{"id":1463,"date":"2020-12-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2020-09-25T11:42:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T01:42:46","slug":"how-to-keep-your-peace-and-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/how-to-keep-your-peace-and-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Keep Your Peace And Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord has promised us a sense of joy in the midst of every circumstance we face. Jesus said, <i>\u2018I have told you this so that My joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.\u2019<\/i> (John\u00a015:11<sup>\u00a0NIV<\/sup>) So how can you hold on to your joy and not lose it? The apostle Paul tells us, <i>\u2018May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in believing [through the experience of your faith] that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound and be overflowing (bubbling over) with hope.\u2019<\/i> (Romans\u00a015:13<sup>\u00a0AMPC<\/sup>) <\/p>\n<p>Notice that all-important word <i>\u2018believing\u2019.<\/i> It\u2019s ok to have questions, but you must never doubt God\u2019s love and faithfulness towards you. Joyce Meyer writes: \u2018I remember an evening when I was feeling strongly dissatisfied and discontented. I had no peace or joy and was absolutely miserable. I read  Romans chapter 15:13, and it was indeed \u201ca word in season\u201d for me. My problem was simple: I was doubting instead of believing. I was doubting God\u2019s unconditional love for me, doubting that I could hear from Him, doubting His call on my life, doubting that He was pleased with me. I was filled with doubt\u2026 doubt\u2026 doubt. When I saw the problem and got back into faith and out of doubt\u2026 my joy and peace returned immediately. I\u2019ve found the same thing to be true again and again in my life. When my joy and peace seem to be gone, I check my believing\u2014usually it is gone also.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>And the same principle applies to you today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord has promised us a sense of joy in the midst of every circumstance we face. Jesus said, \u2018I have told you this so that My joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.\u2019 (John\u00a015:11\u00a0NIV) So how can you hold on to your joy and not lose it? The apostle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}