ROLAND: I didn’t know what I was going find. Would he be crushed? Would he be defeated? Would he be aged? Would he be depleted? And he was the most joy filled, overcoming person to be around that I’d seen in a long time. It was incredible. God can keep someone in prison for five years like that, he can move through us.
SID: I think that’s a word for you. It’s time for you to operate in supernatural joy—
ROLAND: Yes.
SID: … which begs the question, how do we get it?
ROLAND: Yeah. Joy is found in the Father. It’s an inherent in the Father himself. We wouldn’t experience joy in our world if it wasn’t inherent in the Father himself. We know that Jesus was the ultimate joy giver. We know that Jesus released the power of joy through everything that he did and we know that now the Holy Spirit has been given to us, to you and I without measure.
ROLAND: I believe that we are going to be saturated and filled with the power of the Holy Spirit in ways that we have never seen. So this power of joy goes with that. As we said, it’s a third of the kingdom, righteousness, peace and joy. If the Bible says that the kingdom, a third of the kingdom is joy, we might want to lean into it, apprehend it and walk in it in a new powerful way.
SID: Now, when you’re saying joy it could be what we’ve seen in actually past generations laughing in the Holy Spirit but it’s even more powerful than that. What is joy used for?
ROLAND: Yeah. Absolutely. Sid, I believe that the body of Christ are going to be changing atmospheres wherever they go. We have spheres of influence and you have spheres of influence God has given you, being that your school, your college, your workplace, the business that you own. Everywhere that you have been given a sphere of authority I believe that joy is to come, enough for you and enough to give away.
ROLAND: Actually strategies to infuse into your sphere of influence to make a difference. Joy is a powerful weapon. It’s an overcoming weapon and joy is to be our strength. The joy of the Lord is our strength. We might want to lean in, grasp, take hold, allow that joy to permeate us and to be released through us to change our world.
SID: You use the term, we are called by God to be brokers of joy. What does that mean?
ROLAND: That’s right. In Isaiah 61 it says a very interesting thing. It says that we are receivers of joy, “the oil of joy for gladness.” It’s a powerful transition. It’s a powerful transformation that happens personally. Then it goes on to say we are going to be “oaks of righteousness that are planted by the Lord.” But then it says even more than that, in 61:4, it says, that, “We are to rebuild, renew and restore.”
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth