Prayer request

[SpreadTheTruth1]

Hi my friend says he hates the world this is his profile on aol instant messager

"Friendship, People, Love, Peace, Hope, All things I
do not understand nor care about.
Peace will never come in a world like this.
Friendship is only accomplished with greed
People, they are corrupted with selfishness
Love is a useless ideal
Hope, another useless ideal
None of these things matter, in a world like this.
Hatred, It is the only truth in this World... "
please pray for him and give me any advice you can he really needs to find Gods love

 

[Blessed-one]

why not try asking how he came to have such a "unique" profile?

 

[wvmtnkid]

That's a good idea. Sometimes before you can reach out to someone it helps to know where they are coming from, what they have experienced to make them feel the way they do. Sounds like he has been hurt and very disappointed by someone.

 

[Hands&Feet]

From the perspective of someone who has not discovered the unconditional love and forgiveness of Jesus, your friend's profile sounds pretty accurate. Perhaps he has never really learned that God Himself would probably agree with Him. After helping him to see-point by point-how much God would agree with him on the state of affairs of this world, I would then challenge him to-with God's help-to begin turning the ways of this world upside down by striving to become the antithesis of every thing he says is wrong with the world.
1. Begin radically befriending even those who make no effort to reciprocate his friendship.
2. THe peacemakers are the blessed ones. Help him to see how being a peacemaker will turn his negativism into a tremendous blessing for him and for those he reaches out to if he only would make up his mind that he can make a difference.
3. Show him by your own actions toward him that true friendships are not selfish or greed motivated. No matter how little he responds in kind, be his friend with absolutely no strings attached. He needs desperately to see true friendship modeled for him so that he knows that it exists. My Mom always said that you could count all of your true friends on one hand, but even though that is so, aren't they worth investing your love in?
4. Love, the way the world(including much of the church)loves, is a useless deal. But what makes it useless is that we too often demand payment for our love. When we begin to grasp how Jesus loves us UNCONDITIONALLY, and begin to extend that kind of love to others, we discover that there really is------
5. --HOPE. If we can disprove all these negative traits of this wicked world in our own lives, we will begin to inspire those around us to disprove them as well. We can begin to restore hope to this world.
6. Hatred is alive and well--even in the church. So that is all the more reason for him to make his life living proof that it doesn't have to be that way.

You have already acknowledged that he needs to find God's love and so there is God's mission for you. It time to be the hands& feet & heart of Jesus to him the best you can. And when you fail, ask his forgiveness.

What satan has planted in his mind to destroy him with, God will use for His glory.

Think patience and compassion. Imagine what an incredible difference he could make in this world if you can help him turn this negativism around..

You have my prayers, bro. Go with God and go for the gusto!!