ABIDING IN GOD’S FRIENDSHIP
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🗓️ 1 February 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
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.
Our Scripture for today comes from John 15:14-15, and today's worship is What A Friend I’ve Found by Kristin DiMarco.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we'll look at what it means to be a friend of God. |
| 0:08.9 | Friendship with God is a beautiful, sought after thing, and He's made His friendship fully |
| 0:13.8 | available to us, what a gift. |
| 0:16.8 | May you fall deeper in love with God today, as you learn what it means to abide in God's |
| 0:22.3 | friendship. |
| 0:23.3 | Welcome to the first of team podcast. |
| 0:39.8 | Our scripture for today comes from John 15 verses 14 through 15, where Jesus says, |
| 0:47.7 | You are my friends, if you do what I command you. |
| 0:51.8 | No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing, |
| 0:58.5 | but I have called you friends. |
| 1:00.8 | For all that I have heard from my father, I have made known to you. |
| 1:07.8 | Do you know that God calls you His friend? |
| 1:12.1 | As a believer, you've gained friendship with a God who exemplifies perfect, unconditional |
| 1:18.3 | love. |
| 1:19.7 | You've gained relationship with your creator, whose greatest desire is simply to spend time |
| 1:25.0 | with you. |
| 1:27.0 | Allow the love of your Heavenly Father to sink in from it. |
| 1:31.2 | Allow the Spirit to reveal to you God's motives today, as we look at what it means for us |
| 1:37.7 | to abide in the friendship of God. |
| 1:41.9 | John 15 13 says, greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for |
| 1:48.8 | his friends. |
| 1:51.2 | Jesus committed the greatest act of love this world has ever known in laying down his life. |
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