Your relationships are key to your resilience and your progress at work. Thriving at your job becomes so much easier, and long-lasting, when you do it in the context of community. I am not speaking so much about your friends or accountability partners. I am speaking about relationships at work.

Some of us tend to think that God is the only one who determines what happens to us. It is true that God plans it, but the blessing always comes through another human being. So, if the person at work does not see you with favour, he or she can stifle your progress because God gives people free will. That person can be disobedient to the will of God and stop it.

Think about it this way – Luke 2:52 (NIV) says, “And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.” Why was this important for Him to grow in favour with man? He was the Son of God, with all power and authority at His disposal. But He grew in favour with man to further His purposes here on earth. For example, Jesus needed the favour of women who ended up supporting His ministry by giving Him money. If He did not experience that favour, His ministry would have been limited.  A part of our destiny is locked up in the hands of other people. You need people around you to progress.