Volume 20: Why Your Friendships Matter

Why Your Friendships Matter

Yesterday, we sat with a powerful truth: presence is powerful. We saw how one man, Barzillai, showed up for a nation’s leader and changed the outcome of a moment. But today, let’s go deeper.

Because presence is not just about a moment. It is about proximity over a lifetime.

Who you surround yourself with has the power to shape your outcomes and perspectives.

Faith Is Not Just Personal—It’s Relational

We love to talk about personal faith. Your prayer life. Your devotion. Your obedience. But Scripture paints a bigger picture.

There are moments when God did not just respond to someone’s individual faith—He responded to the faith of the people around them.

A man could not walk, but his friends carried him—and Jesus responded to their faith (Mark 2:1–12).

A servant was dying, but a centurion spoke—and healing followed (Matthew 8:5–13).

A daughter was tormented, but a mother refused to quit—and deliverance came (Matthew 15:21–28).

In each of these moments, God honored faith, but He also revealed His authority, not human control.

This is the pattern: Sometimes, your breakthrough is influenced by who is standing next to you, even though, at some point, your personal response to God will be required.

I Am Living Proof That Community Covers

This is where theology becomes personal, because seeing God move through the intercession of others is my story.

I was born not breathing—still and lifeless. But my story did not end in that birthing room.

I was placed into the arms of a praying mother. And somewhere between her faith and God’s mercy, breath filled my lungs.

Before I had language, before I had belief of my own, someone else’s faith stood in the gap for me. And that has been the pattern of my life ever since.

Faith-Filled Friendships Are Not Optional

There are seasons people call coincidence. I call them covering.

When I stood on the front lines of war, surrounded by uncertainty, I did not just rely on training. I built a circle of faith—a community of Bible-believing men in the middle of chaos, with no chaplain.

No stage. No spotlight. Just faith in raw conditions. We prayed together. We believed together. We stayed connected.

And we all came back without injury. Not luck. Not chance. That is what I call a supernatural covering.

Scripture reinforces this truth:

“Two are better than one… For if they fall, one will lift up his companion” (Ecclesiastes 4:9–10).

“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2).

“And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together” (Hebrews 10:24–25).

Faith was never designed to function in isolation.

When You’re Sent, You Still Need Support

There was a season in my life where obedience took me far from anything familiar.

In 2012, I stepped out on what many would call a one-man missions trip to remote villages in Uganda.

However, I understood something then that I still hold onto now: Even when you go alone, you were never meant to go unsupported.

So before I ever boarded a plane, I did something intentional. I reached out to believers—one church in every state across America—and asked them to join a prayer chain. Not casually or occasionally, but strategically and consistently, because my safety was at risk. I needed focused faith and committed prayer.

For two weeks, I moved through villages with a multi-layered mission—serving, ministering, building, and pouring out everything God placed in me.

The greatest thing I witnessed during that trip was the undeniable hand of God moving through it all.

Doors opened that should not have opened.
Provision showed up without explanation.
Protection followed me into places that could have gone very differently.

And I know why. Because while my feet were on the ground in Uganda, faith was rising across an entire nation on my behalf.

When Faith Runs Low, Borrow Strength

This is not just about having friends. This is about having the right friends.

• Friends who pray when you are weak.
• Friends who believe when you are tired.
• Friends who speak life when your mind is under attack.
• Friends who carry you when you cannot carry yourself.

Because life will have moments where your own faith feels fragile.

And in those moments, you will need someone else’s faith to help hold the line.

48 Countries Later… Still Covered

Step by step. City by city. Nation by nation. Forty-eight countries later, I can look back and see one consistent thread: I never walked alone.

It was not just strategy that sustained me. It was not just wisdom that guided me. It was connection.

Real relationships. Faith-filled friendships. People who stayed rooted in God, and stayed connected to me.

And because of that, I am still here. Still standing. Still walking in purpose. Still sharing God’s heart through Remnant7 with a committed community of believers.

Choose Your Circle Carefully

The world will tell you friendships are casual. Scripture tells you they are consequential.

“Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” (Amos 3:3)

“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.” (1 Corinthians 15:33)

“He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.” (Proverbs 13:20)

“Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.” (Proverbs 22:24–25)

You see, the types of friendships you choose matter, and the wrong circle can drain you, distract you, and delay you.

But the right circle? They can carry you. Cover you. Correct you. And even help preserve your life.

If you are reading this as someone who has been part of a faith-based circle, this is in celebration of you.

God often works through relationships. Sometimes, the right connection becomes the bridge to your next breakthrough.

So choose wisely. Stay connected to people who are surrendered to God. And never underestimate this truth: God often uses the faith of others to protect, position, and preserve you according to His will.