{"id":92904,"date":"2020-07-06T04:26:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T09:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/?p=92904"},"modified":"2020-07-03T08:48:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T13:48:10","slug":"12-q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/06\/12-q\/","title":{"rendered":"12.q. This is from Dr. Jeffress, Pathway to Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.
\n\u2013Genesis 2:18<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Where do you go to find friends who will give you assistance, encouragement, and accountability? The Bible says God has created three realms to satisfy our need for companionship.<\/p>\n

First, God\u2019s plan is for us to find companionship in marriage. In Genesis 2:18, God said, \u201cIt is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.\u201d Now, Adam wasn\u2019t alone. He was surrounded by animals. More importantly, he had a right relationship with God. But God was saying, \u201cFellowship with Me isn\u2019t enough. You need something more.\u201d By the way, that\u2019s true of you. You need other people. In Genesis 2:24, Moses said, \u201cFor this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.\u201d Now, this is God\u2019s plan for most people. There are some people, 1 Corinthians 7 says, who have the gift of being single. But most people find companionship in marriage.<\/p>\n

A second realm of companionship is friendship. Proverbs 17:17 says, \u201cA friend loves at all times.\u201d There are four levels of friends. First, there are acquaintances. These are people you meet at the grocery store or the checkout line. Most of these relationships will never go any deeper. Second, there are casual friends. These are people you know on a first-name basis and discuss superficial things. Third, there are close friends. These are people you have a mutual agreement with on things like spiritual issues and politics. Finally, there are intimate friends. These friendships last a lifetime. Even if you move away and are separated for a period of time, when you\u2019re with that person, you pick up where you left off. These are the people you are most likely to call in times of crisis. God\u2019s plan is for us to have friends at all levels.<\/p>\n

A third realm of relationship is the church. You find all four levels of friendship in the church. In your church, there are acquaintances, people you don\u2019t know\u2013you don\u2019t even know their name. You also see people you know on a first-name basis. And there are people you feel comfortable talking to and share agreement about spiritual issues. And your intimate friends are in church as well. But what\u2019s interesting is even though you have all four levels in the church, collectively those four groups form a power that helps keep you grounded spiritually as well as emotionally. There is power in being connected to a body of believers. We need one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him. \u2013Genesis 2:18 Where do you go to find friends who will give you assistance, encouragement, and accountability? The Bible says God has created three realms to satisfy our need for companionship. First, God\u2019s plan is for … Continue reading “12.q. This is from Dr. Jeffress, Pathway to Victory”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92990,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92904\/revisions\/92990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}