Living Joyfully Ever After! Part 3: Best Practices!

Best Joy Practice #1:

Be -centered not self-centered!

Philippians 2:3 (NIV)
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.

We need to our ambitions on a regular basis!

Philippians 3:10 (J.B. Phillips)

How changed are my ambitions! Now I long to know Christ …

We need to stop unhealthy and !

1 Corinthians 4:7 (MSG)
… Isn’t everything you have and everything you are sheer gifts from God? So what’s the point of all this comparing and competing?

Best Joy Practice #2:

Be an attention- not an attention-seeker!

Philippians 2:3-4 (NIV)
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, ⁴ not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

We need to the high value of others!

We need to be in the interests of others!

Best Joy Practice #3:

Be -focused not status-focused!

Philippians 2:5-11

John 13:12-17 (MSG)

“Do you understand what I have done to you? ¹³ You address me as ‘Teacher’ and ‘Master,’ and rightly so. That is what I am. ¹⁴ So if I, the Master and Teacher, washed your feet, you must now wash each other’s feet. ¹⁵ I’ve laid down a pattern (practice) for you. What I’ve done, you do …¹⁶A servant is not ranked above his master; an employee doesn’t give orders to the employer. ¹⁷ If you understand what I’m telling you, act like it—and live a blessed (literally ‘joy-filled’) life.

We need a serving !

We need a serving !

• Who am I going to serve?
• How am I going to serve?
• Where am I going to serve? 
• When am I going to serve?