This is a message from Leading the Way with Dr. Michael Youssef.

We pray that it will encourage you in your walk of faith.

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People confuse happiness with joy.

In fact, if you listen carefully, you find a lot of people use those two words interchangeably.

That's not really true.

And so after today and after the series of messages, I hope you're going to correct them

when you hear them talking about joy and happiness in the same breath or use them interchangeably.

Because happiness comes from getting what we want.

And that is why it is often temporary at best.

And that is why the pursuit of happiness can be the most

unhappy of all pursuits. Why? Because often we don't get what we want. Other times we

actually lose what we have. And therefore, our happiness is not really

dependable. Or is it often the case? Some people want something so badly, and then finally they get it,

and after a while they lose interest.

It's sort of the, it wears off.

And that is why you must understand the difference between happiness and joy.

Joy, on the other hand, has only one source, and it comes from only one place place and his name is Jesus.

Jesus is the only source of joy.

You'll never meet a joyful person who doesn't have Jesus in the life.

He is the only source of joy.

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