2 John 1:12 Having many things to write to you, I did not wish to do so with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.

What better way to tell people good news that to tell them face to face?

Even though we may be bursting to say something, sometimes we just have to wait until we see someone before we tell them the good news we have to share.

And then there are times when we just cannot help ourselves but we burst forward and say things without thinking of the consequences…

Try make sure what you are ready to say is always going to be God filled; that way it will always contain joy!

John 16:24 Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

When Jesus was telling the disciples that He was going to die, He also gave them hope they could cling to. He told them that He would answer prayers.

Because of what Christ was going to do, He was placing Himself in the best position possible to make sure that all prayers could come through Him and be faithfully and fully answered.

What better advocate do we have than Christ Himself taking our requests directly to God the Father to be answered because He requested it!

Ecclesiastes 2:26 For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner

He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

When we follow Christ’s will in our lives we more often find that we are blessed with many things, not necessarily wealth but good things happen.

For those we go their own ways, Christ still allows men to gather as much as they work for… You work hard and you get good rewards…

But the rewards we gain from our own work are just that, rewards here on earth. God wants us to have so much more than just earthly rewards.