Joy does not mean the absence of trouble. You can have joy and have trouble all the same time.

Dr. Tony Evans says your joy is ultimately determined by your relationship with God.

Joy is the stability God gives you in spite of the trouble you may be in or the world may be creating around you.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the

archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Imagine being able to listen in on one of the most significant conversations in history,

one that could change everything for those who hear it.

That's exactly what happens in the passage Dr. Evans explores today,

where we find Jesus praying to the Father shortly before his crucifixion.

In this powerful moment, Jesus isn't praying for himself or his disciples.

He's praying for us.

Let's join Dr. Evans in the Gospel of John as he studies this extraordinary prayer and what

it reveals about God's heart for his people.

Jesus has concluded his time with his disciples in the upper room.

Jesus has been teaching them how to function in light of his absenteeism. He's getting ready to leave them.

Even though I'm leaving you, I'm leaving you with someone else. He calls it another comforter.

This other comforter is the Holy Spirit whose job it is to be with us all equally everywhere.

Jesus in his physical body limited most of his actions to his physical location.

With the Holy Spirit, that spatial limitation would not be there because the Holy Spirit is

the Spirit. He would act on Jesus

behalf to end dwell every believer. And thus the Spirit of God, Holy Spirit is called in Scripture

the Spirit of Christ because it is that member, the third member of the Trinity,

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