INFLUENCE

It's not about the number of followers you have but about the influence and relationships you have with your followers. If you only have a few followers and those followers are incredibly engaged with you, then you're more influential than someone else who has a million followers but no true relationship with them.

So often we think that to have true influence, we first need a hundred thousand followers on our social media accounts, blogs, ministry or life in general; or maybe that we need a special kind of job, ministry or platform. But all we really need is to invest our time in one person. To be faithful in little things before God entrusts us with more.

Start where you are today. Put your head down and work away at what God has given you now. Even if it feels discouraging. Even if no one is reading, listenin' or watching.

And BTW, you don't need a job, a blog or a ministry to feel like you're doing your part. Your influence is in those around you. They are your followers. Engage with them first. Plant seeds in their hearts and watch them bloom.