"And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God." (1 Samuel 23:16)
The story of David and Jonathan is one of the best examples of a Godly friendship we have in the Bible. You know they had a positive friendship because when they hung out together they enlarged each other's relationship with God. We all need friendships with people that allow room for the Holy Spirit to move when we are connecting. Sometimes friendships can be so full of our humanity that they never take us anywhere in God, or even worse we can be dragged backwards by the people we connect with.
As preached about last Sunday Elisha received his double portion of anointing because he chose to connect deeply with Elijah. Peter and John going up to the temple to pray, Paul and Barnabas praying in the Antioch Church prayer meeting and Paul and Silas in prison, worshipping together are other great examples of this. Let's always seek to discover and develop great Christian friends in our lives. How can we do this?.........
The Bible says Jonathan "arose" and found David, in other words these friendships don't always just happen naturally. Sometimes we need to get pro-active and seek out people whose company causes us to grow in our walk with God. We can find people like this in Church services, prayer meetings, connect groups and other such places.
Let's arise like Jonathan’s Church and be all we can be in God by connecting to people who love Him more than anything else!!
Have a super weekend!
Andrew & Shara McLennan
www.c3indooroopilly.com
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