. We must rebuke that desire and ask God to forgive us for wishing such harm, and instead we pray as Jesus taught us to pray for those who have cheated us, that God would bring them to conviction, godly sorrow, repentance and restitution, and that Satan's hold upon them would be broken. We do not pray for their destruction but for their repentance, and for God's perfect justice to be done in His way, not through our curses.

We also hear your cry, why is God slow to act, why does justice delay, and how can we keep faith when no prayer seems answered. We gently remind you that God's apparent slowness is not powerlessness nor mercilessness. As it is written, The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9 and Yahweh's hand is not shortened, that it can't save. Isaiah 59:1. The prophet Habakkuk cried as you do about injustice, and the Lord answered that He is working even when we do not see it. Faith is not a transaction where God must answer on our timetable to prove He is faithful. Faith is trusting His character when circumstances are painful. As it is written, We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28 and Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don't fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen. Psalm 37:7. We pray that God would renew your hope, guard your hearts from despair, and lift the heavy burden of anxiety. As it is written, In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7. Your honesty is not in vain. The Lord honors integrity even when men do not.

We bring before the Lord also the other burdens on your heart. We pray for your family members seeking permanent work according to their qualifications, and for temporary provision in government or public sector employment until that door opens. We pray for the family member who attended the important state government recruitment examination, that if it is God's will, He would grant favor and that this position would be used to glorify God and to show His love to others. We pray for the desire you shared for marriage for your family member, that God would provide a godly bridegroom, a believing man of good habits and no bad habits, whether a doctor or an engineer or whatever vocation God ordains, but above all a man who loves the Lord and will lead a Christian marriage as a lifelong covenant between a man and a woman to honor Christ. We pray that this courtship would be pure, keeping itself from fornication and all impurity, looking to marriage with a fellow believer. As it is written, Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers. 2 Corinthians 6:14. We pray for your desire to provide employment opportunities to educated and non-educated persons and to provide education to the poor, that God would make you a blessing to many once He has lifted this present trial.

We pray now together. Father in heaven, in the name of Jesus Christ we come to You broken and burdened for this family. You see the debt, the gold loan, the rising interest, the lies spoken against them, and the weariness in their home. Lord, have mercy and make a way where there seems to be no way. Soften the hearts of this man and his wife, convict them of lying, cheating and fraud, bring them to repentance and to the fear of You, and move them to return what they owe quickly and justly. Provide for this family daily bread, wisdom to manage what they have, and peace that passes understanding. Forgive us for vengeful thoughts and teach us to love our enemies while trusting Your justice. Restore hope where faith feels like zero, remind them that You have not forsaken the righteous, Psalm 37:25, and that You are near to the brokenhearted. Open doors for lawful work, for the examination result, for a godly marriage in Your perfect time, and for opportunities to help others. We ask all this not because we deserve it, but because You are gracious and faithful, and we trust Your time is perfect even when we cannot see it. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We hear how heavy these seventeen months have been for you and your family. Carrying a large lease amount that has not been returned, watching gold loan interest grow each day, and being met with lies when you have tried to talk honestly would wear anyone down. It makes sense that you feel sleepless, tense, and discouraged, and that misunderstandings have grown at home under that pressure.

When financial strain goes on this long it does not stay in one area. It piles up and touches sleep, health, mood, and how family members relate to each other. You are not weak for feeling shaken, and losing hope does not mean you are forgotten. We want to walk with you in prayer while you also get steady support around you.

In a situation like this it can help to not carry it alone:

If the sleeplessness and strain continue, please see your own doctor or counselor alongside prayer, so your health is cared for.

It may also help to sit with a trusted pastor and a qualified local legal aid or financial counselor who can look at your lease papers and loan documents with you, help you keep a clear record of what was paid and promised, and talk through lawful next steps for seeking what is owed. A calm third person can also help family conversations feel less tangled.

We are praying for you.

Father, in Jesus' name we bring this family before You. You see the amount owed, the burden of the loan, and the exhaustion they feel. We ask for Your mercy and provision, for wisdom for each decision ahead, for protection over their health and unity at home, and for a just and lawful resolution. Lift their hope and help them know Your nearness day by day. Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

Your heavy burden has been heard, and the long trial of more than seventeen months, with the weight of a gold loan and increasing interest, the strain upon your family, sleeplessness and anxiety, and the pain of being deceived by those who speak falsehood, is indeed a great affliction. It is right that you have brought this sorrow before the Lord, for He hears the cry of those who are oppressed and He is not indifferent to injustice.

Scripture teaches that God is both merciful and just, and that He will by no means clear the guilty, yet His justice is not ours to dictate nor His vengeance ours to command. The desire for severe bodily harm to befall these persons and even their children, that their tongues should be cut off, their hands paralyzed, their house destroyed and their children’s education spoiled, is not a prayer which Christ puts into the mouth of His people. Vengeance belongs to the Lord, and He says, I will repay. We are commanded to pray for those who have wronged us that God would bring them to repentance and to faith in Jesus Christ, through whom alone there is salvation, and to leave the manner and measure of justice in His wise hands. To ask for mutilation or for suffering upon innocent children is contrary to the mind of Christ, who prayed for His enemies, Father, forgive them. We cannot join you in asking God for such punishments, but we can and do pray that God would convict these persons of sin, that they would cease from lying and cheating, that they would make restitution of what is owed with lawful interest, and that they would turn to the Lord in repentance and faith, for without faith in Christ no man is saved.

You ask why God seems slow and whether honesty is in vain because the wicked prosper while the honest suffer. The psalmist wrestled with the same question until he went into the sanctuary of God and understood their end. Little faith forgets her Lord and speaks unreasonably, saying why do you doubt when you have a strong Christ and an unwavering promise. Faith is not the denial of trouble but the dropping down into the arms of a faithful Saviour who is strong to save. Great faith prays and prevails not by prescribing to God how He must act, but by trusting His character and His Word. God is not slow as men count slowness, but patient, and His time is indeed perfect because it is ordered by infinite wisdom and love, though it often throws us back entirely upon His omnipotence and compels a passionate appeal to Him.

God has not left you without remedy on earth. He has ordained lawful authorities for the punishment of wrongdoers and the protection of the oppressed. If you have not already done so, seek godly counsel and pursue what is lawful and orderly to recover what is owed, keeping records, seeking mediation and, if needful, the help of the courts, which are ministers of God for justice in this present age. To seek justice by lawful means is not a lack of faith in God, but a proper use of the means He has provided.

We understand also the other burdens you have named, and we bring them before the throne of grace according to the will of God. We pray that the Lord in His providence would make a way for the debt to be restored without loss, that He would provide for your daily needs and give wisdom to those who lend and to those who owe, that He would grant peace within your household where misunderstanding has entered, and guard your minds from restless and wrong thinking. We pray that He would open doors of honest work for the members of your family, whether permanent or temporary, as He sees best, and that the member who has sat for the state government examination would have that outcome which most glorifies God and best serves others, including the patients you mention. For marriage, we pray that the Lord would provide, in His time, a husband who walks in faith toward Christ and in purity of life according to Scripture, for marriage is a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, and sex and living together belong within it, and that such a union would be marked by good habits and no bad habits as defined by the Bible. We pray also that you may be enabled to help others with employment and to provide education to the poor as God gives ability, not in your own strength but as stewards of His grace.

Do not let go of faith because answers have not yet come as you hoped. Without faith it is impossible to please God, for he that comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. The shield of faith protects the whole man when Satan assaults with doubt and with unsettled notions, but that shield must be of Heaven's forging, fixed not on our own desires but on the Person of Christ, God over all blessed forever, who was sacrificed for us. Repentance and faith are twins, and the repentance God commands is born with faith in Christ.

Therefore cast your whole weight upon Christ again. Confess before Him any bitter or vengeful thoughts, ask Him to cleanse you by His blood which cleanses from all sin, and ask Him for a teachable spirit that will sit at the feet of Jesus and submit to God's thoughts rather than to our own. Pray not only for deliverance from the hand of the oppressor but for deliverance from the oppression of unbelief itself. The Lord who preserved His Word century after century and who rejoices over one sinner that repents is able to make even this hard stage a place where His grace does wonders.

We pray now that the God of all comfort would keep you from deciding in haste, that He would give you sleep and quietness of mind, that He would restrain the wicked from further deceit, that He would incline the hearts of those who owe you to speak truth and to repay what is just, and above all that you and your household would be found among God's people, not by your honesty alone, but by being washed in the blood of Jesus Christ and justified before God. May the Lord enable you to pray in faith, believing that He certainly hears, and to wait upon Him with patience until you see His glory.

We will continue to pray that the Lord would act in righteousness and mercy, for your family and for those who have wronged you, that justice may be done on earth as He wills and that souls may be saved for eternity.

 

[usha rani]

Praying for this in Jesus Name.

 

[Jonathan_M]

Praying in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[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, the way You want me to know You. So that I will trust You with my life and anyway that You move in my life. Bless me to trust You with all my heart, lean not to my own understanding, acknowledge You in all my ways, and allow You to direct my footsteps and actions. 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]

Your sorrow and the heavy weight you have carried for more than seventeen months have been heard. The loss of a large sum given for a house lease, the growing interest on the gold loan, the repeated lies and cheating by this man and his wife, and the strain this has placed on your family have created real financial burden, sleeplessness, mental tension and misunderstanding at home. It is right to bring this injustice before God and to seek His help, and we will pray with you.

At the same time we must speak clearly about the way we pray. You have asked God to bring severe physical and material punishment upon this couple and even upon their children, that their tongues would decay, their hands be cut off or paralyzed, their house fall, their jobs be lost forever and their children's education be spoiled. We cannot pray in that way and we cannot ask God to do those things. Scripture says vengeance belongs to the Lord and He will repay, and we are commanded to love our enemies and pray for those who mistreat us, desiring their repentance and salvation, not their mutilation or the harm of their children. To ask for the destruction of their family would itself be sin, and God does not hear prayers that ask Him to sin on our behalf. What we can and will pray is that God would bring justice, that He would restrain further fraud, that He would bring this man and his wife to see their sin, to repent and to turn to Christ, and that they would make full restitution of what they have taken, with lawful interest, as the law of God requires. If a thief is to be restored, he must restore what he has taken, and true repentance shows itself in such restitution.

You ask why God seems slow and whether faith is in vain because the wicked appear to prosper while the honest suffer. The Scriptures teach that God's patience is not powerlessness and not approval of injustice. He is patient because He desires repentance, but His patience does not mean He will never judge. There is both a judgment now, through conscience, through the courts He has ordained, and through the discipline of the church, and a final judgment to come. For this reason He has given order in the church and in the civil authorities. The Lord has set tribunals, first the personal appeal, then witnesses, then the church, and He has also ordained the governing authorities to punish wrongdoing. To seek help through lawful means, to document what was paid, to seek wise legal counsel and to appeal to the proper authorities is not a lack of faith. It is one of the ways God brings justice in this age. Faith does not mean we sit idle while fraud continues. It means we do what is right and trust God with the outcome.

Your letter also says your faith has fallen to zero because prayers numbered two through six have not yet been answered as you hoped, and you wonder on what basis anyone can trust God if He does not act immediately. Faith is not proven by whether God grants every request exactly when and how we ask. As one homily reminds us, Peter did not sink because the wind was too strong but because his faith wavered. When he looked at the wind he doubted, and doubting he began to sink. The wind was still blowing after Christ took his hand, to show that no harm comes when faith is steadfast. In the same way, sound faith does not add conditions to God or demand a sign before it will trust Him. It believes that God is faithful even when we do not yet see the answer, and it shows itself in a right life. To be mature in faith is to hold fast to Christ and to do what is right even while we wait.

That waiting is painful, and God knows the anxiety, the restless thoughts and the wrong decisions that come from long pressure. The shield that guards us in such fire is faith, and anger and bitterness are quenched not by cursing others but by patience and endurance. Do not let the sin of this couple become a root of bitterness in you that steals your peace. Satan indeed seeks to steal peace and hope through injustice, but he is overcome not by asking God to destroy people, but by standing firm in faith, by prayer, by honesty and by patient endurance.

We will pray for you in the way Scripture directs.

We will pray that God in His mercy would move this man and his wife to repentance and to full repayment without loss to you, and that He would protect others from being cheated in the same way. We will pray that God would restrain their lying and fraud and bring their deeds to light.

We will pray that God would provide for your family under this heavy debt, grant you wisdom for every financial decision, relieve the burden of the gold loan interest, and give you peace that guards your mind in Christ.

We will pray for the employment needs you mentioned, that God would open lawful and fitting work according to each member's qualifications, whether temporary provision now or permanent work in due time, according to His will.

We will pray for the marriage of your family member, that God would provide a godly spouse of good character, whether doctor or engineer or otherwise, whose habits are according to Scripture, and that the marriage would be in the Lord and in God's timing.

We will pray for your family member who sat for the state government recruitment examination, that God would grant favor according to His wisdom and that whatever position is given would be used to serve others and to honor Christ.

We will pray that God would enable you, as He provides, to help educated and non educated persons with employment and to help the poor with education, as you desire to do.

And we will pray that your hope and faith would be renewed, not because every answer comes at once, but because Christ Himself is faithful, He has called you to a heavenly country, and He will not abandon those who trust Him.

Continue to be honest, for honesty is the right way even when the dishonest seem to escape for a time. Do not think that because judgment is not immediate there will be no judgment. Keep records of all transactions, seek godly counsel and lawful help without delay, and keep praying not for the destruction of sinners but for justice and for their salvation. The Lord sees, He is the Judge, and He is also the Provider who knows your need.