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Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning,Nehemiah 8:10 still taught us that the joy of the lord is our strength.
Definition of joy using Bible as a guide.
Joy can be defined as the natural heart feeling of a true believer to Gods mercies,blessing and benefits. It is a Gift of God through our lord Jesus Christ,and is one of the principal consequencies of true salvation. Joy is almost inseparable from gladness and heart felt or inner most feeling. John 7:3 says that he that believes in him ,as the scripture has said,out of his belly shall flow of living water,the flow rivers of living water is talking about joy flowing in our heart.
Let talk about the following below...
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*True joy
*Wrong joy
*Joy as a substance
*final joy
*True joy - Joy can spring up from several source ,but true joy comes from only one source. True joy is God induced,God sowed and God centered.
{True joy has God as its object just as joel 2:23 "So rejoice, O children of Zion, And delight in the LORD, your God; For He has given you the early [autumn] rain in vindication And He has poured down the rain for you, The early [autumn] rain and the late [spring] rain, as before}.
*Wrong joy - All other joy not sourced from God is fake, temporary and unreliable. Many things present themselves as source of joy but in fact and sadly too,they are sources of woes and torment. These include wealth, educational attainment, position in life, connection, etc. Lots of these fake religions and occultic groups promise joy ,but instead all they deliver to their believers are sorrows and disappointment. Through the clever device of Satan, many times have pursued fake joy all of their life. Some discover at the twilight of their lives,that the ladder of their lives have been placed on a wrong wall,all along.
Spiritual prowess in itself, Jesus Christ warned, must never be the source of a believer's joy (LK 10:17-20). Demons trembling or witchcraft manifestation at church service or prayer meetings should not be a source of our joy but rather because we are sons an daughter of God.
*Joy as a substance
*Joy needs to be guarded from being stolen -(john16:22). Part of the eternal strategy of Satan is to cause people to trade off their true joy for ephemeral things.
*joy has level - (john 15:11). These things i have spoken to you,that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
*The final joy -( Heb 12:2)
All the joy we experience on earth are for a season. However,there is another joy beyond the river, across the bridge where sorrow can never inter-lase. This joy is reserved only for those who would hold on till the end. The ultimate for every Christian is to be a part of this final joy.(Rev 7:17).
As christian joy is made available to every believer. You and i should always live our christian lives with the full consciousness that our arch enemy is always at the corner waiting to steal our joy . He is that power that propels stormy gale and the attendant frustration that blows against our joy.
We are happy and Thank God that he wish and desire for us ,is for his joy to remain everlasting and permanent with us
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REJOICE AND BE GLAD, AGAIN I SAY REJOICE.