Your Essential Christmas Gift List JOY!
Dec 24, 2015
Your Essential Christmas Gift
List
Your Essential Christmas Gift
List
JOY!JOY!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Do you need some last minute gift
ideas for Christmas?
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
A Gift for Him
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
A Gift for Her
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
A Gift for Her
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
On a more serious and fundamental
note!
The Second Essential Gift is Joy!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
“Do not sorrow, forthe joy of the LORD is
your strength.”Nehemiah 8:10c
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
“Joy is the infalliblesign of the presence
of God.” Teilhard de Chardin
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
There is great joy surrounding the birth
of the Christ child!
“When they saw the star, they rejoiced with
exceedingly great joy.” Matthew 2:10
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Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
There is great joy surrounding the birth
of the Christ child!
“And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.” Luke
1:14
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Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Luke 2:8-14
8 Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields,
keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood
before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them,
and they…
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
…were greatly afraid. 10 Then the angel said to them, ‘Do not be afraid, for behold,
I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. 11 For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 And this will be the sign to you: You will find
a Babe wrapped in…
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
…swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.’ 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly
host praising God and saying: 14 “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward
men!”
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Joy is a divine dimension of living that is not shackled by circumstances.
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
The Hebrew word means, “to leap or spin around with
pleasure.”
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
In the New Testament the word refers to “gladness,
bliss and celebration.”
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Joy Is Destroyed by the Neglect of the
Spirit
Joy Killer #1
False Expectations!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
11 “Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be
content: 12 I know how to be abased, and I know how to
abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be
full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ
who strengthens me.”Philippians 4:11-13
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Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Joy Is Destroyed by the Neglect of the
Spirit
Joy Killer #2
Ongoing Conflict!
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Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
“...fulfill my joy by being like-minded,
having the same love, being of one accord, of
one mind.”Philippians 2:2
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Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Joy Is Destroyed by the Neglect of the
Spirit
Joy Killer #3
Disregarding Sin!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
“Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make
me hear joyand gladness...”
Psalm 51:7-8
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Joy is Developed by
Careful Cultivation
of God’s Presencein One’s Life!
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Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Open Yourself to God through Jesus
Christ!
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Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
“These things I have spoken to you, that
My joy may remain in you, and that your
joy may be full.” John 15:11
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Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Recognize Godas Joyful!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
“The Lord your God in your midst, the Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with
gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you
with singing.” Zephaniah 3:17
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Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Trust him with the Circumstances of
Your Life!
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Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
“The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My
heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise
him.” Psalm 28:7 NIV
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
So…
Just as Jesus brought Joy into the world when He was
born…
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
He brings Joy into our life as we are born again by His
presence within us!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
Your Essential Christmas Gift List: Joy!
In a world full of all kinds of gifts, may it
be that this Christmas you
receive the gift of the joy of the Lord
throughJesus Christ!
Your Essential Christmas Gift
List
Your Essential Christmas Gift
List
JOY!JOY!