Being a Carrier of Joy - Aug 12
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🗓️ 12 August 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Today, in the last day of our week long focus on joy, we’re going to explore how we can be carriers for the joy of our God. Joy is contagious. It’s powerful. And it’s meant to be at the heart of our communication of who God is, and what relationship with him is like.
May God fill us all with a greater measure of his joy today, and a greater understanding of how to carry that joy into a world in desperate need of it.
Our Scripture for today comes from Isaiah 55:12, and today's worship is Simple Gospel by United Pursuit.
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| 0:00.0 | Today and the last day of our week-long focus on joy, we're going to explore how we can be carriers of the joy of our God. Joy is contagious, it's powerful, and it's |
| 0:16.1 | meant to be at the heart of our communication of who God is and what relationship |
| 0:20.4 | with Him is like. May God fill us all with a greater measure of his joy today |
| 0:25.0 | and a greater understanding of how to carry that joy |
| 0:28.0 | into a world and desperate need of it. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. Our verse for today comes from Isaiah 5512 which reads, for you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace. |
| 0:56.6 | The mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of |
| 1:01.3 | the field shall clap their hands. |
| 1:06.0 | As disciples of Jesus, we are to carry the joy of our salvation everywhere that we go. |
| 1:12.0 | You and I have the power to change atmospheres on Earth with |
| 1:16.0 | the joy of the spirit. We have the power to brighten people's days, break off |
| 1:21.1 | heaviness, and lead people to a deeper revelation of the goodness of our |
| 1:25.8 | Lord when we reflect his joy to others. God is a joyful God. He is the inventor of happiness and fun. |
| 1:36.0 | Luke 1510 says, |
| 1:38.0 | Just so I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God, |
| 1:42.0 | over one sinner who repents. |
| 1:45.2 | And Nehemiah 810 tells us, |
| 1:47.2 | the joy of the Lord is our strength. |
| 1:51.2 | In order to truly declare to the world who our Heavenly Father is, we must be carriers of joy. |
| 1:58.4 | We must be a people marked by the joy that only comes from restored relationship with an all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-loving |
| 2:06.1 | God. |
| 2:07.8 | It's taken me a long time to learn, and even longer time to realize the truth that circumstances, people, trials, work, and worldly stress do not |
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