“ESTABLISH THOU THE WORK OF
OUR HANDS, OH LORD”
(Ps. 90: 17)

 (Article 4 - Prayer Team #5)
by Ann Arcieri

Did you ever realize that Adam had a career in the Garden of Eden? He named the animals, tended them and took dominion over God’s creatures. He found out that glorifying God through his work was a blessing, then he was able to relax in the cool of the evening in God’s presence.

With national unemployment near 10%, we hear stories of families living in their cars, and many are filling shelters and soup kitchens for the first time in their lives – the “new faces of the poor” among us. Employers and laid-off or terminated workers and their families experience fear, loss of security and suffering.  People are asking, “Where is God in all this?”

How can we help people cope in the midst of the storm of personal and financial devastation? Here are a few principles to encourage us or our loved ones, friends or neighbors, who are out of work. These principles can shape our prayer.

1.        Ask God to show us where He is in all the chaos! He is not just “out there in a new job or another house or when life finally returns to normal,” but rather He is IN the center of it all, now, inviting us into the “calm in the storm.” The Calm in the storm is in heart of Jesus! There is no other refuge. Only this intimacy and deeper prayer life brings peace.