Many have been placed into your life in different seasons.

Some will get to be in close proximity of you.

While a handful will be the ones you will grow together with for your lifetime.

This group of people, aren’t just any friends or acquaintance that you’ve met sometime in your life. They are those whom you will fight tooth and nail for, battle long distances, and go the extra mile to build up each other and strengthen the friendship that you all have!

Here are some examples of friends whom great leaders had been willing to fight for.

Even kings and greatness have friends worth fighting for

Many people will have a strong group of friends whom they will grow with, through constant encouragement, building one another up, and constantly building stronger ties while caring for each other.

I have my group of close friends who we’ll be willing to drop every other task just to meet up and chill out.

Even heroes in society will have groups of great friends helping each other from zero to greatness. One of today’s example is Sergey Brin and Larry Page for starting a little known search-engine project — that eventually grew into a behemoth of a business breakthrough called Google — together.

In legends we have King Arthur paving the way for Lancelot — while Lancelot grew to become the finest of all the knights in the kingdom.

Historical figures too have well known stories of how great friends will fight for each other even when the odds are heavily stacked against them.

Think, King David and Jonathan (son of Saul). Jonathan did everything in his power and might to keep David out of trouble, and fought battles together, and making sure that the throne passed onto the hands of the rightful owner — King David.

How about the fellowship of the 12 disciples? With more than 70 over disciples that Jesus had, the 12 chose to stick together and went across borders with one another, battling storms and raging seas with each other, and definitely went all out to keep each other strengthened despite not knowing what the future had in store for them.

Jesus shed His blood

And then… there’s Jesus. Who went all out for His disciples, protecting them and guiding them to their calling, while empowering them to achieve their highest potential (turned Simon the wavering individual to become Peter the rock of confidence, got Saul the persecutor to become Paul the apostle of salvation).

In spite of being there for His disciples and for the people who seek His presence, He was still sent onto the cross, leading to the crucifixion, and then leaving His body totally in a mess, nailed down and bones broken, with blood slowly dripping away from every open would on His body.

He went beyond fighting tooth and nails for you. He shed His blood so that you can be in His presence today.

Beyond the cross — today with your friends

Thankfully, you don’t have to go through all that to show that you treasure and value your friends — carrying your cross in your daily journey is a good enough burden to handle.

Beyond the cross, you may have over hundreds or thousands of friends and people whom you have been acquainted with through the years…

Like Jesus, who went through thick and thin for His 12 disciples; who then are your friends that you will go through the bad times and the good, fighting principalities, time, and distance to be in the midst of one another — and building each other up?

And in times like this, where we’ve been all busy like bees.

Here’s the three things, you can do ‘em, that will rock your friends’ world today:

1. Go out for an evening walk

Walks are cool.

It’s the breeze and the fellowship that makes it fun. There’s also a health benefit by burning off the calories after a good hearty dinner!

2. Morning tea

Mornings have been replaced by the heavy rush of traffic to work (or from work – for those working the graveyard hours).

How nice would it be if your friends and you can have a good breakfast, by having some morning tea (and pastries too!).

3. Sending a praise message anytime!

Last, but never the least – in fact, it’s essential, send out a praise message right here on Praisewall!

A good post here may cheer a friend up, let them know that they’re loved.

It’s all simply to love one another.

Have you rocked your friends’ world today?