Prayer guidelines 17 November 2024

Joy can so easily be mistaken for happiness. However happiness is a circumstantial reaction but joy is a “truth response”. Happiness is externally motivated, joy is internally motivated by an eternal source. In John 15 we see exactly where to find and how to complete our joy.

“If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.” (Jhn 15:10)

“I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.” (Jhn 15:11)

“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.” (Jhn 15:12)

If we stay as close as possible to The Father in our daily walk and live according to the Word, joy will be in us through Holy Spirit.
However when we start to love like Jesus loved with a one way, sacrificial, intentional love, then joy is cultivated more and more!

Let’s pray:
• Father thank you for inviting us into a relationship with You, through Jesus our saviour.
• Father Thank you for filling us with everlasting, internal, eternal joy.
• Father God please bless us in such a way that we experience joy every day in our personal lives.
• Lord Jesus please lead us, guide us and teach us to love like you.
• Lord Jesus please form us into vessels that carry joy, spread joy and give joy wherever we go.

Amen