Watch “The Secret to Joyful Living” Jentezen Franklin, host of Kingdom Connection & Pastor of Free Chapel.
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today I believe this message is going to
encourage you the secret to joyful
living
I believe we’re living in a time when a
spirit of depression and darkness and
fear and sorrow wants to grip the world
but God’s Word promises in his presence
there’s fullness of joy I want to talk
to you about the secret of finding joy
in a tough world that we’re living in
this message is going to help you today
open up your heart and hear Psalms
chapter 16 and verse 11 you will show me
the path of life for in your presence in
your presence is fullness of joy at your
right hand there are pleasures
forevermore the stress the strain the
busyness of modern-day life the in the
society that we live in have developed a
certain unique medical condition that
doctors are calling and huh Dona and huh
Dona is a medical term that speaks of
the increasing number of people who are
losing the ability listen this is a
medical term that psychologists and
doctors have come up with that describes
the increasing number of people who have
lost the ability to find pleasure in
things they used to like they lose the
ability literally to be happy a
relentless pursuit of pleasure and
happiness and they cannot find it it’s
the numbing of the senses is the dulling
of their minds and madona
is a greek word made up of two words and
meaning without and done’ meaning
pleasure get it now without pleasure and
there are many people who are without
pleasure without happiness joyless
cheerless and unexist
since that’s just there there are three
areas that the doctors in the
psychologists say this is manifesting
particularly in this generation there is
social and Madonna meaning that people
are there but they’re not connecting
socially they are perhaps in
relationships but they are they are at a
point where they’re not they’re so
distracted they’re so busy they’re so
over indulged in whatever that they’re
not connecting socially with their own
family with their own mates with their
own loved ones and then there is musical
I thought this was interesting musical
and Adoni
which is again it’s this it’s this
overindulgence it’s this thing that that
that I no longer feel I no longer I’m
impressed I’ve heard so much that
nothing moves me and I thought about our
worship and then I think that the last
one is very interested there’s something
called sexual and Madonna and whereas
before this would only show up in people
who had mild cases of schizophrenia or
they had mild cases of drug addiction or
we’re entering into drug addiction and
and this thing began to take hold of
them in their mind most recent times
doctors say in medical journals that is
completely healthy people in the 21st
century that more and more are being
diagnosed with this condition normal
people who do not have happiness in
their life they’re losing the ability to
receive joy from normal things and it
has to be stimulated more and more and
more and more to enjoy in the pleasure
center of our brain the way that we
receive happiness the way that we feel
happy the way that we feel laughing and
joyful and it is because something
chemically happens in our brain and we
release dopamine makes you happy it’s
what makes you feel up it’s what makes
you you know you’re going on vacation
and some of that it gets released in
your brain because I’m getting out of
here I’m
under the beach and you fill up the
process stops working and what happens
to people is when when they begin to
rely on that feeling that that that’s
what excites them sexually is the
pornography or that’s what excites them
is the drugs and and it releases that
dopamine into their mind and then
they’re up and they’re feeling good but
then when they crash it’s a continual
raising of the bar an upping of the ante
I’ve got to look at something else
more and more and more I’ve got to try
something else I got to do something
else I got to have another affair and
another affair and another lover and
another lover and it never ends the
pleasure that we used to get we don’t
get any more out of just the simple
relationships that we once had it’s not
enough now doctors in scientists
studying Anna Dona believe that the
corporate rise of cases is because
listen we are a society that is over
stimulated that we have so much going on
that techni technological advances and
improvements and inventions of our
modern times that our brains are so
stimulated 24 hours a day 365 days a
year
that we as a society have so many
devices at our fingertips that we can be
sitting around with a bunch of people
and not connecting socially because
we’re all on our iPhones checking our
Twitter checking this checking that
looking at this getting this information
and we never shut off our brains to
connect our phones iPads chat rooms apps
games texts Twitter Wi-Fi satellite TV
pictures on the screen so much so much
that we’re over stimulated I’m not
against iPhones I’m not against
technology but if we don’t watch it we
don’t even talk at our meals and we sit
down with our family but nobody’s
connect every
is in the living room looking at their
phone and so it takes something extreme
to get our attention
technology one doctor said listen to
this powerful statement technology is
revolutionizing our lives but it’s but
it’s ravishing our brains the author and
director of Jurassic Park the movie was
asked why he did it so spectacular and
great an outlandish with all the special
effects and listen to what he said he
said in other generations people wanted
to be educated enlightened improved and
empowered but in this generation they
want to be entertained the great fear of
this generation is not disease or death
its boredom that’s why you can’t even go
use the bathroom without an iPhone to
look at you can’t go anywhere the great
fear of this generation is not death or
disease it’s I’m afraid for one second
I’m gonna get quiet and stealing in that
society God says be still and know turn
it all off and know that I am gone I’m
gonna shock some of the young people
here but there was a time I know now try
not to faint there was a time in my
lifetime when there were no iPhones
amazing
I actually remember when the phone hung
on the wall I know this is a forints
like a foreign language too but just
imagine if you can in your mind the
phone did not go with you everywhere you
went
it actually hung on the wall and then we
got super technical with technology and
we got an extra length cord that we can
move from the kitchen
for that we thought we were something we
would move from the kitchen into the
living room and when we let it go it
pretty much hang yourself up but now
look at what we’ve got
we’re over stimulated I’m not preaching
against technology and iPhones but if
we’re not careful we’re not cautious
even our capacity to experience God will
be compromised because we filled our
minds and our lives with so much of this
other stimuli that there’s no room for
God and we can miss the master he can be
plain he can be sitting here in all of
his glory he can be playing a song of
deliverance over your life and you never
even know it because you’re so
self-absorbed
and you want to get in and get out and
leave here just like you came and your
life is empty and you know what you’re
so stimulating you’re so overstimulated
that you don’t get a thrill out of what
you thought you would so you have to
keep trying for more trying for more but
in his presence there is fullness of joy
and at his right hand there is pleasure
forevermore it’s not in a party in
another party in another club and
another club and another lover and
another lover in another marriage and
another marriage it’s only in his
presence and when you connect to him you
begin to connect to them and the more
you connect to him the more you will
love them but if we’re not careful we’ll
come to God’s house the Spirit of God
the word of God the anointing of God
does not affect us anymore we live in a
world of stimulation and if we’re not
careful what used to move you in this
church will no longer move you what used
to touch you will no longer touch you
and you just go through the routine of
being a lukewarm believer and I refuse
to pastor that kind of church
I don’t care what I have to do I refuse
to be that kind of preacher I’ve come
too far to get a lukewarm and cold
girlcode
and let the passion for God die and me
I’m telling you we need to be on fire
for Jesus Christ
nothing else brings pleasure nothing
else brings a joyful life Jesus is the
center of our joy
but we’re pursuing pursuing pursuing
pursuing and when you get it it won’t be
enough because it’s only in his presence
Isaiah said he’s wonderful counselor
mighty God the everlasting father but if
you’re not careful you lose the
wonderful you’ll miss the master you’re
so busy you’re even thinking what have I
got to do when I get out of here
maybe the master is here today I refuse
to go through the motions and the
gestures of worship I want my heart to
be moved by who he is he is wonderful he
is Jesus am I still old in his presence
am I still moved do I do I still get
goosebumps how long has it been since
you felt something going up your spine
some of you say I never felt that I’m
telling you that there services you can
get in with a tangible presence of God
can move your soul even the hardest
shelled person will have tears well up
in their eyes when the King walks in I
feel him here right now I really do
would you welcome the Holy Spirit would
you say God I need you in my life I need
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great fear of this generation is not
death or disease it’s I’m afraid for one
second I’m going to get quiet and steal
and in that society God says be still
and know turn it all off and know that I
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four seventy three I want to teach you
the secrets to joyful living you’ve been
down and depressed and discouraged but
there’s a spirit of joy that’s going to
be released in your life as you hear
these messages Elisha found himself
sinking in it life without pleasure he
was in depression and he thought the big
spectacular stimulation would get him
out so so the wind whirlwind came and
God was not in the whirlwind and the
fire fail and God was not in the fire
and and and and the lightning hits and
all kinds of things earth shakes but God
was not in the earthquake but then the
Bible said there Cain listen to it a
still small voice that’s what’s missing
you can be so busy that you’re barren
you’re so busy you’re so self-absorbed
you so hurry hurry hurry go go go that
you’re disconnecting from one another
and most importantly you’re disconnected
from God the Lord cares more about who
you are than what you do and I feel such
a burden today I really do because that
steel small-boat voice still brings true
pleasure through purpose truth joy peace
forgiveness fulfillment I feel like
saying take this whole world but give me
Jesus I feel like saying I’d rather have
Jesus than anything we’re in a battle
for our families for homes I have an
amazing son a 17 year old son Drake he’s
an incredible kid and I love him so much
I’m so proud of them he’s a good boy and
I uh
I find myself worrying a lot about him
he’s the only boy I’ve got so I
constantly ask him when I get him alone
as a dad son how are you doing are you
okay what are you looking at be careful
what you see on that internet talk to me
talk to me you can tell me anything talk
to me talk to me and it may feel awkward
and stuff as a dad but I want to tell
you you dads need to start having these
kinds of conversations because the enemy
is destroying a generation our
Counseling Center is telling us more and
more and more marriages are being
decimated by this overstimulation of
pornography that gets demands more more
more more more to get that feeling again
and suddenly the relationships are
destroyed in the wake I want you to
understand something that as a man if
your father that you don’t just win for
you but when David and Goliath met in
the valley before they started to fight
the Bible said the armies were arrayed
against each other and the armies of
Israel and the armies of the Philistines
were about to fight and and Jew Goliath
stopped it listen to this and he said oh
no we’re not gonna fight man demand that
every Army on army here’s how this
battle goes and listen to me Dad send a
man out from your camp and we’ll send a
man out from our camp and let the man on
your side fight against the man on our
side and the one who wins if I defeat
your man then his soldiers become my
slaves we need to understand is the head
of our home as
me and I need to understand and we
pastors need to understand that as head
of this ministry that we’re not just
fighting for ourselves but the people
that are under us
we’ll have struggles if we don’t defeat
our giant notice it’s not army against
army but its leader against leader and
you’re the leader of your home sir
you’re the leader of that family you’re
the leader of that life and if you don’t
fight and win then he has right to
what’s under you that’s why I can’t come
in here on Sunday and play Church that’s
why I can’t just go through the routine
of loving God but I have to have his
touch I have to be in his presence do
you understand what I’m trying to say
there’s a war going on and the enemy
wants to take people deeper and deeper
and deeper and deeper into wickedness
and defilement and filthiness of the
flesh and iniquity and the Holy Spirit
has to send messages like this that
stops everything and awakens our
conscience from the busyness and the
barrenness of life and something begins
to stir in a heart again that says oh
God
this is not this is not where I’m
supposed to be I need you
I wish there would come a cry from this
church a crime being and women boys and
girls teenagers and moms grandparents
that would say God I don’t just want to
rush in and miss the master
but I believe throw-up Psalm 16 one more
time that today in this service you show
me the path of life this is what life is
all about in your presence there is
fullness of joy and at your right hand
pleasures forevermore would you raise
your hands toward heaven all over this
room as if you feel comfortable doing it
would you do it as an act of surrender
just raise them high as an act of
invitation and say holy spirit I don’t
want to miss the master lead me in the
path of life for in your presence there
is fullness of joy and at your right
hand there’s pleasure forevermore some
of you have resisted so many times that
it is becoming harder and harder and
harder and harder for the shale that has
developed over your heart to be
penetrated you’ve gone so deep into
iniquity more and more and more and more
and more that it’s becoming harder and
harder to connect to the touch of God
and the anointing of God in the presence
of God it doesn’t move you anymore this
is your service
how long has it been for you sir for you
mom for you teenager for you single mom
since you were so in his presence that
everything was swept away and everything
you’ve been longing for missing begin to
pour into your life he consumed you I’m
not I’m not making this up I’m telling
you there is a place in him or there’s
pleasure
and there’s fullness of joy don’t get so
busy that you miss the master in his
presence there’s fullness of joy at his
right hand there’s pleasure forevermore
don’t allow the distractions of life the
hurry the hustle and bustle of everyday
living to rob us of taking time to go
into God’s presence where there’s peace
where there’s joy where there’s a life
where there’s purpose I want to pray for
you today God has not given you the
spirit of fear or discouragement that
spirit of giving up you’re going to go
through not give up you’re going through
to the other side you’re just in the
middle he’s made you a promise you’re
going to the other side you can’t quit
now and the secret to joyful living
folks is getting in God’s presence and I
want to encourage you today if you don’t
know him as your Savior asking today
call on his name say Jesus say that
Jesus I give you my life I want to enter
in to what you did on the cross for me I
receive you as my savior wash me cleanse
me and raise me from this dead life that
does not fulfill I want to know you in
jesus name amen he’ll never turn you
away
he’ll never throw you aside he loves you
and he’s got a joyful living
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