Hello and thank you so much for joining me today for Give Him 15. We have been reading a few

devotionals from this book, The Pleasure of His Company, Easily, My Best Book, published by Baker Books.

Cece prophesied this book 15 years before I wrote it, said, you will write a book

teaching people how to connect with God, and it will be called the pleasure of his company.

I trust you have been enjoying it. This will be number 10. This will be the last one we read.

You'll have to get the other 20 by reading the book.

The title of today's post is The Friendship, the Friendship.

Satan and his team, with lots of help from religion, have painted God as a very distant,

non-relational being. If thought of at all, our Creator is primarily considered the judge,

or in times of crisis, a possible but unlikely means of help. Our adversary is nothing, if not a very

skilled deceiver. But God's desire for friendship was the corner of his heart where we were conceived.

Our quest and destiny should be to find it again.

A few years ago, I was elk hunting in the mountains of Colorado when I came upon a monument to friendship.

After hiking, several hours up a mountain,

near the edge where one of the most majestic views imaginable could be seen,

was a plaque bolted to a rock.

I couldn't believe what I had stumbled upon. Tears came to my eyes as I read

the words carved into the plaque. In memory of my friend and hunting partner, it gave his name, with whom I roamed these mountains from

1963 to 2003.

He loved these mountains, streams, snow-packed peaks, and beautiful valleys, I miss him.

And he gave his friend's name and birth date and date of death.

It may sound overly dramatic, but I was so moved.

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