Mike, thank you for that. God is so good He sent someone who helped me and encouraged me to keep my eyes on Jesus and I was lifted out of the mud and now have a real smile on my face!!

Thanks Olivia

Yes, my friend that showed up is a Christian and he just always put's me in the right frame of mind.

He hasn't been around alot lately since him and his wife had their little baby girl a couple months ago. Now with 2 little ones, Dan is short on time.

But he knows the people at my work, the few who cause troubles, and he just focused me back where I needed to be.

I thank God for bringing such a strong God-centered person into my life who crosses my path at the right moments!

Book of John con't

Joh 17:1 After saying this, Jesus looked up to heaven and said, "Father, the time is here. Give your Son glory so that your Son can give you glory.
Joh 17:2 After all, you've given him authority over all humanity so that he can give eternal life to all those you gave to him.
Joh 17:3 This is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
Joh 17:4 On earth I have given you glory by finishing the work you gave me to do.
Joh 17:5 Now, Father, give me glory in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world existed.
Joh 17:6 "I made your name known to the people you gave me. They are from this world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me. They did what you told them.
Joh 17:7 Now they know that everything you gave me comes from you,
Joh 17:8 because I gave them the message that you gave me. They have accepted this message, and they know for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.
Joh 17:9 "I pray for them. I'm not praying for the world but for those you gave me, because they are yours.
Joh 17:10 Everything I have is yours, and everything you have is mine. I have been given glory by the people you have given me.
Joh 17:11 I won't be in the world much longer, but they are in the world, and I'm coming back to you. Holy Father, keep them safe by the power of your name, the name that you gave me, so that their unity may be like ours.
Joh 17:12 While I was with them, I kept them safe by the power of your name, the name that you gave me. I watched over them, and none of them, except one person, became lost. So Scripture came true.
Joh 17:13 "But now, Father, I'm coming back to you. I say these things while I'm still in the world so that they will have the same joy that I have.
Joh 17:14 I have given them your message. But the world has hated them because they don't belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.
Joh 17:15 I'm not asking you to take them out of the world but to protect them from the evil one.
Joh 17:16 They don't belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.
Joh 17:17 "Use the truth to make them holy. Your words are truth.
Joh 17:18 I have sent them into the world the same way you sent me into the world.
Joh 17:19 I'm dedicating myself to this holy work I'm doing for them so that they, too, will use the truth to be holy.
Joh 17:20 "I'm not praying only for them. I'm also praying for those who will believe in me through their message.
Joh 17:21 I pray that all of these people continue to have unity in the way that you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they may be united with us so that the world will believe that you have sent me.
Joh 17:22 I have given them the glory that you gave me. I did this so that they are united in the same way we are.
Joh 17:23 I am in them, and you are in me. So they are completely united. In this way the world knows that you have sent me and that you have loved them in the same way you have loved me.
Joh 17:24 "Father, I want those you have given to me to be with me, to be where I am. I want them to see my glory, which you gave me because you loved me before the world was made.
Joh 17:25 Righteous Father, the world didn't know you. Yet, I knew you, and these disciples have known that you sent me.
Joh 17:26 I have made your name known to them, and I will make it known so that the love you have for me will be in them and I will be in them."

Very nice Olivia! She has a beautiful voice. Thank you :)

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