FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD

Life and Ministry

Sharing with Pastor Dapo Adeniyi


People are friends with God by choice.
We can draw near Him.
Some pull as far away from God as possible.
Some cannot be God’s friends simply because they are already engaged to His enemy.
The Bible stipulates one of the conditions for incurring God’s enmity.
It is to destroy God’s Temple.
It can be an actual place of worship.
It is most often a house in which God dwells, which is the life of a man.
Another temple or house in which God delights to dwell in is the praise of His people.
He is of course an eternal friend of those who cultivate the habit of giving thanks.
God is also friends with those who thank their own fellows who have been a blessing to them.
Needless to say that God cannot be reconciled to those who blaspheme His name, particularly His power (embodied by the Holy Ghost).

The Bible even gives us to understand that the worst kind of thanklessness is not to discern Christ’s body which was broken on the cross for our sake.
Particularly because it was for our sakes that His flesh was broken and He died.
To be God’s close friends, we have to build for Him.
His best friends in the Bible were builders.
Abraham looked for a city whose maker and builder was God.
To live in a house, or city for that matter, God has to have an input in the design and its very location.
Abraham got His wish: Jerusalem became God’s home forever.
David conceived the plan for a house for God.
Solomon, one of God’s best friends, actualized the building of the Temple.
King Josiah repaired the Temple’s breaches.
Nehemiah supervised the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem.
Ezra rebuilt the Temple.
The walls before the temple?
That symbolizes that security comes before prosperity.
How are you and I building for God?
We cannot afford to allow the devil to destroy the temple of our own lives.
There are many, many temples around us, and in our city, in which God, the omnipresent God, desires to dwell.