Your attitude will determine your destiny

Your attitude determines your destiny. If you have an attitude of limitation, of smallness, that any setback exhausts you and tires you and destroys you, and you interpret any failure as an indication of God's neglect, you will never be able to achieve greatness or significance. And if you see yourself as something small, that you don't have, that you don't know, that you can't, your life will follow that path.

Now, if you believe that you have a great, powerful God who dwells within you, and that it is the power of God that leads you to victory, your life is probably going to be very different. Because you are going to dare to undertake things.

Many times, our destiny depends on what is given in our mind. Vision, the ability to conceive and imagine things vividly, has extraordinary power to determine the course of our lives. If we can strongly believe that God is with us and is committed to blessing us and moving forward in life, we will dare to live creative and entrepreneurial lives. When setbacks come, instead of letting our arms fall, we will appeal to the Father, we will redouble our efforts, we will seek a solution, and we will launch ourselves again to the task until we prevail.

How many times did you start a project thinking that it was not going to work and you came out successful?

Over time I have learned not to give too much mind to the doubts that inevitably haunt me when I am about to undertake a large project. I understand that this is an affliction of my temperament, of my melancholic character, which tends to focus frequently on the dangers and difficulties that are an inherent part of any important project. Rather, I focus on God. I wonder if what I am going to undertake comes from God, if I am in his will, if what I want to undertake is from the Spirit or from my flesh. If it comes from God, by faith I have to believe that He will support it, and that difficulties will have to vanish like dark clouds at the arrival of the sun. Stronger is he who is in us than he who is in the world!

I always have to decide if I am going to let human reasoning govern my decisions and initiatives, or if I will allow myself to be carried away by a higher logic, the logic of faith and the Spirit. The wisdom of God often appears as insanity to merely rational logic. Although my fallen mind sometimes tells me, "This is very unlikely to work," if I am aligned with God I appeal to the sufficiency mentality and conclude: "I can do everything in Christ, who strengthens me."

Of the twelve leaders that God sent through Moses to survey the promised land, ten of them returned with a negative report, and two of them had a “different spirit,” says the Bible. Only José and Caleb returned with a positive report. They believed God and said, "We are going to enter that land because God has given it to us."

Joshua and Caleb exemplified a mentality of sufficiency, of abundance, of strength in God, of power in God. And those ten other men embodied that cowardly mentality, of lack, a mouse mentality, that could not go back beyond the problems and difficulties that were imposed before them.

Their mentality, their self-esteem, their self-image, how they viewed themselves, determined their attitude to God's promise, and ultimately their destiny. Because of those twelve princes who went out to spy on the land, only two entered to enjoy the treasures it contained. The other ten died of the plague because they offended God with their disobedience and negative attitude. Your attitude determines your destiny. What attitude will you allow to rule your life?