Topic: Show Me Your Friends
Daily Personal Confession
I live a life of worship, a life dominated by the Holy spirit. My destiny can never be truncated because it is hidden in Christ. Everywhere I find myself, my light shines brighter and brighter because Christ is alive inside of me.
Great things are spoken of me therefore, I am not susceptible to ill health, no disease or infirmities can use my life as an abode because the blood of Jesus that speaks better things than blood of Abel speaks over my life and entire being. Hallelujah!
Memorize: Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. – 1 Corinthians 15:33
Read: 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 (KJV)
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Message
There is a popular adage that says “show me your friend and I will tell you who you are.” This saying is very true. No matter how spiritual you are, 1 Corinthians 15:33 says that “Evil communication corrupt good manners.”
There are certain friends who would pull you back and there are others who would help you grow spiritually and in other areas of life. Choose your friends wisely.
Before I became born again, I had friends with whom I regularly drank alcoholic wines. Then, I met Christ and my lifestyle changed.
When my friends visited, I served them non-alcoholic drinks, and before long, they realized that things were different, and withdrew from me. It was painful to lose my friends then, but I let them go because I didn’t want them to drag me back to the world.
Today, God has replaced those friends with a lot of brothers and sisters all over the world. I have made new friends who helped me in my walk with God.
It is this kind of friends that you should have too – friends who will draw you closer to God, challenge you to pursue your dreams, pray with you when you are down and whose positive impact on your life will be evident to all.
I must warn you that such friends are not many, but even if it is only one of such you can find, he or she is better than a hundred others who would pull you down.
Jesus is the best friend that any man can have. He said in John 15:15 that:
“…I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.”
Jesus’ friendship should be your standard, if you cannot see through a person’s lifestyle that they have a relationship with Jesus, then they should not be your friend.
While Matthew 22:39 says that we should love our neighbours as ourselves, we are only to have a few true friends. Jesus loved everyone when He was on earth, but He kept His inner circle small.
Don’t hate those you cannot be friends with. You must love them; just don’t share intimate things with them. Set clear boundaries.
Remember, iron sharpens iron (Proverbs 27:17).
Reflection:
Are your current friends drawing you closer to God or far from Him?
Prayer Points
FATHER, l praise and thank You for an encounter of a great morning like this.
FATHER, please, give me the grace to run away from every friendship that will destroy my soul, in Jesus name.
FATHER, please, give me the power to live above peer pressure, and, all the activities of the flesh, in Jesus name.
FATHER, please, free me from every evil entanglement, and deliver me from it’s consequences, in Jesus name.
Daily Declarations
I decree concerning my relationships, the glory of the Lord will overshadow any work of darkness and liberate me from toxic acquaintances, in Jesus’ name
I decree in anything that I do, I am forever filled with divine ability to excel always, in the mighty name of Jesus
I decree my testimony will forever be permanent, my days in life will always be filled with supernatural light and I will never walk in darkness, in the mighty name of Jesus
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