The promise of Joy
Notes
Transcript
I. Introduction
I. Introduction
New Members Class - Paperwork
Review - The Holy Spirit
The conviction of The Holy Spirit
The guiding of The Holy Spirit
vv. 16-19
The Joy of the Lord
I'm pulling on joy from Heaven's reserve
He's stored up enough, for every winter I'm served
I'm seeing beyond my circumstance
This joy that I have is my Inheritance
Joy, this is the joy of the Lord
Chorus
The joy of the Lord is my strength
There is a Savior in the valley place
He's walking beside me and He knows my pain (Yeah)
God, the beginning and the end
God, right there in the midst of it
Joy, this is the Joy of the Lord
There's gonna be glory
There will be glory after this
No need to worry
In this present suffering
There will be glory after this
II. Joy promised in sorrow (vv. 20-22)
II. Joy promised in sorrow (vv. 20-22)
v. 20 - Death, Burial, and Resurrection.
vv. 21-22 - Ex: Child birth
III. Joy promised through prayer (vv. 23-24)
III. Joy promised through prayer (vv. 23-24)
v. 23 - “Truly, Truly”
“ask the father for anything in my name”
comfort vs mission
v. 24 - “joy may be made full”
knowing you have a gift vs opening the gift
the gift=relationship with the father
IV. Conclusion
IV. Conclusion
vv. 25-33
How do we apply JOY?
22 The crowd rose up together against them, and the chief magistrates tore their robes off them and proceeded to order them to be beaten with rods. 23 When they had struck them with many blows, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to guard them securely; 24 and he, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks. 25 But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them;
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