A Prayer for the Strength We Need to Be Joyful

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Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 14 August 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0	A prayer for the strength we need to be joyful, by Meg Booker.
0:17.1	Be joyful always, 1 Thessalonians 5-16.
0:21.9	The Bible commands us to be joyful always, but it takes strength to hold on to joy when
0:28.3	life threatens to snatch it from our hands.
0:31.6	How do we recognize a threat to our joy, employ a strategy to refute it, and come out
0:38.1	stronger on the other side of it, still gripping our God-given joy?
0:43.6	Often we think that biblical joy should feel like happiness.
0:48.2	However, even though always encompasses happy times and feelings of bliss, true Christian
0:56.6	joy can endure through extreme hardship and pain.
1:01.3	Happy feelings aren't a requirement to be cheerful no matter what, as the message
1:06.3	paraphrase of 1 Thessalonians 5-16 reads.
1:11.3	Be full of joy all of the time, the new life version translates, always be joyful, reads
1:18.6	the new living translation.
1:21.1	Celebrate always, the voice paraphrases, and rejoice always, the new international version
1:28.3	states.
1:29.8	Joy is an emotion of great delight, praise expresses approval, worship regards something
1:36.6	as sacred, celebration makes something known.
1:41.0	Where do we find the strength to rejoice in the middle of trials, frustrations, and heartbreak,
1:47.1	sickness, death, and despair?
1:49.9	Happiness, fatigue, and unfairness.
1:53.0	The NIV cultural background study Bible states that rejoicing might be associated with praise.
2:01.4	The strength we need is in Christ.
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