You may not feel like you have any joy
to release right now. But I can assure you,
you do. If you’re a born-again child of God,
you have His own joy residing in your spirit.
You just need to prime the pump so it will
start to flow. You need to purposely stir up
the joy of the Lord.
How can you do that?
First, by meditating on the Word of God.
You can understand why the Word is so
important to your joy when you read some
of the last things Jesus told His disciples
before He went to the cross. He said:
If ye abide in me, and my words
abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will,
and it shall be done unto you…. If ye
keep my commandments, ye shall abide
in my love; even as I have kept my
Father’s commandments, and abide in
his love. These things have I spoken
unto you, that my joy might remain in
you, and that your joy might be full…
ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy
may be full (John 15:7, 10-11, 16:24).
When you meditate on the Word of God
and revelation begins to rise in your heart, joy
comes! It comes because you begin to have a
deeper and clearer knowledge of the Father. It
comes because you realize you can go boldly
before Him in prayer based on the Word, and
be confident your prayers will be answered.
If you’ve been sorrowing over a wayward
child, for example, you can replace your sad
thoughts with a revelation of God’s promise in
Isaiah 54:13, and joy will come into your heart.
Suddenly, instead of crying over what the devil
is doing to that child, you start shouting about
what God will do. You laugh and say, “You
might as well forget it, Devil. Just pack it up
and go home right now, because as far as I’m
concerned, the victory is won. All my children
shall be taught of the Lord. And great shall be
the peace of my children!”
Then, when the devil comes back at you and
says, “Maybe so, but aren’t you sorry over all
the years that child has wasted?” you can shoot
the Word right back at him. You can say, “No,
I’m not sorry. I don’t have to be sorry because
Jesus bore my griefs and carried my sorrows
(Isaiah 53:4). So I believe I’ll just go ahead and
have myself a grand time rejoicing in Him!”
Proverbs 15:23 says, “A man hath joy by
the answer of his mouth….” When you start
answering the troubles and trials you’re
facing with the Word of God, it will release
joy in you and run the devil off. He can’t
stand the joy of the Lord!
Kenneth Copeland Ministries
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