“Our faith in Jesus transfers God’s righteousness to us and he now declares us flawless in his eyes. This means we can now enjoy true and lasting peace with God, all because of what our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, has done for us. Our faith guarantees us permanent access into this marvelous kindness that has given us a perfect relationship with God. What incredible joy bursts forth within us as we keep on celebrating our hope of experiencing God’s glory!”
Romans 5:1-2 TPT
Jesus death and resurrection
As a human being
Have given us peace with God
Lasting for eternity
Now I can relax
I no longer need to strive
I’m fully acceptable to God
Because of Jesus’ life
God’s righteousness
Jesus transfers to me
So now in God’s eyes
I live flawlessly
Obeying God’s Law
Is now no burden for me
For His Law of Love
Is now the core of my being
Jesus has given to me
His access to God
To live in His marvellous kindness
The generosity of His Love
There is nothing God holds back
From His Beloved Son
All is for His Children too
Now we are all as One
Jesus has given to me
His unity with God
A perfect relationship
Completion for my soul
Intimacy, love and joy
In God’s Personal Presence
Dwelling in His Glory
An eternal resurrection
The Glory of God
God’s fullness in me
Jesus Your Gracious Gift
My joy eternally
The Glory of God
God’s fullness in me
Jesus Your Gracious Gift
My joy eternally
Joy
These meditations and exercises are designed to help us receive and live from the Joy that Jesus has given us.
Suffering
This is why no form of suffering can interfere with my joy. Every suffering on your behalf is just another opportunity to reinforce that which might still be lacking (in your understanding) of the affliction of Christ on behalf of his body which is the church. Colossians 1:24 Mirror Bible
When things in life go wrong
And suffering becomes our lot
There is a grace to grasp hold of
The finished work of the cross
Jesus increase my understanding
Of how Your afflictions are my restoration
You nailed all my suffering to Your cross
So resurrected in You I can freely rejoice
The scars and chains of my and other’s sin
That kept my heart hard and bound in
Have been broken, washed away, made powerless
By Your precious holy blood that You shed on the cross
Jesus increase my understanding
Of how Your afflictions are my restoration
You nailed all my suffering to Your cross
So resurrected in You I can freely rejoice
The burdens I once carried, no matter how heavy
Became Your yoke that You to the cross carried
Dead and buried through Your crucifixion
Freeing me to live joyfully in Your resurrection
Jesus increase my understanding
Of how Your afflictions are my restoration
You nailed all my suffering to Your cross
So resurrected in You I can freely rejoice
The footholds satan had in my heart and mind
Were entombed in Your death as we are united
In Your resurrection life I think and feel as God’s son
Love and wisdom overflowing from You as we are One
Jesus increase my understanding
Of how Your afflictions are my restoration
You nailed all my suffering to Your cross
So resurrected in You I can freely rejoice
The sickness that has plagued me, yesterday or today
Died with You on the cross removing me from it’s sway
In You I have risen to complete newness
Your resurrection power giving me Your wholeness
Jesus increase my understanding
Of how Your afflictions are my restoration
You nailed all my suffering to Your cross
So resurrected in You I can freely rejoice
So any suffering I may experience today
Is a opportunity to know Your Resurrection Power
To experience and understand the fullness of Your Grace
To restore in me the image of God’s fullness
Jesus increase my understanding
Of how Your afflictions are my restoration
You nailed all my suffering to Your cross
So resurrected in You I can freely rejoice
I Rejoice
"Be cheerful with joyous celebration in every season of life. Let joy overflow, for you are united with the Anointed One!" Philipians 4:4 TPT I rejoice in the day You first showed me You loved me Not because I had earned it but because of who You are You called me to live in Your love forever You gave me a new and loving heart I rejoice every time You show me Your forgiveness Show me I am cleansed from sin forever Show me that I can be pure and holy Leaving each day in Your righteousness I rejoice in knowing that in You I’ve been reborn With a heart and spirit now made in Your image Reborn as a child of the Most High God The old me is dead and buried in Your grave I rejoice in knowing that I’m joined to Your Spirit Bound in unity with Father, Spirit and Son I dwell in You and Your fullness dwells within me One with You now and for eternity I rejoice in living from Your Spirit’s empowerment Your love, joy and forgiveness flowing through me to others Your understanding renewing my thinking In Your wisdom is the answers that I am seeking I rejoice in resting in Your Loving Embrace As I feel Your Presence fill me with God’s essence All darkness is consumed in the light of Your love Your purity and holiness filling me to overflowing I rejoice in Your mighty Resurrection Power That raised me from death to Your Heavenly Throne Made me a co-heir of the mighty Son of God Your Kingdom authority with me You share I rejoice that I am given the great privilege Of bringing Your Kingdom to earth to save others Healing, deliverance, resurrections and provision You are the answer to all our problems I rejoice that I am with You each day in heaven By God’s side dwelling in blessing The joy and love, light and music of heaven Your dwelling place is my home now and forever I rejoice in the joy of the Trinity for each other I rejoice in the joy of the Trinity for me! Dancing and rejoicing in being with each other Living in Love’s embrace for eternity!
My Bliss, My Joy
“Because you are close to me and always available, my confidence will never be shaken, for I experience your wrap-around presence every moment. My heart and soul explode with joy—full of glory! Even my body will rest confident and secure. …. For you bring me a continual revelation of resurrection life, the path to the bliss that brings me face-to-face with you.” Psalms 16:8-9, 11 TPT
Your wraparound Presence
With me every moment
The continual revelation
Of Your Resurrection Life
As I gaze on You God
Face-to-face for eternity
Your my bliss, my joy
And my eternal glory
You wrap Your Presence
In and around me
Because Jesus sacrifice
Has made us One for eternity
There is no where I can go
No place I can be
That You are not there
For You are always with me
Your wraparound Presence
With me every moment
The continual revelation
Of Your Resurrection Life
As I gaze on You God
Face-to-face for eternity
Your my bliss, my joy
And my eternal glory
You are always there
Always available to me
You never turn away
Always listening to me
When I open my heart
It’s Your Presence I see
Your Presence surrounds me
Embraces me daily
Your wraparound Presence
With me every moment
The continual revelation
Of Your Resurrection Life
As I gaze on You God
Face-to-face for eternity
Your my bliss, my joy
And my eternal glory
My heart and soul
Rejoice in Your Presence
As Your love unfolds
Becoming part of my essence
Your joy and glory
Fill my body and soul
Your wonder and beauty
Are a sight to behold
Your wraparound Presence
With me every moment
The continual revelation
Of Your Resurrection Life
As I gaze on You God
Face-to-face for eternity
Your my bliss, my joy
And my eternal glory
Even my body
Though it belongs to this world
Can rest in You
When trials unfold
In sickness and health
In You I’m secure
Your Presence my fortress
Your Presence my cure
Your wraparound Presence
With me every moment
The continual revelation
Of Your Resurrection Life
As I gaze on You God
Face-to-face for eternity
Your my bliss, my joy
And my eternal glory
You speak to me
Of Resurrection life
Of living in Jesus
Full of power and love
With forgiveness flowing
To all who come near
Bringing heaven to earth
Each day of the year
Your wraparound Presence
With me every moment
The continual revelation
Of Your Resurrection Life
As I gaze on You God
Face-to-face for eternity
Your my bliss, my joy
And my eternal glory
Your words have the power
To keep me on the journey
To seeing Your face
And living Your glory
There is no greater joy
Than to be by your side
And gaze on Your face
As Your Beloved’s bride
Your wraparound Presence
With me every moment
The continual revelation
Of Your Resurrection Life
As I gaze on You God
Face-to-face for eternity
Your my bliss, my joy
And my eternal glory
Giving Thanks for Jesus in Me
“Living within you is the Christ who floods you with the expectation of glory! This mystery of Christ, embedded within us, becomes a heavenly treasure chest of hope filled with the riches of glory for his people, and God wants everyone to know it!” Colossians 1:27 TPT
“Let joy be your continual feast. Make your life a prayer. And in the midst of everything be always giving thanks, for this is God’s perfect plan for you in Christ Jesus.” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 TPT
A meditation to rejoice in the function of every part of your body and Jesus’ Presence there. It is important if you are sick or disabled in any way, not to focus on the sickness or what you don’t have, but focus on what part of that is working and is functioning and give thanks for that. A spoken version of this text is available in this audio file so you can use it as a meditation guide: Giving thanks for Jesus in you
Sit or lie somewhere in a relaxed position and close your eyes.
Begin by breathing in and out slowly and gently.
Thank You Lord Jesus that as I breathe in and out You are there breathing in and out with me.
Your strength is added to the natural strength of my lungs and I rejoice in that added strength as we breathe in and out together.
Together we breathe in and out, in and out, taking in life giving air, and expelling the used air.
And as we breathe in and out together I praise and thank You for the oxygen which leaves the air and enters into my lungs and into my bloodstream.
I praise and thank You for the oxygen which is entering my body and renewing every cell of my body.
I praise and thank You for the breath and the oxygen that is bringing life to my whole body.
I praise and thank You for Your Presence in my lungs bringing the strength and breath of heaven to my respiratory system.
I praise you for each breath and the life it brings to my body.
I thank you Lord for the beating of our hearts which takes oxygen and nutrients to every part of my body.
I thank You Lord that because You are in me our hearts beat together as one, Your heart giving strength to my heart.
I praise and thank You that every beat of my heart is strengthened and renewed by Your Presence; Your heart in my heart.
I praise and thank You that together our hearts pump life giving blood to my whole body.
I praise and thank You that Your blood and my blood run together through my whole body bringing resurrection power, the health and wholeness of heaven to each and every cell.
I praise You for each heart beat, each pulse of blood and the life it brings to my body.
I praise and thank You Lord for the bones in my body, one with Your bones, which give shape and support to my body and produce the cells needed for my blood.
I praise and thank You Lord that Your bones and my bones form the frame of who I am as I sit or lie now, holding me in place, giving me structure.
I praise and thank You Lord that Your bones and my bones form the frame that enables me to move.
I praise and thank You Lord that when I live, sit, stand, walk, or run, Your bones are giving the strength and structure of heaven to my bones.
I praise and thank You Lord that Your bones are working with my bones to produce the cells needed for my blood supply and immune system; the health and wholeness of heaven to my whole body.
I praise and thank You Lord for the digestive system in my body, which is one with Your digestive system, bringing the nutrients I need into my body.
I praise You for the function of our liver, pancreas, stomach, bowel, and kidneys working to provide me with all the nutrients I need and take away the waste.
I praise and thank You Lord that working together, our stomachs and bowel digest the food and drink that I take in, giving life-giving nutrients to my whole body.
I praise and thank you that your Presence in me is bringing the health and wholeness and nutrients of heaven to my whole body.
I praise and thank You Lord that the system of muscles, tendons and ligaments which help hold my body together and make it move, is strengthened and guided by Your presence, Your muscles, tendons and ligaments in mine.
I praise and thank You for all the movements our muscles make together: breathing, speaking, singing, walking, standing, turning, running, holding onto things, making things, writing, shaking hands, hugging, even cooking and cleaning. It is so true that in You I live and move and have my being.
I praise and thank You for the strength, health and wholeness of heaven that Your Presence in me gives to my muscles, ligaments and tendons.
I praise and thank You for my brain and nervous system that is one with Your brain and nervous system, enabling me to think and move and be who I am in You.
Together we see, hear, taste and feel the world with Your brain giving my brain clarity and helping my brain with Your understanding.
I praise and thank You that I can rest inYour thoughts and perceptions knowing them to be true.
I praise and thank you that you enable me to see, feel, touch, taste, smell and understand this world from heaven’s perspective.
I praise and thank You that Your mind shares with my mind all your wisdom and understanding.
I praise and thank you that, mind to mind, you share with me Your knowledge and understanding of God.
I praise and thank You that Your Spirit and my spirit are united as one, sealing me as God’s child too.
I praise and thank You that that spiritual essence that makes me me and makes me human, is united with Your Heavenly Holy Spirit, sealing me into the Trinity with You.
I praise and thank You thank Your Spirit imparts to my spirit the power of your resurrection, giving me Your perfect, eternal, holy, heavenly life.
I praise and thank You that in uniting us spirit to Spirit and body to body you have raised me to God’s right hand, seated with you, reigning eternally in this life and the next.
I praise and thank You Jesus that You give me all that You have and all that You are now, today, tomorrow, and forever.
Feel free to make your own version of this to suit you.
Joy Producing Grace
And now Jesus is our Lord and our Messiah. Through him a joy-producing grace cascaded into us” Romans 1:4b-5a TPT
Jesus:
Receive My joy producing grace
Let it cascade over you
Fill you up to overflowing
Make you joyful through and through
Once you thought you were alone
With no one truly by your side
Thought there was no one you could trust
To be your life‘s true guide
But then you saw how much I love you
Chose Me as your Saviour and Lord
Now we are always together
Bound by My Spirit as One
Receive My joy producing grace
Let it cascade over you
Fill you up to overflowing
Make you joyful through and through
Once you thought you were broken
Permanently damaged by sin
With your heart bound by stone walls
So no more hurt could get in
But I gave you a new heart
Took the old one to the grave
And in your new heart I am living
So you need never be afraid
Receive My joy producing grace
Let it cascade over you
Fill you up to overflowing
Make you joyful through and through
Once you thought you were bound
To keep repeating your past sins
Thought you would never be acceptable
God would never let you in
But I freed you from that trap
Took your old man to the grave
And raised you up in My new life
Made you God‘s true child, beloved
Receive my joy producing grace
Let it cascade over you
Fill you up to overflowing
Make you joyful through and through
Once you thought you could not know God
He seemed so far away
His Word so hard to understand
His law so hard to obey
But then I gave you My Spirit
Joined to yours so we are One
So you can know Us intimately
Hear My voice, live in My love
Receive My joy producing grace
Let it cascade over you
Fill you up to overflowing
Make you joyful through and through
Once you thought you were powerless
To affect the world for better
Thought life‘s difficulties, pain and troubles
Would hold you back, a joyless snare
But then I filled you with my Presence
My love, peace and joy
Filled you up to overflowing
For I’ve overcome the world!
Receive My joy producing grace
Let it cascade over you
Fill you up to overflowing
Make you joyful through and through
Now you can take my Presence
My love and peace and joy
And overcome what troubles you
My powerful grace employ
Together we can change
This world to be like heaven
Bring in My rule of love and peace
With joy the world re-creating
Receive My joy producing grace
Let it cascade over you
Fill you up to overflowing
Make you joyful through and through
Experience The Joy
So will you also pass through a time of intense sorrow when I am taken from you, but you will see me again! And then your hearts will burst with joy, with no one being able to take it from you! For here is eternal truth: When that time comes you won’t need to ask me for anything, but instead you will go directly to the Father and ask him for anything you desire and he will give it to you, because of your relationship with me. Until now you’ve not been bold enough to ask the Father for a single thing in my name, but now you can ask, and keep on asking him! And you can be sure that you’ll receive what you ask for, and your joy will have no limits! John 16:22-24 TPT
Jesus:
The joy of knowing Me
Face to face
Is your inheritance
And your new place
The joy of speaking to the Father
Directly like a Son
Is your new life
All heaven’s blessings, your home
Experience the joy
Of living in My Glory
Filling you daily
For it will make you holy
So enamoured with God
You’ll never want to leave His side
So sure of HIs love
That in Him you will abide
The joy of knowing Me
Face to face
Is your inheritance
And your new place
The joy of speaking to the Father
Directly like a Son
Is your new life
All heaven’s blessings, your home
Experience the joy
Of living with me daily
Your heart, body and spirit
Filled with My Spirit
My joy in our unity
Flowing into you
My joy in your presence
Filling you through and through
The joy of knowing Me
Face to face
Is your inheritance
And your new place
The joy of speaking to the Father
Directly like a Son
Is your new life
All heaven’s blessings, your home
Experience the joy
Of being wrapped in love’s embrace
As We fill You and surround you
Make you our living space
We live in you and you in us
As your dwelling place
We are your fortress and your shield
Your source of empowering Grace
The joy of knowing Me
Face to face
Is your inheritance
And your new place
The joy of speaking to the Father
Directly like a Son
Is your new life
All heaven’s blessings, your home
Overflowing Joy
“So you must remain in life-union with me, for I remain in life-union with you. For as a branch severed from the vine will not bear fruit, so your life will be fruitless unless you live your life intimately joined to mine.
My purpose for telling you these things is so that the joy that I experience will fill your hearts with overflowing gladness!” John 15:4, 11 TPT
Jesus:
Know My love
The Joy I have in you
Now we are one
Overflows your heart too
My heart and your heart
In unity
Together in love
For eternity
The joy I had
In planning your birth
Into this world
Onto this earth
Knowing who you would be
And what you would do
Planning to save you
Make you joyful too
The joy that took me
From heaven to earth
To be born as a child
A human birth
Leaving all of heaven’s
Power and glory
To reach out to you
Become part of your story
Know My love
The Joy I have in you
Now we are one
Overflows your heart too
My heart and your heart
In unity
Together in love
For eternity
The joy I had
In walking this earth
Loving others
As God’s true Son
Bringing hope and forgiveness
Healing and freedom
Heaven coming to earth
So you could come to heaven
The joy that kept me
Through trial and whipping
Kept me walking
To my crucifixion
Kept me nailed to the cross
As your sins I carried
Kept me trusting God
Even when I died
Know My love
The Joy I have in you
Now we are one
Overflows your heart too
My heart and your heart
In unity
Together in love
For eternity
The joy that raised me
From the dead
To live again
And reign at God’s side
With you beside me
Freed from sin
To be a Son of God
And with me One
Joy through sorrow and loss
Joy in the victory
That I gained for you and I
On calvary
All heaven’s blessings
Flowing in and through you
For what’s mine is now yours
We are one eternally
Know My love
The Joy I have in you
Now we are one
Overflows your heart too
My heart and your heart
In unity
Together in love
For eternity
I Will Fill You
“Looking intently at his followers, Jesus began his sermon. “How enriched you become when you are poor, for you will experience the reality of God’s kingdom realm. “How filled you become when you are consumed with hunger and desire, for you will be completely satisfied. “How content you become when you weep with complete brokenness, for you will laugh with unrestrained joy. “How favored you become when you are hated, excommunicated, or slandered, or when your name is spoken of as evil because of your love for me, the Son of Man. “I promise you that as you experience these things, you will celebrate and dance with overflowing joy. And the heavenly reward of your faith will be abundant, because you are being treated the same way as your forefathers the prophets.” Luke 6:20-23 TPT
Jesus:
When you can see you’re poverty
Really know that all you need is Me
There you will find My Kingdom’s provision
And receive all the glory of heaven
When your hunger and desire
Is not fulfilled with this world’s power
But leads you to call out to Me
I will fill you, be all you need
When you weep in brokenness
I will not leave you in distress
Your life’s broken pieces I will restore
To a laughter filled vessel overflowing with joy
When you are hated, slandered or rejected
Because your love for Me has been detected
I will bring you to My celebration
Where you can dance with joy, have rewards abundant
All of this life’s trials and needs
Are there to help you find life in Me
To know Our joy filled union eternally
And live in My Kingdom’s fullness and Glory
Drink Deeply
“Listen to my testimony: I cried to God in my distress and he answered me. He freed me from all my fears! Gaze upon him, join your life with his, and joy will come. Your faces will glisten with glory. You’ll never wear that shame-face again. Drink deeply of the pleasures of this God. Experience for yourself the joyous mercies he gives to all who turn to hide themselves in him.” Psalms 34:4-5, 8 TPT
Papa God:
Come to the well
Of My love for you
Drink deeply of it’s pleasures
For they were placed there just for you
I know of your distress
Heard you cry out to me
And I have answered with My Presence
So your joy can be complete
Come to the well
Of My love for you
Drink deeply of it’s pleasures
For they were placed there just for you
Gaze upon My face
See My love for you
It is you I embrace
For you’re my Beloved One
Come to the well
Of My love for you
Drink deeply of it’s pleasures
For they were placed there just for you
Join your life with Mine
Feel the flow of My Spirit
Pouring into you
With My power and essence
Come to the well
Of My love for you
Drink deeply of it’s pleasures
For they were placed there just for you
Let My joy fill your heart
Overflowing from My Presence
Till we are One in our delight
Rejoicing in each other’s essence
Come to the well
Of My love for you
Drink deeply of it’s pleasures
For they were placed there just for you
Taste for yourself
The mercies I have given you
The freedom to be with Me
And know me through and through
Come to the well
Of My love for you
Drink deeply of it’s pleasures
For they were placed there just for you
Hide yourself in Me
Let Me be Your fortress
Let My love be your shield
And My joy your strength
Come to the well
Of My love for you
Drink deeply of it’s pleasures
For they were placed there just for you
The Amazing Exchange 