UPHILL HABITS – #1 ATTITUDE

UPHILL HABITS – #1 ATTITUDE

“Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”

Psalm 90:12 (NIV)

“So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do. .”

Ephesians 5:15-16

“But my servant Caleb has a different attitude than the others have. He has remained loyal to me, so I will bring him into the land he explored. His descendants will possess their full share of that land.”

Numbers 14:24

WHY YOUR ATTITUDE MATTERS

• Your attitude determines your .
• Your attitude is .
• Your attitude helps you .

OUR ATTITUDE IS SHAPED BY OUR THINKING

“Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.”

Romans 12:2

HOW IS CALEB DIFFERENT FROM EVERYONE ELSE? (a different spirit/attitude)

1. Caleb had a attitude.

“But Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses. “Let’s go at once to take the land,” he said. “We can certainly conquer it!”

Numbers 13:30

QUESTION: HOW DO YOU SEE LIFE?

“Successful people make the major decisions in their life early and manage them daily.” – John Maxwell

“But the other men who had explored the land with him disagreed. “We can’t go up against them! They are stronger than we are!” So they spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites: “The land we traveled through and explored will devour anyone who goes to live there. All the people we saw were huge. We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak. Next to them we felt like grasshoppers, and that’s what they thought, too!”

Numbers 13:31-33

QUESTION: HOW DO YOU SEE YOU?

          2. Caleb looked at the not the potential .

“Two of the men who had explored the land, Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh… said to all the people of Israel, “The land we traveled through and explored is a wonderful land!”

Numbers 14:6-7

         3. Caleb developed a deep in God.

“If the Lord is pleased with us, he will bring us safely into that land and give it to us. It is a rich land flowing with milk and honey.”

Numbers 14:8

         4. Caleb relied on God’s not his own.

“Do not rebel against the Lord, and don’t be afraid of the people of the land. They are only helpless prey to us! They have no protection, but the Lord is with us! Don’t be afraid of them!”

Numbers 14:9

QUESTION: HOW DO YOU SEE GOD?

         5. Caleb understood his .

“So Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave Hebron to him as his portion of land. Hebron still belongs to the descendants of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite because he wholeheartedly followed the Lord, the God of Israel.”

Joshua 14:13-14