The Secret to Joy and the first 4 steps to recover joy

Key-points summary from a daily ready plan:

Joy is  easy  to lose, but  also easy to get back.

1- admit that you’ve lost your joy,
2- analyze the cause. ...

Try reflect, look at your life & ask yourself,
“How did I lose my joy? What is robbing my joy?”

Bible scripture told us to examine our lives.
Lamentations 3:40 says,
“Let us test and examine our ways. Let us turn back to the Lord”

The two most common caues of unhappiness:
1-- an unbalanced schedule and
2-- unused talent.

Find a balance between
rest & work, input & output.

Use your unique, God-given talents,
otherwise,you’re going to get frustrated.

Take whatever percent of your talent
that’s not being used in your job,
use it  to help spread the Good News.
 
If you’re in a job that uses
less than 25 % of your talent, quit the job.


What will rob your joy fast?
When you know the right thing to do and you don’t do it.

The Bible says in James 4:17,
“It is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it.”

What do you know you need to be doing but you’re not?
What has God told you to do but you haven’t started doing yet?

The secret to continual, abundant, and overflowing joy
is obedience.
Obedience is doing what God tells you to do.

Do what God tells you to do,
your life’s going to be filled with joy.

You’re also going to be filled with joy when you
 think about what’s good in your life.
David says in Psalm 126:3,
“The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy” (NIV).

The more we focus on what God has done for us,
the more joy we’re going to have in our life.
Why? Because it produces gratitude.
The attitude of gratitude
is the healthiest human emotion.

The first 4 steps to get  joy back:


1, face the fact / admit that joy has gone,
2, analyze the cause(s).
3. correct what’s wrong,
4, get an attitude of gratitude.

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