Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy. Jude 1:24.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
My concern with every one of you is that you shall not perish but come before Me with joy. Our unification when this life is over should be the most joyful encounter of your life. In My presence is fullness of joy. Come share My joy for it is for you.
There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your help, and through the skies in His majesty. The eternal God is a dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms; and He drove out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’ So Israel dwells in security, The fountain of Jacob secluded, in a land of grain and new wine; His heavens also drop down dew. Deuteronomy 33:26-28.
Come into My presence with joyful singing, joyful shouting, and Spirit-sent songs. Let My Word dwell in you richly.
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father. Colossians 3:15-17.
And that is how the joy comes, when you are keeping your life in My Word.
These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. John 15:11.
I would like to tell you two things: Keep out of what is not your business but go after what is your business with all your heart. Your business is to follow Me. Jesus is with you always, He did not leave your orphans, and He is your good Shepherd.
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.” John 10:27-30.
My Word shall not depart from your mouth. Stay anchored in My Word, for there is a way that seems right to a man, but it ends in death. That is not My Will for any of you. I give you life, abundant life that is eternal.
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. John 10:10.
My Word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.
How do you live a life filled with joy? Get full of the Holy Spirit.
But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, that they were saying to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.” These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit. But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting eagerly for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. And have mercy on some, who are doubting; save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh. Jude 1:17-23.
Do you see? When you are mockers, cause divisions, are worldly-minded (hostile to My Word), and uncontrolled as to fleshly lusts you are devoid of the Spirit. In other words, you are walking according to the flesh and not according to the Spirit which can also be called walking by sight and not by faith or having your mind set on what is below instead of what is above. If this is the case of the way you are thinking, speaking, and living you have failed the test.
Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test? 2 Corinthians 13:5.
The flesh is useless. It does not give you the joy beyond all understanding, the joy unspeakable filled with glory. The flesh does not give you eternal life. It is the Spirit in your spirit that is the fountain that leaps up to eternal life.
However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. Romans 8:9-11.
The mystery of Christ in you, your hope of glory, is how the Spirit is in you raising up your mortal bodies to a new dimension of living in the joy of a pure, free, holy, and blameless life filled up with My fullness which is the fullness of light and love.
So how do you stay free of uncontrolled fleshly lusts? “[B]uilding yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting eagerly (wieh joyful anticipation) for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.” Jude 1:20-21.
It all goes back to getting full of My Word, so full that My Words become your songs in the house of your pilgrimage, which is your earthly body. Psalm 119:54.
Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, making the most of your time, because the days are evil. So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father. Ephesians 5:15-20.
Fill up your heart with the songs of the heavenly Zion and there will arise in you the joy of Heaven, which is My joy, for when you get your heart attuned to the life of the heavenly the earthly becomes of no attraction to you, it is no longer the place of your heart. Remember, where your treasure is, there your heart is also.
How blessed is the man whose strength is in You, in whose heart are the highways to Zion! Psalm 84:5.
And that joy in you will make you sing and shout as they do in Heaven as the natural mode of conversation, heavenly conversation.
Shout for joy, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem! The LORD has taken away His judgments against you, He has cleared away your enemies. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; you will fear disaster no more. In that day it will be said to Jerusalem: “Do not be afraid, O Zion; do not let your hands fall limp. The LORD your God is in your midst, a victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy, He will quiet you in His love, He will rejoice over you with joyful singing and shouts of joy.” Zephaniah 3:14-17.
It is all a matter of where you are walking, whether in My Word where you abide or in the flesh where you currently reside.
A highway will be there, a roadway, and it will be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it, but it will be for him who walks that way, and fools will not wander on it. No lion will be there, nor will any vicious beast go up on it; these will not be found there. But the redeemed will walk there, and the ransomed of the LORD will return and come with joyful shouting to Zion, with everlasting joy upon their heads. They will find gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. Isaiah 35:8-10.
Guard your heart with all diligence. Anything that is contrary to My Words, do not so much as entertain it for a moment. My advice to Joshua to speak, hear, meditate upon and live My Word night and day will never change if you want to make your way prosperous, successful, fruitful, and filled with joy, a joy that no one and nothing can take away from you that you will only know the complete fullness of when you stand before Me shining with joy for your Maker, your Father, your Beloved and your LORD who has loved you with an everlasting love that will never fade or fall away and who will reward you richly.
I love you. I am coming soon and in truth you are with Me now, at My right hand seated in Christ Jesus your Lord. You can shine with joy now, in you and on you. My joy is your strength.