Your Best Friend

Don't you want God to be a friend that sits and talks with you?  

He doesn't just want to drop off His Book, and not have a relationship with you.  

John 15:15 B (NKJV)

15 I(Jesus) have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.

1. God does not communicate to us like robots. 

We can communicate personally with God. He wants to talk with you.  He is not trying to input data into you to get a result.  

God wants to be your friend. Here an example of God talking to a man like a friend.  

Genesis 18(NKJV)

17 And the Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing,

19 A For I have known him. 

22 B  Abraham still stood before the Lord. 

23 A Abraham came near.

To hear from God, stop what you're doing and draw near to Him like Abraham did. 

2. God speaks to people. 

Why would we think that God would give us the indwelling Holy Spirit and make Him mute? 

John 16:13 (NKJV)

13 (Jesus speaking) However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.

One of the reasons that we struggle to hear from God is that we think that God spoke differently in the Bible.  

Elijah said that it was like a still small voice (1 King 19:12).  I wonder if He spoke the same then as He does now.  

In Hebrews 11:8, it said that Abraham obeyed by faith.  If God's voice was so booming and clear, why would that take faith?  

Moses was talking with God in a burning bush (Exodus 3).  Gideon needed a fleece. (Judges 6:36-40).  If it was a booming voice, it would have been by fear and not faith.  

3. God speaks to friends. 

Exodus 33:11A  (NKJV)

11 So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. 

James 2:23 (NKJV)

23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God.

God will call you friend even if you don't act like one. 

Zechariah 13:6  (NKJV)

6 And one will say to him, ‘What are these wounds between your arms?’ 

Then he will answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.’

Matthew 26:48-50 (NKJV)

48 Now His betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “Whomever I kiss, He is the One; seize Him.”

49 Immediately he went up to Jesus and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” and kissed Him.

50 But Jesus said to him, “Friend, why have you come?”

Then they came and laid hands on Jesus and took Him.

John 15:13 New King James Version (NKJV)

13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 

God is reaching out to you in friendship.

Would you like to talk?  

Ask God for forgiveness for anytime that you've pushed Him away.  

Tell Him, will you forgive me?  

Thank Him for giving Your Son, Jesus, to take the blame.  

Jesus, please be the center of my life as my Lord and Savior. 

I want to know you. 



Notes from Robert Morris, Gateway Church

http://gatewaypeople.com/ministries/life/events/frequency-a-gateway-series/session/2016/04/23/im-a-friend