Loving Friends
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Our Scripture for today comes from Proverbs 17:17, and today's worship is Friends are Friends Forever by Michael W. Smith.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's podcast, we'll be learning about what it means to be a friend who loves well. |
| 0:10.0 | Think about your dearest friends. What role have they played in your life in the best and in the worst of times? |
| 0:16.6 | Does your heart fill with thankfulness as you acknowledge what a good gift God has given you and them? |
| 0:22.7 | May we pinpoint exactly what it means to intentionally love our friends well today. |
| 0:28.3 | May we be filled with the love of Jesus and the grace of God to go out of our way to love and minister to those special people in our lives today. |
| 0:40.3 | Welcome to the First of Teen Podcast. Welcome to the first of teen podcast. Our verse today comes from Proverbs 1717 and reads, |
| 0:56.7 | A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. |
| 1:03.8 | Good friends are one of God's greatest gifts. Not one of us is meant to go through life alone |
| 1:09.7 | and without help. God longs to use you as his |
| 1:13.6 | hands and feet to those that he's placed in your midst. He longs to make you a friend as he is a friend |
| 1:20.5 | to us in order to bless others and extend the reach of His kingdom. 1. |
| 1:28.3 | 1 through 3 tells of the powerful friendship of David and Jonathan. |
| 1:33.3 | Scripture says, as soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, |
| 1:37.3 | the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, |
| 1:40.3 | and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. |
| 1:43.3 | And Saul took him that day and would not let him |
| 1:46.5 | return to his father's house. Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as his own soul. |
| 1:55.0 | Jonathan was an incredible example of God's heart for friendship. Jonathan was the rightful heir to the throne of Israel, behind Saul's pursuit of God's heart for friendship. Jonathan was the rightful heir to the throne of Israel. |
| 2:03.7 | Behind Saul's pursuit of killing David was his desire to make Jonathan king. But instead of seeking |
| 2:10.2 | earthly success, Jonathan humbled himself before David and served him, thereby serving his |
| 2:16.7 | heavenly father as well. |
| 2:19.3 | Jonathan chose friendship over worldly power. |
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