#45 – The Gift of Friendship (Proverbs 17:17)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 24 September 2017

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We need people around us who love us and help us walk through adversity, and we need to do this for others.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical dot net.
0:05.7	Proverbs chapter 17 verse 17
0:08.8	maybe one of the most famous well-known proverbs. A friend loves at all times and a brother is born for adversity.
0:20.0	Just think about friends in your life. Friends you might have now, friends you might have had in the past and the value of friends who love you.
0:32.0	People who love you, who walk with you through adversity.
0:38.0	This is a gift from God and it's a gift we need from God. We need people around us who love us, who help us walk through adversity.
0:50.6	Not one of us was intended to walk through this life alone. We need friends like that around us and we need to be friends like that.
1:01.0	We don't need just need to read this verse and think about, well, who loves me like this?
1:05.8	We've got to ask the question, well, who do I love like this? Not just who walks with me through adversity,
1:12.0	but who can I walk with through adversity who can I help
1:16.4	in the middle of adversity I read this verse today and then went and spent time with one of my greatest friends in the world who has
1:27.3	walked with me through major adversity and this is the this is the person who when my dad unexpectedly died of a heart attack he
1:37.8	he drove me seven hours home to be with my family born for adversity loving at all time so God
1:49.2	We we pray first and foremost you would help us to be these kind of friends.
1:53.2	Lord help us to love people around us in a way that blesses them in every circumstances.
2:02.1	They walk especially through hard times in the middle of adversity.
2:07.4	We trust that we were born at least in part to help them walk through that kind of adversity. So make us
2:16.2	these kind of friends we pray and God we pray for your provision of these kind of
2:21.3	friends in our lives.
2:22.8	I know that many who are listening to this right now have these kind of friends.
2:26.8	They're just names popping into people's minds that we just praise you for these good gifts and the friends you've given us like this.
2:36.0	At the same time I imagine there's some people who when they when they read this hear this verse think I wish I had a friend that was loving
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