Everything matters...a stone can make a deep impression in the sand, but the pebble will still make a ripple in the water...everything matters.
"Even now," declares the LORD,"return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning." Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity." Joel 2:12-13
To realize
The value of ten years:
Ask a newly
Divorced couple.
To realize
The value of four years:
Ask a graduate.
To realize
The value of one year:
Ask a student who
Has failed a final exam.
To realize
The value of nine months:
Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
To realize
The value of one month:
Ask a mother
who has given birth to
A premature baby.
To realize
The value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize
The value of one minute:
Ask a person
Who has missed the train, bus or plane.
To realize
The value of one-second:
Ask a person
Who has survived an accident.
Time waits for no one.
Treasure every moment you have.
You will treasure it even more when
you can share it with someone special.
To realize the value of a friend or family member :
LOSE ONE.
*Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me." Matthew 16:24 NLT
*I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd sacrifices his life for the sheep. John 10:11 NLT
*love all who love me. Those who search for me will surely find me. Proverbs 8:17 NLT
*If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, what will he do? Won't he leave the ninety-nine others on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost? Matthew 18:12 NLT
*He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will carry the lambs in his arms, holding them close to his heart,... Isaiah 40:11a NLT
*He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. Isaiah 40:29 NLT
*God doesn't promise to protect us from problems on this earth. Instead he promises to give us the courage to face our problems with his strength. John 16:33 NLT
*You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, whose thoughts are fixed on you! Isaiah 26:3 NLT
*How wonderful it is, how pleasant, when brothers live together in harmony! Psalm 133:1 NLT
*But blessed are those who trust in the LORD and have made the LORD their hope and confidence. They are like trees planted along a riverbank,... Jeremiah 17:7-8 NLT
*Is there any encouragement from belonging to Christ?...Then make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, loving one another, and working together with one mind and purpose. Philippians 2:1a-2 NLT
*God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. 2 Corinthians 1:3b NLT
*If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble. Ecclesiastes 4:10 NLT
*Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. Ephesians 1:4 NLT
*We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. Romans 5:3 NLT
*****i am strong when i am weak*****