#729: When God Moves [Choose Joy]
Allen Jackson Ministries
Ben Hayes
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In the Christmas narrative, angels came to deliver "good news of great joy" to us. Good news of great joy doesn't mean everything is going to be easy, but it does mean our assignments will be meaningful and well-rewarded. In this sermon, Pastor Allen Jackson teaches about the theme for the third week of Advent: joy. We may be tempted to grumble when facing trials, but God calls us to endure with joy. It's counterintuitive to our human natures, but with the Holy Spirit's help, we can find true joy in the midst of hardship. God is moving in the earth, and we want to be a part of what He's doing in His Kingdom, so let's choose to cultivate joy—sustaining, eternal, and supernatural joy.
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| 0:00.0 | We have to choose happiness and joy, Church. |
| 0:05.0 | God is moving in the earth. |
| 0:09.0 | If we're gonna move with him and get to different outcomes, |
| 0:12.0 | we can't allow the compass of our lives, |
| 0:15.0 | the value structure of our lives, |
| 0:17.0 | to be dictated to us by a secular culture |
| 0:20.0 | that is not interested in pleasing God. |
| 0:22.5 | We're going to have to walk a different path and do something different with our time |
| 0:26.5 | and something different with our money and something different with our ambitions. |
| 0:30.3 | The things the dreams and aspirations we have for our children better be different than the secularist amongst us. |
| 0:39.9 | You're listening to Alan Jackson Ministries. |
| 0:42.7 | You can get the outlines for this episode at |
| 0:45.1 | Alanjaxon.com slash podcast. |
| 0:48.0 | If these messages help build you up, |
| 0:50.2 | or encourage you to be a more fully devoted Christ follower, |
| 0:53.7 | leave us a five-star rating and review. |
| 0:56.5 | Hopefully, that will help others find out about them as well. |
| 0:59.7 | Now it's on to Pastor Allen. |
| 1:02.1 | Be blessed. |
| 1:08.7 | I'm of the opinion that God is moving in the earth. |
| 1:11.6 | But I don't say that as a matter of rhetoric or habit or some motivational ploy. |
| 1:16.6 | In the years that I have served the Lord, I don't recall another time when I have sensed God moving in the earth on the magnitude that he is in these days. |
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