ARE YOU JOYFUL?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

misc.        WITNESS        2-17-14

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