Influence and Training

Dear Lord please be with us this day and please may Your Holy Spirit be guiding and protecting us in every thing that we say and do. Thank You for all of the great gifts and blessings and protection that You give us and please forgive our sins the same as we forgive the mistakes of others.
Dear Lord please lead us into paths of realizing how different our lives could have turned out if not for the influence of our childhood training and Your Presence in our hearts and minds as we made our way down the paths that were ours to travel through the temptations of this world where hate and greed so often rule.
Dear Lord please lead us into opportunities to influence others and help them find Your Guidance around the temptations that abound still on the paths that we tread, in Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen.

Quotation:*
A candle is a small thing.  But one candle can light another.  And as it gives its flames to the other, see how its own light increases!  Light is the power to dispel darkness.  You have this power to move back the darkness in yourself and in others with the birth of light created when one mind illuminates another, when one heart kindles another, when one man strengthens another.  And its flame also enlarges within you as you pass it on. -The Eternal Light

KJV*
Pr 22:24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Pr 22:25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

Php 2:14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
Php 2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Php 2:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.