Praise the Lord!
This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. Welcome to Morning Glow, welcome to another time in the presence of the Lord. It’s gonna be a great day, a day of joy, a day of favour, a day of outpouring of the grace of God in your life, a day of the manifestation of God’s power. It is a day that you will remember that the Lord did touch you for good and the Heavens open upon your life in the name of Jesus.
Heavenly Father we give glory, praise, honour and adoration to Your name. What a joy to be in Your presence. Bless Your people this day beyond measure. Let the Heavens open, let the voices of darkness be silenced. Let the breakthrough continue, let the testimony continue. Church Gist. There is a storm, it is the storm of prayer, there is an atomic bomb, it is an atomic bomb of prayer. Let that atomic bomb continue to destroy the work of the enemy. Let Your hand continue to be stretched. Bless Your people today. We give You praise in Jesus name.
Hallelujah!
Wherever you are around the world, welcome to Morning Glow, welcome, welcome, welcome. Trusting the Lord to bless you, to impart your life and to minister to you.
We started prophesying joy and happiness yesterday. Joy and happiness are the bread of the children of the Kingdom of God.
Nehemiah 8:10
The enemy often wants to attack your joy and wants people to loose their sense of celebration. God called you to joy and you are not going to kill yourself for nothing. You are going to be a child of God who knows the joy of the Lord and you are going to know how to magnify the Lord at all times.
There are too many people today in the Church, no joy in their lives, their worship is empty, they sing but there is no power in their song, no spring in their steps to celebrate God, no enthusiasm, no anticipation of better things and you’ve got to learn to not let anybody steal your joy.
Joy is conditional upon you learning how to just follow the Lord and take your eyes off circumstances. So we started yesterday by saying;
- You must choose joy.
- You must pursue joy.
- You must know how to experience joy.
a) Joy comes from making God’s word personal to yourself (Jeremiah 15:16).
b) Another way to find joy is a wholehearted service to God. Church Gist. When you serve Jesus with all of your strength, it is one of the greatest way to know the joy of God, complete surrender in celebration and rejoicing (1 Chronicles 29:9).
c) The third way to know the joy of the Lord is the joy of faithful service (Matthew 25:23). From being faithful, the atmosphere of joy was created around this servant in Matthew 25. So when we are faithful in our service to God, we find our joy from it. It could be stretching, it could be tiring, in fact if you want to follow all the statistics, it could just be like you are burning the candle of your life but you know that you are serving Jesus, you are serving God, you are magnifying Him with your life, with your strength and we don’t serve God when it is convenient. Through sunshine, through rain, Paul wrote; I preach the gospel in season and out of season. There is a season when it is convenient to preach the Word, he said preach it and out of season, when it is not convenient to preach the Word, preach it.
d) The joy of knowing that your heart is right with God. There is another joy that comes from the fact that there is no condemnation in your heart (Romans 8:1, Psalm 32 – a song came out of this verse; “be glad in the Lord and rejoice, all ye that are upright in heart”). So be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you righteous and shout for joy all ye that are upright in heart. Church Gist. When you know that well; I am in Christ, I belong to Him, I serve the Lord, I may not be perfect but I know that I love the Lord, He loves me, I am in the centre of His will, it is enough joy. Glory to God.
The joy of knowing Jesus, the joy of serving Jesus, the joy of surrendering to Jesus, the joy of following Jesus. There is joy in knowing Him, in serving Him, in following Him.
e) The joy of winning soul. Not only the joy of winning soul, it is also the joy of sowing seeds (Psalm 126:6). Oh hallelujah! Who doesn’t like harvest? I have never met one person who does not like harvest – financial harvest, harvest of souls; I get excited when I see people pouring to come and give their lives to Christ. Songs just come in my mind of the Lord’s goodness. So when you carry precious seed, you are going to doubtless come again with rejoicing, bring in the sheaves. For those of us who are city people in London, sheaves are when they harvest the barley of wheat and they tied it in bundles, the word sheaves has to do with bundles or bails of your harvest, when you see it, it makes you to rejoice in what the Lord has done, it lifts your spirit as to the goodness of God, as to the grace of God.
f) We receive joy through answered prayer (John 16:24 – ask, you will receive that your joy may be full). Please if you have just joined us, I didn’t emphasis like I did yesterday that true joy is separate from happiness. Happiness is based on happenings, joy is a fruit of the Holy Spirit (Romans 14:17). So you need to know that the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, it is the righteous and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spirit is the One who produces our joy, that’s why it doesn’t make sense to some people when they see us rejoicing. Church Gist. Rejoicing not only when there has been an answered prayer but because the Holy Spirit is prompting a sense of ‘I belong to God, my name is written in the book of life, I have a eternal life, I’m a child of God ‘and you have this joy and peace. Glory to God.
One of the places where I have seen the most joyful people was when I was a student in Bible School in 1974, 47 years ago and we took our Bible School choir to Maximum Security Prison, to minister to the prisoners but the joy of these prisoners exceeded our own joy, these ones who were born again and you needed to hear them also, their own choir beat our own choir hands down. These guys were fantastic. Our choir then was called Sound of Life, they have more sound and more life than ours. Why because they knew a joy that the prison walls could not limit, the knew a joy that the prison walls could not keep them.
- This morning I declare and decree that you are walking into a new season of joy, into a new dimension of joy, into a new glory of joy.
- I speak into your life today that the joy unspeakable, full of glory is breaking forth in your life, nothing is stopping it.
- I speak into your life today that the joy of the Lord that passes all understanding will garrison your spirit.
- As you go into this beautiful day, I declare and decree that joy overflows in your life. Today this Wednesday, the last day of June shall be a day of joy. You will not bow your head in adversity or trouble. You will lift up your head and you will lift up your spirit. You will be like David who said; my spirit is inditing a good thing.
- This day I declare again that your spirit will indite a good thing. Joy will make your spirit to indite and to speak a good thing in the name of Jesus.
- This day, this week will end up with joy and we are about to step into a new month. Oh glory!
- The month of July shall be a month if harvest for you, harvest of joy, a harvest of blessing, a harvest of favour, a harvest of glory, a harvest of testimony, a harvest of breakthrough in the name of Jesus.
PRAYER BULLETS:
Romans 15:13
- May the Lord Himself fill you with all joy. May the joy of the Lord, all encompassing really fill your spirit today. As you go into this week, as you go into the new month, as you go into the rest of the year, may all joy be your portion and testimony in Jesus name.
- May you walk in an uncommon kind of joy, unspeakable, full of glory in the name of Jesus.
Ecclesiastes 9:7
- The rest of this year, you will no put before yourself the bread of sorrow. You will not eat the bread of sorrow, you will rather eat the bread of joy. Today I take the bread of sorrow from your mouth, from your hand, from your life. I declare and decree that you will only eat the bread of joy. The kind of food that brings you sorrow is not your portion in the name of Jesus.
Psalm 127:1-2
- From today we exclude you from those who eat the bread of sorrow. As you go into today, the provision of joy, the bread of joy shall be your portion. In other words, you will eat your food in joy, you will make the provision with joy, you will walk into the experience of joy in the name of Jesus
Proverbs 10:28
- Get ready, gladness is breaking out on your side in every area. Receive gladness today in the name of Jesus. That hope that you have shall end in gladness
Psalm 30:5
- Somebody today, your season of joy has come. The morning has broken, a new day has started. Joy is coming, the morning is breaking in the name of Jesus.
Psalm 37:4
- I declare and decree this morning that as you take delight in the Lord, as you begin to rejoice in the Lord, the desires of your heart begin to manifest in the name of Jesus.
Psalm 144:15
- This day I declare into your life that the joy, the happiness of knowing God will sustain you through the coming seasons in the name of Jesus. Anything that comes up this year, you are rising above it.
- As you go into this day, you are going into joy, you are going into celebration, breakthrough, testimony in the name of Jesus.
- July will be a month of an explosion of joy as your harvest follows in the name of Jesus.
Psalm 16:89
- This day may your heart be glad. May your tongue rejoice, may you sing praises, songs of joy. I take from your mouth, a dirt of sadness, a dirt of pain, I take from your mouth, a song of sadness, of sorrow, of shame, of embarrassment. I pray for you today, may God fill your mouth with songs of celebration, rejoicing, glory, power, songs of His presence, His anointing in the name of Jesus.
- I declare and decree into your life in this season, that the joy that passes understanding fills your life in this season in Jesus name.
- I pray for you today, what will make your heart be sad, God lifts you above it. Any arrow of sadness that the enemy is shooting will not touch your house, your life, your children, business and work in Jesus. The Lord will cause an avalanche of joy, testimony, breakthrough, uncommon open door that makes a man rejoice in Jesus name.
Lord we give you praise, we thank You. We cover everyone who was part of this morning’s Morning Glow with the blood of Jesus. No weapon formed against them prospers, every mouth that rises in judgement against them is condemned. Church Gist. We will not burry anyone who participated at this morning glow. We will not burry them prematurely, they will live to a full old age like a shock of corn. Everything you people lay hands on today shall be a day of testimony.
The month of June will close with favour, glory, blessing and testimony and the new half of the year will open with amazing celebration, victory, so shall it be.
Glory follows, testimony follows, amazing open door follows. Tears wiped and joy fills your mouth. So shall it be in Jesus name.
Amen!
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