Text : Habakkuk 3:17-18.
It may look as if things are not working but God will make things work. No man can praise except he is joyful. At the root of praise is joy. Until joy is in place, praise is impossible and Joy, you have to generate it.
Psalm 46:4. Romans 14:17.
The Holy Spirit is where you draw the fountain of joy. John 16:13. Galatians 5:22.
There are times in your life you won’t feel like doing anything, at that time, how do you generate joy? We will be looking at forces for generating joy. Isaiah 12:6.
FORCES FOR GENERATING JOY
- The Word of God. For every problem you have, there is a promise to take care of that problem. Psalm 37:25. For every challenge, when you have the Word of God, joy will come.
- The Force of Hope. Psalm 42:5. Psalm 16:9. Refuse to be cast down because your hope is in Christ Jesus. Job 14:7-9.
Your problem may look like a hopeless case, you look at your life and nothing to show for it, in the natural, it is a dead case, God says there is hope. Ephesians 5:26.
No matter how bad it is, as long as you have the Word of God, there is hope. They’ve said forget this case, it is a closed case, there is hope. There is no closed case with God, no case is ever closed except you close it. The things which are impossible with men is possible with God. One thing hope does it that it brings you joy of expectation.
God is saying don’t close your case, rather that should give you joy. Without hope, you can’t flow in joy. Romans 4:17-20.
Until men mock you, God can’t make you. The same people that mocked Abraham still exist. Abraham believed in hope therefore he staggered not at the Word of God. Hope is a product of the Word of God and the Word of God is revealed by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit stabilizes the Word of God.
Psalm 121:1
Say with me “My case is not close, my case cannot be closed, as long as I have not given up, I have my hope in God and I know that God is not a man that He should lie. Whatever He has said to me, He will do it, my hope is on God not on the circumstances. If He did it for Abraham, then I don’t have a problem”.
Psalm 112:7.
Hope was the motivating force that kept Abraham going through out the many years that he had to wait for the promise to be fulfilled. You know what? Something about hope is that it makes otherwise oppressive circumstances, of low consequence.
Hopelessness is a major hindrance to praise. No child of God gets to a dead end on any issue.
Anytime God turns your story around is the best time. Maybe some of you did not start life early and you are already in your 50s, you can recover in six months what you didn’t have.
Whatever you have lost will be restored today!
God is too faithful to fail you.
When you discover God’s Word, it just keeps you going. It gives you hope that no matter the circumstances, something better is coming.
Say with me “No matter what is happening now, my future is bright”.
In case they mocked you, build your hope in God, the same people who mocked you will soon eat on your table.
Every time men mock you, God is about to make you. If nobody has ever mocked you, don’t expect a lifting because the last step to a Supernatural lifting is mockery.
One day is two much, God can turn your story around in two hours.
Something good will happen to you.
Don’t allow circumstances weigh you down, don’t allow the mockery of men weigh you down.
Jeremiah 30:19-21.
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