Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, September 5th.

Can you identify anyone you've positively impacted with the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

If no one comes to mind, how about changing that today by applying

lessons from the life of Daniel?

Influence is both a responsibility and a privilege.

We think about influence, we think about the power to affect someone's life, the power to

persuade someone to do this or to do that. Well what I want to talk about in this message is

influence but I want to talk about a godly influence and that is the title of

this message. What are the requirements in order that you and I would be a godly influence

on other people and so all of us have a responsibility especially as believers to be

influencers that is exerting the power that we have. Now that can be by our

voice, by our speech, by our personality, by our possessions, by our

personality, by our possessions, by our position in life, but all of us are influences.

And in the book of Daniel, you'll find the most beautiful example of someone who

indeed cast a godly influence on all those around

him.

And so I want you to turn, if you will, to Daniel and if some of you are new believers and you

don't know exactly where that is, if you look new believers and you don't know exactly whether it is if you look in the

old testament there are four big prophets there is Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel and then Daniel

and in this book there are many many lessons, but certainly Daniel is a beautiful example of someone who exerted a godly influence on those around him.

And they give you a little background, for example, while you're turning to that,

Nebuchanese, as king of Babylon, attacked the nation of Israel,

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