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Friday, May 23, 2014

Choose Godly, Wise and JOYful Friends!



            Have you had your JOY JUICE today?  May I suggest that you go to a Godly friend and borrow some of theirs when you find yourself running short!

            It is essential to have good friends! Especially those who build us up, tell us what we need to hear and draw us closer to God.  We need accountability; we need wise counsel; we need each other! That’s the way God planned it.  He didn’t intend for us to walk through life alone.  Of course, we are never truly alone because GOD is always there for us.  But He created relationships and wants us to have friends along this journey.  It’s through our friends that He often speaks.

            Do you have Godly friends who believe in Jesus, who are continually studying the Word of God to become more like Jesus and who are praying faithfully as they follow Jesus?  That’s the kind of friend we all need. We can trust their counsel as God uses them to speak to us.

            Charles Stanley writes: “Good counseling always includes a balance of admonition, reproof, discipline, approval, and encouragement.  If a counselor only addresses the negative all the time, run from that person.  If a counselor only agrees with you or applauds you at all times, run from that person as well.  Neither person is going to help you consistently over time because progress toward health and wholeness requires that we make changes, turning from bad habits and embracing good habits in our thinking and behaving.”

              Proverbs 12:15 says: “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man is he who listens to counsel.” (NAS)

            May we seek the counsel of the Godly people in our lives and listen for God’s voice as He speaks through them.



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