BELIEVE - Get Your Mind Right

Under non-Christian.

Welcome to the point we do the dishes. Christians ought to be the most positive of people, but clearly that is a good guy's side of the beverage or more hopes to change that in one part of falling and inspiring ultimate the impossible is to share his message believe. Get your mind right.

This is to report on David Jeremiah were discussing what it means to move forward in life. Based on a new book that was just released. The earlier part of this month we talked about what it means to have a vision and to play that vision through to the end to be willing to take risks or express faith. And today we're going to talk about how important it is that you are a positive believing person. This is important for all of us who call ourselves Christians begin the discussion right now.

I grew up knowing a lot more about doubting and believing I was raised in a good church. My church was better known for what it was against what it was for the time I didn't realize how that can affect your outlook. To be sure there's lots of things we should be against but must be our primary focus. It took a while for me to learn that, but praise God I did. There's no way I'd be standing up in front of you doing what I'm doing today takes a positive attitude to move forward. As you read that you may be thinking all all Dr. Jeremias fallen into the positive thinking trap. No, I'm not know about that could fall. We should guard against any self-help ideology that pushes God to the sidelines, magnifies human ability and doesn't tell the whole truth. But there is a positive, hopeful, joyful optimism that is totally biblical and it comes from Christ alone.

Someone say this loudly and clearly you can be a Christian and an optimist at the same time, and you should be faith as a positive power to your life. Just listen to Philippians 413, Paul wrote I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me how you listen to that but that sounds pretty positive to me. The man who wrote those words was an optimist with the O so for the next few minutes but sit at the feet of the great apostle and learn his powerful secrets for resilience and optimism and positive belief by stepping into his story at critical moments you can understand how he lived such a life how he was so positive. How is accomplishment happen in his life.

Even though we had many hardships. It's the only way to plunge forward into the future God has for you. You need to learn to be positive. If I were in a big auditorium.

I would say can you get a witness and everybody would say amen.

So number one you have to be positive in your convictions because optimism started with what he believed with his positive convictions not enough. You know the conviction is but it's a fixed belief a deeply held set of certainties that lodges at the center of your mind and heart. Paul's core convictions were the foundation of his incredible life and ministry. Here's the best part.

You can embrace them for yourself. Here are two examples of how to do just that. As you move forward toward everything God has in store for you in the next phase of your life. Number one. Be positive about God's love for you the most basic conviction in life is rooted in understanding the nature of God without a good, powerful, loving, creative, eternal God, there's no reason to be optimistic, consider Paul's words in Romans chapter 8 verses 38 and 39 for I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Consider the reasons for optimism packed into this passage.

Not only is God real, but he loves us and not only does he love us but nothing we might ever experience can ever separate us from that love the 10 things that Paul lists in these verses, I just read could each one of them be a potential barrier between God and you. But Paul says with absolute assurance that none of them can ever separate you from God's love powerful words in Romans eight about God's love are reinforced by a blessing. Paul offered toward the end of the same book became a favorite verse. For many people I know, especially for those who are going through difficult times in their lives. Here's that promise now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. I'd like to suggest that you pray those words aloud every day every noon every morning. Every evening you know them by heart, that prayer can adjust your mindset in any given season of life.

People in your core convictions strengthen your belief, hope and optimism can become your everyday attitude.

So be positive about God's love for you and then secondly we positive about God's plan for you. Apostle Paul constantly referred to the future. He put the past behind him. He strained forward toward what was ahead, and even when he was near death. Paul was excited about the future.

Think of it while waiting on death row for his martyrdom. He was eager for tomorrow. The last known letter, Paul wrote, was to his friend Timothy. It was written from a prison in Rome where he awaited certain death.

Listen to what he said in the final chapter of his final book, for I am already being poured out as a drink offering in the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge will give to me on that day, not to me only, but also to all who have loved his appearing.

Paul C had an incredible perspective on living and dying.

Some years before he kind of express that to the Philippians in these words he said for to me, living means living for Christ and dying is even better.

But if I live I could do more fruitful work for Christ. So I really don't know which is better. I'm torn between the two desires I want to go and be with Christ, which would be far better for me but for your sakes. It is better that I continue to live.

Perhaps Paul's remarkable perspective, flowed from the time he was caught up to heaven and glimpsed the glories that were waiting for him up there. We have a blessing. Paul didn't have. We have the book of Revelation, which was written after Paul's death in the final two chapters about both describe the heavenly home were we going to spend eternity. It's in great detail in Revelation 21 and 22 and the more we study these chapters, the more excited we become about tomorrow the follower of Christ on ready to die and willing to live, but in either case, I can't wait to see what God's going to do next.

I am positive about my conviction. If you want to have the mental attitude to be able to dream and to believe need to get your mind right when you get your mind right you will have positive convictions say something else, along with positive convictions you need to develop positive conversations with talk about talking if you're positive in your core convictions. Then he will literally become more positive in the way you talk. In recent years I've been working out with Todd Durkin at his gym fitness quest number 10 it's near my home in San Diego and it's one of America's best Jim Todd is more than a trainer is a dedicated Christian who speaks motivation with the large numbers of people's upcoming book is entitled get your mind right. I'm not surprised by that title because whenever anyone walks into Todd's Jim greeted with a shout picture mind right I needed getting out of bed heading to the gym is no easy task. Everyday but an uplifting greeting and a positive shout really does improve your spirits.

What does it mean to be positive in your conversations 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 with 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 my 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, and I am persuaded that he's able to keep what I've committed to him against that day, and as we've 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 with negative thoughts, don't curse them. Don't nurse them.

Don't rehearse them but disperse them, but 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 Castello my soul and while you disquieted within me. Hope in God. For I shall yet praise him the help of my comments in my gut was David doing his preaching to himself. He was saying to himself what's wrong with you David while you cast down while you disquieted. What's wrong with you and then he said, hoping 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 whenever 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 David, do preach 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 and he did have a man strengthening his buddies all turned against him. The enemies 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.

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 give it to you because it's in the Scripture that 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 right 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 to 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. Drain the screw to the last drops of hope and none of them could eat the rest because the nights were just captivate them. The 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 suspension 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 begin 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 what we mostly do 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 a way to the store 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. Do we need that now meet with limits 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 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, the Boeing 707 with 159 passengers crashed on a remote wooded hillside in Long Island. The plane actually broken into sections in 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 would 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 to touch others and see others and nobody cared what was going on was rejuvenating to save you men and women. Our world is wrecked and 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 believed and who inspire belief something positive in your convictions positive in your conversation be positive in your crises only after you've learned to be positive in your conviction 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, and 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 the translation of the Greek word that reads like this hyperlink: the word and I 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 the term hyper when you talk about your kids 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, victorious, 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've told got off the shelf and just read portions of it is 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 officers who are 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. They look at it as a challenge and the trial are 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 Scripture because of the love of Jesus Christ that you can be overcome her could believe in him you can trust him and you can be positive in your convictions.

You could be positive in your conversations 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 newborn 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 onetime as he 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 to tell you how special this is. At this particular time. Everybody is 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 it 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 says, honey, I said it's in your eyes. You have a Duchenne smile. She is a clue what that was but 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. Some were told smile and others were given chopsticks to hold in their teeth so they couldn't smile. The results showed that those who were told 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 difficult convictions about the nature of God comes from knowing that he loves you and he has an exciting plan that is uniquely yours 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 describing what I said thought is what you do you train us from the inside out. In other words, we start out inwardly, it's right did not heart like getting positive and 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 their lives believing and getting your mind right requires you to stay positive in your convictions, even a major crisis. The 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 to keep your mind buoyant and your soul unsinkable storms. I don't know where were going at all of the things we've been experiencing men and women. I don't always been 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 minutesof 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. Enjoy today's Turning Point, weekend edition with Dr. David Jeremiah to hear this and other tending point programs get more information about this ministry. Simply download the free Turning Point my ball after the smart device resident. We decided that Jeremiah dawdle/writing that David davidjeremiah.org/radio. You can also view Turning Point television afraid HL-7 time Sunday mornings that I and on a CCTV Sundays at 6:30 AM Friday one, we invite you to join us again next weekend is Dr. David Jeremiah.

She is another powerful message God's word here on tending point we can additional taking time to listen to on tonight trim piece. Interestingly