Righteousness, peace, and joy in God’s Kingdom are a by-product of spiritual relationship rather than spiritual busyness.

From the Joyful Journey book:
Growing a relationship with God takes active intention and participation from each one of us. Imagine our ball of yarn metaphor at work in our relationship with God. When we appreciate Him we throw the yarn and when we cry out to God for help we do the same. As He responds tenderly and graciously, He throws back the yarn and the connection is strengthened. God frequently initiates these interactions with us. He beckons and waits for us to throw the yarn back to Him. Moreover, even when we are frail and cannot throw the yarn, His spirit helps us. He never gives up on us and will work on our behalf until the end.
~ pages 12-13, Joyful Journey, Wilder, Kang, Loppnow, Loppnow

Session A: Today you begin revisiting the joyful memories recorded on your Golden Moments list from yesterday. As you do so, look to see or hear how God was present in those moments. Invite God to share His thoughts about the joy you experienced. Notice body sensations, mood changes, attitudes, heart rate. Mark joys you went back over after pondering them a second time. This way you can cover them all at some point. And know that you can return to certain memories more than once. After your 5 minutes, finish your session.

Joy can also be found in our past and re-experienced when we remember joyful events from the past and allow ourselves to relive them in our minds. We can actually experience the same feelings of joy all over again.
~ page 34, The 4 Habits, Warner, Coursey

Check out this video from Bible project about biblical poetry.
bibleproject.com/explore/video/art-biblical-poetry/

Jeremiah sets a great example for an approach to God’s Word: The following quote is from the FAQs of Joyful Journey:

What is the role of the Bible as the written word of God in increasing our ability to listen to God's voice?
We believe that God speaks to us in many ways, the Bible being the main and most reliable source. While interactive gratitude and thought-rhyming are more indirect ways of listening to God, we find that they are very helpful. The main reason we encourage people to enter into a conver-sation with God beyond traditional bible study is that people sometimes stop interacting with God when we feel that listening to God can only come from extensive Bible study. However, we want to emphasize the importance and necessity of engaging ourselves in studying the Bible on a regular basis in order for us to increase our ability to recog-nize God's voice. We believe that getting to know God and His character (who God says He is) is a crucial part of increasing our ability to recognize God's voice. p.
~ page 68, Joyful Journey, Wilder, Kang, Loppnow, Loppnow

You may love receiving counseling from God (Yay!) but focus on the latter part of the phrase – His loving eye being on you.

Session C: As we step into a new category, dwelling on gratitude, today’s joy exercise is thanking God for people who bring you joy. For five minutes, think of (write?) why they bring you joy and share your appreciation with God. Bonus joy: Share your gratitude with these people.

We are training our brains to find gratitude which in turn brings out joy. Close with a little bit of worship joy toward God.