{"id":496,"date":"2022-01-05T23:34:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T09:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacbaptist.com\/?p=496"},"modified":"2022-01-10T23:44:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T09:44:58","slug":"2022-starts-with-the-right-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacbaptist.com\/pastors-desk\/2022\/2022-starts-with-the-right-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Starts with the Right Attitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nyw2bB-XjOU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1>Message Summary<\/h1>\n<p>We all want to have a wonderful and fulfilling 2022. The reality of it is that is not going to happen by itself. What can go along way in helping things along is the right attitude.<\/p>\n<h1>Message Text<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction\n<ul>\n<li>We all have been around them\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>The Johhny Raincloud<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The glass is half empty<\/li>\n<li>The Debbie Downer\u2019s of life<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>You could be going along as positive as can be and then all of a sudden, two seconds talking to them life is just horrible\n<ul>\n<li>We all have been in them<\/li>\n<li>In situations that don\u2019t appear to be too positive<\/li>\n<li>In circumstances where the negative is just consuming<\/li>\n<li>Find yourself changing<\/li>\n<li>Countenance changes<\/li>\n<li>Face changes<\/li>\n<li>Where there is a glowing smile<\/li>\n<li>There is just a glare<\/li>\n<li>Where the eyes were bright, they are now dim<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>People today say that COVID is the most highly transmissible virus of our time.\n<ul>\n<li>Our mayor said he got it from a 15 minute car ride with his son<\/li>\n<li>Not sure if that is true, but others have said I was only around the person a few minutes<\/li>\n<li>And now I have covid<\/li>\n<li>Let me tell you tonight, that negative attitudes are far more transferable, far more transmissible than COVID.<\/li>\n<li>You can be around a negative person for 10 seconds and find yourself being negative<\/li>\n<li>You can be in a negative situation and find yourself being negative just like that.<\/li>\n<li>And like a cancer, it is not content being around for a little while, negative attitudes want to corrupt everything<\/li>\n<li>Every conversation<\/li>\n<li>Every circumstance<\/li>\n<li>That want to consume you and have you be their host to infect someone else.<\/li>\n<li>If you do not guard yourself against negativity you will be dominated by it in 2022.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Message\n<ul>\n<li>Stay close to God\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Psalm 16:11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: In thy presence is fulness of joy; At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>There is no joy in negativity\n<ul>\n<li>There is no pleasures in negativity<\/li>\n<li>But in His presence is\n<ul>\n<li>Fulness of joy<\/li>\n<li>Continual pleasures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Means through Him and having closeness with Him<\/li>\n<li>Fills you up\n<ul>\n<li>Hey, I have no room right now for that negative talk, too full of joy right now to hear that mess<\/li>\n<li>Hey, I know this circumstance is tough, but you know what I find pleasure in Him<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Telling you this right now from experience, the further you are away from God, the more negative your life will be\n<ul>\n<li>Every conversation prone to turn to the negative<\/li>\n<li>Every situation prone to turn to doom and gloom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>But someone that is walking with God\n<ul>\n<li>No room in the inn for that negativity<\/li>\n<li>Full of joy<\/li>\n<li>Full of pleasure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Stay close to the positive\n<ul>\n<li>Jesus, obliviously<\/li>\n<li>Positive people<\/li>\n<li>Proverbs 15:30 &#8211; The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: And a good report maketh the bones fat.<\/li>\n<li>Seeing positivity lifts you up, strengthens you<\/li>\n<li>Seeing negativity, weakens.<\/li>\n<li>Step into a room or maybe around co-workers complaining about everything\n<ul>\n<li>That rubs off, soon you find yourself complaining about everything<\/li>\n<li>Parents, be negative in from of your children, watch it, those kids are just mini-yous.<\/li>\n<li>What do you think they are going to grow up and be prone to be, negative.<\/li>\n<li>When you have that negative thought<\/li>\n<li>2 cor 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;<\/li>\n<li>Bring it into captivity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Conclusion\n<ul>\n<li>Bible says\n<ul>\n<li>Genesis 1:27 \u201c27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Gal 2:20 \u201c20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>His image and His person are not characterized by anger and negativity<\/li>\n<li>His image and His person are peace and joy<\/li>\n<li>You have to set out and determine in your heart to not let anger and negativity dominate you<\/li>\n<li>You do this by staying close to God<\/li>\n<li>You do this by staying close to the positive<\/li>\n<li>You do that, you will be too full for foolishness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all want to have a wonderful and fulfilling 2022. 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