Prayer request

[Gideon_Narayanan]

We have paid a very huge lumsum amount to a person for House Lease. More than 18 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 received an offer of appointment in a national importance / reputed government institution. Please pray that he has to join without any problem, hinderance, hurdles, obstacles this new job position to enable him to glorify our God and explain regarding our God to the patients. And also to relieve from the hospital / institution without any problem with anybody or any departments and without any loss of salary / amount, any loss of leave and any loss of monetary benefits and get relieve from service at the earliest and without any problems, obstacles from the working / existing hospital.

(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 cry and we share in your deep distress over this heavy financial burden and the injustice you have suffered, and we join with you in seeking God's will together in Jesus' name. We understand the pain of having paid a very large lump sum for a house lease more than eighteen months ago and not having it returned with bank interest, especially while you carry the weight of a gold loan whose interest grows daily and brings sleeplessness, mental tension, financial pressure and misunderstanding within your family. We know you have personally pleaded with this man and his wife many times and by phone, explaining your critical situation, and that they have responded with lies covering lies and deliberate dishonesty, and that others have confirmed they have defrauded many and even government departments. This is a grievous sin before God and we do not minimize the wrong done to you.

We also hear your anguish in saying your hope and faith in God have fallen to zero and asking why God is slow to act, and we want to speak truth to that pain with gentleness. God is not indifferent to dishonesty. The Lord has said, You shall not steal, neither shall you deal falsely, neither lie one to another, Leviticus 19:11, and A false witness shall not be unpunished, Proverbs 19:5, and Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, Proverbs 12:22. He sees every lie and every act of cheating. Yet we must also with love rebuke and correct the desire expressed for severe physical and material punishments to be dictated to God, that their tongues be decayed or cut off, their hands be cut or paralyzed, that they lose jobs forever, that their house be demolished, that heavy financial loss and lifelong suffering come upon them, and especially that their son and daughter's education be spoiled. Scripture is clear that vengeance belongs to God and not to us, for it is written, Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord, Romans 12:19 and also Vengeance is mine, and recompense, Deuteronomy 32:35, Hebrews 10:30. The Lord Jesus taught us, 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. To ask God to harm innocent children for the sins of their parents is contrary to God's justice, for The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son, Ezekiel 18:20, and Jesus said, Allow the little children to come to me, Matthew 19:14. We are to pray for their repentance, not for their destruction, because God desires all people to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth, 1 Timothy 2:4, and 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.

We understand the temptation to think that without severe earthly punishment no one will fear God or repent, and that God's justice only comes after death and is therefore of no use now. But God does act in this life, He does discipline, He does bring consequences, and He does hear the oppressed. Yahweh also will be a high tower for the oppressed, a high tower in times of trouble, Psalm 9:9. He does execute justice, though His timing is not ours. We are called to wait with trust, Wait for Yahweh, be strong, let your heart take courage, yes, wait for Yahweh, Psalm 27:14, and Those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength, Isaiah 40:31. When we say why should I be honest if the wicked are never punished, we echo the psalmist, yet the word says, Don't fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness, for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, Psalm 37:1-2. Your honesty is not in vain, God sees it and honors it even when men exploit it. Do not let Satan, who comes to steal and destroy, steal your peace and faith through this trial. Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you, 1 Peter 5:7, and 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.

We also gently correct the thought that losing hope and faith is the answer to delayed justice. Faith is not based on immediate repayment but on the character of God who is faithful. Though the fig tree doesn't blossom, yet I will rejoice in Yahweh, Habakkuk 3:17-18, and Yahweh's loving kindnesses indeed never fail, for his compassions never fail, they are new every morning, great is your faithfulness, Lamentations 3:22-23. We thank you that you are praying through the name of Jesus, for there is no other name by which we can be saved and have access to the Father. 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. Hold fast to that name even when your heart is weary.

We encourage you in practical wisdom while you pray. God has ordained authorities to restrain evil, for rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil, Romans 13:3, so it is right and biblical to pursue lawful means to seek the return of what is owed, to keep careful records, seek godly counsel, and if needed use proper legal channels without resorting to personal vengeance or threats. Continue to be honest in all things, as we desire to live honorably, Hebrews 13:18, and trust God to provide for your family even as the gold loan weighs heavily, for My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus, Philippians 4:19. Do not repay evil for evil, but overcome evil with good, Romans 12:21.

We now pray together.

Heavenly Father, we come before You in the name of Jesus Christ Your Son, our only mediator and hope of salvation, and we lift up this family who are burdened by debt, anxiety, sleepless nights and strife because a large sum given for a house lease has not been returned. Lord, You see the lies and the cheating and You hate dishonesty, and we ask that You would move in righteousness. We pray that You would convict the heart of this man and his wife, that they would fear You, repent of lying and fraud, and turn from their wicked ways to You while there is still time. We ask that You would soften their hearts to return the full amount with rightful bank interest without further loss or delay, and that You would restrain them from defrauding others again. Father, we surrender vengeance to You, we do not ask for mutilation or for harm to their children, but we ask for Your just and merciful discipline that leads to repentance, and for Your perfect justice in Your perfect time. For this family, we pray for Your peace that surpasses understanding to guard their hearts, for restoration of faith and hope, for deliverance from sleeplessness and wrong thinking, for unity within the family, and for wisdom to make good decisions under pressure. Provide for their financial need, make a way to repay the gold loan, open doors for honest provision and for employment according to their qualifications, whether temporary or permanent, and sustain them daily. Help them to wait on You with courage and not to lose heart, and to forgive as Christ forgave us while still seeking what is right through lawful means. Let Your name be glorified in both justice and mercy. We ask all this in the precious name of Jesus, our Savior and Lord, amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We have been sitting with your request and the weight you have carried for more than eighteen months. Waiting for a large lease amount to be returned while gold loan interest grows every day would press on anyone, and we can hear how it has brought sleepless nights, mental strain, and misunderstanding inside your family. It is painful to be honest and still see your household suffer.

It makes sense that your hope and faith feel worn thin when the people who owe you keep hiding behind more lies, and when other prayers for jobs, marriage and daily provision also seem unanswered. When justice feels slow, many believers find themselves asking where God is and how long they can keep trusting.

Alongside prayer, it can help to have steady, practical support so you do not carry the burden alone. If it is possible, gather every receipt, agreement and record of calls or meetings in one place, and ask a trusted local legal advisor or aid service what lawful steps are available in your area for recovering a lease amount. It may also help to speak directly with your bank or a reputable credit counseling service about whether any hardship or repayment options exist while you wait. A calm, knowledgeable person beside you can help sort the paperwork and next decisions.

We are holding you and your family before the Lord.

Father, in Jesus' name we lift this family to You. You see the debt, the pressure, and the ache for what is right to be done. Give them wisdom for each next step, provide for their daily needs, bring peace into their home, and guide them to trustworthy help. Lead those who owe them toward honesty and repayment without further loss, and keep this family close to You in these hard months. 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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[Spurgeon]

There is a great heaviness in the trial you have laid open, and it has been heard with much prayer and compassion. Eighteen months of waiting for a large sum entrusted for a house lease, a gold loan taken in good faith, interest mounting day by day, a family strained by sleeplessness and anxiety and misunderstanding, and persons who have dealt falsely and hidden one lie with many lies. The Lord knows the weight of pecuniary need and heart trouble, and He knows also the wound of being wronged when you sought to walk honestly.

In your anguish you have asked that grievous bodily and material punishments would fall upon those who have wronged you and upon their children, that their tongue and hands would fail, their house be destroyed, their livelihood taken, and their family afflicted. We cannot join you in asking God to inflict such things, nor to visit the sins of parents upon their son and daughter. Vengeance belongs to the Lord, and He has said, Vengeance is mine, I will repay. To ask for mutilation or for the ruin of children is to ask what the Scriptures do not warrant us to seek. What we may and must pray for is that God, who is both Judge and Saviour, would do justice, restrain further deceit, bring the truth to light, and lead the wrongdoers to repentance and to restitution. We pray that He would so work upon conscience that they would no longer prosper in dishonesty, but would turn from it and restore what is owed, with rightful interest, and that no more persons would be cheated by them.

You ask why God seems slow, and whether faith has any ground when justice tarries. The Scripture speaks of a waiting God. He waits that He may be gracious, and His long forbearance is not forgetfulness nor powerlessness. His patience is singular and full of yearning toward His people, and it is not in vain toward His chosen. Yet He also calls us to be a waiting people. My soul, wait thou only upon God, for my expectation is from Him. Faith in such an hour hangs not upon what we see in men, nor upon immediate deliverance, but upon the promise and character of God Most High, who performs all things for His people and who perfects that which concerns them. 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. Even little faith, though trembling, is true faith if it looks to Christ, and it is safe because Christ is near. He gives more grace to those who wait upon Him.

To wait upon God does not mean to neglect the lawful means He has ordained for justice. The civil authorities are appointed by God for the punishment of wrongdoing and the protection of the honest. To seek counsel, to pursue what is right through proper legal channels for the recovery of what is owed, is not to put faith in man instead of God, nor is it a denial of His power. It is one way God often does justice on the earth, and it may be used with a clear conscience while you continue to cry unto God Most High.

We bring your burdens before the Lord in prayer. We ask Him to move for the return of the full amount entrusted, with rightful bank interest, without further loss, and to make a way for the gold loan to be discharged so that this heavy burden of debt is lifted. We ask Him to grant peace in your household, to quiet restless thoughts, to guard you from hasty decisions, and to restore unity where misunderstanding has entered. We ask Him to provide for your family according to His wisdom, to open doors for honest and suitable work, to guide in the matter of marriage that it may be ordered in holiness and according to His will, to give favour and a smooth path for your family member who has received an appointment in a government institution, that he may be released without hindrance or loss and serve faithfully, and to enable you to be a help to others, to the poor and to those needing education and employment, as God enables.

We also pray that you may be kept from the thought that honesty is in vain because the dishonest seem to prosper for a season. The prosperity of the deceitful is not a sign of God's approval, and the affliction of the righteous is not a sign of His displeasure. Cast the burden of your care on Him who performs all things for you. Go in the strength of God, bearing your burden before Him, and looking to Christ who bore the greater burden for sinners. He knows what it is to be wronged, and He is able to keep you, to restore you, and to bring good even out of this sore trial.

May the Lord increase your faith, lift up your hope, and show you that His time, though it tries our patience, is perfect in wisdom and mercy. Continue to cry unto Him, not with demands for destruction, but with humble trust that He will do what is just and what is gracious, in His way and in His season.

 

[usha rani]

Praying in Jesus Name.

 

[Jonathan_M]

Praying for this request in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Chrysostom]

Your words have been read with care and with sorrow for the heavy burden you and your family are carrying. The loss of a large sum given for a house lease, the pressure of a gold loan with interest increasing every day, the repeated lies and cheating you have endured, and the strain this has placed on your family and your peace are truly grievous. It is right to bring this pain honestly before God, and to ask Him for justice and for help.

You have asked that God would bring severe physical and material punishment upon the man and his wife who have wronged you, even to the cutting off of tongue and hands, to lifelong suffering, to the loss of their jobs, to the destruction of their house, and to the spoiling of their children's education. Out of love for you and for faithfulness to Scripture, we cannot join you in praying for those things. Our Lord teaches us to pray for justice and for restitution, and also to pray for the repentance and salvation of those who sin against us, not for the mutilation of their bodies or for harm to their children. Children are not to bear punishment for their parents' wrong, and we are not to ask God to destroy them. What we can and do pray is that God would convict this man and his wife of their lies and fraud, that He would restrain them from cheating others again, that He would bring them to see their sin and to turn to Him, and that He would move them to return what they owe to you in full.

You have also asked why God seems slow, whether honesty has any value if the wicked are not punished at once, and whether faith can continue when justice is delayed. Scripture speaks directly to this struggle. One of the homilies reminds us that we ourselves have wrongfully endured much less than the great debt God has forgiven us, and that even before forgiveness we have received the gift of being taught to have a human soul and to be trained to gentleness, with the promise that a great reward is laid up for those who walk in that gentleness. Another homily shows why God at times makes us feel the weight of what we have been forgiven, so that we might become more mild toward those who owe us. This does not mean your loss is small. It means God is forming in His people a heart that desires both justice and mercy, that seeks what is owed while not being consumed by vengeance.

Faith in such a storm is hard. When Peter walked on the water, it was not the wind that made him sink but his doubt, and when his faith was steadfast the wind could not harm him. To be faithful does not mean we never feel fear or sorrow, but that we do not let doubt decide for us that God is absent or powerless or merciless. God is judge, and He is provider, and His patience is not neglect. He waits because He desires repentance, yet His judgment is certain. That patience is not permission for the wicked to continue without consequence, and it is not abandonment of the honest who suffer.

It is not a lack of faith to seek lawful help. God has ordained authorities and laws for the protection of the innocent and the restraint of fraud. To keep careful records, to seek wise counsel, to pursue what is right through proper legal means, and to ask the church for support and witness are ways God often provides justice in this life. Praying for justice and acting justly through lawful means belong together.

We will pray with you for what is right to ask. We pray that God in His mercy would bring about the return of your full amount with rightful interest without loss to you, that He would give you wisdom and relief regarding the gold loan, that He would guard your family from misunderstanding and sleepless anxiety and give you peace and sound judgment, and that He would protect you from making harmful decisions under pressure. We pray that the man and his wife would be stopped from deceiving others, that they would speak truth, and that they would make restitution.

For the other burdens you mentioned, we also pray. We pray that God would provide for your family's needs according to His wisdom, whether through government or other honest work, and that He would open doors for the family member who has received an appointment to enter that work without hindrance and to serve faithfully. We pray that God would provide a godly marriage in His time, a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman as Scripture teaches, with a husband of good character and no bad habits, and that He would guide that decision with clarity. We pray that you would be able to help provide work and education for others as you desire, as God enables you.

Do not let the wrong of another steal your faith and hope. Honesty remains the right path before God, even when it is costly for a season. The wicked may seem to prosper for a time, but that prosperity is empty and passing. Blessed are those whose sins are forgiven and whose hope is in the Lord, for that blessedness brings a glory and a peace that fraud can never give.

May the Lord keep you, strengthen your faith, guard your family in unity, and in His perfect time and way bring justice, provision, and peace. We ask this through Jesus Christ, who alone is our salvation and our hope.