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GLORY RAIN DEVOTIONALSeptember 27

GLORY RAIN DEVOTIONAL
September 27

Theme: Joy is a Choice.

Habakkuk 3:17-18 "Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; though the labor of the olive may fail, and the fields yield no food;
Though the flock may be cut off from the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls -Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation”

Joy is not a feeling. It is a spiritual force active in the heart of the believer. It is not predicated on the happenings around us. It is constant in all seasons. It is the strength of the believer. Sadness and sorrow is a focus on self. But Joy is a focus on God! Joy stems from a working knowledge that God can never fail. 

To live in this realm you must be deliberate in stirring your emotions in the direction of God’s word. Do not let your emotions have a will of their own. Control them! Joy is a decision away from you.

 When we learn to track our thoughts we would be able to arrest depressing thoughts and up root them from our hearts before they take root and become strongholds. 

Sadness, depression and discouragement tell the world that our God is small and incapable to deliver, but joy is a loud testimony to the world that the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is the only true God and that He never fails!

When you choose joy, you choose God. Joy is a choice!

PRAYER
Father, help me to make a choice for joy daily irrespective of my feelings or what I am going through in Jesus name. Amen.

MEDITATION: Habakkuk 3; Proverbs 27; Romans 1
Ebiye Koko © September 2021


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