Empowered: A Guide to Experiencing the Power of the Holy Spirit: Day 32
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 28 March 2020
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Pastor Mark Turman was so encouraged by Dr. Denison's book about the Holy Spirit, titled Empowered, that he asked to record its 47 chapters as daily readings for his church.
When Dr. Denison heard about this, he suggested the great idea to release these recordings as bonus episodes of The Daily Article Podcast every day from Ash Wednesday to Easter.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a bonus episode of the Daily Article podcast, presented by the Denison |
| 0:07.6 | Forum. |
| 0:09.5 | Empowered, Day 32. |
| 0:12.1 | Joy |
| 0:12.5 | When J.S. Bach returned home from a year-long concert tour to discover that his wife and |
| 0:19.3 | child had died, he wrote in his diary, |
| 0:22.6 | Dear Lord, take not my joy from me. |
| 0:26.6 | Imagine even thinking of joy at such a time. |
| 0:29.6 | But Bach was right. |
| 0:31.6 | The joy of the Lord is ours, whatever our circumstances hold. |
| 0:36.6 | What is joy? First, let's note what it's not. A feeling. |
| 0:42.9 | Nowhere does the Bible describe what it feels like to have God's joy. A circumstance. |
| 0:49.5 | Joy is not happiness, which depends on happenings. You can have joy even in hard times. A |
| 0:56.7 | temporary experience. Joy transcends the moment, the feelings, the circumstances of this day. |
| 1:03.0 | You can have joy no matter what the past has been or the future holds. So what's joy? |
| 1:10.0 | It's been defined as a deep state of well-being that transcends circumstances. |
| 1:16.6 | Romans 14-17 states that the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, |
| 1:21.6 | but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:26.4 | Paul said that he was sorrowful, yet always rejoicing, |
| 1:30.4 | 2 Corinthians 6.10. How can you have joy? By surrendering to the Holy Spirit. You can know the |
| 1:37.7 | degree to which he is controlling your life by the degree to which you are experiencing and manifesting his joy. |
| 1:45.6 | Then you can rejoice in the Lord always, Philippians 4-4. |
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