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When we look at the difference between joy and happiness, we learn that joy is produced by the Holy Spirit; happiness is produced by the human spirit. And so, if it’s independent of circumstances, joy is not impacted by what’s happening around us or to us. Joy is what’s happening through us.

Looking at the benefits of grace from Jeremiah 52, Pastor Ford reminds us that grace gives us God’s best even when we are at our worst. We need to understand that we wouldn’t have God’s best if He hadn’t given it to us by His grace. Find out more on today’s Treasured Truth.

Why should we get or give forgiveness? Because it consistently deepens our sense of God’s grace to us and magnifies His forgiveness toward us. It begs us to ask ourselves, “How dare we keep something against someone when God’s forgiven us for all that we have done?” Find out more on today’s Treasured Truth.

When we really think about Christmas, we should gain a whole new perspective that differs from the world’s view.  Pastor Ford reminds us that God invaded human history when Jesus was born.  That should give us a whole new outlook.  He came the first time.  So, we know He’s going to come the second time. ...

One reason why we’re fighting against what God is allowing to happen in our lives may be because we’re immature in our faith and we don’t understand that God’s not allowing our suffering to happen in order to hurt us. Instead, He’s trying to help us. He’s not trying to destroy us. He’s trying to develop...

When we consider the purpose in our problems and pain, we need to realize that it’s not how much of Jesus we have, but it’s how much of us that Jesus has. We need to ask ourselves, do we really trust Him in our time of trouble?

It’s easy to fall into the mindset that Christmas is just about the gifts and the celebrations.  But Christmas is really about the Christ Who came and took the center stage of history.  It’s about God being born as a baby, bringing comfort and conversion to all mankind. ...

The precipitation for our praise is based on Who God is—it's because He has intrinsic glory. In other words, there’s nothing that’s added to Him that makes Him glorious. We praise because He’s God all by Himself—He’s omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient. And He’s worthy of our praise!

When we’re going through persecution—but we know that we have Biblical salvation— that assurance should override any suffering we may be experiencing. How can that override any suffering? Because suffering’s only temporary, but salvation is eternal. Learn more on today’s Treasured Truth.

Nothing will make us pray like a problem.  And that’s one reason why God allows problems to enter our lives so we will learn to depend more on Him.  But we don’t need to understand God’s methods, we just have to trust that He is God and that He knows best and then be thankful for His work in our lives.  Learn...