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6. DEUTERONOMY 16:14-15 Be joyful at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns. For seven days celebrate the festival to the LORD your God at the place the LORD will choose. For the LORD your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.

7. JOHN 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

9. God & Happiness Faith & Parties Jesus & Joy

11. SONJA LYUBOMIRSKY Happiness Researcher I don’t have a religious or spiritual bone in my body. But the studies clearly show that religious people are happier. …by all means, practice religion!

13. JOHN 17:3 Now this is eternal life— that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

14. JOHN 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

15. JOHN 17:20 I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message.

16. JOHN 17:21 I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one— as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me…

17. JOHN 17:23 I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me. I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me.

18. unity uniformity unity ≠ uniformity

19. GALATIANS 3:27-28 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

20. JESUS BORROWS THINGS… …loaves & fish …boat…donkey…tomb

21. when God wants to do something, he almost always invites us into partnership for his purposes in our lives & the world.

22. JOHN WESLEY God does nothing in this world except in response to the prayers of his people.

23. Do you take your responsibility & privilege to pray seriously ?

24. 1 CORINTHIANS 3:9 We are co-workers belonging to God. You are God’s field, God’s building.

25. A life of calling / purpose God invites us to partner with Him

28. If you can’t celebrate being used by God to bless someone being used by God to bring something of his love or justice or healing into the world, then nothing will make you excited.

29. WHAT WORD COMES TO MIND… Grace

30. Love

31. Joy

32. JAMES DENNEY “The New Testament is the most buoyant, exhilarating and joyful book in the world.”

33. PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN “Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God.”

34. ROMANS 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

35. GALATIANS 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

36. Joy… because of…

37. PSALM 16:11 You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

38. 1 CHRONICLES 16:27 Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his dwelling place.

39. Joy… because of…

40. Joy… in spite of…

41. 2 CORINTHIANS 6:4-10 In everything we do… patiently endure troubles and hardships and calamities of every kind... God’s power is working in us… God’s power is working in us… We serve God whether people honor us or despise us... We live close to death, but we are still alive…. Our hearts ache, but we always have joy.

43. Joy… in spite of…

45. living Jesus -ly