__...there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. -- Proverbs 18:24__
Living 4 Jesus 4 Life: #13 July 30, 2011
__...there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. -- Proverbs 18:24__
In this issue... keeping friendships strong
test yourself!
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18 Happy Birthday Hannah Faith!!!
Hannah turned 16 last week. She likes caramel-flavored ice cream, crafts, and animals. Her favorite song is "Be Still My Soul."
Hope you had a good one Hannah!
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{Prayer Requests}
⦁ Please pray for Rebekah's new neighbors, that they will come to know God and that they will have a great friendship with her family!
⦁ Please pray for a lady in our church who has breast cancer. Erin has 3 kids: 4, 3, and 18 months. You can read about her at erinfray.blogspot.com. - Artiss
⦁ Please continue to pray for Rebekah's cousin Karen, who has Breast Cancer. She has five children, and her husband is in the military! Thank you!
⦁ Please continue to be in prayer for some friends of mine. They have ten kids and they lost their home about two weeks ago in a fire. Everything they own, except for their vehicles and the clothes on their backs were lost in the fire. Please pray for them as they face this huge struggle. thanks! ~Sarah Elisabeth
⦁ Pray that God will show Himself to a girl in Elly's gym class this summer and He will change her heart!
Don't forget to send us your prayer requests and we can publish them or just keep a secret!
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Keeping a friendship strong...____ _ __ ________
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Well, I know we've talked about friends a lot. But I feel like the issue of having true friends is something that most girls struggle with. Lots of girls think that they need to have many many friends. But if you have so many friends, how are you ever going to invest time with them all in order to grow a strong relationship? And, if you spend so much time with your many friends, where will your relationship with your family go? And more importantly, where will your relationship with God go? Another important thing about friendships is, do your friends that you spend most of your time with encourage you to follow God? Do they fill your thoughts with good thoughts? or about nonsense? Would your friends stick up for you if someone was saying mean things about you behind your back? A true friend is hard to find sometimes. The Bible says, a true friend sticks closer than a brother. If your friends encourage you in your walk with the Lord, and they encourage you to do what's right, that is a very good thing. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise. If they encourage you to be disobedient, and they say that reading the Bible doesn't matter, that is not good. Be careful about the friendships you have, and be careful about how much your friends affect the way you think.
<3 SarahElisabeth
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When we talk about friendships, we always talk about how important it is to make good friends who will bring us closer to God. Today I want to say it is also important to keep good friends, who will draw us closer to God. I have gone a lot of places this summer, and met a lot of new people - made a lot of new friends you might say. As always, I have prayed that God would give me just the rommates He had for me, the teammates He had for me, and the friends He had for me. He did give me a good experience and great opportunities everywhere I went, and I hope I was able to bring glory to Him everywhere I have gone this summer and with everyone I have hung out with.
Even though it is good to make new friends, we have a tendency to "forget" about our old ones. When we go somewhere new, we tend to move right on without them. Sometimes we do need to move on and let a friendship go, but that is when that friendship no longer brings us closer to God, not when we sunddenly find a new group of friends. We need to remember those who have been there for us in the good times and bad, and we need to be there for them. This is one thing I wish I had done better at this summer. No, I haven't had time to keep up with all my friends as much as I wish I had this summer, but I know I could have done better. Proverbs 18:24 says, "A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." Yes, I have to be friendly to find that friend, or to be that friend, but when I do find that friend, I have to also be that friend. I need to be a person he or she can trust, and that does not happen if I never take the time to ask him who he is doing, and really listen for the answer.
by autumn clare
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Try this new personality test! It's quick and crazy!
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Instructions:
1. Take a piece of paper and number it like this.
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2. On the first line, write three adjectives that describe your favorite color.
3. On the second line, write three adjectives that describe your favorite animal at the zoo, the one you would take your picture with.
4. On the third line, write three adjectives that describe the feeling you would get if you walked into an empty room all alone, bright white, with no windows or doors.
5. On the fourth line, write three adjectives that describe the city of your dream get-away.
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Enjoy the rest of your summer!
Autumn Posey & Sarah Stephens living 4 jesus 4 life
Philippians 1:20,21 - "According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."
