August 8, 2018 www.PositiveChristianity.org presents Positive Daily Inspiration DIVINE TOUCH OF JOY "In Your presence there is fullness of Joy." Psalms 16:11 In our Bible, in 2 Corinthians 6:2, it bids us to come up higher, "Now is the acceptable time.” Too many people put off joy for another day. Too many people make excuses to delay their happiness for one reason or another. When something happens that affects you deeply, it is easy to become so involved in such an event that everything else fades away. You live completely in the moment you do not allow anything to distract you from what you are seeing or feeling or doing. At times you may forget to stay focused. Joy depends on your focus. You may become distracted and forget to live every moment as if it were the most important moment of your life. You can change this! You can make the choice to live each moment to the fullest by letting go of the things that you worried about in the past or have no personal control of in the future. You can decide to be joyful. This life is too short to not live it in the right way. The past is over and the future will take care of itself. Right now, this present moment, is where you are. Every moment spent in full awareness of joy of God is a sacred time in which you can become more aware of God’s gift of life. The more joyful you become the more aware of God's loving presence you are around you and within you. POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER: My dear joyful God, as I wake up this morning I pray that this is a day where every moment is filled with sacred joy. I ask for Your touch that connects me with my source of every gladness. This moment I accept Your presence as the joy in my soul; I awaken to the delight of spirit that words can't describe. Your joy in my soul comforts me in times alone, or with friends and family. I know that You always encircle me with love and caring. I am joyful because I know that I never face anything alone. Your touch of Joy gives me laughter and a good sense of humor to sense and feel the lighter funny side of life. Your joy in my soul heals me. The gladness of Your Spirit lives around me and is living through me cleansing me of any condition that would work against my health and vitality. Dear Joyful God, I pray today for reasons to make me smile. You are the gladness of my whole being, and I am at peace and totally well in this sacred joyful time of my life. I pray to realize the joy of God. In Jesus Christ's name...Amen POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: My joy knows no limits. POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE: "Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny." Carl Schurz Reply - if you have a prayer need, Positive Christianity will pray with you daily, for an entire month. There Is Never a Charge for Prayer. GOD BLESS YOU, Make It a Great Day !_______Christopher Ian Chenoweth