Peace in the Fire Volume II

Friends are a gift from God. Everyone we meet that becomes a part of our life is a gift from God or a divine appointment. We are to give help, learn, teach, comfort, educate, uphold, live, love and provide what ever we can. We are supposed to even be willing to die for them.

Proverbs 17:17 - A friend loves at all times and a brother is born for adversity (trouble, misery.) If I call you friend, I will continue to love you at all times and I will help you when you are in trouble.

Proverbs 18:24 - There is a friend that sticks closer than a brother. A friend should be closer than blood ties.

John 15:13 - Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:15 - Jesus called us his friends and he says, “You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.”

Do we call our friends or does God call our friends to be our friends? Do you have friends that you feel like God has given them to you? I have. I tell them all the time "God gave you to me, you are my friend".I want to have just the amount of friends God wants to give me because they are involved in my life and there is only so much of me that I can give. There are a lot of people whom I can help, comfort, and give the word of the Lord. I want what God wants when it comes to the selection of my friends. True friends will help you through the fire during all situations.

Good Friends

Good friends are hard to find.
Good friends are easy to love.
Good friends are presents that
last forever and that feel
like gifts from above

Good friends are one in a million.
Good friends are stories to share.
Good friends know the path to your
happiness, and they walk with you
all the way there.

Good friends are lives overlapping.

Good friends are laughter and tears.
Good friends are emotions so deep
that the trust just keeps growing
over the years.

Good friends are hard to find.
Good friends are easy to adore.
And you've been
such a good friend to me
...that I could ask
for nothing more.

~ Collin McCarty~