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The Joyful Jesus
Contributed by Rev Dr Randall M Deal Sr on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: Jesus was a man of JOY and so should we be! He had a sense of humor! He was FUN! He laughed! He played! Where’s the JOY in OUR lives?
I remember being OVER-JOYED at 39 when God called us to Gilbert Arizona to help plant Rock Point Church with Bill & Carrie and Todd & Sonja and Bill & Pat!
I remember being OVER-JOYED when we started the Sunday Night Bible Study over at the Power Ranch Clubhouse and Rachelle Spychala was the first person to ever walk through the door! Somebody actually came!
I remember being OVER-JOYED, sitting in Pastor Bill’s and Carrie’s living room one evening after dinner and watching Joe & Celina Utley give their lives to Christ!
I remember being OVER-JOYED the first Sunday that Arnie & Reachal McCue (I work with Reachal at Osco) came to Rock Point! I am so proud of you two and your growth in the Lord!
I remember being OVER-JOYED, sitting in their home, and watching Alfonso & Esmerelda Marquez, who had been married and divorced, pray and give their lives to Christ and then later to re-marry each other!
I remember being OVER-JOYED when I met Tim and TRISH Stefaniak, who had also had been married and divorced and God put their lives back together and I got to re-marry them a few weeks ago on the pier at Power Ranch Lake!
I COULD JUST GO ON AND ON, BUT IF I DID, I’D JUST EXPLODE!
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WERE OVER-JOYED by presence of the Lord in your life?
THE JOY OF THE LORD is not something we DO, it’s something we RECEIVE and to which we RESPOND. A gift of grace! Through H.S.!
JOY is something God wraps up in the gift of His grace! It’s everywhere! In the eye of a child, the smile of a sleeping baby, the twinkle in the eye of a grandparent, the touch of your spouse, the hug of a lost teenager who’s come home, the passing of one of God’s beloved into His presence.
BUT YOU CANNOT KNOW THE JOY OF JESUS UNTIL YOU KNOW THE JESUS OF JOY!!!
BAND BACK UP & PLAY DURING PSALM 100!
PUT ON YOUR GARMENT OF PRAISE AND LET’S SHOUT IT TOGETHER AND MAY HIS JOY BE UPON YOU! Bible says there is a time to laugh and a time to dance! I SAY THE TIME IS NOW! It’s time to start smiling and laughing and singing with fervor and SHOUTING and behaving so that the world learns what it really means to know the JOY OF JESUS!!!!!!!! HERE WE GO…….Psalm 100!!!
“SHOUT FOR JOY TO THE LORD, ROCK POINT CHURCH!
CLOSING UPBEAT PRAISE SONG!
