Listening to God

You know how sometimes your praying, and God brings something totally irrelevant to what you're actually praying about. Yah I know cause he was bringing up the same thing over and over again. I had a little bit of a listening problem though. My mind didn't want to listen to what he was saying, it wanted something different. The bible says that I should surround myself with Godly people, those who will help my faith grow. I knew I hung out with some ungodly people. But they were good friends, I still loved them. But at the same time I knew they were dragging me down because I the end of every night with them. I felt disgusting. I understand very clear that I can not force a change on people, I can only pray, pray, pray. I asked God what he wanted me do. "Love them like you have, but hanging out with them like you do, no matter what they say is NOT good for your faith." and for some reason those words that he spoke gave my heart rest thinking about it. So i talked to them about this what God had spoken to me. These are the types of things they said....

"You're not being a very religious, what you're saying is judgmental."

"The bible says you're supposed to love everyone."

"God didn't say that, and you don't want that."

1. I'm not religious, I have a relationship with Jesus Christ.

2. Never said I didn't love them, in fact I said I still loved them.

3.How do they know what God said to me?

I'm sure glad my pastor pointed out the way the Devil works, cause this stuff had him all over it. This is one of the hardest things I've done in my life, but I know even though it hurts now that God is getting it out of the way right now to deal with later and more difficult pain it could have caused if I didn't listen to him. My point is God might ask you to do some hard things in life, and my advice to you is to listen. Cause even though I'm a little heartbroken now, I know i won't be forever. God first. Listen Up.