“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he…” Proverbs 23:7 A bad attitude can destroy any chance of success or happiness. If you want to live a happier, healthier, and successful life, you must rid yourself of a destructive attitude. Your mind can be your worst enemy or your best friend and it is up to you to determine which.Epictetus rightly said,“People are not disturbed by things, but by the way they view them” and that “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” Do you have a destructive attitude? Check out these ten signs of a destructive attitude, which are not…

Secular personal development is about developing personal strengths, and Christian personal development is about diminishing them. If that sounds opposite, it is. Not to say that secular personal development is a bad thing, because it isn’t. It’s just not the right fit for the believer in Christ. Certainly, it is good for anyone to strive to be a better person regardless of his or her faith? The difference between the two approaches is stated in John 3:30: Christian personal development’s distinguishing mark, “He must increase, but I must decrease.” The Bible outlines God’s plan of personal development: “Yet you, LORD, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the…

The Disciples of Jesus had attempted to cast out an evil spirit and had failed and the man with the evil spirit was brought to Jesus, and the Bible says, “…Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose. And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, ‘Why could we not cast him out?’ And he said unto them, ‘This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.'” Jesus was sanctioning the importance of fasting from a spiritual prospective. Jesus said in these verses it was necessary, along with prayer, to accomplish the very work the disciples were…