Father, help this your son to know that you are God...let him be still and listen. Let him understand that prayer is not answered because of our faith...but because of your will and your mercy. The faith is necessary from the simple perspective that we believe in You...if we do not...if we doubt your existence why would You answer us? Father...help this man to understand what faith is...

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." (Hebrews 11:1)

You ask for God or Jesus to prove himself to you...but HE asks that you believe in HIM even though you do not see him. Which requirement do you think has more power? The one from the Creator or one from we ourselves...who are merely mortal made from dust and only at God's command. God will not be coerced...he will not answer to demands. If you want to know Him, you first have to believe that He is...he will not engage in your feelings...he gave you feelings to navigate the earth...and therefore feelings are useless to us in the realm of the Spirit. So how, you might ask, do you know that God is real? When you have searched high and low for solace...you have tried many things to find satisfaction in your life... lust for woman, work, money, alcohol, drugs, toys, hobbies, TV...but still feel empty...then you know that something is missing...and so IF you choose to believe HE is...IF you choose to accept, because his word says so that His Son Jesus lived, died, and rose again that all men might be saved...then you are saved with the rest of believers. And IF no matter what storm you are going through...you continue to believe...then and only then can HE work in your life. It will not be some magical feeling or magical thing that transforms you...it requires that you work with HIM. That when lustful thoughts come...you apply his word to it...for example..."get thee behind me Satan"... and when the thoughts come again...you apply HIS words again, this is how the Father develops self control within us...this is the meaning of a Christian fighting a battle. But again you must believe that HE is...and that HIS word has power...if you do not it will not because YOU CHOSE NOT to believe. God is not a cosmic bellhop that we can tell what to do or demand that He give or do things for us. While He is a mighty God...he is also gracious and will sit and wait to invited in with FAITH to act in our lives. While He will be grieved at your loss of heaven if you choose not to believe...He will go right on being God and blessing others that do.

Father...that this friend may understand that YOU our God owe us no proof that YOU are...that You did that long ago and recorded it for posterity in the Holy Bible with the coming of Your Son...and His death and resurrection for us, I pray. We are the ones that have something to prove...that WE BELIEVE He is so that he has permission to work in our lives. I pray that this man will consider these things...and will choose to believe...for if He does...he chooses life and chooses to see your blessings in the days and years ahead. If he does not, he only has himself and his stubbornness to hold accountable for his fate. In Jesus name...Amen!