The company you keep greatly influences your life. Surround yourself with God-ordained people who inspire and improve you. Spending time with the wrong people prevents you from meeting the right ones and progressing. Joel Osteen emphasizes that to reach your potential, you must change your social circle.
**Key Points:**
– Associating with negative or hot-tempered individuals can negatively affect your behavior.
– Positive qualities from excellent people can rub off on you.
– Set boundaries with people who are disrespectful, negative, or lack integrity.
– Be selective with your relationships when you have a choice; life’s too short to spend time with the wrong people.
– Surround yourself with people who add value to your life and inspire you to achieve more.
– Choosing the right friends can help you fulfill your destiny, while the wrong ones can hold you back.
– There is a blessing in obedience to God’s guidance on relationships.
**Examples:**
– Joel has a friend who treats his wife exceptionally well, inspiring Joel to do the same.
– A friend of Joel’s avoided a business partnership with a hot-tempered individual and later found a better partner with great integrity.
**Conclusion:**
Your friends should sharpen and improve you. Align yourself with people who have the qualities you admire and aspire to, and who will help you grow and reach your potential.
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