Finding Your AttitudeFinding Your AttitudeWhy concern yourself with your attitude?

• Your attitude affects your choices. (Hebrews 11)

• Your attitude affects others. (2 Timothy 4:10)

• It affects your family. (Acts 5:1-11)

• It affects your friends. (Luke 5:29-32)

• Levi invited his friend and others to dinner with the Messiah.

The Attitude of JoyThe Attitude of Joy•Everlasting (Isaiah 51:11)

•Great (Acts 8:8)

•Full (1 John 1:4)

•Abundant (2 Corinthians 8:2)

•Unspeakable (1 Peter 1:8)

•True joy is found in God alone (Psalms 73:25-26)

•“Rejoice in the Lord always”—Philippians 4:4

Joy ComparedJoy ComparedHappiness of the wicked:

It is short (Job 20:5)

It is uncertain (Luke 12:20)

It is vain (Ecclesiastes 2:1,2)

It is limited to this life (Luke 16:24, 25)

Happiness of the saints:

It is everlasting (Isaiah 51:11)

It is certain (2 Timothy 4:6-8)

It will be in the life here after (Revelation 21:3-4)

Maintaining JoyMaintaining Joy“So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting

away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.”

“For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are

unseen.”

“For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”

(2 Corinthians 4:16-18; ESV)

The Attitude of JoyThe Attitude of Joy1.Realize your joy is not in the happenings of man.

2.Our spiritual life is getting better.

3.Our life is not about us!

4.There is something greater and it is coming!