Covenant Embassy

Trust Your Instincts
If something feels wrong, it is worth paying attention to. Abusers are often skilled at making victims doubt themselves. Your feelings are valid. Your fear is real. You do not need bruises to prove you are being harmed.

What thinkest thou?
The dictionary defines influence as the capacity to be the compelling force that affects others. Every human being has an atmosphere around them that affects everyone they encounter. This influence works so silently and unconsciously that we may forget it exists. For example, heat, light, electricity, and gravitation, are silent and invisible, but they exist. When God wanted to change the world, He sent His Son, who, through His influence on men, raised the apostles who turned the world upside down. Elijah and Joshua both influenced their generation powerfully for good. The quality of their lives determined the extent of their influence. Mordecai influenced Esther, who influenced the king to rescue the perishing Israelites. Andrew influenced his brother Peter for Christ, and Peter later became the leader of the early church. In John 4:28-30, The Samaritan woman brought the entire village to Christ through the power of her personal testimony. We learned that the ability to influence effectively and positively does not depend on one's position in life. Neither does it depend on our background or stature but on certain qualities. These are vision, use of effective methods, loyalty, faithfulness, diligence, industry, and honesty. Others are compassion, courtesy, politeness, humility, faith, boldness, enthusiasm, discipline, and seriousness. Or what thinkest thou?

What thinkest thou?
The dictionary defines influence as the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others. Every human being has an atmosphere around them that affects everyone they encounter. This influence works so silently, and unconsciously that man may forget it exists. For example, all
the forces of Nature—heat, light, electricity, and gravitation—are silent and invisible. We never see them; we only know that they exist by seeing the effects they produce.

Elijah and Joshua both influenced their generation powerfully for good. The quality of their lives determined the extent of their influence. Mordecai influenced Esther, who influenced the king to rescue the perishing Israelites. The Samaritan woman brought the entire village to Christ through the power of her testimony. From these and lots more, we learn that the ability to influence effectively and positively does not depend on one's position in life, background, or stature; but on the possession of certain qualities, including: - vision, use of effective methods, loyalty, faithfulness, diligence, industry, honesty, compassion, courtesy, politeness, humility, faith, boldness, enthusiasm, discipline, seriousness. Or, what thinkest thou?