How to Have Joy – Chapter 1

Theme:  Joy in spite of circumstances:

Key Verse:  1:21 “For me to live is Christ and to die is gain.” 

What kind of relationship do you have with Christ?                Saved or unsaved

The Single Mind – “A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways” James 1:8 Stay focused on what is most important, the relationship with Jesus Christ. 

How and what you think determines your ______________________.  Key verse Phil 1:21

The study in Chapter 1 will go like this. 

            1. The fellowship of the Gospel 1:1-11

            2. The furtherance of the Gospel 1:12-26

            3. The faith of the Gospel 1:27-30

Fellowship: What does fellowship mean: ____________________________________________

v.1-6  I have you on my mind? Who was on his mind? __________________ ______________

v.1 to all the saint…Why only to the saints? _________________________________________

v.2  Greetings, but what is he saying? He is confirming their relationship based on Christ.

v.3-6  What is Paul circumstance? ________________________________

… every time I remember you -  ______________  _____________________.

…in all my prayers – prayers for ____________ ______ _____________.

… I always pray with - __________   How can he do this?  _____________  ____________.

…a good work …completed – What is the work started in you?   ___________________

Ephesians 2:8-10

            for us - ________________________________

            in us - _________________________________

            through us - ____________________________

v. 7-8  I have you in my heart

v. 9-11 I have you in my prayers

Wiersbe pg. 35 “This, then is true Christian fellowship -a having–in-common that is much deeper than mere friendship.  “I have you in my mind… I have you in my heart…I have you in my prayers.”  This is the kind of fellowship that produces joy, and it is the single mind that produces this kind of fellowship.”