By Evelyn Monteiro
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23 Feb, 2023
Do you have special occasions that you celebrate? Birthdays, Graduations, Achievements? Have you ever stopped to think why we celebrate special occasions? Every time we celebrate something, we are reminiscing on what was achieved. You are enjoying the result of toiling, working hard, sacrificing to get the result that finally came. Have you ever wondered why the Bible speaks so much about the importance of having joy in your heart? Let me teach you something: the devil wants you to forget what God has done for you! If you don't celebrate a breakthrough, a change, a healing, it's easy to just move along and forget what God has done for you! Then, when challenges come, doubt can creep in much easier because you never walked in the light of your testimony - you never celebrated and acknowledged what God did and doubt gets to enter your heart and mind! Joy is a fruit of the spirit (Gal 5:22), it strengthens us in difficult times (James 1:2), it's good for our health (Prov 17:22), it gives us hope (Rom 15:13). When you celebrate, you are showing your enemy, the devil, and unbelievers around you, that your God is real and powerful ! In fact, the Bible says in Revelations 12:11 that we overcome the devil with the blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony!