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Speaker 4: So how's your outlook on life today? You get up
Speaker 4: this morning ready to embrace the day. I believe that
Speaker 4: you did. But you know, there's too many people that
Speaker 4: allow their circumstance to dictate their attitude. They don't even
Speaker 4: realize that their attitude is a choice that they make
Speaker 4: every single day. See, the Bible tells us to consistently
Speaker 4: and constantly put on this fresh new mental attitude. See,
Speaker 4: we choose the way we see life. We can either
Speaker 4: look at what's good in life and decide to be
Speaker 4: grateful about that, or we can look at what didn't
Speaker 4: work out and how things didn't go our way and
Speaker 4: allow it to give us a negative perspective on life.
Speaker 4: We've all heard that saying the glass half full or
Speaker 4: the glass half empty. You see that saying is so
Speaker 4: timeless because it makes such an amazing point. See, the
Speaker 4: water in the glass is the same amount. It's just
Speaker 4: how one chooses to see the water that makes all
Speaker 4: the difference in the world. I know this girl that
Speaker 4: kind of always had a bend towards negative. You could
Speaker 4: ask her how you doing today, and it was almost funny.
Speaker 4: You could predict she was going to start telling you
Speaker 4: the things that were going wrong in her life. One day,
Speaker 4: she said, Oh, I was late to work. I had
Speaker 4: to take my children to the doctor. The doctor didn't
Speaker 4: open till nine o'clock. She said, Now I have to
Speaker 4: stay late at the office because there's so much work
Speaker 4: for me to do. And you know, you're listening to
Speaker 4: this and it almost makes you grin because you're thinking
Speaker 4: you're kidding, right. Then she goes on to say, my
Speaker 4: house is a disaster when I get home late from work.
Speaker 4: My husband doesn't know how to work the vacuum cleaner,
Speaker 4: he doesn't know to how to work the dishwasher, on
Speaker 4: and on. And you know, when you listen to this,
Speaker 4: you realize, you know what, she probably got a pretty
Speaker 4: good husband. In fact, I know her husband, and he's
Speaker 4: a good man. He has a good job, he works hard,
Speaker 4: he loves to take the kids out on Saturdays, and
Speaker 4: she can have the whole house to herself. But instead
Speaker 4: of looking at the richness in her life, she chooses
Speaker 4: to look at the negative. And when you begin to
Speaker 4: focus on the negative, you know what you see more negative.
Speaker 4: And when you see this negative, it's like swimming against
Speaker 4: the current. It's just a struggle. It's difficult and it's hard.
Speaker 4: I believe that we need to learn how to manage
Speaker 4: our thoughts. We need to learn how to rearrange our
Speaker 4: thoughts so that we can literally see what we have
Speaker 4: and then enjoy what we have. The other day, I
Speaker 4: walked past one room in my house. It's my living room,
Speaker 4: and sometimes when I go in there, I think I
Speaker 4: don't like the way this room looks. In fact, I thought,
Speaker 4: I wish I could just get rid of all this
Speaker 4: furniture and start over. That would be so amazing. I
Speaker 4: all found myself walking by the passed the room several times,
Speaker 4: you know, as the days went on, and looking in
Speaker 4: there and having just really negative attitude towards that room,
Speaker 4: almost like ugh. And then I realized, I'm not going
Speaker 4: to be getting any new furniture anytime soon, so I
Speaker 4: better just go in there and rearrange the furniture. So
Speaker 4: I began shifting the furniture, putting towels under the legs
Speaker 4: of the couch. How many of you women to pulling
Speaker 4: that couch scooting everything around, you know. By the time
Speaker 4: I finally finished, I stepped back and I looked at
Speaker 4: that room and I thought, I like this room. This
Speaker 4: looks really good. I went and got myself a cup
Speaker 4: of tea, sat on the couch. I thought, I've never
Speaker 4: seen that piece of furniture from that perspective. That really
Speaker 4: looks good. The way that curves are around there. You see,
Speaker 4: I was able to have a fresh new attitude about
Speaker 4: that room. I was able to see it differently because
Speaker 4: I rearranged it and just the way I I rearranged
Speaker 4: my furniture. We need to rearrange our thoughts. We need
Speaker 4: to push our thoughts around so our thoughts don't push
Speaker 4: us around. You know, when you get down and discouraged,
Speaker 4: you need to recognize what it is and you need
Speaker 4: to stop and think what am I thinking about? And
Speaker 4: I think oftentimes we need to rearrange our thoughts in
Speaker 4: simple ways. One, we need to be grateful, but sometimes
Speaker 4: we just need to change the atmosphere that we're in.
Speaker 4: Have you ever been working in the office and you're
Speaker 4: you're tired, and you think, you know what I just
Speaker 4: need to break? Maybe you need to walk outside and
Speaker 4: begin to look at the trees and the sunshine and
Speaker 4: the sky, and the buds on the flower, the texture
Speaker 4: of the bark, and begin to just say, isn't that
Speaker 4: beautiful what God has created? To just stop and think
Speaker 4: about something differently, you see. I believe sometimes if we'll
Speaker 4: simply just change our routine, maybe there's some things that
Speaker 4: we're doing that we need to not be doing anymore.
Speaker 4: A friend of mine said that every day she would
Speaker 4: go out to lunch with the same group of people,
Speaker 4: and she loved her friends and all, but when she
Speaker 4: got back to work, it was just like, oh man,
Speaker 4: I've got half a day to go. She made this
Speaker 4: conscious decision. She said, you know, I don't like the
Speaker 4: way I'm feeling about my job. How I'm just being
Speaker 4: so mundane about it. She said, I'm going to choose
Speaker 4: a few new people to go to lunch with. So
Speaker 4: she looked around her office and she asked some different
Speaker 4: people to go to lunch with her. In fact, she
Speaker 4: got a new little group, and she said, I had
Speaker 4: so much fun just getting in a new group of people,
Speaker 4: listening to their ideas, their jokes, the way they were.
Speaker 4: She said, I came back to work and she said,
Speaker 4: I had a new perspective. I was ready to tackle
Speaker 4: that day. It was so refreshing. You see, sometimes we
Speaker 4: just need to get a new outlook on what we
Speaker 4: already have. I heard about this man who was really down,
Speaker 4: he was really discouraged. He went to one of his
Speaker 4: pastors at the church and he told him, he said,
Speaker 4: my life is just I just don't have anything good
Speaker 4: going on. My life is just a wreck. The pastor said,
Speaker 4: come on into my office and let's just sit down
Speaker 4: and talk a little bit. The pastor pulled out this
Speaker 4: legal pad of paper. He drew a line down the
Speaker 4: center of it, and he said, let's take this little test.
Speaker 4: He said, on the right side, I'm going to put
Speaker 4: all your assets, all the things that are good in
Speaker 4: your life. On the left side, I'm going to put
Speaker 4: your challenges, your problems, your disappointments. The man just kind
Speaker 4: of hung his head and he said, you know, I'm
Speaker 4: not going to have anything right in my life. The
Speaker 4: pastor said, let's just go ahead and take the test.
Speaker 4: He said, you know, I am so sorry to hear
Speaker 4: that your wife passed away. He looked up and he said,
Speaker 4: my wife didn't pass away. She's alive and she's healthy.
Speaker 4: He said, really, He wrote on the right side of
Speaker 4: the page, wife alive and healthy. He said, that's a
Speaker 4: shame that your house burnt down. The man looked at
Speaker 4: him and he said, what are you talking about. My
Speaker 4: house didn't burn down. I'm living in my house. He said, oh.
Speaker 4: He wrote on the right side of the page, living
Speaker 4: in a house. The man said, where are you getting
Speaker 4: all this ridiculous information. The pastor looked at him, and
Speaker 4: then he wised up and he realized he's trying to
Speaker 4: show me a new perspective, a new way of thinking.
Speaker 4: By the time they finished their little session, that man
Speaker 4: had listed several things on the right side of the
Speaker 4: page that was right in his life. And he left
Speaker 4: out of there with a good attitude and a spring
Speaker 4: in his step. Amen, have you ever heard that saying
Speaker 4: that says your attitude determines your altitude? What that means
Speaker 4: is is there our attitudes have a direct correlation with
Speaker 4: the success in our life. Have you ever met somebody
Speaker 4: with just a good attitude. They always saw the solutions
Speaker 4: and not the problems. They felt like they could tackle anything.
Speaker 4: It makes you want to just be around that person. See,
Speaker 4: your attitude can determine your altitude. All of you know
Speaker 4: the story about Joshua and Caleb. They were two of
Speaker 4: the twelve spies that Moses picked to go into Canaan,
Speaker 4: which was the promised land that God had promised the
Speaker 4: Israelites when they left Egypt. And so Joshua and Caleb
Speaker 4: and ten other spies were directed by Moses to go
Speaker 4: into Canaan and to buy out the land, to see
Speaker 4: what the cities were like, see what the people were like,
Speaker 4: look at the vegetation. He even said, bring back some
Speaker 4: of the vegetation, so we can see what the soil
Speaker 4: is like and what it's producing. So the twelve men
Speaker 4: went into the land of Canaan. They were there for
Speaker 4: forty days. They collected these huge grapes, They saw these
Speaker 4: amazing pomegranates, they saw the people. They wandered around for
Speaker 4: forty days, and when they got back to the camp,
Speaker 4: every one of those men said, the land is rich.
Speaker 4: It is indeed land that is flowing with milk and honey,
Speaker 4: just like we have heard. But the difference was that
Speaker 4: ten of those men took what they saw and they
Speaker 4: perceived it different. They perceived it as it was great land.
Speaker 4: It was flowing with milk and honey. But there are
Speaker 4: giants in the land. The cities have huge walls around them.
Speaker 4: Will never be able to conquer those people because they're
Speaker 4: way bigger than we are. In comparison to us, we
Speaker 4: look like grasshoppers in our own site. They begin to
Speaker 4: take what they perceived and spread it throughout the whole
Speaker 4: camp two million people. Can you imagine they just went
Speaker 4: in and spread that. Well, when Joshua and Caleb said,
Speaker 4: we saw the same thing. The land is good. It
Speaker 4: is what God said it was we need to go
Speaker 4: up right now, and we need to take that land
Speaker 4: at once, and if God is pleased with us, we'll
Speaker 4: be successful. Ten spies saw the glass half empty, where
Speaker 4: two spies saw the glass half full. It's amazing how
Speaker 4: your attitude can affect what you see. Joshua and Caleb,
Speaker 4: although they had a good report, that good report was
Speaker 4: not good enough to diffuse the negative rumors that had
Speaker 4: spread throughout all the people. It was so negative that
Speaker 4: the Bible says they were crying and complaining and murmuring, saying,
Speaker 4: can we just go back to Egypt? And do you
Speaker 4: know the Lord told Moses, he said, every one of
Speaker 4: you are going to go back to Egypt because of
Speaker 4: your bad attitude. You're murmuring, you're complaining your perception of
Speaker 4: who I am in your life. But the point of
Speaker 4: my story, and the one that I really want us
Speaker 4: to see today, is this that God gave Joshua and
Speaker 4: Caleb a second chance to enter the Promised Land. The
Speaker 4: Bible says that the forty days that those men were
Speaker 4: examining the Promised Land, that's how long that the children
Speaker 4: at Israel were going to wonder in the wilderness. One
Speaker 4: year for every day. They were going to wonder forty
Speaker 4: years in the wilderness. Now, can I tell you the
Speaker 4: ones with the good report, Joshua and Caleb, the ones
Speaker 4: with the attitude, if we can take the land. They
Speaker 4: also had to wonder in the wilderness for forty years.
Speaker 4: But the Bible says this about them. They were of
Speaker 4: a different spirit. One version says, an excellent spirit. So
Speaker 4: when it was their opportunity after forty years to take
Speaker 4: the younger generation into the promised land, this is what
Speaker 4: Caleb said. He said, listen, I'm stronger and I'm more
Speaker 4: determined than ever to take this land. When they thrived
Speaker 4: in the wilderness for forty years, the rest of them
Speaker 4: died in the wilderness. Can I tell you when you
Speaker 4: have a perception of who God is, when you can
Speaker 4: look out over your situation and you can have a
Speaker 4: good attitude, using what you have and valuing what you have,
Speaker 4: you can make it through the struggles of life. You
Speaker 4: can make it through the wilderness moments better off and
Speaker 4: more determined than you ever thought you were. When Joshua
Speaker 4: and Caleb were about to go in, this is what
Speaker 4: they spoke to the younger generation. This was their mantra
Speaker 4: their leadership vision. They said, Gus, I can only imagine
Speaker 4: He looked at all them and he said, choose ye
Speaker 4: this day, who you will serve. He would say, in
Speaker 4: every day, choose your attitude. Every day you can choose
Speaker 4: the way you see life. Choose today how you're gonna
Speaker 4: see this journey into the Promised Land. And he said,
Speaker 4: for me and my house, we're going to serve the Lord.
Speaker 4: We're gonna choose to overlook offense. We're gonna choose to
Speaker 4: quiet the discouraging voices that would try to come against us.
Speaker 4: We're gonna choose to believe that God is a big God,
Speaker 4: and we're going to hope on in faith. You see,
Speaker 4: I believe when we take inventory of our thoughts, we
Speaker 4: will be like Joshua and Caleb. In fact, we'll outlast
Speaker 4: anything that the enemy is trying to come against us with,
Speaker 4: and we'll go in and we'll take the land that
Speaker 4: God has given us. Amen. Hey man, He's an awesome God.
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