Rejoice in the Lord!

ByPastor Rufus Ajiboye Reading Time: 3 minutes

Dear friends!
This is the day the Lord has made! Let’s be glad and rejoice on this day!
Today I want to say to you how important it is to minister to the Lord in gladness and how important it is to have joy.

The Bible says that

 «God loves a cheerful giver» (2 Corinthians, 9:7).

So it says that God not only loves givers, but He delights in cheerful giving. It is so essential for us not only to serve God, but also to do it with joy.

It is stated in the Word of God that brokenness and depression dry out our bones or cause illnesses.

 «A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones» (Proverbs, 17:22).

Sorrowfulness destroys humans. For this reason God desires our life and our ministry to be dominated by joy.

 «Serve the Lord with gladness; come before His presence with singing!» (Psalm 100:2).

God wants our ministry to Him to be full of joy because He knows that without joy we lose both our health and anointing. We can see this in the life of Prophet Samuel. The Bible says that after Saul rejected the Lord, Samuel was mourning for Saul for a very long time. When God saw this, He intervened.

 «Now the Lord said to Samuel, „How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king among his sons» (1 Samuel, 16:1).

We see that Samuel’s horn grew empty of oil because for a very long time he was mourning for Saul. And God told him to stop mourning. God said that the time had come to change the mood; the time had come to fill the horn with oil and to go and anoint David to be King Saul’s substitute.

When sadness and mourning come, the anointing diminishes or disappears. But when joy comes, the anointing comes as well.

May your horn never be empty but be full of the oil of God’s blessings, fresh oil from the Lord. But there is one condition: your oil will not diminish and will not leave when you have joy. Joy in the Lord is our power and strength. So this is the word of God for you today: rejoice in the Lord!

May God bless you!
Peace of God be with you!

 

Pastor Rufus Ajiboy

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