"Ask and receive that your joy may be full"

This stands alone.

No picture can comptete.

God spoke this so powerfully to me early this morning.

I share it here trembling inside.

Oh to be able to completely understand this passage and apply it to my life.

It is the answer to every prayer I have ever prayed for myself...

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"I enjoin you thus to pray, that not only may you be delivered from all despondency and heart trouble, but that in the enjoyment of all heavenly and spiritual blessings, and in possession of all that is necessary and sufficient to secure the success of the great enterprise on which you are about to enter, you may be filled with holy happiness, heavenly joy ~ joy in the Holy Spirit.

There is a close connection between the two advices given by an apostle under the influence of the Holy Spirit of His Master Jesus...

 'Rejoice evermore, pray without ceasing.' (I Thessalonians 5:16&17)

The second is the means of obtaining the first. If we cease to pray, we are likely to cease to rejoice. We must pray without ceasing that we may rejoice evermore. And were we, instead of being anxious, careful, troubled about many things,

 'to be anxious about nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, make our requests known unto God, with thanksgiving,' (Philippians 4:6)

Assuredly the peace of God would keep our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus; and amid external troubles, our joy would be full."

From...

Expositions of the Gospel of John 

Arthur W Pink

"Ask and receive that your joy may be full." John 16:24