BELIEVE - Get Your Mind Right 2

Christian and a positive attitude questioned more than just likable to make you stronger than consequences and help moving forward with gauze plan for your future oil 20.0 for David Jeremiah takes a closer look at the optimism demonstrated by the apostle and how it feels stronger Christian will is to introduce the conclusion of his message. Only get your mind right well I mentioned yesterday at the end of our program. The passage of Scripture that says as a man thinks in his heart so is he. We think determines how we live what we do what we are and were learning a very interesting lesson for a lot of questions that you and I both know that is that it's possible to be a Christian and be positive. That doesn't mean you ignore sin, or that you scrub your theology of everything negative, of course not, but it does mean that there's a lot in the word of God that makes us want to stand up and shout and be grateful. And Paul, who was more besieged for his faith in you. I used to tell everybody when Paul went to the city either ended up in the synagogue or in the jail and most of the time he got into both places because he was always under fire in those passages like second Corinthians 11 that list all the things that he went through all my goodness, you'd say, how could he ever be positive when he was the most positive person who studied his life.

He was, he was more than a conqueror.

He was he was strong in his faith, and he lived a positive life and I believe that's the way God wants us to live and that's the focus of this chapter. We started yesterday will get back to it in just a moment but first we are so grateful for the privilege we have of sharing these messages with you. Believe with all my heart. This is the word from God that so many of us need right now as we try to sort our way out. These last challenging weeks.

Let's don't get stuck.

Let's go forward.

As I mentioned earlier on in the series. Life needs to be viewed through the window in the front of the car not through the rearview mirror.

Let's go forward, we need the information it comes to us from our past, but we can't live there. We have to look forward let's finish up our discussion about believing and getting her mind right me to be positive conversation number one. Speak positively to yourself. Sometimes we have no one to encourage us at the break of day so we have to speak to ourselves, to say something like some hundred and 18 verse 24. This is the day the Lord has made I will rejoice and be glad in it. Try saying that over and over throughout the day. This is the day the Lord has made I will rejoice and be glad in it outside of praying your most important words are the words that you say to yourself, these words are silent but there are significant pop psychologists call this positive self talk, but I'm going to skip the trends and go straight to the Scripture by thesis.

Remember, involves Paul's example to us.

So did Paul ever talk to himself. He said he strolled to take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. He said, for in my interbeing.

I delight in God's love and his law. He said I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed that I am persuaded that he's able to keep what I've committed to him against that day is observed and learned. He also said I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

I recall preaching a sermon years ago on how to handle negative thoughts still remember my outline is what you do if negative thoughts, don't curse them. Don't nurse them. Don't rehearse them but disperse them. That's still pretty good formula. Push out your negative thoughts, worry and anxiety, fear and pessimism by filling up your mind with God.

Scripture, especially his promises and then preach those promises to yourself. Psalm 42.

The psalmist said to himself while Castaldo my soul and while you disquieted within me. Hope in God. For I shall yet praise him the help of my comments and I got was doing his preaching to himself. Say to himself what's wrong with you David.

Cast down you disquieted. What's wrong with you and then he said God gave himself a little sermon. We don't know the author of Psalm 42 but were pretty sure it was King David, because he knew how to preach to himself whatever he needed to do it as a younger man with a lot of debilitating experiences while he was waiting to be the king and he had a lot of things happen to him. One time he ran into a disastrous problem in a little village called zigzag his family and the families of his men, his soldiers had been kidnapped and even his own men were turning on him he was their leader and they were talking about stoning him to death so would David do thinks to himself. The Bible says in first Samuel 30 verse six that David watch this strengthen himself in the Lord wanted him to strengthen himself because there was nobody around to help strengthen you have any menstruation in his buddies all turned against him.

The enemy's route to killing but David knew something that we all need to know when everyone else forsakes you. God never will. And you can strengthen yourself in the Lord and in that strength. David rose up to tackle his problems and had a positive spirit came from his belief in God and God's care for his life were constantly processing thoughts, wrote Dr. Norman right, depending how active your mind is you may produce more than 45,000 thoughts a day.

It might be compared to a flock of birds flying in and out of your mind to complicate our minds more. Dr. Wright wrote not all these are conscious thoughts. Sometimes they go passes so fast. We barely notice them, but listen to what he says next time you have a thought triggers an electrochemical reaction in your body. Each thought sets off a biological process about 400 billion of them at once because of that thought, chemicals, search through your body, producing electromagnetic waves and set off emotions which effect how we behave.

Science simply confirms what Scripture has been saying all along.

We are shaped much of our lives by our thoughts, so speak positively to yourself. That's a strange thing to say to many modern Christians because it sounds like harassing your something that shouldn't even be included in the biblical sermon, but only because it's in the Scripture not only speak positively to yourself. Speak positively to others, learn to talk to yourself instead of listening to yourself learn to preach to yourself. Learn to encourage yourself in the Lord will change the way you speak to others. Best one of the keys and once you start to talk yourself like then you can start to talk to others right your mood and message will be different even when things are going badly.

This was another of Paul's secrets once he was caught in a vicious storm with a terrified crew on a sinking ship. The typhoon threatened to rip the ship into matchsticks and even the captain gave up hope of survival. But Paul rallied their spirits in the midst of that tragedy.

He stood up and he said encourage men, for I have faith in God.

The storm grew worse.

It was the deadliest storm. The sailors had ever seen, and there were 276 people on board.

Two weeks of unbearable strain drained the screw to the last drops of hope and none of them could eat or rest because knights were just captivate them.

They couldn't sleep and asked her for 27 here's what we read just before dawn. Paul urged them all to eat for the last 14 days. He said you have been in constant suspense and have gone without food.

You haven't eaten anything.

Now I urge you to pick up some food you needed to survive. Not one of you will lose a single hair from your head. After this he said he took some bread, and give thanks to God in front of them all, and he broke it, and they began to eat and they were all encourage you know anybody in your life who, in the midst of what you're going through can impart positive things like that you know we mostly knew I was talking to my friend chemicals today and he was talking about the way people talk to one another when they're trying to encourage them. Sometimes the very things they say which they think are going to encourage them are the worst things that can ever come up with. I remember when I was going through cancer years ago. The things people would save me which is unbelievable of a new laconic cancer. I had to tell me that her uncle had the cancer and he died.

Now supposed to encourage me.

I finally got to the place where I would say if I saw him starting down that road. Look distorted and have a happy ending. I don't want to hear that I need people to encourage me and help me take care of me the power of an attitude that is absolutely biblical and biblically positive as London recovered from World War II prominent minister wrote a book to help his British congregation recover from the trauma of the war and his people to avoid talking all the time about what was wrong with them. We all need a very few close friends. Of course, to whom we can unburden our hearts and share our troubles. He said, but telling everyone we meet about our troubles gives our woes persisting power.

It's tempting to share our difficulties because we crave sympathy, but we must realize that every recital of all rows and every brooding hour touches on our minds. The picture of the weaker the stronger self do we need that now were in the midst of a terrible pandemic and if not careful. That's all we watch on television. That's all we talk about to our friends that's all we discussed in our small groups.

That's all we read about and before we know it were just overwhelmed like there's no positive news out there but I tell you there is. Sometimes I think we need to just shut it all off, put it all away and just say I want to just walk with God today and get rid of all of this negativity that's everywhere.

See the more we talk about our troubles. The more we rehearse and reinforce them. The more we spread the pessimism that's endemic to our culture. So instead focus on others spread optimism help those around you take courage help them believe. Ephesians 429 says that everything you say. Be good and helpful so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them was a cold day back in 1990, a Boeing 707 with 159 passengers crashed on a remote wooded hillside in Long Island. The plane actually broken into sections and the nose of the aircraft rested on the deck of a terrified elderly couple's home. The scene was indescribable. Debris was everywhere oxygen mask hanging on trees, people screaming babies cry and fear that the aircraft could burst into flames at any time urgency workers nearby neighbors, local volunteers rushed to the scene and began trying to rescue survivors ordinary citizens worked alongside the police officers and physicians came to pull people from the aircraft. Separate the living from the dead and save the lives of the injured. One of the rescuers was John Imhoff who later described the strain of the scene that unfolded hour after hour, Joan remembered a strange strengthening camaraderie that instantly united the workers people will pass each other, she said, and reach out and take a hand for a moment or they would look at each other, make a brief comment and then move on. Sometimes they would embrace or nod, then continue applying bandages, removing bodies to a makeshift board. People needed that brief but meaningful contact to continue working with determination. Just touch others and see others and nobody cared what was going on was rejuvenating to save you men and women. Our world is wrecked as we work together to accomplish what God wants us to do the last thing we need are endless. Critics. Instead, we need the camaraderie of Christ centered people who say what is good and helpful so our words will be an encouragement to so many.

We need people who believe and who inspire belief solely positive in your convictions positive in your conversation be positive in your crises only after you've learned to be positive in your convictions and your conversation can you learn to be positive even during things that are hard during times of conflict and crisis optimism shines like the sun piercing the clouds that was true for our hero.

The apostle Paul listened again what he said, who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation show distress, persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword, as it is written, for your sake we are killed all day long we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. All these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. Let me take just a moment and unpack that passage, the apostle Paul lists seven persecutions had constantly experienced. It felt like being killed all day long and then he said this, but in all of this, he said I am more than a conqueror. The phrase more than a conqueror is a translation of the Greek word that reads like this hyperlink: the word anti-caves in the middle of the word sword Nike believe it or not Mike is the Greek word for victory, which is why that shoe company uses it means overcome her and look at the first part of the word hyper term hyper when you talk about your kid being hyper he's over the top. See somebody that you work with their hyper out-of-control. So Paul said in the midst of all these problems. The seven things that come to me. I am hyper tortoise. I am not just a conqueror. I am more than a conqueror. He didn't just overcome his difficulties know he was more than a conqueror back in the early 90s when I was just been started in the ministry. Someone gave me a book by guiding Martin Seligman in the title of the book was learned optimism over the years I've read that book more than a few times because believe it or not.

Sometimes the things that happen in churches and ministries can really get you headed in a negative direction and you need help to get back so often. I got off the shelf and just read portions of it. It's underlined with notes in almost every margin I love that book is not a Christian book, but it's a good book and Dr. Seligman said this about being positive. He said the optimists and the pessimists I've been studying them for 25 years. The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that events will last for a long time will undermine everything they do their own fault. The optimists were confronted with the same hard knocks of this world think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe the fee is just a temporary setback and its causes are confined to this one case and such people are unfazed by the feet confronted by a bad situation look at it as a challenge and they try harder words he said if you want to know if you are an optimist or a pessimist.

Trouble and difficulty will help you sort it out and so I want you to know on the authority of the Scripture.

Because of the love of Jesus Christ that you can be overcome or believe in him you can trust him and you could be positive in your convictions. You could be positive in your conversations you could be positive in your crisis.

And finally, there's the best one of all you can be positive in your countenance in your face is always reflected in your countenance. Did you know that when optimism is in your heart of joyful countenance is on your face.

Someone said what's down in the well comes up in the pale. Unfortunately I don't have a photograph of the apostle Paul, so I can't prove the space was rated but who can doubt it.

His smile and positive attitude infiltrated his writings. For example, he told the Corinthians.

One time she said and we all with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord who is the spirit of something that is really interesting to me, something you may or may not know, but according to the Association for psychological science, University of Kansas study found an incredible link between smiling and the ability to recover from difficult things in your life that you know there are two kinds of smiles. There are standard smiles, which use the muscles of your mouth and there are genuine or Duchenne smiles, which engage the muscles around both your mouth and your eyes and the real key is your eyes tell you how special this is.

At this particular time. Everybody's wearing a mask so you can see the mouth, but if you know what, I'm just telling you, you can tell other people are smiling or not. I was in the store the other day.

Check out with my wife. Some groceries and that girl was in there she was packing everything she had in the last that I stopped and I said you have the most incredible smile.

She is, I said it's in your eyes. You have a Duchenne smile that was what she felt so much better and you know what when you smile because of what God is doing in your life. It takes over all of the features of your face you smile with your mouth and you smile with your eyes in the study. Participants who learn how to smile were subjected to stressful tasks like they would submerge their hands and frigid water somewhere total smile, and others were given chopsticks to hold in their teeth so they couldn't smile. The results showed that those who were told to smile and especially those who smile with her eyes, had a lower physical response to the stress a higher degree of happiness at a quicker rate of recovery while long before psychologists study Duchenne smiles. Here's what the psalmist said. He said they looked at him and were radiant and their faces were not ashamed to Ecclesiastes 81 says a person's wisdom brightens their face and changes its hard appearance that inner wisdom comes from believing it's not believing in positive thinking, or the power of a positive attitude. It isn't even believing in ourselves. True optimism men and women comes from biblical convictions about the nature of God comes from knowing that he loves you that he has an exciting plan that is uniquely yours. It comes from quoting Scripture to yourself, reminding yourself and others of his goodness, and of the incredible future he has for those who trust him a firm belief in the God of Scripture will through the crisis of life, joy on your face, your faith makes you radiant. You know, one of the things I've always loved about my friend whose my trainer. He asked me one day Hollywood describe him and I said thought is what you do you train us from the inside out. In other words, we start out inwardly, it's right get our heart like getting positive and then met takes everything that we do under control so I just want to tell you men and women that you can be positive it's right to be positive.

Good Christians are positive. We need positive Christian optimists. We need people who walk around looking like Jesus really is everything that they say he is and that is making a difference in the lives believing and getting your mind right requires you to stay positive in your convictions, even a major crisis same is true if you want to move forward.

So, anchor yourself in the hope of Jesus Christ cling to the promises of the Bible determined by God's grace that you better keep your mind buoyant and your soul unsinkable storms. I don't know where were going at all of the things we been experiencing men and women. I don't know how long is the last I don't know if it's going to come back what I know is I can control that I can control what's happening out there but there is a little space I do have some control of it.

It's the space of my heart and mind in the Bible tells me that if I filled my heart and my mind with God's truth.

That gives me the greatest advantage to come through whatever stress I'm going through and state positive with my hands apply that's my prayer for all of us that we won't let the store more and right now Berrios under its debris. But we will stand up in the power of Jesus Christ and say with Paul. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me tomorrow to talk about outliving your life how to live your life in such a way that it lives on after you stop living. It's really interesting because it's possible and will explain how to do that when we gather tomorrow for the next edition of forward discovering God's presence and purpose in your tomorrow.

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