Hi Ya’ll, I wanted to ask ya’ll for your prayers again today. Things have gotten pretty stressful between my friend and I. He is still “believing for healing�? I mentioned that instead of memorizing “healing verses�?he needed to memorize the BIG 10 commandments and live them.

IN CASE YOUR WONDERING, as I am sure you have. The assistant Pastor at my church ask me,, “why do you hang around people like that?�?Here is what I told him.

Six years ago my friend moved in next door to me in a small trailer park. Things had been really bad for me between my family and I because my Mom was trying to control every aspect of my life. Even saying that,,,, even though my Mormon uncle who is a Bishop, was sending missionaries to my house and was telling me that the Christian church was of Satan and I needed to become a Mormon, that she would never talk to me again if I said anything to my Uncle about “his religion�? So when I met my friend I was down and out and still not talking with my family.

My friend was a very straight up person and I never doubted he was a Christian for almost 4 yrs. Even though he was duped by the WoF stuff, he had a descent grasp of the bible. He always made sure that I was OK. I sometimes go into depression for weeks and months, sometimes even years. At that time in my life, I was spending almost all of my time alone, did not have enough money to even keep myself in the essentials of life. My friend always made sure to come by after work and see if I was OK and if I had eaten good and not been too lonely.

My friend always had his daughter doing the single parent thing. He was really close with his Family and they came and visited often on weekends so I became friends with his parents and extended family too. They have treated me almost like family for about 6 yrs.

My friend was on parole when I met him, but 3 yrs later he got off and started to drink and drug again. I got pulled into it a few times too. A couple of nights I did some pills with him, but they threw me into a massive depression and I did not do them anymore. I don’t know about where ya’ll live, but here in Texas they have “pain management centers�?where anyone can go and get pain pills, and you really don’t even have to be in pain. Just tell em what you want and they write the script. Unfortunately I have many friends who have been harmed by this. One friend that has a back injury quit taking pain pills after almost dying from them. My Mom at times has abused the pain pills that she takes for legitimate pain. I HATE PILLS, they are so destructive.

NOW THAT I HAVE SAID THAT. I found out for sure that my friend stole some drugs from the guy that shot him. The evidence got so overwhelming that my friend finally confessed. But he is still lying. He tries to say the guy shot him over 20$ worth of stuff. (cocaine I think) but we are hearing it was much more than that. But he totally lied for over three weeks. I asked him “how can you sit there and lie, even live a lie, and not be convicted by the Holy Spirit, does the bible say to only tell the truth when we want too?�?/P>

He came off with this pathetic argument that “nobody tells the truth all the time�? I flipped my lid on that one. I told him straight forward that was a LIE. I know many Christians that tell the truth even when it hurts. And I don’t know one single Christian that lives a lie, telling one lie after another to cover up all the lies previously told. I got so angry that I hung up on him.

I AM GOING TO VISIT TODAY OR TOMMOROW.

So would ya’ll please pray. I feel under so much pressure, because I can not join in “believing for healing�?with my friend and his family. The temptation to just run away is very strong because I cannot agree with them. Because IT IS NOT ALWAYS GOD’S WILL TO HEAL.

So things will be stressful. And we will need your prayers. Thank you very much,

Sincerely,

Damon