Our Guest Roland Worton
ROLAND: That sounds like a mandate of transformation to me. So we’re to go from those that are just receiving joy to those that are powerful distributors of it. Those that are to rebuild ruined cities, renew places long devastated it says. So, yeah, so much more powerful. It’s going to include joy for us but it’s going to include joy for us to give away that changes and transforms culture.
SID: So I could be operating in supernatural joy. That doesn’t mean I’m just giggling at a table. That means I’m releasing the atmosphere of heaven. So I could be in a prison and release the atmosphere of heaven.
ROLAND: Yes.
SID: I could be in a restaurant and release the atmosphere of heaven. I could be in my family and release the atmosphere of heaven. And what happens in the atmosphere of heaven?
ROLAND: Anything can happen in the atmosphere of heaven, Sid.
SID: You use the term, invincible joy.
ROLAND: Yes, invincible joy. Let’s talk about that. As I said, the joy of the Lord is our strength. And invincible joy is what God wants to give us. Psalm 2 is a very interesting psalm for me. It’s one of my favorites. It’s a psalm that doesn’t anywhere speak to God. It speaks from God. What does it start with? Why do the nations rage? This is something that we’re still asking today. The nations are raging. They’re in chaos. They’re in turmoil.
SID: Right now.
ROLAND: This invincible joy, right now, this invincible joy, this overcoming joy, this joy with authority is supposed to rest on us. Here when I saw this it really transformed things for me. God says the nations rage and he has set his king in place. We know who that is, Jesus, the Messiah, but it goes on to say this, “The one enthroned in heaven laughs”.
ROLAND: The one enthroned in heaven, the nations rage but God laughs and it’s not a callous, mocking laugh. It is an overcoming, it is finished, glorious transformational laugh. We get to live underneath the laugh of God. Everything changes underneath the laugh of God. I don’t know if you ever thought about that before but the nations rage and God laughs, even in the midst of everything that’s happening, God is laughing over the plans of man.
SID: Now, the supernatural power of joy works for nations and works for individuals.
ROLAND: Yes.
SID: Give me some examples.
ROLAND: Yeah. It’s very, very available for us as individuals. I remember praying over a group of people in a night of worship, an encounter that was very powerful. God was moving and as I began to pray for people joy was being released in a profound way. It was really wonderful. People were laid out laughing. People were receiving joy. People were receiving encounters with Jesus.
ROLAND: And one lady, God instructed me to put hands on her and just probably laid hands on her for 20 minutes and released the power of joy. She was overtaken with the power of joy. She wrote to us and said, “The clinical depression that had been in her life for three years was broken that night and had not returned.” She was set free from clinical depression by sitting under the atmosphere of heaven and the atmosphere of joy.
