How to Experience Joy in Tough Times | Episode 197 | Conversations with John and Lisa Bevere

Do you have high joy levels? We see clearly in Scripture that joy is a fruit of the Spirit, but how do we walk in joy when our circumstances are less than ideal? The truth is, when your attitude is based on the eternal things of God, you will be able to walk in joy no matter your circumstances.
This is what we’re diving into this week on Conversations with John and Lisa. Listen in and learn how to operate with joy even when it doesn’t make sense. We hope this episode empowers you to walk in joy no matter what is happening around you!
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Chapters:
0:00 - Teaser
0:23 - Today’s Topic: Joy
2:05 - Pray with Joy
4:20 - How Do We Connect with the Joy of the Lord
7:14 - Are We Going to Allow the Trials of the World to Impact Our Joy?
12:44 - Attitude Is Based on Eternal Things of God
15:23 - Have We Played Our Hope in the Wrong Things?
18:05 - Scriptures about Joy
27:00 - Closing Thoughts
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  • @trishanoren2437
    @trishanoren24372 ай бұрын

    Sooo love your shares!!!! TKU!!!!!! If you are born again/John 3:3, living the Transformed Life in Christ, FULLY surrendered to Holy Spirit AND are Grateful, you will have JOY JOY JOY!!!!!!!!!!!!⚓️⚓️⚓️ (my 28 yrs of experience) 😳

  • @georgewilliams5090
    @georgewilliams50909 ай бұрын

    Thank you John and Lisa for this teaching. So needed it. I was addicted to porn for years😢, never knew the damage it was actually doing to my walk with Abba and my marriage, as of 3 weeks ago I was going through a divorce. Through your books and messenger X and the Grace (power) of Abba that bondage has been taking away. Abba promised me He would restore my marriage, and I’m seeing His promise. Me and my wife have decided by the prompting of the Holy Spirit to not divorce, John through your testimony and teachings you have shown me so much on the proper fear of the Lord and so much more, you are a true man of God❤. May you continue to bless many more through Gods word and set many more free from bondage and lead them to the Lord.

  • @dainap.4553

    @dainap.4553

    6 күн бұрын

    HALLELUJAH

  • @user-fb5pb9ni6d
    @user-fb5pb9ni6dАй бұрын

    John and Lisa, you are sharing the very ideas our pastor emphasized in 1987, when he preached a message, "When bad things happen to good people". I was overseeing our audio ministry and that sermon was the most requested by those who wanted copies of his sermon. Thank you for your podcasts. I have just recently begun to listen as well as individual sermons by each of you. Blessings!! ❤

  • @jonmposada7
    @jonmposada710 ай бұрын

    “You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭16‬:‭11‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ Joy is a fruit that can only come by the power of the Holy Spirit and spending time in the presence of God, spending time with Jesus, and it will be your strength. A joyful heart is good medicine Proverbs 17:22 and God’s joy will heal you as He is Jehovah Rafa, the Lord who heals Exodus 15:26. God bless you both, your channel, and your ministry! 🙏🏼

  • @magnolia7723
    @magnolia77235 ай бұрын

    Lisa you just mentioned something that I have struggled with for sooo sooo long “If these people like me, invite me, include me, then I have worth and if they don’t, there’s something wrong with me”. Then God said to you “why would you ever give anyone that much power over you? Why would you allow other peoples responses to you, which you can’t control, to determine how you feel at any given moment?” That really spoke to me, I start to tear up because it really tears at my heart. I want to be set free from this. I use to be a confident Christian but for some reason, in the past few years, I’ve noticed I crawl more and more into my shell, I isolate myself, i go out with few friends once in a blue moon, go to church and go home straight afterwards. If any of my family don’t reply to my messages, I start to think like this. Anyway, I’m really having to lean in on God because I’ve gotten to a point where it’s really affecting me and I know it’s affecting my husband. But I just want to say a HUGE THANK YOU for sharing. I love listening to you and John. It really encourages me. Gets me out of the pit and helps me take my eyes off my circumstances and onto Jesus because HE is where my joy comes from. Love you both❤❤

  • @FreciaB.
    @FreciaB.2 ай бұрын

    I LOOOOOOVE YOUR PODCASTS!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING TRUTHS THAT ENCOURAGE & BLESS US!! GOD BLESS YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH!! LOTS OF LOVE TO YOU!!

  • @kakermaker5806
    @kakermaker580610 ай бұрын

    Thank you for this Word of Encouragement! I went through my Bible with each scripture you spoke, highlighted them and wrote notes beside them. My husband and I have 5 boys and we’ve been moving around every 2-3 years for the past 7 years because of my husband’s career path he’s on. It’s been challenging moving each time finding a church community, getting plugged in, growing friendships and then having to move and start back over. I know that God has strategically placed us where we are ment to be, and I have come to learn that when I’m looking for opportunities to be used by God with where He places us my heart is filled with Joy! I am able to grow even more in my faith. Yesterday we were told that my husband has an interview on Friday and if he is chosen we will have to move again. My heart has a lot of emotions right now but I’m praying, reading my Bible, and choosing to worship and sing to fight the fear off and have Gods peace in my heart. This conversation you guys had about joy lifted my spirit. I know I’m right where God wants me and if we need to move again I do not have to fear because God is with my family and I. ❤My hope and trust are in God not my circumstances.

  • @Caileyp
    @Caileyp6 ай бұрын

    THIS. IS. SO. GOOD. 👏👏

  • @TLeonard1000
    @TLeonard10007 ай бұрын

    Love you both!! I listen to you both pretty much everyday

  • @warayvlogs4711
    @warayvlogs47118 ай бұрын

    Glory to God amen

  • @FaithSessionCommunity23
    @FaithSessionCommunity2310 ай бұрын

    Thank you Lisa and John.This lesson is so helpful placing our Joy in the Lord and not our circumstances 🙏

  • @Hummmingalong
    @Hummmingalong7 ай бұрын

    Although I watch this on KZread most times I'm listening, except today I turned on this episode and started watching. Listening and watching but watching how you both interact with each other and I had to tell you how precious it is to watch you both together! If I didn't know how long you've been married I'd think you'd just met. Thank you both for the truth you share and the love you have for one another. God bless everybody!

  • @madelisnadewi5010
    @madelisnadewi50104 ай бұрын

    🙏🏾😇 thank you

  • @ejyptgates
    @ejyptgates10 ай бұрын

    Thank you Lord for giving me joy despite my circumstances

  • @Kammiilla
    @Kammiilla10 ай бұрын

    The timing!!💯💯 God corrected me through this. Thank you🙏🕊️

  • @NourishmentWithAlex
    @NourishmentWithAlex6 ай бұрын

    This was so profound , I love studying the Bible with you both! I definitely encountered God’s presence listening to this💛 I have hope!

  • @patrickmarion5385
    @patrickmarion538510 ай бұрын

    Just went to Pittsburgh to see John oh his tour, absolutely life changing. John is the exact same in person. Love the podcast thank you guys for what you do.

  • @patmontanez5774
    @patmontanez577410 ай бұрын

    Wow. Thank you for giving examples. This helps to make a mind adjust

  • @philipschifano5876
    @philipschifano58765 ай бұрын

    Cannot express enough how much I admire you BOTH!! You are SO needed in the kingdom of GOD and especially this crazy world. Thank you both for being the EXAMPLE!!! It is so refreshing to see a married couple. Who absolutely LOVES JESUS and absolutely LOVES one another!! Even after ALLL these years and 4 grown men later. Thank you for letting us into your world!! We ALLL need it!

  • @katiegriffin2808
    @katiegriffin28089 ай бұрын

    So thankful for these conversations - for your leading from the Holy Spirit, and for the Biblical truth you share 🙏🏼 My husband and I have been blessed by what the Lord speaks through you both!

  • @pencilkitchen981
    @pencilkitchen98110 ай бұрын

    My 3 year old has been going through digestive issues. And after doctors and emergency trips, the answer did not become clearer. As a matter of fact, test results come back with more questions. After weeks and months of frustration, I started sounding like Jeremiah, complaining at God, and at the same time saying scriptures of His promises. I often hear the Holy Spirit say “will you still have joy in this situation?” I would be lying if I said I didn’t try to turn my face away from God. Just for a few hours, numbing myself with distractions of the world. Just a few hours of self pity and anger. But this video made me turn around and face my creator with reverence and repentance. And I am going to shout with joy even in this situation. Also when you mentioned salvation, it answered my question about helmet of salvation in Ephesians 6. To guard our minds and thoughts from things of the world with a helmet of salvation.

  • @ellemoicolors
    @ellemoicolors10 ай бұрын

    Thank God for your marriage ❤️ Thank you, John & Lisa for sharing God's Wisdom with us ❤

  • @barbarakurtz1614
    @barbarakurtz16145 ай бұрын

    John and Lisa, thanks for all your wonderful teaching us on points of living this wonderful Christian life!!🥰

  • @christian_testimony_channe2474
    @christian_testimony_channe247410 ай бұрын

    🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

  • @susanndekei3335
    @susanndekei33357 ай бұрын

    Great job and be blessed for obeying the high calling of God to spread His TRUTH 😊

  • @desireefortich4042
    @desireefortich40428 ай бұрын

    Thank you 🙏 💥💥💥JOY💯SPEAK, exciting JESUS endurance -❤️🙌🏾🩸💯

  • @desireefortich4042

    @desireefortich4042

    8 ай бұрын

    Pastors Thank You;BeLoved and Blessed ❤️🙌🏾🩸💯

  • @jenniferricketts-calloo4022
    @jenniferricketts-calloo40229 ай бұрын

    I think our enemy is anything that comes after our joy.🙏🏽

  • @taraleigh9250
    @taraleigh925010 ай бұрын

    May God give us ears to hear ❤

  • @soromidayoadekoya7114
    @soromidayoadekoya71148 ай бұрын

    I’m really grateful to you guys for yielding to the Lord and sticking with the BIBLE! I, myself in personal experiences with the Lord, have found it hard to align with the Bible in tough situations, although I know what the Bible says about that particular situation. But seeing people who have gone ahead, encountered the same life situations I have, in a measure and have taken sides with the Bible is so encouraging. Thank God for you guys!

  • @aurorapizano7965
    @aurorapizano796510 ай бұрын

    Powerful word of God! Perfect timing for me to hear this. Amen❤

  • @marshawade498
    @marshawade4985 ай бұрын

    Thank you for sharing your life and teachings so faithfully!!!

  • @christian_testimony_channe2474
    @christian_testimony_channe247410 ай бұрын

    Thank you very much for your service and for all the videos. Blessings to all the team

  • @user-wu9ud6ed5y
    @user-wu9ud6ed5y10 ай бұрын

    Blessings everyone

  • @jeyathagna4548
    @jeyathagna45489 ай бұрын

    LOVE YOU SO MUCH JOHN AND LISA BEVERE!!

  • @richardsoderkvist6383
    @richardsoderkvist638310 ай бұрын

    Thank-you folks. for your video talk message. Praise God it's very inspirational comforting helpful possitive and very encouraging in the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Wonderful truths and promises in the word of God Amen.

  • @shannonmullin7397
    @shannonmullin739710 ай бұрын

    Loveeeeeed this message! Thank you both 😊.

  • @aidens_light
    @aidens_light10 ай бұрын

    Excellently put and timely for me personally. Praise be to the promise keeper. Our Lord The Father

  • @ea5947
    @ea594710 ай бұрын

    Right on time!! Thanks guys. God bless!

  • @richardsoderkvist6383
    @richardsoderkvist638310 ай бұрын

    And very meaningful

  • @LC-kh2vb
    @LC-kh2vb10 ай бұрын

    This is great teaching!!!!

  • @dermanydelgado9043
    @dermanydelgado904310 ай бұрын

    this show is good

  • @user-kw1yg8sx1p
    @user-kw1yg8sx1p10 ай бұрын

    So appreciate conversations! Been listening to Lisa since college, and the Lord brought healing thru Kissed the Girls and made Them Cry. God bless you all!

  • @AnaNikitaElvis3226
    @AnaNikitaElvis322610 ай бұрын

    Thank you for your persistence and obedience to God

  • @AM-dm1pl
    @AM-dm1pl10 ай бұрын

    THIS WAS SUCH AN ENCOURAGEMENT. THANK YOU LORD FOR THIS MESSAGE

  • 10 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much John and Lisa for your gift and love for people greetingsfrom Tallinn friends!

  • @Bossmanjr7
    @Bossmanjr710 ай бұрын

    I don't even know what joy, happiness or peace in my life! Not happy in life in my marriage not happy in jobs!

  • @jonny8709

    @jonny8709

    9 ай бұрын

    Hang in there . Keep praying !

  • @jamarrthompson737
    @jamarrthompson73710 ай бұрын

    This was really good !

  • @dermanydelgado9043
    @dermanydelgado904310 ай бұрын

    right grow your endurance

  • @sthandiwemnguni6449
    @sthandiwemnguni644910 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much Lisa and John. I love your podcast. I really needed this in this season, may God bless you and your family.

  • @catiacoltrinari6299
    @catiacoltrinari629910 ай бұрын

    Grazie!!! And Lisa love your Natural hair colore. Stunning

  • @tommyzzzzzzzzzzz
    @tommyzzzzzzzzzzz10 ай бұрын

    😊😊😊.

  • @myjoyella8574
    @myjoyella857410 ай бұрын

    Please add the Bible verses in the description box everyday. Please please please please. Thank you.

  • @sarahdarnell
    @sarahdarnell9 ай бұрын

    What do you do when you feel down or sad but you have no reason for it? Not circumstances, just bleh. How do you have joy during those times?

  • @LovableMe137

    @LovableMe137

    8 ай бұрын

    That’s the spirit of heaviness so start declaring Isaiah 61 and start praising God, it will break the spirit of heaviness and declare God’s Joy is Your Strength ❤

  • @gabbyd98
    @gabbyd9810 ай бұрын

    Just a question, 1 Timothy 2:11-14 prohibits women from teaching. Can you explain why Lisa preaches and if this is biblical?

  • @gabbyd98

    @gabbyd98

    10 ай бұрын

    @@robertandsamanthay7118 that this goes against the roles the Lord has given to us regarding men and women in the church

  • @Kammiilla

    @Kammiilla

    10 ай бұрын

    I have the same question all the time whenever I see a woman preaching. I myself am a woman and I would like to know if we should interpret it as it is written, or if we should interpret it as not applicable for this time, as many people say

  • @willielee5253
    @willielee525310 ай бұрын

    ✡️🇮🇱Between Genesis 12:3 and Matthew 25:31-46 is God's❤for Israel;✝️our aid & support to Israel in turn blesses you 🇮🇱✡️

  • @dermanydelgado9043
    @dermanydelgado904310 ай бұрын

    we put our hope in other wrong places don't do it