FAITH CAPSULE: Joy and rejoicing maintains the presence of God.

Psalm 16

Living life for the glory of God is the key to retain the presence of God. Living for the glory of God demands knowing and understanding God by His word. Will you engage or increase studying the word and not be skimming through the word.
Apostle Paul repeatedly used the word rejoice in his speech because he knew the effectiveness of the word as a source of revelation to living life to the glory of God. It is indeed to get the revelation of rejoice. The book of Philippians 4:4 stated, “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!”
Rejoice can also be defined as joy activated. Are you a man that possesses reason to be in joy but remains dormant? For example, one that accepts Jesus as Lord and Savior accepts the reason to having joy into one’s heart. The joy accepted is not written over the forehead of the one that accepts Jesus. The only way the joy can be evident in the life of one that accepted Jesus is when joy is constantly activated by rejoicing. Again, the joy that is not activated by rejoicing is same as one lacking joy. When Angel Gabriel was sent by God to deliver the favorable news to Mary, the only way for Angel Gabriel to deliver the favorable news of joy was to first of all command Mary to rejoice. Luke 1:28, “And having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!” The news of joy will only settle when there is a place for rejoicing.
Think of it: when there is no water tank there will be no place to retain water for storage. This is same that Angel Gabriel made sure to deliver favorable news of joy where there was a place for rejoicing.
Very important, joy and rejoicing maintains the presence of God.
Psalmist buttressed, “…In Your presence is fullness of joy…” (Psalm 16:11) “Then I was beside Him as a master craftsman; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him.” (Proverbs 8:30) God cannot be found in a joyless environment. Revelation about joy and rejoicing maintains a believer in the presence of God.
God attributes is visible around anyone that chooses to acknowledge His attributes. Psalmist described Him, “Good and upright is the Lord…” (Psalm 25:8) God is truly a good God that does no evil but good. With the understanding that He is a good God, living life should always be with rejoicing. Living life by rejoicing is demonstrating trust in God, knowing that He does no evil but good. Psalm 33:21 testifies, “For our heart shall rejoice in Him, because we have trusted in His holy name.” Without doubt there is no way to gaining His presence without rejoicing.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to continually rejoice by praising God; by magnifying Him with thanks giving.