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The Heart Of A True Friend

This is a testimony of a good friend who has since passed away.  Her name was Dora.  I met Dora one day after I was born-again.  We would get together on the telephone and discuss the scriptures.  She was from Jamaican Nationality and prided herself as a no-nonsense type of individual, but when we began to  speak of the goodness of Jesus Christ, she would always begin to quote the psalms and cry.  I would wait until she finished crying and then continue the conversation, which was always based on what we were both going through at the time.  At the end of each conversation we would always agree that we MUST do it the way our sweet Jesus taught.  I would sometimes tell Dora if she made it to heaven, she must give Jesus a message for me, that He must send more help for me to carry this burden.  Dora would laugh and we would hang up the phone until next time we had something going on in our lives.  I would always tell Dora, to give it to me straight up if she thinks that I was going off the straight and narrow path.  One tedious day after shopping with Dora, we got back to my house and while waiting for me to take her home, she began to rattle my nerves by saying really annoying things.  Well, I snapped at her and took her home. We did not hug each other as we normally do and I knew that Jamaican no nonsense attitude had become a barrier between us.  Jesus was using this situation to test us.  When I got back home, my daughter had brought a friend for me to pray for whom she had taken to the doctor due to pains in her stomach and they could not diagnose what the problem was and she was in excruciating pain.  I found that I could not pray because there was something blocking my prayers.  After a few minutes, I realized it was the fact that my friend Dora and I had parted in strife.  I immediately called Dora and asked her to forgive me for the way I responded to her and she tried to back off by saying it is okay.  I insisted that I was wrong and told her that I could not get my prayers answered until I cleared the slate with her.  After I hung up with her, I felt a sense of relief and then went to pray and minister to my daughter's friend and she felt immediate relief from her pain. I just laid my hands on her and told her that is what Jesus taught His disciples to do and I prayed that Father heal her in the name of Jesus Christ.  It was that simple.  She never complained again.

Well, my friend Dora died of gastric-intestinal cancer a few years ago, even though she never ate out and ate all the right foods which she cooked herself. She never told anyone, but she moved way out in the (boon docks) and furnished the new house with everything she wanted to have and there she died alone.  I miss my friend Dora.  I am asking Father to send me friends that I could really fellowship with, especially when I have a particularly heavy situation and I pray that the ones He sends will speak the truth to me regardless of how it is said as long as Jesus Christ is lifted up by my obedience to Him.  Because in the end, that is the only thing that really matters in life.

With lots of loving memories towards my friend Dora and our testimonies of true friendship.  Looking forward to more testimonies of true friendship with those I meet in my travels on myChurch.

Your friend and sister in the Faith 
Marcia