Joy is hard to hide.

My son Tim preached the other Sunday that our job is to believe and have faith; to trust. It seems so simplistic, but it is true. We can't heal people or move mountains but we can exercise our faith. Bro. Jeff Arnold shocked us at General Conference with the message that it is not enough to just preach the Gospel, we must perform the Gospel! We must lay hands on the sick, we must speak faith to others. We must show or exhibit our faith, we must move! When life is so hard you feel like crumbling in a heap, it is in the performing and moving that we find our strength. For the joy of the LORD is your strength. Nehemiah 8:10 IT IS MY STRENGTH! Joy shows. Joy is hard to contain. Joy goes down to your feet. Joy brings strength. Worshipping the Lord IS WHERE MY STRENGTH COMES FROM. It may be so hard to hold your head up sometimes; life can suddenly change and you feel the ground under your feet shaking, or even gone, but remember that there is a strength above our natural strength; it is supernatural. It simply cannot be explained. When one relaxes in the presence of God and let's go of all this world's troubles, one finds joy and subsequently finds strength. Trust and obey... for there's no other way, to be happy in Jesus, you must trust and obey.