After years of walking in the 'joy of the Lord,' I finally looked up the word 'strength'. The joy of the Lord is our strength.

It is a fort, fortress, or a stronghold!

My experience has been that we tend to think of a stronghold as negative or evil (pulling down strongholds)but I have been asking the Lord to establish His righteous kingdom stronghold of joy over the churches and over our area.

Woohoo!

Rusty

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Russell

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Lisa

At this time 163 views and 12 replies, Praise God for the 12 that Praised The Lord!

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Bill

I find it totally amazing that when I get into the WORD, allow it to speak to me, knowing this is God's love letter to me - and all of mankind - I sense his pleasure! I see in it the nature of God, how He thinks, how he views humans and how he wants us to live. Following Him enhances Life but will also put you at odds with the enemy who will use others to pull you down away from God. God is totally amazing and when one understands this, allowing it to fill your entire being, there is total joy - world events that work to distract us loses it power.

God is just a wonderful God - no ifs or ands or buts about it!

Sandra

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Sandra Miller

Amen sister Sandra...

I thought of another scripture where Jesus tells us to rejoice and be exceedingly glad....

Matthew 5:11-12 (KJV) 11 Blessed are ye, when [men] shall revile you, and persecute [you], and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great [is] your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:

yet I will rejoice in the LORD. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation.

The LORD, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer's feet, and enables me to go in high places. Amen.
Habakkuk 3:17-19

From James the apostle, a man of few words:

"13Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them
pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of
praise. 14Is anyone among you sick? Let them call
the elders of the church to pray over them and
anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord."

Bless the Lord, o my soul and all that is within me, bless His holy Name!

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William

Father we rejoice in you- we thank you for every spiritual blessing in Christ. We thank you for the destiny that you have granted to us. We thank you and praise you for the security we have in you- the Strong Tower , the Hiding Place . We thank you for an awesome inheritance. We thank you for every gift of the Holy Spirit. We thank you for every Christ-like fruit of the Spirit. Father, we thank you that you have adopted us to yourself through Jesus Christ that we might be your children. We are not orphans and we are not strangers. We are fellow members of God’s house! We are fellow citizens with the saints of the City of Almighty God, and in Jesus’ name we put down any lie that would say otherwise. We are the head and we are not the tail. Because of what your Son did we are your children and we are not merely slaves. We will not squander the precious blood of Jesus or the great Holy Spirit poured out on us! We repent of giving the devil so much place and allowing him to make so much noise in our lives. We will begin to live and act like children of the Most High, and as subjects of the one true King. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

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Todd

Wow! Brother Todd, talk about setting me on fire, I had to put my asbestos suit on to read that, Praise The Lord!

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Bill

I Will Rejoice - Don Moen

https://youtu.be/FEiQeSzU5Yo

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Mike