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.

Let's get going with part one of a message called How to Keep Your Heart Happy.

This week, a little boy jumped into his father's lap, and he said,

Daddy, my heart is so full of happiness.

Then he jumped off, went off to play with his brother. An hour later,

he came back in with a long face. Really, really, you know, like gloom had come over him.

And his daddy said, what happened to your happy heart? He said, Brian made it all leak out.

Would you agree that sometimes our hearts spring a leak?

Would you agree that it's quite easy to spring a leak?

That you can be very, very happy in the next second, because of the phone call,

or what somebody said to you or somebody who cut you off in traffic or whatever,

you can spring a leak.

And it is very, very easy to lose the happiness in our hearts.

Now, we started a few weeks ago this series through the book of Philippians that I'm calling

the habits of happiness.

And this weekend, if you'll take out your message notes, I want us to look at how do you

keep your heart

happy in spite of all the things that happen and all the things that cause you to spring a leak,

how do you keep your heart happy? And we're looking at Philippians chapter 2 versus 12 to 18.

Now this is a very powerful passage, Philippians 2, 12 to 18, because in it, it gives us

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