{"id":2434,"date":"2025-07-29T04:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T04:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ngcug.org\/leuben\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2025-07-29T04:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T04:30:23","slug":"choose-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/choose-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Choose Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2434\" class=\"elementor elementor-2434\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0a89920 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0a89920\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c4fa0f1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c4fa0f1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 data-start=\"714\" data-end=\"739\">\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f <strong data-start=\"722\" data-end=\"739\">7. Choose Joy<\/strong><\/h3><p data-start=\"741\" data-end=\"842\"><strong data-start=\"741\" data-end=\"754\">\ud83d\udcd6 Verse:<\/strong><br data-start=\"754\" data-end=\"757\" \/><em data-start=\"757\" data-end=\"818\">&#8220;Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!&#8221;<\/em> \u2014 Philippians 4:4 (NIV)<\/p><p data-start=\"844\" data-end=\"1043\"><strong data-start=\"844\" data-end=\"862\">\ud83e\ude9e Reflection:<\/strong><br data-start=\"862\" data-end=\"865\" \/>Joy isn\u2019t based on our circumstances\u2014it\u2019s rooted in the Lord. Even in difficult seasons, we can choose joy by focusing on God\u2019s faithfulness and promises. Joy is an act of faith.<\/p><p data-start=\"1045\" data-end=\"1162\"><strong data-start=\"1045\" data-end=\"1059\">\ud83d\ude4f Prayer:<\/strong><br data-start=\"1059\" data-end=\"1062\" \/>Lord, help me to choose joy today. Let my heart overflow with gratitude no matter what comes my way.<\/p><p data-start=\"1164\" data-end=\"1263\"><strong data-start=\"1164\" data-end=\"1181\">\ud83c\udfaf Challenge:<\/strong><br data-start=\"1181\" data-end=\"1184\" \/>List 3 things you\u2019re thankful for today. Smile intentionally\u2014joy is contagious.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f 7. Choose Joy \ud83d\udcd6 Verse:&#8220;Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!&#8221; \u2014 Philippians 4:4 (NIV) \ud83e\ude9e Reflection:Joy isn\u2019t based on our circumstances\u2014it\u2019s rooted in the Lord. Even in difficult seasons, we can choose joy by focusing on God\u2019s faithfulness and promises. Joy is an act of faith. \ud83d\ude4f Prayer:Lord, help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442,"href":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions\/2442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}