His Joy Within The Power to Reach Beyond

Published: March 22, 2016, 6:30 p.m.

b'The joy of Yahuweh is my strength.. He gives me living waters and I thirst no more
Joy is the sustaining force through calamity and adversity. Our distinguishing mark that His image is imprinted within. The world understands it not.
It is a strength in the face of fear and terror. Our mark of separation from a world in darkness. It is the flickering that dances on the flames of His eternal light within us.
It is the sound proof barrier that surrounds us, protecting us from the raging hate of the enemy. He cannot touch the Joy within us. The joy of being rescued is like no other. For He that rescues will also sustain.
Joy is not self-manufactured but a response to Him who gave it all, and nothing I can do can repay. You cannot repay an invitation to enter into fellowship with the Creator of the universe, but simply accept it.
And through this enduring fellowship with Him, we learn that happiness is only temporary\\u2013a revolving door which leads us round and round, in and out\\u2013circumnavigating trials without ever moving past them. Yet, joy is the elevator that takes us high above our circumstances, seeing them from a vantage point that keeps our perspective of knowing that we sit with the Master in heavenly places.
Joy takes us beyond the trial while in the midst of trial. For we see Another standing with us in the flames.
Joy sees through to the other side, releasing an unmovable, unshakable determination to reach the shore, despite the hell and fury that pounds against our will to survive.
His joy is His "go". His joy is His might! \\u2014 His joy in us is to "go" in His "might"
We can go forward out of darkness because of His joy within\\u2013driving us onward to complete that which He has called and commanded us to do.
Find His joy! For in doing so, you will defeat the enemy, be sustained through every trial, shed the shackles that bind, and see the hope that lies beyond the impossible.
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He shall swallow up death forever, and the Master Yahuweh shall wipe away tears from all faces, and take away the reproach of His people from all the earth. For Yahuweh has spoken.
Isaiah 25:8'