DCLM HIGHER EVERYDAY 22 DECEMBER 2021 — Friends, best Friends!
DCLM Higher Everyday 21 DECEMBER 2021 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi —Friends, best Friends!
TOPIC: FRIENDS, BEST FRIENDS!
TEXT: 1 SAMUEL 19:1-7
1 And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.
2 But Jonathan Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:
3 And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee.
4 And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good:
6 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.
7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past.
MEMORY VERSE: “A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother” (PROVERBS 18:24).
MESSAGE:
One dictionary says that a friend is “Somebody who trusts and is fond of another.” A friend should love, care, and be kind and compassionate always. According to John L. Mason, “Your true best friends are those who bring out the best in you. You are better, not worse, after you have been around them.”
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The friendship between David and Jonathan was super (1 Samuel 19:1-7). However, there is undoubtedly no friend like Jesus. He is the great Friend who forgives sins (Luke 5:20); “Seeing their faith, He said, ‘Friend, your sins are forgiven you'”. He is the great sacrificial Friend, Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).
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Invite Jesus into your life as your best friend. Jesus said, “You are my friends, if you do what I command you.” (John 15:14). Jesus is not only close to His friends, but loves and helps them always.
QUOTE: There is undoubtedly no friend like Jesus.
CHALLENGE: Rather be a friend of Jesus, than of Satan and the world.
PRAYER: Lord Jesus, make me Your friend today.
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)
