WITNESS
3-23-13
ARE YOU JOYFUL
Are you a joyful person
Before you say yes
Think about it
Are you joyful
Even when your health is falling apart
Are you joyful
When you don’t have enough money in the bank
To pay your bills
Are you joyful
When your relationship
With your significant other
Is falling apart
Or when your personal relationships
Are not what they were---
Or what they used to be
If you and I can truly say yes to this question
When our lives are falling apart
Then we are truly
Living in the spirit of God
Someone once said,
“Joy is the infallible sign
Of GOD’S PRESENCE
In your life”
Joy is one of the aspects
And is a sign
That God’s word---GOD’S SPIRIT
Is alive in us
That joy is evident
In Jesus’ life
The COMPASSION that he showed
To those in need---the healing
Always making himself AVAILABLE to
others
And Jesus
Teaches us that joy comes from
servant hood
Even with impending crucifixion
and death
He gets down on his hands and
knees
And washes his disciples feet
So they would be made clean
JOY
Comes from
Having a servant’s heart
“I have set an example
That you should do
As I have done for you”
John 13:16
Joy
Comes from
Having a servant’s heart
“And we pray this
In order that you may live a life
Worthy of the Lord
And may please him
In every way
Bearing fruit in every good work
Growing in the knowledge of God
Being strengthened with all power
According to his glorious might
So that you may have
Great endurance and patience
And JOYFULLY giving thanks to the
Father” 1 Corinthians 10-12
If you can be joyous
When you are suffering
AS CHRIST DID
You are truly living in the SPIRIT
OF GOD
And if we remain JOYOUS
In ALL circumstances
Living on the WORD OF GOD
It will lead us
To salvation
“Though you have not seen him
You love him
And even though
You do not see him now
You believe in him
And are filled
With an inexpressible and glorious
JOY
For you are receiving the GOAL of
your faith
THE SALVATION OF YOUR SOULS”
1 Peter 8-9
May the JOY OF THE LORD
LIVE IN YOU
ROBERT P. WALLMAN
3-5-12
Ps WITNESS 3-23-13
“Consider it pure JOY-my
brothers-whenever you face trials
Of many kinds-because you knot
that the testing of your faith
Develops perseverance”
James 1:2-3
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