In today’s podcast, we want to continue with the Beatitudes or the attitudes that we are to be beginning in verse 9, where Jesus declares, "Blessed (enjoying enviable happiness, spiritually prosperous—with life-joy and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions) are the makers and maintainers of peace, for they shall be called the sons of God!"

The KJV of Matthew 5:9 says, "Blessed are the peacemakers." The word peacemaker in the original Greek means to bring men together; to make peace between men and God; to solve disputes and erase divisions; to reconcile differences and eliminate strife; and the building of right relationships.

Zephaniah got a revelation of living a blessed, happy, spiritually prosperous life with joy and satisfaction when he declared in the Living Bible, of Zephaniah 3:17, “For the Lord your God has arrived to live among you. He is a mighty Savior. He will give you victory. He will rejoice over you with great gladness; he will love you and not accuse you.” Is that a joyous choir I hear? No, it is the Lord himself exulting over you in happy song."

God Himself sings a happy song over you and me!  So now in John 13:17 in the Amplified Bible, at the Last Supper in His final few hours before His crucifixion, Jesus says to His disciples, “If you know these things, blessed and happy and to be envied, are you if you practice them [if you act accordingly and really do them].

Invite a friend, a family member, or a co-worker to learn to "Think More Like God Thinks" by listening to today's podcast, God Wants You to Be Happy: Part 5.