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May 10, 2019

5 Must-Haves for a Joyful Day

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As I’m writing, it is Sunday, so that means tomorrow is Monday, which means it’s a good idea to know 5 must-haves for a joyful day. Because Mondays.

5 MUST HAVES FOR A JOYFUL DAY

To be honest, I’ve never been an overly strategic person, but as I’ve been learning to juggle three part-time jobs plus a family, and desiring to grow one business wider and deeper, it’s essential I learn to strategize. That can flesh itself out to include my thoughts, my calendar, and my choices. And even how I will enter each and every morning.

Thankfully I know this is true:

The faithful love of the Lord never ends!
    His mercies never cease.
Great is his faithfulness;
   his mercies begin afresh each morning. (Lamentations 3:22-23)

Because every morning is a brand new opportunity to seek out the Lord’s mercies. L.M. Montgomery said it best this way through a fiery redhead:

Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it.

Anne Shirley

5 Must-Haves for a Joyful Day

So here are 5 Must-Haves for a Joyful Day, which you can take with you into each of your tomorrows.

Gratitude

I’ve shared numerous times about gratitude, and sometimes have included one of my favorite quotes:

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It takes what we have and makes it enough and more.

Melody Beattie

In my experience, gratitude is active. It involves intentionally speaking, writing, sharing, showing, and extending thanks to people around you. Voiced into the air, a song of gratitude carries our heart and mind forward on its melody and has power to lift our head above discouragement. And being thankful on purpose is E-S-S-E-N-T-I-A-L to a joyful day, and I can basically guarantee your gratitude will help someone else have a joyful day too.

Goals

Long-term dreams can be broken into short-term pieces that move us toward what is to come. Because big dreams don’t just happen when moons line up nicely. They happen from hard work, moving along an intentional trajectory toward a desired result.

And just like our teachers taught us in school, large papers are written more productively and easily when based on an outline. Because a good outline is not haphazard – it is an intentional framework upon which an entire essay will hang. It is where the most essential work lies, because if the framework is weak or off-kilter, so too will the paper be.

  • At the top of the year, outline the major dreams (perhaps 2 for family, 2 for work, 2 for professional development… be creative, and dare to dream!)
  • Next, brainstorm: What are the big steps that lead to those dreams? Divide up the calendar into 2-3 big steps forward per month, per dream.
  • Then, examine how each week will move toward each of the monthly steps.
  • Finally, divide up the week into manageable, strategic bite-sized pieces to help lead in the right direction. Each day can be a joyful day.

Perspective

There is a comedian and art critic who hinges everything on this. He says:

I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.

Ursus Wehrli

Have you done that today? Have you tried to consider a circumstance from another person’t point of view? Or have you examined a micro situation from a macro perspective? Zoom out. Could you take something in from a different angle? Step to the side.

For me, letting JOY loose has partly been a journey in perspective. God called me to Joy Let Loose when I was decidedly joy-less. And He has walked with me through some messy parts of finding joy again by calling me to vulnerability in community, and acknowledgement of #reallife stuff. Sometimes it feels just like this:

Pic from Nadine Shaabana via Unsplash

God gifts us with a glimpse that actual Kingdom reality doesn’t look quite like what we see in the moment. He uses people to help us ask important questions that narrow things in or turn them around or magnify what matters. It’s often all about perspective, and in the change, we find a joyful day. So be open to a shift!

Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Flexibility

A fresh perspective begs for flexibility. We will be far less drained and far more joyful when we can roll with things somewhat. Not that organization, planning, or strategy need to be thrown out the window.

Remember the essay outline I mentioned? Outlines and plans and strategies are important. But sometimes the clothing that ultimately dresses the outline can shift, or be accessorized differently. Sometimes throwing an orange scarf in the mix that you happened to find in the bin at Goodwill is just the thing to tie the whole designer outfit together. Get where I’m going with this analogy?

I used to teach piano lessons. Scales, chords, sight-reading, classical music, gospel songs, jazz…all the things that I think are important for budding musicians to learn. But one key component I often included that many other teachers didn’t were moments for creative music making. I wanted to inspire the songwriters within.

And the best thing I think I infused into these little artists was an appreciation for flexibility. A “mistake” in songwriting is just an opportunity to try going a different direction than you intended. It’s an invitation for beauty you didn’t anticipate.

Be flexible. Find beauty in changing direction today. A joyful day just might live there.

Laughter

A joyful day absolutely MUST hold laughter. I mean, they basically have to go hand-in-hand, I think. Even the hardest days can hold joy, after all. Even grieving days can have levity, and the most stressful days can find a chuckle somewhere. It’s important for our overall wellness.

I doubt I have to champion the benefits of laughter for you. But I may have to provide a reminder for you to seek it out if you want to have a joyful day. Check out that linked article for some great ideas for being strategic about laughter, mm-k?

And I’ll just say this: laughter is generally best when experienced with others. So in my encouragement for you to laugh everyday, I’m really saying this: get around other joyful people everyday. Joy begets joy. Laughter inspires laughter. If you don’t got it…go get it!

No day is complete without a belly laugh, amirite?

Go Get That Joyful Day!

Gratitude + Goals + Perspective + Flexibility + Laughter = the perfect storm for a joyful day. Let’s be strategic about letting JOY loose.

Tell us in the comments below what you plan to do to find your joyful day!

Elizabeth Joy

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March 1, 2019

7 Ways to Say Thank you

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7 Ways to Say Thank You

How important is it that we say ‘thank you?’ Yes, it’s one of those politeness principles we learn as children, but is it important for us to carry that into our adult lives?

One of my favorite quotes is this: “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.” (Melody Beattie)

At Joy Let Loose, I am fueled by the calling to light up the world with JOY. To find joy and to walk in it myself, but to also let it loose for others to walk in too. And I find that one of the very best ways to experience and walk in JOY is to give it away. That’s what prompts me to create Joy Challenges on my Facebook page. It what encourages me to invite people into my Young Living tribe. And it’s what keeps me coming back here to write.

So how can we make a practice of being grateful and sharing our gratitude with others? How can we appreciate people and say “thank you” in ways that are significant to them, so that we are letting JOY loose in their lives?

Giving JOY away so often looks simply like gratitude. And “gratitude unlocks the fullness of life…” What a beautiful, joyful circle that creates.

I’ve compiled a list of seven ways we can appreciate people and say “thank You.’ It is by no means exhaustive. But it is intended to help us all get started. And it’s possible you haven’t thought about some of these as a form of gratitude before. I would love to hear in the comments below which of these you found helpful. How did you use these ideas to let JOY loose? Or what other creative ideas would you add?

Know their names

At our church we all wear name tags. We often say that all relationships begin by learning someone’s name. Now, there are a few exceptions to that rule. Children are sometimes more than content to play for hours alongside a new pal whose name they did not think to learn. And some people build virtual relationships with pseudonyms and avatars. But for the most part, we begin relationships by exchanging names.

Have you ever noticed how meaningful it is to re-encounter someone you’ve met only once and have them remember your name? Chances are, if this is important to you, it is also important to others. It shows people that they are:

  • Seen
  • Respected
  • Valuable

But not everyone excels at this. I don’t. Sometimes I think my memory is like a dream – it’s sort of still there, but kind of vague and just outside my grasp. So, how can you hone this skill and show people they are meaningful to you by remembering their name?

  • Speak it. On that first encounter, say their name to their face several times within the confines of your conversation. Your voice + their face will add a memory peg
  • Tell someone. Immediately after your first meeting, tell someone about it. “Hey, I just met so-and-so. Do you know her?” This is like rehearsal.
  • Reach out. Let them know you were glad to meet them, even through a quick Facebook message. This will force you to look them up, and repeat their name again. And I’m sure when you say “glad to meet you,” they will hear you say thank you. It will demonstrate gratitude in and of itself.

Take an interest

Another way to say thank you is to take an interest in them. Taking an interest is to learn someone’s name, and then to want to know more. It’s to press past the obligatory “Hello, how are you? Great!” as you breeze by with barely a glance. It’s stopping, looking in eyes, and engaging. It’s moving beyond acquaintance and creating friend.

If you’ve ever heard the phrase, ‘If you want to love me, love my kids,’ then this is a similar premise. If you want to truly show people that you appreciate them, take note of their lives. Find common interest. Ask about their family. Follow up on the things they tell you about. Stepping into someone’s world says “I value you.”

Write a Letter

Remember the days before texts, emails and DMs when letters would arrive in your mailbox? With real stamps and return addresses and everything? And do you remember how exciting it was to tear those open?

Letter writing is kind of a lost art. But the excitement of opening a handwritten letter is not lost on us. In fact, in our insta-world, it may even be more meaningful that someone took the time to choose the card/notepaper, address the envelope, select the right postage, and get it into the mailbox. The person who did that for you thought about you that whole time. They appreciate you.

Now, go be that person.

Voice text or phone call

This past month I took a leadership development challenge with my business. I thoroughly enjoyed it. One of the most valuable things I realized was how meaningful voice-to-voice contact in. Again, we operate in such a text-based and instant world, that the warmth of voice is often lost. So I started using the phone more. And I started sending voice texts instead of just texting. Every single person who received a voice text from me over the last few weeks has mentioned how meaningful it was to hear my voice.

Go the extra mile and add warmth to your connections.

Invite them in

Ready for another “extra mile”? One incredible way to say thank you to people and to help them to feel valuable is to expand your family borders and open your home to them. If the very thought of that makes you panic, don’t worry. Most people are more focused on the gratitude they feel to get to share life with you than they are on your clutter and dust. I promise.

We are made for relationship. We aren’t made to do life alone. But so many people are starved for relationship that they don’t know the first thing about living life in community. And yet, bringing people into community can say thank you so much more loudly than most other things. So why not take a chance, offer an invite, be okay with the state of your house, and add to its warmth and love by expanding your borders to invite them in?

Listen

It has become apparent to me over the years that listening is actually one of my skills. I know this because:

  • Most of my closest friends are talkers 🙂
  • My natural go-to is to ask questions, not make statements
  • People regularly thank me for listening
  • I struggle with feeling like people don’t want to listen to me (I doubt this is always true, and believe it is a place where I actively need to replace a lie with the truth. But sometimes our weaknesses accuse our strengths, right?

We all have an intrinsic desire to be known. And being known happens through patient exploration. There is incredible joy in knowing that if we love God, we are known by Him. (1 Cor. 8:3) And there is also incredible joy in knowing that we are known by others. When I listen to people, I ask God to increase my capacity to care about what they care about, and to help them to feel valuable. To feel known. That’s it.

Stay off your devices. Look people in the eye. Listen. Ask questions and leave space for them to answer them. This is a huge way to show your gratitude for them and say thank you.

Pray

I’m afraid this is one of those suggestions that may come across either as a no-brainer, or as an “every-Christian-says-they’ll-pray-but-do-they-ever-actually’? kind of things.

If you’ve never offered to pray for someone. Do it. And then actually do it.
If you’ve offered to, but then forgotten to, do it. Actually do it.

There is no greater partnership you can make with someone than to lock arms with them by seeking the Lord on their behalf.

Two suggestions to help with establishing this as an intentional habit:

  • Pray right away – instead of telling someone you’ll pray for them, and then walking away or hanging up the phone, pray right then. Praying in the moment, out loud, with the person you are praying for is an incredible way to say thank you for their life and friendship.
  • Create a prayer journal – Start an evening habit of reminding yourself who you offered to pray for throughout your day. Write them in your prayer journal, along with a context clue about what you want to pray about. When prayers are answered, go back and update!

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.

Melody Beattie

People are worth the investment. Friendship is worth working on. Those manners we learned as children are still relevant for us as adults, and we have the incredible opportunity to unlock the fullness of life by being grateful. How will you say thank you today and let JOY loose?

Elizabeth Joy

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January 20, 2019

Top 5 Scriptures to Turn My Attitude Around (#goals)

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Well, I let the cat out of the bag and told you my word for 2019 – Happy. 

Risky, I know.

Because what if I wake up on the wrong side of the bed? Or what if the dog chews up my shoes? Or what if I argue with my husband and I just want to be mad? Then you’ll know I’m breaking my New Year’s Resolution. Ugh.

Is it really like that? Can I just resolve to be happy? Well, in my last post I talked a little about the strategic element to pursuing happiness. And now I’m going to let you in a little on one actual day-to-day strategy.

What can you and I both do to help us to be happy?

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

Andrew Carnegie

Goal #1 to being happy: Fill Up with Good Things

If you’ve taken a turn around Joy Let Loose at all, you’ll know I love Jesus. If you aren’t sure whether you do, that’s ok. It’s still cool you’re here. But I need you to know that Jesus is always my filter. He’s always my lens. (P.S. If you haven’t read anything else on my site, hang out awhile. Check out previous posts in all my menus. You’ll find stuff about family, about trauma, about moving, jewelry, and even my choice to use essential oils. There’s a little bit of everything here, but I see it all through Jesus. And I’d love to sit and have coffee with you for a bit.)

So anyway, my very first goal – filling up with good things – has to do with Him. And specifically, the Bible. Because I have come to trust the Scriptures to turn my attitude around.

Confession time:

I’ve been in ministry for 20+ years – Churches, Bible Colleges, Discipleship Groups, Youth Groups…that’s a long time to be a spiritual leader. And most of that time, I’ve been a faithful student of the Bible. However, there are seasons where I have fallen off the wagon, so to speak. Where I allow my busy-ness or my tired-ness or my sad-ness or my confident-ness 🙂 to distract me from what I know deep down is an ultimate priority. Because I allow them to pull me away from spending time reading the Bible. So I can tell you from firsthand experience how much of a difference it makes in my level of happiness when I choose to fill up with good things – I need the Scriptures to turn my attitude around.

Renew Your Mind

Paul tells the Romans not to conform to the patterns of the world, but to be transformed by the renewing of their minds. (Romans 12:2) So how do we renew our minds? I believe one primary way to renew our minds so that we do not conform to the patterns of our world, and so that we are able to test and approve God’s perfect and pleasing will, is to read and meditate on scripture.

  • Scripture is a window into God’s heart. It is the primary way God chose to show us who He is. And it is abundant in the grace and love of our heavenly Father.
  • Scripture is a mirror. It reveals to us who we are. And also who God has created us to be. It is direct, vulnerable, kind, and transformative.
  • Scripture is living and active. It changes the way that we think and make our decisions.
  • Scripture is a perspective-changer. Like a brand-new lens, it helps us to see things with a Kingdom focus. It helps us to discover what God is doing through our circumstances, and not to focus on the circumstances alone.
  • Scripture sustains us. The Holy Spirit often uses it to remind us of truth in difficult moments. The more we are filled up with it, the more opportunity He has to fuel us with it in our day-to-day life.

Filling up with good things: the goal that commands my thoughts, liberates my energy, and inspires my hope.

With that in mind, then, who’s in? I’m choosing to depend on Scriptures to turn my attitude around. So do you want to join me to meditate on these 5 short passages over the next 15 days? I plan to focus on one Scripture for three days straight. I will read it, cross-reference it, write it out, memorize it, talk about it, and sit silently asking God to help me live into it. And I’m pretty confident this will help me on my journey as I choose #happy.

Join me!

So let me know by clicking here if you are joining me while I’m learning these 5 Scriptures to turn my attitude around. And if you do, I’ll send you a few encouragements along the way.

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What about you – what’s your word for 2019? Have you created a strategy to see it become a reality in your life? Tell us in the comments below!

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January 1, 2019

New Year’s Resolutions (and finding happiness)

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It’s time for those pesky New Year’s Resolutions again. As a blogger, I have the (un)fortunate opportunity to be reminded of previous New Year’s resolutions I’ve put out there in black and white for all to see. All it takes is a little scrolling for me to remember that I talked about enlarging our borders in 2018 and pursuing JOY in 2017. And I feel almost a little sorry for my then-self, who clearly had no idea about the dark corners and jagged cliffs those years would hold. Crisis and fear prowled around waiting to devour innocent resolve, and I had no clue what was coming. Did that make me naive, I wonder? Should I have not bothered?

My flesh a little bit says ‘yes’, but my spirit says, ‘NO!’ (Emphatically, in her biggest girl voice.)

Indeed, I still think it is important to make New Year’s Resolutions. Why bother? And what are mine for 2019? Thank you for asking. 🙂

Why Bother Making New Year’s Resolutions?

Well, I believe goal-setting helps us turn the page with purpose. New Year’s resolutions help us to be more strategic about how we face what is before us. A strategy, according to Merriam-Webster, “is a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim.” According to Forbes, it is “a framework for making decisions…” It helps us to consider the “why” of our lives as we enter the new year, so we can then chart the course of the “how.” Of course, we all know the challenge of remaining disciplined. But perhaps the gravity and importance of the resolution–its why–may help us. Anything worth becoming is worth working for.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible. (Albert Einstein)

Of course, reasonable resolutions may seem more possible than absurd ones. But the absurd are the places where imagination and creativity reside. Where passion and drive pulse.

Past Resolutions about JOY

Let me recount a little about my resolution to pursue JOY in 2017-18. What I thought I would find was more laughter, more light-heartedness, more jovial times. Instead, though, what I found was more steadfastness in pain, more patience in crisis, and a greater ability to remain constant in chaos. In fact, the jovial and light-hearted moments of this year were few and far between, and seemed almost to punctuate sadness. Was this the JOY I was looking for?

Well, no. And yes.

It wasn’t the JOY I was hoping for, but it was JOY that I found.

Paul reminds the Romans to “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” (Romans 12:12). Interesting how closely he places joy and hope to affliction and prayer. Hmmmm. Almost as if that’s where joy tends to reside.

He had also pleaded with the Philippians: “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: ‘Rejoice!’  Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.  Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” (Phil. 4:4-7) Notable, again, how near joy sits to anxiousness and need. And that rejoicing is possible at all times.

So what about Happiness then?

Back in February of 2017 I wrote about the artificial division we Christians sometimes make between JOY and HAPPINESS. And I considered how God intended them to be intertwined, though they aren’t identical in nature. So now I sit and think about how fleeting moments of happiness have seemed this year, even though I have consistently been strengthened by the JOY of the Lord.

Was I perhaps more strategic in 2018 about pursuing JOY in my need than I was about pursuing HAPPINESS?

But may the righteous be glad and rejoice before God; may they be happy and joyful. (Psalm 68:3)


Choose JOY and Choose HAPPY

My Word for 2019 – HAPPY

In 2019 I am going to be more strategic to choose happy. I am going to look for happiness, document happiness, celebrate happiness, and promote happiness. Through my writing, my leading, my business building,  my whatever, I believe I can find the promised happiness of the Lord as I continue to choose joy.

How about you? Do you have a word for 2019? Share in the comments below how you resolve to pursue it in this coming year.

Elizabeth Joy

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October 26, 2018

Leading Worship With Joy (Instead of Giving Up in Defeat)

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How can you ensure you are leading worship with joy (instead of giving up with defeat?)

Ok now. Some of you read that question and are just about to click away. Even if you don’t have a musical bone in your body, this post is for you too. Please stay. 🙂

Some of you would know that my main ministry role is as a worship pastor. I have held numerous roles within this realm, from volunteer, to paid staff, to a professor of worship. All of these roles have stretched me and taught me much about Christian worship. None has really stretched me as much as my current role. And it’s not the role itself, or the church (which I love!). Rather, it was the reality that I was ultimately the one responsible to encourage our congregation to come  joyfully and fully to the Lord in worship, while in the middle of my own season of difficulty over the last eight months or so.

Rewind…

I’ve been through other troublesome seasons before as a worship leader. Like immediately after one of my husband’s best friends hit a moose with his car, dying instantly, and we had to lead worship at his funeral. Or that time five years ago when I had just spent several nights in the hospital learning to navigate a new Type 1 Diabetes reality with our 10-year-old daughter, only to wake up early the next morning (groggy) to an email announcing my fill-in worship leader for that morning’s chapel service had backed out. I remember being angry, yet not wanting to thrust anyone else into a last minute situation, and just crying in the shower. I was so mad at God for all my little girl was going through, exhausted from sleeping on an uncomfortable hospital cot, and overwhelmed by what was now only a 4-day reality for us that literally changed our lives.

But somehow, I was going to need to get up in front of our entire Bible College population and start leading  worship with joy in less than two hours. 

God met me right there in my frustration. He can always handle my anger at Him. And as I cried in the shower, He filled my mind with Truth. Scriptures came back to me. Songs welled up. And before I was even ready to drive to the chapel, I was excited to lead our people to worship. Because I realized again that He had never left us. I remembered His goodness. And I wanted to share that with other people so they could remember too. That morning stands out in my memory as one of the most powerful mornings of worship I have ever experienced in the hundreds, or maybe even thousands, of times I’ve led.

 

Leading Worship With Joy

(Instead of Giving Up in Defeat)

Who is a worship leader? What does a worship leader do? Most people would answer that question with descriptions including singing, playing an instrument, or leading from a platform into a microphone. And yes, in our church contexts, the vocational worship leader tends to do those things. But I would suggest there is more. There are more people called to lead worship than those of us who are skilled musically.

In fact, I would suggest that  all Christians are called to be worship leaders. Because to lead worship with joy is to point the way for other people to worship Jesus. You don’t have to be musical to do that, now, do you? In fact, here are some of the ways Christians can lead other people to worship God:

  • share your story of meeting Jesus
  • send an encouraging text that reminds someone of God’s love
  • tell someone about God’s provision when you were in need
  • add chairs to your table and invite people into your home
  • create graphics that highlight truths about God and share them through social media
  • change the conversation to one that is uplifting when it wants to drift to negativity
  • visit someone who is experiencing difficulty and help them, reminding them of God’s presence
  • invite someone to join you in a reading plan
  • openly replacing lies with truth as you discover them
  • write out 10 reasons you are grateful and post it as your Facebook status
  • listen carefully when people talk to you, and tell them where you see God moving in their story

This is only scratching the surface. But I hope you can see that none of these scenarios involve music, yet all point other people to God. This is  worship leading.

So What?

So what’s the big deal? Why am I even writing this post?

Well, because when life is tough, it’s really hard to do any of these things. It’s much easier to simply give up in defeat. It’s very tempting to a) share all the negatives, forgetting anything positive, or b) withdraw from people completely. But worship leading requires other people to be led. And it forces us to see through the negatives to realize the positives are still there, even if they seem to be in some other dimension.

And here’s the other reason. Every Christian is called to spur others on. All of us have the opportunity to be part of someone else’s spiritual formation story. How we choose to lead worship in our own lives will leave a legacy in someone else’s life. I want to leave a legacy of  joy. I want to impact the lives of others by pressing in with faith through the difficulties and the desolate seasons in my own. Faith shows the reality of what we are hoping for even when we can’t see them yet. And I lead worship with joy when I trust and pursue what I believe to be true, and I let others know about it.

Leading worship with joy is incredibly vulnerable. It’s risky. But great faith takes risks on believing God. Because He will never disappoint.

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This is real life…

I have several Christian friends facing very difficult things: broken marriages, family members in drug rehab, financial distress, foster children in precarious circumstances, health uncertainties. Each one of them can be tempted to despair at every turn. But instead, each of them is called to  lead worship with joy.

 In hospitals and police stations, on the phone and online, in private moments and very public ones, they each have the choice to lead worship with joy. Not to ignore their circumstances, but to lead through them. They have the opportunity to help other people be formed spiritually by how they choose to point to Christ in the everyday-ness of their lives. And the reality is, as they choose to praise God at all times, their own joy will be restored. Their eyes will open to God moving in their own circumstances, they will be strengthened to persevere, and they will radiate faith.

Our worship is our fight song. It is our weapon to defeat the enemy. It is how we engage in lifting our own heads to face the realities of our day head-on. Leading worship with joy is how we win against defeat.

So what about you?

How is God calling you to lead worship with  joy? What tangible steps can you take today to point the way to Christ? What will it require of you? And how do you think you will grow through it?

I love it when people visit  Joy Let Loose to read and then engage with me in the comments. Would you be willing to share a story of how you lead worship with joy in your life? And would you also be willing to share this post with people in your circles who could also learn to lead worship with joy? Let’s let joy loose together!

Elizabeth Joy

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