In our debut episode of THE JOY FACTOR, we are kicking off our Ask A Pastor series with an often overlooked question: "How do we practically find joy in God, especially when life is difficult?" Pastor Cary Duckett and Christie Garland explore this question together and give us five practical tips:
1. Deepen your personal relationship with God.
2. Be in consistent fellowship with other believers and find ways to serve them.
3. Realize God has a purpose for the hard seasons of our lives and don’t let the practical aspects of our joy become circumstantial.
4. Realize God is the giver of all good things and constantly praise him for them. Realize Jesus is better than all those things.
5. Remind yourself that death is coming, and you will be in God’s fullness of joy forever.
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