Prayer update/discouraged...

agape1cor813

I didn't get selected for an interview or even a call from the place I thought would be my dream job. I'm feeling super down and discouraged about my skills and the job market and my future as a wife.

So sad ...

kellya01

Romans 8:28-39 has been my inspiration lately and might give you some reassurance.  I'll C&P it below this text.  In addition to the Biblical encouragement, Coming from someone who has totally been through what you're experiencing... MULTIPLE times, I can tell you that it may not seem like there is a light at the end of the dark tunnel.  However, keep faith that there is one.  I've always heard, and I believe, that when you pray with specificity, and pray for certain things to happen (exactly as you envision), your path to achieving that goal is much more clear.  PLUS, God is really good at helping you to see if your "specifics" aren't in his Will for you.  I've experienced both of those things before, so please don't take this as preaching.  Just hoping my story can help you to make it through your current level of depression.  YOU are going to be an amazing Wife, especially with Jesus at your side helping you to be a better person, a better Christian, and help you to find ways to be the most supportive wife you can be.  I'll pray for you right now, before I head to bed.  Know that there are people who are in your corner, hoping you get everything you dream of achieving.  

ETA: My story is typed up pretty well in the "Doors Closing, Doors Opening" thread just a few posts down the page if you want to read! :-) 

Here is Romans 8:28-39:

²⁸ And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who^[a] have been called according to his purpose. ²⁹ For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. ³⁰ And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.More Than Conquerors ³¹ What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶ As it is written:   “For your sake we face death all day long; 
   we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”^[b] 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[c] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

GJones27

I know how you feel.  I posted this in a few threads earlier, but my fiance was just turned down for his dream job last week (in fact, he didn't end up with a single offer in the field he wants to work in, and he goes to Harvard Business School!)  The economy is really awful right now.  My only advice is that you can fight again once you gain more experience, and you may get your dream job.  Or maybe God wants to put you on a different path which will bring even greater rewards.  I just wouldn't personalize it, thinking you are a failure professionally or as a future wife.  I was laid off from my job last year, and I took it really personally so I understand what it is like.  But you just have to keep reminding yourself that everyone around you loves you no matter what happens, and something better will come your way.  I know it did for me after a number of rejections, and I now have an awesome job.  Just hang in there... sending prayers and thoughts your way. 

AshNoel8

Try not to let it get you down. The girls are right- God has a plan for you and soon you will know what it is that He wants you to do. I will say a prayer for you! Keep your head up! 

iamjoesgurl

What I have found is that when I didn't get a job I really wanted, something better ended up happening later.  I hope that is the case for you.  

I recently had several people suggest that I apply for a job and after much consideration I was very excited about it, felt I had really great experience and that I would be great for the job.  I got an interview and thought it went really well.  Then I didn't hear anything for a few months.  Finally, I got a canned email that they were considering other candidates.  Then one of my co-workers (who had no experience at all) applied for it and got a 2nd interview!  She didn't end up getting the job, but I was feeling really bad about how it all happened.  I was discouraged (and am still somewhat discouraged) and really started questioning my abilities and my future.  I just have to feel like it was not the right job for me and even though I thought it would be a great job, better pay, more opportunity, there must be something else for me.

As GJones said, the job market is tough right now.  Hang in there.