Building Wise Friendships - Dr. Charles Stanley

Based on Proverbs 18:24, this message examines the value of having a true, loyal, and devoted friend. Furthermore, Dr. Stanley speaks on the value of choosing wise friendships and being careful in how you develop friendships with others.
This message is part of the series "Building Wise Relationships."
For more messages from Charles Stanley, including this week's broadcast, go to www.intouch.org/watch

[@danielfowler3890]

Thank you Jesus for being my Lord and friend even when I don't deserve it

[@virginiacampbell6812]

Right back at you. Much to reflect on.

[@estellagivens-whittaker335]

Amen

[@gipsy6051]

Amen ❣️🙏

[@iamyecargyram]

Loyal, devoted, loving,true, genuine ❤

[@paulettemorgan9959]

A very wonderful rewarding sermon well worth listening to.Thank you Jesus for always being my friend.

[@edwardzimmer]

Another wonderful teaching from Charles Stanley love this man of God.

[@NikkiGRocks4Ever]

Thank you God for this message. Filling the hole within with fake friends or money or status or romantic relationships leaves a person being more empty than when a person started. Filling the hole with God is the truest answer.

[@suzethfrancisco8629]

Thank you God in Jesus Christ. Many blessings for all and have great Saturday in Jesus Christ Amen.

[@marygibson-worlds2476]

💜Amen, Sister Suzeth. 💜✝️🛐🙏💜. ♥️LoveumuchinJesus'name♥️.

[@matthewasher9819]

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[@matthewasher9819]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5mcemhsf5iZarM Christ gives faith and some of mankind abuse others for power and control.

[@tinamcgee8032]

Wonderful sermon Dr. Charles Stanley, God bless everyone who has a friend's in Jesus Christ Amen ✝️🙌📖❣️🔥🕊️👑❤️🤗💯

[@toniisley6141]

AMEN

[@aidacandelario9910]

📖🕊Father🕊 for I know you give me all your best, please hold me tight to you and never let me go. I love you my 🕊God🕊 more than my own children, mother, father, and siblings. Your love takes my breath away. I know through all my troubles you're there. Bless my Brother's and sister's in 🕊Crist🕊 name. Amen 🙌

[@matthewasher9819]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5mcemhsf5iZarM Father of truth is Christ the true messenger of GOD.

[@jorgeapodaca5521]

Amen! God bless you brothers and Sisters in Chirst Jesus our Lord and Savior

[@matthewasher9819]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5mcemhsf5iZarM Christ was and still is right some of mankind has power on their minds.

[@marietz1543]

Thank you Dear Dr.Charles Stanley this sermon was very useful for me who wants to make a relationship and friendship with someone God bless You ❤ You are a wise friend for me Who teach me to live in the Way of Our God and be friend with Our Lord JESES Christ for ever

[@marietz1543]

my dear Brothers and Sisters pray for me please, I need Your prayer, this sermon was a very useful lesson for me thank You Dr.Chrles Stanley and thank you In Touch Ministries ❤ may Our Lord Jesus Christ help me to build this friendship and relationship

[@marietz1543]

@Dr. Charles Stanley thank you for Your prayer and Your reply i needed that You are the Asset that i have ❤ i am from iran i dont know how should i do from here help me please to do what should i do

[@spiridondimaris465]

Blessings family have a wonderful Saturday God bless you all in the name of the Lord Amen 🙏

[@marygibson-worlds2476]

Blessings Spiridon 💜Amen💜✝️🛐🙏💜♥️LoveumuchinJesus'name♥️.

[@spiridondimaris465]

@@marygibson-worlds2476 God bless you Mary God be with you have a wonderful day AMEN 🙏

[@godsgraceandmercy]

People feel and feed off of your energy!!! Always let your light shine…😉😇❤️

[@stevenjohnson1927]

In this time of trials : based on lies , and deception we all have to be very careful . It takes about three seconds to say " I LOVE YOU " and asked why ? It may take hours to explain why , and then it will take a lifetime to prove it . True friendship ? Say it, Walk it in humility and understanding , ( TWO PEOPLE CANT BE THE SAME ) in mind and thoughts. Much thanks Dr. Stanley , highly refreshing based on facts. 💕💕

[@PrayerisPoweful]

By the Power in the name of Jesus I come in agreement with this prayer for me, my children and family, as I ask/decree all in Jesus name! Amen!

[@sonyAj316]

AMEN!!! ALL PRAISE and GLORY BE TO our GOD ALMIGHTY 🙏i surrender it all to you KING JESUS!!! I thank you for SAVING me and LOVING me ❣️ I pray you ALL have a blessed weekend my beloved brothers and sisters in Christ ❤️ MUCH LOVE PEACE AND the JOY of Our LORD and SAVIOR be with you ALLLL!! 🫂in JESUS MIGHTY NAME ✨ MARANATHA ✨ GOD bless your morning 🌄💞🤗

[@johnbaretto261]

Thank-you Jesus for creating that space where you alone can fit in non other would Love you Father God Jesus Love you.

[@igorgomez1055]

Thank you Lord for in touch ministries

[@parthasarathi3504]

Amen, praise God

[@rubyledbetter2759]

God Bless Rev Stanley for his “Most Truthful teaching”.

[@katiepayne2479]

I'm extremely needy, suffering from multiple chronic illnesses and mental health struggles. Thank God for my husband of 9 years 🥰 don't let anyone tell you things won't last if you're needy.

[@guitarstalkandtech9085]

As long as your heart is kind and caring love will last forever

[@brendonpizzati20]

How can I help?

[@chimakalu5195]

God bless you richly for showing love.

[@annamariayannetta242]

Dr. Stanley speaks the truth!!!❤❤

[@malcolm24568]

Having true geniune relationships is important to have. People that grow together, grow together literally lol. PRAISE YHWY FOR HIS GRACE AND MERCY, AMEN 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@mannalawson432]

"Genuine, true friends confront in love." 🥰

[@lisasantucci8220]

HMMMM... I hear you Dr. Charles Stanley. However, it doesn't seem that people actually care about other people, Only Themselves. I have helped friends with difficulties, issues, health problems, job loss, etc. Helping others be better and grow. Then when I needed a friend to lean on when I found out I has a rare Autoimmune issue, Wegner's disease, aka:GPA, and Subglottic Stenosis, and my throat was closing up and I had to have surgery....No friend was there. My blood family, but not my friends for many years, or my church family. They couldn't even call to see if I was Ok or just to say ,"Hello", because they had TOO Much going on. AS a particular person had told me when I asked if they could just call me to see how I was doing. I should not have to ask anyone. However, this person, you have to be specific with other wise they don't get it. The church Still has No problem communicating with me when they need volunteers for anything. It didn't even matter to them when the lockdown happen and I was having a difficult time breathing and my peak flow was the lowest it ever been. Couldn't see my surgeon who is out of state and the only Dr. who could do my surgery. It took a few more months to find someone who could do the surgery, had my orgin Dr. approval, and mine. Since then...I have had to deal with more health issues and just don't understand the lack of compassion on any of these people's part. We truely are in The End of Times.

[@megand4916]

Great message Amen

[@paulpolhill726]

A Great Man of God Helped me on my journey with God Thankyou Charles

[@prem4651]

Praise the lord . Thank you so much for this advisable preaching . I love to watch ❤your preaching every day . Thank you 🙏

[@vishwatieramnauth8555]

I rather have God as my friend ..we can only trusted him he knows all ours needs.

[@nikki1686]

I am friendly but sometimes people don't. Understand my personality even did not known my whole life I always watching your preaching make me feel better when I am watching About GODs Words I know that I'm not alone GOD is always be there thank YOU GOD.

[@mr.b1404]

PRAISE GOD ALMIGHTY ✝️

[@421sap]

In King Lord and my Master Jesus, Name, Amen.

[@yetibigfoot7350]

Amen! I am so glad to be hearing this. I know this is true. But, it's so good to hear. Praise God! His timing is perfect

[@brendamartinez8794]

Good Morning I thought that I had 3 intimate friends but I stop being the devoted ( calling , sendind letters , reaching out) & it's been months since I heard from "my friends" That' s why I open my heart & put this feeling in God's hands & leave the consequences to Him. In Jesus Name. Blessings

[@MarioJimenez-is5yt]

I have friends father and we have a good time all the time amén ❤️ 🧡💛💚💙💜

[@mariacrudup2501]

Thank you for this message. I am praying that God will continue to help me to have friendships that are centered around God and using wisdom. I pray that God will give me wisdom as well and be a godly friend that uses wisdom in my life.

[@paulwillette8156]

THANK YOU PASTOR STANLEY...SO MUCH FOR THIS HEART FELT MESSAGE ON FRIENDSHIP...IN JESUS'S NAME WE PRAY!...Amen & Amen...

[@stacybaltimore3649]

People have become self absorbed and selfish, I can't be that way not my makeup so I choose well who to be around

[@user-wq7ps9bc8e]

Thanks a lot.

[@marietz1543]

pray for me my Brothers and Sisters I have been praying and waiting for this friendship and relatioship for many many years may Our Lord Jesus Christ help me to build this relationship ❤

[@sharmawade5498]

Thank you Dr. Charles Stanley, for always teaching biblical truth… To God be the glory, honor, majesty and praise! 🙌🏾 Shalom 🌹

[@27jackiet]

Beautiful sermon. Thank you God for the life of Dr. Charles Stanley. May his soul rest in heavenly peace

[@lollypop2413]

Pastor is very correct.

[@dianabadillo2646]

Thank you Father that you have given me the perfect friend who sticks closer than a Brother your Son Jesus.

[@viviennejordan215]

Amen!

[@angielinna7219]

Thank you Charles Stanley. God bless your heart ❤

[@sansupadri4418]

GOD BLESS Dr. Charles Stanley and Ministires, every Sunday wisdom inspirational God’s word for many many years❤🙏

[@johneason6540]

What a great message for me personally here today. I will play this message many times to absorb it. I know I have Jesus as my intimate friend. But, I have no friends that match what you teach about here.

[@lejune5083]

Thank you Dr. Stanley. Praise God

[@russellfelts6832]

Charles Stanley is awesome

[@carmenclarke8175]

Thank you for sharing God's word everyone needs to hear this message 🙏🙏

[@companyboss5447]

Dr Stanley is very good.

[@Serdab55]

Amen 🙏🏼 Praise the Lord 🙏🏻 Thank You Jesus 🤗

[@iCa11]

Thanks

[@corrislinden8689]

Thank you Jesus Christ for my being my friend 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@kittisou5366]

Thank you so much, Lord Jesus Christ and Dr Stanly for this blessing sermon, I’m grateful for this today

[@timmiller7338]

Praises for 2022 A.D. !!

[@iCa11]

Very helpful man

[@toniisley6141]

Very nice sermon

[@shamashahbazminhas6003]

Amen

[@mauriciomejia5221]

Aleluyaaa!!!

[@nadinejohnson1894]

🕊️ Confirmation!🕺💃

[@sales75]

IM GOD SENT

[@Kittiesinclair5]

Great advice! What about when a friend who is a good and honest person suddenly turns on you and decides that betrayal is a more profitable path for them? How are you supposed to know about this or anticipate it in order to avoid it?

[@KendrickHarrisKenfinity]

Amen! Hallelujah! I'm forever serving my unparalleled Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And for guiding me with keeping true friends that love you, and everything that is right for both of us, in everyway. Exodus 14:14, 20:3, 20:6, 20:12, 23:25, Joshua 1:8-9, 24:15, John 15:13, 15:4, 15:16, 10:10, 3:16, 4:23-24, 6:63, 8:12, 9:5, 14:1-3, 14:6, 14:27, 14, 16:33, 1:1, 1 John 4:6, 1:7, 3:1-2, 4:16, 4:18-19, 4:20-21, 2:6, 5:4🙏🏾🙌🏾🤝🏾💪🏾👏🏾🏃🏾‍♂️💞🌊🌅 Stay safe and encouraged everyone!

[@angloaust1575]

David and Jonathan had a close Friendship However it's all a question of Compatibility Hit and miss situation Either you connect or you dont!

[@brendamartinez8794]

❤

[@annamariayannetta242]

🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️😭

[@debramoore4721]

well i can say Jesus Christ is my Friend

[@jessicagable3371]

I have 2

[@LR.22]

💫✌🏼💫

[@ploki0123]

How do you love people whose ways are different from the Lord? For we are to love our enemies but be careful not to be influenced.

[@darryldoughty5000]

In Jesus name Amen 🙏 🙌 ✨ ❤ 💖 💓 🙏 🙌

[@yen8429]

I want a group of friends☹

[@sales75]

Do you want to be friends

[@martinnunez2117]

Building wise friendship How can I develop those kind of friendship 1. We share a deep mutual interest or concern 2. Focus on meeting the needs of other person None besides Jesus can meet all our needs 3. Be willing to risk rejection and pain 4. Love sacrificially: we can put ourselves second 5. Open and transparent 6. Let the principal of scripture govern the relationship Our relationship with Jesus Christ is the most important friendship you could ever have Chris's sovereignty draws us into oneness with him

[@madelaineaslam7040]

Hebrews 11:5-6 New Living Translation 5 It was by faith that Enoch was taken up to heaven without dying-“he disappeared, because God took him.”[a] For before he was taken up, he was known as a person who pleased God. 6 And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.

[@sales75]

Howdy

[@debramoore4721]

i have none sad

[@cherylmcclurg757]

I rather have God as my friend everyone else is backstappers

[@debramoore4721]

i dont have a church

[@randallminor4866]

I hope that you can find one where it feels like family.

[@peaceofmyhearthomestead4611]

All of my friends and family are dead.

[@randallminor4866]

So sorry to hear that……..but you are not truly alone.

[@Mohammed67886]

This is a translation of what God Almighty said in the Qur’an about Jesus Christ and his righteous mother, and I ask God to guide everyone to the right path, and you can search more and make sure of yourselves : 171. O people of the Scripture (Christians)! Do not exceed the limits in your religion, nor say of Allâh aught but the truth. The Messiah ‘Îsâ (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary), was (no more than) a Messenger of Allâh and His Word, ("Be!" - and he was) which He bestowed on Maryam (Mary) and a spirit (Rûh )[1] created by Him; so believe in Allâh and His Messengers. Say not: "Three (trinity)!" Cease! (it is) better for you. For Allâh is (the only) One Ilâh (God), glory be to Him (Far Exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth. And Allâh is All-Sufficient as a Disposer of affairs.[2]

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Nick

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[@georgeschlaline6057]

Focus on the Second Coming Not on Adam and Eve

[@madelaineaslam7040]

BIBLE Unless you repent you will all likewise perish A Call to Repentance 13 About this time Jesus was informed that Pilate had murdered some people from Galilee as they were offering sacrifices at the Temple. 2 “Do you think those Galileans were worse sinners than all the other people from Galilee?” Jesus asked. “Is that why they suffered? 3 Not at all! And you will perish, too, unless you repent of your sins and turn to God. 4 And what about the eighteen people who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them? Were they the worst sinners in Jerusalem? 5 No, and I tell you again that unless you repent, you will perish, too.” Luke 13:1-5 NLT Many ask why God would allow diseases, disasters and tragedies -- even such a disease as the coronavirus which has infected thousands and thousands -- which cause many to die. As a sinful human being with a very limited understanding of the ways of God, I will not presume to speak on His behalf and try, as some have done, to explain God's reasonings for permitting such things to occur. I will, however, let God speak for Himself if any care to listen. Death itself is a part of the curse brought upon this world and all of us because of our sin and disobedience to God's commandments. After our first parents, Adam and Eve, sinned in the Garden of Eden, God told Adam, "In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return" (Gen. 3:19). Moses, in Psalm 90:7-10, says, "For we have been consumed by Your anger, and by Your wrath we are terrified. You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your countenance. For all our days have passed away in Your wrath; we finish our years like a sigh. The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." In Luke 13, Jesus was told of certain Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. Jesus asked, "Do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans because they suffered such things? I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse sinners than all other men who dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish." Applying Jesus' words to those who have suffered or even died from disease or tragedy, were these people worse sinners than others, including us, who have, at least not yet, suffered such tragedy? Jesus said, "I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish." In 2 Peter 3, the Bible speaks of God's final judgment upon this earth, and we learn why it has not yet occurred. Verse 9 explains: "The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance." The reason God allows this sin-filled world to go on a little longer despite the evil in it, and the reason God allows us to live on a little longer in this world in spite of our sinfulness, is because He does not desire our eternal condemnation but that we repent and look to Him for mercy and forgiveness in the crucified and risen Christ Jesus. And, think about it! Tragedy and disease could also strike right here at home. We cannot claim we are any less guilty of sin. We certainly deserve God's wrath and punishment for the millions of unborn we have killed and continue to kill, for disregarding the teaching of God's Word regarding marriage and God's creation of male and female, for failing to teach our children to know the Lord God of the Bible and to trust in Him, and for all our own individual disobedience and sin against His commandments. The only reason God has not already judged and condemned us is that He "is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance." Psalm 90 goes on to say, "So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom" (v. 12). So, perhaps -- no, most definitely -- we ought to use the remaining time God has given us in this world to consider what He has told us in the Bible, to repent of the sin and evil in our lives and to seek the forgiveness God offers and promises to us through faith in the holy life and the innocent suffering and death of His Son! O merciful God, forgive my disobedience and sin for the sake of Christ Jesus and His atoning sacrifice on the cross for the sins of all and teach me to walk in Your ways and live for You in accord with Your holy Word. Amen.

[@cherylmcclurg757]

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[@sales75]

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