Joy in Every Circumstance
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
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. |
| 0:11.4 | It's so easy to let life dictate to us our emotions and state of being. But in God, there's a joy available to us right where we are, no matter how good or bad this situation may be. |
| 0:23.4 | Today, we're going to make space together to simply open our hearts and minds to receive the joy of the Father. |
| 0:29.9 | I hope and pray that you find real, life-changing joy in God's presence today. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome to the First of Team podcast. |
| 0:46.0 | Thank you. in God's presence today. Welcome to the first of team podcast. The scripture for today comes from Psalm 126, 5 through 6, which reads, |
| 0:51.7 | Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy. |
| 0:56.3 | He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, |
| 1:00.2 | shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him. |
| 1:07.5 | The joy of the Lord available to us in the Holy Spirit transcends all circumstances, relationships, and possessions. |
| 1:16.7 | It's an internal joy fed to our hearts by the wellspring of joy the Father has toward us. |
| 1:23.1 | God longs to make us a people marked by his joy. |
| 1:27.3 | He longs to fill us with the knowledge |
| 1:29.5 | of how thrilled he is to be our father. |
| 1:32.6 | He longs to make us a joyful people |
| 1:35.0 | in every circumstance and season. |
| 1:38.3 | 1. Peter 1 6 through 9 says, |
| 1:41.0 | In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you've been grieved by |
| 1:46.7 | various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that |
| 1:52.5 | perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor |
| 1:58.8 | at the revelation of Jesus Christ. |
| 2:02.0 | Though you have not seen him, you love him, that you do not now see him, you believe in him, |
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