For those near or far, this will help

Hi everybody! I need to share a rather complicated thought with you today. But I have pledged my friendship to all of you, and therefore I cannot keep this observation locked away from your understanding.
These days just about everyone is pushing the practice of 'Positive Thinking'. From my point of view, positive thinking can't make a lasting improvement to anyone's quality of life. Why? I will tell you. It is impossible to sustain the purity of mind to fully dwell on the positive aspects of life. We are fallen mortals. We can pull all kinds of tricks through sustaining a positive concept for a time, but at the end of it all, we come back to the knowledge that we are capable of envy, greed, ill will, cynicism and many many things that take place in our brains that are not positive at all. Putting your dibs on something under the assumption that your positive thinking will make it all happen will end up making you feel like even more of a miserable failure!

Let me tell you what I have found to work. You might say that I have found that the exact opposite of 'Positive Thinking' works. What I do is, I think of the worst possible case scenario. I visualize in my mind the horrible fear of a highly unpleasant happenstance, and then, I respond with "I'll handle it". Not something that a wimp can actually consider doing, I know. But let me tell you the result I get.

Everyone familiar with the story of Abraham and Isaac? Briefly, Abram was asked by God to slay his son Isaac and offer him to God for a "burnt offering", a sacrifice to God. So, Abram took Isaac, his son, and the things he would need in order to prepare the offering, and proceeded to carry out what God had commanded. When he had his knife up in the air, about to slay his son, an angel stopped him. The angel said, "there's a ram in the bushes. Use that instead."

This is what happens when you decide that you will handle whatever happens. When you believe in your ability, with the help of God, to handle whatever comes your way, when you say "YES" to God, it is then that you get His attention. Those who say "Yes" are the ones in whom God sees real faith. And those in whom God sees genuine faith, are those on whom He pours down blessings.

Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir singing, I'll Say Yes"