A Negative outlook Never leads to a Positive Life

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What Optimism is Not:

1. Optimism is not a Denial of reality
2. Optimism is Not Blind Faith

What optimism is:

The Unwavering Expectation that our loving God is working in Every Situation

Optimism is confidence in the future

Mini Takeaways

1. What consumes your mind controls your life
2. your quality of life will never exceed the quality of your thoughts

The big idea

, feed my faith and starve my fears

Something to think about:

If I have more input from the media than I do from the word of God my discouragement is self-inflicted

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.

Romans 8:18

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.

Romans 8:26

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:38‭-‬39 N