Experiencing Fullness of Joy

TOPIC: EXPERIENCING FULLNESS OF JOY
Main Text: John 15: 1-11
Memory Verse Text: John 15: 11

Too often we are sad, gloomy and dejected; but as Christians we ought to be joyful in everything – Philippians 4:4 and 1 Thessalonians 5:16.  The A-to-Z of our Christian experience should be marked by joy: joy at conversion (Acts 8:39); joy when reading God’s Holy Word (Jeremiah 15:16); joy in prayer (John 16:24); joy in the midst of trials (James 1:2); joy when suffering (Acts 5:41); joy when serving (2 Corinthians 1:24); and joy at the journey’s end (Hebrews 12:22).
Let us take note of the following points:
1. The Christian life is the life of the Lord Jesus Christ in a man or a woman –  Galatians 2:20.  Christian joy is Christ’s joy in a Christian, and this means that this deep-down, abiding joy is not found anywhere else except in Him
2. Our joy is not an intermittent experience, but a permanent one.  It is a joy which is unaffected by circumstances – see what the Lord said to His disciples in John 16:22.  These first followers of our Lord were to pass through many trials and testings, but He told them that nothing could rob them of their joy – His joy in them.  
3. It is a remarkable and a wonderful thing that true Christian joy is not only unaffected by adverse circumstances, but it is actually promoted by such trials and testings –James 1:2.

How can we have this Joy?
1. By having Him
If we would possess His joy we must possess Him –  John 17:13.
2. By reading His Word.
 When we read the Bible and receive the truth, we experience great joy –  1 John 1:4.  
3. By submission to Him. 
His joy was the joy of complete and continual submission to the will of His Father in Heaven.  When we accept suffering from His hand, sorrows as well as pleasures, then our joy will be full indeed.
4. By the Holy Spirit.
 His desire is that His joy should be complete in us.  How can this be, for He is there and we are here?  He is in Heaven and we are on earth!  The answer is – by the Holy Spirit.  “The fruit of the Spirit is…joy…” – Galatians 5:22. 
PRAYER NOTE:
Father, help me to experience the fullness of joy you promised at all times
Give your Church the understanding of your joy, for every believer to experience it continually.

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