I pray that all the lonely have someone to help them. I must also pray for myself. I have been out of work for almost three years. I just got offered a job, but my social phobia caused me to turn it down because I was so scared that I wasn’t good enough and would disappoint those who picked me for the job thinking I was an A-plus administrataive assistant when I am in fact a B-minus due to a medical condition that has affected by ability to think logically. God have mercy on me.
Snowgarden:
I know what it’s like to be out of work and what that does to you mind and your self-image. Nothing gives the Enemy of the People of God and the Father of Lies an opening quite like the destructive effects being unemployed for as long as you have has on you psyche. I want to make this very clear, the messages that you’re, “Not good enough,” and a “B- Administrative Assistant because of your medical condition.” can only come from one being, and that’s the Enemy of the Brethren and the Liar and Father of Lies.
The people who offered you the job wouldn’t have done so unless they really believed that you had the skills they needed, and they had been able to verify that somehow, esp. in this economy. If you can, please call them to tell them that you have changed your mind and accept their gracious offer.
Remember, the Thief comes to steal, kill and destroy, and Satan is a Liar and the Father of Lies. Don’t listen to him and don’t let him destroy your life.
You belong to God and have been bought at a Price (I Cor 6:20, 7:23).
*Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. And he who searches the hearts of men knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
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*We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren. And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified.
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*What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not also give us all things with him? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies; who is to condemn? Is it Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written,
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*“For thy sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
**No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:26-39 RSV
*Please remember, you are “fearfully, wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14-15) “in the
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I hope this helps.
Your Brother and Servant in Christ, Michael