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1. Thanks for joining me today for “A Little Walk with God.” I’m your host Richard Agee.
2. What does it take to make you happy? Think about that for a second.
3. Scripture
   1. Revelation 22:7
   2. The Anointed One:  Look now, I am coming soon! The one who remains true to the prophetic words contained in this book will truly be blessed.
4. Devotional
   1. What does it take to make you happy?
      1. Harvest Ministries says this about the word blessed:
      2. So what does it mean to be blessed? The word blessed Jesus used in the Sermon on the Mount is from the Greek word makarios, which means to be happy or blissful, but it also means a self-contained happiness. The Greeks called the Island of Cyprus “the happy isle.” They believed that because of its geographical location, perfect climate, and fertile soil that anyone who lived on Cyprus had it made in the shade. And the term they associated with the island was makarios. They believed everything you needed to be happy was right there on Cyprus.
      3. If only…
         1. Lived on Cyprus
         2. Lived in the right neighborhood
         3. Had more money
         4. Had a different job
         5. Had a different spouse
   2. World says something here can make us happy
      1. All these things around us can make us happy
      2. They don’t
      3. They take time away from us
      4. They add responsibility and worry
      5. They make us want more because we find they just don’t satisfy
   3. Jesus tells us how we can be happy, though.
      1. Right here in Revelation 22:7. “The one who remains true to the prophetic words contained in this book will truly be blessed.”
      2. Just keep the words in the book
      3. What have they said?
      4. Follow Him
      5. Remain faithful to Him
   4. The Greeks thought you could be happy and blissful if you could move to Cyprus.We can’t all move to Cyprus, but our happiness is independent of our circumstances. It is self-contained, meaning that regardless of what is happening to us externally, we can be truly happy internally. We can be genuinely blessed as followers of Jesus Christ.
   5. So you want to be happy? You want to be blessed? Just follow Jesus.
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