Late last year I was struggling a great deal in my job as a manager. The stress was becoming too much, and my employees were trying to take advantage of me.<\/p>
I kept praying that God would find me a new job or position at work where I wouldn\u2019t be in management anymore, but I could still raise my young family.<\/p>
Things didn\u2019t seem to be going anywhere and so I tried to take matters into my own hands and I asked for a temporary position in a different department as a manager. To my amazement they said yes and I thought it was all I could have wanted especially as it included a pay raise. The employees were great, I knew the work so much better and I felt so much more confident. I thought this was God\u2019s answer to my prayers.<\/p>
On the first day I started the new position, I received another offer for a manager position in a completely different department. This move would be a permanent change, I wouldn\u2019t make anything more than I was already making, and I would have to go to swing shift. I didn\u2019t know anything about the area. I had heard bad things about the department manager there, and it was a much higher stress environment. It really wasn\u2019t what I wanted and I wasn\u2019t going to accept.<\/p>
Then came the prompting that I should take that position. I knew that God was encouraging me to accept that offer.<\/p>
A month after I accepted the position, my work started ending temporary promotions and laying people off. A lot of people lost their jobs in that department. At that moment I was grateful I trusted God, that I was safe, and that I was able to provide for my family.<\/p>
God knew where I needed to be. He knew what was best for me, even though it wasn\u2019t easy and wasn\u2019t my first choice.<\/p>
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Late last year I was struggling a great deal in my job as a manager. The stress was becoming too much, and my employees were trying to take advantage of me. I kept praying that God would find me a new job or position at work where I wouldn\u2019t be in management anymore, but I could still raise my young family. Things didn\u2019t seem to be going anywhere and so I tried to take matters into my own hands and I asked for a temporary position in a different department as a manager. To my amazement they said yes and I thought it was all I could have wanted especially as it included a pay raise. The employees were great, I knew the work so much better and I felt so much more confident. I thought this was God\u2019s answer to my prayers. On the first day I started the new position, I received another offer for a manager position in a completely different department. This move would be a permanent change, I wouldn\u2019t make anything more than I was already making, and I would have to go to swing shift. I didn\u2019t know anything about the area. I had heard bad things about the department manager there, and it was a much higher stress environment. It really wasn\u2019t what I wanted and I wasn\u2019t going to accept. Then came the prompting that I should take that position. I knew that God was encouraging me to accept that offer. A month after I accepted the position, my work started ending temporary promotions and laying people off. A lot of people lost their jobs in that department. At that moment I was grateful I trusted God, that I was safe, and that I was able to provide for my family. God knew where I needed to be. He knew what was best for me, even though it wasn\u2019t easy and wasn\u2019t my first choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43,44,40,41,45,55],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hope","tag-blessings","tag-fingerprints-of-god","tag-hope","tag-miracles","tag-tender-mercy","tag-trusting-god"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}