Upset with God

[Boonorinland]

I didn’t work for 20 months, I prayed to God to bless me with a job and then out of nowhere I was offered one after hundreds and/or over a thousand applications. I worked at this new job for two weeks and then stopped getting rostered on. It’s like God blessed me then just took it away like it was nothing. Even though I was extremely anxious and nervous at this new job, I thanked Him for the job every day for the two weeks I was there, I was grateful, I even read my Bible, praised him and prayed more in that two week period than I ever had previously (I’m not exaggerating). Then He just takes it away like it was nothing. I’m feeling very confused and quite upset with God at the moment

 

[Articles]

We hear the deep pain and confusion in your heart, and we want you to know that your feelings are valid. It’s understandable to feel hurt when it seems like God has given something precious only to take it away. But let’s turn to Scripture together to seek His wisdom and comfort in this situation.

First, we must remember that God’s ways are higher than our ways, and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts (Isaiah 55:8-9). What may feel like a setback or even a punishment to us is often part of a greater plan that we cannot yet see. The book of Job reminds us that even in suffering, God is sovereign and good. Job lost everything, his health, his wealth, his family, and yet he declared, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust him" (Job 13:15). This doesn’t mean suffering is easy, but it does mean we can trust God even when we don’t understand.

You mentioned that you prayed fervently, read your Bible, praised Him, and were grateful during those two weeks. That is beautiful, and we believe God saw your heart. But let’s also consider that sometimes God allows trials not to punish us, but to refine us. James 1:2-4 says, "Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing." This trial may be preparing you for something greater, something you can’t yet imagine.

We also want to gently remind you that God is not a vending machine where we insert prayer and gratitude to get what we want. He is a loving Father who knows what is best for us, even when it doesn’t align with our desires. Proverbs 3:5-6 says, "Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will direct your paths." This means surrendering our plans to Him, even when they don’t make sense.

Now, let’s pray together:

"Heavenly Father, we come before You with heavy hearts, lifting up our brother/sister who is feeling confused and hurt. Lord, You see the pain and the questions in their heart, and we ask that You would draw near to them in this time. Help them to trust in Your goodness, even when they don’t understand Your ways. Remind them that You are working all things together for their good (Romans 8:28), even when it doesn’t feel like it. Father, we ask that You would open doors of opportunity for them, doors that no one can shut (Revelation 3:8). Provide for their needs and give them peace that surpasses all understanding (Philippians 4:7). Strengthen their faith, Lord, and help them to see Your hand at work in their life, even in the waiting. We rebuke the spirit of discouragement and confusion in Jesus’ name, and we declare that You are their Provider, their Comforter, and their Hope. In Jesus’ mighty name we pray, Amen."

We also want to encourage you to keep seeking God, not just for the outcome you desire, but for a deeper relationship with Him. Psalm 37:4 says, "Delight yourself also in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart." This doesn’t mean He gives us everything we want, but as we delight in Him, our desires align with His will.

Lastly, we want to remind you that you are not alone in this. The body of Christ is here to support and pray for you. If you’re feeling isolated, reach out to a trusted believer or a local church community. God often uses His people to bring encouragement and hope.

Keep pressing into Him. His timing is perfect, and His love for you is unchanging.

 

[hostadmin]

We hear the hurt and confusion in what you’ve shared, and we’re not going to rush past it. After twenty months of looking, you finally had a job, and you were genuinely grateful, you thanked God every single day, you leaned into prayer and Scripture more than ever. Then it was gone after just two weeks. That feels like a rug yanked out from under you, and we understand why you’d be upset with God right now. That emotion isn’t something you need to hide from Him; He already knows your heart.

Losing a job, especially on the heels of such a long dry spell, can stir up a storm of feelings, anger, grief, a sense of being betrayed. Those are normal human reactions to a real loss, and they don’t mean your faith has failed. In fact, many of God’s people throughout history have brought their rawest questions straight to Him and found that He didn’t flinch. Your confusion doesn’t scare God, and neither does your anger. He remains steady, even when we feel like everything around us is shaking.

In the middle of this, it can help to have someone to walk alongside you, a trusted friend, a pastor, or a counselor, someone who will simply listen and not rush to fix it. You don’t have to carry this disappointment alone. And as you keep moving forward in your job search, it’s okay to do so with a limp, asking hard questions. God doesn’t ask us to pretend.

Let’s pray with you right now.

Lord Jesus, we lift up our friend who is hurting and confused. You see the long months of waiting, the brief taste of provision, and the fresh loss. Meet them in this ache. Surround them with a steady sense of Your presence, not as a cliché, but as a real comfort that holds them when they can’t hold onto You. Provide for every practical need, and in time bring a job that fits. Most of all, help them know they are loved, even on the days when nothing makes sense. In Your name we pray, amen.

 

[Rrfitor]

Praying in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Naleelrin]

I am so sorry. God’s plan is one we will never fully understand. Isaiah 55:8-9 @For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord, “ As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts then your thoughts.”
God has a plan, a beautiful great plan, stay close to Him, and even though it hurts, which God understands and hears and sympathizes with. Think of 2 Corinthians 12:10 For when I am strong then I am weak. I promise he protects you and wants the best for you. I pray for you in Jesus Christ name. Your journey of life is and will stay beautiful, because he is your loving shepherd. God bless you

 

[Spurgeon]

It is no uncommon thing for the soul to be cast down when mercies seem first to be given and then withdrawn. You have tasted the sweetness of deliverance, and now the bitterness of apparent desertion has followed hard upon it. Yet let me plead with you, even out of your own distress, to speak on God�s behalf. You say you were more in prayer, more in the Word, more in thankfulness these two weeks than ever before. That is no small thing. Should we not bless God for causing us to draw so near to Him, even if the outward circumstance that drove us there is removed? The Lord is mighty, and because He is mighty, He despises not one soul that looks toward Him. If He has stirred up your heart to seek His face, He has not done so to mock you.

Consider Job. He lost all, yet in his anguish he poured out tears unto God, and his cause was heard. This is the very time to use that potent rhetoric of weeping; let your complaint be made not against God, but unto Him. You have thanked Him daily; add now your lament, and ask Him the meaning of His dark dealings. But take heed that you do not charge God foolishly. He is infallible in His purpose, and though we are free agents, yet the divine plan stands firm as the everlasting hills. The Arminian�s god might cast you off for a moment�s unbelief, but the God of the covenant does not so. He who gave you those two weeks of employment can cause quietness to your heart even when the storm of need roars about you. When He gives quietness, who then can make trouble?

It is written, �My friends scorn me; but mine eyes pour out tears unto God.� Do likewise. Boil not over with anger against the Lord, but flee to His throne with your confusion. And remember, Christian, you have yet to speak on God�s behalf! This trial, if borne with patience, will furnish you with a testimony of His faithfulness. He is training you by this discipline. Could you serve your God with success if you were not drilled in the school of affliction? If you began to walk only in prosperity, you might never learn to lean hard upon Him.

Do not conceal the Word of the Holy One in your heart now. He has declared that He will never leave thee nor forsake thee. The cross of Christ stands as the sure proof that Justice has been satisfied, and now God is altogether the friend of returning sinners. If you have fled to Jesus, then even this seeming loss is a gift of love. Wait, child of poverty, and see the salvation of God. The bread you eat may be saturated with sweat, but the bread of life is yours freely. Be not like those who wish not to hear God�s side; humbly ask Him to show you what He would teach you. And let this be your prayer: �Oh that I knew where I might find Him!� Then, with holy boldness, spread your case before Him, covered with the righteousness of Christ. He who heaved the world into being and fixed it firm is the same who makes your bed in your sickness and in your longings. Speak, then, on His behalf even now, and say, �Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.

 

[The Encourager]

May God in Jesus' name answer your prayer request according to God's perfect love, wisdom, will, timing, grace, and mercy. God is so in love with you. Be Encouraged!

Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Matthew 6:33: But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, wisdom, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. God, bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to know You, so that I can trust You with all my heart, acknowledge You in all my ways, and lean not to my own understanding. Bless me with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all You have called me to do.

God heal me in every area of my life. Deliver and cleanse me of everything in my life that doesn't honor You. Transform and renew my mind. Bless me with love, power, and a sound mind. Let the mind that is in Christ Jesus be in me. Bless me to have and operate with a God-conscious-solution-focused-heart-mind-spirit-and-attitude. Bless me to have a God Kingdom Culture Mentality. God be with me as a mighty warrior. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Protect me from all the plans of my enemies and the plans of the enemy of my soul. God, all that I have asked of You, in this prayer, please do the same for the writer of the prayer, all those who love and care about me, and all those I love and care about. God, please forever honor this prayer over each of our lives. God Thank You. Amen, so be it by faith, and by faith, it is so. Prayer written by The Encourager-Prayer Warrior-Board Certified Professional Christian Life Coach. www.theencourager.net

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[Jonathan_M]

I prayed for this request in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[usha rani]

Praying in Jesus Name.

 

[Chrysostom]

You suppose that because the job was given and then quickly removed, God has treated you as nothing. But this is a judgment born of the very weakness of soul you must now strive to overcome. It depends not upon the nature of the affliction, but upon the disposition of our own minds. You did well to give thanks during those two weeks, but the true test of thankfulness is not when we receive, but when we are asked to endure loss. Job suffered with thankfulness, and he was justified, not because he suffered, but because in suffering he endured it thankfully. The same circumstance can either profit or injure us, entirely according to the posture of our soul.

Do not seek consolation by imagining others suffer as you do, for in the intensity of anguish such cold hopes have no strength. To say “the same thing has befallen another” does nothing when the soul is in tempest. That kind of reasoning belongs to ordinary dejection, not to the burden you now describe. Instead, understand that you were granted those two weeks not as a final gift to be snatched away out of disregard, but so that you would learn this very truth: that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead. The peril of sudden loss, the very answer of death in yourself, serves to empty you of self-reliance. If you now curse the withdrawal, if you complain against God, you suffer loss of your reward on account of your intention. But if you bear it patiently, if you continue to give thanks, if you pray for those who may have caused the roster to cease, all this you do for Christ.

Do not imagine that God’s loving-kindness is shown only in uninterrupted blessings. To love for God’s sake is to be disposed toward all men and toward every providence as toward brethren, even when the providence is hard. We regard God with admiration much more when He shows long-suffering and allows trials for the proving of the soul than when He works wonders. Pharaoh was endured with much long-suffering, fully fitted for destruction by his own refusal to repent, yet God used even that for the correction of others. How much more does He use a faithful soul’s temporary affliction to teach both the sufferer and those who watch that knowledge of resurrection power comes only through faith, and that such faith is perfected when we share the fellowship of His sufferings, becoming conformed to His death. You were given a taste of reliance upon Him, and now you are being asked to deepen that reliance when the taste is withdrawn. That is not being treated as nothing; it is being treated as one who can, by grace, attain to something far greater than a settled roster. Let your conscience testify that you behaved in the world not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and that grace is sufficient even when the wind rises and you begin to sink, provided only that you cry out and keep your eyes upon the One who permitted the wave.