As we get closer and closer to Christmas, the temptation to find joy in a delivery from Amazon is tempting—but God’s Word says that joy is the undercurrent of our lives as believers. It’s not dependent on circumstances, relationships or any other thing in our lives. Because of the depth of the undercurrent of joy in the life of a Christian, no matter what is happening on the surface, the undercurrent still moves with strength and stability when it is rooted in Christ. Join me today for a discussion from MomStrong International: In Search of Joy and be encouraged!

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Hey you guys, this is Heidi St. John! Welcome to the podcast. Today is Wednesday, the 12th of December. This is episode 700 here at the podcast. A moment of silence. ?
I just want to thank you guys for listening. We are so excited about what God is doing and today we’re going to take a little bit of time to dig into the study for the month of December, the MomStrong International study – In Search of Joy. You guys, I love this study. I know you’re gonna love it – stick around, I think you’re gonna be encouraged!
So, it’s the 12th of December. I feel like I should be singing a song right now, you know – because we’re running out of time! So, Christmas is gonna be over two weeks from today. If you guys have done your Christmas shopping yet – you heard me talk about this a little bit – I’m kind of a fan of simplifying Christmas. I think – get off the crazy train, simplify it, do things with your kids.
I feel like our kids need to see our faces and we tend to be so often in, you know – we’re trying to help them find joy at Christmas in the aisles of Wal-Mart! And it’s not going to be there. And we’re gonna be sorely disappointed which is kind of why we took the month of December – and we decided – hey, let’s talk about what it means to find joy because we’re literally living in pursuit of it in the culture right now.
And last week at MomStrong International – so, first of all, let me explain something. Let me ‘splain something to you. We are just about at 10,000 members at MSI. And the heart behind it really – is to get you guys into the Word, to equip you.
If you haven’t downloaded the new study, we’ve reformatted a little bit. God has been so good to us, and to me in particular, as He is surrounding me with a team of people that are really coming alongside to help make sure these studies get out to you.
We’ve had a brand new addition to our writing team. I’m very excited about where the ministry itself is going. And I want to just encourage you that God is still at work. I have been, I guess, for lack of a better word – and a lot of you guys follow me online, and so you may have noticed…
Well, first of all, I’ve just started writing. I have a brand new project I’m working on now a 365 day devotional for women. And I’ve decided that no one learns more than the teacher when it comes to teaching -and that’s really what this devotional is. It’s getting me even more in the Word and something that the Holy Spirit has really been convicting me about lately is all this bad news that we’re surrounded by. I mean we are surrounded by bad news! It’s everywhere! I’m tired of my Facebook feed. I open up my phone and it’s just bad news, bad news, bad news, bad news. So what do I do? I share this bad news, that bad news – hardly any good news. But the gospel is good news!
Men and women, we’ve been redeemed.
Oh my goodness, we have the hope of heaven in front of us! I don’t know about you,

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