{"id":8102,"date":"2025-08-30T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=8102"},"modified":"2015-08-08T00:31:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T21:31:30","slug":"god-wants-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/god-wants-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"God wants to be our Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"Greetings to you, dear brothers and sisters! I am glad to be able to address you with the words of encouragement and edification. We have been talking about the fact that God wants to be our Friends and wants to reveal to us His secrets that bring breakthroughs and exaltation.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe Bible says that God called Abram His friend. God came to Abram and said that He cannot hide from him what He has purposed to do:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00a0\u00abAnd the LORD said, \u201cShall I hide from Abraham what I am doing, since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice, that the LORD may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him\u201d\u00bb(\u0411\u044b\u0442.18:17-19)<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nJesus said practically the same thing to His disciples: \u00abYou are My friends! And what God reveals to Me, I reveal to you\u00bb:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00abNo 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\u00bb\u00a0(John, 15:15).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nGod saved the children of Israel, brought them out of Egypt, led them by miracles; nevertheless, they did not get to know Him personally. They did not know His voice, – they only knew about Him. The children of Israel knew Him as being the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of their fathers who delivered them, but they did not know Him as a Person. And God told them that He wants to get to know them. Moses heard God because He knew Him personally and knew His ways. God wanted them to hear Him and to see His glory. That is why God brought them to the mountain where He planned to show Himself to them (see Exodus, 19). But they got scared and said that they did not want to hear God anymore; they preferred Moses received messages from God for them. What were the consequences of this decision? They did not know God and His ways for there was no communication between them:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00a0\u00abHe made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel\u00bb\u00a0(Psalm, 103:7).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nWhen we learn to hear God\u2019s voice, we have communication with Him and we grow into the knowledge of His ways and Him personally. God has so much on His heart that He wants to share with us. God desires to share with us what He is planning to do. It may relate to your life or the lives of your children, or your business, or the situation in the town you live in, or the situation in other places. God also desires to reveal Himself to us. But if we have not learnt to hear His voice, all these things are not available to us.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nIt is not possible to love someone and not be willing to share the secrets of your heart with him or her. God is love and He desires us to know Him on a very deep level. It is only possible when we know God\u2019s voice. We cannot walk with God unless we start hearing and understanding Him. The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they understand each other:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00a0\u00abCan two walk together, unless they are agreed?\u00bb\u00a0(Amos, 3:3).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nWe want to walk with God just like Enoch did. But how can one walk with God if we do not see Him? Only through fellowship with Him.\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00abAnd Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him\u00bb\u00a0(Genesis, 5:24).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00abTo him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out\u00bb\u00a0(John, 10:3).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nGod wants to have fellowship with each one of us individually, that is why He calls us by name:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00a0\u00abSo 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\u00bb\u00a0(Exodus, 33:11).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nGod desires to talk to us face to face like He talked to Moses. Those are the times when we learn to understand Him.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWe will continue tomorrow!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nI wish you abundant God\u2019s blessings!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bible says that God called Abram His friend. God came to Abram and said that He cannot hide from him what He has purposed to do: \u00abAnd the LORD said, \u201cShall I hide from Abraham what I am doing, since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice, that the LORD may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him\u201d\u00bb(\u0411\u044b\u0442.18:17-19)","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pexels-photo-1549280-1024x724.jpeg",1024,724,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/rufus-ajiboye\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40138,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102\/revisions\/40138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}