A Steadfast Heart: Becoming Truly Happy, Part One
Set Apart Podcast
Leslie Ludy
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Leslie continues the Steadfast Heart series with a powerful look at true happiness. While the culture leads us to believe that happiness is conditional upon our circumstances, and comes from self-fulfillment, God's Word tells us differently. According to God's pattern, happiness is a decision of the will; a purposeful act of fixing our gaze upon Jesus Christ and anchoring our soul to Him. As long as our eyes are on Jesus, we can be happy at the soul-level, even if we go through difficulty. If we make our happiness conditional upon our circumstances, we will always be discontent. In this episode, Leslie walks through several "happiness myths" that we often believe, and contrasts them with the reality of God's pattern for real and lasting happiness.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Leslie Lutty and this is the Setapart podcast, Biblical Encouragement for Women. |
| 0:04.5 | To go deeper into today's message, visit us at Setapart.org and explore my new 12-week |
| 0:09.6 | video course, Honorable Womanhood. |
| 0:11.7 | And you can connect with me on Instagram or YouTube at the links in the description. |
| 0:15.4 | Now let's dive into today's encouragement. |
| 0:17.4 | Hi, I'm Leslie Ludi, host of the Setaparte podcast, Biblical Encouragement for |
| 0:26.1 | Women. We are in week two of our new series called A Steadfast Heart, which is all about the |
| 0:31.5 | foundational key principles for true emotional health. And in this episode, we're going to talk about |
| 0:37.3 | how to find true and |
| 0:38.4 | lasting happiness, which is such a key part of real emotional health. And oftentimes, |
| 0:44.1 | happiness is not found where we think it's going to be found. So we're going to hit that |
| 0:48.1 | in this episode. Before we jump in, I wanted to let you know about something really special |
| 0:52.7 | that is just brand new, just |
| 0:54.1 | been newly released. It is a 90-minute audio presentation that we released just for this |
| 0:58.9 | holiday season. And Eric and I found a whole bunch of our old recordings and videos and |
| 1:05.5 | music from decades ago. And we wanted to share little highlights of those things with you just to encourage |
| 1:12.2 | you in the faithfulness of God. So we walk you through kind of the early days of our love story, |
| 1:17.6 | our early ministry and marriage days, and just share clips and excerpts from the first time |
| 1:23.7 | we ever shared our love story in public with friends and family, the excerpts from our very |
| 1:28.3 | first time we ever spoke together as a young married couple, even some of the very earliest |
| 1:33.3 | songs that we ever wrote together and individually. And I don't normally share these things |
| 1:38.1 | because they're very old and they're not always professionally recorded. And yet I feel like it's |
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