Ultimate Grace

The joy of the Lord is my strength. This is a verse that people have always been telling me that "the joy of the Lord is my strength" and it is a verse in which I can hardly understand earlier. I guess the Holy Spirit just prompted me this when I was resting and also right after my bible study in church. When I'm focused in the Lord, there's an ultimate grace from Daddy God that my heart feels at peace and be joyful.

This verse "The joy of the Lord is my strength." kept ringing inside my head. When I break the verse into portions, it's telling me that dwelling in the Lord and knowing of His Promises for me bring forth the joy in my heart and it's drawing me closer to Him alone. His Words, His Promises and His Answers to my prayers are far better than material gains that the world is trying to achieve. By knowing that I'm still the Righteousness of God in Christ alone and confessing this all the time, all things will start to chase after me and not the other way round. This is what I've learned during bible study today is to seek first His Righteousness and all things will come. I don't have to keep confessing for those material gains. They will just come! Just keep confessing that I'm the Righteousness of God in Christ!

Now this brings the joy inside my heart and that gives me the strength. Not that I'm going after the material gains. Daddy God knows what I need and what I want. Anyway, now i understood what the verse really means. When I start to concentrate on Jesus being my Righteousness and I'm the Righteousness of God in Christ, all good things like prosperity, health, wholeness, etc will start to come into my life. Jesus is the joy that this verse is talking about. Also, the joy of knowing brings strength and all these actually come from the Lord. These are the joys that the verse is trying to say. Getting that joy after listening and knowing what the Lord has in store for me, really strengthens me in many areas like strength in faith, physically, emotionally and mentally. "Can't really explain totally in words"

I used to think "the joy of the Lord.." yah.. In literal sense, the Lord is joyful but how can He be the One being joyful (but not me) and yet He can become my strength when I'm not joyful in my heart!?!? Something doesn't seem to click right and I asked the Lord to explain to me. Now I start to understand and thought it will be good to pen it down somewhere, some place..

okie.. time to snooze.. But before that, I thank Daddy God for His Ultimate Grace. I had a pretty hard day at work trying to resolve problems caused by others and entertaining to a loadful of queries from so many colleagues. Gosh.. All these really wears me down and initially I was thinking of not coming for bible study. Almost at the end of the day when I was packing to leave, I was held back by my colleagues from another department to assist in co-ordinating of some issues. I was the only one left from my team in the office who can help in the co-ordinating. I was kindda very reluctant coz I want to run off for bible study.

Well, I got a little grouchy but hid my grouchy voice and stayed on to help. At the same time, I told the Lord that even if I'm going to end my work at 7.30pm, I'm going to take a cab and rush to church by 8pm to receive His Words. I told the Lord that I don't want to stay on any later than 7.15pm actually. Well, I made the last call to my colleague and amazingly, he told me that they will settle the rest of the issue on Friday instead. I was so happy and then immediately switched off my pc and ran out of the building to catch a cab.

During my journey from Tampines to Suntec, I was sorta grumbling and kept wondering how come today seemed to be a day of fire-fighting in the office. Was totally drained out physically and mentally. Frankly, my mood got the better of me, I started to think of bad thoughts of Daddy God and asked Him how come He didn't stop those problems from happening since I've already made my prayers in the morning!?!?! Thank God that the Holy Spirit actually prompted to me in my heart saying that it's not Daddy God and I remembered.. oh yah.. it's the stupid devil that's putting up all the little fires so that I will be totally drained by trying to put out the fires, and will not go for bs to receive the Words that Daddy God had in store for me. Praise be to Daddy God that He gave me the strength to head on to church regardless on my physical state. I've received the Word that Daddy God had also been telling me during the past few days.

Now after all the receiving of the Word, my heart was at peace and joyful. It was then that I started to understand "The joy of the Lord is my Strength." Thank you Daddy God. I love you, not because I can love you. It's because You first love me so that I can love you back. Thank you Daddy God.. I thank You also that I will receive more revelational knowledge and to have that revelational wisdom, plus wisdom at work and daily life decisions. Jesus is my Wisdom, my Knowledge, my Prosperity, my Health and my Everything! Amen..