The basic law of association is that if you don’t influence, you are influenced
except you avoid. There are basically three things that happen when you
associate with people either face-to-face or through any inanimate medium: you
are influenced, you influence or you remain the same. If the force of influence
is greater than your resistance, whether you like it or not two things happen.
You are affected positively or negatively which could either be a plus or minus
to your life. Success is more of influence than any other thing that you can
think of. Successful people are people
that over time have been influence positively rather than negatively. Success
is a result of long term, consistent and ceaseless positive influence.
You can tell who you are and where you are going by the
kinds of people that come into your life–your associates. Birds of the same
feather flock together. More than half of the people those come into your life,
invited or uninvited, have something common with you. You actually attracted
them to you. There is therefore need to watch them and sieve appropriately so
that you can remove the residue.
If you, on other hand have a greater force of influence
than your sphere of contact, exposure and influence, you can influence them
positively or negatively depending on what you are made up of. Your force of
influence is built when your intellectual and spiritual life is built. You can
easily influence especially positively when there is something that your sphere
of contact can admire about you. Decide today to be influenced or you
influenced positively only. Do you want to influence people positively and
resist negatively influence? Then build your intellectual and spiritual life
and you will be able to do just that. When I say spiritual life, I mean your
relationship with God in the place of prayer, the Word of God and fellowship
with the Holy Spirit.
The people that conquer the world in this our
dispensation are not men of physical strength like Goliath or mental strength
like the American army with their sophisticated weapon but spiritual giant.
People whose lives are not governed by the five senses but by the sixth sense:
the sense of faith. People that are fortified with the wisdom of God and
drunken with the anointing of God’s Spirit.
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome said the champions of our
generation are not giants of physical strength or mental strength but spiritual
strength. If you want to influence people become a spiritual giant. Physical
giants are born giant, mental giants are trained but spiritual giants are
called, nurtured and trained by the Word of God and the Holy Spirit. There are
no special qualifications for admission, everyone from everywhere regardless of
race, age, sex and background are eligible.
You can be one, you can be an influencer.
