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How do we fix what is broken in our world?
Here’s how you can use the gift of your influence to bring healing and repair to things that are broken.
The Gift of Your Influence
5 Amazing Possibilities
Possibility #3: Fixing things that are broken
If you’ve ever experienced panic attacks, you know how disabling they can be. You also know how hard they are to overcome. Like a childhood bully who’s a head taller than everyone else on the playground, panic attacks can feel like a frightening monster from whom there is no escape.
When my wife started experiencing panic attacks, we tried everything that a Christian would normally try to deal with them. What we tried helped a little, but not very much. Then we discovered a new type of prayer ministry that helped with panic attacks. We met with Steve Freitag. After Steve prayed with Kim, Kim’s panic went from a 9 to a 1.
Our lives and our world are filled with things that are broken, and panic attacks are just one of many examples. Sometimes marriages are broken. Friendships are fractured. Addictions, anger, poverty, oppression, corruption, injustice, and many other ills plague humanity. But you can be the doctor that brings healing, the mechanic that puts things back together.
And this is what God is all about. God is about redemption and repair. Our world is messed up; God is fixing things; we get to help.
The Gift of Your Influence can repair things that are broken.
It might be a literal thing that you fix. When my lawnmower was conking out, my neighbor invited me over, lifted my lawnmower onto his workbench, took it completely apart, found the problem, fixed it, and put it back together. Wow! Talk about improving the quality of my life!
You might fix a broken relationship. As followers of Jesus Christ, that is what we do. We repair relationships.
You might help break the chains of addiction, or a put back together a soul fractured by abuse. You might bring healing to an entire community or fix a disabled system.
Remember, you can be the answer to someone’s prayer.
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