Sept 1, 2025 …Finding Joy In Christ …

Sept 1, 2025 …Finding Joy In Christ    …

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the tme to hear music and lyrics with Don Moen and a praise chorus  singing… Sing For Joy,  … declaring that, …  by following Christ, … we find His joy.

Highlight Passage: … 1John 1:4  … [NLT] … 

4 We are writing these things so that you may fully share our joy..  

… John writes of his experience, along with The Disciples, of the joy of s following Jesus.. 

Highlight Passage (in context): … 1John 1:1-4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK      …            

… John shares the joy that he and the Disciples and followers of Christ experienced in sharing life with The Lord,    

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Reference Passage: …  Psalms 16:11  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…King David sings of the eternal joy we find by following The Lord in our lives. 

Reference Passage: … John 16:24  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus promises His joy will come to His disciples (and us) when they (we) seek life in HIs name. .

Reference Passage: … Galatians 5:22-23  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  The Apostle Paul teaches  truth to fellow Christians that JOY is one of the fruit of God’s Spirit, which He places in the hearts of all faithful followers of Christ.

Reference Passage: … Philippians 4:4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… The Apostle Paul also calls on fellow Christians to rejoices ALWAYS!!    

Reference Passage: … James 1:2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… James, Jesus’ brother, calls on fellow Christians to find joy even in the trails of life.

Reference Passage: … 1Peter 1:8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  Peter also calls on fellow Christians to find joy in their (our)  relationship with Christ.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author, Karen Huang … AT THIS LINK    … wrote how Bonnie Ware, in her blog post, entitled ”Regrets of the Dying,” that, in her role of nurse in a hospice care unit, many who were facing death expressed regret that they had “worked too hard … too long;” …  or one person who said, 

“I wish that I had let myself be happier.”

To any/all of those who read with me here, if you’ve taken in the linked song and meditated on God’s truth in the Scriptures above, as I have, are you asking yourself if you “could’a … should’a” sought to find more joy in Your relationship with Christ?   God so wants us to find our joy in this life, because He died on a cross to give us His joy.  How about we all go out today and share some of His joy with others?!!   It’s ours for the asking.   Let’s go for it, my friends!!        

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … Lord … for giving me Your joy today … 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … Lord. … for dying on that cross to give us Your joy today and forever.  … Amen

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