Être toujours joyeux, prier sans cesse et rendre grâce en toutes choses, c'est ce que chaque croyant dans le Seigneur devrait pratiquer. Nous sommes tous prêts à être toujours joyeux, à prier sans cesse et à rendre grâce en toutes choses, dans la vie réelle, mais combien d’entre nous ont réussi à réaliser tout cela ? Quand la vie est douce et bonne, nous pouvons tous être joyeux dans notre cœur, prier sans cesse et remercier la grâce et les bénédictions de Dieu. Cependant, quand nous sommes confrontés aux souffrances ou aux problèmes, tels que les difficultés de la vie, la torture de la maladie, la ruption du mariage et les obstacle au travail, ainsi de suite, nous ne pourrons peut-être pas facilement réaliser ce que nous voulons. Alors comment pouvons-nous être toujours joyeux, prier sans cesse et rendre grâce en toutes choses ? Lisons un passage de la parole de Dieu.

Dieu dit : « In the Bible are the words “Rejoice ever more. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks” (1Ts 5:16-18). Rejoicing ever more, is this easy to achieve? This must be put into practice, you must make it into reality. Praying without ceasing—this is a source of, and path to, rejoicing ever more, and in this you will be able to give thanks in every thing. When you have joy and know thankfulness, when you know that all God does is good, and know how much grace you have gained from God, and how many blessings you have gained from Him, then you will know to be thankful to God. Only when you have a heart such as this, and knowledge such as this, will you be able to truly obey God, have love for God in your heart, be satisfied, and know to obey all of the environments arranged by God. You’ve remembered these words, yes? Some words are but little words, yet they are indispensable to the process by which people’s lives grow. It is not the case that people can be saved and sated by abstruse doctrine and great messages; if people are able to put these small words into practice, and do so often, then they can make you change, they can transform you, they can turn your states around, and make you strong, you won’t be timid, you won’t retreat, they will turn you into someone with confidence. What were those several words? (Rejoice ever more. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks.) Are people who always cry when something happens to them good? What kind of state is this? First and foremost, in their hearts there is no joy—do people who are often joyous like to cry? And what is in the hearts of those who have no joy? Sorrow, sadness, pain, grievances, complaints, incomprehension—these negative elements are suppressed within them, and so when something happens to them they cry for days and days, whenever they think about it they cry. What should such people do? In their free time, they should repeat these words to themselves: “Rejoice ever more. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks.” When you know to give thanks in every thing, you will grow up and cease to be a child. Those who often cry are pained by everything, they can’t solve anything, they are unable to let go, they have no way of letting go, they don’t know what to do, they don’t know to come before God. Is this an adult or a child? (A child.) So are you, today, an adult or a child? (A child.) Are you more often a child or an adult? (A child.) So these words are pretty fitting for you. Have you memorized them? (We have.) Are they good? (They’re good.) We won’t look at which part of the Bible they come from. These words are practical, and in the process by which people’s lives grow, they are practices that are indispensable, and the most practical. They are the states that people should possess, the path to practice that they should possess, and they are an attitude of obedience to God. Above all they are an attitude, and when you have this attitude you are blessed by God and accepted by God, and at the same time the states within you—the negative, depraved, and rebellious states–these negative things will become fewer and fewer, and the states will take a better and better direction. You understand, yes? »

Nous voyons dans la Parole de Dieu que pour être toujours joyeux, prier sans cesse et rendre grâce en toutes choses, nous devons avoir la vrai foi en Dieu et la véritable obéissance à Lui, réaliser que tout ce que Dieu fait est bon et que peu importe ce que Dieu nous accorde, la grâce et les bénédictions, ou les souffrances et les épurements, c'est dans le but de perfectionner notre foi et de faire grandir notre vie et c'est Son amour pour nous. Nous devons ainsi remercier Dieu dans notre cœur. Comme quand Job qui a perdu tout ses biens dans les épreuves, il pouvait dire « L'Éternel a donné, et l'Éternel a ôté ; que le nom de l'Éternel soit béni ! » (Job 1:21). La raison pour laquelle Job pouvait prononcer ces paroles c’est parce qu’il a connu l’autorité de Dieu, qu’il a compris que Dieu a tout contrôlé et qu’il a reconnu tout ce qu’il avait sont venus de Dieu, au lieu de son propre effort.Tout cela montre suffisamment que Job a connu et obéi à la souveraineté de Dieu, et qu’il avait la véritable foi en Dieu.

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