3 top influencers in life

10-9–19 Wednesday

 

 

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Influence!

There is a lot out there on influence, but if you read between the lines its really just fancy talk for manipulation.

 

Godly Influence has no manipulation in it at all. 

 

As high schoolers growing up we did this stupid game where we would be in an environment and such as a camp and we would see if we could get the camp to pick up on a certain word. So one year my friends and I on the bus to camp decided that this week we wanted everyone to start saying “Triple Z to the Max”. It really meant nothing to us, but we knew we could make it sound really cool. So as soon as we hit the ground everyone in our circle of influence would comment positively with the standard “Triple Z to the max”. It didn’t take more than 3 days and everyone in the camp started saying it…

Influence.

 

We all like the power of telling people what to do… but they don’t always take it well. However we can tell them what to do through influence.

We can have a huge impact on people simply by choosing to influence them subtly rather than with an in your face attitude.

 

Think about the people who have had the biggest impact on your life… was it something they said? Probably not… it was probably just simply their influence on you over time. 

 

How do you influence those around you for the good?

 

Here are my top 3

1. Have rock solid spiritual virtues in which you live by. If you are always changing your values by which you live by people will disregard your influence. Flaky people do not influence.

*I would bet you have at times thought to yourself “what would so and so do in this situation?”. That so and so was most likely a person of solid spiritual virtues. For you to ask that question they must have earned the right in your life to be an influence. They earned it by living a life of character and integrity. 

 

2. Take time to get to know people. Find out peoples stories and share with them yours. You very rarely get a chance to influence someone you do not know. The more you know someone the more you may influence them. But here is the best part of this… the more you get to know someone the more you begin to really care and love them. That is when you have your greatest influence on them. 

Its cliche but “people don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care”. 

 

My secret weapon for influencing people… is simply caring for them. 

 

3. Seek to influence the least of these.

in Psalm 72

Solomon asks God for everything… money, fame, fortune, wisdom, influence… 

But why? so that he can serve the widow and orphan. 

Sure we want to influence the powerful, the popular and the political… but when you want to influence the least of these… now you have got Gods attention.

 

I was filling up my car one night late and walked into the gas station and the young girl at the cash register seemed down. And all of a sudden God gave me a word for her. I told her she was mad at her Dad, she blamed him for her problems and in fact she needed to repent and give her heart back to God. Then God told me her Dad was a pastor in our city and that still loved her and wanted to have a relationship with her.

That same girl came up to me about a year later at a Christian concert… I would not have remembered her other then she reminded me of that night. She said “God used that to turn her around and come back to God”. She hugged me and then disappeared back into the crowd. I think many times we don’t realize how many people we do and how many people we can influence simply by asking God to use us in the least of these.