By Debora Galloway
Jan 24, 2021
Healing brings Joy!
On January 1st, this year 2021, I was sitting in my front room and all the sudden out of nowhere.. Joy bubbled up in my spirit. It caught me off guard. I’ve never quite experienced that before. I wasn’t thinking about anything joyful.. in fact, I was maybe a bit somber or neutral at most. I had been sitting facing our Christmas tree and noticing that the green lights went out leaving only the red, white & blue lights on our tree.. interesting. (You prophetic types can have a heyday with that one!) This got me thinking about the division in our nation and how I should probably have been praying much more than I was for America. Then out of nowhere, joy bubbled up in my spirit, and it really caught me off guard. I had a strong sense that God was trying to tell me this was going to be a good year despite what’s going on in the world and what people think about it.
Then on January 18th during my prayer time, I heard the Lord say. “There is going to be lots of Joy this year, because people are going to be healed. There will be miracles this year. It’s ok to tell people they are coming. You will not be disappointed.” Wow! Thank you God!
“I want you to have Joy again”.
God began to tell me personally, “I want you to have Joy again”. Based on what he spoke to me about healing & miracles and this being a year of breakthrough and life, I have to believe new joy is for all of us! Along with breakthrough, healing and restoration comes joy and rejoicing. We see this in the scriptures over and over, and of course it makes perfect sense. When awesome things happen, we are full of Joy! Expect it this year! Believe it and receive it!
I’ve decided to create occasional blog posts about different aspects of Joy, because we all want more of it and God wants us to have it! After all, “the Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit”. Romans 14:17. If it’s what God’s kingdom is made of, we should have lots of it!
Today we are going to start with this one aspect of Joy:
Joy is a fruit of the Spirit. (Gal 5:22) God can drop it in us supernaturally from His Spirit into our spirit. It is not contingent on our circumstances or feelings.
I think this is what I experienced on New Year’s Day. A drop of Joy from heaven, from The Holy Spirit into my spirit. As I was thinking about how Joy can bubble up supernaturally, I was reminded of this scripture that I really love “Now may the God of all hope, fill you with joy and peace in believing, that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit”. Romans 15:13
I’ve always loved this concept that The Holy Spirit can bring us joy supernaturally, but what I didn’t notice before is the connection to “believing”. “May He fill you with joy and peace in believing”.. While Joy can come supernaturally, there may be some aspects that only come or stick around longer when we choose to “Believe”. For instance, that drop of Joy I received from God on New Year’s Day, was not the only unexpected thing God dropped on me early this year. He also spoke to me one day thereafter “Put aside your list. It’s time to start your blog. Do it today!” Wow, I wasn’t expecting that! It took some faith and “believing” to scrap my whole list not just for a day, but a whole weekend basically, to jump on this instruction. I “believed” His words, took action, and I can say it’s causing my Joy to grow more! I chose to believe everything He said.. I can do it and now is the time. I had to give up earthly wisdom and my own thinking that my to do list was more important than God’s instruction. I put that list aside, took action and now I’m having even more joy! Of course, I’m also super busy doing tons of writing and learning how to create a blog and website in record time, but guess what.. I have more joy!!
If you haven’t had a drop of God’s supernatural joy lately.. be bold and ask for it! Also, be expecting breakthroughs that bring joy and rejoicing. It might require some action on your part like God told me to start my blog, or God might just drop something supernatural on you like He did with me on Jan 1st in front of my Christmas Tree. However it happens for you, it WILL happen if you choose to believe for it, and obey whatever God shows you to do because Joy is one of the things God’s kingdom is made of!
Another area that God wants us to find Joy in this year, is in our God given assignments. Some of us are being called by God to venture into new things.. in fact, I would be so bold as to say that most, if not all of us, are being called by God into new things this year in one way or another. So, be listening and willing to follow Jesus where he wants to take you and find your joy in that place!
And..keep an eye out for those healings and miracles that are on the way..
Believe it! It’s time to get your Joy on!