The Pathway to Happiness | James 4:6b-7a, 8a, 10a
If God has happiness in His hand, and I want it, how do I get it? How do I receive into my experience what God has in His possession? James gives us the answer.
If God has happiness in His hand, and I want it, how do I get it? How do I receive into my experience what God has in His possession? James gives us the answer.
It may be your life, but God’s fingerprints are all over it. He created each of us, then turned us loose with the incredible optimism that we would come back to Him. He is jealous for our love and devotion. He is jealous for us infinitely and intimately. He has been jealous for us from the moment of our birth to the moment we walked away in sin. Anyone who has packed a bag somewhere along the line and has been shacking-up in a distant land, so to speak, just leave whatever you packed and come-on back home.
Go to My brothers and tell them. Those words are found in the 17th verse in the 20th chapter of John’s Gospel, and a case could be made that they are as significant as any other part of resurrection story. Many of us probably don’t recognize those words as belonging to the resurrection event much less see them as hugely significant. Yet, they are, and they are meant for each of us personally.
Did Jesus really suffer? If Jesus really suffered, was His suffering necessary? If Jesus really suffered, and His suffering was necessary, what does that mean to you? Get ready to be surprised.
This person cannot bear the popularity of others, cannot stand the success of others, becomes angry if someone seems to have more influence, is quick to criticize the ideas and work of others, will humiliate and degrade others with no thought as to the hurt that may be caused. Is there an antidote to the kind of wisdom that wrecks. Yes! Yes! Yes!
We as believers must at times experience emotional death, where God is doing deep things within us, for a true resurrection to occur. Will you surrender to Him today and follow Jesus no matter what you’re feeling? In today’s message Associate Pastor Dan Harrington turns to the story of Job to show ways to get through the emotional walls and the dark nights of the soul we all face in our Christian journey.