Thank You Jesus

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I have to give thanks because yesterday and all week i was down. A lady side swiped my vehicle yesterday and had coverage thank you Lord. It could’ve been worse. The damage is not extreme but it’s noticeable because i know where she damaged my vehicle. I don’t have the money to fix my vehicle times hard. My money been funny. I need a new outlook. I need a new way of source to get money. It’s depressing when you want to die because it’s just work pay bills and do it all over again. All my life i been stuck in areas where i can’t move freely to the money. I’m a good person i thank you god for this but i need more room for growth. i’m sick everyday i wake up feeling week and always trying to find a way to make more money to enjoy the fruits of my labor. I miss the younger more vibrant me. I have nobody all I have is me and Jesus that i can really talk too. I miss doing well i can’t seem to save no money. My business has been slow but i still have taxes to pay and inventory to buy and it gets so overwhelming. I take care of my mom and her business and all i have left is me that i neglect because im sacrificing my happiness to pay essential bills. Lord help me make enough money to put some to side for emergency that’s my main goal. Thank you in advance

 

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We join you in giving thanks to Jesus for His mercy and protection over you in that accident, for though your vehicle was damaged, you were spared and it could have been far worse. We thank God with you that the other driver had coverage and we praise Him for His hand upon you all week when you have felt so low. The Lord sees you and knows exactly where you are hurting.

We hear the heaviness in your heart, the weariness of working only to pay bills, the discouragement of wanting to die because life feels like an endless cycle, the physical weakness you feel each morning, and the loneliness of feeling like you have only yourself and Jesus to talk to. We want you to know that the Lord draws especially near in this kind of pain. Psalm 34:18 says Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit. Matthew 11:28 invites us, Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. Your exhaustion, your financial pressure, your business struggles, and your burden of caring for your mother and her business are not hidden from Him.

We also hear you say you are a good person and we thank God for the good He has worked in you, yet we gently remind you that our hope is not in our own goodness but in the righteousness we have through Jesus Christ alone. Ephesians 2:8-9 teaches for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, that no one would boast. It is because of Jesus that we can come boldly to the Father and it is His goodness that sustains us when we feel we have nothing left to give.

We understand your desire for a new outlook and a new source to get money, to be able to save, to have margin for emergencies, and to enjoy the fruit of your labor. The desire to provide and to be a good steward is godly, but we encourage you not to chase after money as your source or your identity. God Himself is your source. Philippians 4:19 promises My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Matthew 6:33 calls us to seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. That means putting Him first, being diligent and honest in your work, managing what you have with wisdom, and trusting Him to open doors for growth in His timing. Proverbs 21:5 reminds us The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit. We encourage you to keep tending your business faithfully, to seek wise counsel, to budget and plan as you are able, and to ask God for creativity and opportunity, while guarding your heart from despair and from any scheme that promises quick riches but leads away from integrity.

You mentioned feeling like you want to die and feeling sick and weak every day. We speak life and hope over you in Jesus name. You are not alone and your life has great value to God. Jeremiah 29:11 says For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. Romans 8:28 assures us We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. Even in this hard season of slow business, taxes, inventory, and caring for your mother while neglecting yourself, God can bring renewal. Please do not walk through these dark thoughts alone. We urge you to reach out to a trusted pastor, a mature believer, or a local church family who can walk with you, pray with you face to face, and encourage you regularly. Hebrews 10:25 encourages us not to forsake assembling together, for we need one another. You said all you have is you and Jesus, and we thank God that Jesus will never leave you, but He also places us in a family of believers to bear one another’s burdens.

We also pray for your physical strength. Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and God cares about your health. 2 Corinthians 12:9 says My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Ask the Lord for healing, for rest, and for wisdom to care for yourself even as you faithfully care for your mother.

We pray together for you now.

Father, in the name of Jesus Christ we lift up this dear one to You. Thank You for sparing life in that accident and for Your daily mercies. Lord, You see the financial strain, the damaged vehicle, the slow business, the taxes and inventory, and the need for an emergency cushion. Provide for every need according to Your riches in glory and grant wisdom to steward what has been entrusted. Give a new outlook, renewed hope, and open doors for honest increase and growth that honors You. Touch the body and bring strength where there is weakness and sickness, and bring sleep and refreshing each morning. Lift the spirit of heaviness and replace it with Your joy and peace. Remind this heart that life is not just work and bills, but knowing You and walking in Your purpose. Surround this child of Yours with godly community so loneliness is broken and help is near. Guard against thoughts of death and fill the heart with hope for the future You have planned. Help to rest in Your grace and not in being good enough, but in Christ who is enough. We ask all this in the mighty name of Jesus, our only hope and Savior, amen.

 

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We are grateful you shared this with us, and we hear both the thankfulness and the weight you are carrying. You thanked God even after a hard week and a car accident, and at the same time you are exhausted from working to pay bills, trying to keep your business going, caring for your mom and her business, and feeling like you have nothing left for yourself. It makes sense you would feel stuck, weak in the mornings, and lonely when it feels like it is just you and Jesus to talk to.

You named wanting to build a little emergency cushion as your main goal, and that is a good and steady place to focus when everything feels overwhelming. One gentle next step we encourage is to not carry this alone. Since you mentioned waking up sick and feeling weak every day, please see a medical professional soon alongside prayer, so someone can care for your health in person. It could also help to talk through the money pressures with one trusted person, like a pastor, counselor, or a trusted community resource, just to look at the bills, taxes and inventory together and think about one small doable step toward that emergency fund.

We are praying for you.

Father, we lift our friend to You. You see the tiredness, the financial strain, and the longing for more room to breathe and grow. Bring comfort, strength for each day, wisdom for the business and family responsibilities, and people nearby who will listen and help. Lead to the right care and support, and keep our friend close to You. In Jesus' name, amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

Your thanksgiving has been heard and your sorrow has been weighed, and I thank God that you have brought both before Him in the same breath. You have given thanks that the harm to your vehicle was not worse and that provision was made for it, and in the same prayer you have poured out the heaviness of a week and a season in which money has been short, strength has been low, and the heart has grown weary. The Lord hears both the praise and the sigh.

You write that you have nobody but yourself and Jesus to talk to, and that loneliness cuts very deep. Our Lord Jesus Christ knows that loneliness to its full. He was left alone just when as Man He most needed human sympathy, and His disciples forsook Him and fled. Yet hear His own word in that hour, You shall leave me alone and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. His loneliness pained Him but it did not destroy Him, and it did not dismay Him. So it may be with you. Though friends be few and burdens many, you are not alone if Christ is yours. The Father who was with His Son in the garden and on the cross is with all those who trust in that Son. There are seasons of deep soul conflict when faith itself must fight for its very existence, and some of you understand what that warfare means. In that conflict, look not to your own hold on Christ, but to His hold on you.

You also speak a very heavy word, that it is depressing when you want to die because life seems only work and bills repeated without end. I pray you will see that word as the psalmist saw his own hasty speech. He said in his haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes, nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee. Such dark thoughts come in serious pain and depression of spirit, and they must be penitently retracted before the Lord who in great mercy looks upon them and forgives, for He does tenderly love and graciously care for His people. Your life is not measured by pay and bills. You are not forgotten. The Lord who numbers the hairs of your head has not cut you off. If that desire to die presses upon you, I entreat you to bring it into the light before the Lord and before a faithful pastor or a trusted brother or sister in Christ, and to seek help close at hand, that you may not bear this burden in secret.

You say you are a good person and you thank God for His mercies, yet you feel you cannot move freely and cannot save. Hear the better hope. Our goodness does not commend us to God, for salvation is through Jesus Christ alone, who bore our sin and gives His righteousness to all who trust Him. A new outlook will not come first from a new source of money, but from a new sight of Christ and His sufficiency. When the heart is set right with God through faith in His Son, then labor, even hard and daily labor, is no longer vain repetition, but service rendered unto Him who will provide.

I pray the Lord will be your strength in your weakness and sickness, for you wake weary and feel weak each day. Ask Him for wisdom for your body as well as your business, that you may steward what health He gives and not neglect yourself while you so faithfully care for your mother and her business. It is right and honoring to care for your mother, and God sees that sacrifice, yet He would have you also care for the life He has given you. I pray He will give you counsel in your business, in taxes and inventory and slow seasons, and open honest ways to provide for your needs and to set aside something for emergencies as you desire. He knows what you need before you ask, and He is able to make all grace abound toward you.

May the Lord lift from you the spirit of heaviness and clothe you with a garment of praise, not because circumstances at once become easy, but because Christ is near. Seek Him in His Word each day, cast your cares upon Him in prayer, be diligent in your calling, and walk in fellowship with His people so far as you are able. He who heard your thanksgiving for a lesser mercy will hear your cry for greater grace.

I pray for you now, Father in heaven, look upon this weary child of Thine who trusts in Jesus. Thou hast heard the thanksgiving for mercy shown in trouble, hear also the cry for daily bread and daily strength. Forgive hasty words of despair and speak peace through the blood of Christ. Grant healing and renewed vigor, wisdom for work and stewardship, provision for debts and for the needs of a mother, and a steady hope that looks beyond this present toil to eternal life with Christ. Keep this soul from sinking and cause faith to fight and to prevail, for Jesus sake. Amen.