The Hidden Word That Opens Up the Whole Bible, and Your Breakthrough | How to Live from Joy, Not Just Gratitude
by Nikki Walton of CurlyNikki.com
Joy = the Word. Joy = Jesus.
“I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.”- John 15:11
It wasn’t Nikki walking today. It was the Holy Spirit walking. It was the Holy Spirit breathing, watching, smiling, noticing the wind, the light, the birds, the way the sun hit the leaves, the way the song hit my heart. Joy. That’s the word. The secret word. The magic word that unlocks the whole Bible, the whole message of Jesus, even the Old Testament. Joy.
Not the small joy we talk about when something goes our way. Not the surface happiness that comes and goes with circumstances. I’m talking about the real thing. The substance of Heaven. The energy that everything holy moves on. The sound underneath every answered prayer. The energy of God Himself.
Joy is what was in the beginning before there was light. Joy is the light. Joy is the first thing that was spoken. The world didn’t just come from love; it came from the joy of love. “Let there be…” was the song of joy creating form. Joy is the frequency of “it is good.” Joy is The Word. Joy is Jesus.
That’s why when Jesus came, He said He wanted His joy to be in us, not just near us. “That My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.” He didn’t come to make us behave. He came to bring us home to the joy we were made from and for. Joy is our origin, and joy is our destiny. Every miracle is a return to joy. Every healing is joy remembering itself.
GO BEYOND GRATITUDE
Gratitude is the beginning of that remembering. Gratitude is joy dimmed down, joy with the lights low, joy with training wheels. Gratitude is when you still think you’re separate, so you thank God for things. Joy is when you realize you are the thing God is thanking Himself for. Gratitude whispers, “Thank You.” Joy sings, “It is done.”
Today my steps moved from gratitude steps to joy steps. Really, they moved from my steps to His steps. My website went down this morning due to an uptick in traffic. That’s a GoOD thing but I can still feel the stress creeping in. I left it to Him and went on my walk anyway and by the time I got home it was back up, with a new foundation (the cloud- the sky’s the limit now), and ready for me to write this love letter to you! This Joy letter! But I digress…
Gratitude still looks around and counts the good. Joy doesn’t count. Joy just walks, overflowing. Gratitude prays to God. Joy walks as God’s prayer. Gratitude gets you through the gate. Joy shows you there never was a gate. You’ve been inside the Kingdom the whole time.
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When I say joy, I don’t mean excitement. I mean that quiet, weightless feeling when you know everything is already handled. That sudden peace that feels like laughter inside the bones. That’s joy. The real thing. The Word made flesh in you.
It’s why Paul could write “Rejoice in the Lord always” from a prison cell. Because he wasn’t waiting for circumstances to shift. He was standing in the shift. Joy doesn’t wait for freedom. Joy is freedom.
When the prophets shouted for joy, when David danced before the ark, when Mary magnified the Lord, they were touching this same dimension. Joy was their proof that God was near, that His presence was real, that Heaven had touched earth. And when Jesus rose from the dead, joy rose too. Eternal, unstoppable, embodied joy spread through out the land. The kind that doesn’t fade when the bills aren’t paid yet, the kind that doesn’t shrink in heartbreak, the kind that can walk through a storm smiling because it knows the storm is joy’s disguise.
Today, when you walk, walk with Him. Don’t just feel grateful that you can walk. Feel joy that He’s the one walking you. Every step, every breath, every heartbeat, it’s Him. Joy isn’t the result of finding God. Joy is how you find God. It’s the language He speaks. The vibration He hears. The only key that still opens every locked place.
Joy is my tongue. It’s how I talk to Him, how He talks through me. When I open my mouth, I don’t have to find the words, this River of Joy speaks them. The Word speaks them. That’s what it means to pray without ceasing. To praise without music. To preach without trying. When Joy is your tongue, Heaven has your voice.
The Word became flesh, and the flesh became light, and the light became joy. That’s the whole story. That’s the Bible in one word. Joy. And I’m sticking to it! To Him!
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