Everything Will Be Alright: Joy

EVERY THING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT… PURE JOY

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes)

*JOY: Assurance that God is in control. Quiet confidence. Joy is an emotion of something good or satisfying, delight, a feeling of wellbeing, gladness, pleasure and happiness. There is a hard lesson to learn EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT!

FEW EVER LEARN JOY IS A CHOICE, A DETERMINED CHOICE. IS JOY A PRODUCT OF WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW?

How is it possible people lose and forget about JOY? NO ONE CAN STEAL YOUR JOY! WHERE DO WE INVEST OUR DAILY LIFE? ARE WE CONFIDENT THAT GOD IS GOD AND THAT GOD HAS THE LAST WORD?

John 16:22 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

COME LET US REASON THE WORD OF GOD DOES THE WORK OF GOD. GOD’S JOY COMES FROM KNOWING JESUS IN A PERSONAL WAY AND KNOWING GOD’S WORD.

I have one goal before me. Paul had the same goal. THAT I MAY KNOW HIM. Our God reigns and God is in absolute control no matter what your circumstances or what you feel or see.

Philippians 3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

Romans 15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

Romans 15:13 (MSG) Oh! May the God of green hope fill you up with joy, fill you up with peace, so that your believing lives, filled with the life-giving energy of the Holy Spirit, will brim over with hope!

JOY IS A FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT… WE MAKE THE CHOICE AS TO WHAT JOY DEGREE IN WHICH WE WILL ABIDE.

We make a choice to focus on the positive and praise God through the storms and trials. To maintain JOY we must develop a DEEP ROOT SYSTEM. Are you thankful? Are you quick to forgive? Are you a GIVER or a TAKER?

Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

AM I A CHEERLEADER? AM I DRIED UP AND DOG-TIRED ALL THE TIME? DO WE REALIZE LIFE CAN SAP AND DRAIN THE VERY STRENGTH OF LIFE?

Proverbs 17:22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Proverbs 17:22 (MSG) A cheerful disposition is good for your health; gloom and doom leave you bone-tired.

JOY IS ONE OF THE BEST TRAITS YOU CAN DEVELOP IN DAILY LIVING… THERE IS GREAT POWER IN LIVING IN JOY.

We have been designed by our maker to operate with a FULL JOY TANK…

John 15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

John 15:11 (MSG) "I've told you these things for a purpose: that my joy might be your joy, and your joy wholly mature.

WHAT ARE EMOTIONS? WHO DEFINES THE MOODS WE DAILY ALLOW? Love, fear, anger, sadness, praise… We tend to allow our circumstances dictate our moods and emotions.

JOY CAN BE A GIFT IN DIFFICULT AND TROUBLED TIMES. ALL JOY! PURE JOY!

The human brain is geared that troubles and trials are bad and are here to destroy our joy. The normal human emotion is these problems make me bitter, depressed, angry and withdrawn. A Christian must develop a new attitude these troubles should teach us PURE JOY.

James 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

James 1:2 (MSG) Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides.

3 You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors.

JOY IS A LEARNED BEHAVIOR NOT AN INSTINCT. JOY MUST BECOME HABITUAL. JOY ONCE ESTABLISHED CAN PRODUCE POSITIVE OUTCOMES BY STAYING THANKFUL AND CONTENT.

1 Thessalonians 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Psalm 40:4 Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

LET US LEARN THE LESSON JOY IS NOT ABOUT FEELINGS AND CIRCUMSTANCES.

Philippians 4:11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. 12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.