The glory of God represents all of the majesty, the splendor and the possibilities that are captured in God. It’s called glory. It comes from the Hebrew word Cabod. It means the weightiness. It’s an attempt to describe the vast riches, wealth of a king.
There is a relationship between the glory of God and joy.
I want to show you why many people are unable to receive from the spirit. The reason is because many do not know or many have not been taught the role that joy places in the life of a believer.
Hallelujah.
Let’s start tonight with
Joel 1:12
When a believer cannot access joy it is a very tragic situation that requires emergency.
Habakkuk 3 :17-19
This is a perfect description of hopelessness. Many believers are taught faith but they’re not taught the role that joy has to play. The moment the devil wants to destroy an individual he stops you from believing in the experience of the blessings of God that’s among the many spirits that he releases to a believer
1- Fear
Fear is the spirit that opens the door for all other spirits to come then the spirit of gloominess, sadness, depression. Depression is not just a medical issue, there is a medical expression but depression is a spirit.
Medically the character of depression is that it brings you to a place of silence and the one who keeps quiet in this Kingdom is the one who loses.
There are many legitimate grounds as we would call it. In 24 hours there are enough activities to attempt to suck away the joy of an average African. All you need to do is put on your television or internet and you will find more than enough issues. Some of these things are programmed by the devil because he knows the role that joy has to play in receiving.
The Bible says a few things about joy.
1- Nehemiah 8:10
In this Kingdom you need strength to pull through life. If you lack joy then you lack strength.
Psalm 16:11
There are no impossibilities with God because there is joy. Can you imagine the relationship between joy and pleasure?
More joy, more pleasure. Less joy, less pleasure. Joy is the believers strength in this Kingdom.
Isaiah 12:3
Joy is a fetcher in the realm of the spirit. It is the authorised fetcher that brings out the mysteries of redemption and makes them accessible to the believer.
All of the blessings that came on the account of the death, the burial and the ressurection of Jesus, you use joy to draw healing, to draw restoration. You can stand before a well and yet not have the fetcher that brings water. The well is full of water, ready for your taking but the fetcher is not there.
So joy is only strength to the believer.
1st Peter 1:3-8
You have not seen it manifest yet, you have not seen the manifestation of that prophecy and yet you’re full of joy. There is a difference between receiving and having. Receiving is Spiritual, having is when it manifests.
Mark 11:24
The moment you receive by faith, now you begin to express joy. This is why the faith life, the carnal man, the natural man cannot understand the things of the spirit. Why? Why begin to rejoice over something that has not manifested. The Spiritual fire you desire is yet to come and yet you rejoice with joy unspeakable, full of glory.
If you want to wait for things to be positive before you have joy, then you’re not manifesting the full potential of a Christian. Joy is of the Holy Ghost, you can be happy when you have a salary raise, you can sit in the midst of a storm and yet rejoice.
Many believers walk as if Jesus Christ just died and they announced His funeral. You must make up your mind that absolutely nothing will sustain the ability to tamper with your joy. It may touch any other thing but if it does not touch your joy, it didn’t really touch anything.
No matter what you lose in your life my brothers and my sisters, people of God, if your joy is still with you then you’re satisfied.
When joy dries in your life, it will affect your health. Make up your mind that “while I wait my joy will continue to grow”. “While I await the manifestation of prophecy, satan you will never find me frowning and to call God unfaithful”. “I will cry while joyful”.
Let me tell you how satan works, satan is master of the flesh realm. Don’t you go near the flesh realm because it’s his domain. You come there, that’s his constituency. The moment you’re in the flesh, He knows that by the fallen nature of man we respond to our impulses, our sensory perceptions, the things you hear, see and feel, the things you taste and so he orchestrates events very intentionally to make God look unfaithful. Just when you’re about to sing a song of praise you hear that the price of things are going up in the market and then you hear that something is happening, you take a little nap and you see a grave and then you cry. Who told you it’s your grave? Was your name written there? It’s the grave of your enemy.
Everytime you begin to rejoice, your joy confuses satan. Men are not wired by the fallen nature to rejoice over nothing so he now begins to suspect, what is making this person rejoice? I can’t see anything physically and yet you have received so many things. Make up your mind that I’m going to be joyful for the rest of my life.
We do not negate the realities that are before you, I know it’s been ten years without a child, but find joy. You have nothing to lose. The only possiblity that your harvest will come is when you’re in joy.
I hear they say Africans are the most happiest people. May it remain so in the name of Jesus Christ.
Do you know how short or long it took God to create the earth? That you can be in a service like this and this God begins to move systems and structures, brings helpers to you. If you don’t believe this you’re not a Christian.
Hallelujah.
The joy of the Lord.
John 16:24
The joy of the Lord can be a reality in your life regardless of what is happening around you but he does not just want you to have joy. Anything God gives men, He gives it in abundance. If it’s peace, He gives it like a river, if it’s life He gives it more abundantly, if it’s peace, He gives the peace that surpasses knowledge.
The end of most of these things we seek is really joy. Why ask God to heal you when you know that one day you will still transit? Everybody Jesus healed in the Bible eventually died so why did He heal them?
You have to understand this so that you can descern the blessings of God. Nothing in itself really blesses you long term. It is the joy that comes out of it. What happens when they tell you someone just bought a great car? You’re happy with the person.
What is the difference between staying in a rented apartment and staying in your own house? The right answer is joy.
Acts 8:5
It matters what you preach if you want to see miracles. You preach self, you will confirm everything by yourself. You preach Christ, He will come to defend and confirm. So before we talk about miracles we have to examine.
God didn’t just want individuals to have joy, He even wants cities to have joy. A whole family can have joy through the abundance of the things they hear and see.
If your life is barren of genuine results, what do you think will be affected? When your joy is affected any negative thing can happen. When we experience all the miracles that were about to experience now and will experience after this miracle service among the many things they bring to your life is joy unspeakable, full of glory.
Do not downplay what joy can do. Joy can give you long life. When God blesses you like He did to Abraham in
Genesis 24:1
He blesses you in all things.
He called us that in union with God and his Spirit He will administer the fullness of joy, the vaccination against a defeated life. That you’re happy and rejoicing, glory be to God.
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