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Desperate For My Friend

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Living4TheOne

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Guys i so need your help, my friend ive been talking to AIM for a year now and hes tryed so many ways to meet god, but he keeps saying "God nevers help me hes nothing" and "I tryed every possible way to meet the lord, but he never helps me in return". This man named samuel has tryed to commit suicide plenty of times from cutting his wrists, hanging himself, even shooting himself. Hes torn up inside and outside and i've tryed everyway i know to get him to know the lord. Nothing seems to work. His mom is dieing and everthing in his life is going down. He cant handle it and hes getting stressed and he says " I have nothing more to look for" " I cant succeed in anything", hes been in mental hospitals and just nothing works. This is a serious thing, hes tryed ive tryed now you got to help me. I need someone who can really help him out, hes in such trouble the way hes headed.
 

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i can't direct him to god, but i can give you advice. get him to seek professional help from a doctor. if you know him personally, call the police and tell them that you know he is going to hurt himself. he must be commited immediately. before you can bring him to god (or anything else), you need to get him to come to himself. he is obviously sick, and no amount of christian friendship is going to sink in until you can get him to reason. he must be well before you can take this any further. if you know where he lives, you must get him some help now.
 
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by pure grace

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You know what?

When your friend says that people have been praying for him for years and it has not helped one bit...well, think again.
You've mentioned that he has TRIED to commit suicide by hanging and shooting etc - but he hasn't made it! Wow! Start thanking God for keeping him ALIVE!!!

Don't listen to his (or more likely -don't believe his negative words when he says them)
negative thing about how God hasn't looked after him. He obviously has!

May I suggest that you'll find hom a Christian help organisation that might be able to take him in, almost like a place that cares for drug addicts but for people like him.

He would need people around him that can deal with this stuff on a spiritual basis as much as anything. Find out from the people what they can do, if they have people that can pray for people in his situation etc. Maybe a bigger church will have some suggestions of organisation like this.

Has he actually ask Jesus Christ to be part of his life? It doesn't sound like it...just praying to 'God' might not help that much unless you first are willing for Him to run your life for you.

Start thanking God for keeping him alive and for finding him the solution and freedom in Christ!
 
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heron

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Sure, we'll pray for him!
Sometimes we gauge our experience with God on what we feel. If our bodies and minds are chemically imbalanced, we're not going to "feel" God the same way as we could otherwise.

It's sounds like he's already been to doctors. I know people who have had tremendously different advice between doctors, counselors, psychiatrists. Encourage him to try some different ones...health insurance and medicare-related programs support a certain number of visits per year.
 
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