“I pray for them. I do not pray for the
world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. 10 And
all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. 13 But
now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world,
that they may have My joy fulfilled in
themselves….
20I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe
in Me through their word.”
John 17:9-20
10
وكل
ما هو لي فهو لك .وما هو لك فهو لي وانا ممجد فيهم .
13
اما
الآن فاني آتي اليك .واتكلم بهذا في العالم
ليكون
لهم فرحي كاملا فيهم .
20
ولست
اسأل من اجل هؤلاء فقط بل ايضا من اجل الذين يؤمنون بي بكلامهم
Jesus
is praying for you and me and for all other believers who have declared Him as
their Lord and Saviour. He is requesting from The Father that we may experience
Jesus’ delight fulfilled in us, and that Jesus’ enjoyment be perfected in our
souls. He requests that our hearts be filled with His gladness.
Why
do some followers of Christ feel this joy so strongly and others do not? That
is a question that has been intriguing me for years! Do you have an answer? If
so please post it on the comment section of my blog, so that
we can all see it. Feeling joyful is what everyone wants, and we believers should be the most joyful, for our salvation is guaranteed through Christ. The Apostle Paul said
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
افْرَحُوا فِي الرَّبِّ
دَائِماً، وَأَقُولُ أَيْضاً: افْرَحُوا.
Philippians
4:4
In
a previous devotion regarding joy, I wrote: … ‘now I
understand that the Apostle Paul felt God’s grace so powerfully that it
overshadowed all the negative feelings of being chained in a Roman prison to
the point that he actually felt joy.’
So if we
need to feel God’s grace in order to feel joy what is stopping us from feeling
it since Jesus requested that we feel it.
The only
answer that I have come up with is that we are somehow blocking it. Blockers
may be: fear, wrong paradigms, and wrong programs running in our still “un-renewed
minds”.
We need to “see”
ourselves joyful so that we can unblock this state and feel the joy Jesus
intends for us to feel. Jesus said:
Therefore I
say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them,
and you will have them.
Mark 11:24
We need to believe
that we will/are/can be joyful, and we will be joyful, and Jesus’ joy will be
fulfilled in us. We need to visualize and meditate on seeing ourselves joyful
all the time.
I invite you to repeat the following prayer for yourself:
Abba
Father, thank You for Your abundant blessings and love. Lord, I praise You, I thank You, I glorify You and I
rejoice in You. Thank You Jesus for praying for me to The Father. Heavenly
Father I long to experience Jesus’ delight fulfilled in me, and Jesus’ enjoyment
perfected in my soul. I long to have my heart filled with His gladness. Fill me God totally and envelop me with Your Grace, so that I can feel
an inner joy independent of circumstances. Jesus You said: “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in
you, and that your joy may be full.” John
15:11
Jesus I long for and pray
that Your Joy remain in me and that my Joy be full and that I always rejoice in
You. Jesus, in Your Holy name I pray. To Him be the
glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Jesus loves you
In Him,Wagdi Henein
كلمتكم
بهذا لكي يثبت فرحي فيكم ويكمل فرحكم
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