Please Pray for Restoral of Faith During Scary Time

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ann81

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I am in desperate need of prayer during this time. I got married young to my pastor's son. I thought my life would be a blessed one. After years of abuse I escaped with my firstborn and 6 months pregnant. We moved to a new city and began our new lives. I met the kindest man two years later. We've been married now over a decade. The military keeps him away a lot but he makes every second count when he is home. It was perfect until major medical issues hit us hard. Everything in our lives came to a screeching halt. My husband works hard, serves his country and is there for everyone. I've gone back to work but my minimum wage job isn't enough to cover our day to day expenses let alone what we need to recover financially and physically. I've struggled with my faith over this many a sleepless night. I found myself hopeless and defeated as the same programs we used to support cannot help us in our time of need. I need prayer to remain strong for my family and not sink further into despair. Please pray for our family as we go through this tribulation. Please help us be like Job becoming stronger and more faithful. Please pray that a door will open in our time of need. Please pray for my children that they remain innocent throughout all of this. Please pray for my husband. He's the best man I know.
 
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ann81 said:
I am in desperate need of prayer during this time. I got married young to my pastor's son. I thought my life would be a blessed one. After years of abuse I escaped with my firstborn and 6 months pregnant. We moved to a new city and began our new lives. I met the kindest man two years later. We've been married now over a decade. The military keeps him away a lot but he makes every second count when he is home. It was perfect until major medical issues hit us hard. Everything in our lives came to a screeching halt. My husband works hard, serves his country and is there for everyone. I've gone back to work but my minimum wage job isn't enough to cover our day to day expenses let alone what we need to recover financially and physically. I've struggled with my faith over this many a sleepless night. I found myself hopeless and defeated as the same programs we used to support cannot help us in our time of need. I need prayer to remain strong for my family and not sink further into despair. Please pray for our family as we go through this tribulation. Please help us be like Job becoming stronger and more faithful. Please pray that a door will open in our time of need. Please pray for my children that they remain innocent throughout all of this. Please pray for my husband. He's the best man I know.
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First, you still have what makes you the most happy -- God, your husband, and your kids. True, minimum wages doesn't afford the life you had. It affords food on your table. (Maybe just chicken wings now, but it's still food!)

Now is time to rethink "day-to-day expenses." Hubby and I used to be comfortably-middle-class. And then I became disabled. Then we were eking somewhere between middle-class and lower-class, but comfortably left the building. We had to relearn to live within our means. (I still hate living within my means, but I like that we can. lol)

And then hubby became disabled, and we had to learn to live in even tighter our-means, which, here in the States included Welfare. Rethink day-to-day expenses. You need food. You need shelter. You need heat. (Hey! Canada! You really really need heat!) Downsize! Find a cheaper place to live. Canada does have used mobile homes still, right? I'm assuming it's cheaper to live near a college or university in Canada, just like it is cheaper here too, and yes, I know why. No one likes living near wild college parties, but it's cheaper, so it may be your only choice. (Wild college parties never happen when your children are outside, assuming you don't let your kids roam at night.) Seems like you still have Internet service. That's a good thing, considering you can't find government programs and help without it. BUT, can you still get dial-up service? It's much cheaper than FiOS. How many phones do you have? You only need one. Maybe two, depending on if you work out on the road. But there are so many things we accept as part of life that really aren't. Cable TV, cell phones, expensive Internet access, ordering dinner instead of cooking, etc. Drop everything you don't need.

Still broke, right? Yeah, I get that. Are you a good worker? You ought to be. If you've worked for that place over three months, ask for a raise. If you're a very good worker, ask for that raise after a month. Just because they hired you at minimum wages doesn't mean they won't appreciate a hard worker enough to pay her better.

No raise? Keep looking for another job that pays better. Even with a raise, keep looking for a job that pays better. The beauty of being this broke is when finances get better, you really know the difference between need and want, so will save for want ASAP. You learn how to live within your means.

And the kids? They may well want what every other kid has, but what they need is parents who love them. Yours have that! As a kid I never noticed money was tight. I noticed I didn't get what every other kid got, but I was trained early not to compete with every other kid on stuff. (Games, yes. Stuff, no. lol) I never noticed money was tight until my junior year in high school -- the year money was no longer tight. (I suddenly started getting stuff. lol)

I told you I became disabled and then hubby did. Bad timing on his disability. We had started saving in our retirement fund by then, but a jet crashed into America's largest building, emptying the skies of all planes for three days, (and thank you, Canada, for taking good care of our stranded passengers for those three days), which destroyed the abilities of many companies to transport their good, thus killing those companies, which snowballed into a bad recession. So, our retirement fund -- which had big investments in the stock market tumbled down to half price when we needed to use it. (And our government thinks it's a good time to get money when someone needs their retirement money before retiring, so they took 30% of what was left.) We lost everything but the house, and we were about to lose that in three weeks, while hubby was on chemo therapy. God provided.

Hubby is cured of that disease. We still have our house. We still can't keep up on the maintenance, but I am warm, and fed. Hubby is in the hospital with something worse now. We have experience in both how-to-live-broke and how-to-trust-God-in-most-things. (I'm a slow learner, so still haven't gotten to trusting God in all things. Working on it. lol)

God keeps taking care of us, even if he has no problems dumping us out of comfortable! He will take care of you under the same parameters.

You already are strong. You got a job when a job was needed. That's not your strength. That's God working in you. We got flabby in comfortable. God is now toning us up in small ways to teach us to trust him in big ways. He put you on the big weights. Give him that weight. That's his purpose. He is conditioning you, and in doing so, he is conditioning your whole family, because you are one. Trust him like your hubby trusted serving his country!

Lord, I thank you that you gave Ann all she needs -- you and her family. She's panicking as the sole bread winner. Remind her where we get our daily bread. Give her the peace that passses through her for her good and then passes on to her family for their good. Give her family peace so they can pass it back, always aware of who gives that peace. And, Lord, please let this family move on to comfort. Long-term discomfort is an ache. I know you may not do that part, but whatever you choose to do, always remind her of Rom. 8:28. It is all for her good and your glory, so give her the strength to hand this over to you and keep what you give her. Amen.
 
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Philippians 4:19
 
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Father God we pray let you bless ann81, in these things, also bless the childrens, and her husband. Lord increase her faith, give her your joy, and peace, and let you be glorified, in her life, and family, in Jesus loving name, Amen!
 
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Ariel82

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Lord hear our prayers and uplift our sister and her family in their time of need. Send her people who will encourage her and open the hearts and minds of all those around her to help them through this valley. Lord may your will be done, in Jesus name we pray, amen.
 
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Heavenly Father help ann81 at this time when difficult times come, when we are faced with sickness and finacial hardship you know how hard it is for us to cope. I ask that Ann and her whole family would trust you. In your word it is says nothing can separate us from your love Romans 8 [SUP]38 [/SUP]For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[SUP][a][/SUP] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, [SUP]39 [/SUP]neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. I ask that their whole family would know your love, care and provision for them. Amen
 
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Lord, I pray that this woman feels you draw near and that she let you be her fortress of strength and comfort during this trial. I pray that you help her be the wife she needs to be for her husband at this time. I pray Lord, that you will open the windows of heaven for this family and pour out a bless on them. amen.
 
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i pray for ann's family, their health and finances.
 
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