Baswal
Faithful Servant
Lord, today on Friday 23 September 2022 you have watched this latest UK government’s intention to strengthen the sanctions regime to set clear work expectations of claimants and provide more support to those over 50. These changes will give claimants the best possible chance to be financially independent of Universal Credit.
It was my whole intention to be financially independent of Universal Credit by addressing my skill deficiencies through skills development learning to plug the skill gaps and find suitable work based on my competences by attending Teams interviews online as invited by many prospective employers throughout my exile in the unemployment wilderness .
Lord, you know that the UK government has not helped me as unemployed into work since Friday 10 January 2020. That is a complete mockery. They have been lying. They know nothing about the specialist areas that I have been in. It is I who have been telling them not myself. It is I who researched into finding a free adult learning course to update my previous qualification which I knew was out-of-date. You know that I’ve had to help myself as part of their work expectations as a claimant to make myself “job-ready”. It has not been easy as I have faced many obstacles and sacrifices along the way.
I’m desperate for peace, for healing and restoration in mind, body, and soul. My own trauma of unemployment, short term memory issues, physical pain and stiffness experienced over the last two years can only be erased by you alone. There is nothing more than what I am already doing if you, Lord is still watching me and is with me in spirit.
Lord, I am more flawed, and more screwed up and broken than I would ever really want to admit to myself. But at the same time, I am more cherished, more loved, more forgiven, more surrounded by his presence than my heart will ever dare let me believe. I recognize that I have put on the throne of my life many modern idols not even being aware that I am doing it. You know what they are. I have woken up to that reality.
I want to put my trust in you to become fully reliant, fully dependent on you. To make you my saviour my Lord and nothing else. I don’t want to put something else in the place in my life that only you should take. I don’t want to put something else on the throne of my life when it should only be you Lord who should take that place. I come to you desperately seeking freedom from my pride and all the striving and all the pretending that comes with it.
I come seeking freedom from my shame and all the self-loathing and all the hiding which comes with that. I repent of the way I have created an idol to worship by giving more time and devotion on my iPhone. I repent of giving a Satan a foothold with this modern idol worship. I lay it down. I tear down my iPhone worship.
I repent of the way I have created an idol to worship by giving more time and devotion to jobs/status in terms of focusing so much on skill development learning and looking for suitable work whilst unemployed. I repent of giving Satan a foothold with this modern idol worship. I tear down the idols of money/material things. I tear down the idols of technology, sex, and entertainment.
Lord, it’s a prayer of unconditional surrender. It’s a prayer of re-orientation that’s at the heart of repentance. Repentance is to re-orientate my heart back to you. Break the chains of shame. Break the chains of pride. Lead me into that place of freedom out of the prison that has imprisoned me so long as a hostage and help me escape into true freedom.
Lead me to this beautiful place with you when I can be open with God, I can openly acknowledge before God the very depths of my sin and of my idolatry because I have tasted and experienced not just the depths but the heights but the breaths of God’s love, and his mercy and his goodness towards me. I come to you with a repentant heart and seek your forgiveness. Amen.
It was my whole intention to be financially independent of Universal Credit by addressing my skill deficiencies through skills development learning to plug the skill gaps and find suitable work based on my competences by attending Teams interviews online as invited by many prospective employers throughout my exile in the unemployment wilderness .
Lord, you know that the UK government has not helped me as unemployed into work since Friday 10 January 2020. That is a complete mockery. They have been lying. They know nothing about the specialist areas that I have been in. It is I who have been telling them not myself. It is I who researched into finding a free adult learning course to update my previous qualification which I knew was out-of-date. You know that I’ve had to help myself as part of their work expectations as a claimant to make myself “job-ready”. It has not been easy as I have faced many obstacles and sacrifices along the way.
I’m desperate for peace, for healing and restoration in mind, body, and soul. My own trauma of unemployment, short term memory issues, physical pain and stiffness experienced over the last two years can only be erased by you alone. There is nothing more than what I am already doing if you, Lord is still watching me and is with me in spirit.
Lord, I am more flawed, and more screwed up and broken than I would ever really want to admit to myself. But at the same time, I am more cherished, more loved, more forgiven, more surrounded by his presence than my heart will ever dare let me believe. I recognize that I have put on the throne of my life many modern idols not even being aware that I am doing it. You know what they are. I have woken up to that reality.
I want to put my trust in you to become fully reliant, fully dependent on you. To make you my saviour my Lord and nothing else. I don’t want to put something else in the place in my life that only you should take. I don’t want to put something else on the throne of my life when it should only be you Lord who should take that place. I come to you desperately seeking freedom from my pride and all the striving and all the pretending that comes with it.
I come seeking freedom from my shame and all the self-loathing and all the hiding which comes with that. I repent of the way I have created an idol to worship by giving more time and devotion on my iPhone. I repent of giving a Satan a foothold with this modern idol worship. I lay it down. I tear down my iPhone worship.
I repent of the way I have created an idol to worship by giving more time and devotion to jobs/status in terms of focusing so much on skill development learning and looking for suitable work whilst unemployed. I repent of giving Satan a foothold with this modern idol worship. I tear down the idols of money/material things. I tear down the idols of technology, sex, and entertainment.
Lord, it’s a prayer of unconditional surrender. It’s a prayer of re-orientation that’s at the heart of repentance. Repentance is to re-orientate my heart back to you. Break the chains of shame. Break the chains of pride. Lead me into that place of freedom out of the prison that has imprisoned me so long as a hostage and help me escape into true freedom.
Lead me to this beautiful place with you when I can be open with God, I can openly acknowledge before God the very depths of my sin and of my idolatry because I have tasted and experienced not just the depths but the heights but the breaths of God’s love, and his mercy and his goodness towards me. I come to you with a repentant heart and seek your forgiveness. Amen.
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