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JOYFUL ATTITUDE

• Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth
• Break forth and sing for joy and sing praises
  (Psalm 984).

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rejoice alwaysRejoice always(1
Thessalonians 516)
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sorrowful but always rejoicing but in
everything commending ourselves as servants of
God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in
hardships, in distresses, in beatings, in
imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in
sleeplessness, in hunger, purity, in knowledge,
in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in
genuine love, in the word of truth, in the power
of God by the weapons of righteousness for the
right hand and the left, by glory and dishonor,
by evil report and good report regarded as
deceivers and yet true as unknown yet
well-known, as dying yet behold, we live as
punished yet not put to death, as sorrowful yet
always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich,
as having nothing yet possessing all things (2
Corinthians 6410).
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give thanks in everythingRejoice always
pray without ceasing in everything give thanks
for this is Gods will for you in Christ Jesus(1
Thessalonians 516-18).
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be content in every circumstance of lifeNot
that I speak from want for I have learned to be
content in whatever circumstances I am. I know
how to get along with humble means, and I also
know how to live in prosperity in any and every
circumstance I have learned the secret of being
filled and going hungry, both of having abundance
and suffering need. I can do all things through
Him who strengthens me. Nevertheless, you have
done well to share with me in my affliction
(Philippians 41114).
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do all things without complaining or
arguingDo all things without grumbling or
disputing that you may prove yourselves to be
blameless and innocent, children of God above
reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse
generation, among whom you appear as lights in
the world, holding fast the word of life, so that
in the day of Christ I may have cause to glory
because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain
(Philippians 21416).
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rejoice when reviled and slanderedBlessed
are you when men cast insults at you, and
persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against
you falsely, on account of Me. Rejoice, and be
glad, for your reward in heaven is great, for so
they persecuted the prophets who were before you
(Matthew 51112).
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rejoice when ostracized, insulted, and
defamedBlessed are you when men hate you, and
ostracize you, and cast insults at you, and spurn
your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of
Man. Be glad in that day, and leap for joy, for
behold, your reward is great in heaven for in
the same way their fathers used to treat the
prophets (Luke 62223).
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rejoice in weaknesses, insults, calamities,
persecutions, and difficultiesAnd because of
the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for
this reason, to keep me from exalting myself,
there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a
messenger of Satan to buffet me to keep me from
exalting myself! Concerning this I entreated the
Lord three times that it might depart from me.
And He has said to me, My grace is sufficient
for you, for power is perfected in weakness.
Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about
my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may dwell
in me. Therefore I am well content (eudokeo) with
weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with
persecutions, with difficulties, for Christs
sake for when I am weak, then I am strong (2
Corinthians 12710). eudokeo means take
pleasure in, take delight in, enjoy in Greek
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seizure of propertyBut remember the former
days, when, after being enlightened, you endured
a great conflict of sufferings, partly, by being
made a public spectacle through reproaches and
tribulations, and partly by becoming sharers with
those who were so treated. For you showed
sympathy to the prisoners, and accepted joyfully
the seizure of your property, knowing that you
have for yourselves a better possession and an
abiding one. Therefore, do not throw away your
confidence, which has a great reward. For you
have need of endurance, so that when you have
done the will of God, you may receive what was
promised (Hebrews 103236).
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being beaten and imprisonedAnd they took his
advice and after calling the apostles in, they
flogged them and ordered them to speak no more in
the name of Jesus, and then released them. So
they went on their way from the presence of the
Council, rejoicing that they had been considered
worthy to suffer shame for His name. And every
day, in the temple and from house to house, they
kept right on teaching and preaching Jesus as the
Christ (Acts 54042).
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And the crowd rose up together against them, and
the chief magistrates tore their robes off them,
and proceeded to order them to be beaten with
rods. And when they had inflicted many blows upon
them, they threw them into prison, commanding the
jailer to guard them securely and he, having
received such a command, threw them into the
inner prison, and fastened their feet in the
stocks. But about midnight Paul and Silas were
praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and
the prisoners were listening to them (Acts
162225)
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the choice of attitudes is betweensorrow 8
contentment 8 joy 8 rejoicing 8 singing 8 praise
8 submission 8 obedience 8 growth 8
rewardsORsorrow 8 grumbling 8 complaining 8
anger 8 rebellion 8 blasphemy 8 disobedience 8
divine discipline
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APPLICATION

• which attitudes do you think will make you more
  like Jesus Christ? which attitudes please God
  and encourage him to bless you?

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