Please pray for my friend, a medical doctor in training at a top hospital. He revealed he had been taking an illicit drug for the past 6 months after being sober for over a decade. He became angry when I asked him to stop.

I knew he was endangering his own life and those of his patients. Yesterday we tried to intervene. When he threatened suicide in the clinic I notified his supervisor and revealed the drug use. They were able to get to him in time.

He is very angry and suicidal, feeling that I betrayed him. He has a lot of debt, which he’d like to pay off by working as a full-fledged physician soon. The events of yesterday will delay that until he gets sober. He is all alone in Maryland.

Please pray for him, as he struggles with emotionally abusive family members and a history of sexual abuse from a church youth group leader. This was what got him into drugs in the first place. His family is very religious, so he is bitter towards God. Please pray for him to be able to turn to and trust in God again. Please pray that God will keep him from committing suicide.

Please pray for me also. I’m studying for my own medical board exams and this new stress has made it hard to focus. The stakes are high because I had failed them previously, due to concentration difficulties from medical issues, which are resolving with treatment. Please pray that I will be able to focus on my studies, to give my friend to God, and to trust that he will heal us all.

Thank you for your prayers. I can’t do this alone.