Message for November 9, 2025 from Pastor Shirley

“Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines. Though the labor of the olive may fail, and the field yields no food.  Though the flock may be cut off from the fold.  And there is no herd in the stalls.  Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.”  Habakkuk 3:17-18

Kingdom Dynamics  Word Wealth
Joy, “gil” (geel) Strongs # 1523: To joy, rejoice, be glad, be joyful.  “Gil” contains the suggestion of “dancing for joy,” or “leaping for joy,” since the verb originally means “to spin around with intense motion.”  This lies to rest the notion that the biblical concept of joy is only “a quiet, inner sense of well-being.”  God dances for joy over Jerusalem and because of His people (Isaiah 65:19; Zephaniah 3:17).  The righteous Messiah shall rejoice in God’s salvation with an intensity that the psalmist cannot find words to describe (Psalms 21:1).  In turn, his redeemed citizens are joyful in their King.  They praise Him with dancing with instruments, and with singing  (Psalms 149:2, 3).  Although everything is wrong in Habakkuk’s external world, He is leaping for joy over his fellowship with Yahweh.

“The joy of the Lord is our strength”                           Nehemiah 8:10