The 'JOY' Of The LORD  Is Your Sighing Buster!

"The ransomed of the LORD will return.  They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting 'JOY' will crown their heads.  Gladness and 'JOY' will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away."
 Isaiah 51:11

Today, being Monday, the first busy day of your week, we pray that you get your 'JOY' ON and praise the LORD with us, the whole week long!

Zion describes the place where the LORD dwells. When HE ransoms you through the blood of JESUS, you come to HIM, choosing to sing HIS praises and to walk in HIS everlasting 'JOY'.  Overtaken by Gladness and the 'JOY' of the LORD, you no longer try to hold back all your emotions, expressions or actions that are part or your praise and worship of HIM. 

"And ....... sighing will flee away" Sighing is something that everybody has done at one time or another.  Actually there is an entire language of sighing.  You sigh when you are tired, when you have finished a big job, when you are irritated about someone or something.  

There even exists the language of sighing about what the LORD is doing, or not doing, in your life!  This kind of sighing the Scripture calls, grumbling.  The Israelites in the wilderness on their way the their soon to be land flowing with milk and honey perfected the language of grumbling instead of the language of praise and faith.  It seemed that the LORD did not live up to their expectations of HIM and they grumbled against HIM at every turn. They soon found out that grumbling against the LORD was very unprofitable.  "And do not grumble, as some of them did--and were killed by the destroying angel."  1 Corinthians 10:10

Do you have a Degree in the language of grumbling and murmuring against the LORD in regard to unfulfilled needs, desires and wants in your life?  When you praise and thank the LORD for HIS faithfulness during the hard times, the language of grumbling and murmuring fades and is soon forgotten  and . . . . sighing will flee away"

Ask HIM to forgive you for any or all grumbling you have learned to do toward HIM.  Remember, if you are still waiting for answers to your prayers, you simply have not lived long enough.  Today and everyday, live your life in the 'JOY' of the LORD!