It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set by Joel Osteen

Author:Joel Osteen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-12T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 29

Keep Singing Your Song

O ne of the secrets to becoming a better you is to keep singing the song that God has put in your heart—even if you can’t carry a tune in a bucket! Let me explain. Too many people go around negative and discouraged, allowing their problems and circumstances to weigh them down. They live stressed out, dragging through each day, not really excited about life. I’ve had people tell me, “Joel, I’ve got too many problems to enjoy life.” Or “The reason I’m discouraged and not happy is because I have all these things coming against me.”

The fact is, God has put a well of joy on the inside of each one of us. Our circumstances may be negative; things may not be going our way. But if we can learn to tap into this joy, we can still be happy. We can live with enthusiasm in spite of what comes against us.

One of the keys is found in Ephesians 5:18. It says, “Ever be filled with the Spirit.” Notice, you don’t just get filled one time and then you live happily ever after. The Scripture says to be ever filled. That means we can be filled on a continual basis. How can we do this?

The next verse reveals the secret: “By speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns, by making melody in your heart, and by being grateful.” In other words, the way to keep your life full of joy and the way to overcome the pressures of life is by keeping a song of praise in your heart. All through the day, we should be singing, if not aloud then at least silently allowing a song of praise to dance through our minds. You may not actually vocalize words and music. You may simply express a grateful attitude. In your thoughts, you are thinking about God’s goodness. Or maybe you go around humming a tune to a song. Maybe it’s something as simple as whistling while you work, but throughout the day, you’re making melody in your heart. Under your breath, you’re saying, “Lord, thank You for this day. Thank You that I’m alive and healthy.”

When you do that, you are filling up on the inside; God is replenishing your strength; He’s refilling your supply of joy and peace. The very things that so often become depleted through the stress, disappointments, and rigors of the day, God wants to refresh in your life. When you keep singing that song of praise, you can be continually refilled, filling up faster than the depletion caused by life taking a toll on you. That’s how we stay full of the Spirit.

“Well, I went to church on Sunday,” Mike said. “I read my Bible before I went to work. Isn’t that enough?”

No, this is an ongoing process. To be ever filled means we have to get in a habit of being refilled throughout the day—especially on those tough days.

Think back to when somebody gave your child some helium-filled balloons on her birthday.

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