#730: When God Moves - The Reponse of Joy
Allen Jackson Ministries
Ben Hayes
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Our attitudes and outlooks can impact our lives significantly, so maintaining our God-given joy is essential. But how do we maintain joy? In this sermon covering the third week of Advent, Pastor Allen Jackson shares three steps we can take to keep our joy intact, and he teaches about the impacts joy has on perseverance, especially through suffering. Like hope that needs a foundation to rest on, joy requires upkeep, and we can practice that through familiarity with God's Word, listening to God's voice, and being in godly community. Holidays can be painful, but we can have lasting joy even through suffering, because our joy is made complete through our willingness to persevere in faith.
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| 0:00.0 | See, joy is not connected to your circumstances. |
| 0:07.0 | Joy is not about ease or comfort. |
| 0:11.0 | Happiness touches all of those things. |
| 0:13.0 | And again, I'm not opposed to happiness. |
| 0:15.0 | If I get to choose, I prefer comfortable and convenient and applause. |
| 0:19.0 | But I'm not going to chart a course that demands that. |
| 0:22.3 | I'm going to chart a course that follows the Lord. |
| 0:24.4 | And there are times and places that acknowledging the truth of God or your allegiance |
| 0:28.6 | to Jesus or your affirmation of Jesus and his principles may not result in applause, |
| 0:35.5 | choose him anyway. |
| 0:39.9 | You're listening to Alan Jackson Ministries. You can get the outlines for this episode |
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| 0:56.0 | Hopefully, that will help others find out about them as well. |
| 0:59.0 | Now it's on to Pastor Allen. Be blessed. |
| 1:07.0 | We're working through a series on when God moves, and I believe God is moving in the earth, |
| 1:14.0 | in very significant ways, profound ways, ways that are going to create a new future for us. |
| 1:19.8 | I believe there will be an even more noticeable break with our past than we've experienced at this point. |
| 1:26.5 | We've experienced a pretty |
| 1:27.7 | significant break since 2020. And I believe that's more the result of God moving than any other |
| 1:33.8 | single factor. So it's an exciting time. It's the Advent season, the first season in the Christian |
| 1:39.3 | calendar. And the third week of Advent is the theme is typically joy. |
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