Midnight is defined as the transition time period from one day to the next. It's the moment when the date changes. It's the halfway period between sunset and sunrise.
Joy
noun- a feeling of great pleasure and happiness.
synonyms: delight, great pleasure, joyfulness.
For the pass few months I have been praying and I find myself in the midst of worship and praying repeating these words, 'your my Joy in the midnight'.
So tonight as I prayed and began to worship God, I started repeating it again and the Holy Spirit began to speak to me.
"At midnight when all is quite, it seem like nothing is moving, most are asleep and dreaming about what tomorrow holds. It's in that time of turmoil and distress that you would cry out to me, it's at the darkest point in your life and what seem like you have nothing else to hang on to. It's just before your sunrises that you realize that I am still holding you and walking you through the midnight.
I said I would never leave you neither will I forsake you, regardless of what time of the day it is. I can not and will not lie. I have spoken even before the beginning of your time and my Word still remains. It has not changed, I will not change.
I see in the midnight when it is darkest to men, I know what the midnight brings with it, I created it. It's at midnight Paul and Salias began to sing to me in the prison walls, a song of deliverance, I heard them then and I hear you now.
I make all thing beautiful in my time, your waiting is not in vain, your prayers have not fallen on deaf ear, but it has caught my attention, and I have already acted. I have already moved, I have already changed, turned things around.
Wait and see.
See with your eyes, look at it with your spirit eyes, see how I have kept my Word and it has completed what I have spoken even before you were.
Now watch, for the day breaks and the sun is risen! Risen on you to show off my glory, yes my Glory will be displayed in and through you this day.
Look! Can you not see it? I have begun to change the course of time. What you thought would have taken years has begun to manifest.
The manna which sustained my people as they journeyed out of Egypt is a reflection of my Word which will sustain my people now. Hold on to my Word, it is healing to your bodies, my Word is life to what is dead.
My joy comes in the morning, my Joy comes even at midnight, it's at the time in your life when you abandon yourself to my will."
John 15:11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
Deuteronomy 12:28 Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.
Isaiah 60:1-2 Arise, shine, for your light has come,and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth,and thick darkness the peoples;but the Lord will arise upon you,and his glory will be seen upon you.
Acts 16:25-26 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them, and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were unfastened.
Psalm 30:5 For his anger is but for a moment,and his favor is for a lifetime.Weeping may tarry for the night,but joy comes with the morning