If you want to build an empire you have to be willing to go through hell fire, boy did we go there. Don’t be afraid to cut some phonies along the way, if you are not losing friends then you are not growing up.
Stop begging people to stay. When people can walk away from you for whatever reason let them walk.Dont talk them into staying or loving you, Jesus in His wisdom never begged Judas not to betray Him. Your destiny is not tied to the person who left.
e.Don‘t look for physical things
Be careful what make you like someone. They may never be willing to give what they are endowed with to your disappointment. Don’t want to be friends with someone because they are rich or good looking.
You are comfortable around them as though you are by yourself. You don’t get tired when with them because you don’t have to change your character around them.
2. How to pick your friends
Your friend determines who you become so you need to pick them carefully. The Bible talks more of how Jesus picked the twelve than what He did. That is how important it is.
They are the real deal. If you don’t find them in human form, you have Jesus. Jesus in all His goodness afforded only three so don’t be disappointed if you have one or none.
Don’t think that they are your friends just because they are fighting with you. Comrades are only with you for a while, maybe 1 or 10 years.
If they are for you they will weep with you when you weep and rejoice with you when you rejoice.
Smooth sea never makes good sailors. Don’t ask for easy tasks, ask for a stronger back to take it headon.We never pray for an easy life we pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. What comes easy won’t last and what lasts won’t come easy.