Introduction

  • Can we list a few things that allow a person to be positive and optimistic?
    • Take care of someone who is worse off than you.
    • Be grateful.
    • Don’t sweat the small stuff.

Positivity comes from Christ

  • I Thessalonians 4:18; II Thessalonians 1:9
  • Philippians 1:12-20

Learn from the past, but don’t let it ruin the present

  • I Corinthians 10:6-11
  • I Timothy 1:15
  • Ezra 3:10-13 – The people wept thinking about the glory of the previous temple.
  • Haggai 2:3-5
  • Ezra 6:16
  • Philippians 1:21-26

Focus on what’s good

  • Philippians 4:8
  • Acts 9:1; I Corinthians 1:4; 11:2; 16:24