John 15:9-11 “As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Now remain in my love. If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in His love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.”
Joy is essentially a __________________ experience found in a _______________ relationship by maintaining __________________ with God through __________________, thus making joy a _________________!
Deuteronomy 16:15 The Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.
Joy is ___________________ of circumstances.
1 Peter 1:6-9 “In this (salvation), you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith — of greater worth than gold, which perished even though refined by fire — may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and even though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.”
Joy is from the _____________________.
John 17:13 “I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the FULL measure of My joy within them.”