We have choices!
I see so many people who have trouble with happiness. No one is in charge of your happiness but you. Happiness is being content, cheerful, or merry and this does not depend on circumstances or people. It’s a choice! When we have Jesus Christ in our life, we can be happy no matter what is going on around us. Here are some promises from God to stand on!
A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. (Proverbs 15:13)
All the days of the afflicted are evil, but he who is of a merry heart has a continual feast. (Proverbs 15:15)
So many times we allow depression to enter our life; then we go to a doctor and he/she gives us a prescription! I am not against doctors and medicine but every medicine has warnings. Read the label. And most of the time the warning is worse than the actual thing wrong with us. The best prescription we can ever have is from Dr. Jesus and His words of wisdom and power. It is a decision on our part to stay happy and have a merry heart.
We Christians have no reason to fear or be depressed! We cannot be in fear and faith at the same time and we cannot be depressed and happy at the same time. It is our choice which of these we allow in our life. What I choose today will affect my tomorrow!
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My life is a mess! I know I have done so many things wrong. I have hurt so many people. I call myself a Christian, so how do I make all this right?
Recent Food For Thought Articles
So many horrible things are happening in our world today—children and adults gunned down in the middle of prayer, lives being destroyed by wars, famines, floods, fires, absolute madness– and if we allow ourselves to focus totally on these things, fear can totally take over and then we will become victims instead of a v
We are eternal beings, and we shall live for eternity somewhere! If we think we are saved, we are not! We must KNOW without a shadow of a doubt that we are born from above and have both an earthly address and a heavenly address. This is done by accepting Jesus as our Savior and living for HIM!
I see so many believers focusing on world events and the despair in our world. That may well be a focus for the unbeliever but certainly not for a believer! If we read our manual for success (Bible) and obey what it is teaching us, then we will have all our focus on Jesus and the cross! Jesus did everything for us on t
The Lord speaks to us through His manual for success (Bible). But are we listening? We are living in very evil times, but we can also see revival among people if we watch Christian News. When people get saved in great numbers, we need to pray for them to truly get connected. A merely emotional experience is not becoming born again. Conversion is believing that the Lord Jesus Christ went to the cross, died, and rose again, and we ask Him to forgive our sin.