Pursuing joy through Thanksgiving and Prayer

Philippians 1:3-11.

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Let’s pray, and then hand it over to the student praise band

Introduction

Have you all ever seen Winnie the Pooh. Winnie the Pooh was one of my favorite shows when I was younger. But there is one character who I thought was my “Spirit animal”

And it is this guy.

Eeore was a sad dude, I don’t even know what he actually is. But he is just sad and gloom all the time.

Have you ever met a real life Eeore?

Austin at CFA. Dude was just sad.

Today we will be looking at some ways that Paul points us to pursue joy, and what the Joy Jesus gives us leads us to do.

Philippians 1:3–11 “I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus. And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.”

Pray

Context

John Piper defines joy as this

Christian joy is a good feeling in the soul, produced by the Holy Spirit, as he causes us to see the beauty of Christ in the word and in the world.

OUR THANKSGIVING COMES FROM OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD V. 3-8

Main things to hit

Just walk through the passage

The partnership in Verse 5

Philippians 4:15–16 “And you Philippians yourselves know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church entered into partnership with me in giving and receiving, except you only. Even in Thessalonica you sent me help for my needs once and again.”

OUR JOY CAUSES US TO PRAY FOR OTHER BELIEVERS V. 9-11

Walk through the text

Verse 11

Ephesians 1:13–14 “In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.”