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Genesis 18:16-33

Friendship with God is enmity with the devil. Friendship with God is the departure from everything that is not in line with God. Also, friendship with God is to depart from all possible ways of the wicked and not to enter or dwell in any way that is contrary to the Name of God. Friendship with God is the grace to be consistent and consciously be working and walking in every way of God. Friendship with God is to know and have the understanding that God is around and within you all the time. Friendship with God is to constantly carry the fear of God and when we carry the fear of God in our life, He will always go before us so that we will not know sin. Sin and sinning is what separates a believer from God and to be separated from God is to be operating outside of God. Are you a friend of God? Do you desire to be a friend of God? If it could happen that there were some that walked in their walk as a friend of God, it is also possible to have such people that can be a friend of God today. God is not a partial God. Moses is among the ones that can be identified as one of the friends of God during his days. It will require a friendly relationship to be in a back and forth conversation with God. Moses conversed with God as a friend will converse with friend. Number of times, he had to plead to on behalf of the children of Israel by having conversation with God. Moses made himself available to enter into conversation with God in Exodus 33:11, ÒSo the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.Ó Also, Father Abraham had conversations as friend to friend with God. A friend will not hide his plan from his friend; especially any plan that could affect the friend directly or in directly. God could not hide His plan of destroying Sodom and Gomorrah from Abraham.  Genesis 18:17, ÒAnd the LORD said, ÔShall I hide from Abraham what I am doing, 18 since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?ÕÓ God knows who His friends are and He will not deny Himself in their lives. In the New Testament, Jesus, by extension, called His entire disciples friend. ÒNo longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.Ó (John 15:15) God is not a difficult God; He alone is our Father in heaven whose eyes will not depart form us. Do you desire a friendship relationship with God?