In the mist of when you are down, and sad, and that the road ahead seems to just be a fully on downhill and nothing seems to be working, well, its not because you are a bad person and God is punishing you or anything, its just satan or his demons trying to get you down, and make you see ahead and how it will be all downhill and bad. Do not listen to that voice. Because all satan's voice is full of is: Lies, pain, death and all that type of stuff, does not sound good right, well you are right, its not good, and no, it does not sound good. One thing is that you need to know what the voice of God sounds like and the voice of satan's voice sounds like. Satan has tricks he knows. What he would do is make something look soooooo good and healthy and all when in reality its not. One thing that you should look at is what the thing that you are doing will cause. Because satan will make stuff look good and healthy and all and make it look like its from God and all. And that's why you need to learn the voice of God and the voice of satan. Look at what it is will cause, and how it will affect your future life and all. Learning the voice of God and satan is one of the important things to learn. Its not THE MOST important thing but it is very important. What satan will do is try to sound just like God to make you go into what hes tempting you to do or get into. Look at what hes tempting you to do and see what it will cause and do to you. Then possibly pray to God this: Lord, is this what you are wanting me to do? And as I said in my other thing, prayer is not instant thing usually, it takes time and effort and faith and trust all in God. But you gotta be willing to keep and keep praying until the time is right for him answer the prayer. its not a "if" he will answer, its "when" he will. But try to learn the voice of satan and God. Know what each wants from you and know if its one or the other. This is pretty important to know really.