Let’s Explore Joy

Faith Filled Thoughts
August 19th, 2009
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What Are The Fruits Of The Spirit?
Let’s Explore Joy


In the rough and tough world we live in with all of the crime, disorder and bad things that can happen to anyone of us at anytime.
Many Christians have lost a lot of their joy in the Lord as a result of some of the tests and trials they have taken in this life.
I remember I had a bank teller tell me one time that she very seldom sees people smiling anymore.
She says no one seems to be happy anymore and everyone seems to be carrying around the weight of the world on their shoulders.
Again, with the imperfections of our own fallen nature, and then you combine that with how people react differently to adversity.
Some Christians have literally had most, if not all of their joy in the Lord, knocked right out of them.
Galatians 4:22-26
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.
25Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
26Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
This is why the above verse from Galatians is so powerful and so needed by every single Christian today.
In this verse, God is telling us that He can transmit some of His godly and divine qualities right up into the middle of us.
Like filling up a new car with its first tank of gasoline.
Many of God's people need a fresh infusion of His divine qualities,
due to the leaks that have occurred as a result of some of the trials His people have taken during the course of their lives.
The quality of joy is a much needed as the quantity in this day and age.
No matter how bad of a trial you may have taken in this life.
God can still fully heal, deliver and restore your JOY, if you are willing to work with Him in this healing process.
And one of the things that God can fully restore in you is your Joy in Him.
Not only can the Lord fully restore what joy you used to have in Him,
but He can also increase it to a much greater degree and intensity.
Here are some of the different definitions of what real joy is all about:
• Great delight; gladness of heart
• The happy state that results from knowing and serving God
• That deep, abiding, inner rejoicing in the Lord
• To rejoice, to be glad
• Happy, joyful, cheerful, rejoicing, festive
Realize that God can transmit this divine quality right up into your personality,
and this will be His joy, not your joy, once it starts to flow up into you.
Once God starts to release His joy into your system, you won't be able to help but feel it.
The Bible says that the joy of the Lord is your strength.
This is why it is so important that every Christian have some level of God's joy operating through them in this life.
Without God's joy operating in your life, things can begin to dry up.
Nothing is ever fun anymore. Everything can start to become a chore.
Before you know it, you will want to start to withdraw from others and life in general.
The joy of the Lord can really give you an incredible surge of strength in your own daily walk with God.
This is why each Christian should work very closely with the Holy Spirit.
Let Him release His joy into your system, but keep it running through you on a regular and consistent basis.
The Holy Spirit will do this for you. if you are open to receiving this divine infusion of perfect JOY.
Thank You Lord for my Joy!!!
1 Thessalonians 2:19
For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes? Is it not you?

May He Bless You and Keep You Today!
With Great Love
IN HIS SERVICE
Connie
Please click below to see something Jesus left for your Spirit !:
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