Joy from the Spirit
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re going to explore the role of the Holy Spirit in living with the joy available to us in God. Know that as a believer, the Holy Spirit is with you, ready to search the heart of God for you, and to give you this free gift of joy, if you’ll simply trust him and receive it.
May your relationship with the Spirit deepen today, and yield a joy so real and strong that no trial or tribulation could come against it.
Our Scripture for today comes from 1 THESSALONIANS 1:6-7, and today's worship is Refreshing by First15 Worship feat. Nikki Moltz.
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| 0:00.0 | In today's podcast, we're going to explore the role of the Holy Spirit in living with the joy |
| 0:09.8 | available to us in God. Know that as a believer, the Holy Spirit is with you, ready to search the |
| 0:16.7 | heart of God for you, and to give you this free gift of joy if you'll simply trust him and receive it. |
| 0:23.6 | May your relationship with the spirit deepen today and yield a joy so real and strong |
| 0:28.7 | that no trial or tribulation could come against it. Welcome to the first of teen podcast. |
| 0:52.8 | Our scripture for today comes from first the Solonians 1, 6 through 7, where Paul writes, |
| 0:56.0 | and you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction |
| 0:59.0 | with the help of the Holy Spirit, |
| 1:01.0 | so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. |
| 1:16.6 | Relationship with the Holy Spirit empowers us to live a lifestyle of consistent joy. It's only by the filling of the Spirit that we have access to the deep reservoirs of joy |
| 1:22.6 | found in the heart of our Heavenly Father. Galatians 522 is clear that the fruit of the Spirit for believers is to be |
| 1:30.1 | joy. So as temples of the Holy Spirit, we need to search out what it looks like to allow the fruit |
| 1:36.4 | of joy to be evident in our hearts and our lives. Scripture is filled with direct connections |
| 1:43.4 | between the filling of the Holy Spirit and joy. |
| 1:47.0 | Romans 1417 says, for the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness |
| 1:54.1 | and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Acts 1352 says, and the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit. |
| 2:04.7 | And 1 Thessalonians 1, 6 through 7 says, and you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received |
| 2:12.1 | the word in much affliction with the joy of the Holy Spirit, so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. |
| 2:22.3 | We are not designed to have joy in and of ourselves. |
| 2:27.3 | Rather, such joy comes by the dwelling of the Holy Spirit within us. |
| 2:32.3 | As the disciples began to be filled with the Holy Spirit, |
| 2:36.2 | their lives changed dramatically. They went from fearful, fair-weathered followers of Jesus |
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