Be Encouraged Joy is on the Way

I was awakened at 3:35 a.m. and my immediate thought was Isaiah 35: 3-5.

Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble.  Say to those with anxious heart, "Take courage, fear not.  Behold, your God will come with vengeance; the recompense of God will come, but He will save you."  Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.   Isaiah 35:3-5

Many are anxious of heart and life has become an existence, as there is no real life or joy within oneself.  I will come into your lives and your joy will be restored and made full. My joy will be your strength for many of you have had your joy – strength stolen.  You are to be encouraged and strengthened, for I am coming on your behalf.  I will open your eyes and open your stopped up ears.  You will know the Joy of the Lord; you will be strong in the power of My might.   You will no longer be a victim.  You will no longer be tossed to and fro by every word spoken by those around you.  You will be like a tree planted by the river of living water.  You will be deeply rooted and planted in Me and you will surely see My goodness in the land of the living.  You will know My joy and you will be known as the joyful ones.  You will be known as one who has My wisdom; wisdom beyond your years and wisdom beyond what the world can comprehend.  You will be the precious pearl born out of adversity and irritation.  You will be one who will shine forth My glory and reflect the light of My presence.  Know there is a then, a “suddenly” on your horizon.  My word, My living word from within your belly will come forth in the dry and parched places of your soul.  You will come forth as holy unto Me; you shall be holy as I am holy.  There shall be a separation of that which is holy and that which is profane.  You will find that your enemy is no longer to be roaming abut in your life and within your sphere of influence for in My presence there is fullness of joy.  Know that the enemy trembles before My joyful ones.  You will walk in the place of My power and that which has stolen and robbed from you in seasons past will be of the past.  My joy will crowd out all sorrow.  Your days of disappointment will be of those things only remembered, for you will know they have fled away and I have arisen in your life.  I am breaking forth with My life, My joy and My strength in a newness you have not experienced.  Come to My river and taste of My goodness in the land of the living.  And then you shall not only know of My goodness but you will live in My goodness.

Then the lame will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb will shout for joy.  For waters will break forth in the wilderness and streams in the Arabah.   And the scorched land will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; in the haunt of jackals, its resting place, grass becomes reeds and rushes.  And a highway will be there, a roadway, and it will be called the Highway of Holiness.  The unclean will not travel on it, but it will be for him who walks that way, and fools will not wander on it.  No lion will be there, nor will any vicious beast go up on it; these will not be found there.  But the redeemed will walk there, and the ransomed of the LORD will return, and come with joyful shouting to Zion, with everlasting joy upon their heads. They will find gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.  Isaiah 35: 6-10