TRUE JOY is Holy, Serious, Deep... IT is the JOY of The LORD JESUS! THIS Pure JOY that was set before CHRIST strengthened Him SUPERnaturally to endure The CROSS of shame and torture and abandonment. THIS UNassailable JOY of GOD The SON was absolutely INdependent of earthly circumstances, of people that negatively impacted His Life on earth. And THIS same UNfathomable JOY of JESUS is available to ALL 2xborn Believers and Followers IN CHRIST! HalleluYAH!
The LORD JESUS Himself said to His disciples before His Crucifixion: "THESE THINGS I have spoken to you so that My JOY may be IN you, and that your JOY may be COMPLETE. THESE THINGS I speak in the world SO THAT they may have My JOY made FULL in themselves" (John 15:11; 17:13). What are "THESE THINGS" we must know and understand SO THAT the JOY of The LORD may be our REALity, our experiential JOY for the world to see for GOD's GLORY?
THESE THINGS are TRUTH. 'DO NOT LET your heart be troubled; BELIEVE IN GOD, BELIEVE ALSO IN Me. In My FATHER’s House are many dwelling places; IF it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. And IF I go and prepare a place for you, I WILL come AGAIN and receive you to Myself, that where I AM, there you may be ALSO' (John 14:1-3).
For TRUE Believers IN CHRIST, there are NO IFs -- only AMENs! We who are born again from Above by the GRACE of GOD will be WITH The LORD of GLORY, IN His Kingdom of GLORY, even NOW positionally -- and actually, forEVERmore! HalleluYAH!
THESE THINGS are PROMISES of GOD. 'And I will ask The FATHER, and He WILL give you another ADVOCATE, that He may be WITH you forEVER; The SPIRIT of TRUTH, whom the world cannot receive, because it does NOT see Him OR know Him. You KNOW Him because He abides WITH you and will be IN you. I WILL not leave you as orphans; I WILL come to you' (John 14:16-18).
The Holy SPIRIT Who INdwells EVERY child of GOD is the Almighty ADVOCATE against the devil Satan. The SPIRIT of TRUTH illumines and transforms our MINDset with the Mind of CHRIST (1 Corinthians 2:16) -- GOD's TRUTH as WRITTEN in Holy Scriptures. The SPIRIT of The Risen LORD JESUS is our Comforter, Helper, TRUTH-Teller -- conforming the BLOOD-bought Redeemed into the Image of CHRIST, from glory to Glory to GLORY (2 Corinthians 3:18)! HalleluYAH!
THESE THINGS are HOLY Scriptures. 'Just AS The FATHER has LOVED Me, I have ALSO LOVED you; ABIDE IN My LOVE...Greater LOVE has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends IF you DO what I COMMAND you. NO LONGER do I call you SLAVES, for the slave does not know what his Master is doing; but I have called you FRIENDS, for ALL things that I have heard from My FATHER I have made known to you. You did NOT choose Me but I CHOSE you, and APPOINTED you that you would GO and BEAR Fruit, and that your Fruit would ABIDE, SO THAT whatever you ask of The FATHER IN My Name He may give to you' (see John 15:1-16).
The born-again IN CHRIST are lavishly LOVED by The GODhead, are INtimate Friends of GOD, are CHOSEN Fruit-Bearers, are APPOINTED witnesses for the GOOD News -- richly supplied with GOD's sustaining Providence! HalleluYAH!
THESE THINGS include PEACE -- the INcomprehensible Peace of GOD that surpasses ALL human understanding (see Philippians 4:7). 'Behold, an hour is coming, and has already come, for you to be scattered, each to his own home, and to leave Me alone; and yet I AM not alone, because The FATHER is with Me. THESE THINGS I have spoken to you, so that IN Me you may have PEACE. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I HAVE OVERCOME the world' (John 16:32-33).
CHRIST's UNassailable PEACE was His KNOWing the REALity that His FATHER was with Him ALWAYS! And THAT is ALSO the REALity for the Believer IN CHRIST -- experiential PEACE from The PRINCE of Peace Himself. The LORD CHRIST JESUS IS The OVERCOMER of Death and Sin and Satan and the world system -- and IN CHRIST, we ALSO are more than conquerors (see Romans 8:37)! HalleluYAH!
THESE THINGS are PRAYERS of CHRIST for Believers. 'I ask on their behalf; I do NOT ask on behalf of the world BUT of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours; and ALL things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been GLORIFIED IN them... I have given them Your Word; and the world has HATED them, because they are NOT Of the world, even as I AM NOT Of the world. I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to KEEP them from the evil one... The GLORY which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be One, just AS We are ONE; I IN them and You IN Me, that they may be PERFECTED IN Unity, SO THAT the world may know that You sent Me, and LOVED them, EVEN AS You have loved Me' (see John 17:9-23).
TRUE Believers are prayed for by GOD The SON Himself (as our Great High Priest -- see Hebrews 4:14-16), are granted the highest privilege of glorifying His amazing Name, are kept by The ALL-Mighty FATHER, are LOVED by GOD The FATHER just AS He loves GOD The SON -- INfinitely, INtimately, Eternally! HalleluYAH!
THESE THINGS The LORD JESUS Himself 'have spoken to you SO THAT you may be kept from stumbling... SO THAT His 'JOY may be IN you, and that your JOY may be COMPLETE' (John 16:1; 15:11). Are you personally experiencing the exhilarating REALity of the Holy, Serious, Deep JOY of The LORD JESUS?
O magnify with me The LORD JESUS! GOD The SON, The CHRIST of GOD, is altogether WORTHY of ALL Praise and Honor and Worship and GLORY! \o/
WHEN (not IF) GOD my Holy FATHER has called me UP to be with my Beloved JESUS, His ONE and ONLY Begotten SON -- The LORD of my rejoicing Heart, The SAVIOR and LOVER of my immortal Soul -- i pray that GOD The Holy SPIRIT will use my other GAZILLION words for GOD's GLORY! \o/
