Happiness and Life can only be found in the source of life, not in a byproduct of that happiness.

“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to ‘be happy.’ Once the reason is found … one becomes happy automatically.”- Viktor Frankl-

Through His Miracles, Jesus says…

1- I will take what you bring me and Bless it.

The greatest miracle that Jesus wants to do is to change your heart.

John 4:11-14
11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.[a] The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

2- I will satisfy Your longing and thirst.

John 5:2-8 ESV
2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic[a] called Bethesda,[b] which has five roofed colonnades. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.[c] 5 One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” 9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.’

3- I will heal you and make you well.

Our Healing is fully and solely based on us believing and receiving the words of Jesus and allowing who He is to become our reality.

4- I will Sustain you.

John 6:27-35
Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.” 28 Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” 30 So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? 31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” 32 Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” 34 They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always. 35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

Jesus didn’t come just to temporarily provide for our individual need, He came to answer the source of our emptiness.

John 6:66-68
66 After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. 67 So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, 69 and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”

Discussion Questions:

1- What is your definition of happiness? How does your view differ from the Biblical sense?

2- How do we find happiness in Jesus?

3- Describe something in your past you sought happiness from and in the end you were disappointed? Read John 4:11-14. Discuss what this “living water” is? How does this water become a spring of water in our lives?

4- How does the story of the man at the pool show us the power of God’s words?

5- Read John 6:66-68. How dies this verse show us the power of God’s words?