Principles to Recognize People's Influence on Vision
a. When you begin to act on your vision, it will stir up both those who want to help you and those who want to hinder you.
b. The law of association states that you become like those with whom you spend time.
c. There are two words that most accurately describe influence: powerful and subtle.
d. People have the potential to create your environment. Your environment then determines your mindset and your mindset determines your future.
e. People of vision have found that the minute they decide to fulfill their dream, all their enemies seem to wake up.
f. Sometimes, the people who are the most detrimental to the fulfillment of your vision are members of your own family.
g. The people who change the world have declared independence from other people's expectations of them.
h. There are three things that will protect your vision: disassociation, limited association and expanded association.
i. You must increase the positive influences in your life and decrease the negative ones as you pursue your goals in association with others.
Constitutional Scriptures:
Genesis 2:18 And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Nehemiah 2:17 Then I said to them, “You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.”
Proverbs 13:20 He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools will be destroyed.
Nehemiah 4:1 But it so happened, when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, that he was furious and very indignant, and mocked the Jews.
Genesis 12:1 Now the Lord had said to Abram:“Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you.
Genesis 18:1-15 (Read)
Nehemiah 4:2 And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Will they revive the stones from the heaps of rubbish--stones that are burned?”
Matthew 15:14 Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”
Nehemiah 6:3 So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you?”
Amos 3:3 Can two walk together, unless they are agreed.
Luke 11:17 But He, knowing their thoughts, said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and a house divided against a house falls."
I Corinthians 15:33 Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.
Luke 1:26-56 (Read)
Mark 5:35-43 (Read)
b. The law of association states that you become like those with whom you spend time.
c. There are two words that most accurately describe influence: powerful and subtle.
d. People have the potential to create your environment. Your environment then determines your mindset and your mindset determines your future.
e. People of vision have found that the minute they decide to fulfill their dream, all their enemies seem to wake up.
f. Sometimes, the people who are the most detrimental to the fulfillment of your vision are members of your own family.
g. The people who change the world have declared independence from other people's expectations of them.
h. There are three things that will protect your vision: disassociation, limited association and expanded association.
i. You must increase the positive influences in your life and decrease the negative ones as you pursue your goals in association with others.
Constitutional Scriptures:
Genesis 2:18 And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Nehemiah 2:17 Then I said to them, “You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.”
Proverbs 13:20 He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools will be destroyed.
Nehemiah 4:1 But it so happened, when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, that he was furious and very indignant, and mocked the Jews.
Genesis 12:1 Now the Lord had said to Abram:“Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you.
Genesis 18:1-15 (Read)
Nehemiah 4:2 And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Will they revive the stones from the heaps of rubbish--stones that are burned?”
Matthew 15:14 Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”
Nehemiah 6:3 So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you?”
Amos 3:3 Can two walk together, unless they are agreed.
Luke 11:17 But He, knowing their thoughts, said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and a house divided against a house falls."
I Corinthians 15:33 Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.
Luke 1:26-56 (Read)
Mark 5:35-43 (Read)
