 All right, good evening, Pace family. How's everyone doing this evening? Come on, let's give Jesus a hand. He's worthy to be praised. Come on, let's hear it. Hallelujah, so good to see all of you. You having a good week? All right, let's stand. Let's have a word of prayer. Take out your prayer and praise if you will. And all the needs that are here, we all have needs, even though it's not on this page. So let's call out for your family and friends like it depends on you. If it was your mom, if it was your dad, if it was your brother or sister, amen. Father, we thank you for your faithfulness. I called on the Lord who is worthy to be praised. The psalmist said, I was delivered from all of my enemies. God, we're asking you right now to come in and deliver, Lord. Come in and set free. Come in and bring healing, God. God touched the lost loved ones that needs salvation, Jesus. Time is clearly running out, Lord. We're calling on you, Lord. You're the only savior. God, we thank you for your faithfulness. God, we lift up all of our brothers and sisters. The person that's watching right now by TV, you're sitting in that living room and you're crying out to the Lord. He hears those prayers and we're in agreement with you tonight, Lord. We thank you, Jesus, that you hear and that you answer prayers. Let's give Him a hand tonight. Give Him praise, hallelujah, hallelujah. Go ahead and cross it out. Shake a hand, hug a brother and sister. Online guests, we welcome you. We thank you for being a part of Pace family. We count it an honor that you would join us this evening. Let us know how we can pray with you. Let us know a praise report that you might have just watching Pace assembly. As we know, the same presence that's here is also with you in your house or in your car, wherever you're watching. So again, we thank you for tuning in this evening and we say, God bless you. I hope to hear from you soon. Well, look at Todd up here quick. High five your neighbor. Tell him it's good to be in Bible study on Wednesday night. Hallelujah. How many joyful, cheerful givers do we have in the house? Come on, God loves a joyful giver. We have offering buckets on your way out. You can also go online. We have a QR code. You can mail it in. Go to our website. Let's bless the offering tonight. Father, we thank you now for the gift and the giver alike, Lord. We ask God that you would bless the offering to meet the need and to far exceed. Do it seedly above all that we can ask, think, or imagine, Lord, and we will be careful to give you all the glory in Jesus' name. Amen. You look so good. You look like you took a bath or something because that's funny and true. I want you to get your Bibles and open up to the book of Philippians chapter number four that all of you that are watching online, let us know where you're watching from. It's a blessing to be able to be there with you. It means a lot to us to know where you're watching from and helps us to know that we're being good stewards about what God has given to us to do. And we thank you. We love to hear from you, so connect with us there online. There's somebody waiting to chat with you online and that'll be a blessing. Also want to mention to all of you, just please remember, and if you haven't already registered, you can do that online for the upcoming Prophecy Files Conference. I was on the phone today with one of our guests, William Federer, and I will tell you that what he's going to bring will be worth probably the entirety of you being here for the entirety of that Saturday. The incredible cycle that takes place, you know, the Bible tells us what has been shall be. And when you're looking at history and you put what has been in the past together with prophecy, you're gonna see that not only is it a cycle, but even what to do. And so those are some of the things and I'm gonna be bringing to you in the few weeks. We will have more of what the specific topics will be that our guests will be speaking on. And so we want you to make sure that you're registered for that and you're ready to be a part of it. We were encountered a lady today that never met before and introduced and told her where we were here at Pace Assembly, pastoring here, and she brought up about the Prophecy Conference. And I said, yes ma'am, pastor of the church there. And she said, is Pastor Hagee going to be there? Yes ma'am, he will be here in person. She said, I just got goosebumps. I don't know if she was Pentecostal or not, but this woman said she had goosebumps. So I am gonna text Miss Diana Hagee, pastor's wife, and let her know that there's a lady over here in Pace. She's having goosebumps, funny stuff, funny stuff. But I can tell you he hasn't, he's not beat me on that. Years ago Tara's mom was here and it's always a dangerous thing to give somebody the microphone. And she hadn't been in this church very long and the Lord had just done a marvelous work inside of her life. And so I asked her to testify about it and when she got up here and I put that microphone in her mouth, she said, just standing here next to you makes me tingle. Am I right Kirby? I'm right, yeah. And I was glad my wife was on the platform at the time. And if anybody ever asked me, what is one of your funniest and favorite moments, that was it. Now I'm just telling you. So I had to leave, I had to fly somewhere and preach somewhere, whatever it was. And I'd been gone for a little while and Rita and Taylor and Lauren and the grandbabies met me at the airport and he went and had a t-shirt made, Taylor did. Then my pastor makes me tingle. So let me just say to all of you that are watching online, you go to other churches, those of you that are in here, if your pastor doesn't make you tingle, we invite you to pace assembly. I've been in the sun too long today. Woo, that was almost PG, wasn't it? We better get into this Bible study before I get my tongue too far out there. Funny stuff. Amen. It's good to laugh, isn't it? So let's talk about attitude adjustments, right? I think this is a good, all of that was a great opener line, don't you think? Father, thank you for your word that becomes the lamp and light to us every day. And Lord, I pray that we ingest that word tonight and that we conceive it and receive it into our spirit, into our mind and heart and let God tonight and every time that the word of God comes to us, when we read it in our personal studies and whatever that it may be, may it be life and light to us. And Lord, let us to comply our lives, apply our lives to the word of God and that word to our lives and we give you praise for it in Jesus' name. Everybody said a good amen. Philippians chapter number four, look with me in verse number four. This is a great, great book. If you need encouragement, if you need strength, if you need just a good, encouraging word, that's the reason why this entire letter was written to the church at Philippi. And a lot of things took place there and there is no doubt that the support that they gave to the apostle Paul was probably one of the reasons that he took time and it is and he makes that note in Philippians. While he's writing from prison, he writes to them this very encouraging letter and over in chapter four, verse number four, the Bible picks up right here and says, rejoice. Rejoice in the Lord always and again, I say rejoice. You don't have that marked in your Bible and somewhere tucked in your mind, you need to do that. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing, don't be anxious for anything but in everything, how many things? Everything by prayer and supplication. With thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. This is one of the greatest verses in the Bible to me, verse seven, and the peace of God, which passive all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Well, you better mark that one down, you're gonna need it. Verse eight, this is what he gives us as instruction. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are a good report. And I love this, he eliminates all of our excuses. If there be any virtue, if there be any praise, it's a command, think on these things. Those things which he, what things God, those things which he have both learned and received and heard and seen in me, Paul says, do. And the God of peace, there he is again, shall be with you. But I rejoice in the Lord greatly that now at your last, at the last, your care of me has flourished again, wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity. Not that I speak in respective want. This is important. I'm reading this, he's given you the instruction about what to think about, but now he's telling you that no matter what, not that I speak in respective want, for I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. He said, I know how, look at the attitude there. I know how to be a base, I know how to abound everywhere and in all things, I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. And he brings it together in verse 13. I can do all things through Christ, but strengtheneth me. That's some good word right there tonight, isn't it? So let's talk about this for a few moments and extract some principles from this passage of scripture and dealing with your attitude, my attitude. How many of you know from time to time your attitude stinks? For everybody that's not raising your hands, yours doubly stinks. In this life, people are looking for success. So when do you become successful? Well, if you're like most people, what comes to your mind every day is that somewhere, somehow, out into the future, I will be successful. And then we wake up and think, I made it, I'm a success. That's how most unsuccessful people, unsuccessful people see success as something to strive for and hope to reach someday out there. I will tell you success, if you made it through today and you enjoyed the peace of God that kept you and you accomplished what God's purpose in your life, you need to consider today a success inside of your life. Everyone wants to be successful, but many don't achieve that because they believe to be somehow, I'll push it out there, I never quite arrived, whatever that it may be. And the reason why is because they're doing what Paul says, and we do this every day, 2 Corinthians chapter 10, 12 and 13, we compare ourselves with ourselves. Paul said that when they measured themselves, by themselves, and compared themselves with themselves, they are not wise. Why is that? Because your purpose and your mission and your success is not gonna be the same as the person sitting next to you tonight, not even your spouse, because what God has assigned you to do, that's what you must pursue in order to see God's purposeful success take place inside of your life. Success in our culture requires many times someone else to tell us, hey, you're successful. You know, you made it. Even in Christendom, we say, okay, go up and shake the preacher's hand, now you're saved. Well, if shaking my hand would get you saved, first of all, the lady that today that I spoke to didn't wanna shake my hand, she was concerned about germs. So that's fine, whatever. She didn't even fist bump me, whatever. That's all right, but the mentality is I'm waiting on someone else to declare me successful. It's time for you to be able to look into the mirror and say, God made me, and he gave me purpose, and if I will please him, I'll be a success every day of my life. Because if you're waiting on someone else, it may come and it may not come. You follow what I'm saying? So let's make it plain right here tonight, because your pen has got ink running out the end of it. You need it. So here we go. All real success, real success begins with God. Without God, there is no success. You can accumulate the wealth of the world, but without God, it won't make you successful. It'll make you depressed. It'll make you put more security bars up on your home and more cameras, because you're afraid that somebody's gonna steal what you've accumulated. So success, and this is my definition here and more of a biblical side of things, to finish, this is defined, to finish my original intended assignment according to the plan and purpose of God with fulfillment and contentment. That's success, that's success. Success can only be defined by purpose and measured by obedience. Whatever God's purpose is inside of my life, if I'll pursue that and walk in obedience toward that direction, then success will be my reward. Some people don't think that God is concerned with success, but he most certainly is. Look at what he told Joshua in Joshua chapter number one. He said, if you'll meditate in this word, if you'll walk in my ways, if you'll do what I tell you to, if you'll obey me, then you'll have good success. Then I'll make your way prosperous. So it's not an accident that you arrive at a place called success, or that every day that you are successful. If you're defining it by the purpose that God has laid into your heart and then you're obedient to that, then you're gonna see good success. Success is not doing just a good thing, but it's doing the right thing. So what does success involve? I'll give you three things right here. Number one, knowing your purpose. Now some people don't know what their purpose is, so they're trying to do somebody else's purpose. And if you try to live through somebody else's purpose or you're trying to fulfill their dream and not what God's intended for you to do, then you can live your life for years and decades, not knowing who you are and what God's called me to do. And I love everybody, but I can't do everything. And I can appreciate what you do because it's different than me. That's the reason why I don't worry about who the preacher is going to be or whatever. Because if I'll do what God tells me to do, then he'll grant the blessing and the success in my life that I need to have, not based upon the pastor that gives you a good feeling. Stop, get out. Number two, growing until you reach your maximum potential. And why is this so important? Because sometimes we have a purpose, but we don't see, we do just enough sometimes to get by. And I'm gonna tell you, getting around people like that for me makes me itch. Because if you're gonna do something, especially for the kingdom of God, not to mention your family or business, whatever that it may be, your church, hey, for yourself, why not maximize that thing? Why not learn everything you can? If you're going to be the top underwater basket weaver, then why would you not learn everything that there is about underwater basket weaving? And some of you are saying, why don't you bring that up? I don't know that anybody does that out here. But the point is, is that you wanna be able to, you know, I feed myself, I have a serious addiction for books and the books that feed what I do to help me to be better at what I do. I blame him for it, but it was a good thing inside of my heart. There wasn't a time that I ever traveled with him in his administration that we weren't hitting a bookstore in every city that we went to. And I recall going to Phoenix, Arizona for a pastor's conference out there and we found a rare Christian bookstore. And when we got there, I found the book, very small book on Pentecost, written by, I think it was written by Simpson. And we started flipping through that and he was flipping through it. And I said, wait a minute, I found this. And we stood there, two pastors in a Christian bookstore fighting over one book. That book's on my shelf at the house, but I'm just saying, feed yourself. Feed yourself what is going to help you to be a success in what God's called you to be. If you're a photographer and God's called you to do that, that's your purpose in life, then learn everything you can. Don't just shoot pictures for no reason. Do it to the maximum. Because watch what I'm telling you. Your gift will make room for you and set you before mighty men. Why is that so important? Because you don't want to just do anything. You want to do it. David said, this one thing I do. Paul says, this one thing I do. We should pick up on the point that Paul, David, found their purpose in God and began to pursue that. And they were anointed for that and God gave them great success. So growing to reach your maximum potential and then there is no success without a successor. I would love to think, this is the most horrible thing whenever you read the scripture after Joshua comes off the scene, there's nobody to pick up for him. After Elisha goes off the scene, there's nobody to pick up for him. Elijah mentored Elisha. You should be having somebody in your life that you're able to speak into and help grow so that you're transferring and don't be intimidated by that. Don't be intimidated. We always talk about, well, I want my kids to have it better than I did. Well, I don't know what that actually means, but I can just tell you that the best things that you can deliver into their life are not gonna be found in the bank, okay? I promise you, I'm just telling you, you know what I'm talking about. It's those words and principles and things that you learn while you're with them that makes you who you are today. Both good and bad. How many of you know you had some things that your parents or whoever it was that yours a leader that you looked at the situation and you said, I don't know if I wanna do that, but you know what, you learned that. That's something I don't wanna, I don't wanna raise my child like that particular situation, whatever. Hey, all of that, if you'll be teachable there and then so good sees into the next generation, you're gonna raise somebody up that's gonna pick up the baton after you're gone or not able to do this anymore and see success and your greatest, your greatest seeds are found in your children. And it's hard to see that, it takes a long time to be able to see those seeds grow, but it's a marvelous thing when you look and they do something and you go, hmm, it took. I love that when that happens, don't you? So sowing the seeds in others will create success in their life. So look, Philippians 2 verse five is the scripture that we need to grab ahold of here because he says to us, let this mind be in you. Let this, he's saying, let this attitude, let this mindset be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. So we should have like attitudes about things, like mindsets about things and helping us to be able to be more Christ-like, right? Now maybe you wanna be Christ-like. Well, sure you do, otherwise you don't wanna call yourself Christian, that's what it means. I'm a Christian meaning Christ-like and God knows we need more Christ-likeness in the world today, do we not? I'm amazed at people that call themselves Christians but will treat people with hateful contempt or have some attitude or action or lifestyle that is not that of the Word of God. I can assure you don't have to worry about it. He's given us the manual. He's given us the Constitution here. We don't have to wonder about what Christ would think about, how he would act, how he would respond. I don't have to wait for that to take place. I can read it for myself. So the attitude of success is an inward feeling expressed by your behavior. So you can't say, well, I got a great attitude and then it comes out in your behavior in a different frame. So smile at somebody sitting beside, just gonna make you feel better about them and you'll have a better attitude, right? Because this is the statement that usually you hear that we hear, attitude is everything. And we go, oh yeah, okay, that's true, but let me just tell you, it's not true. Because one of the greatest movements in what was called Christian was nothing more than, well, let me just say, this positive attitude that didn't have a basis in God. And there was a whole ministry years and years ago when I was growing up that all you had to do is just be positive and the books were written and the whole deal and this is where out of that came up the eccentric faith movement that said all you gotta do is just have a good attitude and everything will work out right and that's not true. When a person lives on hope that is not supported by God's word and his principle, you're setting yourself up for a constant failure. Now I'm not saying that attitude doesn't have something to do with it, that's what we're talking about here tonight, but you cannot say, you cannot have an attitude or a mindset that says everything is just gonna turn out fine. That person without the taking the time to plan and put effort into what's taking place, this was the whole movement years ago, the power of positive thinking and that was supposed to accelerate Christianity and it was a wonderful day in the neighborhood and you didn't have to worry about anything but that's not true because, well, write this down, you can't disconnect attitude from reality and be successful. In other words, without the basis of God's word and God's principles, having a positive attitude about something is pie in the sky. Well, Pastor, it's all gonna work out, I really am, that's another group of folks that make me itch because they're not in the world of reality, okay? Oh, it's all, don't worry, Pastor, I know gas is $5 a gallon but it'll all work out in the morning. Well, in the morning it's $6 a gallon. How is that for the power of positive thinking? I'm not saying you shouldn't have a positive attitude. That's what we're talking about here tonight but to simply base your life on such positivity that is not based in God's word and principle is going to leave you a setup for failure because you're always thinking, well, it's always gonna work out like this. You have a mindset and when it doesn't work out like that after a while, watch what I'm telling you, after a while when it doesn't work out like you thought it should, that's when people start losing their faith in God. And God said, I didn't have nothing to do with that. You just didn't read my word. Hey, I didn't have nothing to do with the fact that you failed over here, you didn't study for the test. I know you have the positive attitude going into the DMV over here to get your license but because you didn't study the book and you don't know the answers, your positive attitude is not gonna get you a license. I think I wanna be a brain surgeon. Well, thank you for having a positive attitude about what you wanna do in life but first please, for the sake of all of those that will come up underneath your scalpel, go to school first for a long time and then work on somebody else's head come on somebody. Attitude is, listen, attitude is not a cure-all. A positive attitude can't make up for failure to study, failure to prepare. How about this, good financial sense? I just think we gotta, you know, just have a positive attitude and hey, just write a check. Just go ahead and swipe that card. I know you know there's no, I don't know if I got any money in there but I got a good attitude, I got a good feeling about this, right. You better hold up and plan, come on somebody. You better stop and plan and you better have, listen, all good leaders plan for things to go wrong, okay? Then you're not shocked if something goes wrong. If everything goes right, see how do you learn this stuff? You gotta go on a youth trip. You gotta go to youth camp, you gotta go on a youth trip. Once you go on a youth trip, you know, it is the personification of if it can go wrong, it will go wrong. And not only that, but the students will make it go wrong on purpose and laugh at you because you weren't ready. Come on, years ago, there's some of them that are still here, the residue. Years ago inside of this church, they took, the youth pastor took them off to camp, you know, hundreds of kids at the camp that was going on. They went up to some cabin up there and before he knew it, they had his mattress on the roof and all of his clothes hanging in the trees. Look at your neighbor and tell him, planning pays. You better plan. And planning for, see, people think, I'm just gonna stumble into a blessing. God doesn't just throw blessings out like corn seed. He plants them on purpose inside of our heart. So it's not some accidental act on God's part to bless us. Here's what the Bible says. If you're faithful and obedient, you'll eat the good of the land. Come on, somebody. Well, I have a good attitude about this earth bringing up some corn right here. Well, you can have all the attitude you want and you can speak faith over the ties, command you to come forth with corn. But if you haven't planted a seed and weeded that thing and watered it, you're not getting anything, zero. So a positive attitude cannot. Sometimes the process of elimination helps you to find the will of God. How many of you ever used that before? You eliminate this, eliminate this. This is not part of what I'm supposed to do. This is not my purpose. This is the will of God. So a positive attitude cannot substitute then for these things, for competence. Are you confident? Well, I have a positive attitude. I think I'm gonna be a preacher. Hook it up. You got a Bible. But you better know what you're talking about. You better know Noah from Moses. Come on, somebody. Well, I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do this. Well, before you prepare yourself because confidence is a big thing. Confidence, confidence can't replace competence. I can be as confident as I want to, but if I haven't prepared, then I'm not ready for what's supposed to take place. Here's the next thing, experience. Now, people don't wanna deal with this. They just wanna go straight from college, straight to the seven figure deal. Oh, and by the way, pay for all my student loan on the way there. But I'm just telling you, you know what I'm talking about. You learn more by experience than you do by being taught. Put yourself into the situation and you've gotta figure it out and you'll learn what not to do and you'll learn what to do. Are you hearing what I'm saying? You think about it. Think about back over your life and things that have taken place where you learned and where you were put into places by the experience that you had to know or at least I said it to somebody the other day, just fake it till you make it. You hear what I'm saying? I won't tell on y'all, I'll tell on me. I walked in the door of this church with a briefcase in my hand for my interview. I should have left the briefcase in the car. There wasn't anything in the briefcase. It made me look really important. I'm telling you the truth to this day. If you had to say, hey, what was in the briefcase? I have not a clue. I don't know that there was anything in there. And if there was two or three sheets of paper, I could have held that in my hand rolled up. It's a wonderful thing to be an idealist. You can have great ideas, great thoughts about changing the world, but nothing can replace experience. That's the reason why I like to get around people and listen to them talk about the good old days. Some people don't want to do that, and a lot of times young people don't want to hear that or the way it is is that you've heard it and you've heard it and you've heard that story again. But don't despise that. Did you hear what I said? Don't despise that. Listen again. There's gonna be something else in that. You're thinking to yourself, I've heard this story. My dad was notorious and guess what? He passed it on to me. You've heard my stories? Look at my wife up here shaking her head. You've heard the stories and all, but you know what? Why do you even tell that? Because it encourages me. I'm the one who walked through that experience. And I want you to know, now it's a horrible thing to walk through an experience and not learn anything from it. But it's a good thing to walk through the experience and then be able to live to tell about it to somebody else and say, let me just tell you. I didn't have any food in the house and I prayed and asked God, come on somebody. Now I know you've heard this story before. We've got a chest of drawers at the house, chest of drawers, see it's just a southern thing. Chest of drawers, you don't even know what that is. And we didn't have any furniture when we were first married and we prayed. We literally said, Lord, we need something to put the clothes in that is laying around out here. And we prayed and the next day she went in. Now watch this because this is the way God does. You know, we expect to come down with golden roof and drop right into our house. But you know what they said? They came to her and said, hey Rita, do you know anybody who needs a chest of drawer, chest of drawer, chest of drawers? It's four, it's all wood. Watch this, but it needs to be refinished. Now, I hear people today that would get that blessing into their life. I mean, don't even have anything to put it in. They'd look at that and go, you mean I gotta refinish it? Come on, y'all looking at me. I'm talking about experience. See, I had never replantished, I had never refinished anything like that before. That was my first project. So when we got it, it needed refinishing and all that sanding down the whole bit. So I took it home, it became a project. I loved it, so I got the stuff out and started scraping off the old and all that kind of stuff and then refinishing and staining and all that kind of stuff. And to this day, it's still in our house. So every time I walk past it, come on somebody. What is that? Oh my God, I'm fixing to get happy right now and kick. Let me just tell you something. Nobody and nobody and nobody can ever tell me that God doesn't answer prayer because I've got it sitting physically in my house. That experience is mine and hers. Now, when somebody comes to you and says, God's not answering my prayer, have you asked him the question, have you refinished the furniture? What do you mean by that? Have you done your part? God gave you the chess drawers. Have you done your part? Because he gave it to you. Talk to me somebody. We want everything to come down in a sugar-coated box with a big ribbon on the top of it and God says, hey, I'm gonna give this to you but you're gonna have to do a little something. What did he say to the children of Israel when they got into Canaan? He said today, boy, it would have been a tragedy, wouldn't it? I can see that in my mind. Today is the last day that manna is gonna be sent to you. I mean, God didn't do like, we're gonna downsize. He didn't start saying, okay, we're gonna have manna but over the next, we're gonna phase it out over the next six months. Read the Bible. The Bible says, God cut it off and said that no more you will eat of the old corn of Canaan from this day forward. And you know what they had to do? They had to go into Canaan and they had to start plowing the ground and planting their own stuff. Are you kidding me? Out there in the wilderness, you rain down quail and manna and everything else. Yeah. If God would have been a credit card company, he says, sure, I'll rain it back to you. That'll be 24%. How many of you know experience is a good thing? This is something. How about facts? Positive attitudes can't substitute for facts. This is a problem that our government has right now. John Adams said, facts are stubborn things. So the social media pops out there. So many hit me up today with this. They said, pastor, did you know, and it was a famous evangelist, they said, social media popped out there that this person is dead. They had their funeral. I said, he ain't dead. Social media is here to stay, y'all. It's here to stay. And it's only gonna get worse in its, as they say, misinformation, disinformation and all that kind of stuff. You cannot be gullible with that. And listen, I heard this the other day that the majority of people in the United States no longer trust the media to get their news at all. Well, thank God we woke up on that. But how many times can you have embezzlement going on and corruption going on and cocaine in the White House and all this kind of stuff because facts are stubborn things. After a while, the sky is blue, right? Facts are stubborn things. Here's number four, personal motivational growth. What do you mean by that? Attitudes can fill us with hope to reach our dreams, but faith here, watch this, faith without words is dead. So you know what's been converted here in recent years? Now pastors are not pastors, they're life coaches. Well, if I wanted a life coach, I would have gone down to the seminar, okay? I'm not saying that that may not be something that you need, but when I need a preacher, I need somebody who knows how to rightly divide the word of truth and give me some word, right? And you can't, you don't need just a motivational preacher. The message should be motivating, it always is. I'm motivated to stay out of hell, so I'm gonna read this book and stay with Jesus, right? Somebody, I hear somebody say right now, well pastor, every time you do prophecy files, I get depressed because it's like doom and gloom, bad news, well then you're looking at it the wrong way because the book of Revelation says the revelation of Jesus Christ. It's not about the bulls and the trumpets and the judgments, it's about the fact that Jesus is coming to town. Ready or not, Jesus is coming to town. So stop looking at it from the wrong side, change your attitude and say, wait a minute, this is not, what does the Bible say? Jesus said it himself, he said, when you see all this stuff going on, then lift up your eyes for your redemption draws nigh. Personal motivational growth, but the Bible says faith without works is dead. You can't just wait to become something, you have to start being something, right? So let's look at this observation very quickly, observations of successful attitude, godly principles for us. First, your attitude makes a difference in your approach to life. It's a beautiful blue sky out, the clouds are puffy, it's a gorgeous day, blah, blah, blah, you run into somebody and you go, man, isn't today beautiful? Yeah, you see that cloud? Well, blah, blah, blah, right? Today, I'm coming back, I'm driving down Shamukla Highway and at one point, the sun is shining and this blue sky's are rolling over and by the time I get to the church, it's drowning frogs. You know what I said to myself on the way down the highway, the farmers love this rain. It may be a little nuisance to me, but we need some rain, right? We generally will default to a mindset that we impose on ourselves. But God has something to say about that. He has something to say about our life, He has something to say about our future. Did you know that? Here's what Jesus said in John 10 and 10, the thief comes but for to steal, kill and destroy. That's the bad news. But I have come to give you life and life more abundantly. That's the good news. And what did Philippians 4 tell us? He said, if there's any virtue, if there's any good report, if there's any good thing to think on, then choose that to think on. Right? Number two, your attitude makes a difference in your relationships with people. So many times we judge one another. Somebody was telling me the other day about that. They were judging a person who wasn't living in the lifestyle of a Christian, but they kept coming to church. And they wanted to perform a service that that's what they did for a living. But the person didn't feel like that that was the right thing that they needed to do. And all of a sudden God checked them and said, no, you give this job to them. Not based upon how I judge somebody. Right? Judging one another is a dangerous thing because the Bible says it'll come back to you. You'll be judged by the means that you pour it out and judge someone else. Praise the Lord. Mmm, it got tight in here right now. Hurting people? Now I'm not, you know, there are things sometimes we do that is unintentional and all that kind of thing. I don't talk about that, but I'm talking about the intentional act of hurting someone because you don't like them or whatever. These are things, ladies and gentlemen, that we've got to change in our attitudes because it actually limits. Listen, let me say it like this. You're either lifted or limited by relationships. The people you hang out with will either lift you or put a lid on you. Who do you wanna hang out with? Come on somebody. Who do you wanna hang out with? The lifters or the limiters? You better find the people that are helping to lift. And I'm not talking about you being the only one that they're lifting. See, in this me, me, me society today, it's all about you encouraging me. But when are you encouraging someone else? When are you lifting someone else? Okay, and let me say this to you, not all lifting is seen on social media. In fact, he says, don't let your left hand know what your right hand's doing. Just do it as unto the Lord and lift somebody up. If you don't get any accolades or recognition or a card in the mail or a gift card from somebody, you did as unto the Lord, right? Speak that word into their life. You may never see them again. I don't know if I'll ever see this lady we came in contact with today. I don't know if she'll come to the service or not. But I know this. There's a moment in time when she came in and, now listen, oh God, here we go. Let me kick this thing. She said, what did she say? She said, what did I say she said? She said she felt goosebumps, that's what it was. Okay, so she felt goosebumps. That's what the world calls when they don't know how to describe the Holy Ghost. And the anointing, they call it goosebumps or goosebumps pimples or whatever that it may do dads, whatever that it may be. Let me just tell you something. What she did is that she stepped right into the atmosphere of the anointing of the Holy Spirit. It wasn't John Hage, it is the mere fact that she recognizes that there's something about this man. Come on, somebody. Let me move on. Number three, your attitude makes a difference in how you face adversity and life's challenges. I'm never gonna win. Well, then you never will. I'll never make it. Then you never will. You're prophesying your own doom and gloom. The devil is a liar. You will make it. You will rise to the occasion. You will land the job. You will preach the message. Come on, somebody. You will do great exploits for God. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Listen to Paul say that. Paul is in prison writing this letter and he says I can do all things through Christ. Are you kidding me? Paul, are you like a hypocrite or something because you're in prison, man? He said you don't understand. There's people down here that need Jesus. Come on, somebody. He said I'm preaching the gospel. I preached it to you this past weekend. I'm down here in the dungeon. I'm preaching. Everybody's left me, but that's okay. God's given me an opportunity with the Gentiles and there's some people down here in this prison that are giving their life to Jesus Christ. Come on, somebody. Can you see an obstacle or an opportunity? That's good. So many people face challenges that they've overcome and it's an inspiration for other people. They took the adversity that was in their life and the challenge that was in their life and they turned it around. And this is something that is missing in our society today because we see people and I hate this. I hate the fact that people will describe a certain race of people never able to make it because of this. Well, if one person ever made it out of the hood, you can make it out of the hood. Your race, your color, whatever that it may be, God is your God and he will lift you. Come on, somebody. Beethoven was deaf and wrote symphonies. How do you like that for adversity? They hated George Washington Carver. To this day, they don't want him to be elevated but I'm just gonna ask you a question. Did you eat some peanut butter recently? I did. I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich this past weekend to the glory of God. How many of you know what I'm talking about? I said to the glory of God, those of you that don't know nothing about no peanut butter jelly, you are not sustained. You'll never make it. Come on, you better get saved when you go in the first load. Peanut butter. Don't you look at peanut butter and go, why didn't I think of that? George Washington Carver did. You ever read his story? Have you ever read his story? Go find his story and read his story. Much of what you do every day involves the derivative of peanuts that he took and kept right on doing what he did, peanut oil, peanut butter. Are you hearing what I'm saying? And the list goes on and on and on. They don't wanna recognize him. This is an African-American man who said, you know what, I'm not gonna let the circumstances in Alabama keep me on the ground. I'm gonna take this peanut and I'm gonna mash it up and make some peanut butter. And I wish he could be here right now to say this to you, but I'll say it in his behalf. And all y'all are eating my invention. Come on, somebody, you know what I'm talking about? I'm talking about it. I made it and all y'all are eating it and you're paying for it, how you like that? I love that story. I mean, the derivatives of the peanut is an amazing thing. There's hardly anything that you deal with on a daily basis that doesn't involve a peanut, a peanut. I'm telling you, I was a grown man before I realized that my grandfather on my dad's side who played the fiddle and he loved to read Louis Lamour books. Y'all don't know nothing about no Louis Lamour. Cowboy books, but he played the fiddle. And I heard about it. I heard him tell me, yeah, he played the fiddle, man. And he would play it, he'd play it right out here in Santa Rosa County. He'd play it for, you know, Square Dancin' and all that kind of stuff going down. And then I found out after they finally relayed the rest of the story, he was deaf. He played the fiddle and he was deaf. They said he could feel the vibrations and you're telling me that you can't go get a job and make a living for you and your house. You're telling me that what God's propped into your spirit for you to create. Why did he give you that witty invention? The Bible says God will give you witty inventions. Are you hearing me? Witty inventions. I don't know who that spoke to just now, but whatever it is God's telling you to pursue, you better go ahead and do it. Don't wait on somebody else. God gave it to you. Well, pastor, nobody will buy it. Stop with that nonsense. You don't know what people will do. There was a couple and we bought a few of them off of them. Companies wanted to buy them, but they hold the patents so nobody can do it. They weren't in it for that. They were just wanted to help people. So right over here in Holt, they were developing the hand crank generator. We got three of them at the house. So we're getting a storm. I'm gonna invite you over. I'm gonna be drinking tea, watching TV, but I want you to crank. Crank it. They invented it. It's an amazing tool. Often our attitude is the difference between success and failure. Do you know that God can do a lot of things inside of your life, but he will never override your will and your attitude will direct whether or not your will will accomplish it? You hear what I'm saying? Look at what Golomir said, prime minister of Israel. All my country has its spirit. All my country has is spirit. We don't have petroleum dollars. We don't have, sometime ago, we don't have minds of great wealth in the ground. We don't have the support of a worldwide public opinion that looks favorably upon us. All Israel has is the spirit of its people. Do you know what's kept Israel alive for all these years? First, of course, God, because they're God's chosen people. But second, ladies and gentlemen, is a never again attitude. You hear what I'm saying? We should pray for the peace of Jerusalem right now as division is taking place over there. And all the enemy would want to do is divide that country. But somehow by God's providence, I'm praying that God would put His hand on it and the attitudes of people would come together. And unfortunately, so many times, just like in America, we find ourselves when the adversity comes, when the Iranian nuclear bomb starts ramping up, suddenly people get their mind together. Same thing in America, planes fly into twin towers and all of a sudden you get Congress people singing God bless America on the steps of the Congress. I wanna tell you, the pressure has applied and God is saying I'm gonna get your attention because I want you to change your whole mindset about this thing. So where do our attitudes come from? Oh, I'm sorry, I missed the last part of this quote. And if the people lose their spirit, even the United States cannot save us. Wow, wow, think about it. Now we're in a position where we're almost saying, don't worry about the United States. We better do this thing ourselves, right? Where do these attitudes come from? Where do you get attitudes from your home life? How many of you know you get an attitude from your home life? Don't you get an attitude at home? How many of you got some attitude at home and you left them at home tonight? You came in here, you're gonna be a holy. How about your background? We wanna face things and we wanna, a lot of times blame what's going on and sometimes it's legitimate. Sometimes there's things that are in our background, in our life, in the past that has affected us to this day. But are you gonna continue to be a victim of that or are you gonna flip that thing over and say I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me? Because there's not a person sitting in this building or watching that hasn't come up with some kind of situation in their past. Come on, somebody. The only reason why you don't know that is because you haven't sat and listened to their story or whatever that it may be. And sometimes they don't wanna share that. But I'm just gonna tell you, that's the reason why I listen to these guys and ladies from World War II and they fought these battles and I'm going, that is amazing. How in the world did you find the courage to stand up and get out of the foxhole and make that 50 foot trot across there to be as a, well, I don't wanna boast about it, I don't wanna talk about it. Backgrounds, everybody's got a background. Everybody's got a past, right? But what are you gonna do about your future? You can take that and use it or you can let it cripple you. How about in your environment around you? Relationships or maybe even the environment you live in. I'm gonna turn around backwards when I say this. Could be if you just cleaned the house and the yard, you might have a better feeling about life. Cut the grass. I love how you're loving on me here tonight. I want security to get me out real quick this evening, all right? How about experiences? Everybody has experiences. You get attitudes from the experiences that you're in. It's not a bad thing. You get good experiences, right? Right? That's not a trick question. Good experiences can give you good attitude, right? That's what I was gonna tell all y'all coming in here tonight. I was gonna walk in here and tell everybody, hey, we're all going to Disney World, it's all paid for. Look at y'all. Watch this. Hey, we're not going to Disney World, we're all going to heaven if you're born again. It's an experience that you've never had. Everything about our attitudes right now is framed in what we see and what we deal with right now. And yet that Bible says that there is a place where the streets are paved with pure gold. Come on, somebody. That the 24 elders are bowing down at the throne room of God. There's a sea of glass that is there. Oh, contrary to popular opinion, there's a rainbow that's over the throne of God and it glistens like a million suns. Come on, somebody. I'm talking about your future. One of the reasons why attitudes are wrong is because the enemy has stolen hope from people. Hope of a future. Jeremiah tells us, Jeremiah 29 and 11, he said, God's thinking a thought about you. He's thinking a thought about good things. Come on, good things about your life. Hey, hey, I want to tell all of you here and all of you watching, I don't care how old you are, there is still an experience that you can experience in God that you have never had. In this life, are you hearing what I'm saying? How about attitudes of people? Do you know you can get an attitude from other people? Some of you will come in here and sit beside the same person every week on Sunday. They won't lift their hands. They won't praise God. They won't do nothing. And there you are intimidated by that person sitting around you and you pick up on their attitude. Praise the Lord. And then you get around some people that will praise God and will lift their hands and will engage and the next thing you know, you that have never done anything like that before, this is the first time I've ever been in a church like this before a pastor. Well, God sent you here. Why? Because he wants you to come out of that old religious shell. He wants you to lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless his name. After all that God has done for your life, you got something to praise God for. Come on, Philippians is telling us right here and all that, rejoice and again I say rejoice. And if you have a problem with that and your attitude still stinks, read that verse again. Rejoice and again I say rejoice. In other words, Paul's saying how many times I got to say this to you, rejoice. Just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean a positive attitude is automatic. Well, I'm a Christian. I'm gonna have a good attitude. I'm just telling you I've run into some snot balls that had Christian in front of their names. You know what I'm talking about? Does anybody know what I'm talking about? I see some hands out there. You know what I'm talking about. I'm talking about people that claim to have the joy of the Lord and they were the most depressed person around. And their stuff was infectious. They had a whole Bible study group that was the same attitude. We love the Lord and you should too. And before you leave this Bible study, you're gonna be just like us. Leave the Bible study. I love Philippians chapter two verse three through eight. Look at what it says. Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory. But in lowliness of mind, let each esteem other better than themselves. This is a vacuum today. Do you understand? This is a vacuum today in our society. People don't think of other people before themselves and esteem them better. Listen, let me stop right here and say this. Whenever you engage in conversation, ask about what's going on with them first. Don't hurt me. Ask about that. And wait. Stop to listen. Don't be thinking while they're talking what can I say when they get through? Or interrupt them. Because the way people find out that you're genuinely interested in who they are and what they may be going through is to simply ask them, how are you doing? Now sometimes there are those that tell you how they're doing. And they keep telling you and they keep telling you and they keep telling you and they keep telling you. And you say, we'll be praying for you. Right? So there's a way to engage that. But what I'm saying is our attitude should be to esteem others before ourself. Verse four, look not every man to his own things, but every man also to the things of others. Look at what he's saying here. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. How many of you know Jesus knew he was God while he was walking around on this earth? Right? So when you know who you are, you've got your identity, you don't have to walk around. I want all y'all to know my name is Jesus Christ and I'm God. He didn't have to do that. He just spit on the ground, put some dirt in the guy's eyes. He opens them up and starts seeing and they go, this must be God. Let your identity be made by someone else. Let others praise you. Glorify your God, the God of heaven. What does he say here? Being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. He knew he was. What did he do then? What's our example? Verse seven. But made of himself no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men. Look at this, God reduced down to humanity. In fact, he was, because Mary could not deal with a full grown man being birthed, God reduced him down to a seed and implanted by the Holy Ghost into the virgin womb of Mary. And he grew and stature, the Bible says. And here's what he's saying. Verse eight. And being found in the fashion of man, he humbled himself. Y'all do know that Jesus didn't have to tolerate nails in his hands, don't you? Stripes on his back. He didn't carry your own cross. Now if it would have been us, we'd say, wait a minute, I'm God, I ain't carry my cross. You're not gonna nail me, you're not gonna beat me. But Jesus humbled himself for our sakes. Do you realize that's what you're doing when you humble yourself before other people listening to them or engaging them or helping them in some capacity? You're making of yourself, people listen. People wanna say I wanna serve somebody until it requires a sacrifice. If it's convenient, I'm good. On my way home, I'll. But if I gotta go out on my way, if it's gonna cause me pain, I mean, that must not be God because it's causing me pain. It's taking my time. There's no honor and blessing in that. Anybody can do that, right? God tied all up in here. What did he do? He humbled himself and became obedient into his death, even the death of the cross. Jesus is showing us the attitude we should have when we are crucified by other people. What you're thinking about determines your attitude. I'm telling you what, as soon as I see them again, I'm gonna give them a piece of my mind. Hello, welcome to Walmart, right? Come on, folks. I'm gonna just tell you, life's too short. Somebody was telling me the other day that they had to go to the doctor and they didn't know what was going on with them physically. And the doctor immediately pegged it and said, hey, the symptoms you're having is not caused by something outside or some other kind of thing. It is strictly stress that is breaking you down. So whatever it is that is stressing you out, first of all, ladies and gentlemen, that is not the mind of God. I didn't say you won't be under pressure. I didn't say you might not go through adversity. All of us will. What I am saying is that when it gets to the point where it becomes stressful, the Lord Jesus Christ, thank you, Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ took upon himself. Man, I feel the anointing right now. In the garden of Gethsemane, knelt down and with great drops of blood and sweat, poured out all of it and took upon himself all of our stresses, all of our anxiety, all of our pressure, all of our attitudes that are not like him. He took it all upon himself so that you and I would not have to do that. We can go and cast our cares upon him because he cares for us. And ladies and gentlemen, as we look into a society that is taking a pill for everything under the sun, as people of God, the first place we need to go to is to God to pour out our soul before him. And there is peace, as we read about, that has the ability to surpass all of our own understanding. Somebody asked you, hey, how did you make it through that? I don't know. I just had the peace of God come all over me. Could it be your attitude, one notch to the right or left, could change the whole atmosphere in your house and in your mind? My God, the anointing of the Lord is here. People who constantly have a bad attitude have the feeling that they can't do anything about it so they blame other people. I'm just gonna tell you, nobody has that much power in your life unless you give it to them. If you give them that power, they'll take it and use it against you. I'm not gonna blame somebody else. If I did it, admit it, confess it and forget it. Come on, some, I don't know who that was for tonight, but that one right there was for somebody. Maybe you're struggling on something right there and your attitude's holding you back because somehow you feel like I'm trapped, I can't do anything about it. The devil is a liar. Whom the sun sets free is free indeed. Not half free, not a quarter free, you are completely made free. Body, soul, and spirit. Come on, somebody. Our attitude is all our own. It's our choice. I can think on good things or I can not think on good things. Those who feel that they have no choice never change anything in their life. You got a choice. I can choose to be happy or I can choose not to be happy. Pastor, you don't know what I'm going through. I don't have to. If you are in the lower dungeon writing a letter to the Philippians telling them I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, then it might concern me if you're going through something. But I just wanna let you know there are people right now that are watching online in Kenya and in Nigeria and multiple other locations that have it far worse than any of the rest of us. One of the reasons why we don't see other people is because we don't engage other people to serve other people. Go walk, hey, if you got a problem with an attitude inside of your life, go park your car over there, get out and go to one of the hospitals and walk down the hallways and smell the smells, hear the sounds and watch what's going on. And when you walk out of there, you'll say, you know what? If it hadn't been for the Lord who was on my side, I wouldn't even be walking right now. I'd be in that bed right there with all these tubes going through me. You know what? God touched these people that's walking. Somebody said, oh, I need a ministry. Get up and walk the halls of the hospital. Don't go in there. Just walk the halls of the hospital. Lord, touch that one right there. Bless that one right there. You have no idea what your attitude there could change the atmosphere. Somebody's waiting on it. I just gave you a ministry. And I promise you, nobody will stop you from it because not everybody wants to do it. Our attitude can turn our problem into a blessing. It is the difference between obstacle and opportunity. I've had plenty of obstacles and you have to where we run right up into the face of it and we said, man. And God was trying to get our attention and go, look up, look up. I'm here. I got an opportunity for you right now. Every opportunity has a difficulty and every difficulty has an opportunity. I promise you, I love Edison, reading Edison's life and one of the great stories that's ever told about him and his assistant is that he had thousands of experiments to make the monofilament incandescent light bulb. And when he finally got the prototype and he brought all the leaders around and all those that were in town and he was gonna show off his brand new invention, the light bulb. He handed it to his assistant who started walking downstairs and the assistant dropped it. The one and only bulb. He dropped it and broke it. You could fire the assistant, but Edison didn't. He went back and made another one and guess who he handed it to when he got ready to display it. He handed it right back to his assistant and the assistant that now had an experience was extremely careful in walking downstairs and the light bulb was turned on and everybody saw it. Nobody knew that this guy was lifted up out of a difficult place and given another opportunity. I just ask a question of you tonight. This may help your attitude. Have you ever been given like another opportunity by God? Now in a theological word that's called grace. Anybody ever had some grace put on you before? Anybody ever had more than two graces come to you, three graces, four graces? Come on somebody, you know what I'm talking about. Hey, y'all stop stopping me, I gotta hurry up. Changing your attitude is up to you. Look at your neighbor and tell them in Jesus' name, changing your attitude is up to you. You might preface that by saying, hey I love you but changing your attitude is up to you. So when does a person change? I'll tell you when they change, when they hurt enough to. I can tell you right now, somebody mentioned to me the other day that they are experiencing kidney stones and I immediately, I didn't really know them but I just loved them. There's a small group of people that know what I'm talking about and so I talked to them about their experience and I was telling them about mine and how that my wife drove me to the hospital with me in the back seat in the cat position because you know what? I watch people they are, I ain't going to the hospital. You get you a kidney stone and I'll bet you'll crawl to the hospital. Say give me some of that rot bar, praise the Lord. Change your attitude in Jesus' name. When they learn enough to, people change when they learn enough to. If you haven't learned it, if you haven't received that instruction, you don't have enough information to make a good decision to change but when you learn enough to you go hey, you know what? Let's do this and thirdly, when you receive enough, when you receive enough, I'm quickly moving to the end, here we go. Environment and associates are a major factor in your attitudes so what you hang around and who you hang around makes a difference. Are they encouraging you or strengthening you or are they holding you back? Because here's the deal, most people are more comfortable with old problems than new solutions. I'm more comfortable there. At least I know what I got. Well, that's not where God wants you to stay. He wants you to move forward. Come on somebody, get a new attitude about it. Hey, stop and if you failed one time, know that there was 100,000 people before you that failed too. You know who wins, the person who gets up and does not let them don't stay on the ground. Listen, I had the privilege of watching one ball game with Hank Aaron in it many years ago as a child. That guy struck out, struck out and then, babe Ruth the same way. Now you may not be a baseball player but I'm just telling you right now, take a lesson, take a lesson from somebody who struck out many times and then became the all time. You know what, they have these home run things now, homeroom derbies and all that and I like to watch them because they'll whack the ball out of there and all that kind of stuff. In recent years there were those that started taking medication and next thing you know, they're whacking the baseball out of the park and all but they were medicated, not Babe Ruth, not these other guys. They don't remember any of their names. Whenever you talk about strikeout kings, you think about Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron. So here's some steps to your attitude change. Number one, evaluate your present attitude. In other words, take responsibility for it, repent if needed and move forward. Put it at the cross. God, I've been having a bad attitude about this situation. Bad attitude about myself. I sinned and my attitude has got me stuck right now that I can't move forward because I think maybe you didn't forgive me. So I've asked you a hundred thousand times. No, change your attitude, repent, get up, keep moving. Secondly, submit your attitude to the word of God for the renewing of your mind. In other words, if you've had a bad attitude, get the word of God out and find out what Christ mindset and attitude is about it and change your mind. Prayer is not trying to get God to change his mind. Prayer is getting you conditioned to accept and receive the mind of God. Third, choose to change your mindset. That is to align your mind with the word of God and put praise in your mouth. Look at what he says, rejoice. And again, I say rejoice. Align your mind with the word of God. Listen, the Bible is right and somebody's wrong. Always remember, your life is not to get Jesus to bless what you're doing. You're supposed to align yourself with what Christ is doing. So here's your final thought for the night. Hopefully this has helped you. Attitudes will change as we place our confidence in God and in his word. And I'm gonna tell you that's a process. I don't even know what I'm talking about. Because we live in this life, we work in this life every day and we're encountering stuff all the times and the next thing you know, we take a step or two forward and then something hits us and we fall back a little bit. Don't worry about it. Get up, keep moving forward. I wanna say that to every one of you here and those of you who are watching tonight. Whatever you do, don't let your attitude stop you. Change your attitude. Let it be one that says I'm gonna keep moving forward because that's what God wants me to do. I may feel it, I may not feel it. I might be mechanical this coming weekend, Pastor, lifting my hands because my attitude is not the way it's supposed to be. Go ahead and lift your hands because see that's what the word says. Did you understand what I'm saying? Open up your mouth and praise God. I don't praise God because I always feel like it. I praise God because he commanded me to do it. Now the feeler will come and my whole attitude will change once I get up in the presence of God and I begin to worship him and he starts coming down. Come on, somebody. When his presence fills the room in the car, in the house, in my bedroom, no matter where it's at, all of a sudden my attitude changes. And suddenly I see it from God's perspective. How many of you receive this word here tonight? Lift that hand towards heaven with you and say Lord. Come on, say Lord. Change my attitude. I'm gonna change my attitude tonight to align with the word of God and I give you praise for it right now. Lord, thank you for your grace in my life. Thank you for your grace. You've given me more than one opportunity to change my attitude. Tonight, I thank you for your grace in Jesus' name. You receive that, say a good amen. All right, so here's your attitude. When you stand up, I want you to find about four or five people around you before you bolt for the back door. And then turn around to me and say, nobody likes me at your church. Turn around and like somebody else. Be kind to somebody else that's the right attitude and let God use you right now as an instrument of His grace. I'll see you Sunday morning. Don't miss it. It's gonna be a great time. Forgive you of your sins. He'll do exactly that when you place your faith in what He's done at the cross. And then we wanna hear from you. Would you send an email and let us know what Jesus Christ has done in your life? Let us know where you're watching from. We'd love to connect with you. And I believe that God is gonna touch your life and bless you in the days that are ahead. If you count Pace Assembly as your regular church of worship, then we certainly wanna be able to hear from you. There's information on the screen that you can send your email to and we look forward for you being a part of every service right here at Pace Assembly every Sunday and every Wednesday and special services throughout the year. God bless you for joining us today. Father, I pray that you would touch the life of my friend that today they would never be the same, that your presence would surround their life and peace would be their highest blessing. We give you praise for it today in Jesus' name. Amen. God bless you friends and until we get together again, remember Jesus Christ is coming soon.