You know, 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 serves him with gladness. That's what Psalm 100 says to 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 some time in the future Not I'm going to enjoy myself when I'll be glad when I'll sure be I 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 two enjoy the two-year-old don't sit around and wish they were three 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 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 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 has 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 world 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.
