Choose a life of joy | (ECCLESIASTES 8:15, 9:7)
Morning Mindset Christian Daily Devotional Bible study and prayer
Carey Green
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🗓️ 19 December 2022
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Today's Scripture:
ECCLESIASTES 8:15, 9:7
And I commend joy, for man has nothing better under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.
9:7 Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello my friends welcome back to the morning mindset. I hope you're ready to get your |
| 0:08.4 | mind aligned with the truth of God's Word today. I'm looking at my map where it shows |
| 0:13.9 | the different countries people are listening in and it looks like we have all of Europe |
| 0:18.9 | covered. I'm just so amazed. There is some place in almost every part of Europe. The |
| 0:24.6 | only place I can see is in Eastern Europe where we do not have anyone listening. In |
| 0:29.8 | Turkmenistan but everything west of there everything in Central Europe you know France, |
| 0:36.9 | Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Austria. I see people listening in all of those places. |
| 0:43.4 | Welcome and thank you. Thank you for spreading the word about the morning mindset. The audience |
| 0:48.5 | continues to expand. God's Word continues to be proclaimed day after day to help others |
| 0:54.2 | all across the globe get their minds aligned with his truth. Friends you are an important part |
| 1:00.4 | you can make a difference an eternal difference in the lives of many people just by sharing |
| 1:05.2 | the morning mindset with them. Would you do that? I appreciate it so much. Now today we are turning |
| 1:10.7 | to one of my favorite books in the Old Testament Ecclesiastes and we're going to look at a verse in |
| 1:16.2 | chapter eight and a verse in chapter nine. Both of these verses essentially say the same thing |
| 1:21.5 | and is that we as human beings are blessed by God with the ability to choose a life of joy. |
| 1:30.2 | Let's read Ecclesiastes 8.15 and then we'll skip to chapter nine verse seven. 8.15 says |
| 1:37.3 | and I commend joy. So what is he doing when he's commending joy? He's recommending it to us. He's |
| 1:43.2 | saying I commend joy for man has nothing better under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful. |
| 1:51.4 | For this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under |
| 1:57.4 | the sun. So friends listen to what the writer of Ecclesiastes is saying. I believe this was |
| 2:03.1 | Solomon. He's saying there's hardly anything better for you in life than to enjoy the things God |
| 2:10.2 | gives you the eating and the drinking the opportunities you have for a good life and to be joyful. So in |
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