There is a playground where all the children play. They all are different, yes, they know but they also know God loves to see them all play. Jesus loves the children of the world. He loves to see them play all day on the swing that flies up so high. On the seesaw and on the monkey bars they play so happily.
Playground by Bell
The playground is so pretty like a rainbow in the sky. The playground is full of color all around. Every color that you know. The children don’t just play but read to their dogs. Jesus loves to see them play and be happy. On the slide and merry-go-round. They play so happily because the children know that God loves all of them
The children love to run around playing happily in the sun all day long on the rainbow playground. They play because they know that God loves them so.
Good Friends are hard to come by. How do you know if you have a good friend? How can you be a good friend? Here is something to help you know and remember what a good friend is and does.
Good Counsel: a good friend always gives good advice.
Offers help: a good friend is there to help you when you need it.
Offers encouragement: a good friend is there to give you encouragement when you need it.
Doesn’t envy: a good friend is happy for you. They don’t envy what you have.
Forgives one another: Everyone has a bad day now and then. Everyone makes mistakes. A friend forgives.
Rejoices with you when something good happens.
Is kind and gentle.
Enjoys peace together.
Never stops loving.
Does good for each other.
Now for some scriptures.
Good Counsel
Proverbs 15:22 ESV
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.
Proverbs 11:14 ESV
Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.
Proverbs 12:15 ESV
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.
Proverbs 24:6 ESV
For by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.
Proverbs 20:18 ESV
Plans are established by counsel; by wise guidance wage war.
Proverbs 13:10 ESV
By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.
Proverbs 19:20 ESV
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future
Proverbs 27:9 ESV
Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.
Offers help
Philippians 2:4 ESV
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Hebrews 13:16 ESV
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
Galatians 6:2 ESV
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Proverbs 19:17 ESV
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
Luke 6:38 ESV
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
Acts 20:35 ESV
In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
James 2:14-17 ESV
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
Offers encouragement
1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
Hebrews 10:25 ESV
Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Hebrews 10:24 ESV
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
Doesn’t envy
Proverbs 14:30 ESV
A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.
1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
James 3:16 ESV
For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.
Galatians 5:19-21 ESV
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 3:3 ESV
For you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?
Galatians 5:26 ESV
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
Forgives
Ephesians 4:32 ESV
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Mark 11:25 ESV
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
1 John 1:9 ESV
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Matthew 6:15 ESV
But if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Colossians 3:13 ESV
Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Rejoices
1 Corinthians 12:26 ESV
If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
Romans 12:15 ESV
Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
Is kind and gentle
Ephesians 4:32 ESV
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Titus 3:2 ESV
To speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.
Ephesians 4:2 ESV
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
Enjoys peace
Romans 12:18 ESV
If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
Psalm 34:14 ESV
Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
Hebrews 12:14 ESV
Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
Matthew 5:9 ESV
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Never stops loving
John 13:34 KJV
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
1 Peter 1:22 ESV
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
John 13:35 ESV
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
1 John 4:7 ESV
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
Does good for each other
Galatians 6:10 ESV
So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.
1 Peter 4:9 ESV
Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.
Luke 6:35 ESV
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
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