Today we continue our week-long focus on the Holy Spirit by exploring what it means

for us to grow in a friendship with Him. We'll never have a kinder more present friend than the

God who dwells within us. May we discover the pathway he's laid before us to grow in friendship with him today as we take time to

experience him in a fresh way. Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. The verse for today comes from Psalm 2514. David writes, the friendship of the

Lord is for those who fear him and he makes known to them his covenant.

In friendship with the Holy Spirit we begin to experience

a sense of wholeness and joy,

unattainable through any other relationship

or aspect of life.

Rapid and wonderful transformation results

when you discover the wealth of love that comes with continual real friendship

with the living God. In friendship with God comes peace, security, honesty, healing, and freedom.

As you live your life and step with the spirit,

you experience what Adam and Eve experienced

as they walked with God himself in the Garden of Eden. You

discover a vast reservoir of love, affection, and perfect help that's available to

you in the Holy Spirit.

Open your heart today and receive a fresh revelation

of God's desire for friendship with you

through the Holy Spirit. Jesus says in John 1515, no longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing.

But I've called you friends. For all that I've heard from my father I have made known to you

God longs for friendship with his people and through the Holy Spirit we have a continual connection with God available to us.

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