How to Keep Your Heart Happy - Pt 1

Speaker 00:00

[upbeat music] Hey, thanks for joining us today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren. And today we're continuing our series called The Habits of Happiness. In this series, Rick dives into the Book of Philippians and helps you discover God's path to true and lasting happiness. Let's get going with part one of a message called How to Keep Your Heart Happy.

Rick Warren· Host0:26

This week a little boy jumped into his father's lap and he said, "Daddy, my heart is so full of happiness." Then he jumped off and went off to play with his brother. An hour later came back in with a long face. Really, really, you know, like gloom had come over him, and his daddy said, "What happened to your happy heart?" He said, "Brian made it all leak out." [laughs] Would you agree that sometimes our hearts spring a leak?

Speaker 00:55

Yeah.

Rick Warren· Host0:56

Would you agree that it's quite easy to spring a leak? That you can be very, very happy and the next second, because of the phone call or what somebody said to you or somebody who cut you off in traffic or whatever, you can spring a leak.

Speaker 01:09

Yeah.

Rick Warren· Host1:10

And, uh, it is very, very easy to lose the happiness in our hearts. Now, we started a few weeks ago this series through the Book of Philippians that I'm calling The Habits of Happiness. And this weekend, if you'll take out your message notes, uh, I want us to look at how do you keep your heart happy? In spite