Instruments For A Great Future ( 2)
• Joy And Thanksgiving
FEELING sad and sorrowful has never produced results, but heaviness of heart. When a man’s heart is heavy; his vision, spiritual eyes will be blocked, but joy and gladness enlightens the heart and causes visions to flow.
“Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing,” ( Psalms 100: 2). Be glad, brighten up and don’t be sad or moody. Cheer up so you can inherit the promise. Jesus said: “I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have ( perfect) peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheers — take courage, be confident, certain and undaunted! For I have overcome the world. I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you,” ( John 16: 33, Amp).
Don’t give up on your future, rather cheer up and rejoice in it. Be glad about it, get excited, so, you can receive it. Conquer your flesh, which is causing you a heavy heart and rejoice about your future; dance, sing and confess it.
“Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord,” Psalms 31: 24.
Whenever the devil and his agents make you feel bad and sad, tell yourself:
“Why am I down cast? Oh my soul, cheer up for I will yet praise Him.
“Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God,” Psalm 42: 5, 11.
Things that will make you feel sad and sorrowful are not new; you can overcome.
“These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world,” John 16: 33.
Make a choice to rejoice. It is your choice to rejoice or be sad and block your future. Decide the building blocks of your life.
“Therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live,” ( Deuteronomy 30: 19).
Thanksgiving
Another instrument that can inherit the promise is thanksgiving.
“Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name,” Psalms 100: 4.
Thanksgiving is a means by which we express our joy to the Lord. We are to praise God for who He is, for what He does, and for those things He will do.