benefits of having a positive attitude

​This new year, it is wise to practice or continue to have a positive attitude.  What we put in our bodies and minds will affect situations on our journey.
Having a positive attitude has so many benefits and can help us to be at peace. Please see below reasons how a positive attitude can help us in our lives.
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• Allow us to serve God
• Allow us to be at peace
• Allow us to decrease our stress level
• Allow us to give hope to the world
• And so much more
• Avoid consequences after the fact
• Help us to see God working in our lives
• Help us to start our day on a good note
• Keep us from allowing negative vibes in our lives
• Keep us from being negative
• Keep us from creating bad situation

 
In Ephesians 4:31 it says this:
All bitterness, fury, anger, shouting, and reviling must be removed from you, along with all malice
 
Not having a positive attitude does the opposite of all those statements above and pretty much hold us back from loving, from serving and from being the person who God is calling us to be.
 
We have got to stop allowing others to take us out of our character and stop allowing ourselves to do things that we know are affecting who we are and what we know we can be in life.
 
I’ve done it and I know you’ve done it too.  It’s time now to get a grip of our own lives, work towards being a better person for ourselves, for God and for others.
 
We all have a destiny and the first step in fulfilling that is to say, “yes let’s make a change for the better”. I don’t know about your life; I can’t judge your life but all I can do is love you and tell you that you’re special and you have something to give to the world.  We can’t allow what we’ve done in the past, what we’ve done to others or how others treat us to affect our direction today.  God is a forgiving God; He’s a loving God and He takes us for who we are today not who we were yesterday or days before.
 
I spent years of my life doing crazy things and was holding on to so much, but I realize that God forgives and if we just repent and do it right the next time, things will heal and get better.  I also realize that God pours His grace on us each day and if we accept it, He will walk with us through the good and the bad. 
 
Let’s awaken with positive minds to heal ourselves, others and be a witness to allowing our light to shine so that people can see Jesus in us one day at a time.
 
Amen and Thank You Lord.