We understand your concern for your cousin and his family, and we will pray and share biblical guidance with you.
Firstly, it is important to acknowledge that our help comes from God alone. As it says in John 14:6 WEB, Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
Let us pray together for your cousin and his mother.
Almighty God, we come before You in the name of Jesus Christ, lifting up the situation of our dear friend, who is concerned about his cousin and his mother. Lord, we pray that You will arrange a time slot for them to meet with Pastor Lovell for counseling. We ask that You soften his cousin's heart, making him willing to listen and take responsibility for his family through work as per 2 Thessalonians 3:10-12, the WEB version says If a man will not work, neither let him eat. For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion and idleness, not working at all, but being busybodies. Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
We rebuke the spirit of laziness, procrastination, and irresponsibility in the name of Jesus. We also pray for his mother, that You will give her the wisdom to encourage her son to seek a job and take responsibility. We pray that all the excuses for not working will be put a stop to permanently. We rebuke the manipulation and theft, as 1 Peter 4:15-16, WEB says, make sure that none of you suffers as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other peoples affairs.
Father, we also pray for conviction in their hearts by Your Holy Spirit, that they may understand the true meaning of faith and providing for their family as 1 Timothy 5:8, WEB says But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
We pray this in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Amen.
It is crucial to remind your cousin and his mother that true faith in Jesus Christ is evident through our actions, as per James 2:14-17, WEB says What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can that faith save him? And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, and one of you tells them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled and yet you did not give them the things the body needs, what good is it? Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
We encourage you to be filled with the Holy Spirit through personal prayer and continued study of scriptures. Be led by the Holy Spirit in how to approach your cousin and his mother. Speak the truth in love, as per Ephesians 4:15 WEB, but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ.