# Is there hope in today's world **URL:** \ **Category:** Prayer\ **Created:** [October 29, 2026, 7:34am UTC](https://forums.crosswalk.com/t/is-there-hope-in-todays-world/21128 "2026-10-29T07:34:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![coleyfrankie194](https://forums.crosswalk.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@coleyfrankie194](https://forums.crosswalk.com/u/coleyfrankie194)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 7:34am UTC](https://forums.crosswalk.com/t/is-there-hope-in-todays-world/21128/1 "2026-10-29T07:34:02Z")
Please help me to pray for:my 4 sons to come to dedicate their lives to JESUS CHRIST as LORD of their lives;that they will become FAITHFUL thru good times and bad times 🙏 their names: DAVID WITTMAN JR.-especially JOEY WITTMAN -DANIEL WITTMAN &SGT.MELVIN WITTMAN. PRAY ALSO for me as their mother that they have very little contact with because of DOMESTIC ISSUES between me &their father. I struggle financially and physically to provide for myself BUT GOD always helps me in my struggle. @ the moment I am living out of 2007 HONDA ODYSSEY VAN with my home furnishings packed inside and I am going to have to have surgery VERY SOON to have gall bladder &possibly appendix removed. I am 65 yrs. old and draw SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY of only $1062.00 a month. PLEASE HELP TO Pray- thank you ---
**Author:** ![PeterC](https://forums.crosswalk.com/user_avatar/forums.crosswalk.com/peterc/32/7200_2.png) [@PeterC](https://forums.crosswalk.com/u/PeterC)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 8:17am UTC](https://forums.crosswalk.com/t/is-there-hope-in-todays-world/21128/2 "2026-10-29T08:17:36Z")
@coleyfrankie194, welcome. The best advice I can give you is for you to stop looking to the world for the answer. Seek first the Kingdom of God. Here is why I say this. It’s so easy to feel overwhelmed by financial strain, especially in a world that constantly tells us our worth and security depend on money. But remember, the financial pressure we feel comes from human-made systems, not from God. First, stop thinking about it in a worldly sense. > **“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, > and do not lean on your own understanding.** > > **In all your ways acknowledge him, > and he will make straight your paths.” Proverbs 3:5–6** This passage urges us to place our complete trust in the Lord rather than relying solely on our own human reasoning or calculations. When we acknowledge Him in all areas of life, including our finances, He will guide our path forward. Paul encourages believers not to carry the burden of anxiety. Instead, we are invited to bring every worry and request to God through prayer and thanksgiving. > **“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6–7** In return, God offers a peace that goes beyond human understanding, which guards our hearts and minds from fear and overwhelm. Then, of course, you have this from our LORD Himself. > **“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?** > > **Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. "Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” Matthew 6:25–34** Jesus reminds us that life is more than material needs like food or clothes. He points to creation: how God feeds the birds of the air and clothes the lilies of the field without them striving or worrying. God knows what we need before we even ask. When we focus on seeking His Kingdom and His righteousness first, He promises that our daily essential needs will be provided for. I say again, stop looking toward the world for your answers and solutions; start looking to God. May God be with you, now in this time, and always. Peter ---
**Author:** ![coleyfrankie194](https://forums.crosswalk.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@coleyfrankie194](https://forums.crosswalk.com/u/coleyfrankie194)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 6:40pm UTC](https://forums.crosswalk.com/t/is-there-hope-in-todays-world/21128/3 "2026-10-29T18:40:21Z")
Please continue to pray 🙏 for me-IF YOU WILL- and also the 4 sons I asked you to pray for:DAVID WITTMAN,JR.-JOEY WITTMAN -DANIEL WITTMAN and SGT.MELVIN WITTMAN. They all have wives & children that they need to be examples for and this is why I requested prayer for them. Myself-I have more complex problems because I refuse to share my life with anyone else because of ABUSE-Now I am believing that GOD really has no time to care for anyone else EXCEPT HIS OWN! Matthew 15:24 plainly states that HE ONLY is called but unto the lost sheep of ISRAEL. HE even calls GENTILES-DOGS-26! I have always TRUSTED in HIM to DELIVER! even from the “ENEMY”! Will you help me to pray? ---
**Author:** ![PeterC](https://forums.crosswalk.com/user_avatar/forums.crosswalk.com/peterc/32/7200_2.png) [@PeterC](https://forums.crosswalk.com/u/PeterC)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 8:19am UTC](https://forums.crosswalk.com/t/is-there-hope-in-todays-world/21128/4 "2026-10-30T08:19:38Z")
> [@coleyfrankie194](#): > > Now I am believing that GOD really has no time to care for anyone else EXCEPT HIS OWN! This was true. Jesus did not come for you. If you are not of the lost Tribe of Israel, He did not come for you. But does that make Paul’s teachings false? That it is by grace alone you are saved and not by works? Did this mean that everything that I and others have told you is a lie? That a large portion of the New Testament is completely false and a lie from Satan himself? Let’s look at this more closely… Matthew 15:22- 28 > **“And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.” But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying out after us.” He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.” And he answered, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” …Then Jesus answered her, “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed instantly.”** First, He completely ignored her. Second, Jesus plainly says, **“I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”** In Mark, it is recorded as He saying this: **“Let the children first be fed: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.”** When Jesus sent out the Twelve, He told them this. Matthew 10:5-6 **"These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”** First Jesus said, **“I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” “Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.” “Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:”** Jesus did not come for you. He wanted nothing to do with you. He was a Jew, and He came FOR the Jews. He even called non-Jews nothing more than dogs. Is this the picture of Jesus you have been taught? It is true. The Jewish people ARE indeed God’s chosen people. They are the most oppressed, enslaved, murdered, and abused people that have ever walked the Earth. They became God’s chosen people when He, through Moses, brought them out of the Land of Egypt. He set them aside from the rest of the world. He gave THEM the Law. The Commandments. They became His children through the Law, and He loved them. Why? Because they LOVE God. Because they have incorporated the word of God and His Will into their daily lives. They, for the most part, are the most obedient people to the Commandments of God. The most humble People. However, they became like the Gentiles. In time, they started living like others. God sent to them, the Jews, the Prophets. They, the Jews, rejected and killed the Prophets. He had no choice. Because of THEIR, the Jews, disobedience, and because of His, God’s, promises to THEM, the Jews, He had no choice. He had to come Himself. The Flesh of God, the Word in the Flesh, Jesus, had to come to die for THEM. To Save THEM. This is all true. It had nothing to do with you. If the Jews accepted God and remained faithful, Jesus would have never come, and we would not be talking about Him today. But what did the JEWS do? They rejected Him and killed Him. God knew this was going to happen. So Jesus taught about this in various places. Let’s look at a couple. Matthew 21:33-46 > **"Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country. When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit. And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them.** > > **Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’ And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40 When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?" They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”** > > **Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.” When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them. And although they were seeking to arrest him, they feared the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet.”** Just as plainly as Jesus told us that He was “not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel,” Jesus also said that those He came for would reject Him. However, those that receive Him would receive the inheritance. Continued. ---
**Author:** ![PeterC](https://forums.crosswalk.com/user_avatar/forums.crosswalk.com/peterc/32/7200_2.png) [@PeterC](https://forums.crosswalk.com/u/PeterC)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 8:19am UTC](https://forums.crosswalk.com/t/is-there-hope-in-todays-world/21128/5 "2026-10-30T08:19:48Z")
He even told them that He, Jesus, would become a stumbling block. That even those whom He came for would reject Him, YET it is by Him that Salvation will come. They got so angry and offended at this because they KNEW He was telling them that since they were rejecting Him, He would open up Salvation to others. Then here… Matthew 22:2-10 **"The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come.** **Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.”’ But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them.** **The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy. Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.’ And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests."** Again, Jesus tells us that although there were indeed chosen people that He was calling, since they were not worthy, since they refused to accept the “invitation” or the gift of Salvation which is through Him, He would call others. It was Jesus Himself that anointed Paul. It was Jesus who appointed him to the Gentiles. Paul’s message is the same as Jesus Himself. That it is not merely by the Law, or by works, that you are saved. That it is both. Faith in Christ Jesus, that he came for, died for, and was resurrected for you, but also through following God. It is both faith and works that justify a Saint. There is now no difference. > **“There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”** As for praying, just talk to Him. Talk to your Father in heaven. You are His child. Be blessed, Peter