JOY! Unspeakable Joy!

Louis Smead- To miss out on Joy is to miss out on the reason for your existence.

C.S. Lewis- Joy is the serious business of heaven.

Stop being so serious!


Laughter heals anger, restores love and creates perspective on life. It is GOOD for you to laugh, so laugh loud and laugh often! It's legal!


Look around you. What is on the news? The media don't often tell stories of joy and laughter because people 'need' to know about the bad things out there to make sure they're prepared for the worst. Jesus said "Do not worry". He also said "So my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete". Did you know that if you have a relationship with God and accepted him into your life, you are going to go to heaven and be with Jesus for eternity! Why are we so downcast? We don't need to be afraid, God is with us! If God is for us, who can be against us?


We have freedom to enjoy the Holy Spirit. Jesus Loves us! He died for us so that we shall not perish but have eternal life! He loves us! We don't have to and can't earn his love! He loves us when we're good and he loves us when we're naughty! He wants to spend time with us so He can bless us and talk to us and listen to us! Jesus loves YOU!


Jesus heals! Today, right now, he heals! Jesus is Healer! God healed people in old and new testament and he heals today! His name is HEALER! Rejoice! Even if you have never experienced a first-hand healing yourself, read about it in God's word. Many times God heals! We should be full of Joy!


God delivers us in times of trouble! We are after all only human, we're bound to get a bad day where we just can't get a smile on our face. If you focus on your giants, you will fall. If you focus on God, they will fall. Jesus said  "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." When we start thinking of our failures and fears, stop. Think about Jesus and his amazing promises and his gift of new Life! In Jesus we are free. We are children of God! What is better than that! People can disappoint you. Things can disappoint you, but Jesus never disappoints! He always knows what is best for us! Even when it seems like he hasn't heard our prayers, he has. He is waiting for the right moment to give you exactly what you need. It might not be what you wanted but God knows what is good for you. He knows what is better. And God's better is better! He wants to see you happy and laughing, living in his presence. He Loves you so much! His plans for you are good: "to prosper you and not to harm you". He wants you to be happy and he wants to know you better! God is GOOD!
Matthew 7:9-11 says: “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!


God is good! In every situation! Be joyful in Christ! When troubles come look to Him and worship him through the Good and bad. He is everything you need!

Be JOYFUL: REJOICE for you are loved!

Time to start posting!!

Hey again! Long time no write.. I realised that I haven't been on here enough lately so I have returned!


Things have started up again this week.. I have just finished a book called "Love has a face" which is absolutely amazing! I really want to love people like Jesus loves them! Any way, I woke up on Monday morning and the book said 1. Get up, 2. Ask God what he is doing, 3. Go and do it with him. So I woke up and asked God what he was doing and felt him say "Healing the sick" so I prayed for divine appointments this weeks where God would send me to the lost, lonely, hurting and the sick. Any way, Had a really cool prayer meeting on Monday which was superb! And then yesterday, I was sitting with a group of friends and one of my friend's friends complained that she felt awful. So seizing the opportunity, I asked her what was wrong and she said she had really saw blocked ears so I asked if I could pray for her. She said that it was fine, so I asked if I could put my hands on here ears and she was like "Yeah, sure, if you want to" So I prayed for her ears to be healed in Jesus' name! She said thanks and said she'd let me know if it made a difference. I thought "Wahoo! Thank you Jesus!" He gave me an opportunity, courage to take it and through that, one more person knows about Jesus!


It's amazing what can happen when you take out your bible and read it at school. A flock of people gathered round and started to ask me "What on earth are you reading? Oh my word, is that the bible?!" So I had another opportunity there to share about the bible nd answer some of their questions about the old and new testaments and explained why I thought it was a really exciting book and definitely not boring, etc.


Then today, I prayed for another divine appointment and opportunities to heal people and went downstairs and my dad's daily reading was open on "Bringing Healing" so I read it and it asked what I was confident about regarding healing. It also had this amazing bible verse on it from John 14:12-14, which I love!!


So I went to school completely sure that whatever I asked God for he would give; I asked him for opportunities to pray with people. Anyway, first lesson, my friend told me that her boyfriend was in court this morning fighting with his ex-girlfriend about who gets custody of the child. So I asked if I could pray for them because she seemed worried about it. So let her know that I was praying and asked God to do what was best for the child.


This same friend asks me to pray for her for things quite regularly because she said that every time she asks me to pray the prayers are answered! Thank you God! I really pray that you would do more in our school! I ask that everyday you can use me to do your will and share the Love of Jesus with my classmates!