One of the best ways to be patient is to keep your mind focused on what you are currently doing.

Positive minds produce positive lives. Negative minds produce negative lives. Positive thoughts are always full of faith and hope. Negative thoughts are always full of fear and doubt.

Trust in Him What negative thought has been harassing your mind? Replace it with a promise from God's Word that you can trust.

start their day on the "wrong foot." They feel all right when they wake up, but as soon as something goes wrong, they lose their footing and walk with a "loser's limp" the rest of the day. Once they are off to a bad start, it seems they never catch up.

You are never going to enjoy the promise of the new life (see Rom. 4:16) Jesus died to give you until you change the way you think. It's not about what you can do—it's about what Jesus has done for you.

Instead of assuming the worst, believe the best.

One of the most valuable things you can do in order to live a hope-filled, joyful, overcoming life is to believe the best in every situation.

Right believing leads to right living! Right believing leads to a life of peace, joy, and fulfillment!

Keep your foot [give your mind to what you are doing]. Ecclesiastes 5:1

If you want to be free of trying to figure everything out, you can develop the mind of the Spirit by constantly renewing your mind with the Word. Little by little, the Word will wash away the wrong thinking and replace it with truth . . . follow that truth instead of your own ability to reason things out and you'll have new life and peace.

Believers who are living in close fellowship with God are not going to think about how terrible they are. They will have righteousness-based thoughts that come through meditating regularly on who they are "in Christ.

Power Thought: I am able to keep my mind on track and focus on what I am doing.