Kenneth Copeland — Learn to Do It Yourself

Read Colossians 1:11 again and you’ll
see it is that joy-inspired strength, which
enables us to be patient and long-suffering.
(So, if you’ve been running short of patience
lately, check your joy supply. That could be
what you’re lacking.)

Read Ephesians 6:10 and you’ll see it
takes that same strength to operate your
spiritual armor. If you don’t have the joy of
the Lord, you’ll eventually get too weak to
wear it!

The fact is, joy and the strength it
provides are far more vital than we ever
imagined. Study Ephesians 3:16-19 and you’ll
see what I mean. There Paul prays:

That [God] would grant you, according
to the riches of his glory, to be
strengthened with might by his Spirit
in the inner man; that [the Anointed
One and His Anointing] may dwell in
your hearts by faith; that ye, being
rooted and grounded in love, may be
able to comprehend with all saints
what is the breadth, and length, and
depth, and height; and to know the
love of [the Anointed One and His
Anointing], which passeth knowledge,
that ye might be filled with all the
fulness of God.

According to those verses, we can’t abide
in the anointing without joy. We can’t
comprehend the love of God without joy. We
can’t be filled with all the fullness of God
without joy. We can’t do any of those things
without joy because we simply wouldn’t be
strong enough!

Can you see now why joy is such a major
force in this end-time move of God? Even
more importantly, can you see why joy must
be a major force in your life if you’re to be
a part of that move?

“Oh yes, Brother Copeland, I do. So I’m
planning to attend every Holy Ghost meeting
within 100 miles of my house.”
That’s great. But, frankly, even if you do,
it won’t be enough. You see, as wonderful as
it is to be in services where there is Holy
Ghost laughter, you need joy all the time.

And since you can’t carry Kenneth E. Hagin
or Rodney Howard-Browne around in your
pocket, you’d better learn to release the joy
of the Lord yourself!

Kenneth Copeland Ministries