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FAITH > covid
Still have faith and JOY that comes from the Lord
God is never changing.
He is thankful for prayers.
Counting blessings.
Lord still holds everything money/situation/life/everything
Blessing of vaccine

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Prayer works!
In the presence of God there is JOY!

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1. God as our parents
2. Sometimes we tend to think that parents are KJ or unfair when they try to discipline us.
3. We need to be deeper and mature in the way we understand the bible.
4. Focus on god's plan and not on the situation.

He also shared their families experience:
They focused or depends on material things.

He shared about his personal experience about anxiety about covid.

He summarized that we just need to focus on the Lord.

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1. Complaining: Shared about the story of the promise land.
2. Tendency is what we want and NOT the Lord's will

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1. Environment is a big factor to your motivation.
2. Surround yourself with correct person. Who'll encourage you.

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1. What you claim will come true.
2. Accept where we are.
3. Keep on moving. Every step is a progress.
4. Praise the Lord more. Seek Him more.

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2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,[a] whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

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Starts in the mindset.
If we choose God over all - our life will change.

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Happiness = from world
Joy = from the Lord (over flowing / Abundance Supply / Bottomless)

We just need to stop complaining.

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Challenge Question: How do we find JOY admist all chaos.

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Challenge Question: How do we find JOY admist all chaos.

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fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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1. He strengthens our faith
2. Grow spiritually
3. Transforms us to Christ-likeness

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We are always asking God why this is happening.
We always complain.
But the truth is,
We need to stop complaining and we need to focus on praises so that eventually you will feel it in the long run.

But how do we truly feel joy in the midst of trails?
At the end of the day all our words and actions are our choices. So we need to make a decision to choose JOY over bitterness. We will choose JOY over our trials. We will choose JOY over sadness. And the more we tend to think of it, We need to declare it and claim it from the LORD.