Hello my friends and welcome back to the morning mindset. It's time for you and

for me to get our minds aligned with the truth of God. I'm particularly

interested in how you're doing as we're heading into this new year. What are your

hopes? What are your dreams? What are your ambitions for 2022? And I'm not talking

about life goals. I'm not talking about career moves. I'm talking about your

spiritual journey. Your relationship with the God of the universe. What are your

aspirations there? What are your desires? We've been doing this 2022 prep

series since the day after Christmas. So if you're just joining us go back to the

December 26th episode and listen to all these episodes to kind of get a

flavor for where we're headed here. We are almost done with this series. We

have today and one other episode and we're gonna wrap up this 2022 prep

series. But I want to talk to you today about how you can have joy in 2022. You

see joy is an integral part of our spiritual walk. Do you recognize that? Do

you know that? The God wants us to have joy. Let's read John 1511. It's a little

bit at the end of the context. So we're gonna go back and impact that in a

moment. But I want you to just focus in on God's desire, spoken here

by Jesus, that we have joy. He says in verse 11 of chapter 15 of the Gospel of

John, these things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you and that your

joy may be full. Now what is Jesus wanting for us right there? He's wanting us to

have hearts that are full of joy. Now if that doesn't sound appealing to you,

you might want to check your pulse. I think that joy is what we want as human

beings almost more than life itself. We want our lives to be filled with an

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