Does God Want Me to Be Happy? with Tauren Wells

Stay True with Madison Prewett Troutt

Madison Prewett Troutt

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to Stay True Podcast! Today, Madi and Grant are joined by Grammy-nominated artist, pastor, and friend Tauren Wells for a powerful conversation all about finding true joy in Christ. Many of us have wondered and asked the questions, “Does God want me to be happy?” And “Will I ever be happy again?” In this podcast we will answer those questions and talk about what it means to experience, receive, and live with REAL joy– not a feeling based on emotions, but a deep, unshakable confidence in who God is. In a world that promises happiness in success, fame, and followers, how do we root ourselves in joy that doesn’t fade when circumstances change? This episode will leave you encouraged and full of hope.

Always stay you and stay true!

Questions/topics discussed and answered:
- What is true joy and where does it come from?
- How to have joy in a hopeless situation
- The difference between happiness and joy
- Does God care about our happiness?
AND SO MUCH MORE!

Helpful Resources:

Joy Bomb: Unleash Jesus's Explosive Joy for an Extraordinary Life by Tauren Wells: https://a.co/d/duB28hq

Dare To Be True: Defeat The Lies That Bind You and Live Out The Truth That Frees You by Madison Prewett Troutt: https://a.co/d/gdfpHX5

Stay True Website: https://www.staytruepodcast.com

Stay True Merch: https://www.staytruepodcast.com/merch

Transcript

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0:00.0	What practical advice would you give to the person that's saying, I want to have more joy in my life.
0:05.0	I want to be a joy-filled person. I just don't know how.
0:08.0	God is the God of infinite joy. So how can I be with God, becoming like God, but not become more joyful and more happy?
0:17.0	He is uniquely interested in your happiness.
0:20.0	It's so easy to fall into that and it's so easy to get so focused on doing a lot of good things for God and just totally miss being with God.
0:27.6	If you're so self-conscious that every room you walk into, you're thinking about how do I look, how do I come across, how do I say this, how do I perform, how do I please people? That's compounding in your life to sabotage your joy.
0:39.3	God is so good to not give us joy with the quick hitters. He's like, it's a little bit longer than that.
0:44.3	Alright, now I'm about to get fired up. I can feel the mic.
0:47.3	Somebody hold his mic in place, man.
0:53.3	What's up, guys?
0:58.3	Welcome back to another episode of Stay True podcast.
1:01.5	I'm your host, Madison Pruitt Trout, here with my husband.
1:05.3	And we have in the podcast studio a very special friend, Torne Wells.
1:13.5	And he is, you guys, in doing my research on Torn, I'm like, my brother has done a lot. He has done a lot. And God has truly blessed him.
1:20.1	He is nominated for 10 Grammys. He has eight GMA dove awards. He has over 1.2 billion streams.
1:45.6	And he and his wife, Lorna, have a church in Austin, Texas, called Church of Whitestone. They have four kids, and he is now a new author to a book called Joy Bomb, which we're going to be talking about a little bit today. But I'm so excited that you are here in Nashville, Tennessee on the State True podcast state true podcast so thank you for having me i really really appreciate it and you saying all that makes me realize
1:51.6	why i'm tired sounds like a lot man we're preaching this we are recording this um and it was
1:59.6	this is like pre-recorded before it's going to come out
2:02.0	and so he's coming off of a lot of easter yeah east seven yeah seven yeah seven yeah that's
2:09.3	beast mode man i don't know if it's seven services or four kids i don't know which one i would
2:14.3	attribute the fatigue to how many kids okay no you got four kids but how old are
2:18.2	they so four boys wow yeah four boys uh about to be 12 um nine seven and four oh my gosh so it's just
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