Your Friendliness Zone Inside Your Sphere of Influence

What's your zone?  What's your friendliness zone? 3 feet? 5 feet? 10 feet? 200 feet?

If you're walking in a store, a park, the workplace or church parking lot or bike riding, when & how often & to whom do you say hello to?  You have a sphere of influence.   Where can you make a difference in others' lives?  Wherever you're at, that is your sphere.  But it's how you actually extend yourself within that sphere that makes a difference.  That's your friendliness zone.  What is yours? 

I'm sitting on a park bench reading & a man walked by while talking on his cellphone & broke his conversation to say hello to me at 3 feet of distance. How nice! How friendly & warm!

Get your "friendly" out. Say hello & smile to people. Spread some care & sunshine. Open up & get to know people.  I sat in Panera's one day firing up my laptop & noticed the man next to me working on his.  I just popped out & said, "What are you working on?"  He pleasantly opened up & shared about his project & that he was a wardrobe salesman at a large department store for many years.  We talked about people's personalities, temperaments & communicating with others & about the technology he was trying to keep up with.  It was a pleasant & perky conversation & I got to bless & encourage him in who he is & in what he does. 

Change today's culture. I challenge you to increase how you extend yourself in friendliness within your sphere of influence.  It takes nothing to come up with a random comment or question to someone & a conversation may be opened.  In those few comments or conversation, you can bless with seeds of love or the full gospel of Jesus.

Everyone in the places you shop are lives God has put you in contact with.  Get to know those people, their names and their lives.  Interface with them in concern.  How are we to change the world with the love of God if we're not close enough with them to share it with in life's interactions?  You are the message of Christ, so speak up, relate & be relatable.  You can also ask God to increase your territory (your sphere of influence).  Then shorten up your friendliness zone within that.

I call you "Mr. Friendly" & "Mrs. Friendly!"

"Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, "Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain." And God granted his request (1 Chronicles 4:10).