Cgeneration devotional

If you are a child of God who has accepted Jesus as your Lord and saviour, one criteria that should top your list in choosing your best friends is that they should have accepted Jesus and they should have a desire to know Him like you do. Proverbs‬ ‭27:17‬ ‭NLT‬‬ says “As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.” Do you have best friends that sharpen you spiritually?

Acts‬ ‭13:6-8‬ ‭GNT‬‬ “They went all the way across the island to Paphos, where they met a certain magician named Bar-Jesus, a Jew who claimed to be a prophet. He was a friend of the governor of the island, Sergius Paulus, who was an intelligent man. The governor called Barnabas and Saul before him because he wanted to hear the word of God. But they were opposed by the magician Elymas (that is his...

Proverbs‬ ‭13:20‬ ‭ERV‬‬ “Be friends with those who are wise, and you will become wise. Choose fools to be your friends, and you will have trouble.”

Proverbs‬ ‭1:10‬ ‭TPT‬‬ “When peer pressure compels you to go with the crowd and sinners invite you to join in, you must simply say, “No!””

The Betrayer Psalms 41 vs 6-9 NLT “They visit me as if they were my friends, but all the while they gather gossip, and when they leave, they spread it everywhere. All who hate me whisper about me, imagining the worst. “He has some fatal disease,” they say. “He will never get out of that bed!” Even my best friend, the one I trusted completely, the one who shared my food, has turned against me.” Doe...

1 Corinthians‬ ‭15:33‬ ‭CEV‬‬ says “Don't fool yourselves. Bad friends will destroy you.” If God is very selective about the people He calls His friends, so should we. So what kind of people should we not have as BFFs?

Exodus‬ ‭33:9‬ ‭ICB‬‬ “When Moses went into the Tent, the pillar of cloud would always come down. It would stay at the entrance of the Tent while the Lord spoke with Moses.” ‭‭ How did a man develop such an intimate friendship with God?

Acts‬ ‭13:22‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ “And when He had removed him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.’” God found something in the heart of David that He didn’t find in the heart of anybody else around him which earned David his title as ‘man after God’s heart’. So what did God see...

Isaiah‬ ‭41:8‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ says: ““But you, Israel, are My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, The descendants of Abraham My friend.” ‭‭ What exactly did Abraham do that made God see him as His friend?

The greatest friendship ever, is friendship with God. In Matthew‬ ‭7:21‬ ‭CEV‬‬, Jesus said “Not everyone who calls me their Lord will get into the kingdom of heaven...” So ask yourself ‘are you really God’s friend or you’re just calling Him Lord and assuming that you are when you’re really not. It is only those that God identifies as His friends that will enter His kingdom in heaven so don’t assu...

Jesus shows us how very important friendship is because of the enormous sacrifice that he made for us his friends. John‬ ‭15:13 NKJV‬‬ says “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends…”

2 Corinthians‬ ‭9:8‬ ‭GNT‬‬ “God is able to give you more than you need, so that you will always have all you need for yourselves and more than enough for every good cause.”

Joshua‬ ‭1:5‬ ‭GNT‬‬ “..no one will be able to defeat you as long as you live. I will be with you as I was with Moses. I will always be with you; I will never abandon you.”

1 Kings‬ ‭3:9‬ ‭NLT‬‬ “Give me an understanding heart so that I can govern your people well and know the difference between right and wrong. For who by himself is able to govern this great people of yours?”” But is godly ambition alone enough for us to succeed?

Joshua‬ ‭24:15‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ “And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve… But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.””

David’s ambition can be seen In Psalms‬ ‭27:4‬ ‭NLT‬‬ where he said: “The one thing I ask of the Lord— the thing I seek most— is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, delighting in the Lord’s perfections and meditating in his Temple.”

“My ambition has always been to preach the Good News where the name of Christ has never been heard, rather than where a church has already been started by someone else.” Romans‬ ‭15:20‬ ‭NLT‬‬ ‭‭

Titus‬ ‭3:14‬ ‭ICB‬‬ “Our people must learn to use their lives for doing good deeds. They should do good to those in need. Then our people will not have useless lives.”

Matthew‬ ‭6:33‬ ‭AMP‬‬ “But first and‬‬ most importantly seek (aim at, strive after) His kingdom and His righteousness [His way of doing and being right—the attitude and character of God], and all these things will be given to you also.”

‭‭1 John‬ ‭2:6‬ ‭ICB‬‬ “Whoever says that God lives in him must live as Jesus lived.”

1 Thessalonians‬ ‭4:11‬ ‭NIV‬‬ “make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands,”

1 Peter‬ ‭4:10‬ ‭NLT‬‬ “God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another.”

2 Corinthians‬ ‭5:9‬ ‭NIV‬‬ “So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.”

Habakkuk‬ ‭2:2‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ “Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it.”

Ecclesiastes‬ ‭9:10‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ says “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.