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Writer's pictureJoni

Day 8: Joyful Always


How is it possible to

BE THANKFUL

when you are experiencing an

UN~THANKFUL moment?

You BE THANKFUL~

"Be JOYFUL always"*

How can you BE JOYFUL ALWAYS

when you are experiencing an

UN~THANKFUL moment?

You BE THANKFUL~

"PRAY continually"*

Why would you want to

PRAY CONTINUALLY

to GOD when HE knows about your

UN~THANKFUL moment

and HE is allowing it anyway?

You BE THANKFUL~

"Give THANKS IN ALL circumstances..."*

So does GOD want you to

BE THANKFUL FOR the

UN~THANKFUL moment?

It is all about one little word

that changes everything.

One little innocent word,

that if you misread it

it makes you not want to be

JOYFUL ALWAYS

or

PRAY CONTINUALLY

or

GIVE THANKS IN ALL circumstances.

The word is IN.

Give THANKS IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES.

IN your UN~THANKFUL moment.

Not FOR the CIRCUMSTANCE

but

giving

THANKS to GOD IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES.

And oh when you

INVITE GOD IN

to what appears to be

an UN~THANKFUL moment

HE becomes your

JOY

where there appears to be no JOY.

"FOR this is GOD'S WILL for you IN CHRIST JESUS"*

And before you know it

you are praising

GOD

as HIS JOY

overwhelms you

as HE becomes so much bigger

than the

UN~THANKFUL moment

because

HIS JOY

is

HIS SON

who is ALWAYS JOY

in every moment.

Because if

JESUS never cried out to

HIS FATHER

with HIS BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS

as HE hung our our CROSS

we would never be able to

CRY OUT to our FATHER

who ALWAYS enters INTO every

CIRCUMSTANCE

no mattter what the CIRCUMSTANCE may be.

Oh the JOY of doing LIFE with JESUS.

And ALL we have to do is to

"Be JOYFUL always;

PRAY continually;

Give THANKS IN ALL circumstances,

for this is GOD'S will for you in CHRIST JESUS" *( I Thessalonians 5:16-18)

Will you join me

and make a deliberate choice to

INVITE GOD into every UN~THANKFUL moment t

hat may sneak up on you

by

THANKING GOD

for being with you

in every circumstance

no matter what the circumstance may be,

because

when GOD is with you

every moment

becomes a

THANKFUL MOMENT

because

it is a MOMENT

where your

FATHER

takes you deeper into

HIS LOVE

that HE has for you

that turns

every moment

into a

"GODSEND"

(listen to the song below)



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