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Desire to have influence? I think all of us would desire that people would follow

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us. I mean, we want to be the next famous person. We want to be the one that

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everybody's looking to for answers and solutions. But oftentimes I find myself

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with excuses. And you know, I didn't get that opportunity. I don't have that

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platform. There's excuses that I have about my speech and who I am and where I

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come from. What the Bible teaches us in 1st Timothy chapter 4 verse 12, it says

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that we shouldn't let anybody look down on us because we are young, because of

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who we are. But rather we should be the example in life and love and speech and

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impurity. The Bible doesn't give us excuses. It gives us the truth. If we want

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to have influence, if we want to impact others, we've got to start doing

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something. Setting the example. So reflect on that today. It's not the excuses that

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hold us back. It's us. Let's be the example.