Do You Have JOY In Your Heart?

I felt for a day or so to share with the people about JOY. I wrote this in 2009. In my dictionary it states that joy is a feeling of great pleasure or happiness. To rejoice. If you think about it in regard to your life I just know there is something in your life that you can rejoice about. Joy is that feeling of knowing that you are loved by your saviour, Jesus. You will know this if you have given your heart/life to Him and trust in Him and not others around you or your job or friends or family. Your trust is in Him and what He did for you so you will have eternal salvation in heaven. I would think that would bring joy to you and your heart if you knew you would spend eternity in heaven and not in hell. What do you think? If you do not have this assurance and know that you will be in heaven when you take your last breath then let me share with you a prayer that will give you that peace and assurance, Joy unspeakable. If you feel your heart tugging at you now then let me invite you to partake in this prayer and your life will be filled with joy, peace and the love of Jesus in your heart. "Father, I confess that I am a sinner and forgive my sins, both sins known and even the sins that were committed years ago that I may not even remember completely. You know what they are and I ask you to forgive those sins and cleanse my heart. I believe that you were born of Mary, the virgin; died on the cross; and raised from the dead three days later. I thank you that you died on the cross just for me so I would not have to perish in hell forever. Come into my heart and be the Lord of my life. I give my heart, mind, will, and emotions to you. Cleanse me and stir my heart with the gifts You already placed inside of me now. Show me what I am to do with those gifts that will bring glory to You when I flow in the gifts that You created me with. I know they are there I just need to bring them forth in my life to let me fulfill what I am called/destined to fulfill with my very life. Thank you for loving me enough to come to earth and be born and then die for me so I will not have to live in hell for ever and ever and ever, that I will be able to live in heaven and with Your presence for ever and ever and ever. I love You Jesus,  Holy Spirit seal the very words I just spoke to you from my heart in my heart and let my life bring glory to you. Amen.







July 11, 2009 8:00AM Joy Cometh In The Morning


The words of a song ( I think it is by Ron Kenoly) keep resounding in my mind right now as I write this, “You turned my mourning into dancing again, you’ve lifted my sorrow. I can’t keep silent for the joy of the Lord has come.” Nehemiah 8:10 states “For the joy of the Lord is your strength.” Jeremiah 31:13 also states, “For I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.”
I use to meet/interact with many pastors, ministers, secretaries, etc. throughout the week that work in churches in a former job that I had. I cannot remember who it was that shared this with me. I thank you Holy Spirit for bringing it to my remembrance today for this writing:
Jesus
Others
Yourself
That is what JOY stands for. Just because a person goes through trials and tribulations does not mean that they choose to give up the power behind the Joy that has been placed in their heart by Jesus. That joy is there to minister to others and I find that through ministering to others somehow I am blessed. I am not quite sure how it works but I know one thing, God has been faithful and He will continue to be faithful to me.
As people struggle with things in their lives, some they have control over and others they don’t, they cannot give up the joy that is in their heart. The joy is there to reach out to others in that person's time of need. Even in the midst of a struggle or trial that is the opportunity to reach out to as many people as you can. You truly will derive strength in it. The key to following this is to hear the small, still voice of Holy Spirit directing you as to where to reach out. If you do not follow His direction, you will just be chasing after rainbows and pots of gold so to speak. Do you ever find the actual beginning and end of that rainbow when it appears in the sky? Even if you physically started at the beginning point of the rainbow and physically you were able to get to the other end of it, by the time you attempted to get there it would already be gone from the sky. That is where you can lose that strength that is in the joy of the Lord. Running around in your own strength and trying to make things happen of your own free will and your time frame. Let it go and rest in knowing that God is in control and it is much better to let Him work it out in His timing. So many times people want it “now” and if they would have waited a few more minutes, hours, or even days what a triumph would have come to them. What about the faith of the elders that went before us? They are there in the bible to remind us of how God worked in a mighty way on their behalf in His timing.
When walking through a trial it is OK to have mourning and tears because joy does come following it. I keep hearing the words “weeping may endureth for a night but joy cometh in the morning.”