Hi and welcome to today's podcast. This is Michael Beckio with brilliant

perspectives. Today, Graham Discourses on the topic of facing life with joy, rejoicing, and Thanksgiving.

This content is from one of Graham's teachings entitled Times of Refreshing.

In this short clip, Graham elaborates on the role of an indispensable attribute of God's character in the life of a believer.

That is, his joyful and rejoicing nature.

Graham explores the immediate availability of God's very essence to us at every moment

and how we have access to easily tap into that, partnering with his rejoicing nature in order

to face life's tough situations as he would.

Enjoyable.

One Thessalonians attempt to five 5 versus 16 to 18.

Very familiar all of us with these words.

Rejoice always, pray without ceasing in everything give thanks.

For this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

Now the will of God is always tied into his nature because his avowed intention is to absolutely make you like him.

So we're all made in his likeness.

Therefore, no matter what is occurring in our life,

the opportunity... is always instantly, instantly, to become like God

is always instantly, immediately, constantly available to us.

If you're in distress, you're going to learn how to be like God in those moments.

If you're facing opposition, you can face it learning how to be like God during opposition. It doesn't

matter what the situation is the ability to become like Jesus is always open and available to each one of us.

And sometimes the situations around our life are actually

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