Pray please for Joe. He has tried to believe and studied the scriptures but said he can't feel it
Pray the word I shared with him will be sown and he will be brought fully to life in Jesus. With him somehow I feel he is weary from trying to believe

Do not push him, you may just be pushing him away from the Lord, best to pray for him and be kind to him as Jesus would had been to him too.
Lord bring Joe to salvation on his own, for you want us to come to you out of our own free will, not pushed. Touch his heart and open his eyes toward you as you have your perfect will done in his life and situation. I pray in Jesus merciful and mighty name. Amen.