Messages by Desiring God (Video) Lead with Your Life: How to Influence in Your Twenties
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Mar 11, 2026 A call for young people to influence others through everyday life. Stories show how ordinary actions shape faith and habits. Practical focus on five example-setting areas: speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity. Encouragement to lead now by imitating Christlike priorities and fighting for devotion.
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How A Teen Named Brian Changed Marshall Segal
- Marshall Segal tells how a 17-year-old named Brian transformed his teenage faith by inviting him to read the Bible, confronting sin gently, and modeling repentance.
- Brian used encouragement, consistent confession, and time investment to make Segal hungry for Scripture and growth decades later.
Leadership Happens By Living Not Lecturing
- Paul’s command to Timothy shows leadership is primarily demonstrative: lead by living, not just by speaking.
- Humans are natural imitators, made to reflect God by copying what they see, so your life communicates the gospel continually.
Fill Your Mouth With Thanksgiving Not Crude Jokes
- Do guard your speech by avoiding profanity and crude joking and filling your words with thanksgiving, encouragement, prayer, and honest correction.
- Ask whether a specific younger person would want to copy how you talk in calls, texts, or posts.
