How do you get joy?   Where does it come from?   

And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Spirit. - Act 13:52 When the Holy Spirit moves there is joy.

For the kingdom of heaven is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. - Rom 14:17 The Kingdom Of God is about relationship with the Lord through the Holy Spirit in which we receive His righteousness, peace, joy and love.      The Kingdom Of God is, first of all, in our minds and hearts.     From there it transforms our thoughts, our words, our actions, our very lives.     Gal 5:25

Now The Lord of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit. - Rom 15:13 hope is positive expectations.     Our heavenly Father is not only hopeful Himself but He is the fulfiller of our hopes.      Our joy, peace, faith and hope are directly related to the power of the Holy Spirit working in us.     Eph 3:20 To the extent that we walk in the Holy Spirit we experience the spiritual blessings that are provided to us in Heavenly Places.     Eph 1:3

And you became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit: - 1Th 1:6 The Gospel is not popular in secular circles nor is it popular in religious circles because it sets men free.      Accordingly those who are secular or ritualistically or legalistically religious will come against those who receive the Gospel.      Regardless of others treatment of us, we experience joy in the Holy Spirit.

You cannot experience the fullness of Joy without the Holy Spirit!   

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? - Luk 11:13 The Lord is so much more loving and giving than the best of parents.     He will give the Holy Spirit to anyone who asks Him.      The reality is that many believers do not want to manifest as Sons Of The Holy Spirit.     They are content to just miss hell and enter heaven when they die.      But without the baptism of the Holy Spirit believers are ineffective as witnessed by the decline of the church and the secularization of society.      Jesus commanded the disciples to tarry in jerusalem until they received the power of the Holy Spirit.     Only then were they to go forth preaching the Gospel of the kingdom.      If the disciples who walked with Jesus needed Spirit Baptism, on what basis do believers think that they do not?

• Fear
• Doubt
• Conflict
• Preoccupation
• Unthankful
• No Worship