Today, My children, I want you to embrace the joy that I have given you and hold on tightly to it. My joy that I have given you is strength to your spiritual muscles that needs to be strong and ready to battle at all times.
My joy keeps away all the gloom that the enemy loves to try to put on My children to tear them down and cause them to fall away from Me. My joy keeps the darkness from overtaking you. My children, you need to walk in My joy. This world is dark and it is getting darker. My joy is something that is going to be able to help you keep your head afloat when others are swimming in the mess that is going on in this world.
I want you to look at how My Son walked on this earth. He did My work with much joy, giving My word to the world. He walked in the peace that I have given to all of My children knowing that I was right with him every second of every day. Even when others were confronting him, mocking him, and being disrespectful to him, he stayed in My peace and answered with confidence because he allowed my spirit to lead him in all that he did. My Son walked with patience to be able to look at the souls that he ministered to and saw their hearts as I saw them. He knew what needed to be done and what he had to do and it did not matter what they did, had done, or acted towards him. He did it with great joy because he was doing it as obedience to Me. I am requiring you My children to do the same.
Let this joy overtake you. Let it really take root inside of you and overflow out of you. Let my joy strengthen you and build you to do the ministries that I have called you into. Let it flow like a river of living waters coming out of you that others can jump into and be drastically changed. It is my joy that I use to perform miracles inside of others because the darkness inside of people cannot withstand my joy. Get a hold of this joy My children and release it into others as I have released it inside of you.
I am not asking you to act like things are not happening and that situations and circumstances do not exist. I am asking you to put all of it into My hands and allow joy to come forth knowing that I am taking care of it. I am asking you to stand up and let the enemy know that no matter what he cannot take your joy.
I am asking you to continue to carry My joy and put a stop to the enemy taking it from you. I want you to put a stop to the enemy damaging your tools that you are to be using against him in your life and in the lives of others. I want you to deny the enemy from stealing everything that My Son has given you the day that he died for you.
So let My holy joy take a hold of you completely today. Walk in it and receive it as a daily thing to walk in. You will notice how it will demolish the little things that the enemy uses to pull you out of the patience, peace, love, and joy that you are to be walking in. Claim it today My children.
Walk everyday in the fullness of the gift of joy that I have given you. Put a stop to the enemy’s plan to take you under by draining and taking your joy and taking your strength that I have given you. Stand on what My son has done for you on Calvary and know that I your Father desire you to have pure joy no matter what it looks like around you because you desire to have it.
John 10:10 (NIV)
10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
Hebrews 12:2 (NIV)
2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Psalm 27:5-7 (NIV)
5 For in the day of trouble
he will keep me safe in his dwelling;
he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent
and set me high upon a rock.
6 Then my head will be exalted
above the enemies who surround me;
at his sacred tent I will sacrifice with shouts of joy;
I will sing and make music to the Lord.
7 Hear my voice when I call, Lord;
be merciful to me and answer me.
Luke 6:22-23 (NIV)
22 Blessed are you when people hate you,
when they exclude you and insult you
and reject your name as evil,
because of the Son of Man.
23 “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets.
Psalm 4:6-8 (NIV)
6 Many, Lord, are asking, “Who will bring us prosperity?”
Let the light of your face shine on us.
7 Fill my heart with joy
when their grain and new wine abound.
8 In peace I will lie down and sleep,
for you alone, Lord,
make me dwell in safety.
Psalm 16:11 (NIV)
11 You make known to me the path of life;
you will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
Psalm 21:5-7 (NIV)
5 Through the victories you gave, his glory is great;
you have bestowed on him splendor and majesty.
6 Surely you have granted him unending blessings
and made him glad with the joy of your presence.
7 For the king trusts in the Lord;
through the unfailing love of the Most High
he will not be shaken.
Psalm 27:6 (NIV)
6 Then my head will be exalted
above the enemies who surround me;
at his sacred tent I will sacrifice with shouts of joy;
I will sing and make music to the Lord.
Psalm 119:110-112 (NIV)
110 The wicked have set a snare for me,
but I have not strayed from your precepts.
111 Your statutes are my heritage forever;
they are the joy of my heart.
112 My heart is set on keeping your decrees
to the very end.