[SERMON] Guard Your Circle: How Influence Shapes Your Soul

Drawing from 1 Corinthians 15:33, Pastor Cyle unpacks his life verse to reveal how the people, media, and ideas we surround ourselves with slowly reshape our character from the inside out. Through personal stories from his college years and practical modern applications, he challenges the congregation to examine their influences—from social media accounts to friendships—and make intentional choices to protect their spiritual health and moral integrity.

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Introduction: Life Verse & College Story

Uh, today I wanna share with you, we've been going in the series called Huddle 1 0 1. It's been telling you kind of why we believe, what we believe we've been. Last week we went through our confession of faith, and I know it was very, it was detailed about the seven things that we believe as Christians that really, all Christians have to believe.

And we talked about that. And so this week I wanna share with you something that, that's really meaningful to me. I wanna talk about my life verse. Some of you know it 'cause I mention it all the time. Uh, but my life verse is a verse that, uh, really when I went to college at the University of Michigan.

This really became like a big important thing for me because at that was probably the, where I had to kind of leave home growing up in a Christian Church, be involved in Christian youth group to go out to the world, being just surrounded by people who weren't Christian. And I had to figure out who I was, who I was as a, as a man, who I was in Christ.

And this verse really kind of took hold of me as I walked through watching all of my friends fall away from faith. Everybody came in. Christians within six months weren't Christians anymore except for me. So I went, thought I'd have all these Christian friends that I met when I first got there, and six months later it was just me all by myself.

And it really was a struggle. Try to find community and, and walk through that. And I was able to get plugged into a, a, a Bible study, uh, with, with Christian athletes. And really it was a great thing for me. But this verse means a lot to me. It's one Christi, 

Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:33

first Corinthians 1533. And it's this, do not be deceived.

Remember that you read the yellow part out loud. Bad company ruins, good morals or some translation. Bad company corrupts good character depending on the translation. But bad company ruins good morals, corrupts good character. I love this because it, it really speaks to, I think, all of us, the, your life and the people that you spend it with matters.

Matters a lot more than you know. And it matters so much that it was brought attention to 2000 years ago by Paul in the city of Corinth, which we've talked about Corinth many times. Corinth was like a mega city in the ancient world, had everything much like our modern world does today. And so it's not dissimilar from the culture or the vibe of life today.

And Paul was telling me, people be careful who you surround yourself with because it matters and it will corrupt you. And Paul isn't talking about mean people. People who are gonna be jerks. He's talking about the influence, kind of the slow, quiet kind, that shape reshapes your thinking. The people that are around you influence you, whether you like it or not.

The people that you're with and spend time to, if they're into something, you end up getting into it. Right. You may not. You may not like a certain thing or a certain team until the people you spend time with and all of a sudden, oh, I kind of like that thing, or, I like doing that. And it's because there's this slow influence that comes from the people we surround with ourselves with.

You can surround yourself with good people who raise you up, and you can surround yourself with people who are negative influences, who take you down. This is why our parents used to say, well, if so and so would jump off a bridge, would you? Absolutely. Right. Because the belief is if you spend, Julie would, right?

Yeah. Uh, but like, that's why our parents would say that, because that's the truth. Like the people you spend your time with, you start becoming like them, and then we're worried, well. If, if, if Johnny jumps off the bridge, you're probably gonna jump off the bridge too, because you just wanna be just like Johnny.

And although you may say, no, I wouldn't, the belief as people are seeing are changing slowly 'cause of the influence of that person in your life. And what Paul is doing 2000 years ago, he's actually not quoting the Bible. He's quoting Menander, who is a Greek comic playwright, which fits perfect with Comic Con Hollywood.

Well, that's gone. All right. So Menander, he wrote this thing called the Thias, which was a, was a, a play. And so Paul is actually quoting Menander. We're having a computer problems today, if you haven't noticed yet. Right. And so he is quoting Menander, uh, who's this playwright? He's not quoting scripture. And in Corinth, Menander would've been known because he was a famous Greek.

Kind of playwright. And so they would've seen his play. I've been to Corinth myself. I've seen the two huge theaters that exist right there in the center of the Town Square, where they would've had Menander plays and people would've known the play. They would've known this phrase. And so when he's saying, do not be misled, bad company corrupts good character, good morals, that would've been something that was said in the society of the day.

'cause the Greek moms and the Greek dads would say, well, if Menander jumped off a bridge, would you Right. Uh, and so that's what would've happened. So he's saying this truth is truth. Whether or not it's from God's mouth or whether it's from what I'm sharing with you, it's still truth. Bad company does corrupt good character.

And we know that we live in a corrupted, we live in a broken world. And 

Point 1: Understanding 'Do Not Be Deceived'

so we're gonna break this down. We're gonna actually go back to the Greek and we're gonna break this down because there's a depth to this verse, which maybe you don't know. So we're gonna spend all our time in one verse. Uh, we do that every once in a while.

And we're gonna break it down. So do not be deceived. Is, uh, there's the Greek there for you. Uh, it's me, plen, right? Something like that. And it says what? It, what? You could translate that better. As the English will say, do not be dis deceived. But a better translation of Greek will be stop letting yourselves be led astray.

So it, it's almost saying like, Hey, by the way, you're already being led astray. There's already influence in your life. It's, no, it's, you know, do not be deceived. Just sounds like, well, I can protect myself from being influenced. No, you can't. We're being influenced and in our world, we're being influenced way more than the Corinthians because we have these, right?

We have social media. It's influencing us all day long. TV influencing US music, influencing us school work influence us. That's just the way life works. When you're around people, when you're around things, you are influenced whether you like it or not. And so Paul is saying, stop letting yourselves be led astray.

Stop letting yourselves be influenced by negative things that are not the way you want to go in life, that pull you away from that direction and this deception. It feels reasonable, right? It sounds spiritual and it feels tolerant, loving, and mature. Sometimes we are negatively influenced because we're trying to be loving to somebody or some group of people.

Well, I'll just, I'll just spend time with those people, even though I don't really believe in their lifestyle or, or their belief system or whatever. They're just mean nasty people. It's not gonna affect me. I know who I am. We've all said something like that before, and what Paul is saying. Yeah, it does affect you whether you like it or not because you start becoming more tolerant.

You start becoming more loving towards that thing or that idea ideology, and so he's saying there's a danger about what you invest in, who you invest in, and what you allow to influence you. For us, as parents and grandparents, this is also a danger in what we let our kids be influenced by. This is why on my son's phone, he's, he's, uh, 13.

He has to call, ask me for permission to use certain apps, and I have to put my little, my little code in to let him use apps. And it's because I'm a father who wants to be careful about the influences in my son's life because I care about my son and his mental health. I care about his ideology, I care about his future, and we've gotta take time.

To make sure that the deception in the world is not influencing us in that way. See, if Paul says, don't be deceived. What he's really inferring is that deception's already happening to you and to me. We are all being deceived by things and by people and by influences whether we like or not. You can say, it doesn't bother me.

Here's, here's one. Ready. Here's one. I want you to raise your hand if you said this. I don't, I don't know the lyrics. I just listen to the music. Yeah. Who wants? Yeah. Here we go. Reluctantly. Okay. Here it comes. Right? We've done it right. I've said this right? Oh, I don't know that. I didn't know that word to the song.

Yeah, you did. You just forgot it. But it's hitting you over and over, over again. Those bad words, whether you like it or not. So what we do at our house, we turn the explicit filter on, and then you don't have to hear that junk. And some people say, well, I don't, but swearing doesn't bother me. Right? Right.

Nudity doesn't bother me. Right. I don't see it. Right. You do liar. Right. So like you do, it just is what it is. It's not like you're blind for one second in the movie you're, you see it. That's what what Paul's saying is you have to be careful. Those things are influencing you. Whether you admit to it or not, they are influencing you.

And this verse isn't, AB isn't just about friends, it's about doctrine. What he's saying here is you have to be careful not only about who the people you surround yourself with, the family you spend your time with, but also the doctrine, the ideology, the theology that you associate with. Not all churches are the same.

It's the truth. Not all religions are the same. And so Paul is saying in a world that of where he's in a mega city with every religion of the world, with Greek religion, with Jewish religion, with Christian religion, with all the pagan religions. All in Corinth, he said, you've gotta be careful about who you associate with because it is influencing you and we are following Christ.

And so the theology matters. Paul connects in this false theology with our moral decay. When you start believing the wrong things about God in the world, you start decaying morally, your character starts slipping and, and, and is reshaped. And so he's saying you need to protect yourself from moral decay by knowing who you spend time with.

What you spend time around and what is influencing you in your life because what you also believe about eternity, shapes how you live today. If I truly believe that Jesus Christ is, is the son of God, he lived on this planet. He died, he was buried. He was resurrected from the dead to prove he his God, and he is cied to heaven and is preparing a place for me.

Me, then that must shape how I live my today. And if I actually believe that I shouldn't associate with the things I associate with, I shouldn't be influenced by the influences that affect me. Because if I believe reality, the reality is that heaven is coming for me one day and I'm gonna have a chance. I need to make choices now in my every day, in my every moment.

That sets me up for that future. That's what Paul is telling people. You're influenced by your life and it is gonna affect your eternity. So be careful about the bad company you associate with. 

Point 2: What Is 'Bad Company'?

When we look at bad company in the Greek, we see it. There's a Greek words that mean bad company. Uh, you can see it's Alaya or something like that.

Uh, and it means association conversation or ongoing interaction. It's more than just that bad friend, right? It's more than that. Just that or that that family member that you shouldn't associate with. This is the people that you hang with. The associations is to keep, maybe it's your coworkers, maybe you associate some really bad coworkers.

Maybe it's your classmates. Maybe it's the conversations that you have that are, that are negative, bad company. Maybe it's the words you use, the jokes you make right. Or the jokes you laugh at and allow yourself to hear and participate in. And maybe it's just the ongoing interaction that you have with the world, right?

Illustration: Social Media & Modern Influences

I know when I, when I, I, for whatever reason I get on Twitter, 'cause that's where the news is at. Or X. Uh, but I often feel worse after spending time on there. I'm like, oh, hi. The world is awful, right? I even tell Pat, we'll be laying in the bed like, oh man, the world is so bad. Right? And then it's like, she's like, why are you looking at it?

Well, I'm trying to get the news, but I don't ever leave there. I don't think I've ever left any social media feeling like, oh man, the world's so much greater now. Right? I don't think you felt that way either. Right? Everything's so negative. And someone, uh, I saw a post yesterday from an influencer and she said, uh.

Ever since I stopped posting negative things and uh, my interactions and my social media falling has went down like 500%. 'cause people don't say nice things on internet. That's not what gets your clicks. That's not what gets your views. It's negative stuff. And so our ongoing interactions are often negative.

And so the modern translation a bad company. It's the podcast you binge. It's the accounts that you follow online. It's the voices that you let speak into your life that you trust, and it's the ideas that you entertain repeatedly. That's what Paul is saying is bad company. You just often say, well, I don't have any bad friends, but you got bad podcasts, you got bad shows, you got bad accounts.

You follow, you got bad voices that you, you let pour into you and you've got bad ideas, constantly peppering your brain, and then you wonder why you're struggling, you're frustrated, you're angry, you're anxious. It's because the bad company that we keep, so here's the warning, you don't have to agree with something for it to shape you.

There's a lot of things I don't agree with in life that if I spend too much time around it or seeing it or hearing it, it affects me. It affects me. And so you have to be careful what you do and what you say and what you think and what you expose yourself to it. And you have to do that with your kids and your grandkids.

We have to be careful as we break down this verse further. 

Point 3: How Character 'Ruins' From the Inside

The word ruins, it's the verb. It means corrupt from the inside out. Like spoiled food could be used in Greek to talk about spoiled food, decaying wood or moral rot. That's how that Greek word would be used in ancient text. They, so that ruins, it isn't just, it isn't just like, well, it makes me have bad behavior.

It spoils me from the inside out. It rots me to my core bad co company. Rots me, spoils me, decays my soul. So much more than just, oh, I might say a bad word, or I might have a bad thought. It tears me apart from the inside out. See, this isn't instant destruction. It's slow internal decay over time. If you ever see wood decay, it takes years.

I had cut down a bunch of trees at the camp, or I didn't. Somebody else did. But he said like he cut all the tops off and they just lay on the ground. He said, oh, they'll be gone in like five, five to seven years. They'll decay, or three to five years. They'll just decay slowly, right? They'll be reclaimed.

Some of us have been decaying slowly internally for years, for decades, and we've done it to ourselves and nobody else has done it to us. If we've allowed ourselves to be exposed to the wrong people, the wrong things, the wrong music, the wrong movies, the wrong accounts, the wrong social media, and it's rotting us to the core.

So you can look faithful while your convictions are quietly rotting you from the inside out. We can all do it. We can all dress up for church and look like we're the most faithful people. Oh, I'm faithful. 'cause I braved the snow storm. It's Michigan, like it's, this is a Tuesday, right? Uh, like, but that's the truth.

Some of us, we have been rotting for years, for decades while we've looked the part I play the, the, the Christian part. But inside we're rotting because of our influences, our bad company, and it's ruining us. 

Building Good Moral Habits

See good morals. It's character formed by habit. It's, it's having ethical habits, good moral habits.

It's character that's shaped over time. If you wanna have good morals, good character, according to this verse. It takes time, it takes choices. It takes regular established habits. 

Illustration: 3:30 Prayer Habit

Someone today told me that came in and said, Hey, make sure you, you mention soon that we pray at three 30 every day. And because we have a three 30 vision campaign, everything's three 30.

And we talked about the last, last few weeks I have on my phone, I have alarm that goes off at three 30. I was hanging out with Nick when he was telling me about Hallelujah, uh, right. I was hanging out with him at three 30. His phone goes off. He goes, oh, it's three 30. And so I said, well, you're speaking.

'cause he said it's three 30. So he was speaking, he said, no, you were speaking, which technically I was speaking right before that. And so I end up praying. We prayed at my kitchen table with my son and Nick. We just pray for our church and for the future. Like it's a simple thing. There's no bible verse that says we have to do it.

It's just a good ethical habit. Right. What are we doing? We're praying together for our church. I was visiting Rob Freeman who was up here with the guy's discipleship and we were at his place of business with another guy that works there and three 30 alarm went off and we're having a conversation. The three of us, the other guy was talking.

His name's Nathan. And so Rob looks at me and goes, Hey, we, this is our alarms. Three 30. I know it's kinda weird, but we pray. Pray for a church, pray for the church, and Nathan's a Christian Guy, Rob goes. You wanna pray? And he is like, ah, okay. So we pray. And he is a great Christian Guy. He is actually a church of his own, but we prayed there standing in his business in Jackson.

We prayed together at three 30 for the collective church because Nathan's church and our church, we're all gonna go to heaven together. We're gonna spend attorney together and so we can pray for the church. That's an ethical habit. What ethical habits do you have? What moral habits? Do you read your Bible every day?

Do you pray to God? Right? Do you hug your kids every day? Do you tell your wife or your spouse you love them? Do you, do you go to Bible study? Are you in a life group? Are you doing the things you need to be doing? Or are you just doing the things the world's doing and just calling yourself a Christian?

Like we need to have good morals, good habits that are established because character isn't lost in one moment. It's trained away. It's trained away by the world. The world wants to pull you away from Christ. It wants to ruin your good morals. That's the result of a broken, sinful world. The fall of Adam and Eve leads us into a world of bad company and bad character that's wants to ruin you and spoil you.

And Christ wants to pull you away from that into something better. And so character isn't lost in one moment. It's trained away by the world, and you drift into compromise long before you fall into sin. Yeah, sin often comes after weeks, months, years of allowing yourself to morally rot and decay and to the point of, but you just don't know who you are anymore.

You don't, you, you, you know who you used to be. You know how excited you used to be, but, well, you know, I just don't know anymore. But now I'm pulled into this thing and that's when the compromise happens and a lot of us are on the journey to compromise and we don't even know it. Right. What's the road to hell is paved with bad intentions, right.

The road to Hell is paved with a lot of negative influences that are slowly, morally decaying us Until we compromise, we compromise. See, spiritual maturity doesn't make you immune to influence. It makes you aware of it. That's spiritual maturity. You want to grow in Christ. You don't have to know everything.

These guys up here doing discipleship, they don't know the depths of every scripture in the Bible. They're just excited to learn more about God. That's all it takes, right? Just going on a journey to allow yourself to know more about God, so you're open to his influence in your life and the influence of people who love Jesus and put him first instead of the influence of the world.

And when you do, you can hear their stories. It changes them. That changes you. That's spiritual maturity, just growing deeper in your understanding of who God is. But we're never immune to the influences of the world. We just have to protect ourselves and recognize when we're falling short and choose Jesus in those moments.

Who you walk with reveals more about what you believe about tomorrow. If you truly believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God and he's preparing a place for you, then one day he will come again and he will reestablish his world and he write all things and eradicate sin. Then that that'll change your tomorrow.

It should change your tomorrow. It should change your today the way you live. And I think a better translation of this verse, um. You know, do not be misled. Bad company corrupts good morals or good character should be this. Don't be fooled, evil influencers are quietly rotting. Good character. Maybe that's the way you should remember it and think, am I being rotted by this I or that, or is the music I listen to, the shows I watch, the podcast I listen to the people I associate with, is it rotting me?

So what does this mean for you? Ongoing exposure to corrupt, corrupt ideas doesn't just change what you think. It slowly reshapes who you become. I think that's something to remember. Ongoing exposure to corrupt ideas doesn't just change what you think. It slowly reshapes who you become. Do you have ongoing exposure in your life to something or someone that you know?

I probably should change that because I never really realized how much it's reshaping me. You wanna know, ask somebody that really loves you. Say, Hey, mate. Is there any influences in my life you think I should give up? Is there music? I listen to shows. I watch podcasts. I listen to social media accounts that I follow, right, that are reshaping me and should I stop?

The answer's probably gonna be yes. And that's gonna be hard because we all do it. There's times that I do it. There's times that I'm like, I shouldn't follow that count. I don't even why I'm following that count. Click. Right. Or shows. People will tell me all the time, what about this show? Are you watching something?

I'm not watching that show because I made a conscious decision. I don't need that kind of garbage in my life. You just have to be careful. What, what infects you in different ways and what should you be affected by? 

Application: Three Honest Questions

So here's three honest questions for you, keeping in with our three 30. Uh, who has the loudest voice in my life right now?

Woo. Think about that. Julie. Julie. That's Rob's wife. So it's Julie for Rob. So right. Yeah. Yeah. Who has the loudest voice in my life right now? You need to answer that. Who speaks the most? Who do you listen to? Who has the most influence on you? There's somebody, if you say there's nobody, you're lying to yourself.

Somebody, or something has the loudest voice in your life right now. Gotta answer that question. Is that a positive thing or is that a negative influence? What beliefs am I tolerating that scripture doesn't? That's a hard one. What, where have you like stepped so close to the line of against God that you're just not over it, but you're really, really close and you're allowing to tolerate it because, well, a lot of other Christians do.

It's not that bad. But what beliefs are you tolerating that, you know, scripture doesn't approve of? Doesn't allow, but yet, ah, I just, I think it's okay. This is our modern world. So many churches have compromised faith to try to win people in seats. We don't care. We we know we Han's, not for everybody. I'm sorry if it's not for you.

I hope it is for you. But we don't compromise here. We really stand on God's word. We do. We know who we are. We know who we're not. We're not for everybody. We believe that scripture matters and it reshapes your life and your heart and God's community reshapes your life and heart community. And so what are you tolerating that scripture?

Does it start making changes? Start getting around people and things right that shape you in the right direction. And where am I slowly drifting instead of intentionally walking? Where are you? Drifting away. If you've ever been in a boat, in a boat that drifts, you can drift a long way in a short amount of time and you don't even know it.

I spent a week doing missions on, on in the ocean and we're in middle of the Caribbean. You can't see land, you can't see anything, and here's what happens. You just feel like you're going nowhere and next thing you know, you, you find out you've drifted miles and miles and miles 'cause that current under you that you can't see.

It's just moving you right along. Some of you, there's a current. All right. There's, there's a, a current in your life that's pulling you in a direction, and you don't even realize it until it's too late. And then you're lost. You're lost. You see, you don't rise above your influences. You reflect them. A lot of say, well, I know that influence, I, I can rise above that influence.

No, you're not. You're gonna reflect it eventually, and it's gonna reflect in you, and people will see it in you. 

Application: How to Change & Guard Your Circle

So how are you gonna change? Here's what I think. You gotta guard your circle because your circle is shaping your soul. The people you're around, the things that you're around, it will shape you whether you like it or not.

And if you don't guard it, it's gonna shape you in a way that you don't intend or want, and it's gonna ruin you from the inside out. You're gonna rot. And as a church, we like to laugh a lot, but we also like to be true about God's word. This, you know, I do counseling pretty much every day at some point, many days, all day long, on the phone, in person.

And I'll tell you, I continue to come back to this verse time and time and time again with children, with teenagers, and with adults. The people you're around matter. The things you're around matter. And if you don't guard your circle, next thing you know you're gonna be struggling through life, struggling through your marriage, struggling through your relationship with the family and friends.

And because you're letting the wrong influences reshape you. And so if you know that's you this morning, if you're like, ah, Kyle, I, I need to bear with my circle. I haven't guarded it. I got the wrong influences. Whether you're a teenager, whether you're an adult, whether you're a child, simple thing you can do, make a decision to cut out some influences.

Personal Testimony: Cutting Out Negative Influences

My freshman year of college, why this verse became so important. There were people that I was spending time with that I, that were pulling me away from my faith. I never left my faith. But I, at the end of the year, I just didn't like my attitude. I didn't like my behavior and I didn't like the guy I was becoming.

And so I went cold Turkey on 'em all to the point of I see 'em on Facebook now. I was like, man, I used to spend a lot of time with that person. I really liked the person, but I didn't like the person. I was becoming around that person. So I just like ended all the relationships and said, I don't wanna be that person anymore.

So I got rid of those friends. They're still associates today. People that me, I knew through football and other things, but I got the influences out of my life. And when I got the influences outta life, I got me back. And for some of you, you need to get some influences on your life. The P, the people that you go out with, hang out with where you shouldn't be.

Like we would call you to say, let's go to the bar. Cut 'em outta your life. Because real friends, they support you where you want to go, not take you where they want to go. That's the truth. Real friends care about you and building you up and pushing you in the direction that you want to go, not pull you in the direction they want to go.

That's selfishness. And friends aren't selfish friends should be unselfish for each other. So guard your circle because your C circles, if you're shaping yourself, if you know you got a problem with influence your life, you got the wrong influences. Whether it's social media, whether it's movies, whatever, whether it's people, here's how we can help you.

Invitation: Prayer Support for Influence Struggles

We can pray for you's. Church on the back of your card, just write the word influence. Make sure you put your name on the connection card in the front. And this week, Warren's staff meeting, we'll go through that list and we'll just pray that God allows you to make the hard decisions in your life to cut those negative influences out.

And then we'll pray that you don't get sucked back in and we'll just pray for you all week long that you don't get sucked into those influences that you can make it. And some of you need to go cold Turkey outta some influences in your life and now some relationships in your life. Uh, this is not me saying divorce your spouse, okay?

That's not what I'm saying. That's not saying like, kick your kid out, right? Um. But you need to really change the association, the people that you spend your time with, and if those are friends, those are family, those are people at work. You need to really start changing those things. And if you need help, we're here for your church.

I'm willing to talk to you. My number's always in the bulletin. Pastor Matt's in the bulletin. Cody's in the bulletin. You can text us and say, Hey, I just need someone to talk to. Can I talk to you about this? And we'd love to help you process how to get those influences out so that you get the influence of Christ in your heart and in your life.

And so if we can, I'd like to pray for all of us and pray together that we all, myself included, maintain the right influences for Jesus Christ in our life, and we rid ourselves the negative influences that ruin us from inside out. 

Closing Prayer

Let's pray. Heavenly Father, Lord, we just thank you. We thank you for your word.

We thank you for your son, Lord. I personally thank you for this verse. This verse has been transformative in my life. But I pray that for somebody here or many someones today, that this verse can transform their life. That the truth of your word, that the truth of of truth can be made known that the people we're around the things that we associate with Lord, it shapes us.

We want to be a church and individuals who shape ourself with Jesus Christ, your love with your faith. With your good news and with the people who support that and help us sustain that. But we pray for anyone here who knows they got some negative influences. They gotta get rid of that. They make the hard decision to cut some things out, to start guarding their circle more so they can be more like Christ and be, have, have joy, have peace, have love.

It can exhibit the fruits of the spirit because Lord, you're shaping us. You are shaping us from the inside for your good and not, we're not seeing ourselves pulled away by the bad Lord. We just thank you. Uh, we know in advance to you, you allow us, Lord to have your Holy Spirit embolden us and encourage us and comfort as we go through life making some tough decisions and living for you.

And we just pray this in Jesus name. Amen. 

Amen.