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A Heritage Of Influence
Genesis 26:18 'Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.'
 In a desert environment, in a time of drought, you would expect people to welcome the presence of many wells. But the Philistines felt threatened by Abraham's wells and had 'stopped up' the wells – literally, the term used means to conceal or to hide something from future generations. In this environment, wells represented influence. Whoever controlled the wells, influenced town planning, trade and much more. Isaac refused to allow the Philistines to steal his inheritance of influence. You are I, as Christians, are also 'born into' a heritage of influence. Jesus changed the world in just three years of ministry! Paul changed the world, as did the other apostles – as did Christian heroes in every century since. The question is: will we allow the secular pressures of our age to sidetrack us from our time of influence? We face the same choice as Isaac did: to lay back and allow our environment to dictate the extent of what we can do for God, or to aggressively push forward to impact our world more than it impacts us!
Prayer: 'Lord, help me today not to allow anything to rob me of the chance to positively influence other people - for your glory.'
© 2003-2004 Mal Fletcher
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