The importance of positive attitude

Next to knowing Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, nothing is more important than having a good positive attitude.

Your attitude can

• Make or break you
• Heal or hurt you
• Make you friends or make you enemies
• Make you happy or make you miserable
• Make you a success or make you a failure

Hugh Downs said...

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes

Five things attitude does

1. Attitude determines perspective
2. Attitude Reflects our Relational History
3. Attitude Reveals Inner Beliefs
4. Attitude Attracts People Just Like UsTell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are
5. Attitude Affects Reality

Attitude not aptitude determines ones altitude in life.”

3 facts about our attitude

Your attitude – reveals the real you

Proverbs 23:7 “For as a man thinks in his heart, so he is..."

• You see, much Louder than the word you speak is your attitude that keeps telling people what you are really like.
• We don’t have an attitude just because we had a bad day (all that a bad day can ever do is shake our jar)
• The reason you have a bad attitude is because you have a bad attitude inside of you/inside of your jar.

Your attitude determines the success and failure of every relationship in your life.

• What a difference your attitude makes!
• Your attitude affects every relationship in your life.

Your attitude is always your choice

• Without a doubt, the human mind is the most awesome creation of God.
• God has given us the ability to think, to reason and to choose

The Challenge

• Right kind of attitude has within it the power to the change the story, to create opportunities.
• It gives us the power to rejoice in little things and to celebrate the simple moments.

Have a Positive Attitude

Philippians 4:8 “Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.”