A friend

IOI CHRISTIAN MORNING MEAL

TOPIC: A FRIEND

"As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17 (NIV)

IN today's morning meal, I want us to think together about the aspect of true friendship. As our passage tells us, a true friend is one who builds you up. They will try to help you become a better person! how?

1. A true friend encourages you.

A true friend will help you do what you have to do!

They will seek to bring support to you.

Each of us has times in life when things come upon us that we wouldn't choose to go through, but we, nevertheless, have to go through. It is at times like that we need true friends. True friends who will encourage us and help us do what we have to do by supporting us in the midst of it all.

Often times, this doesn't even require us to say anything. It is simply enough that we are there.

There was a story I want to share with you.
A young boy was sent to the corner store by his mother to buy a loaf of bread. He was gone much longer than it should have taken him. When he finally returned, his mother asked, "Where have you been? I have been worried sick about you."

"Well," he answered, "there was a little boy by the side of the road with a broken bicycle who was crying. So I stopped to help him."

"I didn't know you knew anything about fixing bikes," his mother said. "I don't ," he replied. "I just stayed there and cried with him."

Encouragement means coming alongside to impart courage to another.
This is what a true friend does for us when we find ourselves facing things that we have to go through, whether we like it or not. They come alongside us to lend support to us.

A newspaper in England gave a reward for the best definition of a friend. Thousands answered, and the winning entry was this: "A FRIEND IS ONE THAT COMES WHEN EVERYONE ELSE GOES."

A true friend encourages you.
Who are your friends? What do you get from then. It is encouragement or discouragement? This new year you can chose your friend rightly and let some go.
Remember leaving some friends behind doesn't mean you don't love them, but you can't let them draw you back anymore, you have to move on.

LET US PRAY
DEAR LORD JESUS CHRIST, GIVE ME A TRUE FRIEND THAT WILL BUILD ME UP AND SEPARATE ME FROM BAD ONES IN JESUS NAME.

Share this meal
Good morning friends