Pastor Bola Bello
[biblegateway passage=”Psalm 51:1-17″ display=”Psalm 51:1-17″]
The writer of this Psalm had experienced and handled the joy that comes with salvation. He went into sin and this joy departed from him.
The cost and the price of repentance is brokenness. If you are truly saved and purged from your sin, you should have joy. Salvation comes with joy.
David could no longer sing, dance, prophesy and have access the things he had handled. Sin limits the grace and glory God has bestowed on us. It is evil and unrighteous. Sin is not the friend of man. Where sin abounds, grace abounds much more. We can receive the capacity to live above sin.
Salvation is the exclusive property of the Almighty God, and blessing belongs to Him. No man is blessed without salvation, regardless of the amount of wealth He has.
[biblegateway passage=”Matthew 7:7-12″ display=”Matthew 7:7-12″], [biblegateway passage=”Psalm 51:11-12″ display=”Psalm 51:11-12″]
When the joy of salvation is not with you, all you have to do is ask. Joy is found in the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the catalyst Who triggers the joy of salvation. Salvation is just like marriage, and the joy of salvation is similar to that experienced by newlyweds. This seizes when there are challenges with intimacy.
(Seemingly) little things like answered prayers and prophecies coming to pass can stir up this joy within us. The joy of salvation is much more than going to Heaven. It is about the things you can handle that confers the testimony of that joy to you.
[biblegateway passage=”Psalm 16:11″ display=”Psalm 16:11″]
Get close to God. Intimacy brings joy. Communion, relationship and discussion are the things God wants with you. Pleasure, from the above text, speaks of delightsomeness. It is our motivation. We are not paid to come to Church. We don’t have to be enticed with gifts to labour in God’s House.