For March 5th:
“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. …You are my friend if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you…Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. This is my command: Love each other.”

John 15:12;14-17

“What a Friend We Have in Jesus”

What a friend we have in Jesus,

All our sins and griefs to bear!

What a privilege to carry

Everything to God in prayer!

O what peace we often forfeit,

O what needless pain wee bear,

All because we do not carry

Everything to God in Prayer!

Are we weak and heavy-laden,

Cumbered with a load to care?

Precious Savior, still our refuge,

Take it to the Lord in prayer.

Do thy friends despise, forsake thee?

Take it to the Lord in prayer;

In His arms He’ll take and shield thee,

Thou wilt find a solace there.

The Cokesbury Worship Hymnal, 1938

I am grateful to have Jesus as my friend.

Shelley Irwin

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