How to Build Biblical Friendships

Friendship is the best gift you can give someone. It is the most intimate bond humans can form between each other. The following tips are for male and female friendships.
Before we become friends with some people, we need to know the strategy how to make people to like us:

1. Become genuinely interested in other people.

• We cannot expect other people to like us, if we are not even interested in them. Or we only interested in them in certain things, like their physical, just because we knew that that person is smart, or rich. We have to be genuine, we have to like them because who they are.

2. SMILE

• Who wants to be friends with someone who always looks angry or in a bad mood all the time??. Smile is really important, other people will know that you are a friendly person.

3. Remember that a man's name is to him the sweetest sound in any language.

• Everybody likes to hear their name. When you called someone by their names, that person will know that you are trying to get to know them better and care about them.

4. Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.

• Don't be a selfish person, who likes to talk about himself and his problems. Lots of people need someone to listen to them.
  

5. Talk in terms of the other man's interest 6. Make other person feel important and do it sincerely.
BE YOURSELF!

God does not intend that every friendship we attempt to initiate we should develop. Every one has a limited capacity for friendship and each person has a different capacity for numbers of friends.
BENEFITS OF FRIENDSHIPS:

1. Emotional Encouragement

• Proverbs 27:9: The sweet smell of incense can make you feel good, but true friendship is better still.

2. Help in trouble

• Proverbs 17:17: A friend is always a friend, and relatives born to share our troubles.

3. Personal Stability 4. Spiritual Help and counsel

• Proverbs 27:17: Just as iron sharpens iron, friends sharpen the minds of each other.

5. Freedom of expression 6. Protection from loneliness and isolation 7. Love and Acceptance

• Proverbs 27:6: You can trust a friend who corrects you, but kisses from enemies are nothing but lies.
  

8. Opportunities to give ourselves to others
INGREDIENTS OF LASTING FRIENDSHIP

1. Spiritual stimulation

• Hebrew 10:24-25: We should keep on encouraging one another to be thoughtful and to do helpful things.

2. Prayer. Intimate friends pray with and for one another 3. Accountability. A close Christian friend has the right and responsibility to hold us responsible for our actions. 4. Encouragement and Affirmation 5. Helping and Serving 6. Having FUN together. 7. Teamwork in spiritual battle
ALERT: Constant togetherness will ruin any friendship

The Basic for Marriage Friendship

1.Respect and Courtesy 2.Mutual Interest 3.Good Communication 4.Keeping confidences 5.Encouraging personal goals