How do I get rid of bad luck?

[GirdYourLoins]

To keep it brief, my whole life has been blighted by bad luck. I was born into a rich family that my dad left and broke all ties with, taking me and my brothers with him. we grew up poor. My dad was violent and psychologically abusive and as the youngest brother I was bullied. This led to obvious issues. Then as I got older I started working and moving on with my life. Every time I started to do well for myself through hard work and ability something would always happen to push me back down. In now nearly 30 years of working I have been through 18 company or department restructures which have had a very detrimental affect on my job/career (and 2 neutral on my career and 1 I got a better job from but 6 months later lost in in one of the detrimental ones). I've also had 5 times when I was told I was the best candidate for a job but it wasnt given to me as the hiring manager had been told to hire a woman as "positive discrimination", but from my perspective it was just discrimination.

There are also many other things that happen to me that are bad luck. Ive had loads of people say to me over the years I have had a really bad run of bad luck when they are seeing just one aspect, things going wrong with cars, problems with garages doing work on it, my house always seeming to have hidden problems that are expensive to fix (if I can even afford to get it done with the bad luck in my career meaning I dont earn as much as I should).

I also have health issues which cause me to suffer from fatigue and allergies including chemical sensitivity which make it very difficult for me to socialise, eat out or even go to church as even other peoples perfume can affect my chemical sensitivity.

In the last year or so I've changed job 3 times and the first 2 times ended up with a manager who was a free mason and hated Christians deliberately causing me to not be able to work effectively, one by leaving my work he was supposed to review and doing things he was supposed to until I lost the business and the other by extreme demands and bullying, my current low paid job has just had changes meaning I have to do a lot more travelling to different areas adding over an hour a day for no more pay and the reason has been described as bad luck. Also problems with the car and silly mistakes by two garages which they refused to take responsibility for and I ended up having to pay someone else to sort out.

So basically every aspect of my life for over 40 years has been affected by things that are frequently described by people as being bad luck. I've had hundreds of prayers for healing, blessing, etc but still I'm plagued by bad luck. Small things happen all the time and things more serious several times a year. Whenever I think Im doing well I tend to get hit with 2 or 3 biggies in quick succession. I often feel like I'm just waiting to die to get away from all this bad luck.

How do I get rid of it? Could it be linked to my dad genuinely hating God? Is there something about me that God wont bless me or lead me into overcoming it, or even let me know what it is? I've tried everything I can think of as a Christian to get rid of it to no avail - prayer, repentance, giving until it hurt, etc, etc. Nothing seems to work and all the time I keep having random things happen which can only be described as bad luck.

I'll just add that I was saved in my late 20's so this spans either side of that by many years.

 

[Mountainmanbob]

No such thing as luck.
M-Bob

 

[GirdYourLoins]

No such thing as luck.
M-Bob

Ive previously gone down the route of why does this always happen and how do I stop it. No one was able to help. Its a different way of putting it out of desperation as so many people have said I have had bad luck, including many Christians.

So if its not bad luck what is it and how do I get rid of it? To be honest I found your response absolutely no help at all.

The only alternative I can see is God is cursing me, and having read about God's cursing people it does seem to fit. But why and why for so long both before and after I was saved? If its sin (I am not perfect), I try to live righteously loving what is good and hating sin, I've repented of every sin I am aware for and those I'm not. I've asked for Gods help and strength, but to no avail.

 

[RaymondG]

Be it unto you as you believe.....
You believe you have bad luck and that thing well go wrong eventually......so you do, and it does.

If you want to change this, you must first change your heart and mind. When you are thinking positively about yourself and your affairs, you You will start to see and realize it.

We can only reap the fruit harvest of the seeds we have sown...

 

[GirdYourLoins]

Be it unto you as you believe.....
You believe you have bad luck and that thing well go wrong eventually......so you do, and it does.

If you want to change this, you must first change your heart and mind. When you are thinking positively about yourself and your affairs, you You will start to see and realize it.

We can only reap the fruit harvest of the seeds we have sown...

It tends to go the other way. When I think things are going well and I truly believe Im moving ahead positively and all this is finally behind me I have been hit with massive events. The last time after a year or so of nothing big happening I had a thought one day that things were going really well and within a matter of months I had been hit with 4 big things, starting with a tradesman from my church ripping me off for hundreds of pounds leaving me without enough money to get the job done properly and having to do it myself, then 3 other things at least as bad in a matter of months. My hair went from dark to grey in a few months because of the stress it caused. And thats not a one off.

 

[Mountainmanbob]

Ive previously gone down the route of why does this always happen and how do I stop it. No one was able to help. Its a different way of putting it out of desperation as so many people have said I have had bad luck, including many Christians.

So if its not bad luck what is it and how do I get rid of it? To be honest I found your response absolutely no help at all.

The only alternative I can see is God is cursing me, and having read about God's cursing people it does seem to fit. But why and why for so long both before and after I was saved? If its sin (I am not perfect), I try to live righteously loving what is good and hating sin, I've repented of every sin I am aware for and those I'm not. I've asked for Gods help and strength, but to no avail.

Since the fall it has not been easy here.

When it's rough I still
count my blessings
and thank God for them.
M-Bob

 

[Redwingfan9]

There is absolutely no such thing as bad luck. The notion of luck is nothing but superstition that denies God sovereignty over his creation. The stuff you've dealt with aren't exactly unusual. Lots of people grew up poor, lots of people have difficulty at work, lots of people have health problems and lots of people have car troubles. This isn't luck, it's life in a fallen world. Instead of viewing all these things negatively, you would be better served looking to what God is doing through these negative trials. We are in no wise promised an easy life just because we are Christians. We go through various trials and we shouldn't be surprised when things here on Earth aren't just so. The question for the Christian is how they handle trials. Do they bring us closer to God or not?