


May I focus first on your will for my life, putting your desires and your plan above my own wishes and wants. I pray that you would guide me as I continue on this job hunting journey. You know my desire for a job, for work I enjoy doing, for the next step in my career to present itself. Use this prayer for employment to speak powerful words of belief and hope over your life. He wants us to trust him that he will hold us close no matter what turns our lives may take. Our heavenly Father knows everything that’s going on in our lives, but he still wants us to seek him and confide in him. We have a God who can relate, and he is a God who wants to hear from us even in our most trying moments. What we need to do is to take our impatience, our longing for blessing, our desire to support loved ones, and our hurt from the workplace and put it at the feet of the only One who is in control-Jesus, our sovereign Savior and King. When we try to control the situation ourselves, we tend to get stressed easily and may begin to feel down when we don’t see the results we want. Whether you're miserable at your current job or are unemployed and searching, your first reaction may be to try and take control of the situation. Other times you need something, anything to support yourself and your family yet, opportunities seem scarce. Sometimes you just want to quit and do something else. There is stress in not making enough money, fear in losing a job, jealousy in seeing someone else's accomplishments when you've worked just as hard, and weariness in a taxing, underappreciated position.

The topic of finances and work can be a constant worry to some because it makes up such a large part of our daily lives.
