Cheers! Before Cheers!

Feeling tired, dehydrated and down? You don’t need another shot of Java what you need is some joy juice! Joy is the juice of the fruit of the Spirit. Not fermented and rotten but spiked with life by the Holy Spirit. If you will partake, then you will see, that He’ll fill your heart with glee. Joy is like the cup that draws your life up. When you rejoice (praise, shout, dance, jump, leap, spin, etc) then you turn on the faucet within and your life starts to fill up and be infused with divine life. You are hydrated, quickened and strengthened with joy so you can keep your pace and run your race enduring until the end. Joy is the ultimate energy drink! Have you ever seen a tired haggard joyful person? Not so much. Joy will vitalize and revolutionalize your life your life and change your perspective on everything. You’ll begin to see yourself strong, and be yourself strong - strengthened with might through His Spirit in your inner man. The abundant life of the Almighty is in you but you need to “DRAW” it out. Some people have a wine cellar in their house but it will have no “effect” on their lives unless they open it up. And God has given you not rotten grapes but the new wine of the fruit of the Spirit – it’s in you! And it will quicken you when you “drink” it! Rejoicing! – And especially in the midst of trial and tribulation “pops the cork” and gives you an infusion of “liquid courage!” It makes you strong and able to endure hardship so that you can finish your race WITH JOY and glorify God by overcoming and not just undergoing all the “normally scheduled” trails and tribulations. And HA, HA! Is what you say right before you pull out your sword and start routing the enemy! So you can either mope and “try” to cope, or take God’s Word and rejoice, it’s your choice! Complaining will land you in debtor’s prison but God’s joy will give you freedom, life, strength and vision. Some things won’t change but you can always “take a drink” and change the way you see and think. Being depressed will put you in the slums so chug God’s joy and overcome!

PIE90 Scripture:

John 16:33
33 These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."
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HA, HA!

Ps 31:24
24 So cheer up! Take courage if you are depending on the Lord.
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(All scriptures – caps added.)

John 4:11-14
11 The woman said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to DRAW with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?"

13 Jesus answered and said to her, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life."
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Isa 12:3
3 Therefore with joy you will DRAW water
From the wells of salvation.
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John 7:37-39
37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water."
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1 Cor 9:24-27
24 Do you not know that those who run in a RACE all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. 25 And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. 26 Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. 27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.
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2 Tim 4:7-8
7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the RACE, I have kept the faith. 8 Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.
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Acts 20:22-24
22 And see, now I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there, 23 except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me. 24 But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my RACE with JOY, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
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Col 1:10-14
10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering WITH JOY 12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. 13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
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Heb 12:1-3
12 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the JOY that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.
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Col 1:11-14
11 We pray that you'll have the strength to stick it out over the long haul — not the grim strength of gritting your teeth but the glory-strength God gives. It is strength that endures the unendurable and spills over into JOY, 12 thanking the Father who makes us strong enough to take part in everything bright and beautiful that he has for us.
13 God rescued us from dead-end alleys and dark dungeons. He's set us up in the kingdom of the Son he loves so much, 14 the Son who got us out of the pit we were in, got rid of the sins we were doomed to keep repeating.
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Col 1:11-12
11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering WITH JOY;
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John 15:11-12
11 "These things I have spoken to you, that MY JOY may remain in you, and that your JOY may be full.
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1 John 1:3-4
3 that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. 4 And these things we write to you that your JOY may be full.
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