THE SURE FOUNDATION 70 (Impulsive Revelations) Everybody Can’t Be Your Friend Genuine and sincere friendship is an issue of the heart. Friendship should be rooted in love and God is love! The bible asked an important question in Amos 3:3 “Can two walk together except they agree?” Contact is what brings agreement and where there is no agreement there shouldn’t be any contract sealed. Whoever does not agree with you on any matter should never be considered as a friend, otherwise you will harbor your enemy in your team and the end result will be devastating to your team work and eventually hinder your progress. If you tolerate somebody because you need his company he will surely be the bedrock of division and dissociation in your team. Just as everybody cannot be your friend, the same way you can’t be everybody’s friend. If you want to be everybody’s friend, then you must be ready to lower your standard and compromise your stand in order to keep such friends. In the school of vision, wrong association is one of the “killer diseases” against fulfillment and progress. If you struggle to have a friend you will stress out yourself to retain him. There is no point keeping a friend who does not agree with your vision and your mission in life, otherwise he will frustrate its fulfillment and will laugh you to scorn at last. A WILLING FRIEND IS GOOD TO PARTNER WITH BUT AN UNWILLING FRIEND IS DANGEROUS TO UNITE WITH IN PURPOSE;HE WILL SCATTER IT AT LAST.IT IS VERY COSTLY TO SECURE AND RETAIN THE ATTENTION OF AN UNWILLING FRIEND THAN IT IS TO SECURE AND RETAIN THE LOYALTY OF A WILLING FRIEND. Look At This: I grew up with an extremely jealous childhood friend under the same roof in a house of four rooms together with a common sitting room, same toilet and same bathroom. It was like a boy’s quarter behind a storey building in front. There was a tenant in one of the rooms in the main building whose son was very close and loyal to me, even as children to children, though we were older in age to him. Children being who they are, my friend was dangerously jealous of this boy’s closeness to me and he devised a way of securing the boy’s attention in that he would invite the boy to eat his supper along with him by giving him his meat. He used his meat as a means of lobbying the innocent boy to himself. In my case as at the time, until I am able to finish my food, I would not be given my meat; so there was no way for competition in that regard. I wasn’t giving out food, I wasn’t giving out money, yet this boy after eating my friend’s meat, he will still return to me. One day my friend got annoyed and voiced out the purpose of giving the boy his meat and he began to beat the boy until the elderly one indicted him for doing the wrong thing by using meat to lure the boy and shift his attention to himself. MONEY AND MATERIAL THINGS CAN NEVER BUY LOYALTY NEITHER CAN THEY RETAIN IT. Not every friendship between man and woman can result into marriage. Friendship that is not rooted in God can only thrive for a season after which it will begin to fade away. Check This Out: A young man was coming around me sometime back. He actually needed help and I felt I should offer him the right help he needed. He was not ready to go to school neither was he willing to learn a trade; all he was after was how to travel abroad. He was fond of running down his family members before me and that gave me a nudge in my spirit to be careful with the young guy. When he noticed that I could not be carried along in all his directionless moves whereby I kept telling him the truth and showing him the right path, he decided to pitch his tent with an unsuspecting family where he had all the opportunities to tell them all kinds of unfounded stories that they were enjoying him until he started telling their own stories to others that their eyes became clearer. Much as I tried to retain his being around him, his nature could not keep him around. It was later discovered that he would hear something from somebody, add another thing to it just to secure another person’s favour. At last, everybody got to know his kind of person and we can’t even really tell if he is still a Christian or not. He has misled so many innocent people through fabrications of all kinds of stories. HE BECAME VERY DANGEROUS TO KEEP AS A FRIEND BECAUSE OF UNFOUNDED STORIES AIMED AT SECURING FAVOUR FROM PEOPLE. He selects the routes he takes whenever he is going out because all the people around their house are viciously in search of him to confirm or refute one story or the other once being told by him to assassinate somebody’s character. FRIENDSHIP IS NOT BY FORCE;IT IS BY CHOICE, BUT YOU NEED TO BE SPIRITUAL IN ORDER NOT TO MAKE THE WRONG CHOICE. Be Careful With Idle People: Several years ago, a young man was awaiting the result of his West African School Certificate Examinations. He was grossly idle; nothing to do in the morning till the evening aside of chatting with women who were busy in their various shops in front of their house. He became so close to a particular woman that she began to confide in him by telling him stories of how she used to mess around with men all in the name of raising money to take care of her family. This young man became a talebearer; hearing something from her and telling others about it. The evil continued until one day when the husband of this woman came back home, started fighting the woman and telling all the stories out of anger, even mentioning names of those that have heard about it. Friends, it was so terrible; the husband sent her packing out of the house with five kids overnight. The most painful aspect of the whole thing was when an avowed enemy of that woman was mentioned as the one spreading the story in the town because she heard it from the young man. When the morning of the next day came, the woman headed straight for this young man’s house, she met him on a wooden sofa at the main entrance. She pounced on him and started biting him and tearing his dress apart until she stripped him naked. In this young man’s attempt to escape, the woman got hold of his private part and started biting until the fleshly cap was removed. There was blood everywhere on him and her. Nobody was willing to separate between the two of them; all the married folks around were afraid of coming near because the woman was so huge and she did not tell anybody any story. When this woman was fully satisfied, she left him in a pool of his own blood and went away. The young man fainted and was rushed to the hospital where so many minor operations were being carried out on him. He was advised to report the matter to the police; he bluntly refused because the woman told him what he did and what her husband has done. EVEN IN MARRIAGE, BE CAREFUL WITH THE CHOICE OF WHOM YOU MARRY BECAUSE IF YOU MARRY TO YOUR ENEMY YOU WILL HAVE YOUR ADVERSARIES AS YOUR CHILDREN! BE SPIRITUAL IN THE SELECTION OF YOUR FRIENDS IN LIFE, SO THAT YOU WILL NOT END UP HAVING YOUR ENEMIES HIDDEN IN YOUR CAMP TO FRUSTRATE ALL YOUR EFFORTS IN LIFE. It is my sincere and heartfelt prayers for you that no agent of Satan will creep into your camp to destabilize God’s original plan for your life and destiny, in the glorious name of Jesus Christ. Good morning friends. Pastor Adegoke Sunday Lawrence Adeyinka The Presiding Pastor TRICC
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 05:25:59 +0000
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