The Joy of the Lord is Your Strength: Nehemiah 8:8-12
When Your Joy Goes, so Does Your Strength!

Joy: Gladness, Happiness, contentment, delight. Webster: The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good.

Strength: Robust, powerful a Defense like a refuge, a fortress.

Luke 21:19 By your endurance you will gain your lives.

• The Joy of the Lord Was How Jesus Endured the Cross:
Hebrews 12:1-3

• The Joy of the Lord is Our Strength in Trials: James 1:2-3

• The Joy of the Lord is Found in Believing What God Says
About Our Future!

2 Chronicles 20: From Despair to Joy to Inheriting the Blessing!

• We Turn Our Attention to Seek the Lord: 1-4
• We Pray, Appealing to the Mercy of God: 5-12
• We Humble Ourselves: We Are Powerless, We Do not what to Do, But our Eyes are on You! 12
• We Stand Before God and We Wait For His Word: 13
• We Hear, Trust and Rejoice in His Word: 14-19
• We Enter the Battle with Joy, Knowing Our Outcome: 20-23
• We Watch God Work and We Receive the Blessing: 24-25

We Overwhelmingly Conquer: Romans 8:28-39

The Promise: Hebrews 10:36 For you have need of endurance so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Eternal Life: Romans 2:7 To those who by perseverance in doing good and seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life!

The Kingdom of Heaven: Matthew 7:21

Our Adoption as Sons and Daughters, the Redemption of our Bodies. Romans 8:23

Redeemed, Transformed, Perfect Body: Philippians 3:20-21

Revelation 21:4 and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will not longer be any death, there will not longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.