Joy Skills: Connection that Lasts
Sympathize with each other. Love each other as brothers and sisters. Be tenderhearted, and keep a humble attitude.
1 Peter 3:8 (NLT)
Joy Skills: Living in Multiple Worlds
Laugh with your happy friends when they’re happy; share tears when they’re down.
Romans 12:14–16 (MSG)
oy Skills: Choosing Wisely
Jesus said to the people who believed in him, “You are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings. And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
John 8:31–32 (NLT)
Joy Skills: Smiling in His Presence
ou have endowed him with eternal blessings and given him the joy of your presence. For the king trusts in the Lord. The unfailing love of the Most High will keep him from stumbling.
Psalm 21:6–7 (NLT)
Happiness Traps: Forcing It
f you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.
John 15:10–11 (NKJV)
Happiness Traps: Overcome Weaknesses
I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:13 (NLT)
Happiness Traps: Resolving the Past
Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.
Philippians 3:13-14 (NLT)
Happiness Traps: Pleasures
Do you like honey? Don’t eat too much, or it will make you sick!
Proverbs 25:16 (NLT)
Happiness Traps: Time Off
Sweet sleep comes to those who work hard, regardless of how much or how little they’ve eaten.
Ecclesiastes 5:12 (VOICE)
Happiness Traps: Temporary Happiness
So I became greater than all who had lived in Jerusalem before me, and my wisdom never failed me… But as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless—like chasing the wind. There was nothing really worthwhile anywhere.
Ecclesiastes 2:9,11 (NLT)
Happiness Traps: Buying It
The cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
Mark 4:19 (NKJV)
Happiness Traps
Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who trusts and takes refuge in Him.
Psalm 34:8 (AMP)
What’s Your First Line of Defence?
If the Spirit of him who raised Christ from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
Romans 8:11 (ESV)
Time to Raise Your Expectations?
And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, you know.” Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.”
Ezekiel 37:3-4 (ESV)
Don’t Get Taken Out of the Battle
“In the world you have tribulation and distress and suffering, but be courageous [be confident, be undaunted, be filled with joy]; I have overcome the world.” [My conquest is accomplished, My victory abiding.]
John 16:33 (AMP)
Speak Back to the Storm
David replied to the Philistine, “You come to me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies—the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. Today the Lord will conquer you, and I will kill you…. This is the Lord’s battle, and he will give you to us!”
1 Samuel 17:45, 47 (NLT)
The Storm Will Pass
But Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses. “Let’s go at once to take the land,” he said. “We can certainly conquer it!”
Numbers 13:30 (NLT)
Small but Mighty
Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires.
James 3:4 (NKJV)
A New Look at Being Christ-Like
His head and His hair were like white wool, [as white] as snow, and His eyes [flashed] like a flame of fire. His feet glowed like a burnished (bright) bronze as it is refined in the furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many waters.
Revelation 1:14-15 (AMPC)
More Like Jesus Every Day
And all of us, as with unveiled face, [because we] continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His very own image in ever increasing splendor from one degree of glory to another… 2 Corinthians 3:18 (AMPC)
2 Corinthians 3:18 (AMPC)
Stop the Blame Game
[Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ… 2 Corinthians 10:5 (AMPC)
2 Corinthians 10:5 (AMPC)