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Main Boards => Prayers/Concerns/Honors/Ailments => Topic started by: Curtiss Cardinal on January 19, 2008, 01:57:00 PM
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I'm just gonna say all this plainly. I was unemployed from August to January. The Indiana WorkForce people told me I qualified for unemployment. After I took it for months they sent me a letter saying my past employer had appealed their decision on the UI. They won the appeal. Not only did the UI stop but I have been oredered to pay it all back. I finally got a job. Unfortunately it is only part time, even though I applied for and was told I would get full time. It is also a very low wage. I have overdue bills, a car repair, and car insurance due on the 23rd of this month. I am making less than 100 bucks a week. I don't deserve anything but if you have a moment would you ask the Lord to open up the windows of Heaven and pour me out a Blessing to help this situation. I appreciate it tremendously. God Bless you ALL.
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Praying the Lord will bless you greatly!
hnh
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c2,
deserves got nothin to do with it...prayers sent.
God will bless you.
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Prayers sent
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Curtiss, I wll pray for your situation and the Lords guidance. Be at peace! Mike
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I pray for God'd favor on you bro!
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Thank you all so very much.
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C2,
I pray that God sends good work your way so that you can get caught up with your finances. Stay strong.
PRAYIN HARD IN PA
Monkeyball
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C2 Prayers are on the way from Ohio!
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Keep your faith and our Lord will provide.
Ih HIS service
Dave
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Prayers sent.
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it will be better soon
payers sent
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C2, I am feeling for you and your pain. God bless man and keep a stiff upper lip.
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Just goes to show we never know where the Liar will pop up and undo our best laid plans. :(
There is not much you can do about those things that are beyond your control. I know when I was in the throws of long term job search, doing consulting, odd jobs, whatever I could, such setbacks often made me feel slightly hopeless.
Trick is to do what we can do while we wait on the Lord to do only what He can do. Keep that job search active, do the networking w/ everyone you can..not to lament, but to inquire of better things out there... finding work, is a full time job...and it sucks. :(
Meanwhile, Keep the Son in your eyes. Prayers that you open yourself and spend enough "quiet" time in prayer and listening to his "still, quiet voice" so you hear whatever guidance He is ready to provide you. God will never let us down...just doesn't always give us what we want when we need it. :)
Lord, in your Mercy, hear our prayers for our friend.
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Prayers Sent
God Bless
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Praying for you.
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Lord, bless this man, your humble servent, and give him what you want him to have. We realize that we truely own nothing in this world and that everything we do have is a precious gift from you. Father, give him peace in this battle and comfort him in the midst of this storm. Thanks you God and in everything we give you praise, honor and glory. Amen.
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I Pray God Bless you with the strength, courage, and wisdom to make the right decisions to glorify His name. Bless this man with opportunity.
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My life has actually taken a turn for the worse. I'm at the start of a crisis of faith.
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Hang in there bud I been there and way deep into my own modern crisis. At the bottom with no place of my own, no job, no money, waiting on SS disability. No insurance and just rely on great friends and family. I do what i can to help them out and i smoke a pipe everyday thanking him for what i do have. And that is the forementioned and my life.. faith and choice is powerful so don't lose it.
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C2,
Stand fast in your faith. The Lord tests us for his own good purpose.
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart;
do not depend on your own understanding.
-Proverbs 3:5 (NLT)
And if you're thinking you made Him mad, remember this:
5 For his anger lasts only a moment,
but his favor lasts a lifetime!
-Psalm 30:5 (NLT)
Great things await you. Remember that our timeframe is not His timeframe, and if you really want to make God laugh, tell him YOUR plans for your life.
He creates challenges in our lives to give us the chance to turn to Him. Give your problems to Him, and he will enfold you in His never-ending grace.
Be strong, Brother!
Elliott
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C2, may the Great Advocate plead your case to God the Father and may the windows of heaven be opened upon you.
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Thanks Guys your words have helped. I have a job interview on Monday that is a lot better than the part time job I currently have so God is providing I just hope I don't mess it up.
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C2- What a blessing you have recieved in the prayers of the few gathered here. Continue to lean on the Father and he will carry you through all the tough times. He saved me from the very point of death to bring me into new life with him. And the good Lord has nothing less in his plans for you. May God continue to bless you and keep you in his care.
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C2,
The worst thing you can do is to start fearing...natural to happen, bad juju to let go unchallenged.
Many times over 2.5 years, I found gigs I thought were perfect matches...didn't click with the interview team...felt defeated..felt it was MY fault...later found out there were things in that situation that would have been a living Hell for me personally.
God is never wrong. He just doesn't always say "yes" to our wants. Sometimes the best "gift" God gives us is "unanswered" prayers. Was a country song like that a few years back... :)
God has a plan..hard to imagine when the world is starting to collapse around you, but it's there and He wants for us to be happy and fullfilled to do HIS work.
I'm sorry to ramble. Just been where you are as have many here. Sometimes the fix takes a while.
Bruce Wilkinson wrote several books. One you might wish to read is "Dream Giver". Fun li'l book as are all Bruce's works. It is so spot on where you are right now. I encourage you to take a few hours and work through it praying, "LOrd, open the eyes of my heart!"
Keep the Son in your eyes. Tie a prayer knot in the end of that rope of yours and hang on!
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Prayers sent C2 , remember not in our time but His time , hard to choke down , I know , but hang in there , never doubt your Faith , Fred
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Prayers for you, God loves all. He will give you peace.
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Thanks everyone, you helped put the lesson in focus. I went to the job interview with a positive attitude and prayed all the way there. I got asked for a second interview. Did that yesterday, I prayed all the there and back and..... If I pass the background check I have the job and the company is growing with the best possibilities for advancement I have found in this area. Wether I get the job or not I know God is in control and YOU ALL were Jesus for me. If you know what I mean. Thank you so very much and may the Lord richly bless you all.
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Hang in there Bro, Help is on the way! May God find favor with you!
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more prayers sent from Kansas.
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C2- Continued prayers for you.
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OH this waiting on the background check is killin' me, LOL
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Keep the faith. Prayers sent from another Hoosier, living in MO
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Please God forgive me all my sins and Please God, Please let me get this job!
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Prayers continuing
Lord hear ours prayers.
God Bless
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c2--1-finger after surgey---remember...could be god testing ur true faith...His will be done
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Well I had to have my phone shut off today because I simply couldn't afford it anymore. If it weren't for the kindness and prayers of friends and family I would just about ready to quit.
Please God forgive me for my depression and doubt. I will offer you a sacrifice of praise. I will lift you before all men and nations as you lift me up in my time of trial. I will not doubt and fret for you will provide. I have faith even as a mustard seed, even more Father God and I know that You ARE Lord! Amen
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Always darkest the hour before dawn, Brother. This too shall pass. As someone I admire shared, "it's not a praise sacrifice till it costs us something" Sounds like you're there.
He knows and understands how frail and fragile we are in matters of faith...at times. Guess that is why God had to send his Only Begotten Son...cause we just can't get it right on our own.
Bud, I don't know how many, many times in that 29+ months I interviewed for the "perfect" job that I wanted so badly only to be told "no" over and over... I'll never understand why. I don't need to know. I just needed to accept.
Remember, when there is only one set of footprints in the sand of our life's journey, you're not alone...Our Lord is carrying you! :)
Keep the Son in your eyes!
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C2,Hang in there pal.If you are meant to get this job God will see that it happens.Stay focused on him and stay strong. He knows what is good for you and what isn't,what you can handle and what you can't.
PRAYIN HARD IN PA
Monkeyball
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I offer more of my prayers.
God Bless
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Lord hear our prayer
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Someone read this post and offered to pay my phone bill. I couldn't accept the generous offer but I told them I would pray that God would bless them beyond measure for the kind and generous offer. Would you please add this person to your prayers too? I don't want to embarrass them by posting their name. God knows who it is after all.
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Curtis,
Hang on to your hat. This is a small admonition from one like yourself. I had many such similar offers from folks here as well during my 2 1/2 years of financial troubles and trials with job search.
In the end, some just sent money. I had to realize that a) God moves others to be witness and b) we have to move to open ourselves to God's nudgings of our earthly brothers and sisters.
If we deny others their good intentions, we can be guilty of asking for God's help and then refusing it. I know I was. :(
Don't be like the joke of the woman in a flood that was offered rescue by 2 boats and a chopper only to stubbornly hold onto the idea that "God would save her." Upon dying and facing God, she inquired why he abandoned her... and you likely know the retort: "My Child, I sent 2 boats and a chopper to save you, but you refused."
You can't receive calls about jobs you've applied for without phone. Maybe you should reconsider?
Not scolding..just sharing how hard it was for me till God humbled me enough to realize that indeed, our earth angels are reaching out to do His will... don't deny them.
I still have some "pay it forward" debts that I owe. PM me please... maybe we could correspond more on this subject?
Peace Brother. I can feel your anguish more than you might know...so can others here. We've been there! :)
Keep the Son in your eyes!
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AMEN TO WHAT DOC SAID!
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Thanks, C2, for the PM. Got ya covered up in prayer, Hoss.
Lord smiles on us both... :)
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praying hard for you brother!
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Just saw this. I Pray the Lord to give you favor, His peace and the blessing of it being better than before.
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Peace be unto you and I pray the Lord makes you happy. God bless.
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Remember, Curtiss...all in His time... He always answers prayers, sometimes, His answer is "NO".
God's infinite..we're finite and can't begin to comprehend His ways... but we can trust that "all comes to Good for those who have faith".
Keep the Son in your eyes, bud! :)
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I am humbled and I ask God's blessing on you all.
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Knowing you're walking tall in faith and trusting Him is blessing enough on us! :)
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It's beginning to look like I won't be getting the management job I interviewed for. I need prayer for guidence of where to go from here. I know the first direction to take when starting a new chapter in your life is down, on your knees. Please keep me in your prayers.
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Yup, Bud. Down on your knees and your eyes lookin up! :)
I keep sharing, perhaps too often, how for that 2.5 years, I kept having chances at things I KNEW were perfect for me, but they just dind't happen. It's an awful feeling. Devil uses whatever he can to keep us from trusting in our Lord. I often wonder if that time in the desert was extended due to my need to learn greater surrender?
When the world seems like it's against you and all hope is lost, its too easy to make other stupid, hurtful choices as well. :( You can't take them back. But we can always learn and try to move forward better trusting in God's will for our lives.
I wish I could tell you I landed in a dream job after all that time, but I can't. I told God I just wanted to use the skills he's "loaned" me to help others and He put me in a small company, struggling to survive, so my future is as tenuous as it was before, and there is a ton of frustration, but I can't shake the feeling that I'm supposed to be here doing exactly this and living out in faith. It's terrifying at times, but there is also some deeper small voice when I just listen.
My prayer for you today, Curtiss, is that God calms your fears, steadies your heart and vision and keeps you wrapped in His loving arms. The rest will come, my friend, the rest will come.
Keep the Son in your eyes...
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Curtiss, we are parying for you still at this time.
Frank and Shell
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Curtiss I am in a somewhat similar situation. I have lifted you up before God and only ask that you do the same for me.
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You got it Benha
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How's things, Curtiss?
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Just saw this post C2, will be praying bud.
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Thanks Allan.
I have tried twice to leave on update of my situation today. Both times something has happen to my connection and two very long posts in a row just evaporated.
I'll boil it down this time.]
Car trouble
Good Samaritan stops but unsuccessful
IDOT Official stops let's me use his cell, drives me to Walmart.
Small heartfelt miracle accures.
Car must be towed home
Stress level moderated by miracle
Lock up car and decide to worry about it next week and just go to the Kentucky Klassic with Crooked Stic and camp, shoot my bow, sit around a campfire and commune with the Lord in his Grandest Cathedral The Great Outdoors.
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Miracles are not always making the lame to walk or the blind to see, but to open the eyes of our hearts to the maginificence of what God does in our daily lives...!
Maybe those connections broke for a reason? :) They tell us the worst thing at times is to "relive" in detail the challenges, but instead to focus on the solutions.... Only God knows at times like these, Curtiss.
May the Good Lord fill your heart and mind and take over control of your very spirit while you're there in the woods amist fellow archers...and bring you insight and direction.
Keep the Son in yoru eyes!
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Power Prayers fer a brother in Need.
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Ok well I'm not sure what's wrong with the car it's either a blown head gasket or a crcked block. I can't afford to take it to a mechanic right now. If it's the gasket I'll be without a car for a short time, if it's the block I'll be without a car for the forseeable future. I don't think I can stand one more thing on my shoulders right now.
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Curtiss,
YES, you can! God never gives us more than we can "take." He often, though, gives us way more'n we want to take... and I'm right there with you...
I know some folks believe God is responsible for everything and to them I apologize, for I do not see God as a puppeteer pulling everyone's strings. With Evil in this world around us, bad things will happen.
Get that book...borrow it. From a church or library... Dream Giver by B. Wilkinson. We often believe that when things go the worst, we're somehow out of God's will...and yet there are times where God might be testing us to see how strong our Faith is before He enacts the next step in His plan for our lives... and other times when things go wrong... it's because Satan has seen that we're walking too close with God in Faith and he knows he better redouble his evil efforts to separate us from God before the devil loses us for good.
Maybe this is a time where you're walking close enough with God that the devil turned up the heat... and God is watching to see how strong your Faith really is.
I've been where you are...there are many here right now like Benha in your boat... and personally, my job is now down to 4 days/week... but you, and the rest of us, are never alone. We have each other and we have God's assurance that He will never forsake us!
Keep the Son in your eyes!!
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Amen & more prayers
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Curtiss:
I feel the same way. Please turn to your Tradgang friends and don't be afraid to share what's going on even when it is hard.
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More prayers from Ky for you also.
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Prayers from a fellow Hoosier! The Lord will bless.
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Keep the faith, brother...
Keep in touch with us too...
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OK an update, my hours have been cut again, I goit 11.5 hours for 2 weeks. I'm going to cause a ruckus over this at work. I am one of the best workers they have but I just found out you have to being a squeeky wheel or you'll be ignored. I have always preferred to let good work speak for me. Here it's whining, moaning and pleading and blaming others that gets you ahead.
I haven't been able to get the car to a shop. I found out I can get it towed to the shop for free(insurance) but I haven't the cash for it to be worked on. Not even the $75 - $125 it will take for them to find out the exact nature of the problem. I wish I still had my 1970 AMC Hornet. I could actually work on that car myself. well up until the axle seared in two at 60 miles an hour late one night on a rural stretch of highway. That was an adventure. :bigsmyl:
I am trusting God that if I am just patient and faithful things will change. I will not ;et the Devil win. If I throw up my hands and quit and feel hopelessness I let him win and that isn't going to happen.
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further update, I went to the place I was interviewed for a management job with today and found out my paperwork got lost and that's why they haven't contacted me. I resubmited the forms and they are expoditeing it. I could have a much better full time job by next week.
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Good self-talk there, Curtiss!!! Seems that ole sage advice of "follow through" whether in our shot or when it comes to job search, is a key factor in success! :)
Thank you, Lord!! Keep this boy centered and walking in your LIght through this tough time!
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Praying you get the job, Curtiss! Hang tough!
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hanging tough and waiting on the background check again. It takes 7 - 10 business days.
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More Prayers your way Bro.
God Bless
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Still prayin.I check this thread everyday to see the progress.
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praying for you.
Froggy
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I really appreciate the continued prayers.
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You've got it bud... always!
Keep the Son in your eyes!
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Still waiting to hear about the background check.
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C2 Continued Prayers :pray:
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Still no news. Hours at my present job are about the same. 11 - 12 hours for two weeks hardly seems like it's worth going in. I just have to keep putting in applications sending resumes via e-mail and trusting God that something better will come. I've heard the OTR drivers are still badly needed but with diesel being over 4 bucks a gallon I don't know if that will hold. I've never driven a big rig and have no idea what the job is like I do know it pays a living wage. As far as that job goes I'm praying for guidence. I honestly don't know where to go from here in my life and I just want to give it up to the Lord and see where he will lead. I've been praying too much for what I want and not asking enough what he wants me to do. I'm trying to correct that.
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Still Prayin n pullin for ya pard.
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Curtiss,
Only caution I can offer that I know applies to me in that boat...which is seeming to be fast pulling back into my dock as well... is this:
REly always on the Lord...but he gave us the time, mind and energy to leave no stone unturned.
If you have free phone, maybe you can make some calls to places that aren't hiring and offer to work a day to show what you can do. We just had a guy do that and hired him as a machinist after seeing what he can do...
Long shot..just trying to come up with anything that might trigger some new ideas for ya, brother.
Yer in constant prayer...
Keep the Son in your eyes, bud!
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Well it's getting worse before it gets better(notice the optimism in that statement)
I'm only scheduled 4.5 hours this week. I just don't understand it. I do my job(any job the assign me) as well or better than anyone else that does it. I don't take cigarette breaks, I look for things to do and don't just stand around during slow periods. I'm qualified and experienced enough to be the general manager of this place. I don't let them know that. I keep my mouth shut at work. I rarely talk about much but the weather. Well my car is not running, I am not getting enough hours to put gas in it or insure it if it was. I have bills everyone has,utilities, etc. I ordered a bow back when I had a fulltime job and still owe on it and have no idea when I will be able to(the bowyer is getting antsy) I really am just not sure where to go or what to do except straight to the mercy seat of God the Father and pray and trust and obey. I will not behave as if I am hopeless. I have all hope. I worship the Hope Bringer. Halleluia and Amen.
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Now in WI anything under 30 hours a week is eligable for partial unemployment. Have you looked in to that?
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Curtiss,
Thanks for sharing your positive hope int he face of all the challenges. We all need to keep that focus. Myself included. It's hard at times!
But it wouldn't be a "praise sacrifice" if it was always easy to worship Him, huh? :)
I keep reading that company's don't care as much about one's abilities, as they do about whether you "fit in". I listened to some tapes this AM about all the frustration we will face as Christians...because the Devil has to try to pry us from God's grasp.
You surely have had your challenges. I'm not much help with ideas, but if you were concerned about the bow, perhaps the bowyer would give you contact information on some guys "below" you on his "list" to see if your bow is close enough to their needs that you might get them to buy out your deposit, or some of it and advance up the chain?
Short term fix, for sure. I admire your tenacity and you inspire me iwth my own challenges w/ work! :)
Keep the Son in your eyes.
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My bow is a "one of" It's a 100% phenolic riser, no accent stripe. A "Plain Jane" pure hunting weapon. This is a bowyer that people buy the bows of because they are functional works of art. I doubt anyone besides me would want it.
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Hang in there, Bud. Sounds like you're doing what you need to do to keep the shiney side up!
Faith is powerful...and just keeping on keeping on is what we're required to do...
Let God drive the bus, but we got to check tires, clean windows and keep gas pumped into the bus! :)
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Curtis I am praying for ya Brother. I have been in your EXACT position and have seen GOD do some miraculous things so don't loose your Hope!!
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Prayers continue
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Thanks everyone
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The light is more apparent in the darkness.
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Any update Curtis?? Still praying for you guys!
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I think Curtiss only gets "on line" when he's at the library.
Keep the Son in your eyes, brother, C2! :)
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Nothing new to report but this is where it stands.
Getting less than 20 hours per two week at work, usually 14.
My car is broken down, either hed gasket or cracked block. I pray it is the former.
My injured leg makes it hard to walk the nearly 2 miles to my job.
I haven't had the money or insurance to cover doctors or dentists or pharmasist bills.
my daughter will be 12 this year and I last held or saw her when she was 3.
Still waking on the background check for the job.
Life is apparently getting worrse before is gets better.
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Still praying for you Curtis!
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This helped me this morning so hope it helps you and others.
"Perseverance means more than endurance— more than simply holding on until the end. A saint’s life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, but our Lord continues to stretch and strain, and every once in a while the saint says, "I can’t take any more." Yet God pays no attention; He goes on stretching until His purpose is in sight, and then He lets the arrow fly. Entrust yourself to God’s hands. Is there something in your life for which you need perseverance right now? Maintain your intimate relationship with Jesus Christ through the perseverance of faith. Proclaim as Job did, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him" ( Job 13:15 )."
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Benson,
That is amazing. I might have to copy and print that out for myself. I hope it helps Curtiss as much as it does inspire me to persevere.
Curtis, using Benson's analogy in his shared words, Our Lord must have a rather long draw for He's surely stretching and pullin on ya! In that book, Dream Giver I recommended to you, it shows how God often allows "wilderness time" to test if our faith is large enough for the BIG plan He has for us.
Here's another item that keeps me centered... and will be printed out and on my bulletin board at home in from of me daily, now that I'll be unemployed come Monday.. I hope it can inspire you along with Benson's words:
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My Lord God
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it
will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following
your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you,
and I hope that I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though
I may know nothing about it.
Therefore I will trust you always.
Though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death I will not
fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my
peril alone.
Thomas Merton,
1915-1968
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tradgang has been one of my few blessings right now. People I have never met sending me a a gift to help with bills. Still no word on the job I was waiting on the background check for. It promised to be just about the best job I could get in this area and I have had over 200 people pray for me to get this job if it was God's will but it is beginning to look like it isn't so. I guess I need prayer to figure out what Gopd's will for my life is. I can't go much longer without a real job. I'll be homeless soon. and without a car that is running that means on the street with just a backpack with my clothes in it as my tent was stolen from my storage unit so I can't even have that to live in in the woods somewhere. I'm at the end of my rope almost. I don't know what to do.
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C2 Prayers Sent
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More Prayers sent for you Bro.
God Bless
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I guess it would fair to saw without you folks, I'd be at the end of my rope without enough slack to tie a knot in the end and continue to hold on. However you provide the slack for the knot that allows me to keep from slipping off. Thank you all and God Bless you ALL RICHLY.
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Brother,
You still have my email? Shoot me that home addy again. Someone blessed me with something at the Baltimore shoot that isn't monetary in nature but I have thought of you constantly while it'sbeen in my possession since it was given to me.
This crew is one of the finest! there are many here and some who have moved on that were prayed over and healed in medical, emotional, spiritual ways beyond comprehension.
God's healings don't always come as we'd like and I know from before and now again, it can begin to seem like "He must've forgotten me or I've displease him or things would change" I have to fight that battle soemtimes myself...and will again.
I, too, am not sure what direction God's trying to point me, but together with all our brother's and sisters, those who seek, shall find.
Keep the Son in your eyes, brother...
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Curtiss Cardinal
P.O. Box 461
Vincennes, IN
47591
The you go Doc. And anyone else that might want to send a hand written note of encouragement.
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Dang son..now you're on the "internet" all exposed and everything! :knothead: :rolleyes:
Watch for what blessed me that I'm passing on... it won't pay bills...but it brought tears to my eyes at B'more.
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Well I called the district manager back, and back again.........and back again and........he called me back today I have to go in Tuesday, not sure if it's the next step in the hiring process or just foirst day of work. He was a little cryptic and in a hurry. It looks like 90 - 95% sure I have the job. Within 1 year if I keep focused and stay prayerful and guided by the Lord I'll be a General Manager and have a certain job security I have never known before. This has been a totally prayed for occurance. You prayed, you asked your Churches to pray, my Church prayed, I prayed, I stayed patient and kept the faith and gave sacrifies of praise and waited. It looks like I'll soon se all these prayers come to fruition. THNAK YOU ALL & GOD BLESS YOU ALL RICHLY!!!!! PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW!!!!!!
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Prayers will continue
Good Luck
God Bless
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Let's walk in Faith with you that this is indeed the beginning of a glorious path.
Regardless, Iknow it has to please the Lord the way you've wrestled and struggled and remained faithful through a LOT of tough challenges.
Prayers continue...and that peace, patience and perseverence remain your armor!
Keep the Son in your eyes, brother!
Let us know for sure!
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Great news! Keep us posted.
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Still Praying Curtis! Keep us posted! GOD Bless Brother
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Well I got the job. Start tomorrow, so for the next two weeks I'll be working two jobs. It's a 30 day orientation/training period. I'll be working many different shifts and getting up a 03:30 one week and getting off at 03:30 the nest week so I'll need your prayers for stamina. This job has a lot of potential for advancement if it's God's will I'll be able to have this career the rest of my life. It could also be the next step toward and even better job. But I don't want to get ahead of myself. I just have more hope for the future than I've had in a long time. God Is Good ALL the time.
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Man, Curtiss, I needed to come here and read this!!! :)
Thank You, Jesus! :clapper:
Been a long and sometimes dark road, but you held onto your faith!
You're an inspiration to me and others, for sure!
As you say, one day at a time! Remember how you got there and keep WWJD tatooed to your forehead so's you can see it all day!
Praises to God for His smiling on you, Brother.
Way to go! That'll be the sweetest "tired" you'll have known in YEARS!!!
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Been waitin to hear this news.I knew it was gonna happen for ya pard.Just absolutely outstanding news to hear.Im tickled pink for ya.
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The biggest lessons I've learned from this whole endeavor are, 1) it's not unmanly or wrong to ask for help when you need it. How else can you let people be Jesus for you? 2) Keeping faith and staying prayerful and persistent and striving for patience are rewarding in themselves and help you reach your goals. I pray I stay mindful that this job is an answer to prayers(not just my own but all your prayers for me) and that I can make this job my career and move forward with my life. Now for the bombshell I haven't told you. My aunt is the pastor of a Church of God in a neighboring town and she is getting on in years and has asked me to train for the ministry and maybe take over her church for her. In the Church of God ministers earn their own living so as to keep the Church's money for God's use in helping people around the world. So I may start to study to do it. More prayer is needed to make that decision for sure. Several times in the past people in the Family of Christ have told me I might be a good minister as they saw qualities in me I myself don't see. Maybe that is the voice of the Lord through others that is "The Call" I don't know. But I will definately start praying about this.
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C2,
The enemy(satan)is taking a big swipe at you, for sure.You have to put on the armor of God to fight him. Good news is that he is all-ready defeated. Jesus took care of that problem at the cross. Keep your faith in God. Keep your eyes focussed on Jesus.
Take Job in the old testament. Satan devistated him. Yet he kept his faith in God. God not only restored what he lost. He gave him more than he had before.
I will pray to The Father for you. In the meantime, keep your chin up. With God on your side who can be against you?
Please keep us informed on your situation.
Bob Miner, Rev.
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
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C2 I don't have words appropriate for the joy I feel for your answered prayers. May God continue in His plan for you which is that you prosper and be in health as your soul prospers.
:clapper: :pray: :pray:
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PRayers for discernment and surrender to His Will and to KNOW it!
I was pretty sure Church of God here pay their ministers, but that sure is a neat idea! Especially if we're all "ministers in Christ" I guess it shouldn't fall only to one full time person, huh?! :)
If He brings you to it, He will show you a way!
Get a week of hard work under your belt. But keep on those bended knees. Thanks for sharing the lessons learned... :)
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I'll keep praying for you my brother. If God has ministering in His plan for you He will let you know. Saving souls is a big pay-check by itself.
God bless you & your family!
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Great news!
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Curtis that is Great! I have been checking in everyday I could to see the post of affirmation on the new job. GOD is indeed Good!!!
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well the first week of the new job is over, next week starts tomorrow, from parttime to 10 straight days in a row is a big shifting of the gears but I'm ok with it. Tomorrow the tests start. Prayers are still needed to help me through and be patient training is a set proceedor with this company and too slow for me but I just have to keep going at the pace they want. Thanks again everyone so very much for your faithfullness.
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Prayers for wisdom, patience, and the humility to listen. Hope that doesn't sound critical or a put down.
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Prayers continuing
God Bless
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Prayers continue Curtis. I too just got a new job and went from VERY slow business to running wide open all the time. It takes some adjusting. LOL
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Got ya covered up in more prayers, Curtiss!
Keep the shiny side up and the yap shut and ears open... they love that! Coming from an old trainer! :)
You'll do well. After what you've gone through, there is a purpose there. Remember the lessons learned in those horrid months...and renew your patience.
Good luck with the physical adjustments! Get your rest! Take 2 asprin and send me $20 for the "house call" :D :p
I'm just so happy for ya, bro! Keep the Son in your eyes!
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Well The job has hit a spot to make my lingering job paranoia kick in, I've had schedule changes made at the last minute, Called and told not to come in tonight after I went in this morning at my scheduled time and told to come in tonight because they are short of people. Just pray this is just a slow period of business and nothing more is meant by it and that there will be a turn around and the job will be ok or that God will show me where to go from here. Whatever HIS will is.
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Amen & prayers continue
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As you know from our conversations, Curtiss, it is sooo easy to get paranoid...and sometimes, it is with reason.
As you have said and we all try to live, regardless, there is always His promise to lean on!
Prayers up for things to remain stable...
Keep the Son in your eyes!
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Well I went in tonight to myt job and was told I was being terminated because I "falsified a document in paperwork."I made a mistake in math or entered the wrong number somewhere. I falsified nothing. Nor did I steal the missing 100 dollars in the paperwork error. I am fighting this termination. Pray for me please, I would also ask that you boycot Heartland Food Corp businesses until I am reinstated. I ask this because I feel I have been unjustly treated, this was only my first week after training and I only recieved a total of 2 hours training on this paperwork proceedor I was doing. Mistakes happen with newly trained people, that is why the phrase "rookie mistake" is in the American lexicon. God Bless you all and thanks.
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Prayers sent for a sense of peace through this
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Dangnabbit, Curtiss, that is just wrong...
I'm so sorry to read this, bro.. I know how tough it was and how high a hopes you had...seems odd it would take them that long since your mistake and only now they decide to take plausable action? Something smells funny here... :(
I'm so sorry, bro.
You know we're all praying for an equitable resolution to this...
Keep the Son in your eyes!
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I'm really feeling down today, I have been so unjustly treated in the last few years when it comes to work. People bearing false witness against me causing me to be terminated, being let go from a job simply because I was the highest paid person in the position just to mention a few and this one. I treat everyone I meet with courtecy, politeness and respect and I am ill treated in return. In spite of my faith I find myself begging God "WHY???????"
I'm not the a man on fire for God; but I love The Lord fully,I slip and fall in my daily walk more than some and less than many others. I don't ask for much in a job, Just enough pay to tithe 10% and have enough to meet my bills afterwards and I haven't made enough to live independently since 2002, when my catering company went belly up because the dot.com companies began tightening their belts before going under. When I moved back here to Indiana I started going to my Aunt's church where she is the pastor and several times I match the combined tithes of the entire rest of the congregation. When the Church needed a new water heater I paid for over half of it, same with the new heater. I did that because I felt called to even though it cost me more than a weeks pay in some instances and more than a months in others.I'm only stating a fact, I'm not trying to brag. It is just that this is background I why I think this is happening. That was when the devil started this campaign against me. Many of you have helped me in many ways even financially, I am grateful and I daily ask the Lord to bless you all richly. I have never prayed so fervently for anything as I did this job and I prayed often after I had it that God would give me the drive, the energy, stamina and skills to excell at it and preserve it. I don't know if I can handle another period of unemployment. I'm stressed to my very limits with this. I've even had thoughts of suicide. I'm at the end of my rope and I don't know if I have the strength to tie a knot and just keep holding on.
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Starting backwards....
Curtiss, I know it feels that way, but our faith has nothing to do with what we FEEL! Feeling is of the flesh. The spirit knows, trusts, believes. Faith is believing in that which cannot be proven. Suicide is, IMHO, giving up faith and buying into only that which our tiny minds can see and grasp!
I'm not much for public advice, but this latest experience of mine has show me some errors of my past, too. One is focusing on what might of been, or worse, why what is has happened.
Preacher friend used to say when things get the worst, we know we're walking closer to God cause the devil has to turn up the heat afore losing us forever.
As for suicide... feelings bro... feelings. Been a lot of talk lately about suicide... but you and I both know we might be tested to our breaking point...only for the purpose to drive us to our knees to admit that alone, we just can't... fill in the blank.
Only when we finally give up logic, rational though, fairness, and come to realize that whatever happens, we just are being driven to our knees to submit to HIS will...
Funny how easy the battle got when I tried that change alone... not that it works all the time for everyone. Your call, bro.
Let all that you've done in the name of the Lord go... talk to him. Open yourself to His will.
I found my greatest strength in the past 2 weeks when I confessed that it was all beyond me, and that there was no way I could do this alone... BINGO!
Could it be just that simple? You decide.
I'm pulling and prayin for you, my friend. Mightily!
the darkest hour is just before dawn.
Keep the Son in your eyes!