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