{"id":17301,"date":"2016-08-19T13:22:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T18:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/08-how-shall-we-fight-for-joy\/"},"modified":"2016-08-19T13:22:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T18:22:36","slug":"08-how-shall-we-fight-for-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/08-how-shall-we-fight-for-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"08 HOW SHALL WE FIGHT FOR JOY?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How Shall We Fight for Joy?<\/p>\n<p>1. Realize that authentic joy in God is a gift.<\/p>\n<p>2. Realize that joy must be fought for relentlessly.<\/p>\n<p>3. Resolve to attack all known sin in your life.<\/p>\n<p>4. Learn the secret of gutsy guilt &#8211; how to fight like a justified sinner.<\/p>\n<p>5. Realize that the battle is primarily a fight to see God for who he Isa_6:1-13. Meditate on the Word of God day and night.<\/p>\n<p>7. Pray earnestly and continually for open heart-eyes and an inclination for God.<\/p>\n<p>8. Learn to preach to yourself rather than listen to yourself.<\/p>\n<p>9. Spend time with God-saturated people who help you see God and fight the fight.<\/p>\n<p>10. Be patient in the night of God&amp;apos;s seeming absence.<\/p>\n<p>11. Get the rest and exercise proper diet that your body was designed by God to have.<\/p>\n<p>12. Make a proper use of God&amp;apos;s revelation in nature.<\/p>\n<p>13. Read great books about God and biographies of great saints.<\/p>\n<p>14. Do the hard and loving thing for the sake of others (witness and mercy).<\/p>\n<p>15. Get a global vision for the cause of Christ and pour yourself out for the unreached.<\/p>\n<p>For information on how to receive DGM email subscriptions visit www.desiringGOD.org\/esubs &amp;lt;http:\/\/www.desiringGOD.org\/esubs&amp;gt;.<\/p>\n<p>&amp;apos;a9Desiring God Ministries<\/p>\n<p>Permissions: You are permitted and encouraged to reproduce and distribute this material in any format provided that you do NOT alter the wording in any way, you do not charge a fee beyond the cost of reproduction, and you do not make more than 1,000 physical copies. For web posting, a link to this document on our website is preferred. Any exceptions to the above must be explicitly approved by Desiring God Ministries.<\/p>\n<p>Please include the following statement on any distributed copy: By John Piper. &amp;apos;a9Desiring God Ministries. Website: www.desiringGOD.org &amp;lt;http:\/\/www.desiringGOD.org&amp;gt;. Email: mail@desiringGOD.org &amp;lt;mailto:mail@desiringGOD.org&amp;gt;. Toll Free: 888-346-4700.<\/p>\n<p>Autor: John Piper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Shall We Fight for Joy? 1. Realize that authentic joy in God is a gift. 2. Realize that joy must be fought for relentlessly. 3. Resolve to attack all known sin in your life. 4. Learn the secret of gutsy guilt &#8211; how to fight like a justified sinner. 5. Realize that the battle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/08-how-shall-we-fight-for-joy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;08 HOW SHALL WE FIGHT FOR JOY?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}