25/05/2026
WISDOM FOR LIVING SERVICE SUMMARY
TOPIC: GREAT JOY
TEXT: PSALM 43:3-4
PREACHER: PASTOR ARINZE RICHARD
Psalm 43:3-4
3 - O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
4 - Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
Our joy is not pegged on things, our joy is in our knowledge of God being our exceeding Joy.
FACTS ABOUT JOY CONTINUES
1. Joy transcends the circumstances and challenges of life.
Joy is present irrespective of what you are going through.
Philippines 3:1- Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
Philip 4:4- Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
Apostle Paul made joy a way of life.
James 1:2-3
2- My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
3 - Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
Your respond to everything life throws at you is joy.
Your joy is your only hope in storms of life.
Your rejoicing is the only revelation to finding yourself in the midst of sorrow.
When joy is present revelation is present.
You are immovable because the joy of the Lord produces strength in you.
Where there is no joy, strength is lacking.
Find a way to always rejoice in the midst of the people who always want to see you moody.
The environment that gives you access to creativity, inspiration and revelation is connected to rejoicing.
Christianity is not a call to impress God but a call to express God.
Everything the devil is throwing at you is targeting your joy.
When your joy is attacked, focus and inspirations dies.
Habk 3:17-18
17 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
18 - Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Our rejoicing is in the Lord.
When you don't rejoice, you make it impossible for inspiration to flow. By all means, stay around people that are joyful. Joy is spiritual. Joy has expression.
Numbers 23:21 NLT- No misfortune is in his plan for Jacob; no trouble is in store for Israel. For the LORD their God is with them; he has been proclaimed their king.
Joyful expression comes with a shout. And one of the things you must do always is shouting.
One of the things that sustain joy is expression.
Ephesians 5:18-19
18 - And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
19 - Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
Psalm 2:1-4
1 - Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 - The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
3 - Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
4 - He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
When you find people who are rejoicing, the result is in their laughter.
Luke 1:46-48
46 - And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
47 - And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
48 - For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
An expression of joy is what happens in your heart.
Joy helps you to be a people person. The presence of the Lord command rejoicing.
Psalm 122:1- Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
One of the way David expressed his joy is that he danced until he forgot his status.
2 Sam 6:14-23 NKJV
[14]Then David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was wearing a linen ephod.
[15]So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet.
[16]Now as the ark of the Lord came into the City of David, Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked through a window and saw King David leaping and whirling before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.
[17]So they brought the ark of the Lord, and set it in its place in the midst of the tabernacle that David had erected for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
[18]And when David had finished offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts.
[19]Then he distributed among all the people, among the whole multitude of Israel, both the women and the men, to everyone a loaf of bread, a piece of meat, and a cake of raisins. So all the people departed, everyone to his house.
[20]Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How glorious was the king of Israel today, uncovering himself today in the eyes of the maids of his servants, as one of the base fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”
[21]So David said to Michal, “It was before the Lord, who chose me instead of your father and all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord, over Israel. Therefore I will play music before the Lord.
[22]And I will be even more undignified than this, and will be humble in my own sight. But as for the maidservants of whom you have spoken, by them I will be held in honor.”
[23]Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.
Psalm 119:164- Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.
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