Messages for April 2016: Our Month of unspeakable Joy
Message for the 3rd of April 2015
Theme: Understanding the importance of the Joy of the Lord
Topic: What Joy is
Introduction: As we enter into this season of great influx of souls into God’s Kingdom, there is no better way to take off than being given the opportunity by the Lord to both enjoy his unspeakable joy and learn and understand it so as to guarantee the harvest He is giving us. His joy will also help to preserve this harvest until His return.
For us to enjoy His best for us therefore, we must take the time to not assume knowledge of the joy of the Lord but to carefully learn and understand how it works. This would help us to take advantage of this great grace for our benefit and the glory of God.
What then is Unspeakable joy? The two key words here are unspeakable and joy. Let us take them apart to define them for clarity purpose.
Unspeakable is that which defies expression in words. For our purpose here, it is the joy that cannot be described but must be experienced to know it.
Joy on the other hand is the passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good. It is that which causes joy or happiness. It can also be defined as enthusiasm.
While all these dictionary definitions try to define joy, their definition may not truly describe the joy of the Lord especially when it is seen as something that is a result of the acquisition of something good. In this case, it could pass for happiness if the thing acquired is material and transient. The joy of the Lord goes deeper and stronger than that. The following qualities help to show what the joy of the Lord is.
Qualities of the Joy of the Lord:
It is a spiritual gift of God given to the redeemed. It is therefore not a material thing and not dependent on tangible things to flow and be expressed through a person.Isa.61:3 and 1Pet.1:8.
Joy is a fruit of the recreated human spirit and therefore can be nurtured and can grow. Gal.5:22
Joy is a supernatural mystery that proves the existence of faith in the heart of a person. 1Pet.1:8 and Rm.4:20.
Joy is a spiritual force that can be described as the strength of a believer in Christ. Neh.8:10.
Joy is the energetic assurance of faith that sees you believing God from the time of promise to its actual manifestation. 1Pet.1:8 and Ezek.2:2.
Joy enables you to maintain a staying power in an energetic and expressive way resulting in the creation and sustenance of momentum irrespective of conflicting physical occurrences. 1Pet.1:8 and Jn.15:11
Our right in the covenant of Grace:
Everyone who is born of God has certain entitlements as God’s child that distinguishes them from the world. One of the entitlements we have received in the covenant of Grace cut with the Lord Jesus Christ through His body and blood is joy. See John 1:16-17 and Jn.6:53-54. Joy is one of the proofs of the existence of eternal life in a person. See Gal.5:22.
How joy comes:
It is given to us at new birth as part of the package in our redemption. This makes it a gift of God to us. Isa.61:3.
It is imparted to us through the infilling of the Holy Spirit – Ps.45:7 and Heb.1:9.
It is released into us by the word of God spoken to us. This is why any time you hear the voice of God, one of the proofs that it is God speaking to you is that it leaves you joyful no matter the adversities around you. John 15:11
It is imparted by the revelation of the Holy Spirit of the light in God’s word. See Jer.15:16.
It is a product of answer to prayer by God. See John 16:26.
It is a product of divine visitation. Jn.16:20-22
When we are filled with the joy of the Lord, we enter into a realm where we cannot be defeated because the joy of the Lord is our strength and nothing can defeat the strength of the Lord which is also called the spirit of might. See Neh.8:10 and Is.11:2.
Access to this grace was freely available to man until the devil came in to mess things up by luring man into sin which resulted in his separation from God [Gen.3; Rm.3:23 and 6:23]. Thankfully, the Lord Jesus Christ already came to solve the sin problem for us. However, we are required to embrace His sacrifice by believing in Him and receiving God’s free gift of salvation through faith. See John 3:16-18.
If you have not yet received this free gift, you can do so right away by saying the following prayer out loud in faith and you shall be saved:
Heavenly Father,
Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name! Amen.
Congratulations! For more information and resources that would help you grow in this new life, please visit our website at www.kingdomheirsministries.org and our blogs at www.flourishinggirl.blogspot.com and follow us on twitter at alero_nanna and on face book on www.facebook.com/flourishinggirl www.facebook.com/khmii2015; www.facebook.com/thewellbeingcenter. Or www.facebook.com/kingdomjointheirsfamily email: jointheirsfamily@gmail.com.
Remain on top of your challenges in Jesus’ name!
Message for the 3rd of April 2015
Theme: Understanding the importance of the Joy of the Lord
Topic: What Joy is
Introduction: As we enter into this season of great influx of souls into God’s Kingdom, there is no better way to take off than being given the opportunity by the Lord to both enjoy his unspeakable joy and learn and understand it so as to guarantee the harvest He is giving us. His joy will also help to preserve this harvest until His return.
For us to enjoy His best for us therefore, we must take the time to not assume knowledge of the joy of the Lord but to carefully learn and understand how it works. This would help us to take advantage of this great grace for our benefit and the glory of God.
What then is Unspeakable joy? The two key words here are unspeakable and joy. Let us take them apart to define them for clarity purpose.
Unspeakable is that which defies expression in words. For our purpose here, it is the joy that cannot be described but must be experienced to know it.
Joy on the other hand is the passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good. It is that which causes joy or happiness. It can also be defined as enthusiasm.
While all these dictionary definitions try to define joy, their definition may not truly describe the joy of the Lord especially when it is seen as something that is a result of the acquisition of something good. In this case, it could pass for happiness if the thing acquired is material and transient. The joy of the Lord goes deeper and stronger than that. The following qualities help to show what the joy of the Lord is.
Qualities of the Joy of the Lord:
It is a spiritual gift of God given to the redeemed. It is therefore not a material thing and not dependent on tangible things to flow and be expressed through a person.Isa.61:3 and 1Pet.1:8.
Joy is a fruit of the recreated human spirit and therefore can be nurtured and can grow. Gal.5:22
Joy is a supernatural mystery that proves the existence of faith in the heart of a person. 1Pet.1:8 and Rm.4:20.
Joy is a spiritual force that can be described as the strength of a believer in Christ. Neh.8:10.
Joy is the energetic assurance of faith that sees you believing God from the time of promise to its actual manifestation. 1Pet.1:8 and Ezek.2:2.
Joy enables you to maintain a staying power in an energetic and expressive way resulting in the creation and sustenance of momentum irrespective of conflicting physical occurrences. 1Pet.1:8 and Jn.15:11
Our right in the covenant of Grace:
Everyone who is born of God has certain entitlements as God’s child that distinguishes them from the world. One of the entitlements we have received in the covenant of Grace cut with the Lord Jesus Christ through His body and blood is joy. See John 1:16-17 and Jn.6:53-54. Joy is one of the proofs of the existence of eternal life in a person. See Gal.5:22.
How joy comes:
It is given to us at new birth as part of the package in our redemption. This makes it a gift of God to us. Isa.61:3.
It is imparted to us through the infilling of the Holy Spirit – Ps.45:7 and Heb.1:9.
It is released into us by the word of God spoken to us. This is why any time you hear the voice of God, one of the proofs that it is God speaking to you is that it leaves you joyful no matter the adversities around you. John 15:11
It is imparted by the revelation of the Holy Spirit of the light in God’s word. See Jer.15:16.
It is a product of answer to prayer by God. See John 16:26.
It is a product of divine visitation. Jn.16:20-22
When we are filled with the joy of the Lord, we enter into a realm where we cannot be defeated because the joy of the Lord is our strength and nothing can defeat the strength of the Lord which is also called the spirit of might. See Neh.8:10 and Is.11:2.
Access to this grace was freely available to man until the devil came in to mess things up by luring man into sin which resulted in his separation from God [Gen.3; Rm.3:23 and 6:23]. Thankfully, the Lord Jesus Christ already came to solve the sin problem for us. However, we are required to embrace His sacrifice by believing in Him and receiving God’s free gift of salvation through faith. See John 3:16-18.
If you have not yet received this free gift, you can do so right away by saying the following prayer out loud in faith and you shall be saved:
Heavenly Father,
Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name! Amen.
Congratulations! For more information and resources that would help you grow in this new life, please visit our website at www.kingdomheirsministries.org and our blogs at www.flourishinggirl.blogspot.com and follow us on twitter at alero_nanna and on face book on www.facebook.com/flourishinggirl www.facebook.com/khmii2015; www.facebook.com/thewellbeingcenter. Or www.facebook.com/kingdomjointheirsfamily email: jointheirsfamily@gmail.com.
Remain on top of your challenges in Jesus’ name!
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