Calvary Christian Center
G-12 Administration – Life Notes
Pastor: Phillip G. Goudeaux
April 03, 2011
“Friendship Sunday”
“Confronting the Issue’s”

Proverbs 27:10 Proverbs 27:17


• Sometimes disaster does strike – Situations happens that are out of your control

• Because you have a friend – You don’t even have to go to family members for assistance

• If you have any type of relationship with someone - There will be conflict

• You must be conflict resolution minded in your relationships – You should work through them and not run from them

• Three things you need to know about conflict:
1. Conflicts always have a cure
• There is a resolution, there is peace – There is something that God can bring to cure your marital problems and your interpersonal relationships

2. You can not correct what you are not willing to confront
• Your graduation or you going to the next level will never happen until you confront the situation

3. You can not correct what you are not willing to confront
• You can not help everybody – Even God can not help a person when they are not willing to change

• If the person does not respect the God-Wisdom in you – They will never accept your counsel and you can not help someone who will not receive you

• Here are six Health benefits of Friendship:
1. Increases your sense of belonging and purpose
• The world does everything it can to keep you isolated and separated

2. It boost your happiness
• There are forces fighting against your happiness – God has an antidote called “a friend”

3. Friendship reduces stress
• One of the biggest killers today is stress – Most of the diseases people are receiving is out of stress

4. Improves your self-worth
• A good friend just makes you feel better about your self

5. Decreases the risk of serious Mental Illness
• Psychology Today, states that one out of three people are dealing with some level of Mental Illness – A friend will reduces those issues
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6. Helps you weather the trauma of Divorce, Serious Illness, Job Lost or Death of a
Loved One
• God designed a full-proof situation to help you through the times when you are hurting the most – God designed friendships

• God has brought friends into your life to help you be a better person

• They have something to add to you – Can you receive it?

• Do you recognize the value your friends are to you?

• The devil fights so hard against you having friendships and relationships

• He does not want you to be sharpened to the level that you can be a serious weapon against the works of the enemy out in the world

• God wants to sharpen you – But it’s not going to be by yourself

• It will be because you learned how to build relationships and listen to them

• God brings you a gift – That gift is called a friend

• You can not get to where you want to go without receiving the wisdom of that friend

• You must come to the place in your life that you recognize the value of friendships

• If you don’t recognize the value or learn to receive wisdom from friendships

• You will always be flipping and flopping in your pursuit of happiness, greatness, and your prosperity – Because you don’t know how to protect your friendships

• There is a connection between friends, a chemistry – An aroma that is released and goes up to God when friends come together

• The same thing happens with churches – God brings you to a church where the “Man of God” can help you

• There is a releasing of the DNA of the “Man of God” into your life – This is all done to help you move up

• Don’t allow the enemy to cause you to get into offense and make you leave the place where you received your DNA

• You must fight off anything that comes against your relationships and friendships