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Seven Good Signs of a Desirable Friend

One of my favorite writer is Stormie Omartian, with her simple book, she has taught me so much about how to pray..
This article i took from her book, The Power of a Praying Woman..its on the chapter about relationship. For me friendship is a relationship that influence my life the most..how i become today is because of friends i related in the past..
I like when she said : We can never reach our full destiny apart from the people God puts in our lives..
Its important to be yoked with people who walk closely with GOD. Accountability results from having close relationships with strong believers who are themselves accountable to other strong believers. Its important to be accountable because we are all capable of being deceived. We all have blind spots. We need people who will help us see the truth about ourselves and our lives. And we need to have the kind of relationships that don't break down when truth is spoken in love..

Seven good signs of a desirable friend, are..
1. A desirable friend tells you the truth in love. "Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful." (proverbs 27:6)
2. A desirable friend gives you sound advice. "Ointment and perfume delight the heart, and the sweetness of a man's friend gives delight by heart counsel." (Proverbs 27:9).
3. A desirable friend refines you. "As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friends." (Proverbs 27:17)
4. A desirable friend helps you grow in wisdom. "He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed." (Proverbs 13:20)
5. A desirable friend stays close to you. "A man who has friend must himself be friendly, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother." (Proverbs 18:24)
6. A desirable friend loves you and stands by you. "A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity" (Proverbs 17:17)
7. A desirable friend is a help in time of trouble. "Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, foe he has no one to help him up. (Ecclesiastes 4:9-10)

One last note from her:
If you have friends with these qualities, protect those friendship with prayer. If you have friends who have less than desirable qualities, you need to pray about those as well.

I'm so blessed with the book, hope some of you would read it too.
In my life i have met many different types of friends..only few of them have some of those desirable qualities and i can say that myself sometimes not on the list..for so many reasons..thats why i'm so blessed with this message and i promise to myself that i'll learn to meet all the qualities of a desirable friends, because i believe God has called us to be a blessing to others..
How can i be a blessing if i can't be a desirable friend..

People come and go in your life, from the past until today, many of them made mistakes and give you a bad influences even you yourself sometimes made mistake to others too..but life must go on..there's always another chance for those who willing to walk in the truth.. and God is always there to guide your way to enter a new life..to build another friendships..

God bless you all...
HUGS...

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