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ANXIETY, FEAR

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Ask a family member for help. Put out applications at just about any place. As your working one job, with at least some income, you can search or train for something more specialized. Maybe a financial adviser or counselor may be a good idea.
This sounds so hard. Will be praying for you.
 
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Ask a family member for help. Put out applications at just about any place. As your working one job, with at least some income, you can search or train for something more specialized. Maybe a financial adviser or counselor may be a good idea.
This sounds so hard. Will be praying for you.
Thanks for writing back to me. I have been applying everywhere, but no luck at all. I do not know what to do.
 
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I am terribly sorry to hear your struggles right now. I can only offer my experience, strength, hope, and prayers. I remember being in a desperate situation long ago, to the point where I joined the military (which ended up working out well for me).

With that said, I spent a lot of years in a financially destroyed marriage. I've lived decades in all kinds of fear and worry.

I know that Jesus advises us to cast our cares on him. Sometimes we have to do it over and over again. Sometimes journaling, writing down, and sharing our fears with others can be helpful. A pain or fear that is shared is cut in half.

There are situations where I just had to wrestle with things, and just keep on saying 'God, I've done all I can do. There is nothing more I can do. I give this to you'. And just telling him that over and over. It is a process of surrendering the problem to him. We can let him have it. Instead of spinning our wheels in our own inability and weakness, we begin to turn it over to God. We turn it over to his care. We release it to his hands. We slowly learn how to rely on him to provide for us.

If the stories of the bible are true, then we are not the first people to be dealing with problems. There was the impoverished woman who was making her last meal before she was to die, and God sent Elijah. And there were stories of people following Jesus who had nothing to eat, yet God multiplied or in some way provided. We are not alone in our struggles.

Learning to surrender and trust God is very difficult. But sometimes we don't let God into the situation while we are on spin cycle. It is a slow and difficult process of trusting God, and trusting his design for your life. Sometimes we have to go through our greatest fears, but even so, God is still in control. That is what faith is...not that everything goes the way we want it, but that we are willing to accept whatever God's will is for us, even when the road is marked with suffering.

I don't know if this helps. I encourage you to just work on yourself. Get connected with some supportive and helpful people that you can trust. Ask God for some people if you don't have anyone. It is hard to go through this journey alone. There is strength when we let other people into our lives. I pray and have confidence that God shall take care of you. He has plans and purposes to accomplish that are bigger than what you are facing right now. But right now you are here, and it is hard. May God's love and peace comfort you tonight. Start working on building that trust relationship with God. If you are into writing, then journaling and pouring out your fears, pain, and anger on to paper can be helpful (that's how we got the Psalms, by the way). Honestly share where you are at with God, and get connected if you can with people. God can provide if we are ready and willing to accept.
 
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