God Takes All Your Choices, Mistakes, And Failures, And Turns Them Into Something Good
OPTIMISM IS EMBEDDED IN THE SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE
A simple white cross stands on top of a hill next to the San Xavier del Bac Mission in Arizona. Scrawled on that cross is a simple message, " God bless the whole world, no exceptions."
Hidden in this simple message is a profound truth.
From the beginning of time, God has been blessing the entire world with his favor - no exceptions.
God's blessings are not just for a few. They are for everyone who get in agreement with him and follows his master plan of love. That is the reason I am optimistic.
Optimism is embedded in the spiritual universe.
In Romans 8:28 the Apostle Paul writes, "All things work together for good for those who love God." This scripture makes it clear that the spiritual universe is not neutral. It demonstrates a bias that favors those who love and serve God. That does not mean that their life is charmed or is perfect. Rather it means that God is in it with you for the long haul, and He has a powerful postive plan for your life that is better than anything you can imagine.
God is your advocate rather than your adversay.
God is actively engaged in human history. He has a purpose and plan, and when we love God and get in agreement with his purpose and plan, amazing things happen.
God takes all our choices, mistakes and failures and turns them into something good.
If God created the universe, and then walked away leaving us to our own devices, then I would not be optimistic. If I was on my own in a blind and unfeeling universe, then I might even sink into the quagmire of pessimism. But such is not the case.
After travelling around the world for more than six decades, I have an unshakeable conviction that God is good, and He is good all the time, and when we get in partnership with him, awesome things happen.
The wheels of God's unstoppable love grind slowly, but they grind sure, and even though I cannot see those wheels turning, they are more constant and more powerful than any force at work in the universe.
I have seen God's love transform people on every continent and overcome every challenge.
After being run over by the Mac Truck of Life on more than one occasion, I have learned to trust God in the hard times. When I look at the picture of my life, I know that this side of eternity, I don't yet see the complete picture. I look at my shadows with the full knowledge that God sees the real picture, and He is going to take my choices, mistakes, failures, and apparent disasters, and turn them into something good.
Bad things happen to good people all of the time. Sometimes they bring bad on themselves by poor choices they make. At other times, bad things strike like a bolt out of the blue without rhyme or reason. Bad things just happen to the good and bad alike.
We go through periods where adversity pummels us month after relentless month. The list of adversities is unlimited. Financial problems, depression, cancer, accidents, poor choices, bad decisions, and sometimes we suffer collateral damage from the destructive choices made by other people.
When you try to make sense of the human situation, it's easy to wonder if anyone is out there, and if anyone cares. Surely God could keep bad things from happening to the innocent.
After living for six decades, it's abundantly clear that life is a rite of passage in which we suffer and succeed, but suffering and success are not the end game. The real cosmic drama unfolds when suffering and success reveal who we are. It reveals whether we trust in the arm of flesh or in the love of God. It reveals whether we are grounded in time or eternity. It reveals whether we crumble and flee in the face of adversity, or whether we stand our ground and fight the good fight.
Two Cardinal Reasons For Positive Optimism.
1. God has no dark side.
2. The hammer of God is love.
GOD HAS NO DARKSIDE
If you believe that God has a dark side, you have no way of making sense out of life when bad things happen.
It could be that you are experiencing God's dark side, and He is striking you with one-hundred thousand punishing volts to teach you a lesson. On the other hand, you could be just having a bad day, bad month, or very bad year.
Lots of people believe that when bad things happen, they are being punished by God for the wrong things they have done. They believe that God spends his time micromanaging their lives with a rod of iron. Everytime something bad happens, they climb into the electric chair of life, and they believe that God turns on the current.
I have news for people who believe that God has a dark side. They are simply wrong. God doesn't make bad things happen to good people.
THE HAMMER OF GOD IS LOVE
God is shaping you and making you into all that you can be using his hammer of love.
God is good, and He is good all the time. When He strikes with his hammer of love, good things always happen.
If bad things are happening in your life, it is not God who is making those things happen.
God's hammer of love takes all the bad things that happen and turns them into something good.
God can use every experience and make something good come out of it.
If divorce comes into your life, God can use that.
If cancer comes into your life, God can use that.
If financial disaster comes into your life, God can use that.
If depression comes into your life, God can use that.
Every disaster you experience qualifes you to help other people experiencing the same challenge. The more disasters you experience, the greater your qualifications to help other people going through the same thing.
I have known thousands of people who feel like they have messed up their lives in a major way, and they are tempted to surrender to despair. They feel as if their failures have disqualified them from being loved and used by God. The truth is exactly the reverse.
Those who have failed and fallen short need to know that the mess they made of their lives will become their message when the hammer of God's love makes them into a new person. The fact that they have been living at the bottom of the barrel gives them unique qualifications that will be used by God to change the lives of millions of people who also feel down and out.
You may feel down, but you are never out, because the hammer of God's love is going to make your life into something beautiful.
No matter what happens or how bad it gets, your job is to trust God to turn it into something good.
BECOME A SHARP INSTRUMENT IN THE HANDS OF A LOVING GOD
All of the challenges and battles you face are your road to greatness. And if your soul is to ever become great, it will be because you never surrendered to fear and failure, and you trusted God to show the way.
No one is ever born great. Greatness comes to those who move forward in the face of adversity, and no matter what happens, they trust in God.
Great people trust in God because they know that He will take their lives and turn them into something good. They will become a sharp instrument in the hand of a loving God.
Positive Optimism is within your grasp.
You don't need to go on a pilgrmage or talk to a guru to get on the right track.
Everything you need to develop a positive mind is already here, and there is real reason for hope.
The Positive Thinking Network has hundreds of resources to help you develop an optimistic mindset. You can even become a Positive Mountain Mover. Dr. Dave is the Positive Thinking Doctor and the Encourager in Chief of the Positive Thinking Network, and he has written twelve positive books that point you in the right direction and give you the power to make the trip. The Positive Thinking Network has more than 200 Positive Podcasts to help you get started.
Isn't it about time you got in agreement with God about who you are and what you can do with his help.
Today is a good day to let God take all your choices, mistakes and failures, and turn them into something good.
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You Are A Sharp Instrument In The Hands Of A Loving God
Positive Thinking Doctor
Dr. Dave is the Encourager In Chief of the Positive Thinking Network. He believes there are no limits. There are only limiting beliefs. Dr. Dave is committed to make a positive difference in your life. The wheel of change always turns in the direction of what you put into your mind, and Dr. Dave and the Positive Thinking Network have the resources to turn your life in a positive direction. It's time to develop a persistently positive focus so that you can have a consistently positive mind. It's time to change your world.
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You Will See It When You Believe It
Positive Christian Self-Talk For Positive Optimists
Positive Christian Self-Talk
GET IN AGREEMENT WITH GOD ABOUT WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR LIFE. Jesus said, "As you believe, so shall it be done unto you." Jesus was talking about positive expectations. You don't get what you want, you get what you expect. It doesn't matter if your expectations are positive or negative, you still get what you expect. If you want positive self-talk to work its miracle in your life, all of your self-talk must be forged in the fires of positive expectations. Positive Christian Self-Talk is now available in ebook format at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and Barnes and Noble. JUMP INTO GOD'S OCEAN OF LOVE AND HAVE A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE TODAY.
Positive Scriptures For Positive Optimists
I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. John 10:10
In all your ways acknowledge him, and He will direct your path. Proverbs 3:6
Whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. Mark 11:24
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not unto your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5
You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because He trusts in you.Isaiah 26:3
If God is for us, who can be against us. Romans 8:31
For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.2 Timothy 1:7
The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. Luke 18:27
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. Luke 11:9
The one who deals wisely in a matter will find success, and blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord. Jeremiah 17:7
I listen to instruction, and I prosper. I trust in the Lord, and my heart is full of joy. Proverbs 16:20
For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. Philippians 4:11
All things are possible for the one who believes. Mark 9:23
You have not because you ask not. James 4:2
Do not be afraid; just believe. Mark 5:36
With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible. Mark 10:27
Have not I commanded you? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. Joshua 1:9
in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.Romans 8:37
You will not need to fight in this battle. Stand firm, hold your position, and see the deliverance of the Lord. Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them, and the Lord will be with you. 2 Chronicles 20:17
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Psalm 23:6
You granted me life and favour, and your care has preserved my spirit Job 10:12
The one who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.Philippians 1:6
The Lord is indeed going before you—he will be with you; he will not fail you or abandon you. Do not be afraid or discouraged! Deuteronomy 31:8
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My life is mine alone, and that is sufficient authority to grant me permission to live my dreams.
Whatever I accomplish, I accomplish it first in my mind. Whatever I become, I become it first in my mind.
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I will live as if I am a great person. I will practice being great each day of my life.
Negative and limiting thoughts create a chemical imbalance in my brain and make me feel bad. Positive and unlimited thoughts restore the normal chemical balance, and I feel good once again.
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When will I get better? Improvement is only a thought away. The instant I think positive thoughts is when it happens.
I don't get what I want in life. I get what I expect. That's why Jesus said, "As you believe, so shall it be done unto you."
When God created my mind, He designed it to run most efficiently using a Positive Operating System. Positive thinking is the natural software for my mind.
No amount to positive thinking will take something bad and turn it into something good. Nevertheless, positive thinking will turn it into something better.
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LEARN HOW TO MAX OUT ON GOD'S LOVE. When your mind is full of thoughts consistent with God's love, your thoughts are healthy, and your mind is exactly the way God means for it to be. When your heart is full of emotions consistent with God's love, your emotions are healthy, and they are exactly the way God means for them to be. Real Power: Maxing Out on God's Love is now available in ebook format at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and Barnes and Noble. REAL POWER IS AVAILABLE TODAY WHEN YOU MAX OUT ON GOD'S LOVE.
Opportunity hides in plain sight, and until I have a dream, I can't see the opportunities that are right in front of my eyes.
I am still writing the story of my life and can make it into anything I want.
There is no limit to how good my life can become when I put positive things into my mind.
When I say yes to life, opportunities come so fast from so many different direction, it's impossible to take advantage of them all.
No matter what my age, I can still make my dreams come true. No matter how many times I have failed in the past, I can still make my dreams come true.
Positive Christian Self-Talk
GET IN AGREEMENT WITH GOD ABOUT WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR LIFE. Jesus said, "As you believe, so shall it be done unto you." Jesus was talking about positive expectations. You don't get what you want, you get what you expect. It doesn't matter if your expectations are positive or negative, you still get what you expect. If you want positive self-talk to work its miracle in your life, all of your self-talk must be forged in the fires of positive expectations. Positive Christian Self-Talk is now available in ebook format at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and Barnes and Noble. JUMP INTO GOD'S OCEAN OF LOVE AND HAVE A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE TODAY.
When my beliefs are right, my world is right. My beliefs are the single most liberating or limiting factor in my life.
God placed dreams in my heart as a beacon that guides me through life. Those dreams get me up in the morning and carry me through the day. They keep me going when the going gets tough.
My beliefs create my personal world and give my life its meaning. They create the world as I believe it to be. It's my unique reality and is the only world I will ever know. I created it and must live in it.
My thoughts are important, because they determine where I go. My dreams don't happen by themselves. I must think and act them into existence.
A new beginning creates a new ending. I can change any area of my life. I am not a finished product. I am a work in progress.
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I change my mind in an instant of time. At the moment of change there is a shift in my beliefs about who I am, and what I can do.
Focus gives me powerful leverage over my mind. When I focus on a thought, it forces my mind to look in the direction of that thought.
Change finally happens when I am ready to change. Change takes a long time, because I take so much time getting ready.
Positive change isn't a matter of the will. Rather, it's a matter of being willing to do whatever it takes.
Change first happens in my mind, and then it happens in my life. It's impossible to make a positive change without fist changing the way I think.
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Change happens when I think differently that I have always thought and act different than I have always acted. New thoughts and actions are necessary.
No matter how long it takes, or how many times I fail, I will make my dreams come true. I am an Unstoppable, Consistently Positive, Endlessly Persistent Doer of Dreams.
The small challenges of life are the training ground for the great ones. If I remain faithful in small things, I experience a tidal wave of success that carries me to destinations far beyond my early limited dreams.
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Every time a negative thought enters my mind I take positive action to eliminate that thought.
When a negative thought pops into my mind, I repeat positive self-talk and push my inner voice in a positive direction and restore my positive perspective.
Failure is never final unless I quit. Failure is a test, and if I keep moving in the direction of my dreams, I pass the test
Positive thoughts are hard to capture and keep in my mind. They flash by at the speed of light and then they are gone.
Positive Self-Talk Red Book
IMAGINE HOW GOOD YOUR LIFE WOULD BECOME IF YOU HAD A CONSISTENTLY POSITIVE MIND. A persistently positive focus creates a consistently positive mind. The same is true of your self-talk. It must be persistent, positive, and specific to have maximum impact. Lack of persistentce has laid more dreams to rest in the cemetery of failure than any other cause. There is zero chance that you will succeed on your first attempt. If your dreams are great, you will fail again and again on your way to the top. Positive Self-Talk Red Book is now available at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and Barnes and Noble. DEVELOP A PERSISTENTLY POSITIVE FOCUS TODAY WITH POSITIVE SELF-TALK FROM DR. DAVE.
I can change who I am by changing what I put into my mind. What I put into my mind is important because it changes who I am.
Excellence is the normal state of affairs in the human heart. God programmed excellence into my heart so that I would feel good when I live an excellent life.
Limitations do not come on tablets of stone from the hand of God. They are a choice, and I choose to not have any.
Limiting beliefs are a disguised form of negation. They are a way that I say no to life while pretending that life is saying no to me. Limitations are plausible self-deceptions. They are prefabricated excuses for every failure to be what I want to be and to do what I want to do.
Life is a laboratory for testing the limitations found in my mind. Although limitations appear real, appearances are deceiving. The only way to find out if they are real is to test them.
Positive Self-Talk Silver Book
LEARN TO SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF THE MIND. Your brain speaks to you in its own language, and if you speak to it in the same way, it immediately responds in a powerful fashion. That’s why change proceeds most rapidly when you talk to yourself using the language of the mind. If you don’t speak the language of the mind, you may as well stop talking until you learn it. Positive Self-Talk Silver Book is now available in ebook format at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and Barnes and Noble. YOUR MIND IS WAITING TO HEAR FROM YOU, SO SEND IT A POSITIVE MESSAGE TODAY.
In the world of forgiveness, what goes around comes around. The forgiveness that I send to others comes multiplied back to me.
Resentment is a form of mental toxic waste, and the most effective method of removing it is the opposite from what I would expect. Instead of fighting against it, I must let it go.
Each negative thought weighs a psychological ton and carrying around a load of negativity is an unbearable burden.
Four laws of focus give me the leverage I need to have a consistently positive mind.
I repeat my positive thoughts until my mind repeats them back to me. I hijack my own mind and fly it to my own positive destination.
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