August 30th, 2009 | 
Author: Hello everyone!
We started our new youth series tonight and it’s a little different than our normal series. We are using a book to help look at a timeless truth from Philipians 4:8. Tommy Newberry wrote an incredible book called The 4:8 Principle that helps us to shift the way we think to focus on positive things and not on negative things.
It’s amazing how much our thoughts control who we are and Paul really knew this. When he wrote to the Philipians, he told them to think on the things that are good, true and praiseworthy. Through this, we truly find the joy that God wants for us.
One of my favorite quotes from the book is that “Joy is not some distant destination that we want to get to, instead it’s a path that we choose to take every day.” If we can focus on the positive things in our lives and “count our blessings” we will know an incredible joy that lasts.
If you want to see more of what we cover in this series, take a look on the right side in the youth sermons box and click on forrest gump, the 4:8 principle. I will blog each week that we have a lesson and let you know what we covered. It’s going to be an amazing series!
In HIM,
Gary
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Gary, I read this, and it made me think of a John White quote that I read recently.
“Pleasure is as difficult to pursue as the end of the rainbow. Look for pleasure, and you will never find it. Whenever you try to seize it by the tail, it eludes you…for pleasure is a by-product, a side effect. It takes us by surprise when we are looking for something else. Seek God and you find, among other things, piercing pleasure. Seek pleasure, and in the long run you find boredom, disillusionment, and enslavement.”
It is so amazing to think that when we merely focus on the Lord and all of the many blessings that he gifts us, we are more able to see the pleasure, the joy, the positive!