Throne Room Time… Where Joy is Found!
Matthew 11:28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
ANOTHER epiphany! I feel like my 2017 mantra is, “I didn’t know that!” or “That’s not what I was taught!”…
Is there such a thing as too much joy?
The other night, as I was preparing to close my eyes for the night, I was thanking God for the day. It happened to be the same evening as the Divine Appointment my daughter and I have scheduled every Sunday and Wednesday. It is a time when we go before our Abba together, to pray for those needs and people the Holy Spirit puts in our head (and our hearts) to speak to Daddy about. It is indeed a Divine Appointment that we share with all His other children with Jesus walking among us.
I was thanking God for Nikki and for our time with Him. I was thanking Him for this opportunity that I am so not qualified for. I was thanking Him for… HIM… a GOOD GOOD Father, for JESUS… our Righteousness, and for the Holy Spirit… who dwells in us and seals us with the covenant of The Three that cannot be broken. I was thanking Him for this thing we call prayer.
Is there such a thing as too much joy?
I have been taught the holiness of prayer… be serious… this is the stuff of WORSHIP! We are approaching the God who is so holy, Moses would have died if God had not protected Him from seeing His face. We are in the house of our holy God who speaks and things happen!
I have been taught the verbiage of prayer… one must ask for the “right” thing, with the right “tone”, in order to be assured they will “get” the right answer!
I have been taught what the results of prayer should be… of course always from the perspective of a “mature” Christian – NOT the heart of a child who desperately wants her own way!
In other words, I was DOING the PRAYER THING, getting ready to put my day away!
When what to my wondering eyes should appear…
No, not reindeer and Santa… that was two weeks ago.
Before the eyes of my heart, a vision of healing took place. My healing.
I didn’t “pray” for it… I wouldn’t have known (much less admitted) that I “needed” healing.
I wasn’t medically sick, although in hindsight what I had was THE MOST terrible disease of our humanness, a disease which would indeed kill any and all joy. I had an WEARY with bitterness and unforgiveness. I was HEAVY LADEN with the idea that someone had treated me badly – details forgotten but I”m sure it was REALLY BAD!
I have been taught that we should never approach prayer with such an attitude (also called SIN). In hindsight… I was definitely NOT prepared to enter the Throne Room nor dressed appropriately – my robes of white had gotten dirty in this playground I call home.
But God…
Jesus said… “Come to Me”
All… and I CAME.
Weary and heavy-laden… junk and all!
Is there such a thing as too much joy?
As I laid in bed, in the midst of thanksgiving, I WAS HEALED!
And I knew…
God’s Throne Room is the place to go WHENEVER there is a need… WHOMEVER has the need… WHATEVER the need is… HOWEVER the needy can get there!
I have always worried that I would not know what to ask for and how to ask. Often I have depended upon the Holy Spirit to do my praying for me… In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.(Romans 8:26-27)
Yes, Scripture tells us to… ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened. (Luke 11:9-10)
But… my head doubts what my heart longs for… do I even know what I long for?
Matthew 11:29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
My heart longs for REST!
Rest for my soul…
This is what is found in God’s Throne Room.
Will I always get my request? YES!
Maybe not my way… or to my liking!
Luke 11:11-13 Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? Or if he is asked for an egg, he will not give him a scorpion, will he? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”
God ALWAYS gives the PERFECT gift! The one(s) we NEED most of all! When God speaks His life into us, His word will NEVER return void…
Isaiah 55:10-11 “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth and making it bear and sprout, and furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; so will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; it will not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.”
I went to the Throne Room with lots of requests, never imagining I needed healing. When the Holy Spirit gave me the vision of that healing, I knew that I couldn’t keep it to myself any longer!
It is Throne Room Time… “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden”… Nikki and I will see you there!
And FYI… THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TOO MUCH JOY!!
**All Scripture quoted comes from the “Bible Gateway” app and is the NASB version of the Bible