1. 8 Things God Doesn’t Want
God Doesn’t Want Me To Be Happy

2. What Makes People Happy?
What does it mean to be happy?
Joe Theisman quoted as saying (concerning having an affair) – “God wants Joe Theisman to be happy.”
News poll: “Does God want married couples to be happy, or obedient to their vows.

3. God Doesn’t Want Me To Be Happy…IF
If it depends on worldliness
1 John 2: Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world--the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does--comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.

4. Galatians 5:19-21
Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

5. …if happiness denies God’s will
Matthew 7:21 -- "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.

6. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
For this is the will of God, your sanctification ; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality ;that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God….

7. God Wants Me To Be Joyful
1 Thessalonians 5:16 – rejoice always…
John 15:11 --"These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.

8. God Wants Me To Be Blessed
What Makes Us Blessed?
Matthew 5:3-12
Poor in spirit
Mourning
Gentle
Merciful
Pure in heart
Hunger and thirst for righteousness

9. Colossians 1:10-12
…so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God ; strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience ; joyously giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light.

10. Luke 11:27-28
While Jesus was saying these things, one of the women in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, "Blessed is the womb that bore You and the breasts at which You nursed." But He said, "On the contrary , blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it."

11. Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,