Joy

Joy is an important balancer of the soul. It is special because it is founded in God’s love. It is so important that even carnal movies, television shows, and stage plays are dedicated to finding it. Pixar made a movie called “Inside Out.” Its main premise was getting joy back to the main protagonist’s mind, will and emotions. If the world understands this principle of God, we have to. We should understand the love that Jesus has for us and that he gives us joy.

“Joy is an expression of the Spirit of God. When a man is possessed by the spirit of God, the Spirit expresses Himself as many things such as love, peace, gentleness, faith, joy, and others. A believer who is domiciled by the Holy Spirit becomes of a house for the fruit of the Spirit which one of them is Joy. Spirit of Joy meaning will help you know how joy affects your life directly. God operates in the atmosphere of joy. If you want to host God, then you must put joy in place. The activities of the spirit of God become heightened around your life the moment you set up an atmosphere of joy. Knowing the Spirit of Joy meaning will help you increase the activities of the Spirit around your life and bring God into your situations. When God steps into your situations, turnaround is assured. Joy is an expression of excitement or gladness informed by the knowledge of God’s love for you and the inheritance He has kept for you. The Spirit of Joy is best expressed based on your heavenly realities, not earthly realities. When your happiness and excitement are no longer influenced by earthly events but heavenly realities, that’s the true understanding of the spirit of Joy meaning.” (Israel, 2021)

Repeat after me; I have joy - the world didn’t give it to me, and the world can’t take it away.

Let’s look at a few scriptures too that should help you build your joy. Joy is a principle that Jesus delivered to us through the Holy Spirit. “These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.” (John 15:11 – 15 KJV) In the previous scripture Jesus himself presents joy as a reason that He chose the things He did. If Jesus found it that important, shouldn’t you?

Repeat after me; I have joy - the world didn’t give it to me, and the world can’t take it away.

Jesus declares later in the book of John that the travail you could go through will end in joy. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you. And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.” (John 16:20 – 24 KJV)

Repeat after me; I have joy - the world didn’t give it to me, and the world can’t take it away.

God didn’t just give you salvation, eternal life, healing, and deliverance through His loving act of sacrifice on Calvary’s cross; He gave us peace, love, power, wisdom and of course, joy.

Thank you for reading another Bishop’s Buzz. A buzz is not a buzz unless you share it!

God Bless,
Bishop Adam Blackstock