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John 15.8-11

Today’s Reading from God’s Word. John 15.8-11. 8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. 9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. John 15.8-9.

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John 15.8-11

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  1. Today’s Reading from God’s Word John 15.8-11

  2. 8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. 9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. John 15.8-9

  3. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. John 15.10-11

  4. How to Cultivate J Y The Joy of Christianity

  5. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Galatians 5.22-24

  6. How to Cultivate Joy Could we have a flawed understanding of joy?

  7. 11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. John 15.11

  8. How to Cultivate Joy Joy cannot be manufactured.

  9. How to Cultivate Joy Joy can thrive in suffering and difficulty.

  10. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. John 15.2

  11. 2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. James 1.2-4

  12. How to Cultivate Joy The more we are drawn out of self – toward God – the more likely we cultivate joy.

  13. How to Cultivate Joy Society has it backwards.

  14. How to Cultivate Joy Many associate joy with pleasure.

  15. How to Cultivate Joy Culture equates happiness with excess.

  16. Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” Luke 12.15

  17. How to Cultivate Joy Joy can be choked out by fear and worry.

  18. How to Cultivate Joy Two ways we can cultivate true joy.

  19. How to Cultivate Joy Joy thrives in worship.

  20. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD!” Psalm 122.1

  21. How to Cultivate Joy Joy is created in contentment.

  22. 11 Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. 12 I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. Philippians 4.11-12

  23. 13 I can do all things through him who strengthens me. Philippians 4.13

  24. How to Cultivate Joy Joy is associated with maturity as a Christian.

  25. 8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. 9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. John 15.8-9

  26. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. John 15.10-11

  27. How to Cultivate J Y The Joy of Christianity

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