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    Oh For The Joy!
    Oh For The Joy!
    Oh For The Joy!
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    Oh For The Joy!

    By Floyd Bland

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    Feeling troubled today? Looking for encouragement? The incredible joy we have in Christ produces the assurance, comfort, and security we cannot find on earth-especially during troubling and uncertain times. Oh For The Joy! will help you to find lasting peace and serenity as you realize your vast potential as a forgiven and free child of

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNot Of The World Ministries, Inc
    Release dateJun 15, 2020
    ISBN9781732534223
    Oh For The Joy!
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    Floyd Bland

    Floyd Bland has served as elder, teacher, chaplain, and administrator to help others grow in their faith through sound, practical, Bible-based models for Christian living. A seminary graduate, Floyd's other books include Radical Forgiveness Through the Eyes of Jesus, Five Things Every Christian Must Know, Oh For The Joy! Forgiven and Free in Christ, and The Last Words of Jesus to His Disciples: Enduring Lessons of Faith, Hope, and Love. Floyd married his best friend and helpmate. Together, they have two grown children and a grandson.

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      Oh For The Joy! - Floyd Bland

      Oh For The Joy!

      Forgiven and Free in Christ

      by

      Floyd Bland

      Copyright © 2020 by Floyd Bland. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in any form except as permitted under U.S. copyright laws. Requests for permission should be addressed to info@notwm.org.

      This book has been written for Christian inspirational purposes only. It is not intended to provide legal or clinical advice to replace the services of qualified professionals. No liability is assumed for loss or damage from its content since readers are to assume full responsibility for their own personal safety and well-being.

      Some content is recreated from the author’s memory and altered to maintain anonymity. Any resemblance to actual persons, entities, or locales is coincidental.

      Scripture quotations marked (AKJV) are Scripture quotations taken from The Authorized (King James) Version. Rights in the Authorized Version in the United Kingdom are vested in the Crown. Reproduced by permission of the Crown’s patentee, Cambridge University Press.

      Scripture quotations marked (NKJV) are from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations marked (NIV) are from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. ™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc. ™

      Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright ©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

      Some of the images used in this book are officially licensed from ©Graphics Factory.com and used by permission.

      Content by Randy Hoyt of TypeGreek.com is released by permission under the Creative Commons 2.5 License. To review a copy of the license, please visit www.creativecommons.org.

      ISBN-13: 978-1-7325342-2-3

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2020911300

      Looking to Jesus!

      With Gratitude

      For God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit, I am grateful for Your love, grace, and mercy, which allow me to experience the ultimate joy associated with eternal forgiveness and freedom.

      For my godly parents, loving wife, and supportive family, I am grateful for your interventions in my life that shaped me into who I am today.

      For those unsung heroes and heroines, I am grateful for your prayers, encouragement, and assistance over the years.

      For Pam Lagomarsino of Above the Pages Editorial Services and Paramita Bhattacharjee of Creative Paramita Book Cover Designs, I am grateful for your professionalism and expertise rendered to prepare this book for publication.

      Introduction

      Looking to Jesus

      My Early Encounter

      As I look back, I believe it was during Sunday school when I was first introduced to Hebrews 12:1-2 more than a half-century ago. However, before I elaborate further, let me provide some history and context.

      To begin with, the Lord blessed me with Christian parents who loved and honored Him enough to practice a consistent Christ-likeness before me—although imperfect at times, as with us all—but consistent nonetheless.

      They expressed love for their children not by merely telling us about the Lord Jesus Christ, but also by leading us to church, as a family, every Sunday also. Their actions spoke volumes.

      Their faith and fidelity helped cultivate my desire to experience and learn about the awesome God they were showing and telling me consistently.

      I should also note they were my good friends as well. So in retrospect, no one should ever trivialize the essential role that loving, nurturing, godly parents play in raising children in the right path, so that and when they are older, they will not leave it as Proverbs 22:6 (NIV) teaches. Others also share this view,

      There is no denying that culture and church play a major role in the developmental life of any person. But the role parents play in their children’s lives far outweighs any other influence. What parents believe and how they live out their beliefs (positively or negatively) has a huge impact on their children.¹

      In our fast-paced, twenty-first-century world, little consideration is given to the sound, biblical parenting I received as a child. With absentee fathers and mothers, single-parent homes, blended families, and latchkey kids, no wonder so many children today are growing up with limited spiritual understanding.

      Certainly, culture plays a significant role in our upbringing. Yet, I attribute so much more of my particular spiritual journey to the combined efforts of three extraordinary people who introduced me to the Lord Jesus Christ and helped me to understand abundant Kingdom living.

      Dad, Mom, and Grandma were the perfect parents for me. They encouraged and supported my spiritual growth by taking the time to explain fundamental biblical truths in a way I could understand and adopt as my own life principles to practice consistently, just as they did, as these authors observe,

      It’s not enough to just provide materially for our children. It’s the sole duty and highest responsibility for parents to cultivate spiritual truths in their children’s lives as well.²

      They were not alone in my development process. The Lord blessed us to join a church where there were many spiritually mature, biblically astute men and women who recognized the importance of quality, Bible-based Christian education and discipleship.

      Thus, it was not by accident that our church members (and guests) were exposed to sound biblical teaching and training primarily through Sunday school, Sunday general worship, and the Sunday evening Baptist Training Union (or BTU).

      Our church had a strong core of visionary and stable leaders, who facilitated a number of training and service opportunities for church members seven-days-a-week.

      Those of us who availed ourselves regularly to these opportunities learned how to develop our spiritual gifts and secular

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