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1- Is God Happy?
Where others see the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy! -William Blake
God made me fast and when I run I feel His pleasure.
- Eric Liddell
God’s mind and heart are delightfully engaged in all he has created.
No aspect of life is more desired, more elusive, and more perplexing than happiness.
People wish and strive for what they believe will make them happy- good health, attractive looks, an ideal marriage, children, a comfortable home, success, fame, financial independence - the list is endless.
Many people who believe in God do not believe that God Himself is happy!
If we think following Jesus means turning away from happiness we will fail!
We are wired to want and be happy!
In Bible College and Seminary God’s happiness is not mentioned.
Happiness is central to who God is!
He defines and is truly Happy!
Matt 25
What comes to your mind when you think about God is the most important thing about us.
-AW Tozer
God is not a stranger to joy and delight…His joy is permanent, clouded by no involuntary pain.
-JI Packer
I rejoice to worship the living God, who, because He is living, does grieve and rejoice!
-CH Spurgeon
Though we go through suffering and dark valleys God is near and for us.
He is shaping us for eternal happiness with Him!
He joyfully prepares a place for us!
Of course, no honest person claims that happiness is now a normal condition among adult human beings.
-George Orwell
God permitted the fall of man, to raise him to a more excellent state of happiness….
The pardon of sin is the foundation of eternal happiness and paradise attained.
-William Bates
Isaiah 67:17-19
Christians don’t believe God is happy.
If we did believe, would we be happier?
2- Are you happy?
Blessed- In Hebrew this word means more than just happiness.
It means multidimensional flourishing.
-Tim Keller
To be blessed is to know partial healing of each of these areas as God’s salvation repairs our hearts and behavior.
-Tim Keller
Psalm
When someone continually talks about how happy they are, I tend to doubt them; but when they talk about how grateful they are, I know they have found happiness.
-Rob Hawkins
With gratitude there’s happiness; without it, there’s unhappiness.
Every time.
Because God’s grace is constant, new, and fresh, so our gratitude should be constant, new, and fresh!
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
-GK Chesterton
Psalm 50
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Charis - grace, That which is given freely and generously- a gift.
God’s grace is His giving to us, at great cost, what we don’t deserve.
Are you experiencing the Good News of salvation in Christ?
Gratitude and happiness should multiply in your life!
We think being unhappy leads to complaining, but complaining leads one to become unhappy.
Become grateful and you will become a much happier person.
Complaining = telling God, “You don’t know what you are doing; I know better!
Although the world is filled with suffering, it is full also of overcoming of it.
-Helen Keller
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world.
So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.
-Helen Keller
Gratitude leaves no room for sin, because it comes out of humility, the opposite of sin.
And for sin to flourish it must be dripping with pride.
-John Piper
Undeniable guilt =
Undeniable guilt
I am impressed with the joy that is ours in Christ, so that heaven above and earth below become fairer and brighter.
-Jim Elliot
We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God.
The World is crowded with Him.
He walks everywhere incognito.
-CS Lewis
Gratitude exclaims, very properly, “How good of God to give me this.”
Adoration says, “What must be the quality of that Being...” One’s mind runs back up the sunbeam to the sun.
-CS Lewis
God open our eyes to the wonders of your grace!
Salvation is not just forgiveness and admission to Heaven.
It means life is healed, slowly but surely, in all its dimensions -Tim Keller
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