When you’re down and troubled
And you need some loving care
and nothing, nothing is going right
Close your eyes and think of me
And soon I will be there
To brighten up even your darkest night
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 New International Version (NIV)
Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their labor:
If either of them falls down, one can help the other up.
But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.
Proverbs 17:17 (The Message)
Friends love through all kinds of weather,
and families stick together in all kinds of trouble.
You just call out my name
And you know wherever I am
I’ll come running to see you again
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you have to do is call
And I’ll be there
You’ve got a friend
RUTH AND NAOMI
Ruth 1:16-17 (NIV)
But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you.
Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay.
Your people will be my people and your God my God.
Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.”
If the sky above you
Grows dark and full of clouds
And that old north wind begins to blow
Keep your head together
And call my name out loud
Soon you’ll hear me knocking at your door
Philippians 2: 5-11 (NIV)
In your relationships with one another,
have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature a God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage:
rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature
of a servant, being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death
— even death on a cross!
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Keep your head together,
and call my name out loud,
and soon you’ll hear me knocking at your door.
Philippians 2: 5-11 (NIV)
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,
I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.
Ain’t it good to know that you’ve got a friend
When people can be so cold
They’ll hurt you, and desert you
And take your soul if you let them
Oh, but don’t you let them
John 15:12-13 (NIV)
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this:
to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
When you’re down and troubled and you need some loving care
And nothing, nothing is going right
Close your eyes and think of me and soon I will be there
To brighten up even your darkest night
You just call our my name and you know wherever I am
I’ll come running to see you again
Winter, spring, summer or fall all you have to do is call
And I’ll be there … you’ve got a friend.
I’ve got a friend.
We’ve got a friend.
And His name is above all names.
His name is Jesus.
You’ve got a friend.
His name is Jesus.
The name above all names.