Jireh – The Best Friend You’ll Ever Have – John 15:12-16

 

This is Namma for Christ with the two hundred fourth inspirational message dated Tuesday, October 12th, 2021. The title of this message is “Jireh – The Best Friend You’ll Ever Have – John 15:12-16”.

The first word of this message’s title is also the title of the below inspirational song/video (with lyrics), “Jireh” as performed by “Elevation Worship & Maverick City”.  The below passage of scripture (that accompanies this message) is from the New Testament book of John - the twelfth through the sixteenth verses of the fifteenth chapter:

John 15:12-16

New King James Version - (NKJV)

 

¹² This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My Name He may give you.

 

The title of this message also includes the words – “The Best Friend You’ll Ever Have” – which is the “title” of the Charles Stanley “In Touch” Daily Devotional for (10/11/21) – which I have included below:

 

The Best Friend You’ll Ever Have

 John 15:12-16

By Charles Stanley

 

      

       MANY OF US ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE HYMN “What a Friend We Have in Jesus.” We all agree that the Savior is a great friend, but our understanding of this relationship is limited. Jesus’ friendship with us far transcends anything we experience on a human level. So let’s consider some of the elements of His relationship with us.

-       JESUS LAID DOWN HIS LIFE FOR US. Our Savior gave the ultimate sacrifice for us on the cross, which proves His faithfulness. Surely, then, Jesus is a friend who’s committed to us forever, and He will give us everything else He has promised.

 

-       WE ARE HIS FRIENDS IF WE OBEY HIM. Those who are saved can be His friends, because they’re the ones who obey Him in love.

 

-       HE REVEALS TO US WHAT HE IS DOING. Everything we need to know about Christ and His actions and ways is written for us in the Scriptures.

 

-       HE CHOSE US.  We didn’t earn His friendship and we can’t lose it, because it’s based not on us but on His choice to love us.

 

Having Jesus as our friend means we are wanted, loved, and cared for by Him forever.

 

By Charles Stanley

 

I pray that you have enjoyed the above message and I pray that you will enjoy the accompanied song.

 

Please enjoy the below inspirational song/video (with lyrics), “Jireh” as performed by “Elevation Worship & Maverick City” performed with power and anointing.

 

(I do not own the rights to this song).

 

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BE BLESSED!