Pastor Steven Furtick shares this sermon on March 31 2022 titled “Joy is a focus before it’s a feeling” where he teaches that while you may not be able to choose how you feel today, you can choose what you focus on. This is an excerpt from “Backseat DJs: What’s Controlling Your Joy?”
He said he believes there are some things that are destroying your joy that you are unaware of and James is going to teach us how to develop joy. It’s very different than discovering joy. Discovering joy means it’s waiting somewhere and you have to find it. It’s waiting in your next career move, It’s waiting in your next relationship, It’s waiting somewhere you’re not right now.
James is going to show us something that may be familiar to a few of you, but it is very strange if you consider what he’s actually saying. He says, “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds…” This is because the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”
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