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[quote='Kay' pid='882' dateline='1196867156']
One of my best friends is going through a crisis of faith. He's discouraged, tired of fighting. He's been witnessing to his friends but only getting pushed away for it. He has really gone through a lot of difficult, trying, and painful situations this year. The Devil has really been attacking him, and I am afraid he doesn't have the strength to stand up and resist the enemy. I am so worried about him, I love him so much and to see him going through this is killing me. Please, please pray earnestly for him! His name is Josh.

Thank you,
Kay

PS: Here's what he wrote on his MySpace page, so you can have a better idea of specific things to pray for him and perhaps can have more insight into the situation:

All that I am, all that I know was stripped away. I honestly don't know who I am or what I believe. My faith was put to the test and it failed. I was defeated. It's over. They won. 2+2=4 is no longer the equation. No matter how hard I try, no matter how much of my heart I put into it, it fails. Every failure has had an impact on me and this is the final push. I don't know if I can believe in God when I can't even get someone else too. I was sure that I knew God. I was sure it was His plan for me to tell others, and yet; the others never listen. There is no seed planted. Only a weed. A thorn that will continue to hurt and remind them of that one time they were hurt. I don't win people to the kingdom. My gift is pushing them away. I have no gift... I thought I had given it to God. I thought I had reached the point where we were supposed to be. We're closer friends than ever and yet all I can do is push him away. God, to him, is now just a nuisance that keeps friends apart. That keeps nations at war. What else could he think when the culprit of most of his misery is a servent of this god. What is there to believe in? What divine creator would let his followers suffer so? It takes one person to completely destroy my innermost being. Who I am is no longer a definite, but a question. How can someone follow the crowd and hope they get to heaven? Has everything I've ever been taught just that? Something someone decided was right and that they taught me? I thought I had found my answer, my salvation. What I really found was just another reason to give in. I'm done. It's over. I can't seem to win this losing battle. What's the point in fighting? I'm sick of playing on a team that doesn't win. I'm not going to play anymore. It's a sick game of pitting friends against each other and I'm not going to do it anymore. I'm tired of losing my friends for the sake of something that I don't know is even real. If we are truly in a war, then I choose neutrality. Neither side can convince me of it's truths. I am so shaken in what I believe. I can't cry anymore. I won't cry anymore.
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Posted by Kay - 12-05-2007 08:05 AM

One of my best friends is going through a crisis of faith. He's discouraged, tired of fighting. He's been witnessing to his friends but only getting pushed away for it. He has really gone through a lot of difficult, trying, and painful situations this year. The Devil has really been attacking him, and I am afraid he doesn't have the strength to stand up and resist the enemy. I am so worried about him, I love him so much and to see him going through this is killing me. Please, please pray earnestly for him! His name is Josh.

Thank you,
Kay

PS: Here's what he wrote on his MySpace page, so you can have a better idea of specific things to pray for him and perhaps can have more insight into the situation:

All that I am, all that I know was stripped away. I honestly don't know who I am or what I believe. My faith was put to the test and it failed. I was defeated. It's over. They won. 2+2=4 is no longer the equation. No matter how hard I try, no matter how much of my heart I put into it, it fails. Every failure has had an impact on me and this is the final push. I don't know if I can believe in God when I can't even get someone else too. I was sure that I knew God. I was sure it was His plan for me to tell others, and yet; the others never listen. There is no seed planted. Only a weed. A thorn that will continue to hurt and remind them of that one time they were hurt. I don't win people to the kingdom. My gift is pushing them away. I have no gift... I thought I had given it to God. I thought I had reached the point where we were supposed to be. We're closer friends than ever and yet all I can do is push him away. God, to him, is now just a nuisance that keeps friends apart. That keeps nations at war. What else could he think when the culprit of most of his misery is a servent of this god. What is there to believe in? What divine creator would let his followers suffer so? It takes one person to completely destroy my innermost being. Who I am is no longer a definite, but a question. How can someone follow the crowd and hope they get to heaven? Has everything I've ever been taught just that? Something someone decided was right and that they taught me? I thought I had found my answer, my salvation. What I really found was just another reason to give in. I'm done. It's over. I can't seem to win this losing battle. What's the point in fighting? I'm sick of playing on a team that doesn't win. I'm not going to play anymore. It's a sick game of pitting friends against each other and I'm not going to do it anymore. I'm tired of losing my friends for the sake of something that I don't know is even real. If we are truly in a war, then I choose neutrality. Neither side can convince me of it's truths. I am so shaken in what I believe. I can't cry anymore. I won't cry anymore.