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 day in the presence of the Lord, welcome to another time in the presence of the Lord. I am trusting the Lord that this morning will be great and good for you. Today will be awesome, this week will be awesome and God will minister to you in a very special and powerful way.
Spirit of the living God, we welcome You this morning, we welcome Your presence, Your power, Your glory, Your anointing. By the outstretching of Your hand, touch Your people, minister to them. Lord let the Word that will go forth today bless somebody, let the prophetic word rest on somebody. Minister, minister, minister. Set captives free, give Your people joy unspeakable. Prove Yourself awesome God, mighty God in the lives of Your people. Let Your name be glorified. We thank You, You will exceed our prayer, our expectation, the Heavens will be open upon Your people in the four corners of the earth. Testimony will follow in Jesus name.
Amen!
Praise the Lord. I will like to welcome you this morning. We bless the Lord for you. Trust the Lord that this morning will be special, will be outstanding, will be unique and the hand of the Lord will touch you.
This morning we want to take the time to really just prophesy joy and happiness into your life. Church Gist. It is time for you to walk in joy, to walk in happiness that God brings. God wants you to know His joy, He wants you to know happiness, He wants you to know the grace of God, the power of God.
Nehemiah 8:10
Our focus today and possibly the rest of this week and maybe early next week, is going to be on joy and happiness. Don’t forget this – satan can not steal your joy, he cannot keep your property. If he can’t steal your joy, he can’t keep your property. Once your joy is intact, your blessing will be intact. One of the saddest things in the body of Christ today is how anemic people’s spiritual life is, particularly in the area of fruits and gifts of the Holy Spirit and we find in the Scripture that the joy of the Lord is our strength.
The joy of the Lord is your strength. I was watching a program on YouTube and this lady was trying to say; what is the secret of happiness and she went to a kind of religion and all kind of people and everyone say no source. And you find that the deepest truth and source of happiness is to know the Lord and to have joy that comes from the Lord because she was just talking on happiness and happiness may be depended on some things but joy is depended on your connection with the Holy Spirit who produces the fruit irrespective of circumstances.
There is no joy in many places today. No joy even in some Churches, no celebration, no rejoicing. They have no songs, no spring in their steps, there are some Churches no enthusiasm, no anticipation of better things. They just go out of ritual but you have come to this platform this morning, there will be an outbreak of the joy of the Lord in your life, there will be enough to celebrate.
Joy comes by reason of your connection with the Holy Spirit. Joy is not circumstantial, happiness can be but joy is a fruit. Church Gist. It is based on internal production of the Holy Spirit, not external circumstances. When a man gets a promotion at work, he is happy although he uses the word joy. But when you get joy, you have joy even when things are not yet like you want it to be.
Nehemiah was like a prime minister in Babylon, he comes back to be a bricklayer, to lay the walls of Jerusalem and to lead a bunch of people who have never done such job before, they’ve never mix limestone but they were using everything they could. The were building the wall and they were being mocked but then there was an uncommon joy that they are part of the building of destiny, of making a difference, of changing lives. Joy, one of the greatest joy seasons of my life, we are thinking that we may not hold it next January, that is the widow’s event, how could you be spending so much money and be joyful? The joy was coming from seeing the joy on the face of all these thousands of widows who had come to receive gifts, food, clothing, money. It was causing me a lot but it was causing me the greatest joy. So we need to realise that joy is very powerful but we may not be aware of it that, it is sometimes conditional. It is conditional on you really staying in connection with the Holy Spirit.
Paul the Apostle says we are helpers of your joy (2 Corinthians 1:24). The joy of the Lord produces an inner strength, the joy of the Lord makes you move forward. A joyful Church is a healthy Church, a joyful person is a healthy person, a joyful family is a healthy family. You must choose joy if you really want to overcome the challenges of the last days. If you want to overcome the things life will sometimes throw at you; surprises, challenges, battles, you must learn to know the joy that passes understanding, that doesn’t make natural sense.
You must pursue joy, seek out the avenues through which God has promised joy, through which He said joy will come. Joy is not mainly an experience, it is an inward disposition of the heart that you must pursue and you must maintain. Church Gist. Joy is real, joy is from the Lord. Joy is more than music, it is knowing God and being excited from your spirit even when things around you are not the way they should.
How do you experience the joy of the Lord?
Let me give you one or two before we begin to prophesy into your life this morning.
- The joy that comes from making God’s word personal is a big one. When you take the Word of God and you really apply it and you understand the Word of God and it minister to you, there is a joy that comes from it (Jeremiah 15:16). So when you find a rhema, the Word of God in its written form is logos, when the Holy Spirit breath on a verse, on a statement and it hits you and suddenly a verse makes sense for the first time, it’s like you have never heard this verse before and it is ministering to you, that is a rhema, a word in season that has power. The third dimension to that kind of word is revelation. When suddenly a revelation comes out of a passage but rhema is the in-breath of God, it is on the Word that He has spoken and it hits your face like wow, is like I have never seen this verse before, it just minister to you. Praise God.
So the joy that comes from making God’s word personal, there is a joy to it. When God’s word speaks to a situation, when God’s word speaks to your heart, when God’s word lifts that burden, when God’s word makes you to look at an affliction that looks big and 2 Corinthians 4:17 says, ‘your light affliction’ and suddenly that verse makes sense to you, you have this joy and somebody is looking at you like, you are going through this and you are laughing, you are happy? Because you know something they don’t know. The Word had just minister to you.
- The joy of serving Jesus, the joy of serving the Lord. You can serve in a place where people are thankless, you can serve in a setting where in fact the Pastor there doesn’t know you but you see the one who called you knows you. Church Gist. So you find joy in that. David said I will rather be an usher in the house of God, wow! The joy of wholehearted service.
1 Chronicles 29:9 – that day, the people were bringing out gold and silver for the temple that shall be built and guess what? David had been told that it will not be him that will build it, it is not in his time, yet with excitement, he gave close to two billion dollars worth of silver and gold for the building of the temple of God.
It is the joy in serving God that makes you keep going on when people discourage you and when people misbehave and when people do things to you. It is only the joy in serving Jesus and eternal consequences of your serving Him that makes you to serve when it is really stretching for your flesh, it is the joy of eternal consequence upon men and women. Glory to God.
It is the joy of serving Him that makes you to keep singing when you should go quite, when your battery should be flat, you are still excited to serve the Lord. The joy of wholehearted service is one of the major reasons for rejoicing in the Lord. Let me just take one more and we are going to prophesy into your life this morning.
- The joy of answered prayer. When suddenly God turns the captivity of Zion around, you become like dreamers, you are wondering, you mean just like that? John 16:24 – there is joy when prayer is answered, there is excitement when God turns captivity around and prayer is answered. O Glory!
When God makes what you thought will not happen, when God causes joy and happiness to break out in your house, there is excitement, there is celebration and this morning, I feel very strong to just come and prophesy, get ready for joy and happiness. Church Gist. What a word from the Lord as we are coming to the end of fasting and praying and listen, when this prophetic word is been given you, the enemy is likely to try to fight it but if satan cannot steal your joy, he cannot keep your property, don’t forget that statement, it is very powerful.
I went to bed some minutes to twelve and I found myself waking some minutes to four by one or two things, I couldn’t sleep anymore, I said; if satan cannot steal your joy, he cannot keep your property. So this morning get ready, the Heavens will open, joy unspeakable and full of glory is coming upon your household and upon your life.
PRAYER BULLETS:
- Luke 1:14
Heavenly Father we give You praise this morning, we thank You for everyone at the platform today, we give glory to Your name because You are a good God, You are an awesome God, You are mighty God. You are God from beginning to the end, there is no place for argument. We thank You no word of Yours falls and die without accomplishing the purpose for which it was sent. Your people at this platform today, we bless Your name for joy unspeakable and full of glory. We celebrate in advance what You have decided to do for Your people. That out of their pain, joy is coming, out of there challenges, joy is coming.
In Luke 1:14, they told Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist and his mother that they will bear a son …and you shall have joy and gladness and many shall rejoice at his birth. His father couldn’t take it, he is an old man and his wife is old and he is wondering how is it going to be? But when God speaks, it comes to pass.
- I speak into your today, this morning that the things that will make you to be happy, the joy from the Heavens, the kind of outbreak of joy, receive, receive, receive in the name of Jesus.
An outbreak of joy that will cause you to dance and you will not bow your head, you will not walk in fear, you will not walk in adversity, you will not walk in troubled mind, you will be rejoicing that God has spoken, God is not a man that He should lie nor the son of man that He should recount, repent, change His mind. As He spoken, will He not do it?
This day after all seasons of financial barrenness you have been through, after the physical barrenness you have been through, after the emotional barrenness you have been through, after the seasons of mental barrenness, spiritual barrenness you have been through, this is the Word of the Lord for you today, the first prophetic Scripture, “…and they shall have joy and gladness and many shall rejoice at his birth.”
- Many shall rejoice at the birth of your dream, the birth of your vision, the birth of your blessing.
- Many are going to join you and celebrate and celebrate and celebrate with you in the name of Jesus.
- The reasons to rejoicing will not cease in your house in the name of Jesus.
- Something have just been held upl like you are not going to give birth to them but this morning I prophesy into your life that you will give birth to that dream, you will give birth to that vision, that joy is going to break forth like a spring of water to quench all these years of thirst. It shall be like a dream to you. You will wake up in this season, one of the days in this month or next month or coming months and you will hear a news that wipes your tears, a news that silences the devil, rejoice, rejoice, rejoice in the name of Jesus.
- God will send you people who will rejoice at your joy, they will celebrate your celebration in the name of Jesus.
- Ecclesiastes 9:7
This day I release you into the rest of this year, I pray for you for divine approval. Your dreams, the good dreams of your heart, the good visions of your heart, the good aspirations of your heart, receive divine approval in the name of Jesus. - I speak into your life today, God causes happiness and joy to break out in your house, in your life. Receive divine approval of your works in the name of Jesus.
- You will eat the bread of happiness, you will drink the wine of happiness. There will be cheerfulness in your household. The sound of celebration will break out of your house.
- Romans 15:13
This day I declare into your life that the God of hope will fill you with joy and peace, joy unspeakable, joy that is overflowing. - Somebody on this altar, you have prayed enough, the day of your hope and joy are here. Joy is overflowing for you, hope is breaking forth in the name of Jesus. It shall become your testimony in Jesus name.
- John 15:11
This day I declare, I declare the kind of joy that wells up in a person and makes them overcome everything thrown at them by life, receive, receive, receive. Begin to walk in joy, begin to celebrate, begin to rejoice in advance of manifestation. This day the joy of the Lord will fill your mouth and fill your life in the name of Jesus. - I declare this day, joy that will be inside you will be welling forth like a river.
- Romans 12:15
This day may your circle of rejoicing increase. I declare into your life today, may your circle of rejoicing increase. I speak into your life today, may your circle of rejoicing increase. People who are rejoicing shall be bombarded into your life. People who are celebrating will increase in your life. - People will not gather for tears in your house for the rest this year. People will not gather their shoes, their feet, their legs in your house to come and commiserate with you or come on condolence visit this year. I nullify that with the blood of Jesus. I cancelled that with the blood of Jesus.
- Every visit of condolence, I nullify with the blood of Jesus. Every visit of commiseration, I nullify with the blood of Jesus.
- You have come to this platform and I speak into your life today, we will gather but it shall be for rejoicing and celebration and the magnifying of the name of the Lord with you. No evil gathering, no satanic gathering in the name of Jesus.
- 1 John 1:4
As a servant of Jesus Christ, I prophesy into your life, I declare and decree into your life today, what will complete what God started, we release this day in the name of Jesus. - I speak into your life today, perfected joy, complete joy in the name of Jesus.
- Get ready, celebration will break out in your life, testimony will be awesome. Some of the testimony you will give this year, people will hear it and they will be dancing. People will hear your testimony and there will be an extension of your joy in their lives, of your joy reaching them.
- I speak into your life today, the kind of answers to pray that will make you to say finally the Lord has done it, receive in the name of Jesus!
- The kind celebration you’ve never known is around the corner, it won’t be long in Jesus name.
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