Attitudes of Our Development
Mental attitude: sense knowledge – what you see, feel, hear, touch and taste. We
have to know what is going on in the natural, but not base our attitude on the natural.
Basing your attitude on the situations around you, this will only magnify the problem.
We don’t deny the problem, but we seek out the solution through God’s word. Jesus
said in Mark 11:22-24 to speak to the mountain. He also said that all things are
possible to them that believes. Jesus used the word of God to come against every
thing that the devil came at Him with (Luke 4:1-13).
Spiritual attitude: revelation from God. Basing your attitude on the word of God, this is
the way to change the problem. James tells us “if we lack wisdom, ask of God”.
Maintain and keep the right attitude when the going gets ruff. Realize that rough
weather will not last forever (Galatians 6:7-9). Major decisions should be made before
the storm (Proverbs 24:3-6). God told Joshua in Joshua 1:5-9 to keep the word of God
in our mouth, meaning to speak the word of God. Jesus said “I only speak what I have
heard and seen from My Father”. Our success will depend on what the heart is full of.
If the heart is full of worldly things, and a situation arises, they will speak what the world
says instead of the Word of God.
Achieving an excellent attitude: Knowing that “God has not given us the spirit of fear;
but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind” (II Timothy 1:7), and knowing that Jesus
has given us power of the enemy (Luke 10:19); and we have the authority to bind
ourselves to the things of God and loose ourselves from the things of the devil.
Knowing and walking in this will give us a good attitude in any situation, because we
have the power to change any situation. Keep in contact with the control tower (John
15:1-16). Jesus said without Him we can do nothing. When we start thinking of our
selves as “blessed” like the Bible says, instead of going to be blessed; in other words
God says we are healed, but many saints when they feel something coming at them,
they say I am going to be healed. As long as they speak in the future, it will not come to
pass. “Faith is now (Hebrews 11:1). I took a look at John 10:10 which says “the thief
comes not but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy, but I am come that they might
have life, and that they might have it more abundantly”. The Bible told us that “God has
blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ” the word has is past
tense. We have to keep a spiritual attitude, because the blessings are in spiritual
places and use our spiritual authority and declare what the Bible says. The devil steals
the people’s blessings by getting them to think they will get them instead of that they
have them. You are not the sick trying to get healed, you are the healed that the devil
is trying to get to accept the sickness he wants to put on you. You are a heir of God
that the devil is trying to get to accept poverty.
Cultivate thanksgiving (I Thessalonians 5:18) “In every thing give thanks, for this is the
will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you”. We know that when others give us thanks,
it makes us glad we were able to help them, however, when you do something for
someone and they don’t appreciate it enough to say thanks, you feel they didn’t want it.
Psalms 107 echoes in verse 1 “O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, and His
mercy, endures forever”. Psalms 100:4-5 says “enter into His gates with thanksgiving
and into His courts with praise: be thankful to Him, and bless His name. For the Lord is
good, His mercy is everlasting, and His truth endures to all generations”. Find God’s
solution to any problem and speak His word over the situation and watch things change,
that enough to make any one give thanks.
We have to be disciplined, keeping our focus on God. Remember Peter, walked on the
water until he took his focus off of Jesus and looked at the problem around him
(Matthews 14:25-31). In Psalms 37:3-7 gives us four keys: trust, delight, commit, rest.
Sermon by: Harriet Bond
Date: August 18, 2006