June 17 2026 … Friends Help Friends

June 17 2026 … Friends Help Friends 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...        and PLEASE take the time to listen to music and lyrics from Michael W Smith and Am Grant singing … Friends … describing what it’s like to have true friends IN CHRIST. 

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Highlight Passage: … Job 12:13 … [NLT]

…  13 “But true wisdom and power are found in God; counsel and understanding are His. 

… Job answers Zophar with truth about God’s wisdom and power.

Highlight Passage: … Job 11:1-20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Zophar, claiming to be a friend of Job, clamors on about Job’s faults and sins.    

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Reference Passage: … Proverbs 27:17  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …              

… Godly wisdom from Solomon about true friendship. 

Reference Passage: …  Ecclesiastes 4:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  Solomon teaches his son and all fellow believers that trusting God is the way to follow His ways.

Reference Passage: … John 15:12-13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …                      

… Jesus describes the essence of true friendship to His Disciples … that one is willing to give his life for another.  

Reference Passage: … Galatians 6:1-2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul declares that Christian friends should be willing to reach out and help a fellow Christians in trouble.

Reference Passage: …1Thessalonians 5:11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul also exhorts and teaches fellow Christians that they (we) must be willing to reach out and build up fellow Christians who are in trouble.

Reference Passage: … 1John 3:17  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… The Apostle John teaches truth to Christians about one who is blessed with wealth reaching out to help fellow Christians in need. 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread from Tim Gustafson …  USE THIS LINK       tells about a so-called friend who claimed to know the ODB author better than himself.   But that so-called “friend” and her empty words were not encouraging or helpful for today’s ODB author, who remembered the empty words of some of Job’s “friends,” who shared selfish comments about Job’s problems rather than being a real FRIEND for Job. 

And if my fellow readers today have taken in the highlight passage about Job’s so-called friends giving Job ill-begotten advice and the linked song as well as the Scriptures shared above, I would hope that y’all, as was I, are reminded that we Christians, with the love of God in our hearts, are called by God to reach out and help our friends if we see them in need or in trouble.  I have true FRIENDS like that who share God’s love with me whenever I need it; … how about you?

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You … for giving me Your love through my real FRIENDS.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, … thank You, Lord, … for giving me REAL FRIENDS who share Your love and mercy with me whenever I need it.  … Amen

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