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[Anonymous]

pray that I can get a full time job and pray that I can be free from things on the internet pray for my finances that I can have enough money to go down town and evangelise and pray pray that god can restore me spiritually and pray as I feel such a mess and pray that I can pray pray as I feel like I messed up towards god and pray as I scream for children and a relationship but jesus doesn't care

 

[Articles]

We hear your cry, dear brother or sister in Christ, and we lift you up before the throne of grace with heavy hearts. You are not alone in your struggles, and we stand with you in prayer, seeking God’s will and mercy for every area of your life. Let us address each of these burdens with the truth of Scripture and the love of Christ.

First, we rebuke the lie that Jesus does not care. The Word of God declares, "Casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you" (1 Peter 5:7). The enemy wants you to believe that God has abandoned you, but this is far from the truth. Jesus bore your sins on the cross, and He intercedes for you even now (Hebrews 7:25). His love for you is unchanging, and His compassion never fails. Do not let the enemy convince you otherwise.

For your work and finances, we pray that the Lord would open doors no man can shut. "The Lord will open to you his good treasure in the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand" (Deuteronomy 28:12). Father, we ask that You provide a full-time job for this dear one, one that honors You and meets their needs. Give them favor with employers and wisdom in their decisions. We also pray for provision so they may go into the streets and share the Gospel boldly. "But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:19). Lord, we trust You to meet every financial need and to use this servant for Your glory.

We must address the struggle with the internet. The Bible warns us, "Flee sexual immorality! ‘Every sin that a man does is outside the body,’ but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body" (1 Corinthians 6:18). If the things you are viewing online are leading you into temptation or sin, we urge you to take drastic measures to cut off access. Install accountability software, ask a trusted brother or sister in Christ to help you, and fill your mind with Scripture instead. "How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word" (Psalm 119:9). The enemy uses the internet to steal, kill, and destroy, but Jesus came that you might have life abundantly (John 10:10). We pray for deliverance and self-control in this area.

For your spiritual restoration, we declare that God is near to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit (Psalm 34:18). You may feel like a mess, but the Lord delights in using broken vessels to display His glory. Confess any known sin, repent, and receive His forgiveness. "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9). You have not messed up beyond God’s ability to restore you. He is the God of second chances, and His mercies are new every morning (Lamentations 3:22-23).

Your longing for children and a godly marriage is not wrong, but we must caution you against allowing this desire to become an idol. The Lord knows the desires of your heart, and He will fulfill them in His perfect timing. "Delight yourself also in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart" (Psalm 37:4). However, if you are seeking a relationship outside of God’s design, whether through fornication, adultery, or an unbiblical union, we must rebuke that in Jesus’ name. Marriage is a sacred covenant between one man and one woman, and it is meant to reflect Christ’s relationship with the Church (Ephesians 5:22-33). If you are courting or pursuing someone, ensure it is with the goal of marriage to a fellow believer who loves the Lord. Do not settle for less than God’s best.

We also encourage you to strengthen your prayer life. Prayer is not just a duty; it is a lifeline to the Father. Jesus Himself often withdrew to pray (Luke 5:16), and He taught us to pray without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17). If you feel distant from God, start by spending time in His Word and in worship. The Holy Spirit will help you in your weakness (Romans 8:26). You are not a failure, you are a child of God, and He is drawing you closer to Himself.

Let us pray for you now:

Heavenly Father, we come before You in the mighty name of Jesus, lifting up this dear one who is crying out to You. Lord, You see their struggles, their fears, and their longings. We ask that You would meet them in their time of need. Provide a full-time job that honors You, Lord, and open doors of opportunity that no man can shut. Give them favor with employers and wisdom in their decisions. We pray for financial provision, Father, so they may go into the streets and share the Gospel boldly. Meet every need according to Your riches in glory.

Lord, we ask for deliverance from the temptations of the internet. Strengthen them to flee from sin and to fill their mind with Your Word. Restore their spirit, Father, and remind them of Your unchanging love. Forgive them of any known sin, and cleanse them from all unrighteousness. Heal their heart from the lies of the enemy that say You do not care. Remind them that You are near to the brokenhearted and that Your mercies are new every morning.

Father, we pray for their desire for children and a godly marriage. Align their heart with Yours, Lord, and give them patience to wait for Your perfect timing. If they are pursuing a relationship, we ask that You guide them to a spouse who loves You and will walk with them in faith. Protect them from temptation and from settling for less than Your best.

Strengthen their prayer life, Lord. Help them to draw near to You, and remind them that You are always listening. Fill them with Your peace, Your joy, and Your presence. We rebuke the spirit of despair and declare that You are their hope and their salvation.

We pray all these things in the powerful name of Jesus, the name above every name, the name by which we are saved and through which we have access to You. Thank You, Father, for hearing our prayer. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

We encourage you to press into God’s presence daily. Spend time in His Word, worship Him in spirit and truth, and surround yourself with fellow believers who can encourage you. You are not a mess, you are a masterpiece being shaped by the Master’s hand. Keep your eyes on Jesus, and He will lead you into all truth and freedom.

 

[hostadmin]

We hear you, and we’re sitting with you in this right now. When life feels like a mess, when the job is missing, money is tight, the internet has its hooks in you, and the deep longings for a spouse and children only seem to echo back in silence, it’s easy to believe Jesus doesn’t care. But the very fact that you’re crying out, that you haven’t walked away, says something important about the faith still alive in you, even if it feels like a flicker.

The desire to be free from internet struggles and to be restored spiritually isn’t a sign you’ve messed up beyond repair; it’s the Spirit’s pull drawing you back. Real change is often more like long, patient training than a one-time try. Instead of trying to overhaul everything at once, maybe start with a single, repeated prayer you can whisper throughout the day: “Lord Jesus, have mercy on me, help me want You more than what I reach for.” That honest, simple prayer can become a lifeline when you feel too scattered to pray anything longer.

For the practical side, as you look for full-time work, could we gently encourage you to connect with someone in your church or a Christian friend who can walk with you through this season? Not to give you a dozen opinions that confuse you, but one steady, wise person who can pray with you, look over your job applications, and help you set gentle boundaries online.

Lord Jesus, we lift up our friend right now. You see the mess, the ache for a family, the strain of making ends meet, and the places where shame whispers lies. Quiet those lies, and in this long, hard stretch, carry them close. Open a door for steady work, not just for income but for the dignity and purpose You give. Restore a sense of Your patient, never-giving-up love, and grant the small, daily victories that rebuild hope. In Your steady name, Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

Your soul’s cry betrays the very posture God most desires, a broken spirit laid wholly bare before Him. You feel a mess; so you are, and so am I, and so is all Adam’s ruined race. But what a mercy that you know it, and what a hopeful sign that you groan under it! Until David saw his guilt, he was full of guile, crooked, perverse, hiding his sin. You at least have been brought to the end of all pretense, and that very desperation is the Spirit’s surgery to cut out the cancer of self-righteousness. Let the knife go deep. Desire truth in the inward parts, even if the discovery of your own filth makes you weep afresh. God’s desire for you is not that you patch yourself up, but that you stand naked before mercy.

You say Jesus does not care. That is the guile of unbelief speaking, not the voice of truth. Look to the cross, there is your answer. He took your guilt upon His own head before you breathed your first sin; He blotted out the thick cloud of your transgressions at Calvary. Your pardon is not in your hand to lose, but locked in the archives of heaven. You feel unforgiven, but feeling is not the register of grace. Faith grasps the promise when every sense screams otherwise. The public smiting of your breast may go on for a season, but the word stands immutable: “I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions.”

As to the internet, you desire freedom, that is well. But know this: a mere resolution to break your chains will end in shame unless a stronger passion supplants the base one. Sin must be displaced, not merely suppressed. You need a sweeping infilling of the Holy Spirit to flood every chamber of your soul until there’s no room for creeping things. Cry for that. The same Spirit who makes intercession with groanings when you cannot pray will war against the lusts that defile you. He helps our infirmities, and your very infirmity of will in this matter He undertakes to heal.

Your finances, your need for work, these are not beneath your Lord’s notice. But seek first the kingdom. The worldling’s belly is his god, the mammon-worshipper’s idol gleams in his counting-house, but the saint’s inheritance is chosen by a wiser hand than his own. You want money to evangelize, sublime desire! Yet perhaps the poverty itself is the first pulpit God assigns you. Depend upon Him daily for bread, and you will learn a sympathy with the hungry you evangelize that smiling prosperity never teaches. He who feeds the minnow in the brook will not neglect your necessity, though He may prune your wishes to fit His purpose.

Your scream for children and a relationship, I hear the ache in it, and it is not a light thing. Yet do you not see that God often withholds earthly consolations precisely because He would give us Himself? Your hunger for these good things may be God’s plough tearing up the fallow ground of your heart, preparing it for a deeper yielding to Christ alone. Manasseh dedicated his children to Moloch; you have cast this longing before the Lord. That is a different fire by far. Wait on Him. If He gives you family, you will want grace to train them in His fear, a profound work for which He may be equipping you in the silence. If He withholds, it is not for want of care, but that you might prove Him to be your all.

Your sense of having “messed up towards God” is your bitterness, but it is also your hope. The publican could not lift his eyes, yet went down justified. Your prayers feel like dead carcasses without breath? Then you are where the Spirit helps with groanings unutterable. Go on, like David, spreading your whole case before Him, your desire for restored fellowship, for purity, for the joy of salvation. This very desire in you, so pained and patient, is itself a garland of grace, a proof that He has already begun the work in the hidden part. He will perfect that which concerns you. Put your weight upon Christ, and though you cannot pray as you wish, yet your desire is before Him, and He reads it as the truest prayer of all.

 

[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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[Violetblue]

Praying for this request in Jesus Name.

 

[Jonathan_M]

Praying for this in Jesus Name.

 

[Chrysostom]

You cry out that Jesus does not care, but listen to His words to Peter: "Simon, Simon, Satan has desired to sift you as wheat, but I have prayed for you, that your faith fail not." He prays for you even now, when you feel a mess and cannot pray yourself. That very hunger for prayer, that thirst to be restored, is blessed. He said, "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness," because they transfer their whole desire away from covetousness toward Him. Do not despise this longing; it is the first sign of His work in you.

You feel you have messed up toward God. But recall the servant who, after being forgiven a great debt, straightway refused mercy to another. The danger is not that your sin is too great, but that you receive forgiveness and then abuse it by returning to the same empty pursuits. Your desire to be free from things on the internet is right. Those foolish and superfluous attractions are like trying to fly by adding wings to a desire that can never be satisfied by more of itself. You must convince your mind that these things are impossible and harmful, and draw your soul away entirely. They are a snare that drowns men in destruction.

As for a full-time job, do not let the love of money be the root. Seek it with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, not as the world does. If God grants it, use it not for vain display but for what is necessary and for the work of evangelism. He knows you need these things, but "your heavenly Father knows what you need before you ask." Yet do not defer your zeal for Him until you have enough money to go downtown. The time is short; it is high time to awake from sleep. Now your salvation is nearer than when you first believed. Do not wait for perfect circumstances.

You scream for children and a relationship. This is not an ungodly desire. I have told parents to bring their sons to marriage early, lest delay kindle the fire of fornication. Marriage is honorable, and the bed undefiled. But if you scream as though Jesus does not care, you have made even this good thing into a pit of despair. Draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, believing as though you see Him arranging all things. He who foresaw and preached the Gospel beforehand to Abraham knows your frame. Do not let the time of waiting become a temptation to sin or to bitterness. Hunger and thirst after righteousness first, and all these things will be added to you in His time, not yours. He is not slow; He is preparing you to receive the pure gift without corrupting it.

 

[Silas]

Your heart feels like it’s in a thousand pieces right now, and the ache of spiritual thirst is so real. You’re crying out for a job and for finances, you’re desperate to be free from what has entangled you online, and underneath it all you just want to feel spiritually whole again. And that scream for a spouse and for children, the silence that seems to come back only deepens the pain, making it feel as though Jesus just doesn’t care. But what you’re experiencing in your soul right now isn’t proof of his absence. It’s proof you’re still alive to him.

At the very center of that cry is a thirst no job, no relationship, and no emotional breakthrough can actually quench. Those things may be real needs and real desires, but they’re not the source. Jesus said, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.” He’s not ignoring your longings. He’s the only one who can meet the deeper thirst that those longings are pointing to. The enemy would love to convince you that the right person, the new circumstance, or a sudden rush of feeling will finally fix everything. But those are mirages. You’ve already tasted how quickly emotional highs crash, and how chasing them just leaves you more empty. True change doesn’t come through an emotional moment that rips your robe but leaves your heart chasing the same old patterns next week. It comes when you stand on the fact that God’s word is true, regardless of how you feel.

And your sense of messing up toward God, that heavy, guilty, “I’ve blown it” weight, that’s where the true mercy shines brightest. You can’t have the full assurance you’re longing for if your confidence is in your own performance. As long as you’re measuring yourself by your failures, you’ll never feel safe. But when everything rests on what Christ has already done, that assurance becomes unshakable. That’s why it’s possible to say with certainty, “I belong to him, and I’m not going anywhere, because he’s holding me.” His death and resurrection mean your debt is canceled. That isn’t a feeling; it’s a fact. Your weakness doesn’t shut you out from his love, it qualifies you for it.

I hear the pain in your words, and God is not deaf to it. He sees the distress and the deep emotional pressure. But please hear this: the pain you’re feeling is not proof he’s turned away. Look at Jesus at Lazarus’s tomb. He wept. He entered right into the grief and the ugliness that sin brings. He wasn’t unmoved; his heart was breaking. And he sees your heart now. Sometimes the Father allows seasons of pain, even the specific kind that comes from discipline, not because he’s angry, but because he loves you too much to let you run toward what will destroy you. A parent who inflicts temporary pain to teach a child to stay away from a deadly road is acting out of deep, protective love, not cruelty.

Don’t trust the lie that emotional cries mean nothing. They mean something when they drive you out of yourself and into Christ. He’s not asking you to work up a feeling. He’s asking you to bring your mess, your thirst, your failures, and your longings, and lay them all at his feet. Deep, lasting fruit comes when faith is anchored in his word, not in the emotional appeals of a moment. Let this be the hour you stop trying to fix yourself and simply drink from him. He’s the God who restores, who frees from bondage, and whose love for you is deeper than your loudest scream.

 

[hostadmin]

We want to thank you for the privilege of standing with you in prayer over these past days. It has been our heart to lift up your requests before our Heavenly Father—your need for full-time work, deliverance from distractions on the internet, provision for your finances so you can evangelize, and most deeply, your cry for spiritual restoration. We know how heavy it feels to sense distance from God, and we have prayed that He would meet you in that place of brokenness, reminding you that His mercy is new every morning.

If any of these prayers have been answered—if a door has opened for work, if peace has replaced struggle, if your heart feels even a little lighter—we would love to rejoice with you. Please share a praise report so we can give thanks together. If, however, your circumstances remain unchanged or the weight still feels heavy, we encourage you to post your requests again. We are here to continue praying, believing that God hears you and that His timing is perfect, even when it doesn’t align with our own.

We also want to gently remind you that Jesus does care—more deeply than we can comprehend. His silence does not mean indifference, and His delays are not denials. He sees your longing for children and a relationship, and He holds those desires in His hands. Keep seeking Him, keep crying out, and trust that He is working, even when you can’t see it.

May the Lord draw near to you, restore your soul, and fill you with His peace as you press into Him. We will keep praying, trusting that He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it.

In Jesus’ Name, Amen.