The Power of Joy // Dr. Dharius Daniels

I want you to meet me in the scriptures Luke chapter 2 verse number 10 and 11 are the two verses we're gonna read for those of you who may be here for the first time thank you so much for being here I mean that we're glad to have you with us on today and we're excited about all that God is doing in your life and we're glad that you're with us on this afternoon Luke 2 2 verse 10 says but the angel said to them do not be afraid I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people today in the town of David a savior has been born to you he is the Messiah the Lord I want to pause right there and talk from this subject in our time together the power of joy everybody say joy is power family we are situated in the midst of a season on the Christian calendar known as the Advent season everybody say Advent come on say it one more time for your minds a Advent the word Advent comes from a Latin word Adventists and it simply means coming coming coming so the Advent season this year which is December 1st to December 24th is a season wherein Christians pause in anticipation and in celebration of the coming or the birth of Jesus Christ and I don't know about you but every now and then I got to pause for the cause and acknowledge I'm glad he came I want to say that again just in case somebody missed an opportunity to respond appropriately I said every now and then I have to pause for the cause and acknowledge and admit I'm glad he came because he came down my life went up I don't know where I would be who I would be how I would be if he didn't come down I am so grateful for the ultimate gift that came into my life and it wasn't just a gift under a tree it was a gift on a tree his name was Jesus and I'm glad he came there are a number of reasons we should engage in celebration regarding his coming but in our time together today and over the course of these next three weeks I want to lift up something I think is extremely important yet often overlooked here it is I'm glad he came because his presence gave me a present I'm saying I'm glad he came because his presence gave me a present what's the present he gave you Pastor Darius is in the foundational text we read in Luke chapter 2 verse number 10 his presence gave me the present of joy I said his presence gave me the present of joy that our text here in Luke chapter 2 verse number 10 explains what I'm articulating the Bible is clear you have a group of man one version of this story calls them Shepherds another version calls them wise men but these Shepherds who are wise men are tending to their sheep and to their flock and all of a sudden they have this unannounced counter with an angel and Angelo's a Messenger of God and they are startled and they are unnerved and the angel says to them don't be afraid I got some good news and he says this good news is gonna bring you great joy see somebody should have said a man right there he says I got some good news and this good news is gonna bring you great joy these shepherds are just minding their business and unannounced they get exposed to undeserved information Jesus has been born the word hadn't even got out yet nobody's posted it on Facebook nobody sent out a mass text nobody come on has sent out a GroupMe message but all of a sudden these Shepherds get exposed to information before somebody else gets it you know what that's called favor yeah that's what we call it in Christian circles it's the favor of God it is under deserve unexplainable unearned preferential treatment for which the only thing you can do is to respond appropriately by giving God praise it's treatment that shouldn't lead to arrogance but to appreciation it's when some things happen to you that shouldn't happen to you that you don't deserve to happen to you but them happening to you is a revelation out of your goodness but God's goodness and this is why we respond with praise not because I've been good to God but because he's been good to me favor I wanted on my life sometimes that's the way favor shows up by giving you access to information that everybody else doesn't get but not only did these wild men have access to information that everybody else didn't get they had access to an opportunity that everybody else didn't get because they now because of the information had an opportunity to go have an audience with Jesus ain't that amazing I mean they get to see him wrapped in swaddling clothes in that manger they not only got information they got an opportunity what call that favor when God gives us undeserved unearned unexplainable access to opportunities for which there is no explanation God did it not because we've been good to him but he did it because he's been good to us favor you can't earn favor but these wise men these shepherds teach us you can position yourself for it cuz what were they doing they were just being faithful with a flock some people were probably observing their activity and minimizing that activity all you ain't doing then you're out there with your little sheep I see you with your little sheep you're just out there with your little sheep doing your thing you're out here with your little sheep praise God for your little sheep and they not realizing that if you're faithful over a few things God will make you ruler over many that God uses your stewardship over what you have now to determine whether or not you'll be faithful over what's coming next and I don't know who I'm talking to in this room today but I believe I got some people who believe because I've been faithful to a few things God is getting ready to make me ruler over many angel comes to these Shepherds and say listen I got good news is gonna bring great joy what's the good news they said today in the town of David a savior has been born to you he is the Christos he's The Anointed One he's the Messiah he's the Lord he say that's some good news that should bring great joy here it is the presence of Jesus should produce the present of joy in other words people who have Jesus should be people who have John joy to the world the Lord has come let earth receive her King come on now I said joy to the world the Lord has come I'm trying to get us to see family that joy is the birthright of the believer that joy is germane to Christianity that mock man says that joy watch this that Christianity is a unique religion of joy meaning that the joyous nature of the Christian faith is one of the things that distinguishes it from every other religion that Christianity watch this that joy is inherent in Christianity just like you can't get in water and not get wet you can't get in Jesus and not get joy did you hear what I just said we're supposed to have joy God created joy Jesus was a man of joy the Holy Spirit produces the fruit of joy and the Bible is a book of joy there are 66 books in the Bible but joy is mentioned 218 times God is obsessed with joy he's serious about joy he's committed to getting joy to his people you can't even go from Genesis to Revelation without pumping in the joy in Psalms 30 verse number 5 the psalmist is weeping me I'm trying to find I'm looking for Baptists people now weeping may endure for a night but joy is coming in the morning I came to tell somebody is morning time you got the revelation right there did you hear what I said morning time represents the time the season of darkness is over and is there anybody here that's tired of dark seasons and dark relationships God says if you can make it through the night joy is coming in the morning weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning Psalms 30 verse number 11 since you turned my wailing on my mourning into dancing somebody better come get me here since I was walking around moping but now I'm moving you didn't hear what I just said since you turned my mourning into dancing I was moping but now I'm moving I'm walking different I'm dancing in the kitchen while I'm cooking I'm dancing in the car while I'm driving I'm dancing on my way to work y'all aren't talking to me what happened God turned my mourning into dancing you removed my sack cloth and you clothed me with joy I was wearing sadness I walked but you took that jacket off me and you restyled me and I'm looking good in joy tell somebody joy looks good on you you clothed me with joy listen to what David said when anxiety was great within me what I was worried about what I'm gonna do about it what I'm gonna do about them how am I gonna fix this I made it through this month but next month it's coming already it seems as soon as I get through the first the first is right back around here since when anxiety was great within me your consolation brought me joy you escorted and ushered joy into my life you were my great consoler for unto us a son is born unto us a child is given and his name shall be called a wonderful counselor you sat me on your couch and when I could talk to no one else I talk to you you tuck me into my census you talked me into my calmness you talked me into sober thinking your consolation brought me joy somes 1:26 verse 5 says those who sow with tears whoa I'm talking about that a little bit next week I'm gonna talk to you about good grief some people never get to reap with joy cuz they don't sow with tears you're too busy acting like you not hurt so that way you can't ever get he'll call and cry so you can get delivered y'all not talking going and admit you man so you can get happy go ahead and acknowledge it did bother you that they said that I know you did it did bother you don't cry there is an undeniable emphasis on joy in God's world Jesus even said he gave us the word to give us joy in John 15 verse number 11 jesus said I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete it is an undeniable emphasis of joy in God's work what is God doing he is exposing us are y'all ready for this no y'all ready for real for real are y'all ready for real for real I want everybody fifty and over to say no Cal okay yeah I'm Casta helping you you ready it is evidence listen to this of the way God intends for spirituality to impact the emotional quality of our life when people think often of the impact of spirituality they think of its moral impact not its emotional impact but what if I told you the God who has revealed himself through Scripture like the God of the Bible the God of the Bible cares about more than how we're doing morally that's important but he also cares about how we're doing emotionally here it is family what parent every parent pay attention please what parent is not concerned about the emotional condition of your child think about that for some of us if our child you know your child you know where something's off and they can come home from school and you can tell what's wrong nothing you go straight law-and-order csr the Trenton version I mean you walk in the room you say what's wrong with you look at me open your mouth and talk to me what is wrong with you who said what to you what's their name what's they last name what's they mama name you know what I'm going to the school no not tomorrow come here I'm going today we're going to come on now if we feel that way about our children and we are imperfect parents how much more does our Heavenly Father feel about you and I and he's a perfect parent that's why he said touch not mine anointed don't you put your hands on my child he cares and he wants to bring the believer past an emotional quality of life that's determined by fickle feelings and he wants to bring you into an emotional condition that the Bible calls joy I don't want a fickle feeling called happiness I want an emotional condition called joy I hear you I heard you PD I got a question what is it what's the difference then between you happiness and joy I'm glad you asked I want to show you look at the screens here because most people can't step into joy because they're miss diagnosing happiness ask joy see if you don't know what joy is you'll know when you have it and most people feel like they lost joy when they really lost happiness because happiness and joy aren't the same thing happiness is a feeling joy is an emotional condition here it is family happiness is triggered by the external joy is triggered by the internal what does that mean you've heard it put this way happiness is connected to happenings right so something's got to happen on the outside to make me happy here's the problem with that in order for me to have or maintain happiness stuff has to be right that I can't control and then it's got to stay right all at the same time so that means if you're dating or you're married you in relationship with somebody that relationships got to be good but then if you got kids then the kids got to be good at the same time the relationship is good and if you got more than one kid that means all the kids got to be good at the same time come on talk to me while the relationship is good and then if the race ship is good all the kids is good at the same time that mean that the money can't be funny and the change can't be strange right then it means that when you're going to whatever work environment you got to be in that things are going right the way they're supposed to go at work and then if things are going right the way they're supposed to go at work it means everything's got to be going right the way it's supposed to go in your body I don't know about you but I never had all of those things to be right for me at the same time and stay that way that's too much pressure on things I can't control I do not want my happiness in the hands of a moody co-worker [Applause] come on somebody help me preach today I do not want my happiness in the hands of a temperamental teenager I do not want my happiness in the hands of an economy I cannot control happiness is triggered by the external joy is triggered by the internal happiness is short-term joy is long-term happiness is based on a situation what it is joy is based on a revelation who he is happiness is a natural emotion joy is a spiritual experience happiness comes from feelings joy comes from faith you can't have joy without having faith but if you got faith you'll have here it is joy is a sense of jubilation based on a revelation that my well-being rest securely in the hands of a God who is producing a favorable outcome for me it means I got a sense of jubilation because I got a revelation that my well-being rest securely in the hands of a God who is producing a favorable outcome for me it means that even when I'm in the middle of a tough situation I can have a revelation I mean I can see something everybody else can see that the situation don't have the final say my Savior does and my Savior is committed to produce a favorable outcome for me meaning when it's all over is working in my favor hebrews chapter 12 verse 2 puts it this way fixing our eyes on Jesus the author and finisher of our faith for the joy set before him endured the cross y'all see that he was able to endure the cross in the present because the joy set before him in the future here it is this is important because we need to pause here some explain I need to do so Jesus is on the cross here's his activity on the cross reveals the distinction between feelings and emotional conditions so he's on the cross and he has joy but he still feels pain because his activity on the cross lets us know he had pain but his commitment to still minister in the pain lets us know he had joy you got me he had pain but if the pain had him he would have only been focused on him while he was hanging on the cross but in the midst of him enduring his own pain he's looking at criminal next to him a criminal next to him and saying this day you will be with me in paradise because he had pain but pain didn't have him see when you have joy it doesn't mean you won't have pain but it will it does mean that your joy won't let your pain have you you got me because joy is spiritual not just the emotional it can exist simultaneously with contradictory feelings so you can be grieving the loss of a loved one and weeping feeling sadness yet still have joy Paul in the book of Thessalonians says we weep but we do not weep as others weep who have no hope since I'm crying because I'm a Miss them but I'm not crying because I'm worried about them I know they just went to a better place so I'm not crying for them I'm crying for me I'm sad but I still got job I don't know who but who I'm talking to you may have lost your employment and you can be sad and yet have joy at the same time I'm sad that this chapter is over but I'm glad because I'm getting ready to step into the best vocational season of my life I'm a wrap up cause I'm ready to preach but y'all how you feeling I'm scared and excited at the same time did you hear what I said yeah I'm scared cuz I don't know what I'm gonna do but I'm excited because God's getting ready to do something and I'm not gonna wait until I see it to praise Him watch me praise them right now somebody help me preach today I feel like having some sanctified Church I don't give your neighbor a high five and say watch me praise Him in the middle of it i'ma praise in the devil's face i'ma praise in my haters face i'ma praise with tears in my eyes because we prove how you doing a Matt but I'm glad I'm mad it happened and I'm glad it happened at the same time I'm tell sit down I'm done I got five minutes it's an emotional spiritual condition not not just the feeling so what's gonna I got both do you believe Jesus acts the man I'm able to do this father I believe but help my unbelief joy now how many know this joy I'm describing this is power the Bible the Bible says it's power Nehemiah 8 12 says the joy of the Lord is my strength so the enemy comes after my strength by coming after my joy he's coming for your joy he's coming for your joy it ain't about the bangus about the thing that the thing is after the thing he missed it with ain't the thing he after he's missing with a secondary thing cuz he wants to get to a primary thing if he can get to the primary thing that's the thing he's really after k-alpha it he's after you but he's using it to get to use because if we can get you weak then he can get you did you hear what I said Samson he wants to take your strength because once your strength is gone then he can send the Philistines to take you out because it's not the thing he's after it's you he's after get your strength I got you get your strength is to get your joy but this Advent season we have to adopt an attitudinal disposition that's consistent with the title of this series and say you can't have my joy so here it is this is this is my prayer for you I'm a pray at the end but here's my prayer for you family my prayer is for us rather that God would give us increased discernment so you could see the difference between a trial and a thief because some stuff you call in a trial is a thief and I prayed that God open your eyes to see you just trying to take my joy come on come on you know you just trying to see but you can't my joy you messing with a fighter fight you for my job this joy I have the world didn't give it to me and the world can't take it I'll fight you for my joy I fast for my joy I'll turn down my plate and seek God for my joy I'll get up on a cold Sunday morning and press my way to 200 let low Avenue from my joy you can't help my joy joy is power it's powerful for three reasons I want to give you three truths about it that kind of submit when I'm saying number one joyous power because joy protects us I'm about to read I'm about to read the scripture to you and if you're a wild person when I read the script I want you to say wow if you are our person when I read the scripture I want you to say oh hi everybody it you that's how I want you to respond in proverbs 27 7 it says one who is for Low's honey from the cone low y'all know it lows me right I don't want lows honey from the butt to the hungry even what's bitter taste sweet meaning you can be attracted to what's unhealthy when you hungry and you are most hungry when you unhappy don't you don't have to say your man but I want you to honestly assess your your life and if you do some auditing what you'll see is you've made some of your worst decisions when you were hungry right see everything gets harder when you're hungry if there's a certain eating regimen you're trying to maintain it's hard to maintain it when you hungry am I making sense y'all joy protects you it protects you coz when you fool your Lord honey from the comb I'm good see people who are unhappy are people who came hold they can't hold their god-given lame see God's given us a lane to running in the walk-in and you ought to love your lane not be ashamed of your lane this is what I do this is who I am and you don't have to like it cuz it's not your lady this is my lane and people will have you feeling inferior about your lane have you questioning your lane because you because they're questioning your lane but when you have joy and contentment you're able to look at them and say what God has for me it is for me you're not satisfied with this fine do you boo but I'm going to do me and how many people miss purpose not because they don't have a vision but because they don't have joy and the absence of joy keeps pulling them out hunger games your protection keeps you from selling you wanna know I'm good I think this the real section at the 11:30 I can't remember which one is okay alright alright come on let's be honest right let's be honest a lot of singles at our church let's be honest you know sometimes somebody common when you fall like you know you want to get some dinner no I'm good I'm straight praise God praise the Lord alright maybe trying to hug you give him a pound bro y'all heard of the buddy tap that's the two taps bro if she tapped you twice best friend zone he's so sweet at the double tap the rub now you get the rub on the shoulder you alright the double tap you friendzone bro that's I'm done y'all some roll with me pray for me listen were you hungry dog it could be relationally it could be professionally it could be emotionally what's bitter will taste sweet and you can settle for less than god's best enjoy protects you from you that make sense I'm done it protects us it promotes God isaiah 43:7 says we were created for God's glory it's why we exist to glorify the Father God gets glory not just out of who we are and what we do but he also gets glory out of how we are first Peter 1:8 says God gives us in expressible joy full of glory God is glorified through and by the joy of his people joy is evangelistic joy helps make a salt of the earth in light of the world joy is attractive to everyone in every ethnicity every age bracket every socio-economic category joy joy is universal people in Asia want joy people in India won't joy people who are rich won't join people who are poor won't join people who are old walk joy people who are young won't joy joy will make Nicodemus come to you at night and say I want what you have joy will make nickel Zacchaeus climb a tree and say I want to sit with you and speak with you joy gives you an opportunity to reveal to people the goodness of your God when they're asking you how are you so how do you handle that like this you're able to share with them is not me handling it is the god that's in me most people don't I'm not gonna say most people but it is possible to be a person in culture especially who doesn't care that much about number two about God's glory and what people don't understand that until you find a reason to live beyond you you won't find joy [Music] did you hear what I said until you find a reason to live beyond you you you won't find joy if for most it promotes God it means I want God to look good through me as a Christian and last but not least joy produces a perspective joy gives you a set of eyes where you're able to look at the same thing and see something different think about that you can look at the same thing somebody else is looking at but joy causes you to see something different obstacles become opportunities joy makes you an optimist you've never seen a happy cynic think about it you've never seen a happy cynic cynics aren't happy because their cynicism gives them a set of eyes they see everything negatively everything is suspect and everyone is guilty until proven innocent you one of my spiritual sons said something to me so profound it rocked me he was doing some self assessing and he said to me pastor he said I saw something because of wounds that I had growing up and because of chronic disappointment from people that should have been there for me all throughout my past my past was a path littered with disappointment that's all I knew so it became my normal and he said something to me so profound almost and I ain't even got almost quicken in the car he said so instead of people being innocent until proven guilty they were guilty until proven innocent Wow so powerful I say man that's some heavy stuff that's really a sign I'm a tortilla when you can see you powerful but Jah gives you a set of eyes and some people think is they just like this just religious rhetoric but joy helps you see the truth and the truth is it's really going to be alright when has it not been alright until my in the end when has it not worked out come on now I mean think about it in the end when has it not worked out even when you lost what you wanted to keep you lived through it in you but they like oh I'm I'm a diet you didn't die did you it is God has never not come through every time he's not gonna stop being God now so I'm done I want to pray for us today and I want to pray very specifically that God will give us an appetite for the kind of joy that glorifies him the kind of joy that protects us the kind of joy that promotes him and the kind of joy that produces a perspective that causes us to see things different that we will not settle for living just with fickle feelings but an emotional condition called joy father I thank you for your word today I thank you for what you're stirring in us and I pray right now that you would create a hunger and an appetite for joy like a river joy that protects us joy that promotes you enjoy that produces a proper perspective I give you praise now that you're creating in the hearts of your people a holy discontent a dissatisfaction with that which is less than your best and I pray that you would irritate them and agitate them out of levels of living that are beneath your intention for them may they step into the fullness of your best for their life and I'll pray over your people that they step into one of the most joy filled seasons of their life may you be glorified through our joy in Jesus name Amen everybody that received all of that give God a hand clap of praise [Music] what's up y'all thank you so much for watching this video this is my hope this is my prayer I hope it was simple yet significant I hope it was easy to understand yet impactful and I'm so glad to have the opportunity to share guys for everything hopefully add value to your life as always I'm asking one thing of you and that is if this message bless you I want you to share it exit email it to somebody else because my mission is to help as many people as possible change their life so that they can help change the world that's what we're all about and we want to extend the reach and you can help us do that thank you so much for being a part of this family we consider you back and I can't wait to see see you real soon hopefully you'll give one of our locations we've got locations in New Jersey on there live Sunday mornings or services right now and two locations there we also have a location in Orlando Florida on them live there every Saturday at 5:30 I speak on Saturdays at 5:30 in Orlando and then Sunday mornings in New Jersey meet us at one of those campuses for our los angeles traditional community that we've got that meets every sunday evening but even plays i hope to see you there so take care god bless

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Length: 42min 16sec (2536 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 10 2019