Summary:

In our daily walk with our Heavenly Father, we have many opportunities to express our thankfulness and love. As He disciplines us and we turn to Him in our deep repentance, we begin to mature in our eternal relationship with Him. As we mature we begin to express back to our Heavenly Father our deep thankfulness and joy knowing that He is working all things in our life after the counsel of His will.

Show Notes:

• Our daily repentance and turning towards Him is just another opportunity to express our thankfulness and love to Him.
• As we mature in our relationship with our heavenly Father, we begin to see that the momentary discipline that our Father puts us through, is working in us an eternal relationship with Him which produces great thanksgiving and joy in our hearts.
• In our time of need and repentance we turn to our first love.
• God enables us to repent and to turn to Him to receive His joy.
• He wants to give us life more abundantly, give us joy more abundantly. It's not about the things that we have to turn away from. He has this unfathomable love for us to experience.
• He is trying to lead us into a state of joy, a way of life.
• The reward for many things in God is His joy.
• Joy runs through out the scriptures.

Quotes:

• And it hit me that in our turning away, that's an opportunity to express our heart in thanksgiving to the Father.
• As we continue on in the lifestyle of repentance, it turns to Thanksgiving and joy.
• I think the reason we go through a lot of the sorrow and the negativity is because we fight what He's doing. Because we don't believe it's for our good.
• I can't create myself, we think we can. Society and culture teach us you can.
• do we want to say okay, God, I was wrong this time and I'm gonna do better, or do we say, God, I pour my flesh out to be killed. And I turn to you to fill me with Your heart.
• Repentance is the turning of your heart, to your first love.
• if you have the heart of thanksgiving, and you have the perception of I'll call the mature, I think the things you go through are shortened considerably.
• It's not about the things that we have to turn away from. He shows you those things, simply because He wants you to turn away from them because they are weights, they're sins, they're weights that keep you out of His presence and keep you out of His joy.
• How do you know that you've reached God? All of a sudden you have His joy, because now your heart is lifted higher, and the joy of the Lord is your beginning.
• Don't you think that the Lord can enable us to repent, to turn to Him and receive that joy?
• The whole thing about the Bible is joy.

References:

I Thessalonians 5:18

...in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God for you .

II Corinthians 4: 17-18

For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Revelation 2:4-5

But I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Therefore, remember from where you have fallen, and repent, and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and I will remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.

Luke 2:10-11

And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.Romans 8:28And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose.Hebrews 12:6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.Hebrews 12:2looking unto Jesus the [a]author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.Ephesians 3:20Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Take Away:

Throughout the scriptures we see that people have experienced God's joy. Today in our walk with Him we too want to experience His joy in our lives. Our deep cry and turning to Him in thankfulness in all that we go through, creates in us a eternal mature relationship that begins to produce within us His joy as we worship Him in all things.