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Play Each Quarter

Day Four – Fourth Quarter – Play Up

One of the great advantages of being on a team in team sports is that it produces synergy. This is true in business as well. It is the interaction of people and the multiplication of their talents and shared work that produces this dynamic, provided they work as a team. Remember there is no “I” in team. 

There is another dynamic that changes a man or men as well, and it is the impartation of courage, values, and extreme credibility of someone we trust and want to emulate. He can be our coach, a team leader, a founder, a father, or a friend. His values and wisdom kind of “rub off” on us, and we begin to sound, act, and influence others like him. This is a “law of influence,” and we become powerfully persuasive if we believe deeply why we do what we do, and what we do emerges from this synergy of belief. This is what we see in the verse below, as the Sanhedrin Council observed Peter and John.

They couldn’t take their eyes off them—Peter and John standing there so confident, so sure of themselves! Their fascination deepened when they realized these two were laymen with no training in Scripture or formal education. They recognized them as companions of Jesus, but with the man right before them, seeing him standing there so upright—so healed!—what could they say against that? Acts 4:13-14 (MSG)

The synergy in Peter and John’s life was a result of an abiding relationship with Jesus through the active indwelling of His Spirit in their lives. This dynamic causes us to be better than our self alone from Him. It causes us to have a supernatural influence that we cannot have normally, because we sound a lot like Jesus, we say the things our Coach taught us to say and we have His power to persuade. People can sense something in us that is authentic, real and incredibly attractive. When we abide in Jesus in close proximity to Him, we are able to play up to a greater potential, for we are playing our best game for Him.