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Friends

Friends. July 31, 2004. Key Verse. “A friend loves for all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” --Proverbs 17:17 NIV. Qualities of a Friend. Humorous Friendly Creative Clever Smart Kind Spiritual Generous Forgiving Easy-going Enthusiasm Confidential. Loyal

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Friends

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  1. Friends July 31, 2004

  2. Key Verse “A friend loves for all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” --Proverbs 17:17 NIV

  3. Qualities of a Friend Humorous Friendly Creative Clever Smart Kind Spiritual Generous Forgiving Easy-going Enthusiasm Confidential Loyal Keeps in touch Mutual Benefit Shared emotions Have time for me Common interests Open to new ideas Good self-image

  4. Jesus as Our Friend Does Jesus have the qualities we desire in a friend? Show Jesus Video

  5. Questions How does Jesus show himself to be your friend? If our best friends relieve our sufferings, how come Jesus sometimes lets us continue in our sufferings?

  6. Lazarus “… and after that He said to them, ‘Our friend Lazarus sleeps. But I go so that I may awaken him out of sleep.’” --John 11:11 MKJV

  7. I never said “In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.” --John 16:33 MKJV

  8. No Longer Servants “No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.” --John 15:15 MKJV

  9. Obey “You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.” --John 15:14 MKJV

  10. Love One Another “And this is His commandment, that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as He gave us commandment.” --1 John 3:23 MKJV

  11. Judas Jesus called Judas “friend” even though he wasn’t keeping God’s commandments. –See Matthew 26:50 We keep the commandments NOT so Jesus will be OUR friend, but rather to show that we are HIS friend.

  12. Friend of Sinners “The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold a man who is a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners.’” --Matthew 11:19 MKJV

  13. Love Covers “…love covers all sins.” --Proverbs 10:12 MKJV “Love does not keep a record of wrongs;” --1 Corinthians 13:5 GNB & See Revelation 20:15

  14. Use Money “And I say to you, ‘Make friends by the mammon of unrighteousness for yourselves, so that when you fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.’” --Luke 16:9 MKJV

  15. Friendly If you want to have friends, you have to show yourself friendly.

  16. Song A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

  17. Wings We are all angels with only one wing... we can fly only embracing each other.

  18. Worlds Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. --Anais Nin

  19. Gift A friend is a gift you give yourself.--Robert Louis Stevenson

  20. A Single Soul What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. --Aristotle

  21. Footprints Most people come into our lives and quickly leave. It is the special few that come in and leave a footprint in our hearts. And we are forever changed.

  22. Best My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. --Henry Ford

  23. Greatest Love Loni Morrison “No one has greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” --John 15:13 MKJV

  24. All Three I looked for my God; my God eluded me. I looked for my soul; my soul I could not see. I looked for a friend and I found all three.

  25. Garden It is better to be in chains with friends, than to be in a garden with strangers. --Persian Proverb

  26. Chaff & Grain A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. --Arabian Proverb

  27. Riches Money might make you wealthy, but friends makes you rich.

  28. Rainbows A friend is like a rainbow. They brighten your life when you've been through a storm.

  29. Listening Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.

  30. Silence When the silences are no longer awkward, you know you are around friends.

  31. Two Are Better “Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor.For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he does not have another to help him.” --Ecclesiastes 4:9,10 MKJV

  32. Shared Shared sorrow is half sorrow, shared joy is double joy.

  33. Secrets A true friend is someone you can trust with all your secrets.

  34. Cemetery Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. --Henry Brooks Adams

  35. Honesty “An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.” --Proverbs 24:26

  36. False Friends False friends are like shadows, staying close to us in the sunshine but leaving us when we walk in the shade.

  37. Destroying Enemies Am I not destroying my enemies when making friends of them? --Abraham Lincoln The conversion of Saul

  38. Both Hands Hold true friends with both your hands.

  39. Kiss “Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.” --Proverbs 27:6 MKJV

  40. Hatchet Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. --Chinese Proverb

  41. Humility “Don't do anything from selfish ambition or from a cheap desire to boast, but be humble toward one another, always considering others better than yourselves.And look out for one another's interests, not just for your own.” --Philippians 2:3,4 GNB

  42. Tombstones Do not save your loving speechesfor your friends till they are dead;do not write them on their tombstones,speak them rather now instead. --Anna Cummins

  43. Seeds Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go;Scatter bits of courtesy, watch them grow and grow.Gather buds of friendship;Keep them till full-blown;You will find more happinessthan you have ever known. --Amy R Raabe

  44. Marriage It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. --Friedrich Nietzsche

  45. Knowing A true friend is the one who knows more about you than yourself and still loves you.

  46. Mirror The best mirror is an old friend. --George Herbert

  47. Walking Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.Walk beside me and be my friend. --Albert Camus

  48. Travelers We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. --Robert Louis Stevenson.

  49. Moving Friends help you move. REAL friends help you move bodies.

  50. Money The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. --Mark Twain

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