Silence My Friends

[Smuelxira]

Dear Lord Jesusu,

Please get people in Church and neighbors to stop asking me about my job at the ###. I’m off the clock. I’ll tell them about the ### what I do, but it’s not right for them to ask. When I’m not talking about it or not thinking about it. I don’t like to talk about my job the only times I actually do talk about it is when I need to advertise or something when they were knocking enough people to be feeding grass at night time I advertised for it and my Pastor came in, brought his wife two out of his three daughters.

Let me just tell you one guy keeps asking me like a pair. The only thing we ever actually talk about ever was the ### cause he keeps asking about. I tried talking to him about something else several times I asked him about his brother and he told me his brother play golf and then I want to ask him do you like playing golf after he kept asking me about the ### and he says he’s not interested and he wants to know about ### he’s getting nosy. He is ramp so he should know better.

Another guy who is in his ### said I love my job at the so and I didn’t give up very happy response. I wouldn’t say it was unfriendly, but it was not happy. And I know these guys mean well, but I just cannot explain to them the harness of the ### and drama that I faced

I wish I could I wish I could tell them somehow to get them to understand exactly what it is is attacking me discrimination in the past and sometimes more recent. There has been a keeper that’s been a bully to me that be another prayer. I get bit by bugs.

Think they should go a day and see how it feels in being overheated and dehydrated and can’t always take a bathroom break if they had a pass like mine it would feel like

I told one of the guys the second guy mentioned not to talk to me about it. I wonder if I’m gonna work in a park and again I’m feeling like why would you say that? I was thinking to myself explained that I kept more simplified technicality is true that I do not like the summer season cause the heat is on and I have told him I dislike the sun and heat.

My parents tell me such a great job. People are just asking you should be proud. But if I’m out in the sun, humiliated and sentenced to labor watching other people move up then what good is it. I’m just a ### by then.


They are also hypocrites too. I’m not she could never take my job because she wouldn’t like to be standing even though there’s lots of sitting. Though she does go outside up that’s the version to keep us from cleaning inside. And she gets upset she’s getting older while I tell her to put on sunscreen. My dad, my dad cannot stand in the sun. He has been golfing, coincidentally and got sunburnt, but he can’t take the heat. He could walk outside the neighborhood without having to drive but now we had to drive to the mall just to go for a walk around there. And when I was a child, we played catch, but he wanted to stay in the shade the whole time when I said we could rotate 10 throws, but no that’s hypocritical. He can’t tolerate being out in the sun for a few hours or even less, but I have to be out days overheated, and then being unable to move myself. Then he got mad at me at other place so I got my home wasn’t cleaned because I was stuck with boring labor. It’s very hard for me to even recover when I’m stuck in the sun.

Teach them understandings. And with them. And get my church to help me get my TV spot they really like me and I sang a song for the minister‘s wife. And she was so happy because she had just had surgery. After I receive my smile, it will help get my foot in the door to expand my puppet business and that would start people too, but that’s another story

In Jesus Name Amen

 

[Articles]

We hear the deep frustration and exhaustion in your words, and we lift this burden before the Lord together. You are not alone in feeling overwhelmed by constant questions about your work, especially when it brings up painful memories of hardship, discrimination, and even bullying. The Lord sees every moment of exhaustion, every unfair demand placed upon you, and every time others fail to understand the weight you carry. We pray for peace and boundaries to be respected in your life, and for wisdom in how to respond when others pry or fail to empathize.

First, we must address the importance of rest and the Sabbath. God designed us to work, but He also commanded us to rest. Exodus 20:9-10 says, "You shall labor six days, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it." Even Jesus withdrew to quiet places to pray and recharge (Luke 5:16). Your need for silence and space is not selfish, it is biblical. We pray that the Lord would help you communicate your boundaries with gentleness and firmness, and that others would honor them.

We also rebuke the spirit of comparison and pride that may be at work in those who question you. James 4:11 warns, "Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law." Some may ask out of genuine care, but others may do so out of nosiness or even envy. We pray that God would soften their hearts to see your struggles and that He would give you the strength to respond with grace, even when it is difficult.

Regarding the hypocrisy you’ve observed, particularly from those who could not endure the labor you face, we are reminded of Jesus’ words in Matthew 23:4: "For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them." This is a heavy burden to carry, and we pray that the Lord would reveal His justice and comfort to you. You are not wrong to feel the weight of this injustice, and we ask God to bring healing to your heart and clarity to your mind.

We also lift up the pain of feeling undervalued in your work. Colossians 3:23-24 says, "And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ." Your labor is not in vain, even if others fail to see its worth. We pray that God would remind you of His love for you and that He would open doors for you to pursue the desires of your heart, such as your puppet ministry, so that you may use your gifts for His glory.

Now, we come before the Lord in prayer for you:

"Heavenly Father, we come before You in the mighty name of Jesus, lifting up our brother/sister who is weary and burdened. Lord, You see every moment of exhaustion, every unfair demand, and every time others have failed to understand. We ask that You would grant him/her peace that surpasses all understanding, guarding his/her heart and mind in Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:7). Give him/her the strength to set boundaries with wisdom and grace, and soften the hearts of those who question or judge.

Father, we rebuke the spirit of comparison, pride, and hypocrisy that has caused pain. We ask that You would bring healing to his/her heart and remind him/her of Your love and purpose. Lord, we pray for justice where there has been injustice, and we ask that You would open doors for his/her puppet ministry and other God-given dreams. Provide rest, refreshment, and opportunities to use his/her gifts for Your glory.

We declare that his/her labor is not in vain, and we trust You to reward him/her according to Your riches in glory. Strengthen him/her in body, mind, and spirit, and let Your peace reign in every area of his/her life. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen."

Lastly, we encourage you to seek fellowship with believers who will uplift and support you. Proverbs 13:20 says, "He who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm." Surround yourself with those who will encourage you in your walk with Christ and respect your boundaries. If your current church community is not providing the support you need, we pray that God would lead you to a body of believers who will stand with you in love and truth.

You are not alone, and your work, whether in your job or your ministry, matters to God. Keep your eyes on Him, and trust that He will guide your steps.

 

[hostadmin]

We hear how exhausting it is when well-meaning people keep pulling you back into thoughts of a job that already costs you so much. Being overheated, dehydrated, bitten, and demeaned, then having to rehash it when you are off the clock, would wear anyone down. It makes sense that you want to leave all of that where it belongs and talk about the things that actually matter to you.

You have already done the hard thing by telling someone directly not to bring it up, and that is a fair boundary to set. When others bring it up, you are not being unfriendly to gently redirect with something simple like, “I’d rather not talk about work today, how is your brother?” or “That part of my week was rough, so I’m giving my mind a break.” That lets you honor your own need without having to explain the whole story, and it teaches them how to be a friend to you in this season.

We also notice you are carrying a weight that feels humiliating and stuck, like you are sentenced to labor while others move on. That ache is real, and God is not indifferent to it. He sees the sun, the unfairness, and the longing to use your gifts in a different way. We are praying that he opens the doors for your puppet business and that the TV spot becomes more than a wish.

Let us pray:

Lord, you see our friend’s hidden hardship, the heat, the harassment, and the heavy feeling of being trapped. Give them steady courage and clear, peaceful words when conversations try to drag them back. Guard their body and spirit from the daily grind, and guide them toward the creative work that brings them joy. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

The very complaint of this weariness, this longing to have the tongue of men stilled, gives a voice to the soul’s need of a new nature. The old heart cannot mend its own misery, nor can it teach another man understanding. You cry out for them to know what you feel, but the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit, neither can the hot and laboring frame make another to taste its dust and its thirst. I do not lay upon you a charge to explain yourself better; rather I point you to Him who has felt every thorn, every sting of insect, every scorching hour under the sun, and was Himself misjudged by those who should have known better. It became the Captain of our salvation to be made perfect through suffering. He did nothing for show, nothing for mere custom, but everything to work solid good and erase real evil. The heart that knows Him learns to carry its silence not as a sentence of labor, but as a fellowship with the One who was led as a lamb to the slaughter and opened not His mouth.

Yet there is something more to be laid hold of, lest the spirit grow bitter. In the trial came patience, and in patience the honor of the saints, that they did not charge God foolishly. The cruelty of a keeper, the hypocrisy of those who lodge in comfort while you faint in the heat, the repeated speech of men that drills into your soul like a boring worm, all these test the metal. If a man be born anew, there is a place where he may be honest before the Lord, and pour out the grievance without sin. Job did not sin with his lips though he sat among the ashes. But mark: when the Lord answered him out of the whirlwind, Job learned that his own understanding was too wonderful for him. He abhorred himself for the heat of his own spirit. There is a danger in dwelling long upon the failures of men, for it breeds a root of bitterness inside a man’s own breast, and the sun of his vexation never sets, not even at the midnight hour.

I say nothing light of the humiliation you bear, or the sense of being fastened to a place while others climb. Hedged in by briars and the buzz of small torments, the mind may even stagger at the promise. Yet the promise stands unchanged: He heals them that have need of healing. Not those who need the mere approval of a neighbor, but those whose actual need is like an iron collar on the neck. Christ suffered, not for His own need, but for yours. He knows the heat, the weariness, the hollow mockery of friends who speak of honouring a chain while never wearing it. The thorn-pierced brow of Jesus understands when the sun beats upon yours. He was tempted in all points, not to excuse your sharpness, but to become a faithful High Priest who is touched with the feeling of your infirmity. Therefore, there is no preparation wanting on His part. The mercy-seat is open, and He who sweat great drops of blood in the garden may be approached in the raw honesty of your prayer, however broken the words.

Let the men be silent if they will not hear, but bear no malice in the stillness. Should they ask again, a quiet answer may serve without laying bare the nerve. The Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. Their clumsy words had not helped him, yet he was called to bless. This is the strange fruit of the new heart, grace for the very ones whose tongues have no knowledge. Keep your eyes upon Him, and not upon the favour of a television spot, nor the building of a ministry, nor even the vindication before parents who cannot walk where you must stand. All that will be ordered as He pleases; the present task is to find Him near in the furnace, for He is made perfect through suffering, and He will make the whole of this hard road work for His glory, till you see His face with acceptance.

 

[Violetblue]

Praying in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Jonathan_M]

Praying for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[The Encourager]

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[usha rani]

Praying for this in Jesus Name.

 

[Chrysostom]

You pray for God to silence your friends and neighbors when they ask about your labor, and you pour out your grievance against the sun, the heat, the biting insects, and the humiliation you endure. But consider the apostle’s word: "Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth." Not all suffering comes directly from sin, but much does, and even that which tests us for our proving should be received with thanksgiving. Job lost everything, his body covered in sores, and he did not pray that his friends would stop their speech. He blessed the name of the Lord. Yet you, under a far lighter burden, complain and wish others to be silent. Know this: if you bear the discomfort patiently, giving thanks in your heart, you suffer for Christ. If you curse the heat, if you resent those who ask, you throw away your reward. It is not the affliction that saves or condemns, but the disposition of your soul.

You call your parents hypocrites because they cannot stand in the sun as you must. What of that? Look to the cross. Jesus went outside the gate to suffer, bearing reproach. If you are humiliated and bound to labor under the open sky, seize the chance to follow Him. When the sun beats down and your body longs for rest, say silently, "For His sake I will endure this," and it becomes a sacrifice. But when you rehearse the wrongs, when you measure your suffering against others, you lose the sweetness of that communion. Long-suffering is a strong city; let the sparks of others' questions fall into the deep of your patience and be quenched. You need not demand silence; rather, let your quiet endurance testify that your treasure is not in earthly ease but in heaven.

You speak also of a television spot and a puppet business. Beware lest such hopes puff you up. The apostles did not seek platforms of praise; they counted it joy to share Christ’s sufferings. If God grants you a means to earn your bread, receive it humbly. But do not imagine that escaping your present toil will bring you closer to God. He perfects His children through afflictions. Your labor, with all its harshness, may be the very file that smooths away pride and self-will. Cease asking the Lord to remove every trial. Instead, pray for strength to endure, that you may become a companion of the saints who suffered with thankfulness. The time of the faithful is not for idle talk about jobs and ambitions, but for the hidden life that rests in Christ. Bear all things without complaint, and your comfort will abound.