Gateway Church
This weekend, Pastor Jimmy Evans shares a message on the impact our attitudes can have on us and ways we can grow by allowing God to work in our hearts and lives.
Romans 12:2 NKJV
I. Truths About Our Attitude
1. We choose our attitudes.
2. Attitudes are not caused by people or circumstances.
3. Happiness is a chosen attitude, not a state of being.
4. God rewards good attitudes and disciplines bad attitudes.
James 4:6 NKJV
James 4:10 NKJV
Hebrews 12:7-13 NKJV
5. Good attitudes precede and predict success, favor, and promotion, and bad attitudes precede and predict failure, disfavor, and demotion.
II. Four Attitude Killers: The Ingredients of a Bad Attitude
1. Wrong Expectations
2. Comparing Up
3. Entitlement
4. Negativity
III. Four Attitude Builders: The Ingredients of a Good Attitude
1. Gratitude
3. Humility
4. Respect
IV. Four Reasons I Should Choose a Good Attitude
1. A good attitude is Christlike, and it is a good witness to others of my faith in God and the difference He has made in my life.
Matthew 5:14 NKJV
2. God knows me, He loves me, and He has a good plan for my life.
Jeremiah 29:11 NKJV
3. God will take my mistakes and the bad things that have happened to me and turn them around for my good.
Romans 8:28 NKJV
4. God is bigger than my giants and mountains, and nothing is impossible for Him.
Luke 18:27 NKJV
What is the Holy Spirit saying to me through this message?