I AM A FRIEND OF GOD...SO GRATEFUL FOR HIS GRACE!!!!

Proverb 17:17 "A friend loves at all times..."

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FRIENDS STICK CLOSE TO EACH OTHER:

• Proverb 18:24 "...there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."

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FRIENDS WILL GO TO BATTLE FOR EACH OTHER:

• Proverb 27:6 "faithful are the wounds of a friend..."

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FRIENDS GIVE AND RECEIVE COUNSEL FROM EACH OTHER:

• Proverb 27:9 "...a man's counsel is sweet to his friend."

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FRIENDS DO NOT FORSAKE EACH OTHER:

• Proverb 27:10 "Do not forsake your own friend or your father's friend..."

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FRIENDS FORGIVE:

• Luke 5:21 "When Jesus saw their faith, he said, "Friend, your sins are forgiven."

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FRIENDS WILL INCLUDE THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN REJECTED BY OTHERS:

• Luke 7:34 "...a friend of tax collectors and "sinners."

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FRIENDS REJOICE WITH EACH OTHER:

• Luke 15:5 "...he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, 'Rejoice with me...
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FRIENDS SHARE GOOD NEWS WITH EACH OTHER:

• Luke 15:9 "...And when she finds it, she calls her friends ..."

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FRIENDS DIE FOR EACH OTHER:

• John 15:13 "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. "

FRIENDS OF JESUS OBEY HIM:

• John 15:14 "You are my friends if you do what I command. "

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FRIENDS TELL EACH OTHER WHAT'S IMPORTANT:

• John 15:15 "I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you."

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FRIENDS SHOW WHO THEIR FRIENDS ARE BY WHAT THEY DO... HOW THEY LIVE THEIR LIVES:

• James 2:23-24 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness," and he was called God's friend. 24 You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone.

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TRUE FRIENDSHIP CANNOT BE EARNED BY WHAT WE DO.........BECAUSE ....

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"God

doesn't

love

me

because

of

my

performance.

He

loves

me

in

spite

of

my

performance."

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FRIENDS GIVE GRACE TO EACH OTHER:

• Ephesians 2:7-10 "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."

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"God doesn't love me because of my performance.

He loves me in spite of my performance."

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The next time a friend's actions don't comply with the guidelines that you've laid down for a friend, will you judge her based on her performance and axe her as a friend?

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The next time God does not answer your prayers according to how you think they should be answered will you axe Him from His throne and quit talking to Him?

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Instead, BE GRATEFUL for friends and THE FRIEND OF ALL FRIENDS through the sunshine and the rain, through the good times and through the pain. Be thankful that because of His great grace, God is willing to call us His friends.

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"A FRIEND LOVES AT ALL TIMES!"

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