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If we are willing to suffer in order to do the right thing no matter who likes it or what it costs us, God will reward us.

You can change your whole life by simply changing your attitude.

I mean that, you know, just maybe you have a self-pitying attitude because your life has been kind of rough.

Maybe you have a real negative attitude. You see everything from the negative point of view.

Some people just because of their personalities are a little more given to that.

I would be one of those people that would tend to be that way, but I'm telling you that it can change.

I cannot stand negativity now. And I used to be just the opposite.

But tonight I'm just going to talk to you about attitudes in general and how important they are.

And your attitude is your thought life turned inside out.

Your attitude is the mental posture that you take toward whatever is happening in your life.

It's how you decide that you're going to approach it in the way you're going to think about it.

And the attitude that we have more than anything when the attitude we have in hard times shows who we are.

And what we really believe about God.

We can talk about faith and we can sing our songs and jump up and down and shout and holler.

But we really see what people are made out of when they're going through trouble.

And I believe it's God's goals for all of us to learn how to be the same,

rather our circumstances are good or they're not so good.

Believing that he's in control and that things will work out for our good no matter how bad it is.

God can make it work out for your good.

And if you believe that.

And that doesn't mean that we never have things that we don't like or we never have a bad thought.

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