Where is our Desire for Jesus?

We Have to FIGHT for JOY
JOY is a Fruit of the Spirit / Only God Can Create JOY

PSALM 90:15
Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen trouble.

We are Wired to seek Joy. We seek God for Joy but we never really seek God for God.
Sin Perverts our desire for God making us look for Gifts from him but not desiring God for God.

LUKE 11:39
Then the Lord said to him, "Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

In Luke 11:39 we see There was a sense of DUTY but not a sense of DESIRE.

*Conversion is a Creation of New DESIRES Not New DUTIES
NEW delights Not Just New Deeds.

**IF YOU DON'T DESIRE GOD YOUR NOT TRULY SAVED!

Where is our Desire for JESUS?
1 Cor. 16:22 Says:
If anyone does not love the Lord—a curse be on him. Come, O Lord^[a]!

TO LOVE you have to DESIRE. so, in order to LOVE the Lord you would have to DESIRE him.


HEBREWS 10:32-39

32But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, 33sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. 34For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one. 35Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. 36For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. 37For,

"Yet a little while,
and the coming one will come and will not delay;
38but my righteous one shall live by faith,
and if he shrinks back,
my soul has no pleasure in him."

39But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

WAYS TO FIGHT FOR JOY:

1) RECALL (vs. 32)

remember back when you had joy @ conversion / compassion drives to recall (vs. 34)

REV. 3:3 says:

Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.
: So, Remember What you USE To do.


2) Joy Will Start to Bring Confidence (vs. 35)
Freedom in Speaking , Freedom in speaking up about Jesus, Not scared and not ashamed when you have Joy.

Philemon 1:6 says;
I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.

When we share our Faith the more understanding we will acquire!