Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, February 19th.

Have you ever felt like you were all alone?

If so, today's message will help you appreciate Christ's promise to be every believer's constant companion.

Now, one of the things that causes us pain and causes us oftentimes to be disappointed is what I want to talk about in this message.

It's something we all have to face in life because, you see, all of us have relationships.

We have friendships. Friendships are extremely important. In fact, the longer you live,

the more important they are, because if you'll think about it, the longer you live, the less time

you have to build new friendships. So you better take care of the ones you have. Somebody oftentimes

says, well, you know, you can always get new friends. No, no, no, no.

You may be able to get new some sort of relationships, but true, genuine friendship has to be built.

And it's built on honest and integrity and openness and truth-inless with one another.

And that doesn't happen overnight.

If you believe everything you hear from somebody, the first time you'll hear it, then you have a problem.

And so the truth is, friendship's important.

Now, what kind of friend are you?

I want to give you four categories.

And these four categories, you can be in any one of them or you can travel the whole group, and that is friends that delight us.

We love being around them.

Friends that are dedicated to us.

They're reliable.

They are the kind that's there when you and I need them.

They're trustworthy, faithful.

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