Not Giving Away Your Joy

Joel Osteen@  Lakewood Church

• There will always be something that interrupts your day.

• Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond.

• You have to decide ahead of time that you will keep your peace because this is the day that the Lord has made and you will rejoice and be glad in it.

• John 16:22 NIV

• So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.

• Identify what is making you unhappy and choose to react to it differently.

• Proverbs 14:30 NIV

• A heart at peace gives life to the body,

• but envy rots the bones.

• John 14:27 NLT

• "I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don't be troubled or afraid.

• Psalm 94:13 NIV

• you grant them relief from days of trouble,

• till a pit is dug for the wicked.

• 2 Timothy 4:5 GNT

• But you must keep control of yourself in all circumstances; endure suffering, do the work of a preacher of the Good News, and perform your whole duty as a servant of God.

• When we get upset about someone else's bad attitude we just may take their garbage and dump it on someone else.

• Be aware of the garbage trucks in life.

• Matthew 5:5

********Victoria Osteen*********

Be more of a problem solver than a complainer. Rejoicing in the lord is a good way to guard against complaints.

40 years to take an 11 day journey.

Philippians 4:4 NIV
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!

When you complain you distort the beauty of the moment.

When you complain you remain but when you rejoice you hear his voice.