Youth Sermon

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Developing New attiudes

Colossians 3:23 Whatever work you do, do it with all your heart. Do it for the Lord ad not for men.

5. How Strong is my desire to develope this biblical attitiude

You won’t do anything you don’t really want to do.

The world Pressures you to be yourself, but the bible’s desire is to be who God designed you to be…YOUR TRUE SELF. The self we are and the TRUE self can be two different things. My Past and circumstances colored who I am. If I change my attitude or the way I think about my past and my circumstances than I cna become who God made me to be.

A Car can try to be a tank, but will never make it as a good tank. Where as a Tank can try to be a car, but will never make it as a good car.

C. What methods will help me develop new attitudes?

Change our thoughts will change our actions

Starting each day wishing to hide will keep you in the shadows, but starting a new day thinking it will be positive will cause you to try new things.

Psalm 30:5 (NLT)

5Sorrow, depression, anger may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning.

This verse isn’t talking about day and night, but rather showing the difference between between 2 different moods. Just because you start off Angry, depressed, or sad doesn’t mean you have to stay that way. Joy is a decision. When you choose joy it’s almost like starting the day over.

Tell me of a time your day was bad, but you decided to have a good attitude and the day changed.

Change in attitude requires a change in action

2. How do my emotions Fit with attitude change?

Emotions are very closely tied to your attitude.

Psalm 118:24 ESV

24 This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

You can hate to do school work and dread the time doing it-giving you bad attitude, or you can do your school work knowing it lasts for a short time and get on with your day.

When did your emotion change your action?

4. Day Dreaming

Proverbs 23:7 (NLT)

7 As a person thinks in their heart so they are.

Your emotions determine your attitude. Your attitude determins your actions. Your actions then determine your outcome.

But I can’t help the thoughts I think....True but you can stop them right after you think them or you can focus on them.

5. Use Personal bible study to help develop new attitudes.

Useful bible study pattern to change your attitude

List the situaiton where you have a bad attitude

Ask God: What new attitude do you want me to use

Write down the biblical attitude

Find a verse that deals with the new attitude and how to use it

set goals to use that new attitude

At the end of the day see how it went

Philippians 1:6 NLT

6 And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.