“Be careful who your friends are”,
Is what I mostly heard growing up. little did I know that it would have such a huge impact in my life.
For years, I was wondering why GOD would remove what little friends I have. then one day, it turns out that my closest friend that I had been sharing my secrets with, had been sharing our conversations to other people.
Now I fully understood that the person who I considered to be almost like a sister is actually jealous of me. while there are exaggerated stories about my life going on in our company, thanks to her, I trusted GOD that HE would vindicate me and turn everything out for my good.
I have now cut ties with that friend completely. In the process, I got to learn to trust LORD JESUS with whatever hardships that I have in my life. It is also in this stage where I realize that GOD’s view is not the same as the world’s point of view.
It is in this stage that GOD made me understand that what is friendships anyway if the person can’t be trusted at all, much more will just drag you down rather than lifting you up according to GOD’s word.
The world may consider having a few friends, or having no best friends as something lonely, but GOD would allow even that to happen if it means it would nourish your relationship with HIM.
GOD loves us too much to allow us to go to the wrong way just because we’re comfortable with it. GOD would do what is best for us.
With just a few days of talking deeply with the LORD JESUS, I am thrilled that I am free of caffeine addiction, something that i wasn’t able to do for years. I am now even starting to be back in good shape. again, something that i wasn’t able to do with a lot of trying for years.
The brain fog caused by caffeine has been completely off me too. I am also starting to eat healthy. talking to the LORD JESUS caused me to do these things. GOD also pointed out to me that drinking coffee isn’t good as it is a mind-altering substance that has bad effects mentally like brain fog, anxiety, forgetfulness, fear and others.
I am very thankful to the LORD JESUS for setting me free from a very toxic relationship, from the pressure imposed by the people who are not serving the LORD but are blindly serving the devil himself.
I am thankful to the LORD JESUS CHRIST for always being there for me and for never allowing me to be destroyed. May you be encouraged with the knowledge that the LORD JESUS CHRIST is indeed a great friend, family, brother and GOD we have.
Praise the name of the LORD JESUS CHRIST!
I’m so glad that you shared this! I’m a high school girl and I have recently been struggling with deciding if some of the friends that I have are good friends for me. I know that some of them aren’t but I just don’t wanna leave the “friendship” that we have because I don’t wanna be known as the girl that has no friends at school. Please pray that God gives me the courage and strength to end the bad friendships that I have and to focus more on him.
Allyssa, what a good response, I am a high school student too and I too have been struggling with which friends are right for me. Matthew 6:9-13 says, ¨And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one.¨ And whoever you hang out with will tempt each other and it´s whoever you hang out with that´s who you´re going to be. I´ve hung out with kids who got in trouble with the law and that was who I became too, but at the end of my junior year of high school (I´m a senior now), I got arrested and I realized that this is who I was becoming, and it was hard for me to let go of those friends even though they were bad influences but I overcame my fear and I just let them go. And yes it´s hard to let go of your friends and it takes time but if you keep hanging out with the kids that aren´t the right ones then they´ll keep dragging you down the path of destruction. It took me a couple of years to let my friends go because I hung out with them for so long and I didn´t want to befriend them but I had to because that´s not who God wanted me to be. I will pray for you!!
Thank you so much Mark. I am going into my Junior year this year and I really needed to hear your testimony. I will be praying for you as well! We can be prayer buddies!
Good luck with your junior high year, I remembered my junior high year last year? I´ll be happy to be your prayer buddy! If you ever need some help or guidance, one thing that I tell people is that ¨If you´re ever stuck, no matter what you´re going through in life God will always be by your side, he never leaves us nor forsakes us.¨ God bless and once again, ¨No matter who you are or what you´re going through God loves you!¨
I´ll be happy to be prayer buddies!!
Any friendship that does not glorify God is not a good friendship. You need the leading of the Holy Spirit to know who to choose as your close friends.
May the Lord guide you in all your steps and makes your life to always bring glory unto Him in Jesus name.