Prayer For True and Genuine Friendships
Heavenly, Omnipotent Father, there are times in my life when I need true and genuine friends, a comforting arm, a listening ear, a shoulder to cry on, or even just sensible good advice.
But there are no true friends to turn to. No one who I can relate to or who truly understands exactly how I feel. It leaves me feeling broken, empty, and lost.
Fill me, Lord with Your divine holy presence. Allow me to feel Your tender, warm embrace wrapped around me, as I sit here and cry out to You.
Proverbs 12:26 The godly give good advice to their friends; the wicked lead them astray.
Proverbs 16:28 A troublemaker plants seeds of strife; gossip separates the best of friends.
Seeking God’s Guidance in Friendships
Gracious and Loving God, I come before You with a humble heart, seeking Your wisdom and guidance in my relationships. Lord, Your word in Proverbs 18:24 tells us that there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
I ask You, Heavenly Father, to guide me towards these kinds of friendships, relationships characterized by mutual respect, understanding, and love.
You, Lord Jesus, exemplified the greatest love by laying down Your life for Your friends. As I navigate my relationships, help me to model my choices after Your example.
Enable me to be a friend who is willing to sacrifice, to understand, to love unconditionally, just as You have loved me.
Proverbs 18:24 A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
You Are Always There For Me
Father, today I can safely say that You are my best friend. You have always been there for me, to comfort, guide, and correct me when I need it the most. You are always by my side.
Heavenly Father, You pick me up each and every time I have fallen by the wayside. You have never failed me and I am assured that You won’t start now.
Proverbs 18:24 “One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”
Proverbs 27:5-6 “Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Wounds from a genuine friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.”
Praying for Guidance And Discernment
Abba Father, I pray for true and genuine friendships in my life. Friendships that align with Your word in Ecclesiastes 4, where two are better than one, able to uplift one another in times of need.
Grant me the discernment to identify and nurture such relationships, that we may help each other to stand strong amidst life’s challenges.
I also pray, according to Proverbs 27:17, for friends that sharpen me as iron sharpens iron. Surround me with people who challenge me to grow, to learn, and to become a better person.
Allow these friendships to be a reflection of Your love and grace, strengthening my faith and bringing me closer to You.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.
Proverbs 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
Prayer for Healing and Restoration in Broken Friendships
Heavenly Father, where there has been hurt and misunderstanding in my friendships, I ask for Your healing and restoration. You are a God of reconciliation, and You desire for us to live in peace and harmony with one another.
Where there has been conflict, grant me the humility to seek forgiveness and the grace to forgive. Help me to mend broken relationships with Your wisdom and love.
Where reconciliation may not be possible, give me the strength to move forward with forgiveness in my heart, entrusting the situation into Your hands. May my heart be free of bitterness, resentment, or unforgiveness.
Colossians 3:13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
Matthew 18:15 If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.
Prayer for Being a Godly Friend
Above all, Lord, help me to be the kind of friend that You desire me to be. A friend who is faithful, loyal, and true. A friend who mirrors the love of Christ, who sacrifices, serves, and cherishes.
Teach me to be selfless in my friendships, looking not only to my own interests, but also to the interests of others.
May my actions and words always be seasoned with grace and truth. Let me be a friend who builds up rather than tears down, who speaks life and not harm.
Use me, Lord, to show Your love to my friends, that through my actions and words, they may feel Your presence and know Your love.
John 15:12-13 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
Philippians 2:3-4 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
Praying For True And Genuine Friends
Your undying, never-failing, never-ending love drives me to become a better person, pushes me to want to become one with You.
Strengthen my present friendships so that they will be based on You and Your word. Renew the past friendships that have died, and let me be an example, leading my friends to the Lord. In Your Holy, Precious name I pray, Amen.
Proverbs 17:17 A friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need.
Proverbs 22:24–25 Don’t befriend angry people or associate with hot-tempered people, or you will learn to be like them and endanger your soul.