Go Create Waves

Happy Friday, Friends!

I hope and trust this post finds you all having a great day as a beautiful new day begins to dawn in my Sweet Home Alabama! 😊

This morning we are going to go back to the foundation…What will your influence be?

The first thing I want to do is respectfully ask you to listen to a message at some point over the weekend. It was a sermon preached by Pastor Craig Groeschel on November 1, 2020, and it is titled, “Under the Influence: In God We Trust Part 2.” You can watch it here: https://www.life.church/media/in-god-we-trust/under-the-influence/

To give you an idea of what I am asking you to listen to, here is an excerpt from the description from the Episode Notes on the Podcast App.

“Are you under the influence of God or culture? When we lower our guard, it’s hard to know what’s influencing us – but whatever we allow to influence us, changes us.”

Why did I start here? Because, as Pastor Ken Whitten succinctly stated, “What’s in the well always comes up in the bucket.” Whatever we have poured into ourselves, or allowed to be poured into us, is what will come out of us. What influences us influences what our influence will be in the life of others.

Earlier this week I came across something from Proactive Coaching that I just had to share with you all.

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“When you create a difference in someone’s life, you not only impact their life, you impact everyone influenced by them throughout their entire lifetime.

Go create waves.”

Do you still think the things you say and do don’t matter?

Research has shown that the most introverted person will influence 10,000 people in their lifetime and that the average person will influence 80,000 people in theirs. So, if we are all average and we influence 80,000 and the 80,000 that we influence are also average, you have now played a role in influencing the lives of 6,400,000,000 precious souls. And if you feel I am being a little dramatic this morning I am more than happy to point out that if we are all complete introverts, you are playing a role in influencing the lives of 100,000,000 people. Yes, you matter…incomprehensibly so!!!

And so here we are; what will your influence? Somewhere between 100,000,000 and 6,400,000,000 people are going to be influenced by the things you and I say and do! (Gulp!) That will wake you up in a hurry, won’t it?

Every day is new – full of hope, opportunity, and promise! We can make it anything we want, regardless of our situations or circumstances. We can choose to walk out our faith or we can choose to walk out our fears. We can choose to be positive and encouraging or we can choose to be negative and discouraging. We can choose to build up or we can choose to tear down. It all begins with what is poured in and it will end with people in a time and place we will never see. Let’s choose wisely and intentionally Friends! Let’s go create waves!!!

Please don’t hesitate to contact me at any time if there is ever anything I can do for you or your family. I will always help you any way I can. You can reach me at kevin@whatwillyourinfluencebe.com.

Have a great day, a wonderful weekend, please cherish your precious family, and please stay well! 😊

Kev