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Day #12

CONTAGIOUS JOY

There is a connection between what you believe and your joy! Choose to believe what God and His Word say to you and about you. Meditating on your failures, mistakes and what someone did or said will make you negative and zap the strength out of you. What you meditate on becomes a belief. Therefore, you must guard yourself from wrong thinking and wrong believing. 

Think happy thoughts! Sing happy songs! Hum a tune. Do something positive. Create. Do things that inspire you to be your best. Laugh. Spend time in God’s Word and worship Him in joy and freedom. Life is in Christ! Out of a personal relationship with God, you can believe good things about who you are in Him, and you can rejoice! 

It takes effort to make yourself believe good things when others are negative, but you will have what you believe. I remember going to hear one of my favorite female ministers, and she gently rebuked the women at a ministers’ wives’ luncheon. She said something like, “Don’t look at me like that with your judgmental attitudes. I know what you think, but you get what you believe, and I get what I believe.” I have never forgotten it, because as I grew in ministry opportunities I began to see the attitude to which she referred and to hear the negative words and criticisms toward those who believe and teach faith. 

Don’t let the enemy steal your joy with regrets, dread of what you have to do, legalism, ruts, worry, anxiety, mental reasoning, negativity, manipulative people, unbelief or over commitments! Believe what God says, and serve the Lord with gladness. He is better than anything anyone can do or say against Him! 

Joy is contagious! People should see you smile and know that there is something different about you! This hope you have in Him will not leave you disappointed! Get your happy on!

“Joy is the outcome of your faith, your agreement with my Word. By faith you see and agree, by joy you agree and react in strength when it looks impossible. Choose to react with joy to the pressures, the pains, the problems and watch me create a feast for you in the presence of opposition. Sing, make a joyful sound of praise! You are blessed and nothing can stop my Word or power when you choose joy!”