20/01/2021
20-Jan-2021
OBTAIN GLADNESS AND JOY
Obtaining gladness and joy can be rephrased as becoming happy and extremely happy (both within and without).
Genesis 5:21-22 {NKJV} says, “Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methuselah. After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years....” The preceding Bible passage is telling us of Enoch's return to fully obey God's commands, after long years of being oblivious about Him. And prophet Isaiah writings gives us a glimpse of Enoch's blessed experience for another 300 years, as a result of deciding to return to walk with God; he wrote thus, “Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, ...they shall obtain GLADNESS AND JOY; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.” [Isaiah 51:11].
Walking with God is living to habitually obey God's commands. And from the above paragraph, we've seen that walking with God brings us Gladness and Joy. As you walk with God, you're declaring your love for Him [John 14:21]. Hebrews 1:9 explains some more, saying, “Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the OIL OF GLADNESS ABOVE THY FELLOWS.”
Prayer:
In the Name of Jesus, thanks be unto God, Who is always faithful; and faithful to make us always happy and extremely happy, even as we walk with Him.
OTHER SCRIPTURE REFERENCES:
Psalm 45:6-7; Isaiah 35:10
Excerpt from "MeAndMyFamilyBreakfast"(MFB).
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