
Please help me to get back on my feet
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Hello everybody. My name is Jacob. Anybody that knows me well know that I dropped my old ways and my old life 3 years ago to serve the Lord Jesus Christ. I left alcohol, drugs, a life of adultery, witchcraft, drug dealing, etc. I made fast money doing things i cant bring myself to do anymore. It has been a journey. In the process, I left behind my old life to pursue the Lord and his will for me. This journey has not been easy. In my hopes to pursue an honest living I've been living with my parents and looking for work. In the time I've been here I've found a few jobs and they didn't last long. Currently, I've been unemployed for over a year with a part time hustle that's barely scraping in necessities if at all.
I went to jail as a result of my old life and have been having a hard time getting a job because of my misdemeanor weapon posession and my jagged broken teeth. As of now I have a detailing business I've been slowly starting up for over about 2 years to try and be self sustainable while also still looking for work. I got the most expensive equipment i needed while i was working at a union job. Unfortunately at that grocery distribution job i was working 12-16 hours with a bad back and i exacerbated some injuries and got some new ones and threw out my back really bad.
Detailing kept me fed and it paid my phone bill after I hurt my back and could find any work that wasn't labor intensive. I haven't been able to save money for over 2 year now. I'm barely scraping by and sometimes I'm literally having to ask for help just to get the bare minimum essentials. My business wasn't always like this. I was detailing cars with a friend of mine who had a working vehicle, and busibess was good. Unfortunately, he moved away with his gf and i was back at square one.. So as of now I have a slow business that requires me to be mobile and I cannot be.
I've been riding a bike with these back issues for about 10 years now. On top of my back issues I've had digestion issues, stomach issues, known bone deterioration in my spine from kaiser, destroyed nerves all through my neck and back which likely led to all my teeth falling out, and I've had a lump in my anus ruled out several times as a hemmaroid. UPDATE I FINALLY GOT DENTAK WORK BUT I HAVE 4 MORE MONTHS UNTIL IM CONPLETELY FINISHED. I need physical therapy. I need hospital visits. I need a colonoscopy. I need to be able to get to specialist. I likely need an mri to find out what this insane pressure is in my brain. I have so many issues to deal with and I barely have the energy to keep up with my business and my life having to get around and do everything on a bicycle. I really need some help to get back on my feet and get into a car.
Originally, I started this gofundme with the hopes of getting a car to start my business off better. After many months of struggling to get by, I had to get on food stamps just to keep up with a meal a day. An opportunity for a union mission gospel came up and i was going to leave in august. Turns out the organization is corrupt and didnt even give me the instruction I needed to be accepted into it while also leading me to believe that I would be. Not only this, but after this opportunity fell through, I let my church know about my health issues and how much I am suffering. After never really feeling they followed up about the help I need, me and my pastor set up a meeting which fell throufh due to miscommunication and still has yet to happen. My Church knows somewhat about my issues but it seems like nobody has answers for me.
Meanwhile I am literally struggling to get through the mundane of each day lacking in encouragent and resources to get anywhere. I've passed out business cards, and told my pastors, hosted free car washes at my house that nobody at my church came to. But it never seems to bring enough to be able to save up for a car. Anything you are able to donate would help me towards my goal of getting in a car or at least maintaining until I can find solid employment.
This gofundme was extremely hard for me to make. Its been hard to even keep updated as things have progressively gotten worse since i made it originally. I've always been self sustainable, and so reliant on myself, that it's hard to ask for help even when I desperately need it. I need help beyond my own capabilities. I know times are hard right now for everybody. My situation is much too desperate to face alone. I'm trying to navigate all of this while going through seriously traumatic events that gave me ptsd pretty bad. I may have cancer. I don't even know. I don't have the energy to ride my bike to all these appointments and I don't have time to do details getting there on a bike. It's all impossible to manage without a car.
I barely have energy to shower twice a week, brush my teeth, eat, go grocery shopping and i have to do a lot more than that to get by. The mundane things that people do with easy have become incredibly difficult for me to manage. I've been down on my luck for years now, but I trust that the Lord can provide a way for me to live a righteous life and work an honest living. After having no car for 10 years and doing every single thing from grocery shopping to laundry on a bike with a ruck sack.... I am just tired. I literally dont have the energy to keep riding a bike to get everywhere and do everything. If you are able to sow to my life I would eternally be grateful. If you aren't able to donate please pray for me.
Galatians 6:2: "Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ."
Luke 12:33-34: “Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Acts 20:35: “In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
Luke 10:27-37: “And he answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.’ And he said to him, ‘You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.’ But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbor?’ Jesus replied, ‘A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, “Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.” Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?’ He said, ‘The one who showed him mercy.’ And Jesus said to him, ‘You go, and do likewise.’”
Matthew 5:42: “Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you"
Galatians 2:10: “Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do."
Hebrews 6:10: “God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.”
Hebrews 13:16: “And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.”
Luke 6:30: “Give to everyone who begs from you,"
Romans 12:13: “Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality."
Romans 15:1: “We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.”
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Jacob Wilson
Organizer
Stockton, CA