6 Sure-fire Ways to Grab Hold of Real Joy

Thanksgiving Day is a wrap. Now we press onward to the joy of Christmas. 

But in reflection on how I move from one holiday to the next, I asked myself a few questions. Am I placing a check mark beside gratitude on some proverbial good list? Then leaving it in the dust of my tracks while celebrating Christmas? 

Sometimes.

So, this year I plan to wed an attitude of gratitude to one of rejoicing. 

Celebrating appeals to most of us. Yet, real joyfulness is often the end result of God’s faithful promises. And it’s…

~ Ammunition for difficult circumstances and people. 

~ The best medicine for a downcast spirit. 

~ A shield against attacks from the enemy. 

Let’s look at it in a broader sense.

Not just what we believe and know, but also how it manifests in our lives—how we live joy.

Unlike images, there’s not a filter for joyful. Instead, it lies beneath the surface and radiates through. God wants to bring a smile back to our face. But more than that. He wants to bring rejoicing back to our soul.

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I love powerful refrains in certain songs and poems. After each of our points, repeat the refrain I include out loud.

6 Sure-fire Ways to Grab Hold of Real Joy:

1.)  In salvation.

“Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.” Psalm 51:12

“My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed.” Psalm 71:23

Is my joy showing through? 

Because there’s no filter for joyful. 

And it’s never shaken or taken.

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