Authentic Women Rejoice ...in Spite of

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! ... Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. —Philippians 4:4, 6
NEVER LET YOUR CIRCUMSTANCE KEEP YOU FROM REJOICING! BE AUTHENTIC.

Rejoicing is, more often than not, a choice. We all love spontaneous rejoicing. Such comes from answered prayer, the answers to our questions..., the manifestation of the miraculous, the success and prosperity we wanted. It takes little faith to rejoice when it is precipitated by happy, external circumstances. But the command to rejoice comes because we don't always feel like rejoicing—and yet Paul said to do it all the time. Not rejoicing because of all that has happened but rather "in all circumstances" (1 Thess. 5:18, emphasis added). The choice we make to rejoice comes because we simply don't feel like rejoicing. We just have to do it.

Showing gratitude is the sort of thing you can make yourself do whether you feel like it or not. There are always things you can thank God for if you look around. In other words, even if you don't feel like it, do it anyway.