1. Tell someone about one of the happiest experiences of your life.
God’s Soil for Joy

2. God’s Soil for Joy JOY usually has to do with RELATIONSHIPS
…just as SORROW usually has to do with LOSS of relationships.
God’s Soil for Joy

4. Philippians 1:1,2
1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all God’s holy people in Christ Jesus at Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons: 2 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

5. JOY flows from…
1.) right relationship with God
2.) personal (spiritual) partnership with God’s people.

6. JOY flows from…
1.) right relationship with God.
The soil of that right relationship with God is full of…
A.) Grace: any of God’s undeserved goodness to me.

7. Hodu Muthana

8. JOY flows from…
1.) right relationship with God.
The soil of that right relationship with God is full of…
A.) Grace: any of God’s undeserved goodness to me.
B.) Peace: harmonious bonding together of people previously at odds.

11. JOY flows from…
1.) right relationship with God.
The soil of that right relationship with God is full of…
A.) Grace: any of God’s undeserved goodness to me.
B.) Peace: harmonious bonding together of people previously at odds.

12. “I thank my God every time I remember you.”
Philippians 1:3
“I thank my God every time I remember you.”

13. Two people for whom I am
deeply grateful are…

16. Philippians 1:3-5
3 I thank my God every time I remember you. 4 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy 5 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now….

17. PARTNERSHIP = KOINONIA = FELLOWSHIP

18. The joy of shared birth experiences…

19. The joy of shared birth experiences…

21. The joy of shared birth experiences…
When you birth, you bond!

22. Philippians 1:6
6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
2. B.) A shared GROWTH experience.

25. Joy comes from…
3.) a confidence in God to finish the work of salvation in His children.

26. There is JOY knowing that the finish line of our faith is certain!