 We want to welcome again every single person that is in this place to hunger generation those of you that are watching online We want to welcome you and we hope that you feel that you are a part of a family because we are a family of God And we know that you came here tonight God will speak to you and God is already speaking something. We believe that you will be blessed healed and deliver as you leave this place Amen church Tell your neighbor you're at the right place At the right time. I want you to say it again. You're at the right place At the right time Amen. Amen. Amen. So this evening I just want to take a little bit of your time to be able to speak to you on few things few principles from the bible And we believe as we share the word from as we share a few principles from the word of God It will begin to change your life and it influence you to become a better person in your community in your schools In the world in the world at large a man church There was this man that was born and grew up in a village And he was always his life in the village. I grew up in a village in ukraine. I was born in ukraine We're in the village So every time we would come to a city there would be so many things are different that we never saw And there was this man that always grew up in a village and this one time He was invited to come visit his family in the city So he comes he comes to a city with his wife And the kid and they're just watching all these buildings I mean they always grew up in the small little shack, you know Never like only he had to climb to the roof, but he comes to the city and he sees his buildings Everything's so glamorous. He just doesn't he's so always like in awe So he comes to this big story big building apartment He walks in through the first doors and then he's standing there with his son and his wife And he sees these metal doors And those metal doors they open up And he sees this old lady just walks in through those doors the doors close And he hears this bell bang the doors open again. He sees this young beautiful woman just walks out of this door. He's like Wow, he turns to his son. It's a son. Take your mother in there So when you grow up in a village When you grow up in a village and when you grow up in this Um set of mindsets where you are used to one thing It's so hard for you to change and understand something new something that god has and this this evening I just want you to if you have your bibles I want you to open this to romans 12 verse 2 if you didn't bring your bible We have it here on the screen and it says and do not be conformed to this world But be transformed by the renewing of your minds that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of god It says do not be conformed This basically means that do not be do not be conformed. It's like it's a complete change But do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing on your mind It basically talks about the renewing of your mind as a complete Change of mindset That if we in this world the world thinks about certain things One way the bible says that do not be conformed to this world But be be transformed by the renewing of your mind be thinking in a different way Whatever you grew up with whatever you were taught whatever maybe your parents have told you Is one way of thinking but the word of god says that we need to renew our minds Not to the world's standards, but to according to the word of god amen And as you are as you renew your mind you are able to understand the good The acceptable and the perfect will of god Unless you renew your mind unless you change your mind you will not be able to understand the good The acceptable and the perfect will of god for your life Tell your neighbor renew your mind Turn your child and never tell them renew your mind And this is this evening. We're just going to talk on a short topic Called how to change your attitude We believe that you should be taking your taking notes note takers or history makers So if you have your phone if you have your notebook take them out and I want you to be writing the few points that we're going to be going over because we believe that As you hear it that word of god will begin to come into your heart and begin to change your life What is an attitude an attitude is a settled way of thinking Or feeling about someone or something Typically one that is reflected in the person's behavior That is what an attitude is I have a question for you tonight Do you think you have a golly attitude or a worldly attitude? Do you think you have a golly attitude or a worldly attitude? We all have friends that have bad attitude, right? Every single person in this place has a person or that we know that have a terrible attitude Turn to your neighbor and ask them are you the one? Or should I look for another? We all have people in our lives that have golly attitudes and we have people in our lives whose attitude Just are they stink every time that person comes into the room And everybody knows don't get this person mad because your day will be ruined. We have those people, right? We also have certain things in our lives that if you touch that area of my life You will just get me upset for man. It's usually food Cheese, I don't even know why but it's just such a touchy subject that it's just God help us all and We all have these these people or we even ourselves know of a place where we're weak where we're where our attitude fails us Where we just begin to We begin to break down and we give into our feelings We give into our emotions and we are no longer ruled by what the word of god says But by our emotions because we know emotions are like waves They go up one day to go down the other you wake up on the wrong side of the bed your day is ruined you ask for a A cold coffee. They give you a hot and that's it. Your life is downhill. That is our feelings That is our attitude many times and we begin to attach our attitude to what we feel But the word of god what we read here in romans 12 verse 2 says do not be conformed to this world But be transformed by the renewing of your mind And renew our mind through the word of god John max will said that attitude is the advanced man of a truth of our true selves Your attitude goes before you it is our best friend and our worst enemy It is more honest and consistent than our words It is the thing that draws people or repels them from us It is never content unless it is expressed It is the speaker of our presence and it is a prophet of our future Bad attitudes bad attitude is like a flat tire Unless you change it you will not get anywhere in life Bad attitudes is is like this Good i'm not gonna dimension other examples, but let's stick to the flat tire So i keep a PG It's like a flat tire and we all know flat tires. They just They can't get you anywhere until you fix that and that is with life And we I remember one time it's just that whenever I have a bad attitude I cannot accomplish anything throughout that day. I mean i'm telling you Everything that I do it does not prosper like you know the scripture that says that everything that your hand touches will Prosper with bad attitude everything that your hand touches will not prosper And it's like when you have bad attitude You know you try to go to work and it's just a pencil falls and that's it health Health breaks loose you're driving and somebody's driving 30 on a 30 mile road And you are just enraged because they should be going two miles over the speed limit It's just when you have bad attitude it affects every Area of your life and unless you change your bad attitude you will not get anywhere in life When you have bad attitude you will cancel the future that god has for you Bad attitude it derives you from that road and that path to your destiny god has prepared for you We have to understand that attitude is is something that It comes before god and god just it pushes you away from god and One thing that we have to all understand is that god chooses what we go through But we choose how we go through it god chooses how Through what i go through i choose how i go through it I choose how we go through it So it is very important to understand that you know not everybody is born with a golden spoon in the mouth Not everybody's born in a palace not everybody's born where things are perfect But we choose how we go through it Maybe for some of us the road is much harder than others But we determine by our attitude how we live our life Is our life going to be blessed or is our life going to be cursed? Are we going to be on the top or we going to be on the bottom? Our attitude determines our altitude how far we go in life Bad attitudes are like flat tires unless you change it you will not go anywhere in life Thomas jefferson said this that nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal And nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude Nothing can help the man on earth who has the wrong attitude I just want to go right now For a few simple truths from the bible that we want to know and be able to see how can we change our attitude How can we live a life where we achieve and we accomplish the goals and the dreams and we get to the destiny That god has prepared for us how many of you guys want to achieve what god has in store for you Come on put your hands together for jesus if you're the one say i'm the one Come on say with faith i'm the one Few truth i want you to write down number one is we choose our attitude We choose our attitude There was this man called victor ml franklin This is this picture And it was the time where the hitler was in power and he was in He was one of them He was one of the people that was in the concentration camp and it was during the time where the nazis murdered and killed six million jews The murdered his mother they murdered his wife and his brother and only him and his sister was left To be alive and they put him in the concentration camp to work at these conditions and One thing that he said During that time he said i choose to suffer with dignity And regardless what the nazis do to me i will never hate one of them I choose to suffer with dignity and regardless what the nazis do to me i will never hate one of them I mean if you think during that time he was put into concentration camp When they murdered his mother they killed his wife six million of of his people were just wiped out of this earth And during that time he had every reason To be to be negative every reason to have the worst attitude possible But he he said with these words that i choose To suffer with dignity This is why we say that we choose our attitude Your attitude is a choice if it is not what happens to you It is not what you go through that determines your attitude You have the choice to make your life the best or you have the choice to make your life a living hell The choice is up to you They may have defeated him physically, but they did not defeat him spiritually That's something that could not be taken away. It was his faith and we uh, he was After uh, he was released from the concentration camp. He went on to write bestseller books in new york times and Became a motivational speaker and he died about 1998 Being a one of the being a successful man because of his attitude and many of his peers and many of his friends They died in the concentration camp because of the hurt because of the pain They just couldn't handle what was happening to them and they just they just lost hope they lost Every courage the possible that they could have and they just died in that concentration camp whereas he When on living a successful life in made history We choose our attitude tell your neighbor i choose my attitude Tell your other neighbor i choose my attitude Number two is attitudes are not caused by people or circumstances Attitudes are not caused by people or circumstances and one of the biggest myth I want you to write down. I want you to memorize it is that If my circumstances were different, I would have a better attitude That's one of the biggest lies the enemy could ever give you If my circumstances were better, I would I would I would just be better I would smile I would have a better attitude at my work if only my my boss would give me a promotion I would just I'll be the best worker that there is if only you know God gave me a reason to praise him only if god healed me I would just worship god all night long if only my family was saved I will not be so depressed if only if only if only but that is the light of the enemy Because satan wants to make you to live a life that is not content satan wants to make you believe if only you can reach another level you'll be better So you're always not satisfied. You're always not grateful You can never raise your hands and say god I thank you for healing me even though the Signs of sickness is yet in my body satan wants to make you say that you shouldn't raise your hands because you have lack You can't raise your hands and say god you will supply according you supply all my needs according to your riches and glory Because you still don't have means satan wants to make you believe that until you reach another level Then you will be content then you'll be happy and that is the biggest lie Remember when I I had I had a I had an opportunity to live in Nigeria for for a couple years and Just thinking back some of the things that that I that you know that I went through to to some it's a normal thing to me You know, I grew up in Ukraine. I grew up on the farm without no rhythm and I grew up I grew up in Ukraine And then and then I came to America. So then I've been kind of Americanized. I've been a little bit of If I can say just just kind of washed by this whole comfortable about Starbucks about gym about sauna About the good life, you know, you know what I'm saying So then I go back to Nigeria. I think, you know, man, I got this. I you know, I grew up in Ukraine I I I can do this I can do this. So I go there and then just the weather itself the moment you step into the airport There's just the weather hits you it's so humid Close stick to you you stretch your hand and your skin just sticks to it's just that one thing was just okay The food they then will come to the food and you know, man's biggest weakness is food when you take Food from man. You basically defeated the man And that was so hard for me to to um To just to to go through it and I remember a certain point. I was like, what the heck that I get myself in Times I was just crying in my bed. I'm like, I said to my family. Peace, you know, I'm not I'm leaving you guys They're like when you're coming back. I don't know, you know trying to be this I don't know and then I I go there and then I'm here and they're like, how long you're gonna stay here I'm like, I want to go back But I already made this step. So I can't call my family just like hey guys rescue me, you know I'm dying here It's this weather the food everything she was just getting to me and at one point I just Decided, you know what I'll make the best out of it. They're gonna give me rice I'm I'll make it the best rice I've ever ate Do you come to you come to the kitchen and like how do you want your rice? Do you want it cold? You want it hard or you want to uncook whatever is available? Just give it to me And you know, I live and some of the best Memories some of the best thing in life Happened to me in that area at that time where I lived in Nigeria Some of the most changing times where I lived in Africa transform my relationship with God Where right now I wouldn't be the man that I am if I didn't go through that But now we come back here to America and I'll go to a place like subway and And there would be I'm like, I just want a sandwich. Give me a sandwich. I'm hungry. I have 30 minutes You know make it snappy make it fast And this lady I just don't know what happened with her I was like, you have only one job to cut the bread And you can't cut the bread, you know, just squeeze the bread so hard down. It's like one millimeter thin I'm like, how can I eat that and I remember that day? It was I remember clearly like yesterday because it was something that God God really spoke to me through that Where I was just in that subway and I was just Holding it in I was just God give me patience. She's squeezing that bread down and just Cutting it and the bread is ripping and the bread is just being torn apart And they're like, oh, don't worry. She's new today. I'm like, I could tell She's just she gets through one bread and rips it like into pieces. I'm like, no problem. I'll wait I don't really have 20 minutes So she takes the second bread and she just squeezed it down just starts cutting it and just rips it apart. I'm like Somebody help her cut the bread And I was so mad at that point. I remember I was just my mind was just running like crazy like a thousand words Was just going through my mind. I remember leaving that restaurant and I was just driving I was just my day was just like Wow I remember God just hear God's clearly speak to me saying you were just so ungrateful And just hit me how how these little things just ruined my day. I just didn't want to speak to anyone I don't want to do anything everything was just uproar and My life at that point was just based my attitude was based on a piece of bread that somebody couldn't cut Remember God just just hit me so hard that I was just like Man, I need to change my attitude Yes, you cannot cut bread, but It shouldn't depend on that my attitude my life with God shouldn't be depending on somebody's outcome Somebody cuts you off on a freeway. Somebody doesn't say the right thing our church and that's it We hope we go that our life is just a mess that we Choose our attitude and that our circumstances they do not Dictates how our attitude should be if your neighbor has hurt you or offended you or called your wrong name That should not base your relationship with God that shouldn't dictate on how you should live your life If somebody has hurt you in your past somebody has maybe abused somebody may call your names or cheat you That does not mean you have the right to live your life in unforgiveness In regret and shame or all that because we choose our attitude We do not choose what we go through but we choose and how do we come out of it? We choose to forgive we choose to let go we choose to leave those things behind because we are not conformed to this world But we are transformed by the renewing of our mind. We renew our mind according to what God says about us We are who God says that we are we can do what God says that we can do and we have what God says that we have Come on put your hands together for Jesus Christ And I I'll prove you from the scriptures We have the perfect example Adam and Eve. They were created at the most perfect place They had the most perfect bodies they lived a life where they walked with God and yet They were ungrateful God gave him one command said you have everything everything's perfect I'm living with God. I'm I'm walking with you you guys have a perfect life But just don't eat out of that out of that tree Yet they were ungrateful and they were rebellious And they lost their heaven place they lost their the garden of Eden So you cannot say that if my life was perfect I'll have the best attitude because adam and eve proves that it's not so We also seen it in the life of king david We see that king david at the worst time of his life has the best attitude Where his friends betray him when Saul is trying to kill him where where everything just churns against him Where his kingdom is getting taken away from him and that is where we read him psalms where where david at the most hardest part of his life Has the best attitude So you cannot say that look if I have a better life if God can only just take this away I'll I'll praise him or worship him more. I'll give him more of my time I will tend to church more if only I have a car if only have a better job I'll start living loving God because king david proves otherwise We see also in king david's life when everything was great with everything was good That's where david begins to misbehave and that's where he comes in commits sin with bashiba So king david proves that at the worst time of your life you can have the best attitude But also when everything is going good, you can also have the worst attitude So we choose our attitude and it's not our circumstances that dictate how in what kind of attitude we should have We also see in the life of apostle paul. He goes preaching to one city and um The city comes in the uproar and they they take they beat him and they put him in the prison And after they beat him put him in the prison He begins to give worship service to god. He begins to praise god say god I thank you after they've been beaten after they've been scores after they just been thrown out of the city paul decided to have a worship service and begins to thank god These biblical characters they prove to us that we do not to have we don't need to have a better life In order for us to have a better attitude If you see the life of job Job has the worst Circumstances and outcome you can possibly think of yet He was able to get on on his knees when everybody even his wife came and said curse god What it was i you're you're mad just curse god He was able to get on his knees and said god gives and god takes away Blessed be his name We choose our attitude We choose how we go through it god chooses our circumstances, but we choose the outcomes of that number three God rewards good attitude and disciplines bad attitude You have to get one thing in your mind. You have to understand it clearly that god Is madly in love with you god just loves you so much. There's nothing that you can do There's nothing that you can say that will change his unfailing love for you. There's nothing that you can do You have to understand that part But god rewards good attitude And he disciplines bad attitude And we read it in scripture in james 4 6 if you can put up that scripture It says god resists the proud but gives grace to the humble Pride pride is an attitude God says god resists that god loves you so much that he's able to Discipline you when you are proud. He loves you so much because god knows that look if you're walking on the wrong path God knows that look if you're walking on the wrong path He's not going to just stand there and watch you get burned god is going to discipline you so you can grow and so you can get better Any person that pats you in the back when you're doing right when you're doing wrong doesn't love you Any person that pats you in the back or doesn't do anything when you're going the wrong direction Those are the people that don't love you and you should stay far and far from them God says so madly in love with you that he says that god resists the proud god is just But he gives grace to the humble if we have good attitude if we choose the right attitude God says i will reward you for that But if we have bad attitude god will discipline god will create certain circumstances that we can learn That we can be able to grow and become mature christians because god did not create us to be spectators God created us to be fighters for his kingdom god created us so we can become mature That when we grow in him that we'll be able when circumstances come against us that we're not going to whine And cry that we're going to pick up the armor of god and fight against the enemy God wants to discipline us in our attitude when they are bad So we can become a mature christian that we know we stand and we can become his kingdom And we can rule and reign on this earth amen church And even if you read just a few verses down on verse 10 Where god says humble yourself in the side of the lord and he will lift you up God simply says look if you choose the right attitude i'll pick you up I'll make you the head and not the tail if you choose to do right I'll make you the one that is on top and on the bottom that everything that your hand touches will prosper I will lift you up god is committed to your success if you choose the right attitude And number four Is good attitude lead to success and favor? And bad attitude brings failure and and disfavor Good attitude leads to success and favor bad attitude brings failure and disfavor We see a famous story in the bible when the kind of night woman comes To jesus christ and he's he and she starts to just crying out to jesus christ said look my daughter is possessed and Jesus, please help her At this point you would think a person She's humble man. She's coming to jesus. She's just crying out. She's disturbing jesus First thing jesus does is just jesus ignores her And if you think at this point that this is not bad enough Jesus goes on to not just to ignore her jesus goes says that look i'm not sent to help you First time jesus ignores her then he says i'm not i'm not i'm not supposed to help you i'm not sent for you At that point jesus she still continues to have the best attitude jesus, please have mercy on me Please have mercy then jesus turns around one more time and at that point he just says You know you're not supposed to take the bread from the children and toss it to the dogs Basically jesus just a fencer at that point you think the man This woman's gonna lose it this moment is gonna explode, you know But yet at the same point she says a humble attitude and she says even the dogs Maybe yeah, maybe i am a dog. Maybe i don't know maybe i am a dog But even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the table at that point she chooses even from jesus She chooses i'm gonna have the right attitude. I'm gonna have the best attitude. That's where jesus says Your faith has saved you That's where jesus picks her up and he begins to reward for her humble attitude We whatever that we're going through maybe you did not choose your chancrum status Maybe you were born in the wrong family that you Nothing was going right. Maybe you are you know, there's pain in your body. Maybe there's circumstances that points you to act like the world But we choose our attitude we choose to to transform and renew our mind according to the word of god What the word of god says that i am who god says i am i'm not my past i'm not my mistake i'm not what my parents called me i'm not what my teachers say i am But i am what god word says i can do what god says i can do i'm not yesterday's mistake I am today's victor um, whatever my hand touches will prosper and i have what god said i have We have to base our attitude according to the word of god We see in the life of joseph when joseph begins to bring bread to to his brothers and his brothers sell him into slavery They basically just strip him to close time and just slave him to slavery and you think okay joseph is just Man things are just not working out. I mean you you thought being ignored from your from your brother's bad Try being sold to slavery for by your own family. That's just that's just terrible After being sold into slavery he goes to work in the part of first house You know and then from then on he gets lied against he gets tossed into prison Once he is in prison, you know, he gets he he helps people out He gets forgotten and you think at that point he would just have the worst attitude But yet he based his attitude according to god's word He based his attitude that instead of you know, be having the spirit of heaviness But like in ase 61 first three says that put on the garment of praise He was encouraging himself that you know that maybe things are not working out But I can do all things through christ that gives me strength Maybe I have lack at this moment But my my bible says that I the lord will supply all my needs according to his riches into his glory Maybe i'm not accepted by by my family by my friends. Maybe i'm reject Maybe i'm sold into slavery But the word of god says that i am the apple of his eye I'm so precious to him that something touches me to fence god I am a chosen generation. I am a royal priesthood. I am who god says I am I can do what god says I can do and I I will not be conformed to this world I'm not going to base my my attitude of what the world says I'm not going to base my attitude of past my mistakes on what I've done yesterday or what I left undone I am who god says I am I can do what god says I can do and I have what god says I have Come on put your hands together for jesus christ And this is these are the things few simple things that I want you to remember On how to change your attitude and how to be able to walk a life where you're thankful Where you walking in faith you're not you're not basing your life on what your feelings are You're not basing your life on what things that happens around you But you base your life according to god's word because god's word is not failing god's word In matthew it says that heaven and earth will pass away, but god's word will remain the same Attach your attitude attach your emotions your feelings according to what god's word says May god's word the standard for your life because that is the only thing that is Strong enough to get you through what you're going that is the only thing that will be able to take that pain that sickness That loneliness that emptiness I emptiness inside your heart and make you into a man and a woman After all god's own heart and man church. Are you blessed tonight? Come on. I want you all to rise up on your feet right now