10 main areas to strive for to live positive.

Put All Your Troubles in a God Jar

1)  Quit worrying.

If life has brought to more lemons than lemonade. Go to God in prayer and

ask for God’s help with your burdens, and you will discover that God will

carry many of your burdens for you.

2)  Put it on God’s list.

Not on YOUR to do list, but on God’s to-do list. God cannot help but until

you turn it over to God. God is God and can take care of anything that you

put into God’s hands.

3)  Trust God.

Once you have given God your burdens, stop trying to take them back. Have

the faith that God will take care of all your needs, your problems and

your trials.

Problem with the kids? Put it on God’s list.

Problem with finances? Put it on God’s list.

Problem with the roller coaster of life? Put it on God’s list. God wants

to help; all you have to do is ask.

4)  Leave it alone.

Don’t wake up one day and think: “I can handle it from here. I’m feeling

stronger.” Once you give God your burdens, God is taking care of your

burdens. God is also renewing your strength and covering you in peace. If

God gives your problems back, you’ll be back where you started. Leave them

with God, and forget about them. Let God do God’s job.

5)  Talk to God.

God wants you to forget a lot of things. Forget what was making you crazy.

Forget the worrying, and the fretting. But please don’t forget to talk to

God – often. God wants to hear your voice. God wants to be included in all

the things going on in your life. Prayer is simply a conversation with

God. God wants to be your dearest friend.

6)  Have faith.

God sees a lot of things that you cannot see with human perception. Have

faith in God that God knows what God is doing. God will continue to care

for you, watch over you and meet your needs. You only have to trust. How

hard can trust be?

7)  Share.

You were taught to share when you were only two years old. Share with the

less fortunate. Share your joy with those who need encouragement. Share

your laughter with those who haven’t heard any lately. Share your tears

with those that are hurting. Share your faith.

8)  Be patient.

Trust in God’s timing, for God’s timing is perfect. Don’t be so impatient

that it takes a little longer than you expect. Just because God created

the entire universe, many believe that God should rush, rush, rush. God

has to wait for Divine timing, when every condition is right, including

for the people involved, who have free-will.

9)  Be kind.

Everyone you meet is carrying a heavy burden of some kind, although it may

be invisible to your eyes, or even your imagination. Be kind, and know

that God loves others as much as God loves you. God created each of us

different, and God loves each of our differences.

10)  Love yourself.

God is a God of love. Love God! Love your neighbor! But also love

yourself. It makes God’s heart ache when God sees how you torture yourself

in mind. You are precious to God. As much as God loves you, how can you

not love yourself? http://www.positivechristianity.org