Forty Days of Joy

Jesus called. You responded. NOW WHAT? Forty Days of Joy is the second volume in the Welcome Holy Spirit (WHS) Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series, which is an opportunity to welcome the Holy Spirit into your life every day and to enrich your relationship with this amazing and wonderful Comforter that Jesus sent to us. The Holy Spirit makes our lives happy and full, and more importantly, establishes us as children of God: "The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God" (Romans 8:16). The WHS Bible Study Devotional is both Bible study and devotional. Unlike other devotionals that use saccharine platitudes and personal tragedy testimony targeting reader's emotions, the WHS Bible Study Devotional is one hundred percent Bible based and offers serious exegesis full of purposeful insights that improve our relationship with, devotion to, and understanding of the most misunderstood and neglected member of the Godhead: God, the Holy Spirit. It uses the Word of God to remind us to welcome the Holy Spirit into our lives every day to produce the powerful Fruit of the Spirit in us and through us. Whether Jesus called and you responded yesterday or fifty years ago, the WHS Bible Study Devotional will strengthen your ability to be a productive member of the Kingdom of God by cultivating your submission to the Holy Spirit as He teaches you from its pages. Sunday school classes and Bible study groups will find the WHS Bible Study Devotional to be very "fruitful." Each day's reading includes a passage of scripture, an insight about the meaning and implications of that scripture, and a "Welcome Holy Spirit Prayer" inspired by that scripture. When necessary the context of the scripture or passage is explained, and in some cases respected Bible study resources are consulted to clarify confusing passages or to illuminate richer understanding. Additionally, opposite each day's entry is a list of prompts with sentence stems to elicit thoughts and space to write them down. Sharing these ideas in Bible study groups is a great way for "iron to sharpen iron" and multiplies the work the Holy Spirit can do.Working through the WHS Bible Study Devotional, spending forty days with every fruit, will require commitment and devotion (hence the name "devotional"). On the other side of those forty-day periods, expect a beautiful and miraculous transformation as the Holy Spirit abundantly produces love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and temperance in your life more powerfully than ever before. Thank you for choosing The WHS Bible Study Devotional