- Aug 31, 2017
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- Christian
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- Married
we had a house fire a couple of weeks ago which devastated us & we are currently living in a hotel while our house is ripped apart & many of our possessions filling up big skips outside!
My request for prayers is around how Im dealing with this, not always too well. I know this should become a testimony that my non believing family and work colleagues should see the Lord working through me. But I keep drifting away, letting people at work try to destroy me by reacting badly to their evil ways, by losing my rag at times, by allowing myself to get cocooned in self pity at times instead of being outward focussed, and by getting irritated by things my family say and do, instead of setting an example of my faith. Then being so ill for a couple of days with a sickness bug that I couldn't even support my husband when the salvage operation started.
I so need prayer to keep me focussed on what God wants me to do and how He wants me to behave, it's so hard not to get carried away with my busy job, the distractions of people trying to undermine me and ridicule my faith, and the awful tendency to stray away from God. Yes I keep coming back, only to allow myself to be knocked by the next setback. I don't know yet what the Lord wants to come out of this situation, I know he has some plan. I wish it could serve to bring my family to Him and open up opportunities at work, but that may not be what He desires. Pray that He will lead and guide me and that I can find strength to be as He desires to fulfill His purpose. Thanks for reading this!
My request for prayers is around how Im dealing with this, not always too well. I know this should become a testimony that my non believing family and work colleagues should see the Lord working through me. But I keep drifting away, letting people at work try to destroy me by reacting badly to their evil ways, by losing my rag at times, by allowing myself to get cocooned in self pity at times instead of being outward focussed, and by getting irritated by things my family say and do, instead of setting an example of my faith. Then being so ill for a couple of days with a sickness bug that I couldn't even support my husband when the salvage operation started.
I so need prayer to keep me focussed on what God wants me to do and how He wants me to behave, it's so hard not to get carried away with my busy job, the distractions of people trying to undermine me and ridicule my faith, and the awful tendency to stray away from God. Yes I keep coming back, only to allow myself to be knocked by the next setback. I don't know yet what the Lord wants to come out of this situation, I know he has some plan. I wish it could serve to bring my family to Him and open up opportunities at work, but that may not be what He desires. Pray that He will lead and guide me and that I can find strength to be as He desires to fulfill His purpose. Thanks for reading this!