{"id":41616,"date":"2026-05-31T00:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/?p=41616"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:12:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:12:52","slug":"goodrelationshipsagiftfromgod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/goodrelationshipsagiftfromgod\/","title":{"rendered":"good relationships, a gift from God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s wonderful to sit down with a good friend and learn from them. It\u2019s just as valuable to be encouraged to take on a challenge or to be reined in and asked to reconsider the path I\u2019ve chosen. A true friend usually has my best interests at heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through healthy relationships, we flourish, discover our potential, are refined, and move forward. We are social beings who depend on connection. Without community, we wither inside. The Creator designed our souls for relationship. He wants to shape us because that is part of His plan. This is His gift of love to us. Jesus modeled community for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do you nurture relationships? How do you live out your friendships? Is God at the center of them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong><em>The Lord God said, \u2018It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Genesis 2, 18<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Weekly text:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/NIV\/1%20Samuel18%3A1-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1. Samuel 18, 1\u20135<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s wonderful to sit down with a good friend and learn from them. It\u2019s just as valuable to be encouraged to take on a challenge or to be reined in and asked to reconsider the path I\u2019ve chosen. A true friend usually has my best interests at heart. Through healthy relationships, we flourish, discover our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":41638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[511,414],"tags":[510],"class_list":["post-41616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de_blog","category-en_blog","tag-gratitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41622,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41616\/revisions\/41622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}