Having A Victorious Attitude

An attitude is the way we think or feel. Our attitude is normally reflected in our actions and viewpoints. Most tests, trials and tribulations attack us primarily in our minds before they metastasize in the other areas of our lives. The Bible admonishes us to have the same mind (or attitude) as Christ. Through Christ, we know we are victorious in ALL things, yet we often forfeit this victorious life. A victorious attitude is a prerequisite to victorious living.

How We Forfeit a Victorious Attitude:
1. Focusing on the wrong things in our lives and losing sight of our goals and purpose.
2. Associating with the wrong people and allowing their thinking to contaminate ours.
3. Being full of fear which is false evidence that something we don't see will come to past.
4. Being consumed with stress and letting ours minds filter out peace and joy.
5. Inability to deal with change and therefore stunting our growth.
6. Taking our blessings forgranted and therefore limiting God's future provision in our lives.
7. Unwillingness to forgive and release past offenses and carrying them around.
8. Letting low self-esteem have a viral effect in our minds, hearts and spirits.

When we adopt the above, we take on a defeatist attitude. It manifests in our conversations and the way we look at our situations and circumstances. We say what we are going through "will last forever", "my whole life is ruin" and "this only happens to me". Yes, we start hosting pity parties. Nonetheless, self-pity is self-worship. You make yourself the focal point of all attention and you concentrate on your limited abilities and powers. You assert you are the only person who has done or experienced blah, blah. You make yourself a little bigger than the universe. Get over it and yourself.

How to Overcome a Defeatist Attitude:
1. Focus on the right things, things that are uplifting and beneficial to our goals and purpose.
2. Have close association with people who can uplift us and get us refocused on our paths.
3. Exercising our faith and stepping out beyond our comfort zones. Start speaking faith vs fear.
4. Bring peace and joy with us in every situation and circumstance.
5. Learn to grow through change, first changing our minds, speech and then actions.
6. Have a spirit of gratitude for both the small and great things and have a spirit of expectation.
7. Learn to forgive others and then release the emotions attached offenses. Don't carry baggage.
8. Have a healthy self-esteem, neither low nor lofty.

Once we readjust our thinking, then we can truly live each day in victory!