Renew Your Joy
Honor and majesty are (found) in His presence; strength and joy are (found) in His santuary. 1Chronicles 16:27
Emotional trauma drains people of their energy. But the Word says, "Be not grieved and depressed, for the joy of the Lord is your strength and stronghold" (Nehemiah 8:10).
The devil wants to steal your joy because he knows that joy is your strength. He wants you to be weak so that you won't resist the turmoil he sets against you. That is why sometimes we need each other.
Some days God will send messengers to build you up in faith and renew your joy. Some days He will send you to someone else who is in a weakened condition because Satan has been pounding on them. Be someone's friend today. They may need a friend to stand beside them and encourage them and to lift them up and pray for them.
Think Ahead
But rather what we are setting forth is a wisdom of God once hidden (from the human understanding) and now revealed to us by God -- (that wisdom) which God devised and decreed before the ages for our glorification (to lift us into the glory of His presence). 1 Corinthians 2:7
Look ahead to the reward God has for you in heaven. God has already written the end of the Book which says that good news is in store for those who put their faith in Jesus.
Even if you live to be a hundred years old, and have trials every day of your life, Paul said that our momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs all th trials we face now
2 Corinthians 4:17-18 NIV And this small and temporary trouble we suffer will bring us a tremendous and eternal glory, much greater than the trouble. For we fix our attention, not on things that are seen, but on things that are unseen. What can be seen lasts only for a time, but what cannot be seen lasts for ever.
Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you.
**Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path**
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