Finding Joy When Joy Feels Distant
God is a loving Father who wants us to experience joy. He adopts us, delights in us, prays for us, pursues us, welcomes us, and prepares a home for us.
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Finding Joy in God’s Word When Stress Overwhelms
Joy in stressful seasons is not found by ignoring pain or chasing temporary fixes. It is found in turning our eyes and hearts toward God’s unchanging Word.
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Splashes of Joy From Life’s Simple Pleasures
Let’s invite the Holy Spirit to fill us every day. He will open our eyes to see the countless blessings that belong to those who belong to Jesus.
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Remember This When Bad News Comes
When bad news comes our way, we needn’t cave into fear. As followers of Jesus Christ, we belong to the living God for whom nothing is impossible.
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Living in Awe of God
Work and worry blind us to the miracles around us. We rush through our days silencing the tasks calling for our attention, and we miss the delights before us.
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Choosing Joy on the Journey
When life’s journey takes a difficult turn, our emotions want to cry, “Unfair!” or “Why me?” But God’s Word directs us to take a different approach.
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Experiencing Joy When Your Heart Aches
Every challenge we face forces us to make a choice. Will we choose to trust our doubting selves? Or choose to trust a God who is faithful, wise, and good?
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Count Your Blessings
As the birds sing this morning, a song pops into my mind. I recall the lyrics, and they encourage me to focus not on my concerns but on my blessings instead.
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Why Our Morning Thoughts Matter
If we train our minds on gratitude, our brain responds by releasing hormones related to pleasure and contentment. Our day assumes a tone of joy.
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3 Truths about Finding Joy
Praising God shifts our focus from our fears and failures to the character of the One who never disappoints or abandons us. And joy is born.
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Choosing Joy in Life’s Hard Places
When weariness drains us dry, joy is ours if we want. When burdens threaten to crush the life from us, joy is available as a supernatural gift of God’s grace.
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Remember This When Life Feels Overwhelming
Our circumstances may leave us feeling traumatized. But keeping our eyes on the unchanging Christ will help us weather the storm.
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Encouragement for When Christmas is Difficult
If you’re finding this season difficult, know that you’re not alone. Also know that Jesus opens His arms wide and invites you to nestle close to His heart.
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How to Respond When Plans Change
If I’ve invited Him to be the Lord over every part of me, He has the right to steer me in the direction He wants to accomplish His purposes in and through me.
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Recapturing the Wonder of God
Let’s ask God to open our eyes to the wonders He’s created. Let’s stand in awe of who He is and marvel that He loves us and wants a relationship with us.
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When Life Takes an Unexpected Turn
Life takes unexpected turns. Sometimes we have no answers. But we always have a Comforter. And in Him we always find hope.
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God Alone Satisfies Your Soul Thirst
The only thing that satisfies our deepest needs – our relationship with our Creator. He is what our soul longs for, and we’re designed for intimacy with Him.
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Jesus is Our Security and Satisfaction
Loving relationships, comfortable circumstances, and possessions are gifts meant to be enjoyed, but not meant to become our security and satisfaction in life.
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God Prepares a Banquet for His Kids
He satisfies my hunger and quenches my thirst. Every day, day after day after day…the supply of divine delicacies never ends.
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For What Are You Grateful Today?
Do you ever experience days when your heart feels full to overflowing with gratitude to God? I hope so! Today is one of those days for me.
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Experiencing Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love
Hope, peace, joy and love aptly describe what Christmas is meant to celebrate, and all because God chose to become man and dwell among us.
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3 Life-Changing Truths about Joy
Praising God shifts our focus from our fears and failures to the character of the One who never disappoints or abandons us.
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How Can We Experience Joy When Life’s Hard?
When weariness drains us dry, joy is ours if we want it. When burdens threaten to crush life from us, joy is available as a supernatural gift of God’s grace.
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Where is True Happiness Found?
Happiness is found when we do life God’s way. It gives us the strength to forgive, and to face our fears. It gives us peace in the midst of storms.
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How to Unwrap the Gift of Today
“This is the day the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it,” says Psalm 118:24. These words are more than the lyrics to a lilting worship chorus.
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3 Reasons for Christ-Followers to Celebrate
What a great way to ensure our little ones understand the significance of what God has done for us and to keep it fresh in our minds as well.
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Why Should a Believer Praise God?
Discouragement and fear affect different people in different ways. Regardless, God’s given us a weapon to break its grip. That weapon is praise.
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Here’s the Reason for Easter Bringing Joy
The greatest joy of all comes from something I may never fully understand–how God in heaven stooped and sent His Son to bridge the chasm caused by sin.
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The Secret to Radiating Joy Despite Difficulties
Joy isn’t something we can work up. Nor is it found in rosy circumstances. It comes from within, the natural overflow of an ever-growing friendship with Jesus.
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Discovering Joy in Life’s Tests
Consider difficulties as opportunities for joy? You betcha. Here are a few things I learned earlier this year about discovering joy in the midst of troubles.
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Experiencing Joy as a Lifestyle
Joy is ours even when life stinks. Let’s make joy our life and whet the appetite of a watching world to know the Source of true joy.
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Five Reasons for Having Joy
The more I read about joy, the more I’m convinced that God’s kids, more than anyone else on earth, ought to be living demonstrations of this characteristic.
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What Brings Joy to God’s Heart?
Imagine Him smiling on us, taking pleasure in us, expressing delight in us as He expressed delight in His Son, Jesus. The thought warms my heart.
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Joy – My Special Word for 2012
Life offers oodles of small pleasures, but nothing brings joy like experiencing God’s presence moment by moment. So, I enter 2012 with a sense of anticipation
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Happy, Happy, Happy? Not So Much
Despite enduring two decades of mistreatment, Jacob clung to the knowledge that God was on his side. And that’s likely what carried him through the dark days.
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What Might a Heart in Tune with God Look Like?
Let’s ask the Lord to give us hearts in tune with His. And then let’s be bold and ask Him to be good to us just as He promises.
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