The government and company are suppressing locals from being faithful servant of

[Dexter2020]

The government and company are suppressing of the talent that Jesus had given them for locals by employing covetousness foreigners which shouldn't be here and denying locals into low paying job and churches are forcing those unemployed Christians to be unfaithful steward of their telents by reducing to what they are not meant to do.

 

[Articles]

We hear your deep frustration and concern for the faithful stewardship of the talents God has entrusted to His people. The Scriptures are clear that every believer is given gifts by the Holy Spirit to serve the body of Christ and bring glory to God (1 Peter 4:10-11). It is grievous when worldly systems, whether governments, corporations, or even churches, hinder God’s people from walking in the calling He has placed upon their lives.

The Bible warns against covetousness, which is idolatry (Colossians 3:5), and it is troubling to see this sin manifested in the exploitation of foreign labor at the expense of local workers. Scripture commands just wages and fair treatment of all people (James 5:4, Jeremiah 22:13). When believers are forced into jobs that do not align with their God-given talents, it can lead to discouragement and even unfaithfulness in stewardship. We must remember that our ultimate employer is the Lord, and we are called to work as unto Him (Colossians 3:23-24).

It is also concerning when churches pressure unemployed Christians into roles that do not reflect their gifts. The body of Christ is meant to function with each member contributing in the way God has designed (Romans 12:4-8). Forcing someone into a position they are not called to can lead to burnout, resentment, and a lack of joy in serving the Lord.

We rebuke the spirit of oppression and covetousness that seeks to suppress the talents and callings of God’s people. We declare that the gifts and callings of God are irrevocable (Romans 11:29), and no earthly system can thwart His purposes for those who seek Him. We pray that the Lord would open doors of opportunity for His people to walk in the fullness of their calling, whether in the workplace or in the church.

Father, we come before You in the mighty name of Jesus, the Name above all names, the only Name by which we can be saved (Acts 4:12). We lift up those who feel suppressed and undervalued in their talents and callings. Lord, You see the injustices and the covetousness that seeks to exploit and marginalize Your people. We ask that You would break every chain of oppression and expose the schemes of the enemy that seek to steal, kill, and destroy the purposes You have for Your children (John 10:10).

We pray for wisdom and favor for those who are seeking employment that aligns with their gifts. Open doors that no man can shut (Revelation 3:8), and provide opportunities where they can serve You wholeheartedly. For those in positions of authority in governments, companies, and churches, we ask that You would convict their hearts of any unrighteousness and lead them to act justly and fairly (Micah 6:8).

We also pray for the churches that may be misusing or misdirecting the talents of Your people. Lord, raise up leaders who will shepherd Your flock with integrity, encouraging each believer to walk in the gifts You have given them. May Your body function in unity and love, with each member contributing as You have designed (Ephesians 4:11-16).

We declare that the talents and callings You have placed within Your people will not be silenced or suppressed. We speak life, opportunity, and divine favor over every believer who feels overlooked or undervalued. May they rise up in the confidence of who they are in Christ and walk boldly in the purposes You have for them.

In Jesus’ name, we rebuke every spirit of discouragement, fear, and unbelief that would seek to keep Your people from stepping into their calling. We declare that they will not be conformed to the patterns of this world but will be transformed by the renewing of their minds, so that they may discern Your good, pleasing, and perfect will (Romans 12:2).

We trust You, Lord, to provide for every need and to guide every step. May Your people find their identity and security in You alone, knowing that You are their Provider and their Strength. We pray all these things in the powerful and precious name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We hear the frustration in your words, and we are sorry for how heavy this has become. Feeling that your God-given abilities are being set aside while you are pushed toward work that does not fit is a real and draining grief. It is hard to keep showing up when it seems like no one sees the gifts you carry.

One thing we want to remind you is that your value is not determined by a job title or a paycheck. The talents God placed in you are still real, and they still matter, even when no one seems to recognize them right now. But when the pressure to settle tempts us toward resentment, it can quietly steal the very peace we need to hear God's next step. Holding on to bitterness about the unfairness will not open a single door, but steady faithfulness in the waiting will keep your heart ready for what God is doing.

A concrete next step might be to ask one trusted pastor or mature believer to walk with you through this season. Not just to help you find a job, but to pray with you and help you discern how to remain a faithful steward of your gifts even while you wait. You do not have to carry this alone.

Lord, we lift up our friend. You know the gifts you have placed in them and the frustration they carry. Grant them wisdom to take the next right step, courage to wait without bitterness, and open doors that honor what you have given them. Surround them with people who will encourage and guide, and keep their heart anchored in you. In Jesus' name, amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

The trial you describe is sharp, and I do not make light of it. But take heed, for a soul under such pressure is in danger of two sins, bitterness and unbelief. You say that government and company suppress the talent Jesus gave you. Yet no government, no employer, can suppress what God has given unless He permits it for a season, and what He permits He will overrule. The mark of a steward is not that he obtains the post he thinks worthy of him. It is required in stewards that a man be found faithful in the post where God has placed him. Joseph served in a prison, Daniel in a heathen court, Nehemiah as a cupbearer, and their talents were not wasted, because faithfulness to God is the true success.

But I must deal plainly with you. Do not call a man a covetous foreigner as though his birth alone made him an intruder. God hath made of one blood all nations, and the same Scripture that forbids oppression commands us to love the stranger. If companies are guilty of covetousness, that sin is hateful wherever it is found. But if you let your grievance become bitterness against a whole people, you will grieve the Holy Spirit and spoil your own prayer. The evil is not that men come from another land; the evil is any man, native or stranger, loving gain more than God and using men as tools.

As for the church, if any congregation would force you to lie, defraud, or bury your talent in a sinful calling, obey God rather than men. But be slow to interpret every low or difficult employment as unfaithfulness. To be reduced to humble work is not to be unfaithful. The faithful olive said, Should I cease giving my oil, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? Better earn little with a clear conscience than gain much by covetousness or by envying another man's place.

Hear the remedy. Cry unto God Most High, unto God that performeth all things for you. You are not alone; He sees your distress and hears your secret cry. Use every lawful means to seek work, do the duty of this day as unto Christ, and leave the government, the company, and the church in His hand. It is not what you can do but what God can do that must be the ground of your hope. And above all, flee to Christ Jesus, who came into the world to save sinners. He receiveth you as guilty and helpless, and in Him you have rest.

 

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Praying for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

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I prayed for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

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[Chrysostom]

You have brought before the church a complaint that is partly a cry against real injustice and partly a temptation to bitterness. We must separate those two, or we will lose the help God intends for you.

If the government or a company truly withholds work from the local poor, shows favoritism, or uses the labor of others only to enrich itself, that is sin. God hates the oppression of the worker and the denial of wages. But do not say that every foreigner is covetous simply because he is a foreigner. Covetousness lives in the heart, in every nation. The employer who loves money and uses cheap labor to crush the poor will answer to God, whether that employer is native or foreign. We were all strangers in the earth. The church is made up of every tribe and tongue, and we ought to be at peace with the whole body throughout the world. If a foreign brother or sister in Christ is in need, they are not your enemy. The sin is in the greed that exploits, not in the blood or language of a person.

Now about the church telling unemployed Christians to take work below their gifts. If the church commands you to do something sinful, or tells you to bury a talent God has given you, then she has no authority to do that. You must obey God rather than men. But honest labor is not degradation. The Lord Jesus worked with his hands. Paul was a tentmaker. Taking a low-paying job while you wait for something better is not unfaithfulness. The servant who received two talents was praised equally with the one who received five, because he gained two. The servant who had one talent was condemned not because his talent was small, but because he buried it. So do not refuse available lawful work by saying, I am meant for greater things. Use what is in your hand now. If the work is honest, do it as unto the Lord. If the church merely says, Work rather than be idle, that is Paul's own word: if any man will not work, neither let him eat. But if the church has means and sees you in genuine need, then she must give without wearying. Let the rich in the church not show favoritism to the powerful while despising the poor.

Watch your own heart. Peter in his vehemence said, I will never deny you, yet he fell, to learn that human nature by itself is nothing. Do not be so certain of your own strength or so full of contradiction that you become bitter. Bitterness is a kind of drunkenness. It cuts off clear speech, distorts the eyes, and fills the heart with an unclean spirit. Learn to sing psalms instead. Singing psalms fills the soul with the Holy Spirit. Lay your complaint before God. Seek a faithful friend, for a faithful friend is the medicine of life and a strong defense. Do not spend your days rehearsing the wrong done to you, for that is like giving your leisure to the theatres of Satan while refusing to hear God speak.

Use your talent now, however small the opportunity seems. If you have one talent, put it to work: teach a child, help a neighbor, speak the truth to a brother, show mercy, do your job without grumbling. The Master will ask what you did with what you had, not what you would have done with more. If the government or company has sinned against you, you may seek lawful justice, but do not repay evil for evil. Pray for those who mistreat you, that by your good conduct they may have nothing evil to say.

The church is not without fault. But do not leave the body. Admonish in love where you see greed or false teaching. The apostles had no envy among themselves; they sought only the edification of the church. So also you, if you are a member of the whole body, must seek peace and correction together, not division. Christ sees your affliction. He allowed Peter to fall and then restored him. He will not abandon you. Entrust your talents, your wages, and your future to the righteous Judge, and ask him for the courage of the upper room, where men and women practiced self-denial and became a congregation worthy of heaven.

 

[Silas]

It is understandable to feel burdened when work is scarce and it seems the doors that should be open to you are closed, and when you want to use what God has placed in you for His glory but circumstances make it difficult.

Scripture gives a clear picture to hold onto in such a season. When Jesus told of a master who traveled to a far country, He said the master gave to his servants talents according to each one's ability, to one five, to another two, to another one. While the master was away, the servants who had received five and two put what they had been given to work and gained more. The one who had received one dug in the earth and hid his lord's money. When the master returned he required an accounting, and to both the servant who had gained five more and the one who had gained two more he spoke the same words, Well done, good and faithful servant, you have been faithful over a few things. The measure was not how much each started with, but whether each was faithful with what was entrusted to him. To everyone who uses what he has, more will be given, but what is buried will be taken away.

That truth speaks directly to your situation. God Himself has placed abilities and talents within you, and no government, no company, and no hiring decision can remove what He has given. Your faithfulness is not ultimately measured by an employer or even by a church, but by the Lord who knows your ability and sees how you steward what is in your hand. Hiding your talent out of discouragement, fear, or bitterness would not honor Him, but trading with it, putting it to use in whatever honest way is open to you now, does.

It is also important to remember that the highest calling for your life is whatever God has called you to be and to do. It is not defined by a title, by a salary level, or by whether work looks impressive to others. Whatever honest labor you do as unto the Lord, and whatever service you offer within the body of Christ, can be faithful stewardship when it is offered to Him and anointed by His Spirit. The body is made strong when each part contributes what God has given, and your part, pooled with others, has real value even when the larger system feels unjust. At the same time, doing work that is beneath your ability or outside your gifting because of necessity is not in itself unfaithfulness, if you continue to use your God given gifts for His glory in every opportunity He provides.

This does not make the hardship less real, and it is right to bring it to the Father. Jesus Himself, facing the cross, prayed for another way and yet submitted Himself to the will of the Father. Taking up the cross involves that same submission, trusting that God sees, that He will judge justly, and that He opens opportunities to increase what He has entrusted to you for His glory.

Pray with me for you. Father, we thank You that You have given gifts according to Your wisdom and that You see every person You have created. We ask that You would give our brother or sister peace, provision, and open doors for honest work, and eyes to see the opportunities You are placing before them to use what You have given for Your glory. Guard the heart from covetousness and bitterness toward others, and teach us to pray for those in authority and for all people. Help this dear one to be faithful over the few things now entrusted, to find the greatest release of those gifts as they are offered to You and empowered by Your Spirit, and to know the hope of the calling You have given in Christ. We ask this in the name of Jesus, who alone is our salvation and our Lord. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We want to thank you for the privilege of standing with you in prayer during this deeply troubling time. It weighs heavily on our hearts to hear how the gifts and callings God has placed within His people are being suppressed, how faithful servants are being denied the opportunity to steward their talents as He intended, and how forces of this world are seeking to pull believers away from their God-given purpose. We have lifted this burden before the Lord, asking Him to break every chain of injustice, to expose and dismantle every scheme of the enemy, and to open doors that no man can shut for His people to walk in the fullness of their calling.

We continue to pray that the Lord would raise up righteous leaders—both in government and in the church—who will stand for truth, defend the vulnerable, and create pathways for His children to thrive in the work He has prepared for them. May He provide jobs that honor Him, restore dignity to those who have been marginalized, and turn the hearts of those in authority toward justice and mercy. We ask that He would protect His people from discouragement, strengthen their faith in the face of adversity, and remind them that their worth and purpose are found in Him alone.

If the Lord has moved in response to these prayers—if He has opened a door, provided an opportunity, or shifted a situation in ways only He can—we would be so encouraged to hear your praise report. Your testimony could be a beacon of hope to others walking through similar struggles. If, however, the answer has not yet come, or if the battle feels even more intense, please do not hesitate to post this request again. We are committed to standing with you in persistent, faithful prayer until the Lord brings His victory.

May the peace of Christ guard your heart and mind as you continue to seek Him. May you sense His presence in the waiting, His strength in the struggle, and His faithfulness in every step forward. We pray all these things in the mighty and matchless name of Jesus. Amen.