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Becoming God's Friend: Understanding Your Growth from Servant to Friend
The only question is "Are you holding anything back?" God wants to know, "Is there any portion of your heart; is there any portion of your life that you’re holding back from me?" There was a gift that Abraham had reserved that only God could touch. The call of friendship said to Abraham, "If you want to be my friend, you mu
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God always honors and repays gifts offered in His name.
Jonathan Jenkins • Becoming God's Friend: Understanding Your Growth from Servant to Friend
Not until faith had moved him to deliver his son to God was he fit to be God’s friend.
Jonathan Jenkins • Becoming God's Friend: Understanding Your Growth from Servant to Friend
That shared genetic tie in the family of God is faith. It is the mutual spiritual cord that binds each of God’s people together. From Abel to Samuel and the prophets in Hebrews 11, faith is the foundation of all of their lives.
Jonathan Jenkins • Becoming God's Friend: Understanding Your Growth from Servant to Friend
Stewards are trusted servants. They are servants with an opportunity to advance and grow. The successful stewards in the "Parable of the Talents" are told, "You have been faithful over little; I will set you over much" (Matthew 25:21, 23). Their faithful service granted to them more responsibility and more reward. In that sense,
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The friend values the loyalty of his fellow-laborer: "For we are fellow-workers with God."
Jonathan Jenkins • Becoming God's Friend: Understanding Your Growth from Servant to Friend
You are God’s friend and that makes all the difference. God loves you – always. God values His communion with you. He treasures hearing your words and sharing in your life. He rejoices in seeing your dreams being realized. Your Friend welcomes the opportunity to encourage and lift you up when you fail. God longs to spend time in the presence of His
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What another besides his Master thought of his work was irrelevant.
Jonathan Jenkins • Becoming God's Friend: Understanding Your Growth from Servant to Friend
From the first time God appeared to Abraham, His focus was on the gospel of Jesus. God's work in Abraham's life was never about the 25 years it took to bring Isaac into the world.