Who are your friends?

Friday,October  21st.
Who are your friends?

“People learn from one another, just as iron sharpens iron.”
Proverbs 27:17(GNB)

Fellowshipping with other believers of like faith will also accentuate your spiritual growth and effectiveness. If you are going to grow spiritually, you must choose your friends wisely. Why should you choose your friends? Friendship is influence. You are becoming like your friends and your friends are becoming like you.

The Lord said to me in 1996, “To choose a friend is to choose a future.” Proverbs 13:20(GNB) says, “Keep company with the wise and you will become wise. If you make friends with stupid people, you will be ruined.” The Bible did not tell us if this individual was wise or not before he started keeping company with the wise, but it makes it clear to us that anybody that keeps company with the wise, will become wise.

Your friends determine your future. You cannot rise above the level of companionship you keep. You will only rise to the level of your companions. So if you want to go far, look for friends that are ahead of you in your field and you will rise to their level.

 There is the story of a baby lion that was captured and made to grow up among sheep. As a result he started eating grass like sheep, and when a lion attacks them, he would also run with the sheep, until he discovered that he was a lion. When he discovered he was a lion, he left the company of sheep. The lesson here is that the lion was not able to rise above the level of his companions (sheep) until he discovered his true identity as a lion.

Now that you know your true identity, choose your friends with that understanding.

Prayer.
Dear Father, I ask that you help me to identify those you have ordained to influence me and bring out the best in me in my path of destiny, in Jesus' Name. Amen.

For further study, read:
Proverbs 2:20, Proverbs 9:6, Proverbs 27:9.

Doing the Word.
Choose friends you can learn from.