Your Attitude Determines Your Altitude

Does your good attitude manifest through good actions or does your bad attitude gets revealed through your bad attitude?

You can never change your altitude, unless you first change your attitude.

So what do you do if you realised that you have a bad attitude.

HOW DO YOU DEVELOP GOOD ATTITUDES?

1. Identify and Repent of Bad Attitudes

Acts 8:22 GW

(22) So change your wicked thoughts, and ask the Lord if he will forgive you for thinking like this.

Only you can identify the bad attitude and only you can repent of it.

Change the way you think, which will change your attitude and which will change the way you act which, ultimately, would change your altitude.

2. Submit Your Attitudes to God

Bring your attitudes into submission, in line, with the Word of God.

Follow Jesus’ example.

Bring your thoughts in line with those of Jesus.

A good attitude is a matter of faith, ignoring your feelings, with the purpose to embrace God’s attitude and character.

2 Corinthians 10:5b GW

(5) … We take every thought captive so that it is obedient to Christ.

3. Equip & Feed Your Attitudes

How do you equip and fed your attitudes?

By abiding in the things that the Word of God tells us to.

If you dwell on the negative, your attitude will reflects the negative.

But if you dwell on the positive, your attitude will reflect the positive.

Philippians 4:8-9 GW

(8) Finally, brothers and sisters, keep your thoughts on whatever is right or deserves praise: things that are true, honorable, fair, pure, acceptable, or commendable.

Practice what you've learned and received from me, what you heard and saw me do. Then the God who gives this peace will be with you.

CLOSING

Your attitude determines your altitude.

If you want to go higher in your spiritual life and your physical life at that, then it is imperative that you change your attitude.

If you change your attitude then your actions will show this.

I would like everyone to stand up and to close your eyes as we end this sermon and to just reflect on the past year, 2015.

Was there any point in your journey that you can say that you had a bad attitude towards a situation or a person or an institution or a behaviour or your job or the church or God or His Word or to anything.

Take a minute and think about it.

Commitment

I want you to make a commitment this morning that, in 2016, your attitude in those areas are going to change.

I want you to make a commitment this morning that you are going to change your altitude.

I want you to make a commitment this morning that, by changing your attitude you are going to change your actions.

This year you are going to have a Christ-like attitude.

Can you commit to that?

If you have identified that area or areas of bad attitude in your life I want you to repent it know to Jesus now.

Say to Him that you are submitting your attitude to Him.

Say to Him that you would like to be like Him.

I want you to say the following after me this morning out loud.

Say it after me:

I take every thought captive so that it is obedient to Christ

From this moment I want you to start living positively.