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Speaker 4: I want to talk to you about having a positive mindset.
Speaker 4: Every day we get to choose what kind of attitude
Speaker 4: we're going to have. We can choose to be happy,
Speaker 4: look on the bright side, expect good things, believe that
Speaker 4: our dreams will come to pass. Or we can choose
Speaker 4: to be negative, focus on our problems, dwell on what
Speaker 4: didn't work out, lived worried, and discouraged. It's a choice
Speaker 4: that we all make. Nobody can force you to have
Speaker 4: a certain attitude. Life will go so much better if
Speaker 4: you will simply choose to be positive when you wake
Speaker 4: up in the morning. Choose to be happy, Choose to
Speaker 4: be grateful for the day, Choose to focus on your possibilities.
Speaker 4: A good attitude doesn't automatically come. If you don't make
Speaker 4: this choice, most likely you will default back to a
Speaker 4: negative mindset, thinking I don't feel like going to work,
Speaker 4: I've got so many obstacles, nothing good ever happens to me.
Speaker 4: The problem is a negative attitude will limit your life.
Speaker 4: We all face difficulties, we all have tough times, But
Speaker 4: the right attitude is this didn't come to stay. It
Speaker 4: came to pass. It's only temporary. Maybe you didn't get
Speaker 4: the promotion you were hoping for. You could easily be sour.
Speaker 4: Now that's all right, I know God has something better
Speaker 4: in store. You got caught in traffic. I'm not going
Speaker 4: to be stressed. I know I'm at the right place
Speaker 4: at the right time. God is directing my steps. Perhaps
Speaker 4: the medical report wasn't good, I'm not worried. God has
Speaker 4: me in the palm of his hand, the number of
Speaker 4: my days he's promised to fulfill. Or maybe it's that
Speaker 4: your dream is taking longer than you thought. But that's
Speaker 4: all right. I know the right people, the right opportunities
Speaker 4: are already in my future at the right time. It
Speaker 4: will come to pass. When you live with this positive mindset,
Speaker 4: you can't be defeated. No matter what comes your way,
Speaker 4: you shake it off and move forward. It's like a
Speaker 4: little boy I heard about. He had a baseball bat
Speaker 4: and a ball. He said to himself, I'm the best
Speaker 4: hitter in all the world. He threw the ball up,
Speaker 4: swung at it and missed, picked it up, straightened his hat,
Speaker 4: said it again, I'm the best hitter in all the world.
Speaker 4: Threw the ball up a second time, swung away and
Speaker 4: missed again. This time he said it even more determined,
Speaker 4: I'm the best hitter in all the world. He threw
Speaker 4: the ball up the third time, concentrated, swung away, but
Speaker 4: he missed it the third time, laid the bat down,
Speaker 4: smile real big said, what do you know, I'm the
Speaker 4: best picture in all the world. Stay positive, learn to
Speaker 4: focus on the bright side, see the silver lining in
Speaker 4: every cloud. A lot of people use the excuse I'm
Speaker 4: negative because I've had negative things happen to me, my
Speaker 4: business didn't make it, a friend did me wrong, or Joel,
Speaker 4: I'm dealing with this sickness. That's why I'm sour now.
Speaker 4: The truth is, it's not our circumstances that make us negative,
Speaker 4: it's our attitude toward those circumstances. You can take twenty
Speaker 4: positive people and twenty negative people and give them the
Speaker 4: same problem, put them on the same job, the same family,
Speaker 4: the same house, and the positive people will come out
Speaker 4: just as positive, with a great attitude, as happy as
Speaker 4: they were before. The negative just as negative. Same problem,
Speaker 4: exact circumstances, two different outcomes. What's the difference their attitude?
Speaker 4: Positive people have made up their mind to enjoy their lives.
Speaker 4: They focus on the possibilities, not the problems. They're grateful
Speaker 4: for what they have, not complaining about what they don't have.
Speaker 4: Positive people know that God is in control and that
Speaker 4: nothing happens without his permission. They choose to bloom where
Speaker 4: they're planet. They don't wait for the situation to change,
Speaker 4: and then they're going to be happy. They're happy while
Speaker 4: God is changing the situation. And when you're positive, you
Speaker 4: are passing the test. You're saying God, I trust you,
Speaker 4: I know you're fighting my battles for me. And I've
Speaker 4: learned if you don't get happy where you are, you
Speaker 4: probably will never get to where you want to be.
Speaker 4: Don't wait for everything to work out. Then you're going
Speaker 4: to have a good attitude. Have a good attitude now,
Speaker 4: then God can begin to change this situation. And let's
Speaker 4: keep the right perspective. Some people would love to have
Speaker 4: our problems. They would gladly trade places with you. They
Speaker 4: would love to have that job that has you frustrated.
Speaker 4: They would love to sit in traffic in that car
Speaker 4: you don't like. They would love to have your husband
Speaker 4: that gets on your nerves. Some of you are thinking,
Speaker 4: can I give you a phone number real quick. They
Speaker 4: would love to live in that house that you think
Speaker 4: is too small. And as soon as I get into
Speaker 4: this new neighborhood, then I'll be happy. Now, why don't
Speaker 4: you choose to be happy right where you are? Why
Speaker 4: don't you decide to have a good attitude with what
Speaker 4: you have or with what you don't have. It's all
Speaker 4: in our approach to life. One man gets up and says,
Speaker 4: good morning, lord. Another man gets up and says, good lord,
Speaker 4: it's mourning. Which man are you? You control what kind
Speaker 4: of day you're going to have. You're as happy as
Speaker 4: you want to be. And a lot of times we're
Speaker 4: making ourselves unhappy. We can't control the weather, the traffic,
Speaker 4: how people treat us. If our happiness is based on
Speaker 4: everything going our way, everybody treating us right, we're going
Speaker 4: to live frustrated. Before you leave the house, you need
Speaker 4: to make up your mind. You're going to stay positive
Speaker 4: and enjoy the day, no matter what comes your way.
Speaker 4: You have to decide ahead of time. That's what it
Speaker 4: says in Colossians three. Set your mind on higher things
Speaker 4: and keep it set. The higher things are positive things.
Speaker 4: When you wake up in the morning. You need to
Speaker 4: set your mind for victory, set your mind for success.
Speaker 4: Our attitude should be this is going to be a
Speaker 4: great day. God's favor is on my life. I'm excited
Speaker 4: about my future. When your mind is set positive, hopeful,
Speaker 4: expecting good things, that's when you'll go places that you've
Speaker 4: never dreamed. New doors will open, the right people, the
Speaker 4: right opportunities will come across your path. But if you
Speaker 4: don't set your mind, negative thoughts will set it for you.
Speaker 4: You cannot start the day off in neutral. If you're passive,
Speaker 4: lying in bed, the thoughts will come. You're never going
Speaker 4: to accomplish your dreams. Nothing good happens to you. You'll
Speaker 4: never get married, you're too old, you'll never get well,
Speaker 4: you'll never get out of debt. You may not realize it,
Speaker 4: but that's setting the tone for defeat, for failure, for
Speaker 4: a lousy day. Right at the start, get your mind
Speaker 4: going in the right direction. This is the reason why
Speaker 4: some people don't have the energy they should, the passion,
Speaker 4: the enthusiasm, the vision. Their mind is set in the negative.
Speaker 4: It's been that way so long. They don't know any better.
Speaker 4: It's normal to them. They go out expecting problems bad breaks,
Speaker 4: to not be treated right to early get by. They
Speaker 4: live by Murphy's law. It says, if anything can go wrong,
Speaker 4: it will, and at the worst possible time, things will
Speaker 4: take longer than they look. Everything will be harder than
Speaker 4: it seems. Because they haven't set their minds. They go
Speaker 4: out expecting the negative. They wonder why they can't get
Speaker 4: ahead and why everything's a struggle. It's because their mind
Speaker 4: has been set by default for defeat, for failure, for
Speaker 4: bad breaks. You've got to change your outlook. You are
Speaker 4: a child of the most high God. You are never
Speaker 4: created to live an average get by short into the
Speaker 4: stick life. You are created to be the head and
Speaker 4: not the tail, to lend and not borrow, to reign
Speaker 4: in life as a king. That means you have royalty
Speaker 4: in your blood. Winning is in your DNA. Now get
Speaker 4: rid of a negative mentality and set your mind for victory.
Speaker 4: Set your mind for increase, Set your mind for good branks.
Speaker 4: Start expecting your plans to work out. Expect people to
Speaker 4: be good to you, Expect to have a productive day,
Speaker 4: and if it doesn't happen, don't fall back into that old, negative,
Speaker 4: defeated mentality. Ah I knew this wouldn't work for me, Joel.
Speaker 4: It always takes me longer than everybody else. I can
Speaker 4: never find a parking spot. Nobody treats me right. No,
Speaker 4: you're not a victim. You are a victor. You wouldn't
Speaker 4: have that opposition if there wasn't something amazing in your future. Now,
Speaker 4: keep a smile on your face, keep a spring in
Speaker 4: your steps, stay positive, stay hopeful. God is still on
Speaker 4: the throne. You may have had a lot of unfair,
Speaker 4: negative things happen in the past, but don't let that
Speaker 4: become a stronghold, a pattern to where you think that's
Speaker 4: all there will ever be. You live with a negative mindset. Now,
Speaker 4: if God were to show you all he has planned
Speaker 4: for you, it would boggle your mind. If you could
Speaker 4: see the doors he's going to open, the people he's
Speaker 4: going to bring across your path, the opportunities that are
Speaker 4: going to show up, you'd be amazed, excited, passionate. It
Speaker 4: would be easy to set your mind for victory. This
Speaker 4: is what faith is all about. You have to believe
Speaker 4: it before you see it. Right now, God's favor is
Speaker 4: surrounding you like a shield. Every setback was a set
Speaker 4: up for a greater comeback. Every disappointment, every bad break,
Speaker 4: every person that did you wrong, was a part of
Speaker 4: the plan to get you to where you're supposed to be. Now,
Speaker 4: don't fall into that negative mentality, complacent, just taking whatever
Speaker 4: life comes your way. Now, set your mind for victory,
Speaker 4: for success, for new levels. Enlarge your vision. Make room
Speaker 4: for God to do something new. You haven't touched the
Speaker 4: surface of what he has in store. I was talking
Speaker 4: to a reporter one time, and I could tell he
Speaker 4: didn't like the fact that my message is very positive
Speaker 4: and very hopeful. He asked what I would tell a
Speaker 4: person that had lost their job and didn't have any family,
Speaker 4: and they were about to lose their house and had
Speaker 4: nowhere to go, and had a child that was sick
Speaker 4: and needed treatment, on and on. He painted the worst
Speaker 4: possible situation. I said, I would tell them number one
Speaker 4: to get up and find something to be grateful for,
Speaker 4: and number two go out, expecting it to turn around,
Speaker 4: expecting new doors to open, expecting a breakthrough. Proverbs says
Speaker 4: when darkness overtakes, the righteous light will come bursting in.
Speaker 4: And when it's dark, when you don't see a way out,
Speaker 4: you're in prime position for favor to come bursting in.
Speaker 4: He said, all Joe, wouldn't that just be giving them
Speaker 4: false hope. Well, here's the alternative. I could tell this
Speaker 4: to be negative, get bitter, give up on your dreams,
Speaker 4: be depressed, start complaining. All that's going to do is
Speaker 4: make matters worse. You may be in a difficult time,
Speaker 4: but you have to dig your heels in and say,
Speaker 4: I refuse to live my life negative. I refuse to
Speaker 4: give up on my dreams. I refuse to go through
Speaker 4: life with no passion. I may not see away, but
Speaker 4: I know God has a way. It may be dark,
Speaker 4: but I'm expecting the light to come bursting in. I'm
Speaker 4: setting my mind for victory. That's what allows the creator
Speaker 4: of the universe to show up and do amazing things.
Speaker 4: And it's not just mind over matter. It's not just
Speaker 4: a positive attitude. It's your faith being released when you believe,
Speaker 4: it gets God's attention. When you go out expecting things
Speaker 4: to turn around, expecting dreams to come to pass, expecting health, wholeness,
Speaker 4: favor divine connections, than almighty God goes to work. You
Speaker 4: may have had a thousand bad breaks in the past,
Speaker 4: but don't use that as an excuse to be negative.
Speaker 4: One good break can make up for all those bad breaks.
Speaker 4: One touch of God's favor can catapult you further than
Speaker 4: you ever imagined. Maybe you feel like you're falling behind.
Speaker 4: You're not where you should be in life. Don't worry.
Speaker 4: God knows how to make up for lost time. He
Speaker 4: knows how to accelerate things. Now do your part and
Speaker 4: shake off a negative mentality, shake off pessimism, self pity, discouragement,
Speaker 4: and get your fire back. Life is flying by. You
Speaker 4: don't have time to waste another day being negative. You
Speaker 4: have a destiny to fulfill, You have an assignment to accomplish.
Speaker 4: What's in your future is greater than anything you've seen
Speaker 4: in the past. We need to get rid of the
Speaker 4: old Murphy's law and live by just the opposite. If
Speaker 4: anything good can happen today, it can happen to you
Speaker 4: and me. It's gonna be easier than it seems. It's
Speaker 4: not gonna take as long as it looks. Why you've
Speaker 4: been highly favored. Almighty God is breathing in your direction.
Speaker 4: You are equipped, empowered, and anointed. Hey, you said joy,
Speaker 4: You're just getting people's hopes up. You're just trying to
Speaker 4: get us to live positive. Yes, And here's why God
Speaker 4: is a positive god. There is nothing negative about him.
Speaker 4: If you're negative, sour, discourage, you are going against the
Speaker 4: flow of God. When we travel from Houston to Los
Speaker 4: Angeles on a plane, it always takes us thirty minutes
Speaker 4: longer to get there than it does to come back home.
Speaker 4: It's because the jet stream flows from west to east.
Speaker 4: When we're traveling there, there's a large, massive air that's
Speaker 4: always blowing against us, slowing us down. Has to work harder,
Speaker 4: use more fuel, spend more energy. But when we're coming
Speaker 4: back home, of course, it's just the opposite. The jet
Speaker 4: stream is working in our favor. It's pushing us forward,
Speaker 4: making it easier, saving us time and energy. It's the
Speaker 4: same principle in life. When we're positive, hopeful, expecting good things,
Speaker 4: we're in the jet stream of Almighty God. Things will
Speaker 4: be easier, you'll be more productive, you'll live happier, healthier,
Speaker 4: see more favor. But when we're negative, discouraged, everything's a struggle.
Speaker 4: We're having to work harder, we're not enjoying life. Pay
Speaker 4: attention to what you're thinking. You can't think negative thoughts
Speaker 4: and live a positive life. You're going against the flow.
Speaker 4: If you go through the day thinking, I'll never pass
Speaker 4: this chemistry test. I can't stand my job, my marriage
Speaker 4: is never going to last, I'll never meet the right person.
Speaker 4: Your life is going to follow your thoughts. You're drawing
Speaker 4: in what you're continually thinking about, just like a magnet.
Speaker 4: I can't pass this test. You're drawn in failure. I'll
Speaker 4: never meet the right person, drawing in loneliness. I can't
Speaker 4: stand my job, drawn in negativity, I'll never accomplish my dreams,
Speaker 4: drawn in mediocrity. Here's the key. Just because a thought
Speaker 4: comes doesn't mean that you have to dwell on it.
Speaker 4: You control the doorway to your mind. If that thought
Speaker 4: is negative, discouraging, pushing you down, dismiss it, don't give
Speaker 4: it the time of day, Keep the door closed. Choose
Speaker 4: to dwell on thoughts that empower you, inspire you, encourage you,
Speaker 4: thoughts that give you joy, faith, victory. If you'll keep
Speaker 4: your mind to fill with the right thoughts, there won't
Speaker 4: be any room for the wrong thoughts. In other words,
Speaker 4: all through the day, some than good is going to
Speaker 4: happen to me. I'm strong, healthy, talented. I will pass
Speaker 4: this test. I will meet the right people. I will
Speaker 4: overcome this obstacle. My best days are still out in
Speaker 4: front of me. When your mind is filled with thoughts
Speaker 4: of hope, faith and victory, you're going to draw in
Speaker 4: the good things of God. I read about this lady.
Speaker 4: She had been sick for several years, and she'd tried
Speaker 4: different doctors, but they couldn't really find out what was
Speaker 4: wrong with her. This lady was extremely negative. She's always
Speaker 4: complaining about how she would never get well, and just
Speaker 4: like a magnet, she kept drawing in more sickness. The
Speaker 4: battle is taking place in our minds. What are you
Speaker 4: dwelling on all day? That's what you're drawing in. She
Speaker 4: eventually went to another doctor, told him how bad she was,
Speaker 4: how she was never going to get well. On and on.
Speaker 4: This doctor noticed how negative she was and decided to
Speaker 4: give her an unusual prescription. He had never done this.
Speaker 4: He said, five or six times an hour. I want
Speaker 4: you to say out loud, I'm getting better and better
Speaker 4: every day in every way. She thought that was strange,
Speaker 4: said doctor, I'm not going to do that. I want
Speaker 4: some real medicine. I want a normal prescription. He said, no,
Speaker 4: you follow my orders and we'll talk about what's next.
Speaker 4: She started doing this fifty sixty times a day, and
Speaker 4: before long her attitude began to change. In a few days,
Speaker 4: she noticed she was feeling better. In a couple of weeks,
Speaker 4: she got her joy back, her strength back. A month later,
Speaker 4: she was a different person, all the symptoms had gone.
Speaker 4: What happened She changed her thinking and instead of drawing
Speaker 4: in sickness, she started drawing in health. Sometimes your body
Speaker 4: will not get well until your mind tells it to
Speaker 4: get well. You want to accomplish your dreams, thinking I
Speaker 4: don't have the talent, the education, the connections. You have
Speaker 4: to give yourself permission to accomplish your dreams, permission to
Speaker 4: get out of debt, permission to overcome that obstacle. It
Speaker 4: starts in our thinking. Studies even tell us that when
Speaker 4: we're negative, we think sad, discouraging thoughts. Our serotonin level
Speaker 4: goes down. That causes us to feel sad. It's not
Speaker 4: just in our thinking. It starts to affect our moods.
Speaker 4: But when we're positive, hopeful, expecting good things, endorphins are
Speaker 4: released that causes us to feel happy, to have more energy,
Speaker 4: puts a spring in our step. If you go around
Speaker 4: thinking I'll never get well. I'm so overweighted. I can't
Speaker 4: stand my job. As you think those negative thoughts, your faith,
Speaker 4: your energy, your enthusiasm is being drained out of you,
Speaker 4: just like a big vacuum. It's pulling out the good
Speaker 4: things God has put in you. You'd be amazed how
Speaker 4: much more energy you'd have, how much more productive you'd be,
Speaker 4: how much better you'd feel if you just switch over
Speaker 4: to this positive mindset. You have to think thoughts on purpose.
Speaker 4: This is going to be a good day. Twenty fourteen
Speaker 4: is going to be my year. I'm expecting an abundance
Speaker 4: of favor. If Esians four puts it like this, put
Speaker 4: on a fresh new attitude. I found yesterday's attitude is
Speaker 4: not good enough for today. Every morning you have to
Speaker 4: put on a fresh attitude. I'm gonna choose to be
Speaker 4: happy today. I'm going to be good to other people today.
Speaker 4: I'm going to go with the flow today, not get upset.
Speaker 4: When you put on that fresh new attitude, it's putting
Speaker 4: you in the jet stream of God. That's when you'll
Speaker 4: accomplish things that you could not accomplish on your own.
Speaker 4: You will overcome obstacles that look bigger stronger, more powerful.
Speaker 4: What Daniel did The scripture says that he was a
Speaker 4: person of excellence. He stood out in the crowd. He
Speaker 4: was a cut above. How did he do it? Every
Speaker 4: morning he got up early, opened his window and thanked
Speaker 4: God for the day, thanked him for his goodness, thanked
Speaker 4: him that he was well able. He was putting on
Speaker 4: a fresh new attitude. He was setting his mind for victory. Now.
Speaker 4: As a young man, Daniel was serving a king of
Speaker 4: a foreign nation. At one point, this king put out
Speaker 4: a decree that for thirty days, no one could pray
Speaker 4: to any god except the king's god. If they did,
Speaker 4: they would be thrown into a lion's den and killed. Well,
Speaker 4: that didn't stop Daniel. He kept on praying to the
Speaker 4: God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.
Speaker 4: Some of his enemies told the king. The king was heartbroken.
Speaker 4: He loved Daniel, but he had already put out this decree.
Speaker 4: He couldn't go back on his word. Daniel said, King,
Speaker 4: don't worry. I'll be fine. The God I serve is
Speaker 4: well able to deliver me. That's what happens when you
Speaker 4: start the day off in faith, thinking thoughts on purpose,
Speaker 4: when you face difficulties, you don't fall apart, you don't
Speaker 4: get better. Why is this happening to me? You rise
Speaker 4: up in faith and say, my God is well able.
Speaker 4: I'm armed with strength for this battle. No weapon formed
Speaker 4: against me will ever prosper. The authorities had Daniel thrown
Speaker 4: into a den of over one hundred hungry lions. They
Speaker 4: were expecting him to be eaten immediately. But when you
Speaker 4: live with an attitude of faith, God will fight your battles.
Speaker 4: God send an angel to close the mouths of those lions.
Speaker 4: The next morning, early the king came to check on Daniel,
Speaker 4: saw him lying there asleep, unharmed, refreshed. The king got
Speaker 4: him out and said, hey, from now on, we're all
Speaker 4: going to worship the God of Daniel's te true and
Speaker 4: the living God. Here's an interesting thought in the scripture.
Speaker 4: Nothing negative is written about Daniel or about Joseph. I'm
Speaker 4: sure they made mistakes, but you can't find a record
Speaker 4: of anything they did wrong. Other heroes of faith, like Abraham, Moses, David,
Speaker 4: the apostle Paul, there are accounts of times where they fell,
Speaker 4: where they blew it. This is making the point that
Speaker 4: Daniel and Joseph were good people, but they faced bad circumstances.
Speaker 4: Unfair things happened to them, they were mistreated, they faced
Speaker 4: incredible odds. But if you studied their lives, one common
Speaker 4: denominator is they lived with this positive mindset. They had
Speaker 4: an attitude of faith. They didn't get bitter, they didn't
Speaker 4: make excuses. Every morning, they got their mind going in
Speaker 4: the right direction, knowing that our God is well able.
Speaker 4: They both saw God's goodness, his favor in amazing ways. Well,
Speaker 4: in the same way, you can be a good person
Speaker 4: and have bad circumstances. It's easy to get negative and
Speaker 4: think I don't understand why my child got sicker, why
Speaker 4: I came down with this problem, or why these people
Speaker 4: did me wrong. No, dig your heels in and do
Speaker 4: like Daniel, get up every morning in the midst of
Speaker 4: that battle, look up and say, Lord, thank you for
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