40 Days of Joy - 🙌🙌 Day 14 🙌🙌

 40 Days of JOY - 🙌🙌 Day 14 🙌🙌


Luke 15 is a Chapter full of JOY


It's a pattern - something is lost

- something is found

- Gathering together & celebrating & rejoicing!


I lose my keys all the time - and let me tell you when I get desperate  - and then suddenly find them again  - I am rejoicing and Praising God!!


God is in the business of restoring things that are lost -

- our faith

- our relationships 

- our very souls


And when He restores these things - it's not just "Old  Hat" for Him - He Celebrates & Rejoices 


But None of these joyous moments in Luke 15 

- finding the lost coin, sheep, son, sinner - 

are done  alone 

All of these moments of Joy come with gathering people (or angels 😇) together and CELEBRATING! 


I am a loner by nature (I love people- but I like to do a lot of things alone) 

But there is something good that happens to all of us - when we acknowledge Joy by celebrating it with others.


Sooo . . . From Luke 15 . . .


Can you think through your life and find things that God has restored (found) in your life?

Think on these things 

And then - celebrate them with others - 

*Go have a random dinner party to celebrate all that God has done.

* Call 10 friends/acquaintances and share with them things that are good that God has done for you.

* Do a game night at your house - or a praise song night at your church.


CELEBRATE & REJOICE in ALL that God has done!  After all that is what God does  . . .


"In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” 

Luke 15:10


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