Cgeneration devotional

Job‬ ‭2:11‬ ‭NLT‬‬

“When three of Job’s friends heard of the tragedy he had suffered, they got together and traveled from their homes to comfort and console him..”

If you are a child of God who has accepted Jesus as your Lord and saviour, one criteria that should top your list in choosing your best friends is that they should have accepted Jesus and they should have a desire to know Him like you do.

Proverbs‬ ‭27:17‬ ‭NLT‬‬ says

“As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.”

Do you have best friends that sharpen you spiritually?

Acts‬ ‭13:6-8‬ ‭GNT‬‬

“They went all the way across the island to Paphos, where they met a certain magician named Bar-Jesus, a Jew who claimed to be a prophet. He was a friend of the governor of the island, Sergius Paulus, who was an intelligent man. The governor called Barnabas and Saul before him because he wanted to hear the word of God. But they were opposed by the magician Elymas (that is his name in Greek), who tried to turn the governor away from the faith.”

Can you spot the friends in your life that try to block your relationship with God?

Proverbs‬ ‭13:20‬ ‭ERV‬‬

“Be friends with those who are wise, and you will become wise. Choose fools to be your friends, and you will have trouble.”

Proverbs‬ ‭1:10‬ ‭TPT‬‬

“When peer pressure compels you to go with the crowd and sinners invite you to join in, you must simply say, “No!””

The Betrayer

Psalms 41 vs 6-9 NLT

“They visit me as if they were my friends, but all the while they gather gossip, and when they leave, they spread it everywhere. All who hate me whisper about me, imagining the worst. “He has some fatal disease,” they say. “He will never get out of that bed!” Even my best friend, the one I trusted completely, the one who shared my food, has turned against me.”

Does this sound familiar? How did Jesus handle such friends?

1 Corinthians‬ ‭15:33‬ ‭CEV‬‬ says

“Don't fool yourselves. Bad friends will destroy you.”

If God is very selective about the people He calls His friends, so should we. So what kind of people should we not have as BFFs?

Exodus‬ ‭33:9‬ ‭ICB‬‬

“When Moses went into the Tent, the pillar of cloud would always come down. It would stay at the entrance of the Tent while the Lord spoke with Moses.”

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How did a man develop such an intimate friendship with God?

Acts‬ ‭13:22‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“And when He had removed him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.’”

God found something in the heart of David that He didn’t find in the heart of anybody else around him which earned David his title as ‘man after God’s heart’.

So what did God see in David’s heart?

Isaiah‬ ‭41:8‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ says:

““But you, Israel, are My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, The descendants of Abraham My friend.”

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What exactly did Abraham do that made God see him as His friend?