My children, My heart rejoices in the efforts you have made to spend time with Me. I want you to get into the habit of taking Me and including Me, involving Me in to your daily activities. Take Me in your car when you drive. Take Me on a walk. Take Me to dinner with you. Spend time with Me as you would the love of your life, your best friend, your favorite person.
I want to hear all the desires of your heart. I want to be the one who you take with you where ever you go. I want to be able to show you at any time one of my lost sheep that I need you to bring before My feet. But how can you do this if you are not carrying Me with you at all times? How can you tell them about sitting at My feet if you have not done it yourself?
There are many things I desire from My children, but today I desire to hear the sweet voices of happiness of My children. I want joy to overflow, bubbling out like a pot that is overflowing from hot water. I want that joy to be spread out to all those around you. What do you think the hurt and dying are looking for? They are not looking for what they already have. They do not want to see people who are complaining, hurting one another, sad, angry, and not living what it is that My children claim that life with Me really is. They already have misery. They want the fire, the love, the compassion, the joy, and they want the opposite of what they have now.
I want you to practice having joy. I want you to smile when you feel like you can’t. It is in this time that you will find the breakthrough. Joy is what gives you strength in Me. Joy is what helps My light shine through you. It is the magnet that will draw in My lost sheep. And with joy you will not focus on all the circumstances. You will focus on Me and allow Me to take care of the circumstances instead of trying to take them in your own hands and make them a bigger mess.
Start your day today with joy and laughter. Take a few moments of your time today and sit and talk to Me. Allow the joy to just bubble up inside. Talk about the good that is in your life. Let this joy overtake your atmosphere and spread it to all around you. Let them see that I am a God that wants My children happy and joyful. Sing praises to Me from your joy.
Watch the angry people around you have their anger just melt as you stay joyful around them. Do not let them bring you to their level My children. You must stay at your level.
This is one of the keys of survival in the days ahead. You must stay joyful and in the higher heavenly realm with Me and not allow the devastation and sins of this world bring you down to them. And to stay there will be through the strength of your joy and the only way to strengthen your joy is to practice it.
Today find your joy. Strengthen your joy. For I truly do desire to share this joy with you as we continue to spend time together in all you do. Share it with all you know and rest assured that I am right here to help you keep your joy. All you have to do is ask.
With love, God
Nehemiah 8:10
10 Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

1 Peter 1:8-9
8 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9 for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.