I've heard that healthy thinking is a key contributor to success. Even the Bible has a lot to say about what a person's mind should (or should not) ruminate about. This is because every choice we make, every word we utter, and every action we take - begins as a thought! Our minds are powerful machines, that can engineer great weapons (bad thoughts), if we don't direct them. So, we really need to have our heads on straight! Hahaha!
We're supposed to lay down old attitudes like, anger, jealousy, and self-pitty. Negativity held in our minds and hearts, can work it's way outward. It's like a poison, that taints our behavior, our conversatons and most damaging - our character.
We have an alternative! The Word gives us better, "right" ways of thinking to keep Grace and Love flowing throughout our lives. Setting our minds on heavenly things is a choice (Phil 4:8). Like Paul for example, who we see as a success story today. But back when Paul lived, his peers only saw a man who was beaten, jailed, and horribly persecuted. Also, poor Paul was often poverty stricken and friendless... YET, somehow Paul still remained positive and took control of his thoughts; During one of his (many) prison terms, he wrote of his Joy, his Contentment, and his Unshakable Faith In God (vv. 10-19).
His life is a stellar, awesome example of a real Positive Faith Attitude. No matter what happened to him, he accepted each action with Trust in God, that God must have a larger reason for these circumstances, and that he would be rewarded for his Trust and Faithfullness. He was a man committed to thinking Godly thoughts, whether his life was marked by blessing - or by adversity.
Believing in a higher power is a great way to help you acheive the unattainable! There is a book called "the power of possitive thinking". It is all about having faith in God, and how that faith will help you conquer your fears and inabilities.
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