28-SEPT-2020_Fitting Joy in your Heart  (BY VATINA) 
Praise God! I am delighted to be with you all here today for another time of worship and praise and learning of the Master. You have just heard a lovely song played to you from a spectacular Heavenly choir, and that leads me to some thoughts that I’d like to share with you today. I’m sitting here with Jesus. I’m in His embrace, the place I love to be the most. So to you it will sound like a prayer I am saying, but for me here, I am looking into the eyes of the face of love, feeling the heart beat of Jesus, and speaking right to Him.
Dearest Love, Thank you for letting me have this special Heaven Call that I can give to those listening. I was faithful to talk on radio while on Earth, and now you’ve rewarded me with a much greater audience to reach, those in the realms beyond and even some below who you have allowed to listen in. You’ve got an amazing network set up to reach people. There is never a moment when Your spirit isn’t calling people to Your side.
I am so glad that you called me. Please help me to recall the special things you were sharing with me earlier, in ways that others can clearly relate to. Since I get the privilege of hearing things from Your lips, I want to pass it on. (Kiss)
Now if you turn to the first chapter of Hebrews you’ll see a passage that I want to bring to mind. It says, “But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.” (Hebrews 1:8-9)
When I was on Earth I used to wonder how to get that deep and abiding “joy of the Lord”. Here is says the formula for us, the one’s God made, to let His joy be apart of us. 
Firstly, we are to let Christ be our king, to rule in our lives. Later on in the passage you’ll see it speaks of God as the creator Lord. So first of all you need to know He owns what He’s created, and can rule it however He likes. 
Then you need to know that He does all things well. You can’t be holding grudges over the way He’s worked or is yet working in your life, if you wish to experience joy. You can have joy in hard times, but only if you trust Him that He knows how to bring out the best and will do what is right for you and for others. You trust that He uses the right measures, never allowing something to be too much for you. He is righteous and does all things in righteousness. If you let Him take care of judging what is right and what is not, then you have a whole lot less to worry about, and you’ll have room in your heart for joy, right?
Then the last point is you are to hate, along with God’s Son, anything evil that the enemy is trying to place in the way—thoughts, emotions, ideas, pictures, songs. Anything that isn’t of God. You hate it as much as God does, and you repel it. You don’t give place to anything of the dark side. For the moment that you do, out goes your joy. 
Jesus and joy fit nicely in your heart.
I remember one time I was having such a hard time remember things—things I was to do, or say. I tried to write things down, but then my notes got lost. The enemy tried to let it prove to me how useless and in capable I was. 
That is the biggest killer to joy, feeling you are not needed and aren’t of any use. So I started thinking things over a bit. But when the enemy comes in, I have to put up a shield, or else the lie might become a reality, and I really won’t be of much use for anything but crying. 
So I pulled out my shield, my Bible, and just stared reading, “God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love…”  It’s God that empowers us. Of course I can’t of my own self do this or that. I absolutely must depend on Him to do things through me and with me. I praised Him for things that keep me humble, for that will keep me close to Him. “Without Me you can do nothing,” I read in John Chapter 15. If making mistakes makes us want to abide more in Him, then that is good. 
So the fear of being good for nothing had to leave. I claimed and prayed for His power to fill me. I didn’t need to have notes. The Holy Spirit could bring all things to my remembrance. God is not limited by what I could do, my physical or mental limitations. He can use anybody, anytime, if they are willing.
And right then, as I let in the light of these truths, I found my missing notes. They were being used as a bookmark for a talk I had given the night before. Praise God! So it all worked together for good in the end. The devil tried to steal my joy and keep me from my Lord, but it only drew me closer to Him, and brought an answered prayer. 
He works in special ways. 
And when you learn from Him and His Word, this is one of the main ways He uses to anoint you with the oil of the Spirit and gladness. 
Isn’t it one of the most confusing things when you don’t speak a language in a place you are visiting? You try to read the signs, or to get help, but you end up going around in circles? You don’t know what road to go down or up, or where this will lead. And worst of all you fear you’ll miss the plane or bus or train or whatever, because you can’t find your way around. Even if you were visiting a really nice place, the being lost part steals the joy. 
So that is why reading God’s Word, with help of His Holy Spirit to explain it to you, makes you so happy. You can enjoy the place you are in, because you know the way to go. God’s Word tells you what is right and what is wrong, and then you can relax knowing you are on the right road that will get you to your destination. You can enjoy the scenery. You aren’t lost, confused or doubting if you are on the wrong path.
Joy comes most easily to those who fill up with God’s loving voice and caring instructions, and who choose to stay on the side of right. Trying to run things yourselves, or make up what you think is right, isn’t going to bring much joy, because you can’t reward yourself. Only God can do that, and joy is one of the rewards for those who stick nice and close to Him, and who repell all that is evil. 
Keep looking to the light and enjoy another day, free of care. Jesus takes care of the burdens, all we have to do is believe, and receive the help.
Yours in Jesus name, Virginia.