START YOUR DAY WITH HAPPINESS | Every Day Decide To Be Happy - Morning Inspiration To Motivate You

When we make up in the morning, we get to choose how we're going to live that day. We can choose to live in faith, happy, expecting favor, or we can choose to live discouraged, defeated, focused on our problems. Happiness doesn't automatically happen. It's a choice we have to make. You can't wait to see what kind of day it's going to be. You have to decide what kind of day it's going to be. First thing in the morning, you need to make up your mind, I'm going to live this day happy. I'm going to see the good. I'm going to be grateful. I'm going to love my family. I'm going to enjoy this day. If you don't decide how you're going to live, circumstances will decide for you. You'll see every problem, how it's not going to work out. You'll think, I don't feel like going to work. This traffic's so bad. I never get any good breaks. When you dwell on those thoughts, you may not realize it, but you're choosing to live discouraged. You're choosing to have a lousy day. The scripture says, joy comes in the morning. Every morning, God sends you a fresh supply of joy. You can dismiss it, think that's not for me. I have too much coming against me. Or you can receive it and say, things may not be perfect in my life, but I know God's on the throne. He's ordering my steps. His plans for me are for good. So I'm going to enjoy this day. Decide to be happy. That's number one. Everybody listening to this, watching by TV, make a decision today. I am going to be happy. And I'm not going to wait to have some great thing happening to me. I am deciding that I am not going to waste one more day of my life being sad and sour. Psalm 511 says, let those who love your name be joyful in you and be in high spirits. So we're supposed to be in a really good mood, like high spirits. Well, I just don't feel very happy. Well, your greatest privilege as a believer is you don't have to live by how you feel. You can live by what you know. In Psalm 118, 24, this is the day which the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. If you're going to be happy, you have to be happy on purpose because there will be people, betrayals, delays, all kinds of things that can cause you to live sour. You have to put your foot down and say, that's it. I'm not letting other people steal my joy. I'm not letting what's not working out cause me to be sour. Not letting this problem at work keep me from enjoying my life. I will rejoice. I will be glad. I will live this day happy. See, your will is more powerful than how you feel. Don't wait to feel happy before you decide to be happy. You have to decide first, then the happiness will come. I can be full of hope any day that I want to be full of hope, and so can you. I can't always make my circumstances line up with what I would like them to be, but I can hope that good things are on their way. I can hope, which is believing that something good is going to happen. Every morning, you need to say to yourself, I'm happy, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. You can't receive happiness if you're thinking sadness. Joy is coming every morning. Some people have been bypassing it year after year because of their thoughts. You will live happier if you'll start thinking happier. It's easy to get up and think yourself sad. Think yourself into self-pity. Why did I come down with this illness? My friends are all married. Why am I still single? These people at work are not treating me right. This is not fair. You're thinking yourself defeated. You have to change what you're thinking. Yes, I came down with this illness, but Father, I want to thank you that you're restoring health back into me, that I will live and not die, that my best days are still in front of me. Well, yes, these people at work are not treating me right, but I'm not a victim. I know I'm a victor. God, you're my vindicator. You said you would always cause me to triumph. Happy thoughts are, God, I'm grateful to be alive. I'm excited about my future. I believe you're taking me from glory to glory, that I haven't seen or imagined the great things you have in store. When you think happy thoughts, it not only lifts your spirit, but that attitude of faith is what allows God to do amazing things. You're as happy as you choose to be. If you're unhappy, you can't blame anybody for your unhappiness because happiness is a choice. You don't go looking for happiness, you create it. It is the byproduct of right thinking and right acting. Happiness is not dependent on what's going on around you. It's dependent on what's going on in you. What kind of thoughts are you thinking? I'll never get well. I've had this too long. You're thinking you're self-discouraged. I can't break this addiction. It's been in my family for years. You're thinking you're self-limited. I can't be happy, Joel. I've been through a lot of loss, a lot of heartache. That's not how your story ends. Here's the key. You have to give yourself permission to be happy. Sometimes we bought into the lie that we're not supposed to be happy. We've been through too much. We've made too many mistakes. If we're happy, people may not understand. Can I tell you you're supposed to be happy? God created you to enjoy your life, to laugh, to smile. Happiness starts on the inside. Give God something to work with. When I stand here today and say the Bible says that God has a good plan for your life, something happens. There's something about that word of God that touches something deep on the inside of you. And there's just a little, no matter how negative your life has been, there's a little tiny spark of hope. Can that really be for me? And when you begin to claim it as your own, and you begin to think like this, if anything good can happen to anybody, it can happen to me. Sooner or later, you gotta get tired of being on the outside looking in and decide it's for me. You and I are not here by accident. God could have chosen anyone to be alive today. There are billions of people that have lived and died, but God handpicked you to be here at this time. He woke you up this morning. He gave you strength to get out of bed. He's crowned you with favor. He put seeds of greatness in you. He calls you more than a conqueror, the head and not the tail. One way we honor God is by living happy. He didn't create you to drag through the day, overcome by problems, discouraged by disappointments. Well, this day is a gift from God. We should feel a responsibility to live it in faith, happy, joyful, good nature. Once this day is over, we can never get it back. We don't have time to waste another minute being negative, discouraged, focused on what didn't work out, complaining over who did us wrong. Get your joy back. If we really understood how valuable each day is, I think we would live it happier. It's easier to take it for granted. Just get up, go through the motions, deal with the challenges, and the day is gone. But if you'll have a new perspective and start seeing every day as your best day, then you won't let the little things upset you. You'll take time to enjoy the people God's given you to love. When Paul came to the end of his life, he said, I wanna finish my course with joy. We're all going to go to be with the Lord at some point. I don't wanna go discouraged, feeling like a victim. Look what I've been through. Why did this happen? Let's go full of joy, seeing each day as the best day, getting up each morning and choosing to be happy. When you go to work, everyone may be complaining, discouraged, talking to feet. Don't fall into that trap. Stay full of joy. Keep a smile on your face. Keep thinking happy thoughts. This world needs more happy people. We need more joy in the world. There's so much sadness, gloom, and despair. If we're not careful, we'll let what's happening around us get in us. That's why every morning you have to choose to be happy. Not I feel, but I will rejoice. I will enjoy this day. I will be happy.