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Pastor Greg Lawry helps hungry believers find what they're starving for.

It's time to feed our souls.

Do you starve for a holy life?

Do hunger for God's best for you?

And so you can take practical steps to get it.

This is the day when the last I found.

This is the day for a moment again.

Amazing grace, how sweet the snow.

Again you can't hold me until I see you.

This is the day when I'm freaking.

It seems holiness and happiness are now considered opposites.

When someone is reverent or pious or devoted, most don't expect to see a smile on their face.

They expect a serious somber look of concern and stillness.

But Christian should be the happiest people on the planet.

Today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Lawry helps to see the biblical basis for happiness.

It revolves around the word blessed, a term we see repeatedly in the sermon on the mountain.

God wants you to be happy because he tells us that in scripture,

he tells us over and over again that this happiness is something that he wants us to experience

in a relationship with us. Why? Because the word blessed is another word for happy.

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