Our culture is desperately searching for “joy,” but no matter how many drinks are consumed, drugs used, stuff purchased, sex encountered, no matter how hard we try for the acceptance of others, somehow joy eludes us. Our Father longs for you and me to follow His Son Jesus home to a place filled with “joy unspeakable and full of glory,” I Peter 1:8.
In Nehemiah 8:10 it says, “the joy of the LORD is my strength.” You can translate that, “the joy of the LORD is my everything.” Knowing the Father = Joy and His Joy becomes everything you need.
The Father takes our “YES” to be His servant, and He uses it to unleash His glory through us, as He did through Mary mother of Jesus (Luke 1:38).
Knowing their weakness they asked the Father to speak and heal through them. The disciples could only accomplish these things because they knew they belonged to the Father. The Father loves to answer the prayers of the weak: “After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly, (Acts 4:31).
The Father loves to take the weak that “have been with Jesus,” and empower them to turn the world upside down. He is looking to fill them with the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead.
