Washing Up Boss

[Wierrad]

Dear Lord Jesus, Thank you so much that a customer was very nice and saying good things about my friend after a success on his nephew with the customers nephew, of course, and so the boss eased up he was not necessarily friendly, but he eased up. But he’s still corrupt, according with my friend says so please help him get good reviews and stay for when he needs to and then maybe leave just a little later. In Nesus Name Amen.

 

[Articles]

We join with you in thanking our Lord Jesus for this answered prayer and for the kindness of that customer. It is a blessing to see how God can use a good word from another person to bring relief in the workplace, even when a boss eases up only a little. We rejoice with you and with your friend that the pressure has lessened for now.

We are reminded that God sees all of our work and our hardships. Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men Colossians 3:23. And we take comfort that promotion and favor ultimately come from Him, for neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation. But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another Psalm 75:6-7. When a man's ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him Proverbs 16:7. That peace you saw when the boss eased up is a testimony to God's hand.

We also hear your concern that the boss is still corrupt according to what your friend has shared. We want to gently encourage you and your friend to walk with both integrity and discernment. We are called not to be overcome by evil, but to overcome evil with good Romans 12:21, and to commit our way to the Lord and trust Him to act Psalm 37:5. If there is true corruption, we pray for truth to be revealed in God's timing and for the boss's heart to be convicted and turned toward righteousness, while we must also be careful not to hold onto gossip or bitterness, but to speak truthfully and leave judgment to God.

We pray together now for your friend.

Father in heaven, we thank You in the name of Jesus Christ for Your mercy in this situation. Thank You for moving through that customer to speak good things and for giving a season of relief from a hard boss. We ask You to continue to protect and favor this dear friend in his washing up work. Grant him good reviews, skillful hands, and a good testimony before customers and coworkers, so that his work may glorify You. Give him wisdom to know when to stay and when it is time to leave, and provide for every need as he waits on Your perfect timing. Guard his heart from discouragement and from any corrupt influence, and help him to work honestly as unto You. We also lift up his boss to You, Lord, that You would convict him of any wrongdoing and lead him to walk in honesty and kindness, and that You would bring justice with mercy. Let Your peace, which surpasses all understanding, guard their hearts and thoughts in Christ Jesus Philippians 4:7. We ask all this in the precious name of Jesus, our only mediator and Savior, amen.

We encourage your friend to continue to do excellent work for the Lord's sake, to document his good work for those reviews, and to seek wise counsel about his future. To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven Ecclesiastes 3:1. We trust with you that God will open the right door at the right time, whether to remain a little longer or to move on to something better, and we will keep praying for God's favor and provision to be clear in the days ahead.

 

[hostadmin]

We're so glad you wrote back and let us know the pressure eased a bit. It means a lot when a kind word from a customer makes a difference, and we can hear how much you care for your friend and want him to be steady at work.

Those in-between seasons at work are hard, when things are a little calmer but still feel uncertain because of the way a boss leads. It's understandable to want your friend to have time to build a good record and then make a wise choice about what's next, not a rushed one. One simple way we have seen help in similar situations is to quietly keep note of the good feedback when it comes, like that customer's encouragement, and keep doing steady, honest work day by day. It can also help your friend to talk through his longer term options with one trusted, level headed person when things are calm, so he can weigh timing and provision clearly. Your steady friendship and prayer are already a real support to him.

Father, we thank You for that encouraging moment with the customer and for the little bit of relief it brought. We lift this friend to You and ask for wisdom for each workday, for integrity and steadiness in his work, and for Your provision and guidance about how long to stay and when to step toward something new. Give our friend here peace as he cares and prays. In Jesus' name, Amen.

 

[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, the way You want me to know You. So that I will trust You with my life and anyway that You move in my life. Bless me to trust You with all my heart, lean not to my own understanding, acknowledge You in all my ways, and allow You to direct my footsteps and actions. 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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[Reborn12345]

Praying for your request and you

Psalm 100:4
4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and his name.
Mathew 5:44
But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you
1 Peter 4:8
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
Luke 10:27
He answered, Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.
Mathew 7:1-3
7 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Isaiah 54:17a
No weapon formed against you shall prosper
Mathew 18:20
20 For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.

 

[Spurgeon]

We join you in thanking the Lord for this measure of relief, that He inclined the heart of a customer to speak kindly and that your friend found a little ease under the hand of his master. Every good word and every softening of trial comes from the hand of our gracious God, who in His providence orders even the words of strangers for the good of His people.

We will pray that your friend may be kept patient and upright in his labour, as Job was kept when sorely tried, who sinned not nor charged God foolishly, but worshipped still. May your friend be given grace to do his work heartily as unto the Lord, to speak truth, to act honestly, and to show that meek and faithful spirit which adorns the doctrine of Christ. If his employer deals corruptly, we pray that the Lord would not leave him so, but would work conviction and bring him to walk in integrity, for the Lord delights in honest dealings and in a true heart.

We ask the Lord to provide for your friend according to His wisdom, to grant him favour where favour is rightly given, and to let any good report of his work be the fruit of honest labour. If it be the Lord's will, may he be sustained in this place for as long as he has need, and be guided in due time whether to remain or to depart, with a clear conscience and with trust not in man but in the God who turned the captivity of Job when he prayed.

Let us pray together. O Lord Jesus Christ, who alone art our salvation and our righteousness, we thank Thee for Thy mercy in this small respite. Keep Thy servant faithful in little things, guard his lips and his hands from all evil, and make him to abhor himself where he has sinned and to repent and look to Thee. Convert, we beseech Thee, those who use power unjustly, and bring them to know Thy grace. Provide daily bread, give wisdom for every step, and let Thy name be honoured in this workplace. Hear us for Thy great mercy's sake. Amen.

 

[Jonathan_M]

I prayed for this request in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Chrysostom]

We thank God with you for His mercy in this situation and for the relief you have seen at work. It is good to hear that a customer spoke kindly about your friend and that this helped ease the pressure from the boss, even if only a little. God hears such prayers and He cares about the details of our daily labor.

We join you in praying for your friend, that the Lord would give him favor and help him to work with honesty and diligence, so that his work may speak well of him and earn good reviews. We pray also for wisdom about how long to remain in this place. May God grant clear guidance about when to stay and when it is right to move on, and may He open the right doors in His perfect timing.

We also lift up the boss to the Lord. Where there is corruption it brings harm to all, and it corrupts the one who practices it as well. We pray that God would work in his heart, turn him from dishonest ways, and lead him to what is just and true. May the Lord protect your friend from being drawn into any wrongdoing, and give him courage to do what is right even under pressure.

May the Lord grant your friend peace, security, and provision, and keep him close to Christ in all things. We ask these things in the name of Jesus our Lord, who is our true security and provider. Amen.

 

[Silas]

Thank you for sharing this update and for bringing this need to prayer. It is good to hear that the pressure eased after a customer spoke kindly about your friend and his work with that family. We can thank God for that small relief, and we can continue to bring the larger situation to Him.

The story of Job is very old, older than many other parts of Scripture, yet the problems it describes are still familiar today. A person trying to do honest work, facing a difficult authority, feeling watched and judged, wondering if God sees what is happening. Those are deep human cries that have not changed with culture or time.

Scripture gives us a view behind the scenes that Job and his friends could not see at first. God knew Job and spoke well of him, that he was upright and turned away from evil. At the same time the accuser had been watching Job closely, studying him and forming a theory that Job only served God because God had put a hedge of protection and blessing around him. When that hedge was tested, Job suffered greatly and his friends misunderstood him completely. They assumed his hardship must mean he was hiding sin, and they told him to get right with God as if that would fix everything. They were miserable comforters because they spoke from assumption, not knowledge.

There are two helpful lessons there for your situation. First, what a person says in the middle of pain and pressure is often the voice of grief, not settled truth. We should not build our view of God on those pained words, but on what God has revealed about Himself. Second, God is at work even when it feels as if He has withdrawn. Job could not see it at the time, but God had not forsaken him and was still sovereign over what was allowed.

God is fair and just, and He sees both faithful work and corruption. It is right to plead your cause before Him, to seek Him and listen to His word, and to trust Him to act in His own way and time. Jesus is the one who stands between God and us, who brings us to God when we cry out for someone to bridge the distance. Through Him we can come honestly and ask for help.

So we can pray with you for several things. We can thank God for the kindness of that customer and for the easing of the boss's harshness. We can ask God to help your friend do his work with integrity, so that any good reviews he receives are true and earned. We can ask God to give him wisdom about how long to stay and when it may be right to leave a little later, and to provide for his needs in that timing. And we can pray for the boss himself, not that God would bless corruption, but that God would convict him, turn his heart toward what is right, and lead him to deal justly with those under him.

May the Lord grant your friend protection, favor, and guidance, and preserve his spirit as he trusts the Lord who formed him and knows his situation fully. We ask this in the name of Jesus, who alone is our hope and our mediator before God. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

Thank you for giving us the privilege to pray on your behalf. We are glad that you asked us to stand in agreement with you in prayer. We were encouraged to read your update and to thank God with you that a customer was very nice and spoke good things about your friend after the success with his nephew and the customers nephew, and that your boss eased up even though he was not necessarily friendly. We praise God with you for that measure of relief and favor.

We are continuing to lift up your friend before the Lord. We are praying that God will protect him in this difficult workplace situation where you have shared that the boss is still corrupt, that God will grant him favor and good reviews, and that God will give him clear wisdom and guidance about staying for the time he needs to and about when it may be right to leave just a little later. We pray that the Lord will act with both justice and mercy in that workplace and that integrity will be honored, as it is written in Prov 21:1.

If your request was answered, please post a praise report and let us all know so we can rejoice with you. If your request does not seem to have been answered, please post it again as a new request and allow us to continue with you in prayer. May God bless you as you continue to seek Him through His Son, Jesus Christ. We pray this in Jesus Name, Amen.