Kamla P. on the message ‘The Joy of the Lord’

The message preached this morning, and in fact the message we always hear through the ministry of CTMI, is so important because very often, as Christians, we tend to look for a false joy in all sorts of temporary things and end up relying on them. These temporary things do not bring the true joy of the Lord to our lives, and they give us a momentary feeling of joy. We want to live a life with no worries, and no problems. However, we soon realise, as Brother Miki showed us in the Word of God, that this is not the Christian life. When we see the lives of all the men of God in the different gospels, for example the Apostles Paul and Peter, we see how they went through tough times, and yet the joy of the Lord was always there. At no time in their lives were they crushed down, but in their hearts they knew that the Lord was with them and His joy was there, and they were strengthened in that joy. As preacher stated, you can’t separate the joy of the Lord from the work of the Lord in our lives. I think that, as Christians, we need to take up our cross, expect the work of the Lord in our hearts, and accept the road that God is putting before us, so that we can have the joy of the Lord to be able to care for others.

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