Proverbs 18:24. A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.
BUILD COVENANT RELATIONSHIPS
I read about a popular televangelist in America who was incarcerated many years ago. Before his incarceration, many preachers milled around him but when his ordeal started, only his covenant friends remained with him through his trying period*.
Some of those he thought were his ministry friends plotted his fall and took over his ministry. They ruined him for a period but God restored him. It was during that ordeal he discerned who his covenant friends were.
There are friends and there are friends. Some are mere friends while some are covenant friends. This is the time of your life that you must start building covenant relationships. You must become selective in doing this.
Not every one can be my friend, at best you may be a colleague but friendship is a heavy word for me that I must not joke with. Purpose is what determines friendship not emotions.
If you will go far in life, you must nurture covenant relationships. You need to know that you cannot relate with everyone that comes your way because some relationship will drag you back wards.
Friendship must be built along the line of destiny not emotions. Relationships can make or mar. Your association determines your transformation.
Jonathan and David were covenant friends. God used Jonathan in the preservation of David's life when Saul was after his life. Covenant friends preserves, they are not competitors, they stick closer than a brother.
You need to audit your association and relationship. Align yourself with destiny boosters.