Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson,

and we are here to talk about tips and strategies that we can employ to help us grow in our

faithfulness to God to reach new heights to excel still more.

Thanks for joining. Let's get started.

All right. So today we're going to talk about relationships, specifically the difference between

your inner circle and your outer circle, and how it is that if we

build and maintain a strong inner circle of influence, it will empower us and give us great

courage and strength to affect all of the people around us that God has put into our lives.

So we're going to talk about the difference between the two.

Ultimately, at the end, I want to give you four practical tips that can help you better manage your inner circle.

First of all, we need to talk about this outer space a bit.

You can probably visualize this with no problem, but if you did happen to have a paper and pencil or something,

I would ask you to draw as large of a circle as you possibly can with a little dot in the middle that represents you.

That is your outer circle.

And what I want you to understand about that is every single person that God has providentially

weaved into your life is in that outer circle.

I'm talking about people who are close to you, like family and friends and neighbors and

coworkers. I'm talking about people that you barely know at all. We're talking about the guy in the

pickup truck in front of you right now who's driving too slowly.

He is your neighbor. He's a part of your outer circle.

We're even talking about enemies, as the Bible describes them.

If there are people who don't like you and frankly, people you don't like, they're still in that outer circle.

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