I was watching a Touched by an Angel episode the other night and it was
teaching about how a negative or bad attitude has the ability to wreck a
community. It was a powerful message! I went to work and almost fell for the
same trick of the enemy, the very next day. Early this morning, I was led to
a familiar scripture and it has truly ministered to me. It created yet a new
fire inside of me. I recalled the book of Numbers. Do you remember when
Moses sent out the 12 spies to Canaan to get a look at the Promised Land?
10 of the 12 spies came back with negative reports. This attitude was picked
up and accepted by over a million other Israelites. They were so negative
that they wanted to stone the two spies who came back with positive reports
and attitudes. The bad attitude of the 10 spies caused God to unleash HIS
wrath upon them and the millions of unbelievers. Let me put out a strong
word this morning. Don't pick up any bad attitudes. They are extremely
contagious.. They are extremely deadly. Stay away from negative people and
negative thoughts.. When folks try to fill your head with negative or angry
thoughts, resist by all means necessary. I shared with my daughter Alicia,
that receiving messages from folks is like eating fish. You have to slowly
go through it. Remove the bones and eat the meat of conversations. If she
were to get caught up in the bony stuff, she could find herself choking and
dying. I am attempting to teach my kids that godly people are not negative
but serve as purifiers. They have healthy attitudes.. Not gloom and doom
people at all. That is because they realize that God has the final say in
everything and HE always has our best interest in mind. We cannot get
caught up in negative thoughts, words and feelings.. And when receiving
reports, we know better than receiving the negative ones.. People with
negative attitudes point you to disaster.. Their words are deceiving. Now
folks with positive attitudes (the purifiers) have the ability to be in a
rotten atmosphere and make everything around them better.. Purifiers have
the ability to take in the toxic things that negative people (let me call
them polluters) say and filter them before they respond or pass along to
others. Positive people (Purifiers) may go into a dark situation or place,
but when they leave, that atmosphere becomes fresh and clean. Polluters
receive what they put out. doom and gloom (read Numbers 14:36-37). Purifiers
inherit blessings (Read Numbers 14:24). Listen, if we are who God has called
us to be, people will leave our presence feeling better.. They will want to
be around us. The scent that attracts blessings will be present wherever we
go. So.... Ask yourself.. Am I a Purifier or a Polluter.. Talent, skill,
and experience isn't contagious.. Folks just can't quickly pass them on.
But attitude is contagious! What are you passing along?
When you have time.. Read Numbers 13 and 14. Please remember that negativity
and a bad attitude, kills..
Bless you,
Kai'