SFB 30 Mar

God's will for us is to rejoice in the Lord always in all circumstances because it unlocks Godly power. I am impacted about the truth that Happiness and joy are distinct and different. I always believed that happiness is not God's will for us. I know Happiness is temporal. This is always a good analogy; people always say that if a couple is happy that is what that matters. No, that is absolutely wrong. What if for one of them, happiness is to cheat on the other partner behind his/her back? You know that, but u allowed that to happen because you said that as long as they ARE happy. The key word is ARE. They may be happy now because of their state now, but eventually, are they happy? Eventually, they may not. So, happiness is overrated. I believe that God's blessing is what we need to look towards. Now i know that God's happiness is being joyful. Joy is in the Lord. Verses after verses mentioned joy so many times. Happy and it derivatives are mentioned 33 times, while for joy and its derivatives, it is mentioned nearly 300 times. It would be interesting and important to note that most of the word with happy is used with parables. while joy is mostly in songs, praises and in commands.That is key, God want us to be joyous not happy. Happy is good but is not the goal for us. we got to recognize that because the devil can use that to distort our goal. Our goal should be fulfillment and joy, not happiness. Devil can change our perspective secretly and cause us to think that being happy is our goal, that may be the end of us. And we don't have to choose a time to give thanks, give thanks in all our days and all the time. when we give thanks, we harness His power and strength. AMEN!