Joy

1.) What is the joy of the Lord? Have you ever experienced it? What is it like? Does it truly give us the strength to act/move/live like Jesus?

2.) Have you ever been through a period of refining fire? How did it affect you? Where you able to “rejoice” about it later or even during? How and why?

3.) Why does God allow us to go through hardship? How does His joy empower us with His glory? How do we make the invisible qualities of God, His nature, His ways real to a very visible and broken world? Are you going through a period of refinement or weakness now? How can we help you?