You know, we just we just need to make a decision I am not going
To waste one more day of my life being miserable
Be happy today
You know, it puts a smile on God's face when we're happy
If you have children, you know, you love to see them happy nobody wants to see their children miserable
And God doesn't want to see us miserable. I think one of the things that we can do for him is serve him with gladness
That's what Psalm 100 says serve the Lord with gladness
If you don't know what your purpose is yet just start with well I'm going to serve the Lord with gladness
And he'll lead you into other good things
And every morning when we wake up, we need to empty out anything negative from the day before
Somebody offended you at work. They didn't treat you right. It's easy to let that offense stay
Feels good to carry around a grudge
You have to be disciplined say no. I am not giving this offense any room. I am not going to let it sour my day
They hurt you once don't let them continue to hurt you by holding on to the offense
Being offended is not harming them. It's harming you
It's taking up space you need for the good things that move you toward your destiny
Or you wake up in the morning and thoughts of worry come. How are you going to pay your bills
What if the medical report's not good, you'll never get out of this problem. Don't allow that in
Don't make the mistake of dwelling on it just say no thanks. I know God's in control
He's got me in the palm of his hand. He'll get me to where I'm supposed to be
Take inventory of what you're giving space to
Life is too short to go through it with negative things holding us down
Enjoy
your life
The one you have right now
Not the one you hope to have sometime in the future
Not I'm going to enjoy myself when I'll be glad when I'll sure be glad when
I'll be glad when this is over. I'll be glad when this starts. Well, what about being glad right now
Would anybody like to enjoy this day or do you want to just ruin this day thinking about how you're going to be happy when
You know when your child's two enjoy the two-year-old don't sit around and wish they were three
I'll be I'll be glad when the kids start to school
I'll be glad when school's out I'm tired of driving those kids to school every day
I'll be glad when these kids get through college I'm tired of paying those bills
I'll be glad when I'll be glad I'll be glad I'll be glad well each one of those things
That you're going to be glad about later is something that you're missing
That trust me later when you're older
You're going to think I wish I would have taken time to have enjoyed my family more
I wish I would have taken time to enjoy my home more
You have a choice each day you live regarding the attitude you choose
The longer I live the more I realize the importance of choosing the right attitude in life
It is more important than your past
More important than your education or your financial situation
It's more important than your circumstances your successes or your failures
More important than what other people think or say or do
It is more important than your appearance your giftedness or your skills
It will make or break a company
It will make the difference between a happy home or a miserable home
You cannot change the years that have passed
You cannot change
the daily tick of the clock
You cannot change the decisions or reactions of other people
I'm convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I respond to it
The same is true for you
Your attitude is something
That belongs to you
and nobody
I want you to get this nobody can make you have a bad one
if you don't want to
You have to make a decision
Set your mind
That today I'm going to have a good attitude no matter what and you know, I don't just tell you to do these things
I do them
I spend time each morning with the Lord when I get up because I know if I don't
I am not going to act good that day and to be honest most of us are like that
We need just like you you need food to keep your body running right you need spiritual food
Which is the word of God and time with him
to
behave spiritually correctly
I don't want to do anything that offends the holy spirit. I want to
love people like Jesus told us to and I can't do it without a lot of help from God. And so
I pray every morning that God will help me that he will strengthen me
I want to enjoy the day
I want to appreciate the things that God has given me so I specifically set my mind
Today is the day the Lord has made. He's given me another day to live
And I want to enjoy this day and have a good attitude
Help me treat people good that I'm with and make them feel good and just whatever comes to my mind
So the main thing I want to get across is that you have to set your attitude
And determine that you're going to have a good one in order for that to happen
And your day today can be changed by you making a small
adjustment
Your week can change
By you making just a small adjustment
and
deciding just decide
Right now to think about everything you do have
instead of what you don't have
Think about your blessings and nobody is without blessings. There is nobody watching right now that doesn't have something
to be thankful for. Yes, we all have problems. We all have challenges in life
And maybe right now you're going through a very challenging time
Pray about those times do what you can do
but focus on the things in your life that are good and find things to be thankful for
and you can even be thankful for little things like
Clean running running water in your house
a home to live in clothes to put on
Somebody to say good morning to. Just any anything
That is a blessing the more you think about that the more it's going to help and affect your attitude
You know what. It's perfectly okay for you to be happy
And enjoy your life while God deals with your problems
You know, I don't want anybody to think that you have to be miserable
Because you have a problem
pray about the situation
And then turn it over to God, you know praying about things and then worrying
Doesn't really do any good. We need to pray about them
Cast the care on God so one of the things that I say when I have a problem that helps me
And I usually say it out loud and sometimes several times a day. This is not going to last forever
And I also like to say this is going to end well
I don't know how it's going to end, but I know it's going to end well
Listen, whenever you're upset and you're having trouble don't let the trouble pull you away from God, let it push you closer to God
Spend more time with him
Cry out to him seek his advice
Maybe you've had a lot of bad things happen to you in your life
Maybe you would be a person that says well I'm just not lucky
Well, I don't think that when we're dealing with God, it's good luck or bad luck
It's faith or no faith. It's
Trusting god, it's believing the promises in the word
And I'll tell you if you never give up on God, he will never give up on you
You may have some things that you're working through and it may be taking longer than you hoped it would
But just don't give up