Prayers for how I manage a difficult situation

[Seraphin29]

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!

 

[SkyWriting]

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!

Focus on helping others. Be not distracted.

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

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!

This is what came to mind for you:

Psalm 46 King James Version (KJV)

46 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
7 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
8 Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
11 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

 

[vinsight4u]

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[drjean]

I have lost everything in the past (Hurricane Andrew) and after the shock was over, found that God had cleared out my life and given me fresh hope. May you find that He can do the same for you. We often have too much involvement with our possessions and they divert our attention away from Him. peace. You will get through this... rise above it.

 

[Greg Merrill]

May we learn to apply Proverbs 3:5-6 and Psalms 37:4-5, as well as Galatians 5:16 and Philippians 4:4. Amen.

 

[Seraphin29]

Hi, Everyone got out safely, right?

Yes! We were all out at the time thank you!

 

[Seraphin29]

View attachment 217445 I have lost everything in the past (Hurricane Andrew) and after the shock was over, found that God had cleared out my life and given me fresh hope. May you find that He can do the same for you. We often have too much involvement with our possessions and they divert our attention away from Him. peace. You will get through this... rise above it.

Thank you, yes, we are certainly decluttering! It feels like Im decluttering my mind as well as possessions.