Joel Osteen - Choose to be Happy

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you're going to be happy, you have to be
happy on purpose because there will be people, betrayals, delays,
all kinds of things that can cause you to live sour.
You have to put your foot down and say that's it.
I'm not letting other people steal my joy. I'm not
letting what's not working out cause me to be sour,
not letting this problem at work keep me from enjoying

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my life. I will the joys, I will be glad,
I will live.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
This day happy.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to
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God bless you.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
It's great to be with you today, and I hope
you'll stay connected with us during the week through our
daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media. We'll keep you
encouraged and inspired. I'd like to start with something funny.

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And I heard about this elderly couple.

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They were sitting on a swing celebrating their sixtieth wedding
anniversary in feeling romantic The husband said to his wife, honey,
our love is tried and true. She had difficulty hearing
and ask him to repeat it. He said it louder,
I said, our love is tried and true.

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She still couldn't hear him, said what would you speak up?

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Frustrated, he shouted, I said, our love is tried and true.
She said, well fine, I'm sick of you too. Okay,
y'all nothing inspiring, but here we go. Ready, this is
my Bible and what it says I am. I have
what it says I have. I can do what it
says I can do. Today I will be taught the

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word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert,
my heart is receptive.

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I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God
bless you.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
I want to talk to you today about choosing to
be happy. When we make in the morning, we get
to choose how we're going to live that day. We
can choose to live in faith, happy, expecting favor, or
we can choose to live discouraged, defeated, focused on our problems.
Happiness doesn't automatically happen. It's a choice we have to make.

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You can't wait to see what kind of day it's
going to be.

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You have to decide what kind of day it's going
to be.

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First thing in the morning. You need to make up
your mind. I'm going to live this day happy. I'm
going to see the good. I'm going to be grateful.
I'm going to love my family. I'm going to enjoy
this day. If you don't decide how you're going to live,
circumstances will decide for you.

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You'll see every.

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Problem, how it's not going to work out. You'll think,
I don't feel like going to work. This traffic's so bad,
I never get any good breaks. When you dwell on
those thoughts, you may not realize it, but you're choosing
to live discouraged. You're choosing to have a lousy day.
The scripture says joy comes in the morning. Every morning

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God sends you a fresh supply of joy.

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You can dismiss it. I think that's not for me.
I have too much coming against me.

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Or you can receive it and say things may not
be perfect in my life, but I know God's on
the throne. He's ordering my steps. His plans for me
are for good.

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So I'm going to enjoy this day. This is what
David did.

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He had all kinds of opposition, armies trying to stop him,
people slandering him. But in the middle of all that
he said, this is the day the Lord has made.

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I will rejoice and be glad in it.

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His circumstances said he should be discouraged, afraid, lonely. If
he was reporting on the situation, he would have said,
this is the day the Lord has made, and I'm
really discouraged.

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I've got a lot of problems.

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That would have been the truth. But he wasn't reporting.
He was making a declaration of faith. He was saying,
despite the opposition, I will be happy, despite people lying
about me. I will be happy despite my family not
believing in me. I'm going to live this day happy.
If you're going to be happy, you have to be

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happy on purpose, because there will be people, betrayals, delays,
all kinds of things that can cause you to live sour.
You have to put your foot down and say that's it.
I'm not letting other people still my joy. I'm not
letting what's not working out cause me to be sour,
not letting this problem at work keep me from enjoying

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my life.

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I will rejoice. I will be glad. I will live
this day happy.

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See, your will is more powerful than how you feel.
David didn't feel happy when he wrote this, but he declared,
I will rejoice. Don't wait to feel happy before you
decide to be happy. You have to decide first, then
the happiness will come. I like David. You may feel discouraged.

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You may have a good reason. Things were not fair,
you went through a loss. Nothing looks promising in your life.
The enemy would love for you to never get your
hopes up to think that's the way it's always going
to be, just dragged through the day sour. No, you
have to kick your will into gear. I will be happy.

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I will enjoy this day. I will focus on the
goodness of God. Your will is going to override how
you feel.

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Now.

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Mark of maturity is when you can be happy even
when things aren't going your way. That your joy is
not based on your circumstances. Well, Joel, when the pandemic
is over, I'll get my joy back. When I finish school.
I'll be happy again. When the Texans win, I'll be
in a good mood. They be waiting while when I

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get married. When I get married, I'll be happy or
if I wasn't married, i'd be happy. If you're putting
off your happiness, there will always be some reason to
not be happy. Why don't you make a decision that
you're going to be happy today. Not when it clears up,
not when your boss changes, not when you lose twenty pounds,

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not when you get the promotion. This is the day
the Lord has made. I've learned if you don't get
happy where you are, you probably won't get to where
you want to be. Well, I can't stand this job.
I don't like working at this place. Try a different approach. God,
I'm happy that I have a job. Help me to

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not let these people steal my joy. If you'll have
a good attitude where you are, that's a seed that
God will use to change things. But if you're sour
at that job and God gave you a better job
when someone does you wrong there, you'll.

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Be sour at that place too. You have to get
happy where you are. May not be in my dream
house yet, but I'm happy in this apartment.

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Not marriage yet, but I'm happy being single. This health
issue hasn't resolved yet, But God, I'm going to be
happy while you're changing things. You control your own happiness.
It's not up to anyone else. You're as happy as
you want to be. I played basketball with a young man,
and he was always in a good mood and so

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friendly and upbeaten. One day after the game, I asked
if he wanted to go get something to eat. He said, no,
I have to go up to the clinic. I'm taking chemotherapy.
He'd been fighting cancer for three years. I was so surprised.
I couldn't tell anything was wrong. I said, I'm so
sorry to hear that. He said, don't feel sorry for me.

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Life is good. I'm blessed, have a beautiful wife, a
new son. I'm grateful to be alive. He could have
been depressed, thinking and why me, this is not fair,
sitting around in self pity. Instead, he made the choice
to be happy where he was. I ask him how

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he had such a great attitude. He said, when I
wake up in the morning, I ask myself, do you
want to live depressed or do you want to live happy?

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I choose to live happy. I wonder how much more.

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We would enjoy our lives if we would do like
him and start choosing to be happy. We can't get
away from negative circumstances. I can't tell you that having
faith will keep you from trouble, bad breaks, people that
do you wrong. But I can tell you those things
don't have to take your joy. You're in control of

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your happiness, David said in Psalm one four. Happy are
the people whose God is the Lord. And sometimes we
look at circumstances and nothing to be happy about. Fighting cancer,
going through a pandemic, having trouble at work, nothing good
about that. Now, the reason we can be happy is

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our God is.

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On the throne. He controls the universe.

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He's our provider, he's our healer, he's our vindicator, he's
our waymaker.

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We can be happy that the.

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Most powerful force in the universe is on our side.

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No person can stop him.

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No bad break, no sickness, no addiction, all the forces
of darkness cannot stop what God has ordained for you.
It's significant that David started off by saying, this is
the day the Lord has made. He could have just
said I'm going to be glad today, I'm going to rejoice.
He was saying, God, I recognize that you not only

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made this day, but you've allowed me to be alive.

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You chose me before I.

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Could choose you, You formed me in my mother's wound.
Now I'm not going to waste this day negative, focused
on my problems, dwelling on my hurts. I'm going to
live this day to the full. You and I are
not here by accident. God could have chosen anyone to
be alive today. There are billions of people that have

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lived and died.

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But God handpicked you to be here at this time.
He woke you up this morning.

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He gave you strength to get out of bed. He's
crowned you with favor. He put seeds of greatness in you.
He calls you more than a conquer the head and.

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Not the tail.

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One way we honor God is by living happy. He
didn't create you to drag through the day overcome by problems,
discouraged by disappointments.

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This day is a gift from God.

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We should feel a responsibility to live it in faith, happy, joyful,
good natured. Once this day is over, we can never
get it back. We don't have time to waste another
minute being negative, discouraged, focused on what didn't work out,
complaining over who did us wrong? Get your joy back, well, Joel,

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I'd be happier but I've been through hurts.

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People have done me wrong. I say this respectfully. Everyone's
been hurt well.

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I've had disappointments, bad breaks, lost, we all have. You
can use that as an excuse and let it sour
the rest of your life, or you can say, Father,
thank you for entrusting me with another day. I'm not
going to take it for granted. I recognize it's a
day that you have made. I'm going to choose to
be happy. I'm going to choose to enjoy this day.

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I'm going to live it to the full.

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When you have that kind of attitude, God will give
you beauty for ashes. He'll make up for the wrongs.

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A few months ago, there were some birds right outside
our bedroom window five o'clock in the morning.

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They started chirping, and.

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So loudly that they woke me up. This went on
for over an hour, all this singing different sounds, melodies.
One would chirp real loud, there'd be a pause, then
another would answer. At times, they'd all chirp together. Sounded
like a symphony. I would have enjoyed it, but it
was five o'clock in the morning.

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I wanted to sleep.

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The next morning, five o'clock, the same.

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Thing again and again. One morning it was raining, thundering.

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I thought, there's no way those birds are going to
sing today, No way they're going to be happy, cold, rainy, lightning.
Five o'clock, right on queue, Here came the birds, louder
than ever.

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I wanted to say.

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To those birds, why are you so happy? Don't you
know we're in a pandemic. Haven't you read the news?
There are problems in the world. The price of gas
is high, the supply chain is messed up.

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How can you be singing? What if you don't get
your worms tomorrow?

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It's interesting how God puts something in those birds to
start the day off singing. They're saying, in effect, life
is good, We're happy.

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We're going to enjoy this day.

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What would happen if we would have that song of
praise every morning like those birds, not be moved by
our circumstances, but singing the dark when things aren't going
our way, singing the rain when circumstances are against us,
singing the cold when we don't feel like it. We
could be discouraged, complaining. Instead, we're making this choice that

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we're going to live this day happy. One reason those
birds are so happy is they haven't watched the news,
they haven't read the papers, they're not on social media.
Nobody has told them they're supposed to be worried, afraid, upset.
They believe that their heavenly father is in control. They've

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seen him take care of them in the past. They
believe he'll take care of them in the future.

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If you're going to live happier, you may have to
tune some things out.

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You can't take in negative all the time and stay
in fame. The scripture says, think on things that are
of a good report, things that are positive, hopeful. Our
thinking has a lot to do with our happiness. The
apostle Paul went through a lot of bad breaks Second
Corinthians eleven. It lists some of these difficulties. Five times

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he was beaten with rods, once, he was stoned.

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Three times. He'd been shipwrecked.

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He was bitten by a poisonous snake. He faced angry mobs,
fought off bandits, survived flooded rivers. He'd gone without food,
proper clothing, sleepless nights. Nobody had more come against them
than Paul. After being in prison for two years, he
was brought before King Agrippa for his trial. When he

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stood up to give his the first thing he said
was King Agrippa, I think myself happy. You would think
he would see himself as a victim, be bitter, angry,
have a chip on his shoulder. But he shows us
a secret of how to overcome all that. He said,
I think myself happy. You can think yourself depressed. You

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can think yourself into a bad mood, think yourself a victim.
Or you can do like Paul and say yes, I've
had a lot of difficulties. I could be sour, live discouraged,
but I'm going to.

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Think myself happy.

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As long as you're thinking about your hurts, what you
didn't get, how you were left out, you're going to
be discouraged. Why don't you start thinking happy thoughts? Happy
thoughts Or I have a bright future, something good is
going to happen to me. My latter days will be
better than my former days. I'm not saying to deny

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the negative. I'm saying and don't dwell on it. Don't
relive what didn't work out, don't replay the loss, the disappointment,
the failure.

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You can't move forward if you're.

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Looking back you can't enjoy today. If you're focused on yesterday,
you may have had disappointments things that are not fair.

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You need to do like Paul.

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And start thinking yourself happy. I get up every morning
and tell Victoria today is going to be a great day.

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You know what I'm doing.

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Thinking myself happy. I'm getting my mind going in the
right direction. It's easy to get up and think yourself sad,
think yourself into self pity. Why did I come down
with this illness? My friends are all married? Why am
I still single? These people at work are not treating
me right.

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This is not fair.

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You're thinking your self defeated. You have to change what
you're thinking. Yes, I came down with this illness, but Father,
I want to thank you that.

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You're restoring health back into me.

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That I will live and not die, that my best
days are still in front of me. Or Yes, these
people at work are not treating me right. But I'm
not a victim. I know I'm a victor. God, you'm
a vindicator. You said you would always cause.

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Me to triumph.

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Happy thoughts are God. I'm grateful to be alive. I'm
excited about my future. I believe you're taking me from
glory to glory that I haven't seen or imagined the
great things you have in store. When you think happy thoughts,
it not only lifts your spirit, but that attitude of
faith is what allows God to do amazing things. After

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Paul gave this great speech to King Agrippa, he was
sent back to prison.

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His prayer wasn't answered. You would think now he.

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Would surely be discouraged. Surely he'd be complaining now. In prison,
he wrote, rejoice in the Lord always and again say rejoice.
He was telling us, even when it doesn't go your way,
just keep thinking happy thoughts. Keep giving God praise, Keep
thinking God that he's working, Keep being grateful when you

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could be complaining, Keep thinking victory when you're seeing defeat.
Happiness is not dependent on what's going on around you.
It's dependent on what's going on in you. What kind
of thoughts are you thinking, I'll never get well. I've
had this too long. You're thinking your self discouraged. I

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can't break this addiction. It's been in my family for years.
You're thinking yourself limited. I can't be happy, Joel. I've
been through a lot of loss, a lot of heartache.
That's not how your story ends.

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Here's the key.

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You have to give yourself permission to be happy. Sometimes
we bought into the lie that we're not supposed to
be happy. We've been through too much, we made too
many mistakes. If we're happy, people may not understand. Can
I tell you you're supposed to be happy. God created
you to enjoy your life, to laugh, to smile. Happiness

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starts on the inside. Give God something to work with.
Every morning, you need to say to yourself, I'm happy,
I'm grateful, I'm blessed. You can't receive happiness if you're
thinking sadness. Joy is coming every morning. Some people have
been bypassing it year after year.

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Because of their thoughts. You will live happier if you'll
start thinking happier.

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While Paul was in prison, he wrote in First Thessalonians,
be happy in the faith, gladhearted.

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Continually he was.

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Telling us again, think happy thoughts, be gladhearted. He didn't
say anything about our circumstances.

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Be happy. If people treat you good, be happy.

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If your plans work out, be happy if you don't
have any disappointm He was saying, get in a habit.

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I'm thinking happy thoughts.

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Don't let the negative circumstances talk you out of living happy.
I was driving down the road the other day and
I was in a hurry to get to an appointment.
There was a car in front of me that was
driving twenty miles an hour in a forty five mile
an hour zone.

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Was a one lane street.

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You couldn't pass. It wasn't a school zone. The driver
wasn't elderly. I couldn't understand why they wouldn't go. At
that point, I had to make up my mind that
I was going to think happy thoughts, because the thoughts
that were coming were not happy. My first thoughts would
blow the horn, call them a name, get out of
my way. I was about to think myself upset, but

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I did what I'm asking you to do. God, I
know you're in control, you're ordering my steps.

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I think you that it's a good day.

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I'm healthy, I'm blessed, I have a bright future.

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I just whitched over to happy thoughts. Not long after that,
they turned and I haunted my horn and went on.

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But in the scripture of Habacca, I didn't honk, And
the scripture of Habacca pult it this way. Though the
fig tree does not blossom, though there'd be no fruit
on the vine, though the olive crops fell, and there
are no cattles in the stalls.

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Everything was going wrong for Habacca.

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Business was down, his crops weren't producing, his income was limited.

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If he would have stopped there, he'd.

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Been depressed, discouraged, drugged through the day.

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But he went on to say, Yet will I.

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Rejoice in the Lord. I will joy in the God
of my salvation. He was saying, even when I'm not
seeing increase, even when things aren't going my way, slow drivers, delays,
the medical report hasn't improved, I'm not going to fall apart.
I'm still going to think happy thoughts. I'm still going
to thank God that I'm alive, that I have purpose,

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that good things are in store. Are you thinking yourself sad,
thinking yourself discouraged, thinking yourself a victim?

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It's time to start thinking happy thoughts. A lady I
know is very joyful.

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She always has a smile, and every time I'm around her,
she's so good natured and so fun.

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And she's had difficulties in life.

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Hasn't been easy, but she's learned this secret to think
happy thoughts. She was at a store, and she went
up to the counter to purchase something. The minute the
register asked how she was doing. She said, with a
big smile, very enthusiastically. I'm blessed and just grateful to
be alive. He looked at her and said, do you

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go to Lakewood? She said, I do. He said I
should have known it. Everyone that comes in here.

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Like you goes to Lakewood.

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I believe we should be the happiest people on earth.
There should be a difference between us and people that
don't nt God. When you go to work, everyone may
be complaining. Discourage talk and defeat. Don't fall into that trap.
Stay full of joy, keep a smile on your face,

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keep thinking happy thoughts. This world needs more happy people.
We need more joy in the world. There's so much sadness, gloom,
and despair. If we're not careful, we'll let what's happening
around us get in us. That's why every morning you
have to choose to be happy. Not I feel, but

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I will rejoice. I will enjoy this day. I will
be happy. When you think about the best day of
your life, what day would it be? The day you
were married, the day your child was born, the day
you found out you were cancer free, the day you
moved into that new house.

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Those are all great days we look back with fond memories.

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But do you know what I believe the best day
of your life is today. God has given us another
day to be alive, another day to enjoy your family,
another day to see the sun rise, another day of possibilities,
to pursue your dreams, to go after your goals. Sometimes

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we let the pressures of life, the traffic, what somebody said,
a challenge at work, to keep us from enjoying this day.
We think it's just another ordinary day, But there's no
such thing as an ordinary day. Every day is a
gift from God. The scripture says, our life is like
a vapor. We're here for a minute, and then we're gone.

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One hundred years from now, we'll all be finished.

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If we really understood how valuable each day is, I
think we would live it happier.

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It's easier to take it for granted.

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Just get up, go through the motions, deal with the challenges,
and the day is gone. But if you'll have a
new perspective and start seeing every day as your best day,
then you won't let the little things upset you.

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You'll take time to.

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Enjoy the people God's given you to love. You'll stop
buy and say hello to that neighbor that's lonely. You'll
think more happy thoughts. You'll live more grateful.

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You'll make the most of each day.

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Pastor friend of mine, went to visit a thirty five
year old mother in the hospital. She had cancer and
wasn't supposed to make it through the night. Walked in,
took her hand and told her that he loved her,
that he was praying for her. She smiled ever so
warmly and said in a faint voice, Pastor, this is
the best day.

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Of my life.

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He seemed kind of puzzled, thinking that doesn't seem like
a very good day for you at all.

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As she laid their very.

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Frail no hair, she said, you see, I didn't know
if I was going to wake up this morning. Now
God has blessed me with another day to see my children,
another day to spend with my family.

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She went on to say, if I make it through today.

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Tonight, I'm going to look out the window and look
at the stars.

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I'm going to enjoy the moonlight.

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You may have some difficulties, things you could be sour about,
things that can take your joy.

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But if you'll keep it in the.

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Right perspective, recognizing that this day is a gift from God,
that really it's the best day of your life, then
it's much easier to live it happy, to not be
sidetracked by all the.

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Worries, what didn't work out? Who cut you off?

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When Paul came to the end of his life, he said,
I want to finish my course with joy. We're all
going to go to be with the Lord at some point.
I don't want to go discouraged.

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Feeling like a victim. Look what I've been through. Why
did this happen?

Speaker 1 (26:51):
Let's go full of joy, seeing each day as the
best day, getting up each morning and choosing to be happy,
saying with David, it's.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Not how I feel. I will rejoice, I will be glad.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Like Paul, Let's get in the habit of thinking happy thoughts.
If you'll do this, I believe and declare, you're going
to live happier.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
You're going to enjoy your life.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
More forces that have held you back are being broken
right now. God is about to release you into new
levels of joy, favor, freedom, fulfillment.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
You will finish your course.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
With joy in Jesus' name, and if you believe it,
can you say amen? I'd like to give you an
opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I
repent of my sins, Come into my heart. I'll make
you my Lord and savior.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got
born again. We'd love to send you some free information
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Speaker 2 (28:32):
I know God's best is still ahead. We'll see you
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