What Influence?

So how's the week finding you? I hope it's been great and you're ready for a supercharged time of celebration this Sunday. I know Gene and the team have been getting all revved up and ready to go.

Carlton & I will teach together this weekend; not just tag team, but together. We're looking forward to teaching you how to play one of, if not the most important domino of your life - YOUR INFLUENCE. We're all influencing someone. The only question is, how? This is what God's Word tells us about our influence:

“Let your light shine, so that others will see the good that you do and will praise your Father in heaven.” Matt. 5:16 (CEV)

“You are to influence them; do not let them influence you!” Jer. 15:19 (NLT)

Our problem is not that we don't have anything to use to influence others. Our problem is that many Christ followers have never taken the time to figure out what God has given them and how He wants to use it. And worse still, we're letting the world influence us! God asked this question of Moses:

“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘What is that in your hand?’ ‘A staff,’ he replied. God said, ‘Throw it on the ground.’” Ex. 4:2 (NIV)

That day, something as simple as a staff became the rod of God. The question is not, if you have a life of influence, but will you allow God to have it and make it a special instrument for Him to use to help and free others?

See you at the INFLUENCING PLACE this weekend! And of course, THE QUESTION: Who are you influencing to come with you to TVCC this Sunday? Join us to discover how to use the influence God has placed in "your hand" for His glory.