WEBVTT 00:04.570 --> 00:07.414 [SPEAKER_00]: as we continue our week of looking at joy. 00:08.035 --> 00:14.684 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to take time today to receive a fresh revelation of how God rejoices over us. 00:15.806 --> 00:18.950 [SPEAKER_00]: God not only loves you, but he likes you. 00:19.711 --> 00:23.136 [SPEAKER_00]: He rejoices over you just as you are. 00:23.639 --> 00:32.642 [SPEAKER_00]: I hope and pray that you get a real tangible sense of God's joy over you today, as we create space in his presence together. 00:33.564 --> 00:35.910 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the first 15 podcast. 00:51.466 --> 01:01.757 [SPEAKER_00]: Our Scripture for today comes from Zefaniah 3, verse 17, Scripture says, The Lord your God is in your midst. 01:02.758 --> 01:08.484 [SPEAKER_00]: A mighty one who will save, He will rejoice over you with gladness. 01:09.505 --> 01:11.948 [SPEAKER_00]: He will quiet you by His love. 01:12.749 --> 01:15.752 [SPEAKER_00]: He will exalt over you with loud singing. 01:19.208 --> 01:30.067 [SPEAKER_00]: Zefaniah 317 provides a constant source of joy by revealing insight into the heart of our loving, present Heavenly Father. 01:31.310 --> 01:32.812 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to read this over you again. 01:33.614 --> 01:40.947 [SPEAKER_00]: Scripture says, the Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save, 01:41.416 --> 01:44.940 [SPEAKER_00]: He will rejoice over you with gladness. 01:45.861 --> 01:48.123 [SPEAKER_00]: He will quiet you by his love. 01:49.004 --> 01:52.047 [SPEAKER_00]: He will exult over you with loud singing. 01:53.949 --> 02:07.103 [SPEAKER_00]: As we look at this first today, I pray that you will be filled with an abundant joy that can only come from a fresh, tangible revelation of your heavenly fathers, overwhelming love for you. 02:08.551 --> 02:11.395 [SPEAKER_00]: the Lord your God is in your midst. 02:12.757 --> 02:20.168 [SPEAKER_00]: You can have joy today because your God is totally and powerfully present right where you are. 02:21.611 --> 02:26.057 [SPEAKER_00]: Scripture says He will never leave you or forsake you. 02:27.179 --> 02:36.533 [SPEAKER_00]: His presence will go with you to the ends of the earth and at salvation you were made 02:37.373 --> 02:42.098 [SPEAKER_00]: You can have joy, because you are not alone in anything you do. 02:43.279 --> 02:48.405 [SPEAKER_00]: God longs to make his presence known to you in every area of your life. 02:49.747 --> 02:59.858 [SPEAKER_00]: He longs to do life with you, equipping you to live with total joy by filling you with his love every minute of every day. 03:01.760 --> 03:04.883 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord your God is a mighty one who will save. 03:05.825 --> 03:12.872 [SPEAKER_00]: You can have joy because you have been totally redeemed from the destitution of the world that surrounds you. 03:14.014 --> 03:18.839 [SPEAKER_00]: You are saved from the perils of life without relationship with your creator. 03:19.940 --> 03:27.448 [SPEAKER_00]: You have been offered to spend eternity with the God of love who laid down his own life for yours. 03:29.190 --> 03:31.512 [SPEAKER_00]: Your God has done a mighty work. 03:31.913 --> 03:39.705 [SPEAKER_00]: You are now his child healed and set free through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. 03:41.788 --> 03:44.332 [SPEAKER_00]: He will rejoice over you with gladness. 03:45.594 --> 03:48.738 [SPEAKER_00]: You can have joy because your God rejoices over you. 03:49.800 --> 03:52.304 [SPEAKER_00]: You are not a failure in His eyes. 03:53.526 --> 03:54.828 [SPEAKER_00]: He loves who you are. 03:55.649 --> 03:58.393 [SPEAKER_00]: He's wholeheartedly glad you are His. 03:59.133 --> 04:02.819 [SPEAKER_00]: He longs to fill you with the knowledge of his gladness today. 04:03.860 --> 04:08.568 [SPEAKER_00]: He longs to give you a revelation of how deeply and love with you he is. 04:09.930 --> 04:15.198 [SPEAKER_00]: The creator and sustainer of all rejoices over you as his creation. 04:16.540 --> 04:18.723 [SPEAKER_00]: You are not a mistake. 04:19.725 --> 04:25.073 [SPEAKER_00]: You are made intentionally because your God longs to have relationship with you. 04:27.162 --> 04:29.505 [SPEAKER_00]: He will quiet you by his love. 04:30.927 --> 04:35.453 [SPEAKER_00]: You can have joy because your God will shepherd you to the still waters. 04:36.674 --> 04:41.300 [SPEAKER_00]: His love will guide you to quiet places where your heart can be at rest. 04:42.421 --> 04:50.672 [SPEAKER_00]: He will calm the areas of your life that are burdened and stressed by freeing you with the depth of his affections. 04:51.800 --> 04:58.687 [SPEAKER_00]: You can have peace today in the presence of your Heavenly Father, no matter what situation you find yourself in. 04:59.868 --> 05:05.714 [SPEAKER_00]: Your God will quiet you by His love as you follow the leadership of His Spirit. 05:07.656 --> 05:10.179 [SPEAKER_00]: He will exalt over you with loud singing. 05:11.580 --> 05:17.166 [SPEAKER_00]: To exalt is to be joyful or jubilant because of a triumph or success. 05:17.990 --> 05:22.596 [SPEAKER_00]: You can have joy today because your God sees you as a triumph. 05:23.417 --> 05:27.041 [SPEAKER_00]: You have been transformed, you are a new creation. 05:28.163 --> 05:31.187 [SPEAKER_00]: You are what God has most desired in the earth. 05:32.428 --> 05:35.872 [SPEAKER_00]: His chief longing has always been relationship with us. 05:36.713 --> 05:42.060 [SPEAKER_00]: And by your faith in Jesus Christ, you have given Him what He has always wanted. 05:43.602 --> 05:47.507 [SPEAKER_00]: God exults over you today just as you are. 05:47.943 --> 05:50.607 [SPEAKER_00]: He longs for intimate relationship with you. 05:51.828 --> 06:00.600 [SPEAKER_00]: He wants to give you ears to hear his loud singing that you might have the same perspective for yourself as he has for you. 06:00.640 --> 06:15.199 [SPEAKER_00]: In the Ragamuffin Gospel, Brennan Manning says, my deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ, and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it. 06:16.867 --> 06:22.214 [SPEAKER_00]: May you come to the awareness of how deeply you are loved by your God today. 06:23.235 --> 06:28.362 [SPEAKER_00]: May you allow God to love what you have deemed unlovable in your own life. 06:29.744 --> 06:39.617 [SPEAKER_00]: And may Zephynaia 317 be a foundation on which you experience the overwhelming joy that comes from God's inexplicable love for you. 07:09.652 --> 07:16.106 [SPEAKER_00]: As we begin, meditate on the reality of Zefaniah 3-17. 07:16.126 --> 07:23.121 [SPEAKER_00]: Ask the Holy Spirit to highlight a part of the verse that you especially need today. 07:24.248 --> 07:31.535 [SPEAKER_00]: Take time to allow Scripture to lay a foundation of truth on which you can have abundant joy. 07:32.696 --> 07:39.702 [SPEAKER_00]: Scripture says, the Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save. 07:40.803 --> 07:43.606 [SPEAKER_00]: He will rejoice over you with gladness. 07:44.807 --> 07:47.249 [SPEAKER_00]: He will quiet you by His love. 07:48.410 --> 07:51.673 [SPEAKER_00]: He will exalt over you with loud singing. 08:17.084 --> 08:44.982 [SPEAKER_00]: And next, ask the Lord to reveal His nearness, rest in His presence, and allow His love to quiet and flood the weary places in your heart. 08:46.312 --> 08:55.135 [SPEAKER_00]: Isaiah 62, five says, for as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you. 08:55.978 --> 09:02.515 [SPEAKER_00]: And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you. 09:21.226 --> 09:50.727 [SPEAKER_00]: In last, ask the Holy Spirit to fill you with abundant joy for today. 09:51.905 --> 10:02.501 [SPEAKER_00]: Ask him to teach you how to live a joyful lifestyle where you experience the fruit of his presence through any circumstance. 10:02.521 --> 10:13.879 [SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 147 verse 11 says, the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear Him, in those who hope in His steadfast love. 10:21.065 --> 10:43.056 [UNKNOWN]: Thank you for watching. 10:51.845 --> 10:57.253 [SPEAKER_00]: In Scripture, we have a source of constancy and steadfastness for our emotions. 10:58.375 --> 11:09.712 [SPEAKER_00]: If we will allow Scripture to be the basis on which we think and feel, we can experience a joy that is unshakable by the passing tides of circumstance. 11:11.174 --> 11:17.464 [SPEAKER_00]: Scriptures like Zefaniah 317 are vital to a healthy and emotional life. 11:18.541 --> 11:28.519 [SPEAKER_00]: We need constant reminders of the truth, so that we can base our emotions on who God is, rather than what is going on with the world around us. 11:29.942 --> 11:38.457 [SPEAKER_00]: May you enter into a new season of a abundant joy, as you allow God's word to be your emotional source and guide. 11:52.898 --> 11:55.542 [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much for listening to today's podcast. 11:56.023 --> 11:57.485 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Josh with verse 15. 11:58.346 --> 12:04.695 [SPEAKER_00]: I hope that you feel a little lighter or more joyful after taking time to rest in God's presence today. 12:05.677 --> 12:17.674 [SPEAKER_00]: Whenever the world comes against this reality that God rejoices over you, whenever it tries to define you or see you differently than God does, think back on what you've experienced today. 12:17.654 --> 12:21.603 [SPEAKER_00]: you don't have to do anything for your father to rejoice over you. 12:22.124 --> 12:24.249 [SPEAKER_00]: He loves you just as you are. 12:25.431 --> 12:29.841 [SPEAKER_00]: Have a wonderful rest of your day and may God bless you as you see Kim.