Joy

Our Thoughts About God's Thoughts

Psalm 139:17

… In fact, in proportion as we are fully reconciled to God, love Him and rejoice in Him, it will become a cause ofjoy to reflect that our best …

Satan Considering the Saints

Job 1:8

… Banish then all your ill surmisings, and rejoice in unmoved confidence. God delights to be worshipped with Joy. Oh come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us …

A Question for You

John 9:35

… well rejoice in that fact! Believer, you are one with Christ—rejoice in that! Your affliction is borne by Christ as well as by yourself— rejoice in that …

A Seasonable Exhortation

1 Peter 1:13

… Read the eighth verse concerning, "Jesus Christ, whom, having not seen, you love; in whom, though now you see Him not, yet believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable …

Cheering Words

John 15:9

… These things have I spoken unto you, that My joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. When Christ cannot rejoice in us, you …

The Place of Prayer and Pardon

2 Chronicles 6:28-30

… Lord, and can joy and rejoice in His name. I pray that they may always do so, for I remember how Paul said, "Rejoice in the Lord always …

The First Day Of Creation

Genesis 1:4

… Light is comfort, light is joy, the prisoner in his darkness knows it to be so. And so the Grace of God produces joy and peace wherever it …

The Lamentations of Jesus

Luke 19:41

… dust and as mean as her rubbish, He will rejoice over you! It is written that, "There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over …

The Sin Offering

Leviticus 4:3

… And I ask each of you, very affectionately, whether that is your position at this present moment? Does your heart rejoice in the Substitute? Do you rejoice in …

The History of Little-Faith

Matthew 14:31

… the better land! Shall we now tremble? Shall we not begin to rejoice with unspeakable joy? Does not Little-Faith begin to mount into assurance? You that have …

The Common Salvation

… May God cause your heart either to rejoice with full assurance or else to be in agony as with death pangs till you are confident that you are …

Honor for Honor

1 Samuel 2:30

… like that furnace, glowing with intense delight, fervent love and overflowing joy! Why should you not rejoice, Beloved? Your sins are forgiven you! You are an heir of …

Psalm 60

Psalm 60

… I will rejoice, or "I will triumph." Faith regards the promise not as fiction but fact, and therefore drinks in joy from it, and grasps victory by it …

A Message from God for Thee

Lamentations 4:22

… Oh, believe the word of the Lord, and rejoice therein. "Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is …

Christ in You

Colossians 1:27

… There is nothing like it for the health and strength of the soul! We rejoice in Christ and nothing else but Christ! Christ and no priestcraft! Christ and …

Small Things Not to Be Despised

Zechariah 4:10

… help him all you can in finding the Savior—and we will yet rejoice together over him." When moths fly very near the candle, sooner or later they …

A Word From the Beloved's Own Mouth

… Then lift up your head, and sing for joy of heart, seeing that your transgression is pardoned, your sin is covered, and in you Jehovah seeth not iniquity …

The Head and the Body

Ephesians 4:15

… whom having not seen, we love; in whom, though now you see Him not, yet believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. And does not …

A Cheerful Giver is Beloved of God

2 Corinthians 9:7

… Why do we rejoice in her? Because what light she receives from the sun she gives again to us! If she were not to give her light, who …

The Underlying Gospel for the Dying Year

Romans 5:6

… do we rejoice in God's gifts, and in His mercy, but we swim in a sea of delight in God, Himself—"We, also, joy in God"— 11 …

Believers—Lights In The World

Philippians 2:14-16

… I rejoice, yes, I must rejoice, when I hear continually of the multitudinous conversions which are worked by the Holy Spirit through the sermons both printed and preached …

Three Sights Worth Seeing

1 Thessalonians 2:13-14

… Dear friends, are you believers in the Lord Jesus Christ? If you are, joy and rejoice with me; but if you are not, oh, how I wish you …

The Putting Away Of Sin

Hebrews 9:26

… If your house were on fire you would rejoice to hear the fire engines coming down the street, for you would feel an absolute certainty that they were …

Look to Christ

Would you be free from doubts? Would you rejoice in the Lord with faith unmoved, and confidence unshaken? Then look to Jesus ! Certain I am that if we …

The Star and the Wise Men

Matthew 2:1-2

… When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy."— Matthew 2:1-2 , 9-10 . SEE, DEAR FRIENDS, the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ even …

A Wilderness Cry

Psalm 63:1

… The cast in plaster is ignorant of the joy and the sorrow which flash through the man of flesh and blood! Your painted picture, hanging on the wall …

The Lord,—the Liberator

Psalm 146:7

… We send up our notes of praise right joyously to our Father who is in heaven, but our praises cannot give them joy, for alas! their hearts are …

Vessels Of Mercy—A Sermon Of Self-Examination

Romans 9:23

… O rejoice in this thought, that in order to be filled with Grace, the qualification is emptiness! In order to be clothed with righteousness, the indispensable qualification is …

To Those Who Have Believed

… sacred Word, and begin to rejoice accordingly. Do not reason about it, or call it in question; believe it, and leap for joy. I want my reader, upon …

Are You Mocked?

Psalm 14:6

… We glory in tribulation and rejoice in the afflictions which God has laid upon us. Still, that will always be a point of jest. But there is one …

The Tabernacle Opened

… Brock, of Bloomsbury Chapel, discoursed upon Philippians 1:18: “Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.” It was remarked at the time how …

Christ Triumphant

Colossians 2:15

… Rejoice, rejoice ye in the day of battle, for it is for you but the beginning of an eternity of triumph. I have thus endeavoured to dwell upon …

The Heart Perfumed

Romans 5:5

… It is not, "Where is it?" but, "Here it is!" Oh, the joy of saying, "Here it is!" If all the powers of earth and Hell combined say …

Psalm 48

Psalm 48

… beautified with holiness, be called the joy of the whole earth, i.e., what the whole earth had reason to rejoice in, because God would thus in very …

The Wall Daubed with Untempered Mortar

Ezekiel 13:10-12

… will rejoice! How he will make merry with you when he shall have led you away from the Cross to the crucifix! How he will rejoice when he …

The Exaltation of Christ

Philippians 2:9-11

… see Christ maligned and dishonoured, to rejoice when you see him exalted, and then you will have constant cause for joy. Sit down now, O reviled one, poor …

"Much More"

Romans 5:10

… He said to His disciples, "I go to prepare a place for you." He has gone up into Glory, as our Representative, to take possession of eternal joy …

A New Year's Benediction

Hebrews 13:5

… Yes, I will, Myself, be with you and you shall rejoice in My salvation while your heart is glad and calm in the midst of the tumult and …

May 21 — RAIN WITHOUT CLOUDS? NEVER!

Eccl. 11:3

… Faith sees the clouds emptying themselves and making the little hills rejoice on every side.

Aug. 31 — DIVINE, EVER-LIVING, UNCHANGING

I Peter 1:25

… Here, then, we have a gospel to rejoice in, a word of the Lord upon which we may lean all our weight. "For ever" includes life, death, judgment …