Joy

Joy

By Estelle Nazary

These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

John 15:11

Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the Lord is your strength. Nehemiah 8:10

Circumstances and events may be against us, but it we abide in Him, the Holy Spirit will make us joyful.  A worrying Christian is a misnomer.  Do you have the Lord?  If you do, then rejoice in the Lord. There is not a single verse in the Bible that will permit a child of God to worry.  Joy is strengthening to the spiritual life, but sadness and worry paralyze the soul, rendering it too weak to face up to life’s problems.  The distraught and downcast Christian soon becomes to weary in the work of the Lord.  You worry only when you refuse to yield to the Holy Spirit.