Expect To Be Joyful

Brilliant Perspectives

Graham Cooke

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode comes from the video series “The Art of Awareness” on Brilliant TV; and the video series itself is based on content from Graham’s groundbreaking book, “The Nature of Freedom.” In this episode, Graham expounds upon what a life of joy in God looks like, and how we abide in that. How we set our Expectation has a significant impact on Joy becoming our everyday experience. It’s is not a come-and-go emotion, but is always present because of who God is for us; therefore we have permission to EXPECT Joy in Jesus, and we should also expect to DISCOVER an increase of Joy in our lives as we walk the road ahead. Graham reminds us of David’s words in the Psalms -- that in God’s presence is fullness of joy. Since we have His presence on the inside of us, joy is already part of the environment in which we get to live. Key Scriptures for this episode are: + James 1:2-4 + Psalm 16:11 + Philippians 4:4 Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brilliant-persepctives/message

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Brilliant Perspectives podcast with Graham Cook.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Michael Beckio.
0:10.0	Today's episode is titled Expect to Be Joyful.
0:14.0	I like this thing.
0:16.0	This comes from the video series The Art of Awareness on Brilliant TV.
0:21.0	The video series itself is based on content from Graham's groundbreaking book The Nature of Freedom.
0:27.0	In this episode, Graham expounds upon what a life of joy in God looks like and how we abide in that.
0:33.0	How we set our expectation has a significant impact on joy becoming our everyday experience.
0:39.0	Because this is not a common-go emotion but is always present because of who God is for us.
0:46.0	Therefore, we have permission to expect joy in Jesus.
0:50.0	And we should also expect to discover an increase of joy in our lives as we walk the road ahead.
0:56.0	Graham reminds us of David's words in the Psalms that in God's presence is fullness of joy.
1:02.0	Since we have his presence on the inside of us, joy is already part of the environment in which we get to live.
1:09.0	Some key scriptures for this episode are James 1, 2 through 4, Psalm 16, verse 11, and Philippians 4, verse 4. Enjoy.
1:21.0	Hi, I'm Graham Cook and today we're going to encounter joy.
1:27.0	Everything about this devotional series is connecting us with a greater awareness of God's nature of freedom and the joy that brings freedom.
1:38.0	We all know that joy is a part of who God is.
1:41.0	So it's something that we can always expect to be present regardless of circumstances.
1:48.0	So let me read this next section from the abundant expectation part of letter 3.
1:57.0	Expectancy is expected from you.
2:01.0	It's compulsory in the kingdom. We are full of joyous hope for you.
2:07.0	If you need a miracle, it's because one is available.
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