Joyed Up DevotionalSample

BE DELIBERATE WITH YOUR JOY & HAPPINESS

You can control your life by determining how you respond to situations that happen to you or around you. Someone said, “It is not what happens to you that makes you sad, but how you respond to what happened.” You must be deliberate with your life and your responses to life's events. Choose joy in your trying (Red Sea) life experiences. Don't wait for motivation; be your own motivator, just as David encouraged himself in the Lord after he lost everything, including the loyalty of his men. Lead your life and choose your sets of responses. Respond to life with joy, for joy comes from the inside out. Happiness depends on events, but joy influences your mind to think right in the wrong situations. Don't wait for happiness to happen in your life, go ahead and choose joy, and then Stay Joyed Up.

Action Tip:

Get your journal and make a list of the top ten things that make you happy when you do them. Put in brackets the last time you did any of those. Deliberately tick the ones you can do today or this week and put them in your plans for the day or week. Spend time to worship GOD (singing out loud, songs of praise to GOD) and record the experience in your journal. With this happiness, joy won't pass you by.

Affirmations:

The Joy of the LORD is my strength; therefore, I declare that I am joyful always. I am led forth with joy, and I come back peaceful. I find nothing broken, nothing missing. I declare that I am a winner. Nothing and no one has the capacity to steal my joy because I choose Joy and I choose it deliberately.