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Filling Your Mind To Fulfill Your Life
Special guest and renowned author John Maxwell reveals the secret to a fulfilled life. The way you think determines the way you live. Change your life by changing your attitude.
Thank you. Thank you very much. You may be seated. Good morning. All right. Let me ask you a question. Do you have worship like this every week? Oh, my goodness. When you go to heaven, you're going to want to come home on the weekends, aren't you? You're going to say, "God, I'll go back. I'll come back. But just let me get the gateway. Just come on. Let me get into a little bit of that worship." Wow. That was truly wonderful. Let's get acquainted. My name's John. What's your name? Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. My wife, Margaret, and I've been married 42 years. We have two children, both married five grandchildren. How many of your grandparents? How many grandparents here? Okay. Now, you that are raising your hands, you're going to understand exactly what I'm going to say. The rest of you have no clue. Grandchildren are God's reward for you not killing your children. So let me do you just let you know when you have those teenagers and you're saying, "Should I let them live?" You know what I'm going to do here. Let them live. Let them live. Trust me. They'll give you a grandbaby and that first grandchild, you'll hold that baby in your arms. You'll say, "This is the smartest, most beautiful baby in the world." Then you ask yourself a question. Why did intelligence skip a generation? I was at a large convention speaking and I told that story and I forgot my son Joel was in the audience. So when I'm death speaking, I go back to the green room and he's waiting on me. He's there. He's waiting on me. I looked at him and said, "I sit down, Joel, honey. You know I was kidding. I was having fun with the audience. You know I was doing that." He said, "No, no, no. That's okay. That's okay." In fact, he said, "I think you're right." I said, "You do?" He said, "I think you're right." He said, "In fact, just last week grandpa and I had that very same discussion." I'm so glad to be with you and Pastor Robert is a wonderful friend. You have an unbelievable church. I know you know that, but God has blessed you incredibly. I have some books out there and I've been signing between services. In fact, I just got in a few moments ago because I've been signing. And let me just tell you, I've got just a few books out there you'd be interested in. This one is called Running with the Giants. In Hebrews, it talks about the fact when we're running the race, we're surrounded by a cloud of witnesses. And what I do is in this book, I take ten of those giants out of the crowd. Abraham, David, okay, I take them out of the crowd and they run one lap with you. And they can only say one thing to you, so they tell you the essence of what they learned about God in their life. Now, this book will encourage you. So if you don't want to be encouraged, do not get this book, okay? It's just because it'll encourage you and it just will mess your whole life up. You'll feel so good after that, okay. This is my newest book, A Leaders Heart. This is a book you read one page a day, 360. It's a devotional. And at the end of every page, you've got a place to kind of take some notes, but it talks about how to have a heart for God, how to have a leader's heart. And it's very helpful then I have a book on connecting. This is a book on how to connect with people. Everyone communicates few connect. We all know some that, you know, I mean, they never connect. And this is how to relationally, communication-wise connect with people. We all have sometimes people we want to do that with. That's what this book's about. When people say what's the most life-changing book you've ever written, it's this one right here called Today Matters. In fact, I had a lady in the last service come up to me, said she read this six years ago. She said my life has never been the same. What I do is I talk about this. I talk about 12 things. I call the daily dozen that you need to think about and do every day that will literally help to make your life what it really needs to be. Today matters. And then the most important thing, I was so glad they brought this, especially with Father's Day coming and with graduation's coming. This is the Maxwell Leadership Bible. And of all the things I've ever done, this is the most important project. After pastoring for 25 years and teaching leadership, I took every leadership lesson I've ever taught biblically and I put it in here. There are 600 leadership lessons in here. Literally every page as you're reading the Bible, you just look at it and there's a sidebar that'll give you a spiritual leadership. So if you love the word, want to be a spiritual leader, it's a great book. And I, in that last service, I signed a bunch of them for dads for Father's Day and for graduation. So anyway, they're back there after the service. I'll go back and sign them. And I'm glad to be here. Thanks for having me. I'm going to have you watch a video clip before I teach. I'm a teaching pastor at Christ Fellowship in West Palm Beach, Florida. And a few months ago, I was speaking on attitude. In fact, I was speaking on the very same subject I'm going to talk to you about in a moment. How to fill your mind correctly so you live a fulfilled life. But in that setting, what happened is I had a music stand with my stuff on it and the music stand wasn't stable and it kept falling. And you're going to just absolutely crack up. You're going to die. And as you watch me understand, as this music stand doesn't cooperate and it keeps falling in front of all these people, get the picture, I'm speaking on attitude. And they're watching my attitude. You know what I mean? It's one of those messages. You're trying to preach it, boy. You're trying to preach it. They're watching you. So just enjoy the video clip and then I'll teach the lesson. Let's go. What is your plan to pick up your Bible and your laminated cards? In your old book and then get in your Bible and find your place. What is your plan? Well, I got it. I got it all as well. I love the story of the guy who would go to work and hit open up his lunch and he'd complain. He said, "Bologna sandwich again." I got a bologna sandwich again. This is the fourth time this week I've had a bologna sandwiches. I hate bologna sandwiches. The guy beside says... "Heal! Heal!" I hate cheap music stands. Especially when they interrupt my story. I'm right in the middle of a great story. Look at this, Todd. Could you talk to your dad about this? Give me the rubber band. Oh, am I getting the story now? Oh! (Laughter) You gotta get something you can depend on. Thank you. (Applause) (Applause) The message is on attitude. (Applause) Good, I'm doing my best. I'm just doing my best. Just doing my best. You know the guy with the bologna sandwich? Forget it. Just forget it. You gotta come to the Mars service. I'm not saying it tonight. I am not saying it. I will say it tomorrow. (Applause) Now, the good news is I'm going to teach that lesson and I'll tell you the bologna sandwich, okay? The Apostle Paul talks about in Philippians 4 that if we fill our mind correctly, our life will be one that is very fulfilled. And I want to talk to you about how to do that. Paul really teaches us here. And there's a passage of Scripture in Ecclesiastes that's kind of foundational for us. And I want us to get that passage first. He says, "Wise thinking leads to right living, and stupid thinking leads to wrong living." Huh? Has the man thinking in his heart? So is he. Absolutely. Let me define what an attitude is because that's what we're going to talk about this morning. An attitude is the paintbrush of the mind. In other words, we hold the paintbrush and we determine what we paint, what we put, the picture that we draw. We determine the picture in our mind. And the Apostle Paul, in Philippians 4 beginning with verse 4, he says, "Let me explain to you what a fulfilled life looks like." Okay? Let's look at the passage. He says, "Celebrate God all day every day." I mean revel in Him. Make it as clear as you can to all that you meet. That you're on their side working with them and not against them. Help them. See that the Master is about to arrive. He could show up at any minute. Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. And before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life. And Paul here in this short passage says, "Let me share with you what the fulfilled life looks like." Four things. Number one, people that are fulfilled celebrate God. People that are full of God and fulfilled in their life, they have a sense of gratitude for what God has done for them, and they are continually in a habitual pattern of worship. They celebrate God. Number two, they add value to people. They're a plus in peoples and their relationships, and they're constantly coming into people's lives, and they are helping, serving, giving, sharing, adding value to others. The third thing Paul says is that people that live a fulfilled life give their concerns to God. They give their worries, their anxieties. In other words, in their life, they understand that they can't carry this. My mother, her favorite verse was the one that Peter teaches us in the Bible when he said, "Cast all of your anxiety. Cast all of your care on God because he cares for you." And Paul says, "When you live a fulfilled life, you realize you don't have to carry this. You have a father that you can trust who unconditionally loves you, and you pass that on to him." Finally, he says, "People who live a fulfilled life, they experience the wholeness of God." In other words, they experience all that God has for them, not in small doses, not in compartments, not in not not dribble. The wholeness of God, they experience and they live in that wholeness all the time. Now, look at this. People that are fulfilled, they celebrate God, add value to people, give God their concerns and experience God's wholeness. How many of you would like to have that kind of fulfilled life, huh? It's kind of an IQ test, isn't it, huh? I mean, it really is. I mean, of course, I would like to live that. And you say, "John, how does this happen?" Well, what's incredible Paul turns right around and says, "Now, let me explain to you in the Scriptures how this can be yours." And the good news is this morning, not on this campus, but on all the campuses here at Gateway, the good news is that every one of you can experience the fulfilled life I've just talked about. So look at your neighbor and say, "Even you can experience this." Go ahead and tell them that. Okay? All right. In fact, look back at him and say, "And it's about time." All right. Okay, here we go. Here we go. Here's what Paul says. We're picking up now in verse 8 and verse 9. Here's what he says. Summing it all up, friends, I'd say you'll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious. The best, not the worst, the beautiful, not the ugly things, the praise, not things to curse. Put into practice what you've learned from me, what you heard, saw and realized, do that. And God who makes everything work together will work you into His most excellent harmonies. Wow. When I was growing up, my parents paid-- I'm the middle child, the three of us. We were paid in allowance to read books, okay? My father picked the books out, and we were required to read 30 minutes a day, so we were paid in allowance to read books. And my friends, they were all paid allowance to do chores. So I went to my dad one day, I said, "You know, my friends, they get paid to do chores, and I get paid to read books." But I think--I like this chores thing about being paid to do chores. They said, "Son, I'm never going to pay you to do chores." He said, "You do chores because you're part of the family, and I don't pay you to be part of the family." So we don't pay each other to be part of the family. He said, "Let me explain this way to you. When you were born, you already owed your mother for nine months of room and board." (Laughter) So you're already in debt, so you're on the minus side, so just, you know, shut up and take out the garbage. (Laughter) But then he said, "But I do put my money where my values are, and my values are in you reading good books." And from the seventh grade on, that's what the three of us did. He put the books in our hands, and one of the books he put in our hands when I was a seventh grader, James Allen's book, As a Man Thinketh. It's a classic. James Allen said, "The greatest discovery of his generation." He said, "The greatest discovery of my generation is that people can alter their lives by altering their mind." In other words, James Allen said, "When you begin to think right, everything else begins to change." Now, I read that in the seventh grade. By the way, I read that book every year, every year. And James Allen wasn't the first person that said that you can alter your life by altering your mind. The Apostle Paul right here said, "Let me explain something to you." If you want to have a fulfilled life, the first thing you do is you start absolutely filling your mind correctly. When I go to the dentist, I wonder if this happens to you out here in Dallas, when I go to the dentist, when I'm done, they always give me dental floss. Do you get dental floss when you go to the dentist? And they say, "Floss, and I take that dental floss, and I want you to know when the disciplined style of mine, I dental floss for two days after that." Now, why do you dental floss? Well, you get that floss in there and you get all that junk out between your teeth. Now, that's great for the teeth, but can I tell you something for the mind? I wish there was something called mental floss. You don't want to talk about where... And I wish we had a zipper on our head. Yeah, yeah. And so, you know, every morning we get up and we unzip our head and kind of pull that sucker apart and just go in there and just get all that stuff out. You know, wouldn't it be great if you could just every day kind of get the... How many of you got some stuff in your mind you'd like to get out? Come on, talk to me, huh? Wouldn't it be great if you could just mental floss your mind every day? Now, you entrepreneurs, I've got a product for you that if you will invent... Trust me on this, if you'll invent this, you'll make millions. Somebody needs to invent what I call sweet spirit spray. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I spray. And you use it on people that don't have a sweet spirit. You follow me? I mean, I mean, you have people bad attitudes, people that are negative in their thinking, you know, grouches, you know, just kind of grumbling all the time. And you have the spray, you've got it, and you're reaching your pocket, and as soon as they start just kind of messing up, negative, you just pull out and go... And they just start smiling. Wouldn't that be a great product? Let me ask you a question. If it was on the market, how many of you would buy some sweet spirit spray? Question one, absolutely. Let me ask you another question. Do you already know who you would give it and spend it on? Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Let me ask you another question. Are you sitting beside that person right now? Absolutely, absolutely. (Laughter) Sometime, that third question got some of you in trouble a moment ago. You were doing okay on the first two. Now, Paul says, I don't know about the mental floss, I don't know about the sweet spirit spray, but he said, let me give you four things, and that's what we're going to do now, biblically. Four things, Paul says, that people that have great attitudes possess. All right, let's go. Number one, people with great attitudes, they possess a teachable spirit. And Paul talked about that. He said in verse nine, put into practice what you learned, heard, saw and realized. In other words, the things I taught you, put it in practice. Now, a teachability requires repeated long hard looks in the mirror. Because a teachable spirit means that I am open to criticism, I'm open to correction, I'm open to change. In other words, I look in the mirror and I say, oh, my goodness, I may be the problem. You see, we see people not as they are, we see people as we are. Understand that. And so therefore, if we're not right, the people around us are not right. I love the grandpa who went to sleep. He was visiting the grandchildren, he was taking an afternoon nap, he had to handle more mustache. He went to sleep on the bed and one of the grandchildren came in, saw grandpa sleep, thought they had some fun, got some limburger cheese, and put it right in his mustache. He just stuck right in his mustache and he wakes up and he starts smelling. Well, he says the bedroom stinks. He went out in the kitchen and grandma was making cookies for the babies, he got a couple of them and got some milk, he started dunking those cookies. Well, you know, he said the kitchen stinks too. He said, I'll be back in a moment, went outside and get a big breath of fresh air. Anyway, he said, the whole world stinks. Now the whole world didn't stink, the problem is he had a limburger cheese in his mustache. I know people have limburger cheese in their attitude. And no matter where they go, no, no matter where they are, they got problems. Are you with me? I love that expression. There's no matter where you are, there you are. And a teachable spirit. A teachable spirit is not only one that looks in the mirror and says, I could be the problem, but a teachable spirit allows God and allows other people to speak into our lives. When I passed her in San Diego, I'd been there for about ten years and I was traveling a lot and the international ministry was getting heavy and I was writing books and I was tired, I was worn, and one of my huge weaknesses is in patience and when I'm really tired, I really get impatient. And we needed to make two or three decisions of which I usually process through the elders and I was tired in a kind of a rash. I just made decisions. I shouldn't have done it. I was wrong, but I made these decisions and I said, let's keep moving. And it just threw a curve to the congregation because they had never seen me, you know, not go through the process. And so they kind of started asking questions instead of when they asked questions, we'd be backing off and say, oh, shouldn't have done it, my fault. I became defensive and I began to look at them and say, quick, complain. I've been here for ten years. Let's get with it. You know what I mean? I felt like the children of Israel and Moses, you know, when he's complaining in Israel and in the wilderness and, you know, while they were complaining for 40 years, don't you think Moses would have liked to go back to Pharaoh and restated this and not said, let all my people go? So I was kind of concerned and not happy with the people. And I was in that passing no test, but were they were complaining with Moses, you know, the story where the earth opened up and swallowed the complainers. And I thought, oh, yes! Oh, God, we need to do this again. And so I prepared a message on it for the people. I decided I'm going to preach a message on God will swallow you up if you don't straighten. I mean, I worked on that message and I'm telling you, it was good. It was so good. And the next day I looked at it again. I can't hardly wait for Sunday. I mean, oh, I am going to preach hot and I am going to preach heavy. And we're just going to hope for a miracle because if the earth will swallow them up, oh, man, this could not get better. And God spoke to me and said, by the way, John, the message isn't for the congregation. Well, I ask, who's it for? Don't ever ask God that question. He said, John, it's for you. You're the problem? He said, you're the one that's got the attitude wrong. I hate that. And when I attitude gets a little wrong around the house, you know what my wife Margaret does? She never says the word. She just goes to my library, pulls out one of the five attitude books I wrote, brings it to me and says, you ought to read this book. I hate that. And God says, John, I want you to know you're the problem. And I say, oh, well, OK. Then I said, man, I've got to hurry up. It's Thursday. I've got to get another message for Sunday. No, no, no, no, no. He said, preach that one. Preach that one. Preach it hot. Preach it heavy. Just preach it like you're going to. And at the end of the message, tell the people it wasn't for them. It's for you. And repent. Ask forgiveness and go to your own altar. Jesus, let me ask you a question. I know you're coming back. Is there a shot that you're coming back before Sunday? (Laughter) That Sunday I preached that message and I asked their forgiveness and I wept and they wept with me. It was one of the most beautiful services. And God really helped me there. Just helped me understand, John, your problem is you don't have a teachable spirit. Paul said, if you're going to put good stuff in your mind, you're going to have to let God talk to you. You're going to have to let other people talk to you. And you're going to have to be approachable and not defensive. Number two, he says, take people that have great attitudes. They take responsibility for their attitude. They take responsibility for their attitude. And he tells us, I love this. He tells us how to do this. Look at verse eight. Paul says, first of all, fill your mind on good things. Okay, you said the first thing you do is put good stuff in. You and I have a choice on that, what we put in. Then he says, meditate on good things. And then there's, let it marinate in your mind, think it through. And then finally, he says practice. Three things, fill your mind with the good things. Meditate on the good things. Practice good things. And he said, that's how to take responsibility. You're responsible for what you put in it. You're responsible about how you think about it. And he said, you're responsible to practice it. It's your responsibility. It's not someone else's. I love these people who, you know, have you ever said, have you ever, have you ever met somebody? Have you ever met somebody who was just grumpy? And he said, what's wrong with you? Have you ever heard of, have you ever heard an adult give you this excuseable? I got out of the wrong side of the bed. What a stupid thing to say. I mean, if it was really that easy, I'd send you home. I'll tell you to jump on the bed and roll out on the right side. [laughter] Oh, the baloney sandwich story. The baloney sandwich guy, two construction guys, looks at his lunch bell. He's just ticked. Baloney sandwich again. He's like, I hate Baloney this week. I hate Baloney. Why do I always have to have a baloney sandwich? And he's just going off. And the guy besides saying, come on guy, tick easy, relax, take a pill. Listen to me. Listen to me. When you go home tonight, just tell your wife you don't want a baloney sandwich. Explain to her that you would like another. He said, leave my wife out of it. I make my own sandwiches. [laughter] And most of the baloney that you have in your life, you packed your own lunch. It's your baloney. My name is John. I'm your friend. [laughter] Paul says, number three. Paul says, the third thing is travel the high road. If you're going to, if you're going to live a fulfilled life, understand you want to treat people better than they treat you. Because there's a low road. The low road is where we treat people worse than they treat us. There's a middle road where we treat people the same than we treat. And then there's a high road where we treat people better than they treat us. And you get your choice. You get your choice. And here's what he said. He teaches us how to do this. I love this phrase that God chooses what we go through and we choose how we go through it. He says, fill your mind and meditate on the best, not the worst. Oh, that's high road. The beautiful, not the ugly. Oh, that's high road. Things are praise, not things to curse. That's high road. In other words, he says, when things happen to you, you've got a choice. You can either go low or you can go high. And he says, if you'll go high road, you'll begin to live the fulfilled life. And what I've noticed is you can see two people in the same situation. And one's got a good attitude and one's got a bad attitude. And you say, it's not the situation. It's how they respond to it. I love this. I brought it with me. This is a laminated card. Whenever I laminate something, folks, it's important. I mean, in fact, if I had been Moses, going up a little bit. Moses, going up on Mount Sinai, I'd have laminated the Ten Commandments. I would have put them on stone. Those babies will break. I would have laminated the Ten Commandments. And when I laminate something, I even think it gets holy. That's another story. But I just do. And you were talking about high road, low road, and how people can be in the same home and respond differently. And this is an animal story. I'm going to read you some excerpts from a dog's diary and excerpts from a cat's diary. From the dog's diary, 8 a.m. dog's food. My favorite thing. 930 car ride. My favorite thing. 940 walk in the park. My favorite thing. 1030, I got rubbed and petted. My favorite thing. Noon lunch. My favorite thing. 1 p.m. played in the yard. My favorite thing. 3 p.m. Why my tail. My favorite thing. 5 p.m. milk bones. My favorite thing. 7 p.m. got a play ball. My favorite thing. 8 p.m. Watch TV with the people. My favorite thing. I'm sleeping on the bed. My favorite thing. from a cash diary. Day 983 of my captivity. My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects. The only thing that keeps me going is my dream of escape. Isn't that true? Haven't we seen that before, huh? Same home, two totally opposite attitudes. Paul very simply says, "Okay, if you want to have a great attitude, you want to have a filled life, it's very simple, possess a teachable spirit, take responsibility for your attitude, travel the high road." Number four, understand its value. Understand the value of a great attitude because there's little difference in people, but the little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude and the big difference is whether it's positive or whether it's negative. And the Apostle Paul says, "It is our choice." And then he begins to help us understand the value of a good attitude. And let me say three things in wrapping this up the day. One, a good attitude has value at the beginning of a task. Nothing's more important than the attitude when you start something, all as well that begins well. Every surgeon knows that the attitude of the patient is key before surgery. Every coach knows the attitude of the team is very important before they play ball. Every prof knows the attitude of the students is important before they take the test. Number two, a good attitude has value in the middle of the task. In the middle of the task, we're in the middle of the whole process. Sometimes we get a little tired, a little worn out, what should we do? That attitude makes all the difference in the world. What I have discovered is this, people that have an attitude or gratitude, people that appreciate what they have, it may be a little bit me, a lot it may be, but they appreciate what they have. Here's what I learned a long time ago. What you appreciate appreciates. Oh yeah. And the more you complain, the less you'll obtain. You speak health into your life. You speak good things in your life or you speak bad things into your life. You think good things or you think bad things in your life. And number three, a good attitude has value at the end of the day. When the day is over, all is well to the ends well. Let me tell you a story. I wish my dad were here today. He's an amazing man. He's 89 years old. He and mom passed away almost two years ago now, but he and mom had been married for 67 years. But if my dad were here today, you would understand what I'm about to tell you. He is the most positive encourager I know. I mean, if he caught you in the lobby, I will promise you in two minutes, you don't want to leave him. I mean, you just want to stay right there because he'll look into your life and he'll speak good words into your life and he'll talk to you about how wonderful life is and he's got this enthusiasm, this wonderful positive spirit and this positive attitude. And I'm telling you, he's like a magnet. People just are drawn to my dad because of this incredible attitude and this incredible spirit of encouragement that he has. And it's contagious. And everybody knows it. He told me one time he said, John, I'm just telling you, he said, it's amazing. The older you get, the more you love people. I said, that's not true. I know a lot of people get older, but they're not getting better. Come on, talk to me, huh? Oh, no, no, they're not getting better. You see, my dad's getting better because he's got all this good stuff in him. He's thought that he's thought all these problems. So it's true in his life, but I said that's not true with everybody. In fact, the maturity doesn't always accompany age. Sometimes age comes alone. I could wait on you. So my dad, after mom died, we said, let's get him in a kind of a total senior citizens care complex. You know, be around the medical people. I mean, his health is very good, but we just didn't want him by himself. And so in Winterhaven, Florida, where he lives, they just were just building one. And so we, you know, we read streaming there and they accepted him. And so he would go down even before they opened. He'd go down every day and see the workers. And so they all knew him. He'd go in and see him and encourage him and bring him water to drink and sodas to drink. And they just all loved him. And one day he was talking and said, you know, the workers and I and all the people, we've all agreed, I'm going to be the first one to move in. I said, Dan, that's neat. I said, is there a reason you want to be the first one to move in? I said, of course. He said, John, you don't understand. There's a bunch of old people going to come here. By the way, my dad's going to live till he dies. Yeah, yes. Yeah, yes. You see, that doesn't happen to those people. Most people, they're already dead. They just haven't made it official. Yeah. He said, all these old people are going to be coming. And he said, they're going to be concerned because, you know, that this is a change in their life and some of them are leaving their family. And he said, I need to be there first so that I can be at the front door. And everybody that moves in, I want to be the first to greet them and I want to shake their hand. I want to smile. And I just want to tell them that I love them and I'm glad to have them here and we'll have a good time and we'll eat together and we'll be friends. And he said, I just want to, I just want to encourage everybody that comes through. And sure enough, the day it opened, he moved in and he has greeted for the last seven months. Every person that's walked in there, hi, my name is Melvin Maxwell and I just want you to know we're going to be friends and it's going to be okay. This is my friend. How can a person at 89 feel like that, live like that, talk like that, believe like that. I can tell you, for 89 years, he's put good stuff in. And he knows if you put good stuff in long enough, when people come up and squeeze you, good stuff comes. So my message is very simple. Put some good stuff in. Do what Paul says. And just when you walk through people and they bump you and just put the good stuff, squeeze out on them. And be an incredible salt and light and witness for the Lord because your attitude will determine your altitude. Thank you so much. God bless you. I'll see you at the back. Have a good day. [Applause]