It’s easy to be distracted in December, but I’m encouraging you to keep your eyes on the Lord this season. Spend your time and resources on the things in which God wants you to invest. He wants to be invited into every area of your life, even the little things!

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Hey everybody. This is Heidi St. John. Welcome to the podcast. Today is Wednesday, November 28th.
I hope you guys had a fantastic Thanksgiving!
As you may have noticed, I took a couple of podcast days off and we replayed some from the archives. I hope you guys were blessed!
Today we’re going to pick it up and talk a little bit about what it means to be in search of joy.
We are living in a culture right now that is really struggling with this, partly because we’re so self-centered. But God, in His word, says “get your eyes off yourself and keep your eyes on Me”.
If that’s you today, and you’re in search of joy, stick around – I think you’re going to be encouraged!
All right, so it’s Wednesday here at the podcast, which means that we are focusing on the study from Momstrong International. And I’ve got to tell you guys – I am so excited about what God is doing through the Women’s Bible Studies that we are doing at Momstrong International!
If you are not a member over there yet, can I just encourage you to do that?
We have an entire team now that’s working on that Bible study with me. It takes about seven of us to crank that out every week and we’re changing it up just a little bit. I think you guys are going to absolutely love the direction that it’s going.
And let me tell you – the heart behind all of this is very simple: God says in His word that as we walk in right relationship with Him – He is the one who leads and directs and guides our path.
So often what I’m noticing in this generation of mothers, and even in grandmothers, is that we are not walking every day in relationship with the Lord. And the reason that we’re not doing it is because we kind of go “you know what we got this, we got this”.
And so today I thought I’m going to read a little bit.
The next study, by the way, the December study, which is going to start really quick – so this is a great time for you guys to jump in! The next series of studies is going to be called In Search of Joy, and we’re going to be talking about what it means to have joy and how we find joy.
Obviously, there’s joy in the birth of Christ. There’s joy in what God has done for us – but we want that joy that the Bible talks about. That inexpressible joy.
What would happen, women and men, if we experienced a joy that was so deep – that we couldn’t even put it into words?
Peter tells us that we can, and when we do it’s because we’ve attained the salvation of our souls. It’s the outcome of our faith according to 1 Peter 1:8-9.
And so we’re going to be talking about this undeniable longing that we all have for contentment, this unquenchable search for satisfaction. Like that song goes “I can’t get no satisfaction”.
This is sort of the theme of this generation of our culture and obviously, things haven’t changed since that song was written all those years ago.
So we’re going to spend December talking about what it means to have joy, to be in search of joy, and I know it’s going to change your life.
I want to encourage you to join us! You can become a member – first thing to do is to become a member of the free Scripture Writing Community over there.

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