ITFAR acronym

Our dear friend Barbara Bird taught us this acronym she learned from the Make Your Mark class.

  • Influence creates
  • Thoughts, thoughts create
  • Feelings, feelings create
  • Actions, and actions create
  • Results

This is confirmed in the Word of God, the Bible.

Romans 12: 2  Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

We read the Bible ourselves to allow God’s Word to renew our minds.

We have found studying the Bible with men who really know God to be helpful in renewing our minds.

God’s Word and Godly people are to be our primary influence.

Psalms 1:1-3 (NIV)

Blessed is the one
    who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
    or sit in the company of mockers,
2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
    and who meditates on his law day and night.
3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
    which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither—
    whatever they do prospers.

Our Influences

You can view all our influences including worship playlists and teachers on our YouTube Channel, Retire on 2K .

Pastor Chuck Smith and Pastor Jon Courson are teachers we trust when we want to go deeper in our study. Amir Tsarfati is a source we trust for current events related to Bible Prophecy and what is happening in the Middle East.