Jesus, thank you for your friendship. Help me be a true friend to others.

Your friendships are vital to your relationship with God. Your friends are either pulling you down (away from God) or pulling you along and / or up (toward God). 

~~Elizabeth George

This morning’s prayer and meditation for Sally’s healing comes from Take Heart, Oh God: Riches from the Greatest Christian Women Writers of All Time.

Ever think of your friendships as a vital part of your relationship with God? Those hearts knitted together with you and God are gifts from on high. Such friends pull us up toward God, always encouraging us to seek him. We learn from one another’s experiences. We’re encouraged to break out of mediocrity and stretch into the persons we were created to be.

Some friends influence our dreams. Some mentor us. Some connect us to other important relationships. And our dearest friends would tear off the roof to set us before Jesus!

Friends can also pull us away from God if we let them. Some friendships can send us in wrong directions. We need to discern these and set them aside.

Thank God for good friends. Keep them close. Pray for them, care for them, love them. They are God’s gift to you, for now and for eternity.

Prayer for Meditation

Jesus, thank you for your friendship. Help me be a true friend to others.

Scripture for Meditation

Soon the house where he was staying was packed with visitors that there was no more room, even outside the door. While he was preaching God’s word to them, four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. They couldn’t bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. Then they lowered the man on his mat, right down in front of Jesus. Mark 2:2-4

Music for Meditation 

Friends Are Friends Forever

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