Statistics show that December is the most stressful and depressing time of the year, with pressures from work, missing loved ones, demands we feel like we have to meet and the overwhelming need to spend money we might not have.

So let’s talk about the antidote to all of this, that antidote is Joy.

So what is Joy?

Joy is not a byproduct of a 6 figure income, nor of living in upscale neighborhood, have fame, economic status. Joy is more than happiness, because happiness speaks to circumstances like a new house, a new car, a new job. Joy is

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If you are searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.

Maybe you have to know the darkness, before you can appreciate the light.

If you give a person too much too soon they will fall in love with your hand and not your heart.

One thing that the early church understood very well, was their need for staying connected with each other. They often went to each other’s house and they would eat together, pray together, encourage each other and bless each other.

Today, we all agree that we have never been so connected, yet we have never been so lonely at the same time. It a real paradox that we find ourselves in and that’s why at WCC, we have been going through series of teachings to help us understand what biblical Christianity is really like.

It’s not just a church’s idea for us to be connected and belong to each other but it’s a heavily emphasized mandate that we are given as Christ’s followers.

Christ’s intent was that the youngest, weakest, newest, the less advantaged ones would always be taken care of in our Christ centered communities. He stresses this point

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The greek word used here is “Ekklesia~ An assembly a gathering, a movement. A group of people who are committed to a specific movement or mission.”

Dear God,

I come boldly before your throne, thank you so much for your word. 

I need walk in your word: Unite my heart to fear your name. I am so scattered, Lord. Pulled in so many directions. So easily distracted. How quickly I forget who you are.
How quickly I forget your goodness to me. Unite my heart, Lord.
Put it back together again.

Refocus my thoughts. Clarify my purpose. Grant that I should want you more than anything else. Thank you for your many gifts, freely given.
Forgive me for loving your gifts more than I love you.

In confessing this I ask for forgiveness in Jesus’ name. Here is my heart, Lord. Come in and rearrange things. Make me new from the inside out.

Thank you for loving me even when I seem to lose my way.

I love you, Lord. Do your work in me. Unite my heart to fear your name.

In Jesus’ Amen.