DAY 8
We receive from the Lord when we are joyful. This next scripture is key. When we are filled with joy, we draw others to us. It is easy to witness when we are filled with joy. People want to serve a God who they can see brings joy to everyone. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then …sinners shall be converted unto thee.45 This applies to witnessing. We GO…. And witness with joy and lead with peace. “For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace.” 46
Let the saints be joyful in glory: 47 When we are in God’s presence or in the glory, it brings joy. Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness. 48
The Lord brings us out of captivity with Joy. And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness49 When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them. 50 OUR JOY GETS THE ATTENTION OF THE HEATHEN!
Here the Bible talks about the oil of joy or gladness. The anointing on Jesus was the oil of JOY. The anointing destroyed the yokes and bondages. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 51 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings;… to comfort all that mourn; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, …the oil of joy for mourning, 52 …and it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. 53 The anointing of Joy destroys yokes and burdens!
Joy can be full. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. (Being in God’s presence fills us with Joy) 54
…And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost. 55 So if you can be full, you can be empty, or half full.
The kingdom of God is power that brings joy. 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. 56 For unclean spirits… came out of many … and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. And there was great joy in that city. 57
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Day 9
Joy refreshes your spirit. It is spiritual power. That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed. 58... exceedingly the more...because his spirit was refreshed by you all. 59 Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord. 60 Refreshing comes from spending time with God.... times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. 61 In Your presence is fullness of joy. 62… for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off. 63
Joy is one-third of the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is… Righteousness, peace and JOY in the Holy Spirit. The kingdom of God is IN the Holy Spirit, IN you, IN power, and NOW. 64 …the kingdom of God is within you. 65 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. 66 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you. 67
The Kingdom of God is God’s government, operating on earth. It’s God’s way of doing things. It’s God operating through the Holy Spirit in you, to affect and change your life and events on this planet.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace... 68 Does this scripture above sound familiar? The Kingdom of God is righteousness, PEACE and JOY in the Holy Spirit. Joy is a spiritual substance that has power to change the physical. It is part of the Kingdom of God in you to rule and have dominion on earth.
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DAY 10
As Christians, we are the flesh on earth today carrying the presence of God. We must to learn how to get into God’s presence and leak Him out to others. We should be oozing with JOY! We are the answer to today’s problems. Someone is looking for you because you have the answer to his or her problems.
Jesus said to put NEW WINE into NEW WINE SKINS. 69 This is what God showed me. Our born again spirit is the new wine skin. We hold the new wine (Holy Spirit). The Holy Spirit put this scripture together with another scripture. John 2 shows Jesus turning water into wine and was the FIRST miracle He did. It was at a WEDDING that He SHOWED HIS GLORY. I asked God why He did that as the first miracle. He said, "The FIRST thing my Bride needs is for the rivers of living water coming out of them to be turned to wine. I saved the best WINE until NOW so that My bride could show My GLORY in these end times." He also showed me that the water at the wedding was water in RELIGIOUS containers (tradition and religion). He turned it into wine, new wine (FREEDOM from the law into the freedom of the HOLY SPIRIT, which is how He wants His church to live). He put that with Acts 2, which says: These are not drunk AS YOU suppose. He wants us filled with the Holy Spirit so that we are drunk. Remember the drunkenness in the world is a COPY of the drunkenness of the Holy Spirit.
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DAY 11
Let's take a look at one last thing about joy. Joy is a reward! In the parable of the talents, the servant who gained more was rewarded with more. Being invited to enter into the joy of the Lord was also his reward. Take a look at Matt 25:15-46. Also, Jesus endured the cross for the "joy" set in front of Him in Heb 12:2. That was the same "JOY" He was anointed with.
You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness (JOY) more than Your companions." (Is 45:7, Heb 1:9) I believe this scripture of hating lawlessness is in reference to Satan ruling illegally on the earth, not man breaking the covenant rules. This is the same lawlessness in end times that will make people's love grow cold and they will depart from the faith....And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. (Matt 24:12) So in conclusion, JOY is a spiritual force especially strong in end times. When we start seeing all the goodness of God instead of our shame, sin, condemnation, and guilt, we will begin to focus instead on Him and His goodness, we will have revival, and it will be a revival of JOY!
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DAY 12
In order to understand about the gospel of the kingdom, I must start with the covenant.
God made the earth and gave it to man to subdue it and have dominion over it and increase the Garden of Eden to the rest of the planet.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion …over all the earth…And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth (fill it up with the garden), and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 1
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet. 2
God made Man to have authority and dominion over the earth, and when Adam disobeyed God and chose to obey the devil, then Satan became man’s ruler and owned man's authority. Satan became the ruler over earth, the one to have man’s dominion and authority over the planet. Because God follows His own rules and gave the planet to man, He could not go in as God and take back the planet from Satan. So in order to restore man to the rightful position of ruler, God made the covenant with man.
Because of the covenant, Jesus could bring God’s help to man. Through the Holy Spirit, we are empowered with God and can legally be empowered to rule, reign, have dominion and subdue the planet. We now carry the government inside us to enforce the judgment of the devil (guilty) and man (innocent) and bring about justice that the blood of Jesus paid for us to have. We will go over that in the rest of the book.
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