"A Change of Thinking"
Pastor Albert Almore
“I have given them your word. And the world hates them because THEY DO NOT BELONG TO THE WORLD, just as I do not belong to the world.”
John 17:14 NLT
“I’m not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from the evil one. THEY DO NOT BELONG TO THIS WORLD any more than I do.”
John 17:15-16 NLT
We don’t belong to the world. Therefore we don’t think, act, respond like the world.
John 3:1-2…There’s something different about you…
As it relates to that God factor, the way that you carry yourself, the way that you respond, the way that you don’t respond when you could’ve picked someone apart…
IS THERE SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT YOU?
📝 Our positive ATTITUDE should be different from the world.
📝 For the follower of Jesus Christ, living A LIFE OF THANKSGIVING shouldn’t be limited to the 4th Thursday of November.
“ENTER INTO HIS GATES WITH THANKSGIVING, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.”
Psalms 100:4 NKJV
“I will praise the name of God with a song, And will MAGNIFY HIM WITH THANKSGIVING.”
Psalms 69:30 NKJV
📝 A lifestyle of THANKSGIVING should flow through us, instead of a lifestyle of COMPLAINING. GRATITUDE should exude through us, not NEGATIVITY.
It’s amazing to me that after all that God had done for the children of Israel….we still find these words found in Numbers 14:2….
“And all THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL COMPLAINED against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!”
Numbers 14:2 NKJV
THEY FORGOT WHAT HE HAD DONE— the great wonders he had shown them,
Psalm 78:11 NLT
HUMAN BEINGS ATE THE BREAD OF ANGELS; he sent them all the food they could eat.
Psalm 78:25 NIV
This still wasn’t enough. They still complained. They forgot the million little miracles, as well as the big ones. They complained so much that God said in Numbers 14:23
“THEY WILL NEVER EVEN SEE THE LAND I SWORE TO GIVE THEIR ANCESTORS. None of those who have treated me with contempt will ever see it.”
Numbers 14:23 NLT
“But my servant Caleb has A DIFFERENT ATTITUDE than the others have. He has remained loyal to me, so I will bring him into the land he explored. His descendants will possess their full share of that land.”
Numbers 14:24 NLT
“But My servant Caleb, because he has A DIFFERENT SPIRIT in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.”
Numbers 14:24 NKJV
IS THERE SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT YOU?
If anyone truly had a different attitude, if anyone truly had a different spirit it had to be Jesus. Let me paint the picture. (Matthew 14:13-21)
“And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, HE GAVE THANKS and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.”
Matthew 14:19 NIV
📝 Giving THANKS is better than giving COMPLAINTS.
We often complain about who didn’t show up for us in our lives, “all of the empty seats.” But what about the full ones? That’s that part of us that if not checked, will always be unsatisfied, ungrateful, instead of being grateful.
📝 Either you’re going to focus on the EMPTY SEATS in your life, or you’re going to thank God for the FULL ONES.
📝 There’s more to be GRATEFUL for, than there is to be UNGRATEFUL about.
IS THERE SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT YOU?
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