THE JOY OF THE LORD IS OUR STRENGTH

JESUS DURING HIS DAYS ON EARTH IN THE FLESH, EVERY DAY WAS THE LIGHT OF LIFE. THIS MEANS IN PART THAT HE WAS AND IS THE AUTHOR OF LIFE, AND THAT HE KNOWS WHAT CAN MAKE LIVING LIFE SO SATISFYING........ IN THE LATTER DAYS OF HIS 3 YEAR MINISTRY IN THE POWER OF GODS SPIRIT WHICH SHOOK THE WORLD AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF HUMAN HISTORY, HE SAID THESE DELICIOUS WORDS....THESE THINGS HAVE I SPOKEN UNTO YOU THAT MY JOY MIGHT BE IN YOU AND SO THAT YOUR JOY WOULD BE MADE FULL....NOTICE HERE HE SAID "SO THAT YOUR JOY WOULD BE....made full..." MADE FULL....IN THE MANNER JESUS SPOKE THESE WORDS WE CAN SEE THAT HE  HIMSELF WANTS US TO HAVE JOY,  HE HAS JOY TO GIVE AND HIS SPOKEN WORDS LISTENED TO, BELIEVED AND OBEYED IS THE WAY UNTO JOY INFILLING....  HE IS ALSO REVEALING TO US THAT JOY,  FULNESS OF JOY,  IS NOT AUTOMATIC, BUT THAT IT IS GIVEN IN ONE PART AND EARNED IN ANOTHER......WHAT DO WE MEAN HERE?  JESUS SAID THESE THINGS HAVE I SPOKEN UNTO YOU THAT MY JOY MIGHT BE IN YOU. HIS JOY HAS BEEN GIVEN JUST AS HIS PEACE HAS BEEN GIVEN.  HIS JOY HAS BEEN POURED OUT FOR OUR ABSORBING.  JUST AS HIS BLOOD, LIFE AND SPIRIT HAS BEEN POURED OUT, SO ALSO THE JOY OF THE LORD.  HE AND HIS FULNESS WAS ALL POURED OUT FOR OUR INTAKE.  BUT NOTE THIS...NOT EVERY ONE IS RECEIVING HIM, RIGHT?   A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE CAST JESUS OFF AND AWAY BY UNBELIEF.  MANY MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE NOT HIS WORD SO THEY RECEIVE HIM NOT NEITHER THE THINGS OF HIM.... WHICH MEANS THEY CANNOT BE PARTAKING OF THE GREAT OUT POURED BLESSINGS AND  BENEFITS SUCH AS SALVATION, FORGIVENESS, GODS GOODNESS ETC.. WELL NEITHER CAN THE LORDS  OUT POURED JOY AUTOMATICALLY BE IN US UNLESS WE BELIEVE AND OBEY GOD.  UNLESS WE LISTEN TO THE LORD AND WALK IN THE LIGHT AS AND WHERE HE IS IN THE LIGHT.  IT IS WHERE JESUS IS IN US THAT WE FIND FULNESS OF JOY....YOU NEED TO NOTE THAT.... FOR THE LORD IN US GOD HAS ANOINTED WITH THE EVERLASTING REWARD OF THE OIL OF GLADNESS.......AS CHRISTIANS CHRIST JOY IS IN US, BUT OUR TASTING THAT JOY COMES BY FAITH AND BY OBEDIENCE TO HIS LOVE AND LORDSHIP OVER OUR DAYS, NIGHTS AND OUR LIVES.....JAMES WROTE THESE WORDS ABOUT THIS TRUTH SAYING, LET THE CHRISTIANS WHO ARE STILL LOVERS OF THIS WORLD, LET THEIR JOY BE MADE DULL AND THEIR LAUGHTER TURNED INTO MOURNING....  ALL AND I SAY ALL JOY OF THIS WORLD WHATEVER THE KIND IT MAY BE, IF IT DOES NOT COME FROM BELIEVING AND OBEYING GOD, IT IS NOTHING  MORE THAN DELUSIONAL DECEITFUL JOY. OF THE SPIRIT OF THIS WORLD AND NOT FROM THE SPIRIT OF JESUS.  THE BIBLE REVEALS TO US THAT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE..... THE BIBLE TELLS US OF THE DECEITFULNESS OF SIN. IT TELLS US OF THE DECEITFULNESS OF RICHES, OF FALSE WORLD PEACE, THIS ALSO TELLS US THAT THERE DOES EXIST A JOY OF THIS WORLD THAT IS NOT OF THE FATHER.. HAVE YOU EVER ROLLED AROUND LAUGHING AT A DIRTY JOKE OR SAYING? DO YOU THINK THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS LAUGHING? NO HE WAS NOT.....HE BLUSHED......FRIEND HEAVENS JOY, THE JOY OF THE LORD IN US COMES AND IS TASTED BY THE TASTEBUDS OF OUR SOULS WHEN WE ARE NO LONGER DOUBLE MINDED, OUR AFFECTIONS ARE SET ON JESUS AND ON THINGS ABOVE, AND WHEN THE LORD  IS BEARING HIS WITNESS WITH OUR SPIRIT AND IN OUR SOULS THAT OUR WORDS AND OUR WAYS ARE PLEASING AND ACCEPTABLE IN HIS SIGHT. WHEN WE IN ALL SITUATIONS AND CIRCUMSTANCES SPEAK AND BASE OUR ACTIONS AND BEHAVIORS TO MATCH  HIS WILL, TO HIS HONOR AND GLORY EVEN OUR SORROW HE WILL TURN INTO JOY IN THE MORNING....... BUT WHEN WE SPEAK OR ACT TO PLEASE PEOPLE AND TO GET THIS WORLDS HONOR, PRAISE  AND APPLAUSE, GODS SPIRIT BECOMES GRIEVED AND QUENCHED WITHIN US.....AND WE WONDER WHY WE FEEL SUCH A BLAA WITHIN, IN OUR SOULS....IN CLOSING I REMIND US AGAIN THESE WORDS FROM JESUS....THESE THINGS HAVE I SPOKEN UNTO YOU SO THAT MY JOY MIGHT BE IN YOU AND SO THAT YOUR JOY COULD BE MADE FULL......HE OR SHE THAT SETS THEIR LOVE ON JESUS TO LOVE HIM, OBEY HIM, IS FAITHFUL TO HIM, HEARKENS UNTO THE VOICE OF HIS WORD AND WILL SHALL BE REWARDED WITH JOY INCREASEMENT EVEN UNTO FULNESS OF JOY.....JUST LIKE GOD SAID TO JESUS IN THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER ONE. HE SAID TO JESUS,  BECAUSE YOU HAVE LOVED RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HATED INIQUITY,  BECAUSE YOU HAVE OBEYED AND ACCOMPLISH MY WILL,  FOR THIS REASON I HAVE ANOINTED YOU WITH THE REWARD OF THE OIL OF GLADNESS THAT IN MEASURE IS ABOVE YOUR FELLOWS.  IT IS GODS BEST AND HIGHEST JOY.....SO DO WE WANT GODS BEST AND CHRIST GREATER JOY IN OUR HEARTS AND SOULS?  I DO....THEN WE MUST MAKE JESUS OUR FIRST LOVE EVERY DAY, WATCH OUR TONGUES SPEECH, AND OBEY HIS LORDSHIP... ...DENO.....AMERICA FOUNDED BY BELIEVERS FOR BELIEVERS......AMEN