40 Days of JOY - 🙌🙌 Day 13 🙌🙌


 40 Days of JOY - 🙌🙌 Day 13 🙌🙌


Because of Joy - You can Do It!


Are you struggling through a difficult situation right now?

Are you in the middle of a really tough decision? 

Are you facing a temptation that just looks too big?


Well you are not alone.  Every Christian worth their salt - has been there - done that - and survived.  JESUS himself faced all of that - and gained victory for all of us.


How did Jesus do that?  How did He stay on the cross when every fiber of His human body was screaming - "Get me out of here!"  ?


For the JOY  set before Him.  

It was the Joy of seeing us saved and healed that kept Him there.


How has so many others survived difficult times ?  By holding on to the strength that comes from knowing that this will end in a Joy - for God - for us - for someone else. . . The future can motivate us . . .


-Seeing your child's face when he knows you are happier now.

- Knowing God is smiling down on you because you made the tough, right choice.

-Even while you might not be laughing now - you could see sharing this story and laughing about it later


JOY is coming- Hold on to that fact!


Hebrews 12:1-2


"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, 

Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. 

And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,


Fixing our eyes on Jesus, 

the pioneer and perfecter of faith.


 For the JOY set before him He endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."

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