The joy of the Lord is my strength! Please discuss.
Do you have any TIPS or can share any IDEAS that could help others experience this?
Can you also include any links, videos, photos, stories, experiences to illustrate your answers?
Of course for Net safety as usual, do not include identifying information.
(As usual, I reserve the right to sprinkle answers with tips if I so choose, and you are welcome
to do so also).
I would like to acknowledge that inspiration for this question comes from the following 3 places:
1. A blessing that Pastor Margaret Court sent to the Richard and
Lindsay Roberts show Hour of Healing last night via phone
upon her return to Australia after she had been
a guest on their show in Tulsa, Oklahoma some days earlier.
2. The title of my question was taken from a ministry product in
the River Church http://www.revival.com bookstore that I have not seen yet.
This church is pastored by Drs. Rodney Howard-Browne and Adonica Howard-Browne.
They can also be found sharing key nuggets on Facebook. Here is their
most recent post to Facebook linked through the official Twitter account
http://twitter.com/rhowardbrowne
"Purifying oneself It is important that we keep ourselves pure -
that we do not practice sin as a way of life - it..." http://bit.ly/a6bnkk
3. An interesting, I thought, link between the two was that last weekend,
when Dr. Richard Roberts gave a guest Sunday night live online healing sermon at
the River Church, he acknowledged that this teaching had been a blessing
to him since the early 1990's.
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We almost lost our lives in that accident especially my mom and my sister-in-law who had to undergo two operations. It is very difficult to be joyful and hopeful during that time of crisis in my life. All I can remember was seeing my mother lying on the stretcher fighting for her life in the emergency room and I have to muster all the strength to pray to God to help me accept whatever will be that His will be done. But deep inside I know that I am expecting the worst but still hoping for the best. And I remembered asking Him to help me accept whatever His will. I offered to my Father everything.
I believe that this act is a wisdom from God that whatever happens that I should not forget to call His name. I feel His reassuring hands that in spite of the bad thing that happen He will not abandon me. I am at peace in a way that although that tragic accident had to happen to us I was able to thank and praise God for saving our lives. I believe that the Holy Spirit gave me the wisdom to see and feel that God is a loving God and that He is with us through joy and definitely with us in our pain.
I was not wrong because it was manifested through the help of the people who surrounds us.There were many friends who helped us and offered their time and prayers to help us recover fully.
I remembered what our leader in our parish told us that we should not only praise God during our times of happiness but also during the times of trials for by doing so He will give us strength. And to be honest, I still had doubts and I had a question in my mind which troubled me for some time, how can we praise the Lord when we are in pain and why do we have to do that? Is it possible?
Now, I know the answer to these questions. For praising and worshipping him at times when it is very hard to do is an affirmation of your faith in God the Father. And he is a Father who is always there and just waiting for His children to call on to Him.
By giving Him praise and doing my part as a Christian will strengthen my faith in Him that no matter how deep the pain of my suffering I will be able to persist for His love will give me strength. That by pleasing God and doing His will this will give me the strength to endure any life's suffering. This is the kind of strength that Job had when all was taken away from him and he still did not lose faith in God.
That even if I have a faith of a mustard God will still love and continue to guide me through life.
I thank God for all the wisdom and until my last breath in this borrowed life He generously gave me, I will continue to sing praises to Him. And I will live my live in accordance to His will because I know that by pleasing God this will not only strengthen my faith to overcome whatever obstacles but it will also be a testimony of God's never ending love and grace.
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I will bless Your name, Your holy name
Though some situations make me cry
I will not be grieved, but rejoice in the Lord
For this I know, this I know
Joy of the Lord is my strength
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source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMkGWhuUbAI&feature=related
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M$Anyone who thinks different is delusional!
I find it quite alarming that so many people are so plainly delusional and others accept this delusion as being 'okay', 'harmless'.
The belief in this imaginary supernatural being has been the cause of so many wars, so much suffering and the spread of so much misinformation it beggars belief.
ALL of the so called 'leaders' (Pastors etc) are nothing but con-artists and shamen. NONE of the so called power they profess to have exist, except in your imagination.
http://everything2.com/title/Why+religion+is+bad
"Religion is bad because it stunts intellectual growth and cripples human interaction; because it is an engine of control and oppression (mostly of women), and because it alienates people from the real, physical world and all its wonders. It narrows horizons, engenders isolation and fear, and strives in most cases to limit and control the experience and value of emotional, sexual and physical pleasure. "
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"It's a good thing I dont have religion.."
1. (noun) religion
the outward act or form by which men indicate their recognition of the existence of a god or of gods having power over their destiny, to whom obedience, service, and honor are due; the feeling or expression of human love, fear, or awe of some superhuman and overruling power, whether by profession of belief, by observance of rites and ceremonies, or by the conduct of life..... (http://www.definitions.net/definition/religion)
You see this is the problem with people who fantasize they "have a personal relationship" with supernatural beings and should really seek psychiatric guidance.
As C.S. Lewis said what "a great cataract of nonsense".
Instead of praying for me, try this.."Dear God, almighty, all-powerful, all-loving creator of the universe, we pray to you to cure every case of cancer on this planet tonight. We pray in faith, knowing you will bless us as you describe in Matthew 7:7, Matthew 17:20, Matthew 21:21, Mark 11:24, John 14:12-14, Matthew 18:19 and James 5:15-16. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen."
I shall expect cancer to be cured by the morning! ('Ask, and it will be given')
Or praying DOES NOT WORK because there is NO SUCH THING AS 'GOD'!
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2005/07/25/a_prayer_for_health/
http://www.godisimaginary.com/index.htm
So please, less of the false piety and there DOES NOT have to be 'something greater' it is in your imagination (or cancer will be cured by god in the morning because you are goiny to pray for it tonite!)
It's a good thing I dont have religion.. But I do have a personal relationship with God. And i'll be praying for your salvation because i cannot stand to see a lost soul. If anyone thinks that this is all there is to life, I'm so sorry for them because we have a spirit inside of all of us. This body is just that: a body. Without a spirit our body cannot function. When we die, our bodies go back to the earth. There has to be something greater than us that designed such an intricate process of life and death.
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For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
(Isaiah 55:12)
Joy comes from keeping God's commandments.
"If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full." John 15:10-11, NKJV
Let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
--Psalm 68:3
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Nice photos.
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I agree that there is a correlation between what God might enjoy and what gives a person strength. One has the strength to sacrifice and provide for his children and be a good husband. I believe God will find that good. One finds the strength to be honest and humble even at his own expense. I believe God too will find that good. We all have inside of us noble and passionate characteristics that give us strength to do amazing things, whether we think it will please God or not. But, the fact that we were created with these abilities is in itself a testiment to God's creation and his joy that we use these abilities.
Now, I disagree as well. The fact that someone would strive to succeed and be strong simply because of the belief that it would please God should not be condoned. The person is not acting out of understanding but rather out of fear that God will disapprove the opposite action. Example: I see someone fall in the street. I really wanted to laugh with the other people but I believed God will frown upon that action, so I helped him up. I didn't help out of compassion or love, simply out of the fear that God would disapprove. So, if one receives their strength SOLELY from an internal understanding of God's enjoyment, I say this phrase can be detrimental to a person. It would teach him not to think for himself, but rather learn the rules of what pleases God and stick to the list.
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Ell-tell John he's a Canned-ill in the Bag of Wind-Sir
"I am Not of the fornicators, you are of the devil" Jesus Christ
Jesus=15131=11=2=TWIN Christ=389912=32=Five=E
E=555 New Wen 32=23 in Opposition PI full circle opposition E=square
32=23=W WENDY in police code. 555=15=6=FOX a good looking sister
Sister ?! There is No such thing as a sister ?! (the very point)
Gay used to be the lighthearted name of a Woman "What-so-ever a man
asks for himself give it to him" Jesus. Yes..and what-so-ever a
woman asks for herself you give to HIM too
Canned-ill
EVE was/is again Male. Test tube, human, sheep and insect DNA
"They do not repent of what they do with their hands" Revelation
Masturbated Beast-U-all-itty "Tails of serpents" Sperm/Cloning test tube
Snake in tree-Medical Staff Cad-do-sis (Hermes/winged) Her-me/Eve insect
Eve has cancer because IS Canned-Sir, crossbred over centuries into the
natural "Daughters of man" Genesis Gene-E-sis (real live grown up Girls)
His-tour-wrecked-a-me
Celibate women, Nuns, shakers, maiden ladies have mere 7%cancer
One-hundred 44 thousand sealed into lead covered underground nuclear
holocaust shelters. A Real Cherry...No Bull
Pre-post Nuclear Greek MYTHS "You have heard it said Jews were Gods"
The "Lost" Atlantis=ourselves. Rotting flesh and rotting plant matter
with nuclear holocaust creates Crude Oil. Infinitve life=infinitive hell
Nuclear planet exfoliation. Nuclear=New&clear (shed off diseased crust)
Computers Come-pew-Tours...all will pew-up plenty in nuclear fallout
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Truly it is something that others seem to say a lot and then utterly fail to explain to me.
I believe that it means something akin to
'The strength of my belief in (my/a/any/some) God/god/g*d/gods gives me the strength to face any/some/bigger obstacles in life.'
Which while heavily optioned, and for that I apologize, seems to cover all of the bases.
Essentially have faith allows you to face hardship by somehow thinking of the hardship as a test for which the belief will give you strength.
Most curious really.
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i think the strength in our inner soul make the lord happy... if a person is filled with joy, he receives the strength in himself. the strength makes something new to do which is related to god and thus god feels joy... (as all human creatures are the kids of god)...simple
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M$www.SilverLeafEntertainment.com
www.silverleafentertainment.com
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It's okay so long as you don't confuse entertainment with reality!
I note with interest that the linked entertainment site and it's producer is linked to/works for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
Do you know The late Billy Graham actually denied that the only way to heaven is through Christ, and that you DO NOT need to know/accept Jesus or his gospels to go to heaven? ("They may not even know the name of Jesus,.... and I think they're saved and they're going to be with us in heaven."
Therefore Jesus gave his life needlessly!
See...
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Why does jumping and spreading out your ligaments show joy of the lord?