Being a Carrier of Joy
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 22 October 2023
⏱️ 10 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. Today's worship is What I See by Elevation Worship.
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Thank you so much for listening to this last podcast in our week on joy. I’m Craig Denison, author of First15.
Who around you especially needs the joy of the Lord today? Who needs to know about the joy God has available to them, if they would open their hearts to receive it.
As you’re around that person today, or as the Lord prompts you to reach out them, ask him to lead you into an opportunity to talk about his joy in a real, fresh way with them. Sharing the joy we have in God is not only an incredible gift we give others, but a gift we also give to ourselves.
Thanks again for listening. Have a wonderful rest of your day, and may God bless you as you seek him.
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| 0:00.0 | In the last day of our week-long focus on joy, we're going to explore how we can be |
| 0:10.5 | carriers for the joy of our God. |
| 0:13.0 | Joy is contagious, it's powerful. |
| 0:15.5 | It's meant to be at the heart of our communication of who God is and what relationship |
| 0:20.1 | with Him is like. May God fill us |
| 0:22.8 | all with greater measure of His joy today and a greater understanding of how to carry |
| 0:28.1 | that joy into a world and desperate need of it. Welcome to the First 15 Podcast. As disciples of podcast. |
| 0:45.5 | As disciples of Jesus, we are to carry the joy of our salvation everywhere we go. |
| 0:51.4 | You and I have the power to change atmospheres on earth with the joy of the spirit. |
| 0:56.5 | We have the power to brighten people's days, break off heaviness, and lead people to a deeper revelation of goodness of our Lord when we reflect his joy to others. |
| 1:04.3 | God is a joyful God. He is the inventor of happiness and fun. Luke 1510 says, just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels |
| 1:13.9 | of God over one sinner who repents. Nehemiah 810 tells us the joy of the Lord is our |
| 1:20.8 | strength. In order to truly declare to the world who our Heavenly Father is, we must be |
| 1:26.4 | carriers of joy. We must be a people marked |
| 1:29.6 | by the joy that only comes from restored relationship with an all-knowing, all-powerful, and |
| 1:35.2 | all-loving God. It's taken me a long time to learn, an even longer time to realize the truth |
| 1:41.4 | that circumstances, people, trials, work, and worldly stress do not |
| 1:46.5 | have the inherent ability to steal my joy. It's when I open my heart to outside elements |
| 1:52.3 | that I allow stresses to come in like robbers and take what is rightfully mine in the Lord. |
| 1:58.5 | It's when I allow a fellow driver, a time crunch, a negative |
| 2:02.7 | comment, or a troublesome problem to take president over the joy and hope I have in Jesus |
| 2:09.1 | that I step outside my allotted portion of peace. To be carriers of joy, we have to choose to |
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