Every Friend Requires A Different Treatment

By JOHN ARTHUR

You cannot treat everyone in the same way and expect to succeed massively with your life. Your treatment of people will affect your success. Your treatment of your friends will affect your output. 

 

Treating the friends, you are supposed to treat well wrongly will create loses in your life. When you treat your friends well, you attract imaginable rewards. 

 

Every friend is different. As a result of our differences, it is necessary for us to treat our friends differently and not the same. Water and petrol are not the same. 

 

If you are preparing soup and you pour petrol in it instead of water, you'll destroy your soup and destroy your health if you go ahead and drink it. The fact that water and petrol are different means we have to treat them differently. 

 

The same applies to our friendships. Every friend requires a different treatment. The friends we treat rightly, will stay with us. But the friends we treat badly, will move away from us. 

 

In this book, I will show you key principles necessary for treating your friends differently and how you could enjoy every friendship God gives you. You'll love this book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: JOHN ARTHUR
• Release date: May 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9789988268473

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Dedication

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1: What it means to treat your friend differently

Chapter 2: Why should you treat your friend differently?

Chapter 3: Differences in friends that calls for their different treatments

Chapter 4: Different kinds and ways of treating friends

Chapter 5: How to treat your friend differently

Chapter 6: Basics considerations for friendship treatment

Chapter 7: Rewards of treating your friend differently

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I joyfully give thanks to God our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ for granting me the love and grace to write this book. My precious Holy Spirit is as well forever remembered and appreciated for His wisdom and friendship in making this publication a reality. I thank You for everything.

I humbly thank my parents for teaching me how to treat people rightly, and helping to establish me on the strong foundations of Christ.

I also thank Mr. Evans Odei and Mrs. Hannah Odei for being one of the families that always treats me as a King and makes me to believe in my greatness.

I also thank the following friends of mine for being with me at the school of friendship to learn how to treat people:

I Love You.

God Bless You All.

Dedication

I humbly dedicate this book to my parents for teaching me how to treat people rightly.

I also dedicate this book to my spiritual father, Mr. Evans Odei, for his mentorship and always making me to believe ‘I’m the King in my world.’ 

I also dedicate this book to my loyal friend, John Mienza Quayson, for always treating me with immense honour despite our years of friendship.

I Love You All.

FOREWORD

The book in your hand is a veritable tool for sustainable relationship and lasting friendship. In a world where friendship is on the decline and people do everything but treat their friends well, John Arthur captures the need of the type by putting down these words on the marble.

His simplicity of language and style is amazing. Apt to the core, John lend his fingers to the Almighty God and the result is this invaluable treasure. Do not lay this book down until you’re done with it, do not think you’re through with it until all your relationships and friendships are improved and bubbling.

I don’t even think you’ll ever be done with this great treasure, my advice is, read it, study it, hold unto it, follow the beautiful principles in it and live by it...I assure you that you’ll be a better Friend from now and not only that, you’ll produce better friends and friendships. I salute John Arthur for his courage and astuteness in dealing with this matter.

Very Rev. George Wesley Tagoe,

Evangelism Coordinator, Sekondi Diocese,

The Methodist Church Ghana.

INTRODUCTION

The key to understanding friendships and accessing their blessings is often hidden in the treatment of the friends involved. How you treat the friends in a friendship will determine how the friendships become toward you. It will determine what you reap from the friendship.

To therefore access the hidden treasures of any friendship is not to focus on treating the friendship right, but to focus on treating the friends in the friendship right. It is the friends who make up the friendship, not the friendship making up the friends.

Without friends there will be no friendship.

Friendships die in the absence of friends.

Your reactions to friends will determine the reactions of friendships toward you.

Friendships change proportionate to the changes in the friends.

The life of friendship is hidden in the friends.

Friendships don't change; it's the friends that change. When the friends change it affects the friendships for them to also change. Whenever you see changes in your friendships always remember that your friend in that friendship has changed.

The reason for the changes in your friend is a direct reflection of the treatment he or she has received, either from you or from a different source. Aside the numerous factors that cause changes in friends, your treatment of them is a basic determinant of the major changes that occur in their lives and responses you receive from them.

Your treatment of friends is like a seed you plant in them; it produces for you whatever you put in them. When something affects your friend so much and causes him to change, but you decide to treat him differently from what affects him, your friend will change not to the direction of what happens to him but how you treat him. Your friendship with your friend will as a result not be a product of what happened to your friend, but a product of how you treated him.

If your friend is always sad but you make him happy, you will end up with a happy friendship and not a sad friendship. If your friend is unlovable but you make him lovable, you end up with a lovable friendship and not an unlovable friendship.

Friends become what we plant in them

Friendships become how we treat our friends

It's my prayer that the Holy Spirit will use these few words in this little book to birth dramatic changes in your life and your friendships as He teaches you how to treat your friends in the right way in Jesus Name. Amen

CHAPTER 1

What It Means To Treat Your Friend Differently

Every friend requires a different treatment

1 Timothy 1-3 says, Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity. Honour widows that are widows indeed.

The word treat according to