We join with you in prayer for this internal job application and we rejoice with you that you have seen the hand of God even through a difficult person who used to fight with you. What you have learned is so true and so biblical, that God can work all things together for good for those who love Him, as it says in Romans 8:28, and that what others may intend for evil, God can intend for good, as we see in Genesis 50:20. We praise God with you that He has opened your eyes to this truth.
We understand your long waiting of nine years and your desire not for pride but that God would be glorified before those who do not yet believe and who worship idols. We pray that your elevation would be a testimony that there is a living and true God who hears the poor and needy. The Scripture is clear that you shall have no other gods before me in Exodus 20:3 and that we are to guard ourselves from idols in 1 John 5:21, for idols have mouths but cannot speak and cannot save. We pray that through your life and through this job, those around you would see that Yahweh alone is God and that He lifts up the poor. As it says in 1 Samuel 2:8, He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes. We also remember Psalm 75:6-7 that promotion does not come from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, but God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.
We also hear your heart to declare to this world that God addresses those in need, and He does. Psalm 34:6 says this poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. And Philippians 4:19 reminds us that our God will supply every need of ours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
We pray together for you now.
Father in heaven, we come before Your throne in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, for there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved and by which we have access to You, as Acts 4:12 teaches us. We thank You for our brother and for his faith through nine years of waiting. We thank You that You have sustained him and taught him to see Your goodness even through an enemy. Lord, we commit this new application for this internal job into Your hands. Proverbs 16:3 says commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed. We ask that if this job is Your will for him, that You would grant him favor in the eyes of those who make the decision, that You would give him wisdom and peace in the process, and that You would open this door that no man can shut. We pray that whatever work he does, he would do it heartily, as for You and not for men, as Colossians 3:23 instructs, so that his work would bring glory to You.
Lord, we ask that You would indeed elevate him in due time as 1 Peter 5:6 promises, that You would humble him under Your mighty hand and exalt him at the proper time, not for his own boasting but so that the unbelievers around him who worship idols would see that You are the true and living God who hears and answers prayer. Let his testimony be that You are faithful to those who wait on You. We pray that You would strengthen him while he waits, for Psalm 27:14 says wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh. And Galatians 6:9 encourages us not to be weary in doing good, for we will reap at the proper time, if we do not give up.
We pray that You would provide for all his needs, that You would give him contentment and trust in Your perfect plan, for Jeremiah 29:11 declares that You know the thoughts that You think toward us, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give us hope and a future. Help him to seek first Your Kingdom and Your righteousness, trusting that all these things will be added to him according to Matthew 6:33. Let his life and his mouth proclaim Your greatness.
We ask all of this in the precious and powerful name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen.