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4-8-19 Monday

 

Your house is on fire, you are the only one in it… You can only exit with one thing… what do you take? 

 

 

Men’s conference: Love speaks Carl Wesley Anderson (Nikolai)

Pastor Roger Thompson at Berean

Jeff Deyo

 

Guys thanks for stopping by the booth

 

and I am hyped for our TDA conference in October in Chicago!

 

What’s the number one thing in life in order for you to make an impact? Your body! The body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. You want the Holy Spirit to be around for a long time doing Gods work through you? Then take care of the body.

 

 

1 Cor. 6:19, 20

19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

 

How can I best use my body to honor God?

 

The very first thing….  Take care of your body.

 

 

Your body is the venue/ the tool by which you display God. 

You have to understand that you are a man of influence and the longer you are on the earth the longer you can influence people. The healthier you are the better you can influence others.

 

 

Physical exercise and mental exercise is the key to a longer lasting impact and influence on your family, church and world. The Holy Spirit is the power of the influence, but the body and mind are the vehicle. 

 

The beautiful leather glove… you are the glove. You need to stay supple, clean, dry etc…

But the hand in the glove is the Holy Spirit.

 

 

Romans 10:14How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach? 15And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

 

Guess what’s in this verse? Exercise!

Are you too fatigued to influence? 

Are you to fatigued physically? Mentally? Emotionally?

 

 

Influence can be powerful… overwhelming, sometimes immediate

But the greatest influence and the most long lasting influence is subtle… over time, little by little, 

 

I had a conversation a while back with a friend. I was telling him how I have become my father as I have gotten older. I say the same things, I write the same way, I have the same idiosyncrasies (I pray in church and pick up trash, I make notes while praying, I rub my eyes and face when I get tired, I wear black dress socks with gray cut off sweats,  have 5 coffee cups in my car…

My friend very sincerely and with watery eyes said “I wish I had a Dad that influenced me…. 

He had lost his father of a heart attack at a very early age. He was not around to influence.

 

I want to influence the world

My church

my friends

my family

my kids

my grandkids

and hopefully my great grandkids…

But I have to take care of my temple in order to do that.