Our Joy Stories for God's Glory

Rev 12:10-11

CONNECTING our stories of God’s engagement in our everyday lives to strengthen, support, and encourage each other on our journey with Jesus. Philippians 2:1-4

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Sweet Surrender

Sweet Surrender

by | Sep 30, 2025 | ,

Philippians 2:3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility consider one another as more important than yourselves. Matthew 6:33 Seek first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. When I was growing up in a Jesus-loving, Bible-believing home where we did our best to make God the center of our life and decisions, my parents taught me the definition of true joy - Jesus, Others, and You. I learned Bible verses like these ones,...

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Warrior for Joy

Warrior for Joy

by | Sep 8, 2025 | ,

 Jesus calls me His Warrior for Joy. Coming to this realization has been a process. All children of the Most High God share a common identity, just like siblings do; and each one has a unique personality and gifting. I want to share with you some of my joyful journey into this God-given identity. The family and culture I grew up in communicated that being a deva would make me happy and successful. So the identity I inherited and sought for was in relation to physical beauty, social status, and...

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Helping Hand

Helping Hand

by | Sep 8, 2025 | ,

I’m not a great art aficionado or adept at anything medical, so when both of those things converged in my life in the same week, they caught my attention. However, when a third “coincidence” happened, I realized something else might be going on. Those three things confirmed the truth of a quote I once read, “Lord, please make it happen in the most impossible way so they know it’s only You who could have done it.” It really did seem impossible.  The first part of this trifecta happened at my...

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Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

by | Aug 26, 2025 | , , , , , ,

FOLLOW-UP TO   "A TESTIMONY IN THREE PARTS" Hebrews 10:23-24 (NAS) says, "Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds..." When Jeff came to our Wednesday life group for corporate prayer, after his most recent cancer diagnosis, our "Family Strong," as Jeff calls us, surrounded him, literally. He sat on the coffee table in our living room and became hidden in the fold of...

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I Want to Change “C” from “Cancer” to “Christ”

I Want to Change “C” from “Cancer” to “Christ”

by | Aug 19, 2025 | , , , , , ,

A TESTIMONY IN THREE PARTS - PART ONE 1985 is when I met the love of my life. Her name is Tina. We got married the following year in 1986. We talked about having kids and in 1991 we were excited to find out she was pregnant. I already had a son from my first marriage, Kris, so I was hoping to have a daughter one day, too. Unfortunately, she had a miscarriage a couple months in. We were heartbroken. In January of 1993 I found out I had Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. Thankfully the cancer was localized...

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VISION & MISSION

OUR MISSION ~ TheJoyWeaver Community is a discipleship, writing, mentoring, and prayer ministry to strengthen, encourage, and comfort The Body of Christ.

JOHN 15:7-11 (NAS)

If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.

Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.

If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

These things I have spoken to you so that MY JOY MAY BE IN YOU, and that your joy may be made full.

OUR VISION for every faithful Biblical follower of God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit:

Know Him personally

Love Him intimately

Serve Him faithfully

AS ONE.

EPHESIANS 4:1b-7 (NAS)

…walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called

with all humility and gentelness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love, 

being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

There is ONE body and ONE Spirit, just as also you were called in ONE hope of your calling;

ONE Lord, ONE faith, ONE baptism, 

ONE God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.

But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift.

 

The Joy Weaver

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by Nancy McComb

I was growing up once, just like you. I remember the fears and frustrations as if they were yesterday. I started keeping journals to recall how hard it was. And then I kept on writing so I would never forget how good God is! Let’s talk story!

Have you ever…

-done something so mortifying, you wish you could take it back?

-experienced anything so embarrassing, you promised yourself you would never do it again?

-struggled with secret sins that made you feel dirty and defeated?

-felt so lonely that you thought you might go crazy?

-feared that you may not get what you want out of life?

-struggled to figure out what God’s love really feels like?

-wanted to follow God with all your heart, but didn’t know how?

I surely have. Growing up can be so tough! Yet with God, we never walk alone.

This book is a collection of whimsical and poignant tales of a mischievous, boy-crazy Third Culture Kid (TCK) growing up in Honduras and Hawaii in a strong Christian missionary family. But growing up is hard to do even in the best of circumstances. How will this Biblically grounded girl turn into a solid woman of faith while challenged by her own strong will, myriads of temptations, and deep insecurities? The Joy Weaver is God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Grassroots are the foundations and defining moments of spiritual formation along the way to adulthood. Join me on the journey of discovering intimacy with God while learning to trust Him and obey His Word.

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Instructions: Choose a particular event, incident, or troubled time when God showed up big for you, bringing you JOY in Him! Write a short story about it in 500 words or less. Share your problem and God’s solution. Include concise details about where, when, who, what, why, and how. Remember your purpose is to glorify God. Explain the nature of your difficulty as simply as possible. Then shine your spotlight on how God came through for you. Please exercise humility and caution when mentioning others in your story.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
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