My children, today, I want you to continue to allow the work of a deeper joy take root into your heart and flow through your lips. I want you today to realize how important it is to have My joy and to have it overflowing inside of you. I want you to study My word today and really let the Holy Spirit guide you to help you learn what it says about having My joy, spreading My joy, and things that you can be joyful about when it seems like you do not have anything to be joyful about.
Today, I want you to really let this joy get rooted into your heart, mind, soul, spirit, and body. It is a fruit that is used to bring many things in your life and in the lives of others. I am getting you ready to have a new and different love to be placed in your heart in the days to come, but the ground work must be done first. Part of that ground work is to receive this deep joy that I have for you.
I want you to consume yourself today with music that exalts My name. As you have this around you and as you participate in singing praises to Me it will fertilize the joy that I am giving you. The praises will spring up hope and joy that you have forgotten was already there. The joy that I want to give you is even greater than that joy that you have had in your heart that has been buried. As you sing My praises and allow the music to come from the depths of your soul and the praises to flow out of your mouth, I will be doing My part in finishing the works that I have begun.
You will be able to feel the difference in your happiness and how easier it will be to be peaceful as this joy starts sprouting up from the root that is being put deep into your heart. Apply this joy and sing praises unto Me this day and allow these works to be done that I am doing. This is not a joy that you can get from anyone or anywhere else. This is a joy that only comes from Me.
Allow the cares of this world to be put away from you. Put the battles, worries, and cares into My hands and allow Me to deal with them today. I want you to focus on allowing this joy to overtake you. I want you to focus on learning how to praise Me in this new joy that it will become a part of your life forever. Hold on to this gift that I am giving you and do not let it be taken away.
Today, let this joy take very deep root and as it sprouts and grows share the fruit with all those around you. Let this joy emanate and show that this is something that is a gift that comes to those who serve Me and can only be found in Me.
Allow this joy to change your life. You will see that as this joy takes root into your heart and as you allow the praises to flow from your lips – your storms, trials, and tribulations in your life will not be as big as they appear to be. This joy will give you a strength that you have not experienced before, and it will be only through allowing Me to do the planting that you will be able to have it.
Yield to Me and allow Me to do these things this day. Allow My praises and songs be a part of your life this day. Get into My word and truly understand what My joy is and the things it can do for you. Let all this take deep root and let this joy just overtake you and share it with all those around you.
Job 22:22
22 Accept instruction from his mouth and lay up his words in your heart.
Luke 8:15
15 But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.
Mark 4:18-20
18 Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; 19 but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.
20 Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.”
Hebrews 13:15-16
15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. 16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
Hebrews 13:20-21
20 Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, 21 equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Psalms 100:1-2
1 Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. 2 Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.
Psalms 71:23
23 My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you— I whom you have delivered.