Uncovering Your Well Of Joy

An observant author once wrote: "The most miserable people I have known have not been those who suffered from catastrophes which they could blame on fate or accident, but those who had everything they wanted, except the power to enjoy it."

Joy is not found in:
a. unbelief.
b. pleasure.
c. money.

The Bible says, "And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them." (Genesis 26:18 KJV)

-The Philistines had filled up all the wells.
1. They thought this would drive Isaac away.
2. They attempted to cover up his source of refreshing and strength.
3. The devil would like to do the same to you.
4. He wants to stop up your joy well and cover it up.

-But God commanded Isaac to uncover the wells once again.
1. Some of us need to redig the wells.
2. We need to uncover the well which the devil has sought to hide from us.

Isaiah 12:3 "Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation."

The devil may try to stop your joy well up, but you're going to unstop those wells.

Pastor, how can I rejoice when everything's going wrong? Because you are hearing something that they can't hear.
a. They are hearing defeat, but we are hearing VICTORY!
b. They are hearing sickness and we are hearing HEALING!
c. They are hearing condemnation and we are hearing MERCY!
d. They are hearing despair and sadness, we are hearing JOY!

The Bible says in Proverbs 17:22 "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine."
You take your medicine. God’s got some good stuff for you.
Take three tablespoons three times a day.
a. Take it when you feel like it!
b. Take it when you don’t feel like it!
c. And take it when you don’t know how you feel!

Psalm30:5 "...weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning."

Get out your spiritual shovel and start digging-joy is on the way.

WILL YOU CALL UPON HIS NAME AND ASK HIM TO
SAVE YOU? ASK HIM TO GIVE YOU THE JOY OF HIS