3 Facts About Attitude

3 Facts About Attitude

Proverbs 23:7

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

Your attitude WILL:

1. MAKE OR BREAK YOU

2. HEAL OR HURT YOU

3. Make FRIENDS or ENEMIES

4. HAPPY OR MISERABLE

5. A SUCCESS OR A FAILURE

ATTITUDE Attitude is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It will make or break a company... a church... a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.

Some people think that the whole world stinks. Once a cranky grandpa took a nap. His grandson put some limburger cheese on his mustache, right under his nose. Grandpa awoke with a snort, staggered out of the bedroom and shouted, "This room stinks!" On through the house he went, shouting louder, "This whole house stinks!" He charged out on the porch and shouted as loud as he could, "The whole world stinks!" The truth is, it was grandpa who stunk. The problem was right under his own nose.

95 times out of 100, when we feel that life stinks, It is not others, but with ourselves.

The problem is our attitude has become negative.

Change your negative attitudes to positive ones, and you can change your world.

this topic applies to everyone here, because

we all have attitudes

Sometimes they’re good sometimes they’re not so good

and other times they’re just plain nasty.

Let’s look at 3 facts about our attitude........

FACT #1: YOUR ATTITUDE - REVEALS THE REAL YOU

A. How important is your attitude?

Your attitude is more important than:

A. Attitude is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It will make or break a company... a church... a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.

B. Your attitude is much deeper than just a few thoughts you might think or not think.

C. Your attitude comes out of the core of your being.

1. Your attitude represents your disposition, your outlook, your very character.

The Bible says in Pr 23:7; "For as a man thinks in his heart, so he is..." (NKJV)

ILLUSTRATION:

JAR OF WATER -- PUT A LID ON IT LOOSELY – SHAKE THE JAR VIGOROUSLY UNTIL WATER FALLS OUT.WHY Did the water spill? LID LOOSE - JAR SHOOK - GRAVITY

NO, THE REASON THE WATER CAME OUT WAS BECAUSE THE JAR WAS FILLED WITH WATER.

WHAT’S ON THE INSIDE IS WHAT COMES OUT.

Jesus said, in

MATT. 15:17-20, “17Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? 18But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. 19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. 20These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man

Your attitudes always become actions or reactions.

D. Much Louder than the words you speak is your attitude that

keeps telling people what you are really like.

1. When I have a negative, nasty, critical attitude that’s the real me and when you have one that’s the real you.

2. Understand 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.

FACT #1; YOUR ATTITUDE REVEALS THE REAL YOU.

FACT #2 Our Attitude Determines the Success and Failure of Every Relationship in Your Life.

A.Your attitude affects every relationship in your life.

Bad attitudes affect:

1. your marriage relationship