[Intro]
(Come on everybody, get on your feet, let's have a good time. Come on.)
(Anybody, anybody got the joy of the Lord in the sanctuary tonight?)
(Anybody got the joy of the Lord in the sanctuary?)
(Come on, we got a little ways to go. I need you to clap those hands like this. Come on.)
(Everybody just clap your hands. Come on.)
[Verse 1]
I got Satan on my track
Trying to turn me back
But I got joy
I've been in the storm and rain
I had heartaches and pain
But I got joy
[Verse 2]
I've been up, I've been down
I've been leveled to the ground
But I got joy
I've been winter, I've been wrong
But I'm still pressing on
Because I got joy
[Chorus]
Everybody say joy will, joy will
Say it'll come in the morning, the morning
(Anybody believe that in my house tonight?)
Say joy will, joy will
Coming in the morning, the morning
[Verse 3]
I got Satan on my track
Trying to turn me back
But I got joy
I've been through the storm and rain
I had heartaches and pain
But I got joy
[Verse 4]
I've been up, I've been down
I've been leveled to the ground
But I got joy
I've been winter, I've been wrong
But I'm still pressing on
Because I got joy
[Chorus]
Everybody say joy will, joy will
Say it'll come in the morning, the morning
(I tell you to look at your neighbor and say it's yours)
Say joy will, joy will
Coming in the morning, the morning
[Bridge]
The road is dark and you cannot see
Just trust in Him and just believe
Cause we walk by faith and not by sight
It's gonna be alright
Say it again, the road is dark and you cannot see
Just trust in Him and just believe
Cause we walk by faith and not by sight
It's gonna be alright
[Chorus]
Everybody say joy will, joy will
(Come on, clap your hands everybody)
Joy will, joy will
(Want to get a witness in the house tonight?)
Joy will, joy will
You don't have to cry no more
You need to know that joy will
[Outro]
Everything that you've been going through, joy will
Anybody know you're gonna make it through because joy will
(Come on, clap your hands, come on say that joy will)
(Come on, clap your hands, everybody say joy will)
(Can I get a witness here? Everybody say that joy will)
(Anybody know that the joy of the Lord is your strength?)
(Can I get a witness in the house tonight? Say joy will)
(Wait a minute, I want y'all to clap those hands and say this)
Say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Come on everybody, lift your hands and say joy will)
Joy that I have, the world didn't give it to me
And the world can't take it away
(Anybody know that joy, anybody know that joy that I got tonight, hey)
God gave it to me, the joy that I got right now
The Lord gave it to me, that's the reason I can dance
Because I got joy, that's the reason I can shout
Because He gave me joy
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Joy Will
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Oct 18, 2026 updated
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Song Meaning
Charles Jenkins + Fellowship Chicago turn a litany of hard knocks into a testimony of stubborn gladness. The verses catalog what has gone wrong — Satan dogging the singer's steps, storms and rain, heartaches and pain, being "up" and "down" and "leveled to the ground" — and each time the answer is the same short refrain: but I got joy. The chorus stretches that claim into a promise, repeating that joy will come in the morning, with the congregation answering back and the leader coaxing hands to clap and neighbors to claim it. The bridge shifts from testimony to instruction: when the road is dark and you cannot see, trust and believe, because we walk by faith and not by sight, and it's gonna be alright. The outro widens the circle, insisting that whatever you've been going through, joy will carry you through, and lands on the old church conviction that the joy of the Lord is your strength — a joy the world didn't give and can't take away. The mood is celebratory and congregational, built for a sanctuary that claps on the beat.
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