We get many urgent and serious life situation emails in the inbox, and that includes this

one today from a woman who wishes to remain anonymous.

Dear Pastor John, hello, I am a born again Christian.

A while back, I engaged in corrupt activities of work, and this is now causing me a great

deal of suffering.

I will be charged in court soon, and then likely headed to prison.

I have since repented of my sins and prayed to God for deliverance, however my prayers

have been met with dead silence from God.

My family has also experienced so much pain and suffering with my siblings losing their

jobs as a result of my sin.

Here are my questions.

What encouragement can you offer me in what I face ahead?

And what should a child of God like me do when I now face legal suffering for my crimes?

My faith in God is intact, but I am at my lowest spiritually.

Please help me.

I have wished that God would just call me home instead of watching my family suffer

through the nightmare of watching what is to come.

I want to begin by pointing our about to be imprisoned sister to a passage of scripture

that I pray she will find hope giving.

Psalm 107 has proved to be in my life and ministry one of the most amazingly helpful

Psalms for people in all manner of distress because it deals with such different kinds

of trouble.

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