Devotion leads to Happiness (1)

Good Morning Friends. We are talking happiness. When we have devotions for anything or act done with devotion leads towards happiness. Let’s talk more about Devotion leads to happiness.

Happiness is what we are looking for. Everyone dreamed of that. There is this happiness for praying, happiness for singing, happiness for sharing, happiness for reading. It’s with ourselves that makes us happy. As for now, I want to talk with you about devotion which leads to happiness.
The phrases “doing devotions” or “having devotions” may sound foreign or weird. These phrases are simply ways people describe spending time with God by reading the Bible (and other Christian literature) and praying. Why bother to read the Bible and pray? Why is having a regular time with God important? We spend time with God in order to deepen and strengthen our relationship with the One who created us and yearns to be with us.

But because we are all different and because each of us has a unique relationship with God, no one devotional pattern will work for everyone. And no one way works for anyone all of the time. Experiment until you find the time of day, content, and length of time spent that helps you feel connected with God.

Keep on Smiling...

It's fun to smile. So keep on smiling and your day starts with a good way. They are cousins but they consider themselves as friends also. Always stays together whenever they have time to play. Sharing toys in each other. I'm happy to see them and take a picture. Can you imagine if all the people will smile at each other, there will be no anger, hatred, fight. The world will be so good. Keep on smiling.

Happy Together

These is the team volunteers for the Medical Camp Mission at Matar. As you can look at those men, they seems to be very happy and enjoying what they are doing. You can't see in their eyes the tiredness, instead all you can see is the smile in their face. it means there is a smile in their hearts. It's good to look at them with all their gestures.

How does self-respect contribute to our happiness? (3)

Every day of your life you make choices about what you will or will not do.

I've listened to countless stories in the counseling room of people who create tensions for themselves because of their own actions. No one knows their secret. But they know.

Consider what the Bible has to say:

Each one examine his own work…in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to another (Gal. 6:4).

Want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise of the same…if you do what is evil, be afraid…for…an avenger…brings wrath upon the one who practices evil (Rom. 13:3-4).

I have found guilt is only a problem with people who pretend to be sorry for something they have done, but intend to do it again. Guilt is no problem to the repentant person, no matter what he has done, if there is a willingness not to repeat the mistake.

If you follow God's commandments, you will watch your self-respect grow, and you will be on the way to becoming indestructible. -Henry Brandt. Visit him at www.BiblicalCounselingInsight.com

How does self-respect contribute to our happiness? (2)

The prophet Isaiah and the great leader Joshua add more insights

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Well-being and Righteousness

If only you had paid attention to My commandments! Then your well-being would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea (Isa. 48:18).

Prosperous and Successful

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success Josh. 1:8).

Searching out all those commandments will lead you into a lifetime study of the Bible. Also, it will guide you into conduct pleasing to God and will contribute to your own self-respect.

That's worth a lifetime of study! Why not commit yourself to a lifetime of doing what is right? Just as people who are physically fit spend a lifetime seeking out fitness principles and following them, so contented people learn the principles that will enable them to build self-respect…to love themselves.

The Bible furnishes us with some broad guidelines to help us make choices, but what it says puts the responsibility for our daily actions squarely on our own shoulders:

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable…I will not be mastered by anything (1 Cor. 6:12).

All things are lawful, but not all things edify (1 Cor. 10:23).

To one who knows the right thing…and does not do it…it is sin (James 4: 17).

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the service of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever (Isa. 32: 17).

Insight, Knowledge of Sin, Prosperous, Righteousness, Self-respect, Stumble, Successful, Tears, Testimonies,Understanding,Well-being.-Henry Brandt. Visit him at www.BiblicalCounselingInsight.com