Transcript
Scott (0:03)
How are you influenced? Have you ever asked that question? Welcome to living Influence. We want to go into this question of influence.
Bill (0:15)
Yes.
Scott (0:16)
And how we're influenced. To start, I want to talk about a problem that exists in the United States. And the problem is that we equate blessing, the blessing of God, with success, but it's actually not true. The path is that the blessing of God leads us to purpose. And here's the fun thing, purpose leads us to suffering. It's a really interesting concept. How do we know we're influenced by and how do we press into that? You know, I'm in the business world, and so I meet a lot of other business owners. You cannot meet a business owner who started a company where he doesn't talk to you about the moment where he almost failed, the moment where it was bleak and all he could do was hang on and keep going and keep showing up. And so I have a saying to. To other people that want to be entrepreneurs or start a business. And my saying is, well, you can have anything you want as long as you're willing to suffer for it. Which is, it fits into this. What does the blessing of God look like? And we've got these scriptures. In the curse, God says, thorns and thistles, the earth will yield for you. So we can't do anything. I mean, we know this is true. We know thorns and thistles come up in our garden, and they come up in our life, and they come up in what we do. And Jesus has this other thing that's really encouraging. He says, in this life, you'll have trouble. How are you influenced? Is an important question to begin to answer, an important question to be able to consider in your life. How are you influenced? And do you discount that influence, discount that purpose based on circumstances, based on whether you're experiencing success and easy blessing? Or do you consider those things that. Those things that you've been influenced to pursue and to do, and you're not deterred when the struggle comes. I mean, like, we're on week 30, right, Bill? And right now there's like 19 of our videos have been published, and we're just beginning to work on advertising. So on YouTube, we have 108 subscribers. Well, you know, if two years from now we still have 108 subscribers, maybe this wasn't the right thing to do.
Interjector (3:06)
But.
Scott (3:06)
But we're going to press in, we're going to keep going because we believe in this content.
Amen Speaker (3:14)
Amen.
Scott (3:15)
How are you influenced? What purpose has God brought into your heart that you're pursuing? Amen and that's where we want to start this series. It's going to go for we don't know how long, maybe, maybe a month or two. On sharing with you our stories of how we've been influenced.