Joy Week 4

Sharable notes for the September 10, 2017 message. You can post these notes on your social platform! 

• The starting point and foundation for unity in the body of Christ, is agreeing in the Lord. 
• Full joy does not come from living for your self. It comes from dying to self.
• I will never find God's joy when I am the focus of the joy I am seeking. 
• Emotional reactions that result in negative choices can kill our joy in the Lord.
• There is a transforming power when we worship. It changes our perspective, and it changes us.
• Gentleness is a radical behavior in today's culture, but God calls for gentleness to be evident in our life. 
• We may be less anxious in our life if we held to God's truth that He is always with us. Our default when we are anxious should be to pray. 
• God's supernatural peace transcends all understanding. When our minds are focused on Christ we can have peace without understanding.
• The truth will set you free, if you abide in the truth. 

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The world defines joy as the intense happiness we feel when we satisfy a great desire. C. S. Lewis disagrees: true joy is an unsatisfied desire ─ a deep longing for God that never ends.