(Bulletin12-8-2024)

Joy vs. Disillusionment

Luke 1: 26-35

Lessons to learn if you really want joy:

1. Put the feelings and needs of others ahead of 

__________________.

2. Seek to have a genuine encounter with 

_________________.

3. Walk in ______________ every day no matter 

where God ____________________.

Will you be disciplined enough to be obedient every day in what Eugene Peterson calls “a long obedience in the right direction”? When you do there comes an inner satisfaction and a joy from doing the right thing over the long haul. Jesus said, “Blessed (happy, 

joyful) are those who hunger and thirst after 

righteousness for they shall be filled.”