{"id":23426,"date":"2014-12-17T00:20:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T05:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=23426"},"modified":"2014-12-16T17:47:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T22:47:40","slug":"joy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/17\/joy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"JOY"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"gchSHadventjoygraphic\"<\/a><\/p>\n

You know<\/em> <\/strong>when you have a lack of joy in your life. \u00a0I would say right now is such a time for me. \u00a0I am desperately in need of some joy. \u00a0Joy<\/span> gives you true motivation to sanely make it through each day. \u00a0It’s what makes it easier to get out of bed. It is closely related to hope and peace. \u00a0If you are not at peace then it is hard maintain joy and hope.<\/p>\n

My pastor says you choose joy<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. I believe this is true. Which means that the lack of joy<\/span> I am experiencing right now is my own doing. \u00a0However, I’m lacking the motivation to do anything about my current situation. \u00a0You could say that I am weary—I’m tired and I just want a break from life.<\/p>\n

Romans 15:13 is my prayer.<\/p>\n

“Maythe God of hope fill {me} with all joy and peace as {I} trust in Him,
\nso that {I} may overflow with hope by the power of His Holy Spirit.”<\/p>\n

See how closely related joy<\/span>, peace, and hope are? \u00a0Joy, hope and peace are all things that are only possible when we keep our eyes firmly focused on God. \u00a0And even though sometimes we may get weary of doing right and good, pushing forward through our feelings is the way to go. \u00a0The Bible clearly tells us…<\/p>\n

“Let us not become weary in doing good,
\nfor at the proper time we will reap a harvest
\nif we do not give up.”
\nGalatians 6:9<\/p>\n

My pastor says, do what you do know to do when you don’t know what to do.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>And above all honesty helps…honesty and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know when you have a lack of joy in your life. \u00a0I would say right now is such a time for me. \u00a0I am desperately in need of some joy. \u00a0Joy gives you true motivation to sanely make it through each day. \u00a0It’s what makes it easier to get out of bed. It is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":23370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3020],"tags":[8014,4651,3146,3367,3339,1287,425,8022,577,8036,1801,3174],"class_list":["post-23426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-3rd-week-of-advent","tag-advent","tag-ahmee-bronaugh","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-galatians-69","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-jesus-brings-us-joy","tag-joy","tag-joy-hope-and-peacek","tag-romans-1513","tag-seeking-him-devotional","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/gchSHadventjoygraphic.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-65Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23427,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23426\/revisions\/23427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}