Proverbs WisdomOpen Your Mouth and Say…, Proverbs August 3, 2014Personal Goal: to give top priority to a few key relationships If you find honey, eat just enough—too much of it, and you will vomit.17 Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house—too much of you, and they will hate you.Proverbs 25:16-17If anyone loudly blesses their neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse. Proverbs 27:14How Are True Relationships Defined? 1) Relationships are defined by love:A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity. Proverbs 17:17My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greaterlove has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:12-13App: What kind of friend are you? 2) Relationships Are Defined by Loyalty (read w/me):A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Proverbs 18:24Wealth attracts many friends.Proverbs 19:4aApp: We must assign top priority to relationshipsWe love because He first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother is a liar. For whoever does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21 And He has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love his brother. 1 John 4:19-21What is God’s Spirit speaking into your life today? How must you respond?