Inspiration Station - Under The Influence

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We all possess influence, but many of us fail to recognize its power or misuse it, allowing our unhealed wounds to affect others, especially the next generation.

• Everyone has influence regardless of whether they acknowledge it
• Many people feel they have no influence due to personal wounds or circumstances
• Our influence transcends generations and shapes how others see the world
• A doctor's story of being snubbed by his sports idol affected him for decades
• The doctor almost prevented his daughter from meeting her favorite player
• Small positive interactions can heal years of hurt and change perspectives
• Looking for opportunities to bless others always pays us back in full
• Our daily actions around children teach them more than our words
• Unresolved offenses can unconsciously influence how we raise our children
• Taking time to listen and show compassion creates lasting positive impact

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Thank you, welcome back to the All Purpose Pod for
an all-purpose life.
Wherever you are and howeveryou're listening to the Call Me,
mr you and the inspirationstation.
Thanks again for making us partof your week.
Uh, man, I'm glad to be backwith you guys.
It's been a little bit of abreak not, uh, of my own accord,

(00:53):
dealing with some uh, beingbeing under the weather and some
stuff like that but I'm glad tobe back with you guys, ready to
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Glad you're listening to theinspiration station.
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Let's get this rolling.
I want to talk to you guys aboutbeing under the influence.
This is not really about underthe influence in the way that

(01:38):
you guys might normally thinkabout that.
This is just a little bitdifferent.
I realize, especially intoday's times, that we rail
against people who misuse theirinfluence, whether it be in
media, in politics, even in thechurches and in ministry, or
even in family dynamics.
We rail against that when wesee it being misused.

(02:02):
But what do you do when you aremisusing influence yourself?
How do you view that?
How do you adjust and getrealigned with where you should
be using your influence?
We have influence all around us.
If you are a believer, likemyself, in Jesus Christ and in
his lordship and in the word ofGod, then we have an influence

(02:22):
to be what the bible says issalt and light, salt in the
earth and be the lights of theworld, to be an example, to be
role models, to be arepresentative of a kingdom that
we don't really see around usall the time, something that's
better for us than what we'reseeing, to be clear.
But outside of that, we haveinfluence in so many ways.
We have people out here onsocial media calling themselves

(02:44):
influencers because theyinfluence you to buy things that
you may not ordinarily thinkabout buying.
So they call themselves or havea title as the influencer.
We ask them what's theiroccupation and they say I'm an
influencer, that's their job.
They wake up in the morning andgo to sleep at night under that
auspice that they areinfluencers.

(03:06):
Are we using our influence theway it was designed and intended
?
Are we doing it at all?
Are we even acknowledging thatwe have influence or are we
living in a shell, thinking thatwe're so wounded that we can't
accomplish anything or serveanybody or help inspire and
encourage anybody?
There are people who arelistening, and I know you are,

(03:27):
because I hear from you guysoutside of this video or outside
of our podcast and our show.
I hear from you guys and manyof you feel as though you don't
have any influence.
I want to try to break that offfor your life today, in Jesus'
name, that you know you do haveinfluence.
You were born with it, it's inyour DNA, you have it inside of
you.
Yes, it may be suppressed rightnow.

(03:48):
Yes, it may be in hindrance alittle bit about things going on
in your life, even things inyour own mind, even thoughts
that are not even your ownthoughts, or even things that
you entertained in your life,that you watch, you listen to,
you hear.
Maybe even it's because offriendships and associations
that you have around you thatlimit your ability to be the

(04:09):
influence that you're supposedto be.
We can do all those things.
I hope that this is an impactto you, this episode.
Today.
I want to talk to you aboutinfluence real quick, because we
should all be under it, justthe right kind.
There was a story of a doctor.
He grew up, you know, being asports fan, a big fan of
baseball.
He finally got a chance to meethis idol and got a chance to

(04:33):
get that most valuable autographfrom his idol no-transcript,
the one he watched and rootedfor his entire childhood life.
He got a chance to get thatautograph and his idol snubbed
him.
The person he looked up tosnubbed him, excuse me and it

(04:55):
broke him.
It left a scar on him to thepoint even as a grown adult he
didn't watch the game as much hemoved away from the game that
he grew up loving because ofthat offense, even to the point
that even his children he evenpassed the offense on to them.

(05:15):
One day he was walking in his anarea where he lives and he saw
him and his daughter saw asports star.
Uh, wasn't surrounded byentourage or anything like that.
He was just out there and hisdaughter recognized him because
that was his daughter's favoritebasketball player, but because

(05:37):
of the hurt that the fatheralready had experienced.
When the daughter said, can wego and meet him and take his
picture?
He said no, not because he wasbeing cruel, but because his
hurt was still fervent, it wasstill active and he didn't want
his daughter to feel the kind ofhurt that he carried for years.
His daughter was impacted byhis influence.

(05:58):
Excuse me, had he dealt withthat, it could have been a
different scenario.
But what ended up happening was,long story short.
They continued to his.
They continued to ask himplease, please, continue to beg
our dad, please have hisautograph.
Opportunity's right there, it'savailable.
He decides to do that.
It turned out very well.

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The doctor was very surprisedbecause he thought that all
athletes were like his favoriteathlete, who snubbed him, who
had a bad day and didn't givehim an autograph.
And it broke his heart.
His daughter was over the moon.
It created memories for her,just that picture with her
favorite basketball player.
And what it also did, not onlyfor the daughter, it also

(06:39):
changed the father's life.
That doctor saw the whole worldfrom a different prism, from a
different view, saw the wholeworld from a different prism,
from a different view.
He's like you know what I'mliving in the fence and almost
hindered my daughter fromachieving her dreams because of
what I was dealing with, becausewhat I allowed to influence my
mindset and what I think aboutathletes, or I think about
people in general or the worldaround me.

(06:59):
See the picture there.
Two lives were changed, twogenerations were changed.
Just because he allowed himselfto not be led by the influence
that he'd been struggling with,the challenge, the constant
thoughts, the grieving, theoffense that he was dealing with
.
He could have handed hisdaughter a whole different

(07:20):
generation and felt like in thesame way he was.
See how easy it is for us to dothat.
We talk about being under theinfluence, but we don't realize
how much we impact other people.
Had her thinking the same wayhe was.
See how easy it is for us to dothat.
We talk about being under theinfluence, but we don't realize
how much we impact other peopleand we don't realize that around
our kids, when we curse aroundour kids, when we lie and cheat

(07:44):
and steal around our kids, whenwe talk about other people
around our kids.
When we do things that we knoware dishonest, that we teach our
kids not to do, but we do themand then we say, do as I say,
not as I do around our kids, weinfluence a whole different
generation to do something thatwe don't even want to do
ourselves.
There is a moral to the story.
I hope you find one in thisbecause I think it's just so

(08:04):
powerful all by itself.
But if you could find a moralof this story is that we have
influence.
We have the ability totranscend and affect generations
.
Now I talked about the doctorand his daughter, but I didn't
talk about the basketball playerthat much or the baseball
player.
I want to talk about them realquick, not because we're talking
about sports.
I want you to get the point.
Here's the basketball playerand here's the baseball player.

(08:26):
The baseball player may have abad day.
Maybe he was going through somepersonal stuff in his life and
when that doctor as a child cameto him for the autograph, he
probably just didn't even carebecause he was focused on what
he was dealing with and focusedon his own problems and his own
struggles and he didn't see theopportunity.
I'm an honest believer in thisand I've seen it in my own life

(08:49):
and I believe that thebasketball player because he
mentioned it in a book that hewrote recently that the small
efforts that we take toencourage and inspire other
people, no matter how much wedon't get out of it later on in
life, it always pays us back infull.
It always pays us back in full.
If that baseball player had donethat, did Dr Wynn have been so
affected and so offended and sogrieved for decades of his life?

(09:15):
Because the basketball playersaid you know what?
I have the time.
I care about this child, I careabout this family, I care about
the fans who watch me play andwho love my work on the court.
I'm going to make their life.
I'm going to make their life.
I'm going to make their daybetter and in doing so it's
making my day better too.
And because he did that, heimpacted generations.

(09:36):
He made a small impact that notonly helped him emotionally but
also helped that familyemotionally, also helped all the
basketball players' businesses,because they see him as a
valuable, real, authentic personand it increased his cachet in
the community and he showedcustomer service on the street,

(09:57):
away from his businesses and itincreases his business because
of the impact that he made in alittle small way.
What am I saying to you guys?
I hope I'm making sense.
I hope I'm not babbling.
I hope this makes sense to youguys.
Look for the smallopportunities to be a blessing
to somebody.
Look for the smallopportunities to bless someone.
I see it with little kids everyweek, all the time.
Little kids that recall when Iencouraged them months ago, when

(10:22):
I gave them a blessing or agift months ago.
They remember it.
They remember my smile withthem.
They remember getting on myknee and listening to what they
had to say, hearing theirchildhood problems and not
brushing them off.
They were irrelevant.
They remember it even to thisday.
Take the opportunity to find thesmall opportunities to be a

(10:42):
blessing to somebody, not justyour own kids in your own house.
That's easy stuff.
I'm talking about the otherpeople, the people who may just
be getting on your nerves.
Take the time to listen, takethe time to care.
Be compassionate.
It's always going to pay youback.
Everybody to a man that'slistening to this podcast today
has the opportunity to be ablessing to somebody.

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Take advantage of it, dosomething with it, make it count
, be authentic about it.
Serve somebody, even if youdon't see any immediate rewards.
Always, always and take it astruth coming out of my mouth
from somebody who's done this italways, always A-L-W-A-Y-S

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always pays you back.
I believe it.
Hope you do too.
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(11:44):
We really do appreciate it.
I know I do, my family does.
We're definitely appreciativeof you and we love you guys.
Have a great day.