[AzNASCARfan]

I tried to get him to realize how serious this is and not worth waiting, but he knows it all and will not listen to my advice on anything really... I spent the last month trying to get him to go to a doctor after researching the bleeding retina after the first appointment. I even asked him what good all that scrimping and saving for his retirement account will do him if he dies before he can use it... Especially since I think his ex wife is still the named beneficiary on everything... but he goes opposite of what I say more than taking my advice anyway so all I could try to do is remind him what the Dr said... I drove him today because they were dilating his eyes and I knew from talking to him on the phone that he should not be on the road period... which the doctor told him 5 minutes into the exam today.

We have been friends for about 35 years and never really talked religion until he brought it up about a year ago... He was raised Catholic but calls himself a Christian. I was raised Baptist and have been a believer all my life, but not been in the bible regularly until this past year. I did reject organized religion, but never rejected God and did spend many years off to the side of the main path... I have since realized it is not All of organized religion, but there is much of it corrupted by man... The good churches out there are the ones teaching the bible and it's truth! Dave is an avid reader and always likes to slam me for not reading books... I always tell him I probably read more hours a day than he does, but it is reading the news or to learn something instead of reading to escape.

That first time he brought up God and we talked awhile, we decided we would read the whole bible at the same time and discuss it but he wanted to finish the series he was reading first. He kept putting it off and I finally started with Ezekiel first after finding Amir Tsarfati and hearing him talking about the prophecy of Ezekiel's war looking close... I said something about that one night and he said he would read about it so we could talk about it, a couple days later he said he tried but could not read it because what he read was novels and said the story just made no sense to him.

We have had a few discussions about the bible and things it says and he automatically wants to argue with anything I say about the bible or otherwise. He has made a lot of rejections of things I said I believed or the bible said, that made me cringe when he said whatever he said and I even quit bringing it up because I did not want to be the reason he was rejecting God or the Bible.

[jacknhoo]

You’re truly a good friend. I’ll pray for him and you and your wife and brother in law. Thanks for asking.

[Reddy]

Praying now for your bil and Dave. They are blessed to have such a caring person in their lives.

[lysie]

My prayers are with you, your family and friend. Bless you for caring.

[WWG1WWA]

I will pray for the Lord to enter their situations, lift them up before Him. He is faithful and true.

[infool7]

Pray, God’s will be done.

He loves us and wants what’s best for us

even when we can’t see exactly what that is.

Come Holy Spirit, show us the way home.

Prayers for your entire family and your friend Dave.

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[b4me]

Praying for your brother in law, and friend.

just my 2 cents, I think best prayer for anyone at any time or situation is that their heart will be open to accept Jesus (salvation or if saved get more firmly aligned with Him in that moment) and that they will surrender their will for God’s will.

Sometimes, we don’t know how things turn out, some times they turn out opposite what we want or think best, but I know when I pray for the person to be aligned with Jesus and with God’s will - that is the best I can do, since God has the master plan and knows how to use all things for good.

Prayers for you too and family and medical staffs.

[TalBlack]

Prayers up for your family and friends.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Prayers all around.

[Texaspeptoman]

God be with you all and may you bring glory to his name. Prayers for healing.

[Jane Long]

Prayers for your loved ones, for His healing touch....and, for you, for His wisdom and strength.

And, may He bless you, richly.

[left that other site]

Reading your account and praying at the same time, Dear FRiend.

As a Believer, I know how hard it is to keep from saying “the wrong thing” and making the situation worse. Scripture is helpful during these times of stressful “Biting My Tongue”!

Psalm 141 3Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips. 4Do not let my heart be drawn to any evil thing or take part in works of wickedness with men who do iniquity; let me not feast on their delicacies.…

James 1:26
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.

Psalm 34:13
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.

Psalm 39:1
I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”

Proverbs 13:3
He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.

Proverbs 21:23
He who guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from distress.

Psalm 17:3-5
Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress…

Psalm 39:1
To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

Psalm 71:8
Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.

Also, the WHOLE BOOK of Philippians is GREAT! Rather than a negative admonition, it gives us a POSITIVE thing to do with out mouths.

Praying for you and your friends, in Jesus Name.

(((HUGS)))

[PigRigger]

Prayers lifted....

[Duchess47]

Praying.

[MDLION]

Prayers.