We Must Pray God Gives Us Favor at Work...
The ordinary course would be for things to be rough on Christians on their jobs because of the World, the Flesh and the Devil. Just look at the percentage of job related / finance related prayers on any given website including ours here. I think "the whole world lies under the power of the evil one" like it says in 1 Jn 5:9 and "they will hate us without a cause" 1 Jn 15, "if they hated Me they will hate you" but God also promises "favor as a shield" in Ps 5:12 and "Test me now in this I will rebuke the devourer and pour out a blessing (by tithing) so great we can't contain it," a paraphrase of Malachi 3:10 and vicinity.
I think there is a spiritual battle for Christians that work because they tithe and extend the "gospel preaching throughout the earth" like in Matt 28 Jesus' last words (His last words were His highest priority) and continue to be the church: "the church; the pillar and support of the truth" like 1 Tim 3:15 says, so we are doing the right thing in asking for prayer for our jobs. May people see prayers for work as important, just as important as praying for other, "spiritual" things like health and other problems, especially when many problems are money related...
Money and jobs are important and Jesus and the Bible speak on "working as unto the Lord" in Colossians 3:23-24 and "to find joy in your labor" in Ecclesiastes. Maybe we need our minds renewed, but like Jimmy Stewart says to the Angel in It's a Wonderful Life when George Bailey asks if the angel has the money that Potter stole, the angel says, "we don't have money where I come from," to which George Baily answers, "Well it sure comes in handy down here, that's for sure."
God is a generous Father as Jesus teaches in Matthew 5-7 who likes us to ask and keep asking because He likes the contact. He promises to provide, but the devil wants to hinder, "steal, kill and destroy" John 10. So we pray GOD'S WILL, not the world's or the devil's will, would be done, which is daily bread, and life abundantly Matt 6:9-14 and John 10:10.
I pray Christians would be "The Head and Not the Tail" like in Deuteronomy 28, and all the other blessings of Abraham that come upon both the natural Jewish person and specifically the gentile if they are in Jesus, who was cursed that we'd be blessed, Gal 3:13-14; and who was made sin on our behalf, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Christ, 1 Cor 5:21. May the Word of The Lord spread rapidly and be glorified in Jesus' name (2 Thes 3:1). Amen.
The ordinary course would be for things to be rough on Christians on their jobs because of the World, the Flesh and the Devil. Just look at the percentage of job related / finance related prayers on any given website including ours here. I think "the whole world lies under the power of the evil one" like it says in 1 Jn 5:9 and "they will hate us without a cause" 1 Jn 15, "if they hated Me they will hate you" but God also promises "favor as a shield" in Ps 5:12 and "Test me now in this I will rebuke the devourer and pour out a blessing (by tithing) so great we can't contain it," a paraphrase of Malachi 3:10 and vicinity.
I think there is a spiritual battle for Christians that work because they tithe and extend the "gospel preaching throughout the earth" like in Matt 28 Jesus' last words (His last words were His highest priority) and continue to be the church: "the church; the pillar and support of the truth" like 1 Tim 3:15 says, so we are doing the right thing in asking for prayer for our jobs. May people see prayers for work as important, just as important as praying for other, "spiritual" things like health and other problems, especially when many problems are money related...
Money and jobs are important and Jesus and the Bible speak on "working as unto the Lord" in Colossians 3:23-24 and "to find joy in your labor" in Ecclesiastes. Maybe we need our minds renewed, but like Jimmy Stewart says to the Angel in It's a Wonderful Life when George Bailey asks if the angel has the money that Potter stole, the angel says, "we don't have money where I come from," to which George Baily answers, "Well it sure comes in handy down here, that's for sure."
God is a generous Father as Jesus teaches in Matthew 5-7 who likes us to ask and keep asking because He likes the contact. He promises to provide, but the devil wants to hinder, "steal, kill and destroy" John 10. So we pray GOD'S WILL, not the world's or the devil's will, would be done, which is daily bread, and life abundantly Matt 6:9-14 and John 10:10.
I pray Christians would be "The Head and Not the Tail" like in Deuteronomy 28, and all the other blessings of Abraham that come upon both the natural Jewish person and specifically the gentile if they are in Jesus, who was cursed that we'd be blessed, Gal 3:13-14; and who was made sin on our behalf, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Christ, 1 Cor 5:21. May the Word of The Lord spread rapidly and be glorified in Jesus' name (2 Thes 3:1). Amen.
