Here’s some truth that makes me feel good every time I say it – God wants me to love being me more than I want it for myself! Wow! How beautiful! Yes, that’s just the kind of God he is! Love at its core is the essence of who our wonderful God is! Everything he wants for you is what you would desperately want if you only knew! Indeed, God’s ways are higher than ours, and his plans for us are the best!

So, how do you step into a truly positive life? The first step to implementing a great plan is to address what may have been hindering you. This requires confronting and admitting any lies that may have kept you from your best life.

Many people struggle with a huge misconception – they say, “I can’t help the way I feel. That’s just the way I am.” I promise you, that is a lie from the pit of hell! You can indeed change your attitude because attitude is a choice! Changing your attitude comes from changing two things within your power – your input and your meditation. Your mind, will, and emotions (your soul) are under your jurisdiction, and no one, not even God, has the authority to interfere. In fact, God will not fix your life for you; you must change your life by choosing to think God’s thoughts.

Colossians 3:1-2 Since then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

This reminds me of the alcoholic that tells his family that he is only going to the bar to play pool… As you know, that boy is lying to himself! Our natural tendency is to gravitate towards bad news, so we must choose in advance to set our minds on things above. As apostle Paul stated above, “for you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.” The fact that you died with Christ is past tense, not something that requires your effort. Our breakthrough happens when we receive what is already ours through Christ!

Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may test and prove what God’s will is for you; his good, pleasing and perfect will.

It’s one thing to look at the magazines of that new car/pickup, airplane, house, or whatever you desire – it’s another thing to jump in and test it out! God wants you to test and prove how good and pleasing his perfect will for your life is. The amazing life of God always has, and always will, be accessed by changing the way you think.

If you change the way you think, it will change the way you feel. If you change the way you feel, it will change the way you act. If you change the way you act, it will change your entire destiny!

When you change your input and your meditation (your minute by minute and second by second thoughts), your outlook on life will change! Your outlook on life determines your output, and that’s how people’s lives go down in history as those who have accomplished great things!

Worry and fear are the opposite of faith and a positive attitude. Understand this; faith is a positive attitude! You can’t trust God and have a negative attitude! God says, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Philippians 4:6-8.

Are you willing to, like a child, humble yourself to fully embrace what God has done for you? Are you ready to boldly believe that your best is yet to come?

Before today is up, please take time to meditate on Psalm chapter 1 because God wants you to be like a tree planted by rivers of living water that produces fruit in season and whose leaves never wither!

Oh, my dearest friend, you can be sure that your life will drastically change when you begin to change what you do every day! Yes, change your habits! When you make thinking positive thoughts a daily and even minute by minute practice, then you will experience the glory of…

God’s Strategy for a Positive Attitude