Jesus, I am having a difficult time developing new friendships so I can have someone to mentor or so I can add new friends to mentor. Help me go through this study so I can become good at it. Teach me Your techniques You used to develop the friendships You had.

Even when I already have friends to mentor, help me be developing more friends for future mentoring. Help me be going through the natural course of my daily activities while allowing people to become a closer part of my life and mentoring. Show me that it takes very little extra effort to make it a part of what I typically do each day.

Jesus, help me go through this study for another reason. Let me go through it so I will be able to help those of my friends who need to know how to develop friendships. Let me be able to work with them by taking them through this study; let me teach them a way of life that assists hurting people find the help they need.

Jesus, empower this study to literally create a lifestyle of making new friends; let it take all my business and casual relationships to another level. Let it help me learn how to ask those around me non-threatening questions that invite them to open their heart up to me.

As I give people opportunities to grow in their relationship with me, help me be able to know what to do next. When they indicate they are willing to share various information about their lives with me, make me ready for it. Jesus, this is something I would like to know and grow in; prepare my heart for it.

Jesus, most of the relationships I am involved in during my day are business relationships. They aren’t people I can call friends; they are just people I need in order to help me get certain needs met. If I were asked to tell some personal information about them, I would typically be at a loss. I don’t know what kind of things most of them like, what they are going through, or what they are doing to try to make themselves happy.

I see people get food, clothing, housing, and medical treatment from people who are basically strangers to them. Even in church, I and others go in, sit down and try to get our spiritual needs met by people who don’t know us and we don’t know much about them. Jesus, help me change that approach in my way of living the Christian life.

Jesus, I have been allowing You to deal with me concerning a close and intimate relationship with my heavenly Father, a godly relationship with myself, and a close and personal relationship with my friends. Since friendship is the first step to relational, financial, emotional, physical, and spiritual healing provided by Jesus, teach me how to be good at it. Show me that my relationship with You, my relationship with myself, and my relationship with my friends are the keys to all the benefits from You.

You want me to love the Lord my God with all my heart and with all my soul and with all my mind and with all my strength.” The second thing You want is for me to love my neighbor as myself. You have made it clear to me that there is no commandment greater than these (Mark 12:30-31).