Who Moved Your Happiness?
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What steals your Happiness?
What steals your Happiness?
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
“Accepting Jesus” is not just adding Jesus. It is subtracting idols.
“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I indeed let myself be consulted by them?
Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
Keep away from anything that might take God’s place in your hearts!
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
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“How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!
And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
Luke
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Before the Fall! Humanity found its meaning, purpose, and happiness in God.
Idol = Anything we praise, celebrate, fixate on, and look to for help that’s not the true God!
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the Lord!
Many times we look to freedom in things that enslave us!
The Glory of God should be our chief joy and happiness. God should be our main reason for living!
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.
Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
They served their idols, which became a snare to them.
They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons;
they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.
Psalm 106:
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. -JRR Tolkien
so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.
2 Cor 2:11
What seeks your Happiness?
What seeks your Happiness?
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
As there is the most heat to the sun, so there is the most happiness nearest to Christ.
Matt 10:39
Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
Keep your hand in that of the Master, walk daily by His side, so that you may lead others into realms of true happiness -George Washington Carver
A Life that stood out as a gospel of Self-Forgetful Service. He could have added Fortune to Fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honour in being helpful to the world.
Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.
People who think a lot about Christ and his grace, the great doctrines of the faith, and how to love and serve others tend to be happy people.
How have you corrected your beliefs and thought habits in light of God’s Word?
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
As surely as our responsibility is to be stewards of our bodies by putting good food into our mouths, it is our responsibility to be happy in God!
Psalm
Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
When life punches you in the face, you’ll say, ‘But I still have the love and acceptance of God, a treasure I don’t deserve.’
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,
being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy;
I know the God who created me and redeemed me and has forgiven me in Christ. God is in me and with me. He uses my best circumstances to encourage me and he can us use my worst circumstances to enrich me.
He has promised me eternal life with him and a wonderful family of brothers and sisters on a New Earth in a resurrected universe. One day he’ll welcome me into his never-ending happiness.
He uses my best circumstances to encourage me and he can us use my worst circumstances to enrich me. He has promised me eternal life with him and a wonderful family of brothers and sisters on a New Earth in a resurrected universe. One day he’ll welcome me into his never-ending happiness.
Rejoice always,
pray without ceasing,
give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
I Thess
When we tire of the Gospel story- when it fails to startle and amaze us - we need to ask God for a renewed sense of the suffering of Jesus and his overflowing love and joy, which are at the heart of our faith.