Are you willing to die for your friend? Amy Baker says that's not the real test of friendship.

Sometimes it is tempting to think, Lord, it would be a whole lot easier to die right now for this person

than to have to invest the energy to go to the store for them or do this or make a meal or mow their yard for them.

It would be a whole lot easier just to lay down

my life for them. And so one of the things I think we've got to pray for is, first of all,

that God will make us sensitive to those needs, and then once we actually see them, as God

answers that prayer with a yes, and we become more sensitive to them, that we'll be willing to do

the hard work to follow through.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

It's Thursday, July 3rd.

Here's Nancy.

Okay, I want you to pick up the phone and call a friend and invite her to tune in with you to revive our hearts.

Because this week we're going to be talking about friendship and what a godly friendship looks like, how we can have godly friendships, how to have friendships

that glorify God and some of the threats and obstacles to friendship.

And if you're a woman, I know that you're interested in this topic because we women were

just made to be relational, not that men aren't, but there's something special in our hearts as women that longs

for meaningful, intimate, godly, warm friendships. So we're going to explore some of those topics

this week. And our guest to help us discuss this is a biblical counselor, Dr. Amy Baker. She's been

on the staff of faith biblical counseling ministries for many years, and she's a woman with a

warm heart, a heart for the Lord, a love for people, and a love for God's word. And Amy, I so appreciate

the ways you've been on Revive Our Hearts in the past that you have always pointed our hearts back to

the word of God and the ways of God. So thank you for joining us again

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