Shortly before he was executed, Paul wrote: \u2018I want you to know, my dear brothers and sisters, that everything that has happened to me here has helped to spread the Good News. For everyone here, including the whole palace guard, knows that I am in chains because of Christ. And because of my imprisonment, most of the believers here have gained confidence and boldly speak God\u2019s message without fear.\u2019<\/i> (Philippians\u00a01:12\u201314\u00a0NLT) <\/p>\n
Later, he wrote, \u2018Always be full of joy in the Lord.\u2019<\/i> (Philippians\u00a04:4\u00a0NLT) Paul had a\u00a0PMA: a positive mental attitude. He couldn\u2019t control his environment, but he chose an attitude that enabled him to overcome it. <\/p>\n
Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones said: \u2018Have you realised that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you\u2019re listening<\/i> to yourself instead of talking<\/i> to yourself?\u2019 When you meet people, do you tell yourself they will let you down? When you face new experiences, does a voice within you tell you you\u2019re going to fail? <\/p>\n
A man came upon a Little League baseball game one afternoon when he was walking in the park. He stopped and asked a boy about the score. He responded, \u2018Eighteen to nothing\u2014we\u2019re behind.\u2019 The man said, \u2018I bet you\u2019re discouraged.\u2019 The little boy replied, \u2018Why should I be discouraged? We haven\u2019t been up to bat yet!\u2019 <\/p>\n
What a difference an attitude of faith makes! The last words recorded in the Bible are these: \u2018The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.\u2019<\/i> (Revelation\u00a022:21\u00a0NKJV) Have faith\u2014God will give you the grace to handle it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shortly before he was executed, Paul wrote: \u2018I want you to know, my dear brothers and sisters, that everything that has happened to me here has helped to spread the Good News. For everyone here, including the whole palace guard, knows that I am in chains because of Christ. And because of my imprisonment, most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}