{"id":265969,"date":"2016-10-26T04:40:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T04:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webfocuskenya.com\/jnnn\/november-14th-20th-2011-to-be-professional-who-influences-other-for-the-gospel-needs-you-need-to-choose-who-influences-you-2\/"},"modified":"2016-10-26T04:40:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T04:40:17","slug":"november-14th-20th-2011-to-be-professional-who-influences-other-for-the-gospel-needs-you-need-to-choose-who-influences-you-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webfocuskenya.com\/jnnn\/november-14th-20th-2011-to-be-professional-who-influences-other-for-the-gospel-needs-you-need-to-choose-who-influences-you-2\/","title":{"rendered":"November 14th -20th 2011, To be professional who influences other for the gospel needs you need to choose who influences you"},"content":{"rendered":"

J. N. N. Ng\u2019ang\u2019a \u2013 Meditations for Nov 14-20th , 2011 \u2026\u2026.to be professional who influences other for the gospel needs\u00a0 you need to <\/strong>Choose who influences you<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Day 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Psalms 51<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

3<\/sup> For I know my transgressions,\u00a0
and my sin is always before me.\u00a0
4<\/sup> Against you, you only, have I sinned\u00a0
and done what is evil in your sight;\u00a0
so you are right in your verdict\u00a0
and justified when you judge<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Learn to be transparent\u00a0 even when you fail<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I used to work\u00a0 away from Nairobi but still in Kenya , and in the church I was attending then, we had a pastor who discovered that\u00a0 lack of transparency can cost your influence as a leader .<\/p>\n

One of our youths just about to get wedded, was seen one evening entering his house with the girlfriend ,and people doubted if the girlfriend ever left his house\u00a0 that night. The pastor called the boy and told him :\u2019 if you don\u2019t walk right, note that\u00a0 this church stands for holiness, and there is no way we are going to back you in your wedding plans . This was\u00a0 actually a\u00a0 threat.<\/p>\n

The youth decided to to respond by doing a research on the pastor. .The boy considered his findings long and hard and\u00a0 decided to confront the pastor. The pastor used to talk lovingly about his wife, how they grew up, how they became friends and courted in holiness, and how they married. It seems the boy had gone\u00a0 to the pastor\u2019s home village to find out how true this was. He told the pastor, \u2018I now know how you got mama. Do you want to throw me out of the church or do you want to go on with my wedding? The choice is yours. Stop my wedding and I will tell the whole congregation how you, yourself got married.\u2019 The wedding went on normally. The boy had blackmailed the poor pastor<\/p>\n

What the pastor needed to have done is to actually stand before people and confess that ,\u2019the reason I tell young people\u00a0 to walk in holiness before and after marriage is because I know the suffering\u00a0 I went through by not being holy in my youth. I did not walk holy, but thank God, he is a God of mercy, he has forgiven me.\u2019 You know that would have helped him. That\u2019s the\u00a0 scriptural way. Admit your sin and that sin will never hold you at ransom again. There is none\u00a0 of us who doesn\u2019t fail. But you are not a good example if you do not walk transparently. In other words if you fail, admit you failed. You will show them the suffering sin put you through and plead with them to avoid the path\u00a0 you took. And you will still be a positive influence on people.<\/p>\n

This will be true of any other leader in any profession. Being transparent will give you greater influence than trying to cover up .if you cover up when colleagues and subordinates finally discover the truth, you will lose influence permanently for they will no longer trust you.<\/p>\n

Thus to influence others, you not only need to let God and not others define you , be sure of who you are, do not seek sympathy from people you are leading, but\u00a0 finally also seek\u00a0 your help from God whom you should have\u00a0 as your security.<\/p>\n

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Day 2<\/p>\n

James 4:\u00a04<\/sup> You adulterous people,[a<\/a>]<\/sup> don\u2019t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Choose who influences you<\/strong><\/p>\n

To be a man of influence therefore you need to\u00a0choose who influences you<\/strong>. Although God influences you, I have also said that you have to do \u2018pilot study\u2019 on your vision and talk to people. You only counter check your opinion of the future with people you trust. You need to choose carefully who you trust like this.Do you know, your friends, the company you keep, tells us who you really are. Why? You cannot choose your mother, so if your mother is a \u201cchang\u2019aa\u201d (illegal brew)maker, I should never blame you for it, it\u2019s her choice to make \u201cchang\u2019aa.\u201dShe cannot stop being your mother because she has chosen to brew the changaa. But if your friend is a \u201cchang\u2019aa\u201d maker, her friendship is a choice you made, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

The bible tells us that,\u00a0bad company spoils good morals<\/strong>. If you want to be a man of influence with positive impact, know the company you keep will determine this . Its true God is supposed to define you, but none of us is strong enough for bad company in the longer term.<\/p>\n

And that does not mean that you don\u2019t talk to non-Christians, because you must find a way of integrating with non-Christians to evangelize them. Those non-Christians are the ones we are trying to change, isn\u2019t it? So we must go to them. But you go to them clear what you are doing. Strategize your relationship for\u00a0with non-Christians you evangelize, with Christians you socialize<\/strong>. You must\u00a0 still relate with non-Christians but in your mind, you are looking for ways of influencing them for Christ .You never \u2018let your hair down\u2019 with a non-Christian, aware that his values are not your values.<\/p>\n

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Yes , friendship with the world, is enmity with God,\u00a0James 4: <\/em><\/strong>4<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

You\u00a0 need to ask yourself, do you love God enough to want to lose even\u00a0 the whole earth to keep your relationship with Him? The bible chorus says , \u2018take the whole world and give me Jesus\u2019. Is that where you are? Because he is saying, if you have friendship with the world, if you want the world so seriously, you will have enmity with God.<\/p>\n

Loving the world might mean\u00a0 not loving the Father. We get this same message in in\u00a0 John 2:1517-<\/p>\n

15<\/sup> Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father[d<\/a>]<\/sup> is not in them.\u00a016<\/sup> For everything in the world\u2014the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life\u2014comes not from the Father but from the world.\u00a017<\/sup> The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

If you love the world, the love of the Father is not in you.<\/p>\n

Also\u00a0 If you sit\u00a0 and walk with the wicked, you are likely to be unfruitful. You will not be a man of influence. That\u2019s Psalms 1:1-4.<\/p>\n

1<\/sup> Blessed is the one\u00a0
who does not walk in step with the wicked\u00a0
or stand in the way that sinners take\u00a0
or sit in the company of mockers,\u00a0
2<\/sup> but whose delight is in the law of the LORD,\u00a0
and who meditates on his law day and night.\u00a0
3<\/sup> That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,\u00a0
which yields its fruit in season\u00a0
and whose leaf does not wither\u2014\u00a0
whatever they do prospers. \u00a04<\/sup> Not so the wicked!\u00a0
They are like chaff\u00a0
that the wind blows away<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

So if you are to have influence in the market place the company you keep matters .Who influences you will determine who influence in turn. We are told that for William Wilberforce to influence parliament and his society in as great away as he did on slave trade he keep a small prayer group throughout his struggles.<\/p>\n

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Day 3<\/p>\n

1 Corinthians 6:12-13 says:<\/p>\n

12<\/sup> \u201cI have the right to do anything,\u201d you say\u2014but not everything is beneficial. \u201cI have the right to do anything\u201d\u2014but I will not be mastered by anything.\u00a013<\/sup> You say, \u201cFood for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.\u201d The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Refuse any addiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

For you to be a man with influence in the market place ,you must also refuse any addiction<\/strong>. An addiction is that which you start doing because you enjoy doing it but\u00a0 you end up doing it because you must. The thing may be good and even desirable but if it controls you it is no longer good for you. You will no longer be in control on the type of influence you have on others. The thing then will no longer be beneficial.<\/p>\n

The bible says that some things are permissible but not beneficial to do-1 Corinthians 6:12.<\/p>\n

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Thus, some things I\u2019m free to do , I will not do them because they are not beneficial. A leader does not do anything he feels like doing, he only does things that will be beneficial. My book:\u00a0Leaders Source Of Influence<\/em> discusses how one can\u00a0 discover his life\u2019s mission. Once you know your mission, you should only do those things that help you to fulfill your mission. Anything else is not beneficial since it will not help you achieve what you feel you were created to do. You tend to do well when you do what you feel you were created to do .This way\u00a0 you easily become a man others use as an example and hence of influence.<\/p>\n

Let me say one more thing about addiction.<\/p>\n

Addiction is not just addiction of drugs; addiction can refer to a way of life. Do you know you can be addicted to a T.V. program? Let\u00a0 us say there is a prayer meeting during the time your program is aired, you tell God, \u2018please understand, I cannot attend a prayer meeting and miss my\u00a0 program\u2019. This shows you are addicted.<\/p>\n

Addiction\u00a0 is when you lose control and you do something\u00a0 you know you are not doing\u00a0 because you want;\u00a0 but you are doing it because you must.<\/strong> You begin smoking because you want. In fact when you smoke the first time, you cough then after some time you smoke because you enjoy. Then finally, you smoke because you must. At that point we say you are addicted. The solution to such as not to start at all.<\/p>\n

I am saying you will never be a leader with influence if there is even one addiction, because you cannot do what needs to be done. Addiction includes how you relate with your girlfriend. If you are addicted to your girlfriend, you cannot say no to her. So if she back slides form her faith in Jesus , you also back slide. That\u2019s called addiction. There is nobody and nothing that you feel you cannot say no to if what they want you to do does not please God and it does not help you to fulfill your God given mission.<\/p>\n

I know with Rebecca, my wife there are certain areas, I have no influence, yet am her husband, if there is something God has called her to\u00a0 do , I know I have little\u00a0 influence. We agreed before I married\u00a0 her, that she will never give in\u00a0 to me against God. We want our marriage to be a marriage that honors God. That\u00a0 means that honoring God is more important than honoring me as her husband.<\/p>\n

If your husband\u00a0 is not allowed to\u00a0 force you into the wrong way, who else on earth should you not tell no. That\u2019s why there should be nothing you are\u00a0 addicted to.<\/p>\n

So what is it that you are addicted to? You feel you cannot say no to\u00a0 it. You know some people are even addicted to the way they worship, so you go to Germany and you find there is no church that worships like yours, and you don\u2019t go to church any more. Soon enough you start feeling that going to a bar is better than the church. So you go to a bar to find company and you refuse go to a church because they don\u2019t worship like your home church. That\u2019s called addiction. Addiction makes you stop thinking and decide on what to do on feelings.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what you are addicted to. Is it a T.V. program? How do you solve the problem?<\/p>\n

Fasting is a solution to addiction. People think we only fast about food. You know fasting is when you stop eating food for may be a whole\u00a0 day. The Turkana\u2019s eat once a day and they survive. You may be addicted to eat three times a day so for you fasting is missing food for a whole day. Fasting is giving notice to your stomach that it will not control you. Food for the stomach and stomach for food, and both of them, God will destroy. It\u2019s important to understand that in fasting\u00a0 you remind your stomach that it cannot control you. In the same way there may be a T.V. program which is controlling you seriously. Please fast for it and decide that ,\u2019 the next three weeks I will not see the program and let\u2019s see whether I will die\u2019. That\u2019s called fasting for a T.V. program. That\u2019s the way you will stop the\u00a0 addiction.<\/p>\n

Whatever you are addicted to, something you feel you do because you must, fasting is the solution for it. When you actually overcome it, you are able to show that you can still survive without it. Then you become a leader because nothing will influence you. As we saw earlier, instead of you following the mob, the mob will follow you.<\/p>\n

Remember you are unique even as you relate with others. Do not\u00a0be a copy when God created you an original<\/strong>\u2026.Don\u2019t copy anybody else.<\/p>\n

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Day 4<\/p>\n

Romans 12: 16 says ,<\/p>\n

16<\/sup> Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position.[c<\/a>]<\/sup> Do not be conceited.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

17<\/sup> Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Be a people person<\/strong><\/p>\n

We influence others as we relate with them.To relate well you need to\u00a0be a people person<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This includes ensuring you obey the instruction that , we are\u00a0 not to repay anyone evil for evil. Love others enough to\u00a0 want\u00a0 to share yourself with them. You don\u2019t want to repay evil for evil. In other words although others may hurt you, but you don\u2019t seek to hurt them. This will help you\u00a0 even influence people who are former enemies.<\/p>\n

Be accommodative<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes a people person tend to have a lot of influence\u00a0 but to do so you\u00a0 must be\u00a0\u00a0accommodative<\/strong>. And how do you do that? Romans 12:13,<\/p>\n

13<\/sup> Share with the Lord\u2019s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

If you Practice hospitality, <\/strong>it means you are accommodative. You cannot be a person of influence, when you don\u2019t want to relate with others. Some people have a\u00a0 \u2018 bed sitter\u2019 mentality. When we left campus, one\u00a0 would want to\u00a0 go to stay in Buruburu but the rent was too high and so we would share the house between several of us so that we share the rent..\u00a0If you did not want to share\u00a0 a house ,Umoja estate had something called a bed sitter.With the small salary we were earning after campus it was possible to rent\u00a0 the bed sitter alone.<\/p>\n

Do you know what a bed sitter is? A bed sitter is a house that is complete, it has a toilet, it has a kitchen, it has a bedroom, it has a sitting room but all of them are like in one room. Now the trouble is,if\u00a0 your mother says, son am coming to visit you in Nairobi,\u00a0 and you live in a bed sitter,you have to think fast how to handle her since thre is only one room that is both a sitting room and bed room. You start scratching your head, because you see, your house cannot accommodate your mother and yourself, culturally. So you start wondering, who can accommodate my mother? Or else\u00a0 who can accommodate me? A bed sitter can only accommodate one person.<\/p>\n

Some people reading this have\u00a0 bed sitter mentality. They simply cannot accommodate others . They do not accept diversity. Until you become hospitable and a man who can bless others, you have no room for anyone else.\u00a0 Are you Accommodative?. You need to be able to say, although this is what I like, because I want to influence so and so, am willing to give in on what I like, so that I can win others to Christ. Paul said : I will be all things to all men so that I can win some.<\/p>\n

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Day 5<\/p>\n

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1 Corinthians 9:22<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/strong>
To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

If accommodative you are\u00a0 \u2018others\u2019 centered.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you want to be a man of influence it will be critical that you are not self centered, but rather that you are God centered. If you <\/strong> become God centered, the people of God both saved and unsaved, will be your concern. That\u2019s what we mean by being accommodative. This includes even those who do not like us. The bible tells you to \u2026 bless those who persecute you bless and do not curse.<\/p>\n

This means\u00a0 you should be\u00a0\u00a0Empathetic<\/strong>. Romans 12:15 says,<\/p>\n

15<\/sup> Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

You know some people mourn with people who are rejoicing and rejoice with people who are mourning. This is a put off in any relationship. It\u2019s a command in addition to the other ten, that you empathize with others. Find out where they are and deal with them from their point of view. You are being told; when you come to my house, don\u2019t determine in advance whether to rejoice or to mourn. Watch the way I am. If I am laughing, laugh with me, if am crying, cry with me. If you don\u2019t do that, you are disobeying the bible\u2019s advice in dealing with others.<\/p>\n

This way you\u00a0become \u2018others\u2019 centered <\/strong> in order to influence them. Sympathetic is not the same as being empathic. When\u00a0 one is saying \u201cohh!\u00a0Pole<\/em> sana,am sorry for you\u201d. That\u2019s being sympathetic. Empathetic means, I wear your shoes and feel where it pinches. You will become a person of influence once people know how you care about them. People trust someone they know cares for them. Do you know they can follow you easily , once they trust you. The reason they do that is because they know you cannot harm\u00a0 them\u2026because you think about them.<\/p>\n

If they doubt this, you may be a leader but people know when you come to them nicely, it\u2019s only because there is something\u00a0 you want to get out of them. I have friends like that. The other day I got a long distance call from one of my friends who lives in another country and has not talked to me for two years. But he has been out of the country for long time. So once in a long while we talk. So this time he called and I said wow, this brother has not called for a long time what does he want\u00a0 this time?. We kept talking, we actually talked for an hour. I said, this guy must be having enough money..because he was the one paying and he kept talking from one story to another, fellowshipping. Finally, he actually told me what he wanted\u00a0 me to do for him. So I now finally knew he was consistent..the reason for the call\u00a0 is not me, it was him. Now when you learn that about your friends, you know how to deal with them.<\/p>\n

If you want to influence others, let them know that you are\u00a0 interested in them .As God gives you ability, show you want their good. Don\u2019t cheat them, because over time they will discover the truth.<\/p>\n

The bible verse above says, rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn. That\u2019s why some\u00a0 African customs are not biblical. For example , you have been away when my mother died, you come two years later after I am reconciled to the loss and you want to mourn with me well I after I went over the death?. There are actually cultures\u00a0 who mourn well after the event, they even employ\u00a0criers<\/em>, who cry on hire. They come to your home after you forgot about the death of your mother and they cry from the house to the grave. You know you must also cry in sympathy, isn\u2019t it? Now surely, were they thinking of their good or my good? If they are obeying the scriptures, you don\u2019t cry until you find out whether I am crying. Maybe my mother is dead but we had talked to my mother she was in pain and she said, my son pray that I die\u00a0 rather than continue in this pain. I don\u2019t want my mother to die but if that\u2019s the way to finish pain, let her die. To your excitement God answered the prayers and she dies peacefully .She sleeps praising the lord. I am happy and rejoicing. Then you come to cry with me when am rejoicing. You need to find out my need. Even if my mother has died, don\u2019t cry before you find out whether I am crying.<\/p>\n

If you are going to influence people, they must know that you are bothered by what bothers them. That\u2019s the way to influence them.<\/p>\n

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Day 6<\/p>\n

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Romans 12:16<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Live in harmony with one another.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Adaptive<\/strong><\/p>\n

You must be both\u00a0 empathetic and\u00a0\u00a0Adaptive<\/strong>. Live in harmony with one another.<\/p>\n

This is\u00a0 being adaptive; you are able to adapt yourself so that others find it easy to deal with you.<\/p>\n

Be classless<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And Romans 12 :16 says,<\/p>\n

Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position.[c<\/a>]<\/sup> Do not be conceited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

What is that one saying? Be classless. You know there is somebody who told me they have been called to evangelism but they don\u2019t preach\u00a0anyhowly<\/em>. We were young people, in fact we had not left university, but I wanted us to go to our home area various market places preaching. We didn\u2019t even have a loud speaker but we were young people, and loud enough.\u00a0 We invited him to come with us because he had a car and we had no car. He said\u00a0 \u2018I preach but I preach to organized people. I will not go with you to the open air evangelism.\u2019 Do you know two years later, the guy had back sliden? When you are so class minded\u00a0 such\u00a0 that you only relate with a certain class chances are, it\u2019s not Christ ruling in your heart. He came from heaven, didn\u2019t he? And he came to us. Romans says, Christ Jesus died for us while we were yet sinners. He was even called a friend of sinners. So in the same way, you relate with all who need your help. If you think you are a valuable person, because you are called \u201cmanager\u201d, and hence\u00a0 cannot go to your fellowship in the office, you have problem. You argue: after all most people who attend the fellowship are sweepers. You know they are sweepers in the job but in heaven they will be ruling, isn\u2019t it? So you need to see people the way God looks at them.<\/p>\n

Remember we are talking about how to be an example and influence others.<\/p>\n

It will mean that people start seeing that you value them irrespective of their title. Of course if he is a manager, you will treat him as a manager. If he is a sweeper you will still treat him still like a manager. That idea of seeing people as value less, where you feel like a manager, and they as junior to you ,makes them avoid you.<\/p>\n

As seen earlier, soon after joining my frist employer a\u00a0 bank I wanted to influence my place of employment and I thought we needed to gather together and pray\u00a0 so that\u00a0 we strategize to influence the Development bank. But unfortunately, the only people who came, were\u00a0 \u201cmama chai-the tea ladies\u201d and messengers. I was a young graduate. People felt like,\u2019 because you are a young graduate, that\u2019s why you go to that fellowship\u2019. I later moved\u00a0 over to an oil company and again I was now some junior executive. Again after some time, we finally began a fellowship. But again nobody senior attended. In the early years\u00a0 I was always the senior most. Every time I got a promotion; I was the senior most person in the fellowship. Do you know ,interesting enough, finally I came to the top management, the leadership team, and\u00a0 still attended the fellowship. You know a lot of people will tell you the reason why they don\u2019t attend the fellowship, it\u2019s because they are busy. But you know lunch hour, is a time when everybody is trying to finish up on work but also eat, isn\u2019t it? Now, this person who comes to the fellowship has sacrificed his eating time. The hunger of a messenger is equal to the hunger of the manager. Or do you think its different hunger? In fact that messenger may not have had enough food last night, yet he is willing to come to the fellowship. You had a three course meal last night, can\u2019t you skip lunch? If you want to be honest, the real reason is the embarrassment of seeing a whole top manager, appearing in a fellowship where messengers are. You don\u2019t want to be seen there, isn\u2019t it? It could easily affect your upward mobility, when somebody notices that you associate with people of low status.<\/p>\n

I want to tell you there is no Christianity that has class. That because I am manager I can not relate with a sweeper?<\/p>\n

Some time back I was asked by a pastor to preach in Mathare, in Kiswahili.My Swahili is hopeless and am not asking you to listen to it. But if I were to say no\u00a0 because it is a slum, what kind of a person would I be ? What kind of message has God given me? I had to go to my Swahili bible, try to brush up my Swahili and for three Sundays, I gave an exposition on the book of Titus. You could see the impact on the people despite my bad Swahili.<\/p>\n

What\u00a0 I am trying to say is that, that verse is real. You will not be of influence when you start becoming classy.Because you play golf you cannot talk to the \u2018candy?\u201d . And he is the one carrying your equipment. You can tell them about being a Christian, but that Candy knows your Christianity is fake. You don\u2019t treat him like a person. So when\u00a0 you graduate out of Nazarene, out of Kabarak university , you have to remember a Christian does not have the privilege of creating classes. Even when you become the president of this country, you will have to attend fellowship with commoners . In this way others will admire your Christianity and soon be drawn in.<\/p>\n

I have several politicians who were with me in the university and so we are friends. One of the things I criticize them is the fact that as soon as he is called a politician, he can\u2019t even come to church regularly. The only time he comes to church is when he wants to speak. But you know his spiritual needs have not changed! They are even bigger. So if you don\u2019t associate yourself with the fellowship how will you be\u00a0 helped spiritually?<\/p>\n

I still remember in my days at\u00a0 Alliance\u00a0 high school\u2026when a young boy was used of God to rebuke me. I was in Form Six, and this\u00a0 was a young boy in Form one, and we were having an evening fellowship.The boy started sharing something and God used what he was sharing to catch me\u00a0 about something I had done wrong. I felt so guilty that\u00a0 I was about to shed tears until I remembered it was a form one talking. You know I felt\u00a0 so embarrassed. Then I realized it was not the form one talking, it was Christ talking. The form one never knew what my problem was. But Christ knew. But then you feel,\u2019 God surely shouldn\u2019t you use somebody a little older\u2019. The reason why you hear people who go up\u00a0 leadership\u00a0 become powerless spiritually and they don\u2019t influence our nation, is because they start thinking that God can only use somebody like them to assist them spiritually . In fact they look at the pastor and despise him.<\/p>\n

You know pastors originally used to be older than me, now most pastors are younger than me. Who tells you because the pastor is younger, God will not give him a word for you? It\u2019s that classlessness, that will make you a man of influence\u00a0 because the word you hear in fellowship will strength you to make a stand back in your office .<\/p>\n

Once you are able to mix with everyone, what happens? You can benefit from anyone and influence everyone. You will now be able to take the whole group to where God wants it to go.<\/p>\n

Day 7<\/p>\n

1 Corinthians 12:2<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/strong>
You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope, even without going through more\u00a0 issues,\u00a0 you are able to see the first point, that if you truly walk as a Christian, you will certainly be an example. Why? Because your standards will be so different and admirable by\u00a0 the world, they will want to find out why you act the way you do.<\/p>\n

Number two, that you will not be a person of influence, if you don\u2019t have interpersonal skills. You have to be\u00a0 a people person. You need to be\u00a0 an example like Timothy was told, in the way you live with others.<\/p>\n

Let us pray that\u00a0 as young people graduate from\u00a0 universities to working world , that they will go with one thing in mind, how to influence the world for Christ. They will know that Christians are few and none of us will have the freedom not to be an example. That we want everyone of us, senior or junior , including the young Timothy\u2019s, to become an example. That we should know that whatever it is we are doing, others are watching us. And we want that when they watch us, they will see an example to follow. That we will help our communities to go to where Christ\u00a0 wants them to go. Let us all\u00a0 make a commitment, to repent for our waywardness in the past and our freedom to be ourselves and we seek to become what God wants us to be, so that we can be\u00a0 good examples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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