Joy in Every Circumstance
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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I think one of the hardest things to do in life is to live with joy in the midst of trials and challenges. It’s so easy to let life dictate to us our emotions and state of being. But in God, there is a joy available to us right where we are, no matter how good or bad the situation may be.
Today we’re going to make space together to simply open our hearts and minds to receive the joy of the Father. I hope and pray that you find real, life-changing joy in God’s presence today.
Our Scripture for today comes from Psalm 126:5-6, and today's worship is No Longer Slaves / We WIll Not Be Shaken by Jonathan and Melissa Helser
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| 0:00.0 | I think one of the hardest things to do in life is to live with joy in the midst of trials and challenges. |
| 0:11.0 | It's so easy to let life dictate to us our emotions and state of being. |
| 0:16.0 | But in God, there is joy available to us right where we are, no matter how good or bad the situation |
| 0:22.7 | may be. Today, we're going to make space together to simply open our hearts and minds to receive |
| 0:28.2 | the joy of the Father. I hope and pray that you find real life-changing joy in God's presence |
| 0:34.7 | today. Welcome to the First 15 podcast. |
| 0:39.8 | The joy of the Lord available to us in the Holy Spirit transcends all circumstances, |
| 0:45.5 | relationships, and possessions. |
| 0:47.8 | It is an eternal joy fed to our hearts by the wellspring of joy the Father has |
| 0:53.4 | towards us. |
| 0:56.6 | God longs to make us people marked by his joy. He longs to fill us with the knowledge of how thrilled he is to be our Father. |
| 1:03.0 | He longs to make us a joyful people in every circumstance and season. First Peter 1-6-9 |
| 1:10.1 | says, In this you rejoice. Peter 1 6 through 9 says, |
| 1:17.9 | In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that perishes |
| 1:23.7 | though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor |
| 1:29.4 | at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not |
| 1:35.8 | now see him, you believe in him, and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with |
| 1:42.4 | glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation |
| 1:45.7 | of your souls. You can have joy in the midst of trial and tribulation because we have a genuine |
| 1:52.3 | faith that this life is not all there is. Our hope reaches far beyond the confines of this fleeting |
| 1:58.3 | age of sin and separation from God and looks toward the |
| 2:01.8 | day when we will live in perfect face-to-face relationship with our creator. Every trial |
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