This document discusses the importance of friendship and the benefits of having true friends. It notes that true friends can provide useful criticism to help you improve, honest counsel to gladden your heart, loyalty by not abandoning you, protection of your reputation, and help you see your own beauty. True friends sharpen each other by providing criticism that helps clean your blades, honest feedback to examine your sharpness, counsel on how to correct issues, consistency that refines each other, encouragement to apply wisdom, and cover each other with prayer and support.

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6. angerd
anger weighs you down.

7. anger
letting it go = freedom

8. anger is toxic.

9. Anger = Stress
• Cardiovascular Disease
• Anxiety
• Hypertension
• Depression
• Sexual dysfunction
• Insomnia and fatigue

10. friendship matters.

11. Do not underestimate the power of
association…

12. Harvard Study
of Adult Development

13. Dr. Robert Waldinger

15. What is friendship?

16. What kind of
friend are you?

17. What are your
expectations?

18. Have you worked
on being a great
friend?

19. criticism
1A friend’s criticism is useful.
27:6

20. Criticism from a friend is useful.
Proverbs 27:6

21. counsel
2A friend’s counsel gladdens the heart.
27:9

22. Perfume and incense gladden the
heart, but not as much as the
counsel of a good friend.
Proverbs 27:9

23. counselcriticism
what’s wrong how to make it right
intention

24. loyalty
3A friend doesn’t forsake you.
27:10

25. Do not forsake your friends
Proverbs 27:10

26. protection
4A friend guards your reputation.
27:18

27. Whoever tend a fig tree eats of its
fruit; so one who guards a friend’s
reputation is also honored.
Proverbs 27:18

28. revelation
5A friend helps you see the beauty in yourself.
27:19

29. As water reflects back your face, let
your heart mirror the face of a
friend.
Proverbs 27:19

30. criticism
counsel
loyaltyprotection
revelation
LOVE

31. how to
sharpen

34. clean the blades
1A true friend’s criticism helps you clean the blades.

35. examine sharpness
2A friends honest feedback helps you assess your sharpness.

36. grind the blades
3Criticism tells you what’s wrong. Counsel helps you make it right.

37. smooth the edges
4A true friend’s consistency refines you.

38. test the sharpness
5A true friend encourages you to use the wisdom you’ve learned.

39. oil the blades
6A true friend covers you with prayer and encouragement.

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