Your honest prayer is heard, and the desires you bring are good ones, to provide for your family, to prepare diligently, and to do your work in a way that honors the Lord.
Scripture shows us that even from the earliest poetry in the Bible, the deep needs of the human heart have not changed. Cultures shift, but people still wrestle with worry, weariness, and questions about how God is at work in ordinary pressures. In the story of Job we see this clearly. There was a reality behind what Job could see. God knew Job and spoke well of him as one who loved Him and turned from evil, while the adversary had been watching Job closely and claimed that faith was only mercenary, that a person will serve God only while blessings remain. God allowed testing, but He set a hedge and a limit. Job himself did not understand his circumstances, and his friends who came to comfort him instead became harsh counselors, insisting that suffering must mean hidden sin and telling him to simply get right and all would be well.
There is comfort here for you. The Lord sees not only the interview ahead but the nights with a toddler and a baby, the broken sleep, the crowded hours you have for preparation, and the anxiety that crowds out peace. He knows your heart is not seeking only a better income but to walk faithfully as a disciple and to glorify Him in your work. That matters to Him. At the same time, like Job, we do not always understand God's ways. We can be sure of this, that God is fair and just, even when we cannot trace His hand. And we must be careful not to treat words spoken out of exhaustion and grief as if they were settled truth about God. Much of Job's despair was the cry of a weary man, not the settled teaching of the Holy Spirit, and Jesus has shown us more fully the hope beyond that despair. What Job longed for, someone to stand between God and man and bring us near, has been given to us in Jesus, who lays His hand on both and brings us to the Father.
So bring your requests to Him with confidence in Christ. Ask Him for wisdom as you prepare, for a clear mind to present yourself honestly, for moments of quiet and for sufficient rest even in a full house, and for peace that quiets anxious thoughts so you can focus. Your preparation itself is part of discipleship, an offering of good work to the Lord, and fixing your eyes on the cross keeps that work in its right place, not as a way to earn His favor but as a response to the favor you already have in Jesus.
I pray for you that the Father will grant you wisdom and clarity in these days of preparation, that He will provide rest and protected time to study and to be still, that He will calm worry and replace it with steady trust, and that on the day of the interview He will give you confidence rooted not in yourself but in Christ, so you can speak authentically and with grace. May He use this opportunity as He wills for your good and for His glory, and may you be reminded through it all that you are kept within His care and brought near to Him through Jesus. In Jesus name, amen.