Release Your Past and Drink in the JOY of Jesus!

          Have you had your JOY JUICE today?  What’s holding you back from drinking in your personal serving?

            Do you have something in your past that is keeping you from walking in the JOY of the Lord?  Maybe you are embarrassed by a poor decision or some mistake that you cannot forget. You question how God could love you because of your past.  When we doubt God’s love and forgiveness, we fall into Satan’s trap! He wants us to live in misery and doubt, stealing our joy.

            When we come to the Lord with a repentant, contrite, broken heart and ask His forgiveness, WE ARE FORGIVEN.  Often the hard part is forgiving ourselves and moving forward.   God’s love is freely ours!  We do not have to earn it! And let’s be reminded that there is nothing we can do to make God love us any more or any less!  His love is endless.  Jeremiah 31:3 tells us: “ The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.’”

            Don’t let our enemy, Satan, steal the JOY that is yours as a child of God.  We are to be on guard against his schemes.  In John 10:10 Jesus says: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it more abundantly.”  That includes abundant love, forgiveness and JOY!

            Don’t hold on to the past! Put it behind you by giving it to Jesus and drink in the immeasurable JOY that has YOUR name on it!