Abiding in God’s Friendship
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Today we will look at what it means to be a friend of God. Friendship with God is a beautiful, sought after thing. And he has made his friendship fully available to us. What a gift! May you fall deeper in love with God today as you learn what it means to abide in God’s friendship.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we will look at what it means to be a friend of God. |
| 0:09.0 | Friendship with God is a beautiful sought-after thing, and he has made his friendship |
| 0:16.0 | fully available to us. What a gift. May you fall deeper in love with God today as you learn what it means to |
| 0:23.9 | abide in God's friendship. Welcome to the first 15 podcast. Our Ski |
| 0:38.3 | Our scripture for today comes from John 15 versus 14 and 15. |
| 1:04.2 | Scripture says, |
| 1:05.8 | You are my friends, if you do what I command you. |
| 1:11.2 | No longer do I call you servants. |
| 1:14.3 | For the servant does not know what his master is doing. |
| 1:18.8 | But I have called you friends. |
| 1:20.8 | For all that I have heard from my father I have made known to you. |
| 1:32.1 | Do you know that God calls you his friend? John 15, verses 14 and 15 says, |
| 1:35.5 | You are my friends if you do what I command you. |
| 1:39.6 | No longer do I call you servants, |
| 1:42.1 | for the servant does not know what his master is doing. |
| 1:46.1 | But I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my father, I have made known to you. |
| 1:54.2 | As a believer, you have gained friendship with a God who exemplifies perfect, unconditional love. You have gained relationship with |
| 2:04.7 | your creator whose greatest desire is simply to spend time with you. Allow the love of your |
| 2:12.3 | Heavenly Father to sink in for a minute. Allow the spirit to reveal to you God's motives today |
| 2:19.2 | as we look at what it means for us to abide in the friendship of God. |
| 2:26.1 | John 1513 says, |
| 2:29.2 | greater love has no one than this, |
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