Hey, thanks for joining us today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren.

And today, we're continuing our series called The Habits of Happiness.

In this series, Rick dives into the book of Philippians and helps you discover God's path to true and lasting happiness.

Okay, and now here's part one of a message called, happiness can be learned.

Many people think that happiness is simply a matter of luck,

and they think, if you're happy, you're just lucky.

You got lucky, you had happy circumstances circumstances and so congratulations for you but

actually happiness can be learned it is a quality that you can learn there are

certain qualities that if you learn them your happiness in life is going to

go up exponentially if you don't have these qualities in your life your unhappiness will go up exponentially. If you don't have these qualities in your life, your unhappiness

will go up exponentially. Now, you probably have never thought about this, but if I mention

it to you, you automatically know what I'm talking about, because you could instinctively

pick out qualities that cause you to be happy and qualities that cause you to be unhappy.

For instance, if we made two columns,

the happiness column and the unhappiness column,

and I said, now, which column would impatience go in?

Unhappiness, yeah.

Impatient people tend to be unhappy people.

Would you agree with that?

And the more patient you are,

if you learn patience, you're going to be happier in life.

That obviously makes sense.

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