Continual Joy

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Make it count with Perdue Global produce online 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:59.720 University for working adults start your comeback at Purdueglobal dot edu. 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.400 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.600 our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:09.280 enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:12.000 share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:27.280 for God's very best in your life. Well, God bless you. 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:29.840 It's always a joy to come into your homes. And 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.640 if you're ever in our area, please stop buy and 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.240 be a part of one of our services. I promise 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:37.600 you we'll make you feel right at home. But thanks 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.840 so much for tuning in and thank you again for 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.600 coming out today. I like to start with something funny, 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.600 and I heard about this middle aged woman. She had 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.840 a heart attack on the operating table. She asked God 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.320 if this was it. God said, no, you have forty 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:54.920 more years. Upon recovery, she decided to stay in the 0:01:54.960 --> 0:02:00.560 hospital have a facelift, tummy tuck, life costruction, extreme makeover. 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.840 Two months later, as she is leaving the hospital, she 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.800 was hit by car and killed. She got to Heaven, 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.200 said God, I thought you said I had forty more years. 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:15.040 God said, I'm sorry, I didn't recognize you. Hold up 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.880 your Bible. Say it like you mean it. This is 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.840 my Bible. I am what it says I am. I 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.240 have what it says I have. I can do what 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.920 it says I can do. Today I will be taught 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:29.920 the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.000 my heart is receptive. I will never be the same. 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:38.239 In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:42.600 to you today about having continual joy. We all face 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:46.800 difficulties in life, challenges at work, people that are hard 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:51.919 to get along with their stress, traffic, disappointments. If we're 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:55.640 not careful, we'll let the pressures of life weigh us down. 0:02:56.320 --> 0:03:01.520 It's easy to complain talk about our problems because negative discouraged. 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:06.040 But we weren't created to endure life. We were created 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:09.880 to enjoy life. And we can't control what happens on 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:14.800 the outside, but we can control what happens on the inside. 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.600 And happiness for a lot of people is based on 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:22.160 their circumstances. It's the weekend. I'm happy, my spouse is 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:25.880 treating me better. I'm happy, traffic wasn't too bad. I'm happy. 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:30.480 But joy is not dependent on what's happening around you. 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:34.560 Joy is deep down within you. Doesn't mean we'll be 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:38.120 jumping up and down every day, but there's a calm delight. 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:43.560 You'll content, You're at peace. You know God's fighting your battles. 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.360 You could be upset, but you have a smile on 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:50.120 your face. Things are tough, but you're not complaining. Your 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.640 attitude is life is good. I'm thankful to be alive. 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.720 When you live like that, you're tapping into the joy 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:02.040 that's on the inside. On chapter four, Jesus said to 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:04.680 the woman at the well, if you drink of this water, 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:08.520 you'll thirst again. But I will give you living water. 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.960 He described it in verse fourteen. It says this water 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:19.159 will become a spring, welling up, bubbling continually within you. 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:23.240 There is a well of joy in you right now, 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:27.640 a spring that's supposed to bubble up and continually flow. 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:30.960 Why don't we all have joy? There's something we have 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:36.200 to do. Ephesians five says, be ever filled with the spirit. 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:39.839 Notice you don't get filled one time and then you're done. 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:45.240 It says be ever filled. This means on a regular basis, 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.640 we have to keep filling ourselves up. How do we 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:52.440 do it? The next verse says by speaking to yourself 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:57.520 in songs, making melody in your heart, and by being thankful. 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.760 The way to have continual joy is to keep a 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:05.320 song of praise in your heart all through the day. 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:09.840 On the inside, we should be singing. This means in 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:14.279 our attitude we're grateful. In our thoughts, we're always thinking 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:18.440 about God's goodness. Cooking dinner, you're humming the tune to 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:22.159 a song, mowing the lawn. You're whistling as you go 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.159 along driving to work. This is going to be a 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:29.479 great day. Lord. I'm excited about my future in some way. 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:34.480 You're always making melody in your heart, thinking about God's goodness, 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:38.880 thanking him for your life, your family, your job. Every 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:42.560 time you do this, something is happening. You're not just 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:47.160 being positive, just having a good attitude. You're being filled 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:54.760 back up. God is pouring into you peace, strength, favor, victory. See, 0:05:54.800 --> 0:06:00.040 life takes things out of us, stress, disappointments, traffic. I 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:04.200 have to develop this habit of being ever filled well, Joel. 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:06.720 I went to church on Sunday, I got filled up 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:10.240 for the week. That's good, but one time is not 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.360 going to last all week. When you get stuck in 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:18.120 traffic on Monday, morning, a coworker aggravates you. Monday afternoon, 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:22.400 your child gets on your nerves Monday evening. All that 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.039 was poured into you on Sunday is going to be 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.880 used up. If you're not making melody in your heart 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.880 throughout the day, keeping this song of praise on the inside, 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.960 then the pressures of life are going to push you down, 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:40.120 steal your joy. It's like a helium balloon, if you've 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.480 ever gotten one for your birthday. The first few days, 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:47.000 the balloon flies high and it goes to the end 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.360 of the stream. In fact, if you went outside and 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.840 let it go, go way up in the air. But 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:55.080 in a few days the balloon starts to sink down, 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.320 a little, get a little smaller. Day after day it 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.839 goes lower lower. Eventually it's on the ground. Won't rise 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:05.800 at all. There's nothing wrong with the balloon. It's just 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.520 out of helium. If you were to refill it, it 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:10.560 would be just as good as it was when it 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:14.880 was new. In the same way, every time we complain 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.800 we're leaking free time, we get stressed out. We're leaking 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.520 free time. We worry we're leaking. Before long, we have 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.440 no joy and no passion. That's why we have to 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:29.480 become ever filled. Next time you get stuck in traffic, 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.360 try a new approach. Instead of complaining, Lord, I want 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:36.400 to thank you that you're directed my steps. I believe 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.680 I'm at the right place at the right time. Instead 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:43.440 of leaking, you just got filled back up. You got stronger. 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.720 Maybe your child is causing you trouble. Instead of worrying 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.800 thinking about how it's never going to work out all 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.520 through the day, Lord, thank you. As for me and 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.520 my house, we will serve the Lord. Lord, you said 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.400 the seed of the righteous, my children will be mighty 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:04.400 in the land. What could deflate you instead will inflate you. 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:09.840 Perhaps the medical report wasn't good. You could easily be depressed, 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:16.119 living self pity. But instead, in your thoughts you're constantly thinking, Lord, 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.240 you are good. Thank you that you're my healer. Thank 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.760 you that nothing can snatch me out of your hands. 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.240 Because you're making melody in your heart, You're going to 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:28.920 stay encouraged. That well of joy will keep bubbling up, 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.000 giving you the strength to fight the good fight of faith. 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.960 But too many people had developed a habit of being negative, 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:39.800 seeing the worst, worrying. You can develop this new habit 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.360 of keeping a song in your heart. You have to 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:47.160 look for ways you can be grateful in your everyday life. 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.600 Brushing your teeth in the morning, Lord, thank you for 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:52.840 this day, getting dressed for work. Lord, thank you that 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:56.320 I'm healthy, cooking breakfast. Lord, thank you for my children 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.000 driving to work. Lord, thank you that I have a job. 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:04.520 In your thoughts, you're always meditating on God's goodness. It's 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:08.160 easy to do just the opposite. Focus on what's wrong, 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.320 doesn't take much effort to go toward the negative. Well, Joel, 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:15.600 I don't like my job. These people get on my nerves, 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.560 and traffic was terrible today, and I don't feel like 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.720 cooking dinner for my family. Nobody appreciates me. All I 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.679 do is work around here. Can I tell you you're making 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:29.360 yourself miserable. You're deflating your own balloon. Turn it around 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.840 and start making melody in your heart. You may not 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.520 like your job, but why don't you thank God that 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.600 at least you have a job. If you'll be grateful 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.240 where you are, God will get you to where you're 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:45.800 supposed to be. You may have some big obstacles, people, 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:49.400 circumstances coming against you, but you don't have to live 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:53.560 upset and worried. You can thank God that he's fighting 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:57.280 your battles, thank him that she's making your crooked places straight. 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.800 You can go through the day with expect didn't see 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.240 saying I don't see away, But God, I know you 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.720 have a way. You've done it for me in the past. 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.680 I know you'll do it for me again. This is 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:13.200 how you have continual joy. When you have joy, you 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.680 have the strength you need to overcome the obstacles, to 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:20.560 outlast the attack, to accomplish your dreams. I learned this 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:25.240 principle from my father. Everywhere he went under his breath, 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:30.320 he was always either singing, praying, or he would be whistling. 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:34.319 He loved to whistle the tune from the Andy Griffith Show. 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.840 I heard that hundreds and hundreds of times. You know 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:41.840 it wasn't anything spiritual, but he had a joyful attitude. 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:46.280 When he was whistling, he was saying God, I love you, 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.400 thank you for what you've done in my life. That 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:53.840 was his way of making melody in his heart. Vacuuming 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.480 the house, you can do it, thinking I can't stand 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:59.320 to clean this place, or you can do it humming 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.840 the tune. I am a friend of God. Going to 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.760 the grocery store, you can dread it go there sour, 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.360 or you can go there whistling with a song of 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:13.320 praise in your heart. My brother Paul, every time he 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.680 comes in the back door of the church, I hear 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:19.880 him whistling, just like my father. He's never in tune, 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:24.599 but he's happy. And my grandmother used to do the 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.079 same thing. We'd go over to her house a lot 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.240 growing up, and every time I saw her, she would 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:33.959 be humming a tune real low unless you were right 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.560 up to or you couldn't hear it. But ironing the clothes, 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:40.400 cooking us dinner, coming to church with my grandfather, she 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:44.600 was always making melody in her heart. I can't remember 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:50.640 one time ever seeing my grandmother upset, worried, frustrated, even 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.320 when things didn't go her way, she'd just kind of 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.280 laugh at all. Her attitude was, I'm not gonna worry. 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.640 I know everything's going to be all right. One time 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:03.080 my grand parents came over to our house for Thanksgiving dinner. 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:08.360 My grandmother forgot the turkey the main dish. Didn't ruin 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:12.360 her day, did mine, not hers, But she just laughed 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:16.240 and said, can you believe I did that. Nothing took 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:20.840 her song, no wonder. She was always happy, no wonder. 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:25.160 She lived so long, so healthy, she was constantly making 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:29.120 melody in her heart. I wonder how much more we'd 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:33.000 enjoy life, how much longer and healthier we would live, 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:36.440 if we would do like her and keep that song 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.920 of praise on the inside. I'm not talking about me 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:44.720 and musical I'm talking about a lifestyle of being thankful, 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:49.439 seeing the best, always thinking about what God has done, 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:53.160 how blessed we are, how good things are in store, 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:57.560 even in difficulties. We're not complaining. We're thanking God that 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.160 he's bigger than our problem. We're thinking him that what 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:04.240 he started he'll finish in our lives. At our house, 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.520 we have a lot of birds on the outside, especially 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:12.240 at certain times a year, cardinals, blue jays, robins. Early 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:15.720 in the morning, usually about a half hour before sunrise, 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:20.719 they start singing and singing. It sounds like a symphony. 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:24.920 There are so many different kinds of birds, different sounds. 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.560 It's right outside our bedroom window. Many mornings they are 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:32.240 singing so loud that they wake me up. They are 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:37.040 so full of joy they're almost annoying. As I listen 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:42.000 to those birds singing back and forth, filling our backyard 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.920 with beautiful music. Those birds don't seem like they have 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:49.079 a care in the world. Don't they know the price 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:52.760 of oil has gone down, cost of living has gone up, 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.600 traffic's gotten worse, trouble in the Middle East. They just 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:00.200 sing like life is good, like everything's going to be 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:04.880 all right, like their creator is watching after them. The 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:09.080 other morning, there was this big storm, lightning, thunder, The 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:12.160 rain was coming down so hard. I was lying in 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.320 bed listening to it all, thinking, boy, this it's a 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:18.800 good time to be sleeping. About that time, outside my 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:23.160 window I heard those birds start to sing. I thought, 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.560 you have got to be kidding. I wanted to say, birds, 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:31.560 don't you realize you're getting wet, it's storming, there's lightning. 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:35.000 You're supposed to be miserable. Why are you singing in 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:39.200 the midst of this turmoil. See, nobody told the birds 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.480 to quit singing when it rains, to be depressed, when 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.240 they have a bad break, to be sour when somebody 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.400 does them wrong. They just sing like they don't care. 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.320 If we were birds, we would think it's sprinkling today. 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.840 I'm taking the day off. No singing for me. My 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.240 nest got a little wet. I'm out for three months. 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.440 Cover for me. We need to learn a lesson from 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.920 the birds. Don't complain when it storms, don't be sour 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:09.200 when things don't go your way. Just keep singing, keep 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.400 making melody, keep being grateful. It may be rough on 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:16.440 the outside, but stay full of joy on the inside. 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.720 Keep that song of praise in your heart. Paul said 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:25.680 in Philippians, do all things without complaining. That means do 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:30.920 the dishes without complaining, drive in traffic without complaining, Sit 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:35.040 where the ushers ask you to sit without complaining, Watch 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:41.200 the Texans without complaining. Sometimes we complain about the very 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.840 thing that we ask God for and He gave it 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:47.880 to us. You prayed for that bigger house. Don't complain 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:51.320 that you have more to clean. You prayed for that wife. 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.280 Don't complain that you have to work seven jobs to 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:59.480 afford her. You prayed for that baby. Don't complain that 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.480 you have to get up sometimes in the middle of 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.880 the night. For three and a half years, we prayed 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:08.560 and believed for this place, the former Compact Center. When 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.080 God gave it to us, it was a dream come true. 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.440 First year we were here, they showed me the utility 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:18.480 costs for a year, one million dollars. I thought, God, 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.960 can we go back to our old place. It's easy 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:25.560 to complain. There's always some reason to be sour, upset. 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:29.400 Complain about the traffic, plain about the city, complain about 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.240 the church. I didn't get anything out of that message. 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:37.640 Today we complain about a message on complaining. Here's a 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:43.200 good phrase to remember. When you complain, you remain. But 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:47.000 when you praise, you'll be raised. When you have that, 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:52.280 when you have that song in your heart, you're always 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:55.760 thinking about God's goodness. You're gonna rise higher, You're gonna 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.800 see more of God's favor. One time, Victoria and I 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.120 were at an Ammus this park when our children were small, 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.760 and we'd been waiting in line for about forty five 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.919 minutes for this very popular riding. It was a beautiful 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:11.239 day and we were enjoying our time together, and this 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:15.080 lady came off the ride with her two children. She 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:17.480 was headed toward the rest of her family. They were 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.959 in line right behind us. Before she even got close, 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.960 she started saying, it wasn't worth it. They didn't let 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.840 us sit together. That's not right. I can't believe. We 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.880 waited it out, on and on, complaining so loud so 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.840 everybody could hear. After a couple of minutes, when she 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:36.880 finally stopped, I just kind of joking and having fun. 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.879 I said, well, was there anything good about the riding? 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.280 She looked at me and said, are you that guy 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:48.240 on TV? And I said no, ma'am, I'm a dentist. 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:52.320 I wasn't about to tell her. She lit into me. 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:59.520 But forgive me, Lord for Lyne. But here's my point here, 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.960 beautiful day, she's at the amusement park with her family. 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.359 Her kids were healthy and strong, but she found some 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:12.400 reason to complain. We create much of our own unhappiness, 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:16.560 how we respond to negative things, how we approach life. 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:20.840 When you've developed this habit of seeing the good and 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:25.040 meditating on God's goodness making melody, life go so much better, 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:29.200 that's how you have continual joy, joy, despite what's happening 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:34.000 around you. After Hurricane Katrina, I saw a news report 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:36.600 where they were interviewing people that had made it through, 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:39.480 and person after person came up and told their story, 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:44.800 and most of them were very negative, upset, discouraged, blaming others. 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.200 Then this one young lady came up, and you could 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.959 tell there was something different about her. She had a 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:54.840 smile on her face. She was radiating joy and peace 0:18:54.960 --> 0:19:00.560 and victory. The reporter asked her, almost sarcastically, Okay, tell 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:04.479 us your story. Tell us what's wrong. She said, nothing's wrong. 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:07.760 I'm not here to complain. I'm here to thank God 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:10.240 that I made it out alive. I'm here to thank 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:12.600 God that my children and I are so healthy in 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:19.880 a home. This reporter was taken aback pleasantly, surprised everyone 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.960 had been complaining about having no power, no air conditioning, 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.560 and how hot it was. He asked her, what about you. 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:29.560 Do you have your power, you have your air conditioning. 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:33.000 She said no, I not only don't have air conditioning, 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:36.040 I don't have my house. It was blown away in 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:38.399 the storm. But she said, I'll tell you what I 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.320 do have, and she pulled out this little pocket bible. 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:43.879 She said, I have my hope, I have my joy, 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:48.920 I have my God. Jesus said, no man can take 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:53.720 your joy, no storm, no bad break, no traffic, no disappointment. 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:57.520 There is a well in you that will never run dry. 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:01.360 And when you keep this song of praise making melody 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:05.119 focusing on what's right and that well a joy is 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:09.280 going to keep bubbling up, keeping you strong, keeping you encouraged, 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:14.520 keeping you moving forward. The scripture says speaking to yourself 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:18.720 in songs. You have to talk to yourself the right way. 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:23.200 There's an internal dialogue taking place in you all through 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:27.399 the day. You can't have a negative mentality and expect 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:30.320 to live in victory. Well, I can't believe I had 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:33.280 this bad break. I'll never get out of this problem. 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:36.600 What if the medical report is not good. That's letting 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:40.520 yourself talk to you. You need to start talking to yourself. 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:44.760 You have to take control of your thought life. Every 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:46.760 morning when you wake up, this is going to be 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:50.239 a great day. I have the favor of God. No 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:54.320 weapon formed against me will prosper. I'm strong, I'm healthy, 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:58.359 I'm blessed. Every time you do that, you're getting filled 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:02.320 back up. He keeps speaking to yourself the right way. 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:06.440 You'll tap into that well of joy, peace, favor, victory 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:10.360 that God put in you. David did this in the scripture. 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:13.640 One time. He was very depressed discourage. He didn't think 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:16.440 he could go on, and at one point he realized 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:19.240 nothing was going to change until he did his part. 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:23.480 He said, why are you cast down, Oh my soul, 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:27.880 hope in the Lord. He said to himself, David, get 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:31.640 your hopes up, get your dreams back, start believing again, 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:35.480 get your joy back. When he started talking to himself 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:38.560 the right way, that's when things begin to turn around. 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:41.560 I heard about this little bird. He lived in a 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:45.240 bird cage his whole life. All through the day, he 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:49.320 would sit on his swing and sing and sing from 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:52.520 morning to evening. He was as happy as can be, 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:56.199 not a care in the world. One day, his owner 0:21:56.520 --> 0:21:59.840 was cleaning the bird cage, like she did every soul often. 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:04.159 She had the vacuum cleaner hose vacuuming out the bottom 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:08.240 of the cage. When the telephone rang, she leaned over 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:11.160 to try to reach it with her left hand, while 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:14.600 her right hand accidentally went up too high. While she 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:17.800 wasn't looking, it sucked the little bird down through the 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:21.800 vacuum cleaner hose. She finished her call and thought, where's 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:26.280 my birden She started looking all over her house, searching 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:30.080 room after room, looking behind the curtains. Finally, it dawned 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:34.200 on her that the unthinkable may have happened. She ran 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:37.440 over to the vacuum cleaner opened the bag. Sure enough, 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:42.000 there he was all disheveled looking. She felt terrible. She 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:45.119 dusted him off, cleaned him up the best she could, 0:22:45.400 --> 0:22:48.199 put him up on his swing. But she said, the 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:52.760 most interesting thing happened. He didn't sing anymore. He just 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:57.320 sat there and stared out into space. He lost his song. 0:22:58.600 --> 0:23:02.840 Sometimes we're going to great in life, everything is fine, 0:23:03.160 --> 0:23:06.560 but then we hit some turmoil, go through a disappointment, 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:10.840 friend betrays us, the medical report wasn't good. We get 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:15.159 sucked down the vacuum cleaner hose, so to speak. Thankfully 0:23:15.320 --> 0:23:19.320 we make it out. But too often, like this little bird, 0:23:19.560 --> 0:23:24.040 we've lost our songs, have no joy, no passion. We're 0:23:24.080 --> 0:23:27.240 not pursuing our dreams, making the most of each day. 0:23:27.800 --> 0:23:31.479 We're just enduring life, going through the motions. And that 0:23:31.600 --> 0:23:35.240 well of joy that's supposed to be bubbling up keeping 0:23:35.320 --> 0:23:41.480 us ever filled, has become clogged up with disappointments, discouragement, stress, 0:23:41.960 --> 0:23:45.360 self pity. But God did not bring you this far 0:23:45.560 --> 0:23:48.720 to leave you. You have to get your song back. 0:23:49.440 --> 0:23:54.320 If one dream dies, dream another dream. If life knocks 0:23:54.359 --> 0:23:57.040 the wind out of you, don't stay down, get back 0:23:57.119 --> 0:23:59.960 up and go again. It may not have been fair. 0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:04.120 But God is fair. He's a god of justice. He 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:06.720 knows how to take what was meant for harm and 0:24:06.880 --> 0:24:10.280 use it to your advantage. If you'll get your song back, 0:24:10.720 --> 0:24:13.359 God will make the rest of your life better than 0:24:13.400 --> 0:24:16.720 it would have been had that not happened. David said, 0:24:17.000 --> 0:24:20.639 God lifted me out of the pit. He was saying, 0:24:20.760 --> 0:24:23.879 in effect my translation, God brought me out of that 0:24:24.000 --> 0:24:27.119 vacuum cleaner bag. What did he do? He put a 0:24:27.200 --> 0:24:30.680 new song in my heart, not a song of defeat, 0:24:31.440 --> 0:24:33.800 not a song. And you won't believe what I've been through. 0:24:33.960 --> 0:24:36.199 I've had so much heart, you know. He put a 0:24:36.240 --> 0:24:40.280 song of praise and thanksgiving in my heart. You may 0:24:40.320 --> 0:24:43.960 have gone through difficulties, but that well is still in you. 0:24:44.600 --> 0:24:47.399 God has a new song, but it's not going to 0:24:47.480 --> 0:24:51.240 do any good if you go around dwelling on your disappointments, 0:24:51.720 --> 0:24:56.040 negative complaining. You have to start making melody in your heart. 0:24:56.920 --> 0:25:00.359 Quit thinking about what you've lost, and start thinking God 0:25:00.440 --> 0:25:03.199 for what you have left. Start thanking Him for the 0:25:03.240 --> 0:25:05.919 new doors that are going to open, for beauty, for 0:25:06.040 --> 0:25:09.800 ashes that your best days are still ahead. When you 0:25:09.920 --> 0:25:13.119 get your song back, you'll feel the joy start to 0:25:13.160 --> 0:25:16.560 bubble up. Your dreams will come back to life, your 0:25:16.600 --> 0:25:19.960 passion will be restored. That's when God can pay you 0:25:20.080 --> 0:25:23.159 back for the negative things that have happened. This is 0:25:23.160 --> 0:25:27.040 what Habaka did in the scripture. He said, although the 0:25:27.040 --> 0:25:30.439 fig tree shall not blossom and there be no fruit 0:25:30.520 --> 0:25:34.320 on the vine, yet will I rejoice in the Lord. 0:25:34.800 --> 0:25:38.040 In the God of my salvation. He was saying, My 0:25:38.119 --> 0:25:42.240 crops have dried up, my business have gone down in 0:25:42.320 --> 0:25:45.439 the natural. There's no reason to be happy, no reason 0:25:45.480 --> 0:25:48.640 to make melody in my heart. Nothing's gone my way. 0:25:49.320 --> 0:25:52.719 I got suck down through that vacuum cleaner hose. He 0:25:52.760 --> 0:25:56.840 could have lived depressed, bitter, but he understood this principle 0:25:56.880 --> 0:26:00.280 of having continual joy. He said, all these things have 0:26:00.400 --> 0:26:04.480 come against me, Yet will I rejoice in the Lord. 0:26:05.080 --> 0:26:08.080 He was saying, when I look at my circumstances, there's 0:26:08.080 --> 0:26:11.240 no reason to rejoice. So I'm going to rejoice in 0:26:11.320 --> 0:26:14.639 the Lord. I can hear him all through the day. Lord, 0:26:14.720 --> 0:26:18.040 you are good God. I praise you for your greatness. 0:26:18.320 --> 0:26:21.680 I know You're bigger than this financial difficulty, bigger than 0:26:21.680 --> 0:26:25.719 this cancer, bigger than this problem. I rejoice in the 0:26:25.720 --> 0:26:28.840 God of my Salvation. In the midst of his trouble. 0:26:29.240 --> 0:26:32.639 In the midst of the struggle, he wasn't complaining, wasn't 0:26:32.680 --> 0:26:35.680 talking about his problems. He had a song of praise 0:26:35.840 --> 0:26:40.480 on the inside. That's what not only keeps us ever filled, 0:26:40.960 --> 0:26:43.439 keeps us strong and full of faith, but that's what 0:26:43.560 --> 0:26:47.160 allows God to turn things around. You may have gone 0:26:47.160 --> 0:26:50.600 through disappointments, or maybe you're in a tough time right now. 0:26:50.920 --> 0:26:54.600 I'm asking you to get your song back. If you 0:26:54.640 --> 0:26:58.320 can't find any reason to be grateful, do like Habaccu 0:26:58.760 --> 0:27:02.520 and rejoice in the God of your salvation. Go through 0:27:02.520 --> 0:27:05.800 the day thanking God for who he is. Lord. Thank 0:27:05.840 --> 0:27:08.720 you that you're my savior. Thank you that you're my healer, 0:27:09.080 --> 0:27:14.240 my restorer, my deliver, my provider, my protector, my waymaker. 0:27:14.920 --> 0:27:18.080 He's called the Great I Am. He is whatever we need. 0:27:19.400 --> 0:27:23.520 Friend's life is too short to go through it negative, worried, 0:27:23.920 --> 0:27:27.600 weighed down by pressure. There's a well on the inside 0:27:27.600 --> 0:27:31.720 of you. It's supposed to be bubbling up, continually flowing 0:27:32.359 --> 0:27:35.040 all through the day. Make sure you keep the song 0:27:35.080 --> 0:27:38.080 of praise in your heart. Remember it's not enough to 0:27:38.119 --> 0:27:40.840 do it one time. You have to be ever filled. 0:27:41.480 --> 0:27:44.800 If you'll develop this habit of making melody in your heart. 0:27:45.320 --> 0:27:48.640 I believe and declare you're well is going to keep 0:27:48.680 --> 0:27:53.120 bubbling up with joy, peace, strength, favor, healing. You will 0:27:53.119 --> 0:27:57.720 overcome every obstacle, defeat every enemy, and become everything you 0:27:57.800 --> 0:28:01.480 were created to be in Jesus name. 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