Wells of Joy.....Friday, November 9, 2018

How is your joy level today?  Is your first response to talk about how you feel?  How your spouse (or lack of one) is treating you?  How to think about your lack of finances to do what makes you happy?

The wonderful news for followers of Jesus is none of those things affect our joy.  Joy is a continual and current experience of the presence of Jesus in our Spirit-filled life.  Now that definition is not found in any theological dictionary and certainly not in Webster's.  In fact, Webster defines joy as "a very glad feeling; happiness; delight.  Anything causing this."

But joy is Jesus.  And our Lord is calling His church back to His joy.  Isaiah 12: 3 declares "Therefore with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation."  Our joy is based solely on our understanding and living out our salvation.

This Sunday at 10:15 we will continue the series of messages "Revive Your Church" with this message "Wells of Joy."  Sunday night we continue our series of messages "Restore Your Church" with a message from Acts 2: 42 "Devoted to the Church."

Also this Sunday we will celebrate our Veterans thanking God and them for their service to our country.  The sacrifices they have made through the years and many are still making remind us of why we live in such a great country.  And just this week to be freshly reminded of our precious right to vote as we went to the polls is kept alive by men like Army National Guard member Major Brent Taylor who was killed in Afghanistan just hours after posting on Facebook he hoped everyone would exercise their precious right to vote.  Thank you Veterans and to the families of those who have lost loved ones, we remember.