Who do you surround yourself with?

All of us have people we consider friends and some friends we even consider family. The question we need to ask ourselves is "Who are we surrounding ourselves with?"

As much as I consider myself my own person, I would be lying if I said my family and even my friends didn't influence my decisions in one way or another. My closest friend even influences how I think or view certain situations. Most of the time there's nothing wrong with that, we all need relationships to lead a fulfilling life. However, our number one relationship needs to with God. Having a relationship with Him helps to keep everything else in life in perspective.

In my 29 years I have found that when I concentrate more on my conversations with God that everyone else's opinions do not carry the same weight in my decision making. Also when I remained focused on Him he begun to lead people into my life that would add to my destiny and not subtract from it. He introduced me to those that motivate me, those who challenge my thinking, and those who will be a refuge for me when things get rough. And those people that I thought (or wanted to believe) were my friends slowly began to show their true selves and were removed from my life, a lot of times with no effort on my part.

So if you were to be truly honest with yourself who do you surround yourself with? Are you surrounding yourself with people showing you God's love or those offering you a counterfeit of affection? Jesus surrounded himself with people he considered friends and even he was betrayed by one of them. What is to be learned from his life is that no matter whether good or bad He never allowed his friends to steal his focus from doing what His Father (God) had called him to do.

Ladies, you must do the same, remember to always walk in your destiny. You are the daughter of the King of Kings and as such you were destined to be surrounded by His love. Take notice everyday on who you are surrounding yourself with and if necessary make those tough decisions and make the adjustments needed it is critical for you destiny. Don't delay the things that God has in store for you by holding on to those people you need to let go.