My best friend is Jewish. He has a little formal Hebrew schooling and makes token efforts to observe the holy days, but otherwise he's secular. We've known each other for 27 years, been around the world a couple times, talk about most anything, but he won't discuss 'religion'. He's more than happy to share what he believes, but anything I try to say he tunes out, interrupts, or walks away.
One night several years ago while praying for him I asked God why Michael wouldn't talk about Him. God's answer was, he was too comfortable, why would he change. So I prayed, God make Michael uncomfortable.
In the next few days, Michael lost his job. He saw that coming, the company was downsizing so it wasn't altogether unexpected. BUT ... the day after I prayed, Michael came up with a web business idea, which he then ran with.
Michael is a hard worker, but he was also born with a golden spoon in his mouth. Every. Single. Thing. he attempts is met with incredible success. And within a minute of meeting someone, he knows exactly what he has to say and do to get whatever he wants out of them. We have been granted permission to places and activities all over the world we would have otherwise never had access to, other than his pure gift of schmooze. He is truly one of those golden boys, born under an extremely lucky star.
And so he went into this web venture - poured his heart body and mind into it - and found his every effort stymied, stonewalled, and rendered irrelevant. Even when he had right, reason, and common sense on his side, he just couldn't win for failing. Some of the things that dumbfounded him bordered on the insane. After nearly a year he gave up, so traumatized by the experience that he never wanted to talk about it again.
But I did. I told him about what God had said, and about my prayer. He was crushed, and for a while he was open to discussing God.
But the years have gone by and Michael is once again too comfortable. He now dismisses the web venture as a fluke and says God and I had nothing to do with it. And he again tunes out, interrupts, or walks away if I pursue it any farther.
I know my prayer had everything to do with it. God told me Michael was too comfortable, I prayed God make Michael uncomfortable, and for a year God made Michael to be like me. Stymied, stonewalled, and rendered irrelevant. That's so me I have it in my will to go on my headstone.
Last year was hell because of it, the beginning of this year I sought answers; the most common one was that there is unfinished business between Michael and I. And God. Michael refuses to discuss it, and while I don't want to hear God tell me to pray against him again (I hate to think what He has for a second act), I sense that's the direction we are headed.
Please pray for wisdom, that I know how to proceed. If you want to discuss the Scriptural issues in this I'm open to that too. And pray for Michael, that his heart be softened without having to be pounded.
Thank you
One night several years ago while praying for him I asked God why Michael wouldn't talk about Him. God's answer was, he was too comfortable, why would he change. So I prayed, God make Michael uncomfortable.
In the next few days, Michael lost his job. He saw that coming, the company was downsizing so it wasn't altogether unexpected. BUT ... the day after I prayed, Michael came up with a web business idea, which he then ran with.
Michael is a hard worker, but he was also born with a golden spoon in his mouth. Every. Single. Thing. he attempts is met with incredible success. And within a minute of meeting someone, he knows exactly what he has to say and do to get whatever he wants out of them. We have been granted permission to places and activities all over the world we would have otherwise never had access to, other than his pure gift of schmooze. He is truly one of those golden boys, born under an extremely lucky star.
And so he went into this web venture - poured his heart body and mind into it - and found his every effort stymied, stonewalled, and rendered irrelevant. Even when he had right, reason, and common sense on his side, he just couldn't win for failing. Some of the things that dumbfounded him bordered on the insane. After nearly a year he gave up, so traumatized by the experience that he never wanted to talk about it again.
But I did. I told him about what God had said, and about my prayer. He was crushed, and for a while he was open to discussing God.
But the years have gone by and Michael is once again too comfortable. He now dismisses the web venture as a fluke and says God and I had nothing to do with it. And he again tunes out, interrupts, or walks away if I pursue it any farther.
I know my prayer had everything to do with it. God told me Michael was too comfortable, I prayed God make Michael uncomfortable, and for a year God made Michael to be like me. Stymied, stonewalled, and rendered irrelevant. That's so me I have it in my will to go on my headstone.
Last year was hell because of it, the beginning of this year I sought answers; the most common one was that there is unfinished business between Michael and I. And God. Michael refuses to discuss it, and while I don't want to hear God tell me to pray against him again (I hate to think what He has for a second act), I sense that's the direction we are headed.
Please pray for wisdom, that I know how to proceed. If you want to discuss the Scriptural issues in this I'm open to that too. And pray for Michael, that his heart be softened without having to be pounded.
Thank you
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