Today’s Verse:
Jesus replied, "Friend, do what you came for." - Matthew 26:50
Prayer for Today :
Heavenly Father,
Help us to understand Jesus. When Judas came up to Him, kissed and betrayed Him, what was in His mind? He entrusted Judas with the finances and yet he gave Jesus away. Father, do our lives need certain negative relationships? Indeed Father, perhaps we cannot learn perseverance without going through problems, forgiveness or betrayal.
Then again, someone called George Burns had a positive and strong friendly relationship with Jack Benny for 55 years. They laughed together, played together, worked together and ate together. Wow, Father, don't we crave for having such a kind of friend?
It is written in Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 "Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up!"
Father God, friendships come and go, we are impacted by both positive and negative relationships from day to day. Father, we do enjoy to share our deepest feelings with friends, enjoy to have support from friends in times of distress and enjoy to have someone to give positive advises in times of need. Father God, we also need to learn and grow eveyday to respect, love and cherish our friendships, so Father, help us, help us indeed by giving us a humble heart, so that we may talk to our friends with gentleness; help us by giving us a pure heart, so that we may understand our friends' feelings better and to share their burden; and most importantly, help us by giving us a faithful heart, so that we may walk along with our friends through the gospel.
In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
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