Feb.14.07: Light for the Day - "My True Valentine"  (Viet)  (<<)  (>>)

-- Romans 8:38-39
38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, 
   neither angels nor demons, neither the present 
   nor the future, nor any powers,
39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, 
   will be able to separate us from the Love of God that is in 
   Christ Jesus our Lord.

-- Matthew 22:36-40
36 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
37 Jesus replied: 
   " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart 
      and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ (Deut. 6:5)
38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
39 And the second is like it: 
   ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ (Levi. 19:18)
40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two
   commandments."




Jesus is my true Valentine
His heart was pierced for me
I cannot tell why He Loved me so well
But He proved it on Calvary.

God's Love wasn't put in your heart to stay;
Love isn't Love until you give it away.

Anyone can hate, but it costs to Love.



"What kind of love is this" 

God left His throne came to His footstool
God become man to die that I might live 
What kind of love is this 
Jesus Christ, God in the flesh 
I want to know this God
For God so love the Me... He came to 
reconcile me to Himself.
What kind of love is this
God become man 

-- Dee

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Love - is not a power that you can measure.
Love - cannot be buried, like hidden treasure.
Love - is not the past, it does not die.
Love - is not the future, wished for in a sigh.
Love - is now, just a Prayer away.
Love - is the power of God, to get you through each day.

-- Janice Hingley



-- 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, 13

Love is patient,
Love is kind.
It does not envy, 
It does not boast, 
It is not proud. 
It is not rude, 
It is not self-seeking, 
It is not easily angered, 
It keeps no record of wrongs. 

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 
It always protects, 
always trusts, 
always hopes, 
always perseveres. 

Love never fails

And now these three remain: 
Faith, Hope and Love. 
But the greatest of these is LOVE.



"Blanket Our Loved One in Prayer!"

Blanket our loved ones in prayer!
Cover them with care and concern;
Lift them with love to the Father Above;
With faith let our hearts for them yearn...

Blanket our loved ones in prayer!
Tuck them in with faith each day;
Leave them with God, believing
He loves and will show them The Way...

Blanket our loved ones in prayer!
Each moment, each hour of each day
Intercede and cover in loving prayer;
Someday we will reap what we pray...

Blanket everything that we do
With each deed and each motive so true;
For as we blanket with care
Our loved ones in prayer,
Our Heavenly Father will blanket us, too!

-- Sharon A. Maxwell



Familiar acts are beautiful through love. -- Percy Bysshe Shelle



"The Power of Love"

Someone cares and always will, 
The world forgets but God loves you still, 
You cannot go beyond His Love
No matter what you're guilty of --
For God forgives until the end, 
He is your faithful, loyal friend, 
There is no shelter any place 
That can escape His watchful eye, 
For on the earth and in the sky
HE'S EVER PRESENT and ALWAYS THERE 
To take you in His tender care 
And bind the wounds and mend the breaks
When all the world around forsakes . . . 
SOMEONE CARES and LOVES YOU STILL 
And GOD is THE SOMEONE who always will. 

-- Helen Steiner Rice 



"My original Valentine"

Roses and candy
Rubies and pearls
All of the diamonds
In all of the world
Could never compare
To that glorious time
When I looked in Your eyes
And said "Will you be Mine?"

You smiled and said "Yes!
I'm so glad that you asked!"
Your arms wrapped around me
And I felt whole at last
In the warmth of Your presence
The love of my life.

My original Valentine
Jesus Christ.

-- Unknown



"JESUS"

Hold on to the love of Jesus.
For His strength and love is real.
He captures our hearts,
And within our spirits the blessed
Savior heals.

Hold on to the love of Jesus.
For within Him comes divine peace,
For within the presence of the Lord,
Great suffering does cease.

-- Shirley Beck



"My Favorite Valentine" 

Once I had a Valentine
that I loved so,
It said, "I love you
and want you to know...
Mine is a love
that this world can't define,
I'd never leave you
if you would be mine."

Now I have a Valentine
that I love more,
God said, "I love you,
you're worth dying for...
Mine is a love
that the world can't define,
I'll never leave you...
now that you're Mine."

-- Connie



"Come Lord Jesus This Valentine's Day"

Come Lord Jesus on this Valentine's
Day and be our cherished Guest.
Show us, teach us how to receive
all of Your eternal love and rest.

We ask You to come Jesus, and be
our Most Holy One this special day.
We praise You Lord Jesus for in You
we eventually do find our way.

If You had not of loved us first we
would have no future or salvation.
Come Lord Jesus let Your love flow
into our lives all across this nation.

Let no one forget what Valentine's Day
is all about we pray and ask you Lord.
Send Your Spirit and captivate us as
we wait for the day of faith's reward.

Come Lord Jesus on this love filled day
and we will humbly be your loving host.
We want You, we praise You, we need
You and it is You we love the most!!

-- George Edward Noe



The secret of being Loved is being Lovely;
and the secret of being Lovely is being unselfish.



"A Little Christian Love"

Sometimes, just a smile
With a little Christian Love, you see
Tells, someone in trouble
You can have God's Love and Peace, like me,

Just a little Christian Love 
Flowing on out from you 
Tells someone who's hurting
I really do care, I do,

And when, one is broken hearted
And life, seems to have gotten them troubled so
They need, some encouragement and some Love
So they, can get back up and go,

A smile, a hug, a helping hand
Can just be, what they need
So long as it's wrapped, in God's Love
A rewarding, Christian deed,

So don't keep it, to yourself
This Love of Jesus, inside of you
Let it flow out, like a river
Helping and Encouraging, others too.

-- Richard Dottery



-- John 3:16-17
16 For God so loved the world that He gave 
   His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him 
   should not perish but have everlasting life.
17 For God did not send His Son into the world to 
   condemn the world, but that the world through Him 
   might be saved.

-- 1 John 4:7-14
7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is 
   from God; everyone who loves is born of God 
   and knows God.
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, 
   for God is love.

9 God’s love was revealed among us in this way: 
   God sent His only Son into the world so that 
   we might live through Him.
10 In this is love, not that we loved God but that 
   He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice 
   for our sins.

11 Beloved, since God loved us so much, 
   we also ought to love one another.
12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, 
   God lives in us, and His love is perfected in us.
13 By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, 
   because He has given us of His Spirit.
14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father 
   has sent His Son as the Savior of the world.



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-- Song of Song 8:5-7
Under the apple tree I woke you,
In the place where you were born.
Close your heart to every love but mine;
Hold no one in your arms but me.
Love is as powerful as death;
Passion is as strong as death itself.
It bursts into flame 
And burns like a raging fire.
Water cannot put it out;
No flood can drown it.
But if any tried to buy love with their wealth,
contempt is all they would get.



"Loving You"

My heart is full of love, it's true.
And I wish to share with you 
My joy of this and sheer delight, 
For I love you with all my might. 

Whenever my thoughts are only on you, 
Things soft and warm come into view, 
And beautiful hearts flow all around, 
Filled with a joyous, glorious sound. 

The song of Love is everywhere, 
Filling our hearts, floating on air. 
Joyously the Angels sing, 
For Love of God is everything. 

And that's my Love for you, my dear, 
Love conquers all, even fear, 
And so I say to you today, 
I hope you Love me too, I pray.

-- Unknown



"SONG OF LOVE"

Two hearts united
Growing within each other
Emitting understanding and warmth
Love is pure and precious
Eternal and everlasting

Two souls embracing each other
with tenderness and hope
Sharing and giving
Living and loving
Throughout all Eternity. 

-- Nina D.T.



A man falls in love through his eyes, 
a woman through her ears.
-- Woodrow Wyatt

Whoso loves
Believes the impossible.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Love is too young to know what conscience is.
-- William Shakespeare


The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Amelia Barr

Strengthen me with raisins, 
refresh me with apples, 
for I am faint with love.
-- Song of Solomon 2:5

When first we met we did not guess
That Love would prove so hard a master.
-- Robert Bridges

All the little emptiness of love!
-- Rupert Brooke

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, 
a tender look which becomes a habit.
-- Peter Ustinov

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." 
Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
-- Erich Fromm

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson

True love is like ghosts, 
which everyone talks about but few have seen.
-- François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

I shall always be a priest of love.
-- D. H. Lawrence

Let those love now who never loved before,
Let those that always loved now love the more.
-- Parnell

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
And men below, and saints above;
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
-- Scott

Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.
-- Beecher

We love in another's soul
whatever of ourselves
we can deposit in it;
the greater the deposit,
the greater the love.
-- Irving Layton

Love does not consist in gazing at each other 
but in looking together in the same direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry




To have happiness with a man, 
     she needs to understand him deeply, more than love him.
To have happiness with a woman, 
     he needs to love her deeply, more than understand her.



Real Love never has to say you are sorry.


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