A safer place you will never find, than where the security of God, so encompasses your soul.  Where you can drop all of your armor and run into the arms of Love and be embraced with the one who is compassion.

Psalms 91 tells us to abide in the shadow of the Almighty and the benefits of being in that safe place.   There are other places of this assured safety that the Father has so lovingly provided, this is with your Godly friends whom exercise Christly wisdom where your heart is concerned.  They keep your confidence and hide your nakedness.

Where do you turn when you begin to feel and sense the fatigue of the battle lines upon your physical, emotional and spiritual self?  Not every port in the storm is a safe haven to turn into…one must use great caution when one is dropping one’s guard, for the enemy is seeking around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may destroy.

When God brings into your life these safe havens, also known as godly friends, you can rest assured that He has pre-qualified their reliability and their steadfastness.   One must be absolutely certain that one has heard from God as to where these friends or havens are, or you shall find the imitator (the enemy’s chosen) ready and willing to allow you the sense of safety.  But just as the name represents, imitator is not able to do anything, other than to deceive, it is anything but a safe place! (Matthew 7:15; James 3:14-16) Once one divulges a heart matter to one of these imitators, than havoc is about to abound in your life.  Where there once was peace, will now become chaos!

 It is vital to your walk with God, in this world, to surround yourself with God fearing, wisdom gaining, soul searching, and bible reading Christians.  “You shall know them by their fruit!” (Matthew 7:15-16)  If one is walking in faith, according to the true word of God, than one shall be abounding in the truth and light of Christ.  An imitator walking in the appearance of Godliness shall have secrets or hidden things following and being revealed (1 Timothy 5:24 ).  Darkness follows them wherever they go; corruptible deeds, actions and words.

Once you have determined through fasting and much prayer, where your safe havens are, than you can rest in the knowledge that when trials and tribulations come, than you are going to be supported in words, deeds, actions and prayers of faith to God.  Godly friends don’t always tell you what you want to hear, but they will tell you what is of God.  “Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend” stated in Proverbs 27:17.  “Faithful are the wounds of a friend…” Proverbs 27:6.

If you are in the midst of or are facing a battle and you are feeling overwhelmed or weakened, then confide in your godly friends whom will speak words of life into your soul and they will ALWAYS direct or redirect you to the CROSS!   Before you go into war, you should gather your allies (friends) and know that God has seen to the outcome of the thing, so trust in Him and know that you know, you have rest in the midst of it.  Remember, that God saw this coming from afar and positioned your friends to be in the right place at the right time with just the right words that you will need to hear.

 Let Him be your truth and source; therein lies your peace and joy.