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🗓️ 23 August 2022
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Have you ever struggled through seasons of disappointment, distress or discouragement? My hunch is that, like me and so many others, you have. The apostle Paul was no stranger to suffering and yet, he often spoke of living in the “fullness of joy.” Corrie Ten Boom, who suffered under the Nazis and lost most of her family in the holocaust said, “Joy is not a product of your circumstances. It is the unmistakable sign of the presence of God.” Today, I’ll be sharing some thoughts on why I Christians should be known as people of joy… no matter what they are facing. Strength is found in the joy of the Lord! SHOW NOTES
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0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. This is Heidi St. John. I'm broadcasting today from Kona Hawaii and today we're going to talk |
0:07.1 | about joy. What does it mean to have the joy of the Lord in spite of whatever circumstances are happening around you? |
0:13.4 | The Bible says that we can be joyful. Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged. |
0:25.1 | All right, so I'm glad you guys have joined me before I get going today. |
0:27.6 | I want to remind you that we've got a new study coming up. I think I told you yesterday that I am |
0:34.6 | going to be jumping now back into the driver's seat at Momsrung International. So I took an 18-month hiatus to run for Congress. |
0:42.0 | And I'll give you a little bit of a brief update on that as well. But a little bit of a hiatus that I took, |
0:47.2 | we've got a wonderful writing team who've been filling in for me. They've done a great job. |
0:51.6 | But we are making some wonderful, wonderful changes over at Momsrung International. |
0:56.1 | And I think you guys are going to be excited. Some of the studies that we have had finished before |
1:00.0 | are going to be available for purchase. So for those of you who are interested in looking |
1:04.2 | at the studies that we do there, possibly doing them for group studies, also you can become a leader |
1:09.3 | with Momsrung International. This is a really important time for God's people to be mentoring |
1:15.6 | other believers, young believers and inspiring hope and encouragement in the people that are around you. |
1:22.8 | Because I believe, and you guys have heard me say this before, but I really do believe that we are, |
1:27.9 | we're in for some rough water ahead. And I'm not going to touch on that today. I think in the days |
1:32.3 | to come, I'm going to hit on some things that I think are markers that we should be looking at |
1:36.2 | at the church, but God's people are needed in positions of leadership. In positions of authority, |
1:41.9 | we're needed in mentoring young people. We're needed in the culture very, very much. And so |
1:47.6 | my heart in starting Momsrung International six years ago was to say, hey, I want to see |
1:53.1 | mothers in the word because you can't pass on what you don't possess. And so if you want to get |
1:57.5 | stronger in the Lord, join me at Momsrung International. You don't have to be a mother to do it. |
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