It Starts With Me - Week 1 - Be a Friend

It Starts With Me

Your generation has a reputation of being lazy, being demanding and thinking everybody owes you something. I believe with all my heart that you are better than that.

Who is your best friend?

God has blessed me with my wife as my best friend.

I also have an amazing friend named Josh.

Often you can look at social media and see some complaining about not having any friends. So if that is you, I ask you…What are you doing about it?

Be the friend that you want others to be to you.

God made the first move by giving us Christ.

We did not make the first move and there is nothing we can do to deserve His love.

John 15:12–17 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. 17 These things I command you, that you love one another.

Luke 6:27–36 NKJV

27 “But I say to you who hear: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, and pray for those who spitefully use you. 29 To him who strikes you on the one cheek, offer the other also. And from him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic either. 30 Give to everyone who asks of you. And from him who takes away your goods do not ask them back. 31 And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise. 32 “But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. 33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. 34 And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much back. 35 But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. 36 Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.

Don’t wait for a friend, be a friend.

It starts with me.