A cry for help from a previous co-worker...

[Pete in MI]

She writes "The (hotel) is (messing) me over on my unemployment...I'm still waiting on it..its been a month..In the mean time my bills are adding up! I got an eviction letter yesterday, and they wanna come repo my car... I don't know how my kids are going to have x-mas...I can't get any where with the unemployment office at all.. went to my caseworker today and they wont help me.. I don't have any where to go...i'm trying to be strong but don't think i can be strong for much longer"

I am not in a position to do much more than pray for her and her children and to invite them Christmas day to come here for a hot meal, gift(s) as God provides for them. We don;t have any room for them so it is in God's hands.

Your prayers are requested. Her children (2 i think) are young - maybe 10 years old or thereabouts. I have not written her back yet with a reply. I know that what she needs is God in her life more than anything else and once she goes back to God, He can meet her needs which are beyond me, her and pretty much anyone else at this point.

I am open for advice to pass on to her.
Thanks everyone....

 

[Pete in MI]

"I have requested prayers for you and the children from a large number of Brothers and SIsters in Christ. I don't remember much about your children (ages, names, boy/girl).
I can tell you this that my needs are met by God. It isn't easy at times and I too have struggled yet when I turned to God for His help He was there with an answer or a solution to the problem(s). Things had gotten so bad many times I did everyting I could including selling things I loved and paid big bucks for only to get pennies on the dollar, which never helped enough. I have had a car repossessed, I have lost many jobs and there were times that my sons were looking at getting nothing for Christmas either. I know the feelings you have. I have been there myself. It took me a long time to realize that until there was nothing more I could do, no where it seemed I could turn and that all was lost that I finally reached out to God and pleaded for His help. When I was at the bottom of it all and I was broken was when God could finally do for me what I could not do for myself. I cried out to God and He heard me. God is not heartless or the one who causes people to suffer...we do that well enough on our own. Put yourself and children in God's hands then trust that if anything can be done about anything...it will be God. All things are possible with God and He can only act on our behalf when we let Him. Most of the time we wait till it is so difficult for us and we finally have to let go of trying to do it ourselves and cry out to God. Only then can God do for us what He knows we need. He does meet our needs...when we go to Him. He knows our needs. He knows our pains. He knows suffering. God is waiting to hear from you.

For now this is the best I can tell you. We, too, have no where to have people come to stay. We will open our doors to you and the children to come over on Christmas day and share with us food and whatever else God provides. Having been friends and co-workers it pains my heart to hear of the hardships you are going through. As I say you and your children are not only in my and Sherry's prayers but the prayers of many, many Christians. Put your faith in God...He is waiting for you to call on Him.

In Christian Love

 

[dirtdigginlady]

You gave her excellent advice and offered what you had to offer. I will be praying for her, the kids and for you in your effort to help.

 

[Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"]

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[KyBud(InezKy)]

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[seeker41]

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[bossman]

praying now

 

[7centsworth]

Will pray.

 

[Anonymous]

May God in His finite love reach her heart in Jesus' name and do a mighty work in her and her children's lives! Yes, your answer Pete is very good and I too have had to cry out to God many, many times for Him to help me in my trials and distresses! Cliff and I never received much for Christmas, but what little we did get helped to satisfy us! It's not the big or many gifts anyone receives but the thought and love behind it! Even crayola and a coloring book will help the young ones....just knowing they get a Christmas present from those who love and care for them will go a long way for healing and hoping everything will be alright!

Ya know it is when the hardships make us truly desparate that we then cry unto God for His help and to know that He is really real and is our Savior, Who is alive and waiting for us to accept Him! I was there during my mother and dad's death in 1984 and in my ex's leaving in 1986 and the divorce of 1988! I know Jesus but I didn't have a personal relationship with Him like I do now!

Also, sometimes we really don't know how to pray for loved ones and friends who aren't saved or truly leaning on Jesus, so in their difficulties we just pray for His comfort and peace and then when things get better they still haven't accepted Him until the times get worse again and then hopefully they will! We ask God to save them and then when problems come, we pray for God to help them to endure and overcome, when we should pray that He would use their trial or trials to draw them closer and to cry out to Him! I am guilty because I have prayed, Lord do whatever needs to be done, to save them, but please don't let satan harm their bodies or souls and then I pray, Please, Lord, have mercy on them! God knows our hearts though and He knows all about them and knows exactly what they need to be saved and not be destroyed by satan, the devil! So our hope is in Jesus, Who loves and cares for us! Amen! God Bless! Betty