Joy

A Word for the Persecuted

1 Samuel 20:10

… Next, remember, if you keep your conscience clear it is a great joy. Conscience is a little bird that sings more sweetly than any lark or nightingale. Rough …

A Special Benediction

… We henceforth feel that we have no ownership rights over ourselves, yet we rejoice that we have that which is much more valuable, for we can, each one …

The True Position of the Witness Within

1 John 5:10

… Thirdly, the precious blood within our souls bears further witness, for when it gives us peace, we sing as sinners bought with blood and rejoice before God as …

The New Fashion

Mark 2:12

… Should you feel at all astonished if you should have been mistaken, dear Friend—you who have never found joy and peace in believing? Is it not possible …

The Old Gospel for the New Century

Matthew 11:28

… He seems to say, "The more, the merrier." Christ's heart will rejoice over all the multitudes that will come to Him, for He has made a great …

Fathers In Christ

1 John 2:13

… It was the life and joy of our spirit and now, today, after having advanced far in the Divine Life, if we hear one of those simple sermons …

The Word of a King

Ecclesiastes 8:4

… joy that "the Lord reigns, He is clothed with majesty. The Lord sits upon the floods; yes, the Lord sits King forever and ever; let Israel rejoice, and …

The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death

Psalm 23:4

… The joy of life has been like the sun under an eclipse and in the chill, dark, damp shade of a terrible sorrow the man has cowered down …

Trial by the Word

Psalm 105:19

… I congratulate you! Rejoice ye in this day and leap for joy, for you are only enduring trials which have fallen to the lot of better men than …

Shutting, Sealing and Covering—or, Messiah's Glorious Work

Daniel 9:24

… No! It is a joy like the bliss of angels, deep, unspeakable, mysterious, Divine! Have you ever felt it? You will feel it constantly if Christ comes to …

All the Promises

2 Corinthians 1:20

… It should be a great cause for joy when numbers of Christians unite in praying for any Christian minister, for they will also unite in praising God on …

Testimony And Experience

John 4:39-42

… Storms have swept through every nerve, and yet perfect peace has ruled the spirit—yes, and more than peace—for the soul has rejoiced with unspeakable joy and …

The Key-Note of a Choice Sonnet

Luke 1:46

… Many have been passed by, but the Lord has loved us with a special love; yet we cannot rejoice in it so as to glory in ourselves, for …

The True Priesthood, Temple and Sacrifice

1 Peter 2:4

… But we know the voice of the great King in Zion and we rejoice to feel that if we are found in Him we are accepted in Him …

"There Is No Difference"

Romans 3:22

… Now, in closing my discourse, I want to spend a minute or two in bidding you REJOICE OVER THIS GREAT TRUTH. I rejoice over the fact that there …

Purging Out the Leaven

1 Corinthians 5:6-8

… It is meet that we rejoice in Christ Jesus. He is the bliss of the saints. Is it not a joy unspeakable and full of glory, that my …

Backsliding Healed

Hosea 14:4

… He said, "Restore unto me the joy of Your salvation." And God did restore it, and the bones which had been broken were made to rejoice. This is …

"Persecuted, But Not Forsaken"

… For it is written, Rejoice, you barren that bear not; break forth and cry, you that travail not: for the desolate has many more children than she which …

The Tenderness of Jesus

Hebrews 4:15

… It is a blessed thing for a sinner to have the sympathies of one who never sinned! Rejoice, you people of God! Rejoice in this, that the Sinless …

Man'S Thoughts And God'S Thoughts

Isaiah 55:8

… I sinned unblushingly, and gloried in my shame." Rejoice, poor Mourner, that this is no reason why the Lord should not forgive you, for as high as the …

A Wafer of Honey

2 Corinthians 12:9

… I have learned to rejoice in this, for so am I made a member of the goodly fellowship of the martyrs—but I am afraid lest I should …

The Unconquerable King

Daniel 4:34

… Therefore, "His Throne is established in righteousness." Because His Throne is holy we rejoice that it can never be moved. Pause here, dear Hearer, and let your soul …

A Call to the Lord's Own Flock

Ezekiel 34:30

… He has multiplied the people and increased their joy—and we have joyed before Him as with the joy of harvest. Nothing has happened to mar our unity …

Free Grace a Motive for Free Giving

2 Thessalonians 2:16

… Does not His Spirit say, "Rejoice in the Lord always and again I say, Rejoice"? Has He not given the Comforter, that He may continually console us? Believers …

The Turning Of Job's Captivity

Job 42:10

… perpetual joy—the triumphs of others cannot cheer a man who is, himself, defeated. It is idle to tell a distressed soul that it ought to rejoice as …

Immeasurable Love

John 3:16

… I joy and rejoice that such a plan should have been thought of, whereby the justice of God is vindicated, and his mercy is set free to do …

Partnership With Christ

1 Corinthians 1:9

… Oh, that the great marriage-day were come and that the bride had made herself ready to glory and rejoice with her adorable Bridegroom! Notice, too, that Christ …

The Sweet and the Sweetener

Psalm 104:34

… O cheerful, happy, joyous people, I wish there were more of you! I am not condemning your joy—I would partake in it—but let the uppermost joy …

Plain Gospel For Plain People

Deuteronomy 30:11-14

… Moses brought the moonlight, but in Jesus the sun has risen and we rejoice in His meridian beams! Brothers and Sisters, blessed are our eyes that we see …

Mysterious Meat

John 4:31-38

… My own will has fallen into God's will as a brook falls into a river"—then he is at peace! It is a blessed thing to rejoice …

Cheer Up, My Comrades!

2 Chronicles 35:2

… Well, it will warm the hearts of some of his family while I am burning’; and he even smiled for joy to think that he might be put …

The Friend of Sinners

Isaiah 53:12

… I can rejoice in its discharge; I can mourn that ever I cast myself into such a position, but the debt itself I gone. "I will remove the …

The Divine Call for Missionaries

Isaiah 6:8

… O, when will His Church fully believe in the Glory of her Lord and rejoice therein, so that His power shall fill her, as His train filled the …

Hidden Manna

Jeremiah 15:16

… SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington “Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart …

Jesus Admired In Them That Believe

2 Thessalonians 1:10

… Not one among them will boast that he was saved by his own good works, but all of them will rejoice to have been saved by that blessedly …

Concerning Saints

Psalm 145:10

… for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with My son, even with Isaac." Oh, rejoice, you people of God, that if there is a covenant …

The Chaff Driven Away

Psalm 1:4

… Well may we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, for our storehouse is inexhaustible, our riches can never be spent. We have wealth that cannot be …

The Right Observance of the Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

… If His very name is music to your ears, honey to your mouth and joy to your heart, then you do not need me to press you to …

Characteristics of Christ's Disciples

Luke 14:26

… I pray the Holy Spirit to make those who are disciples to rejoice in their discipleship and to count it the highest honor of their lives to have …

The One and the Many

Romans 5:16

… And rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Our joy is in the past and the present, in some measure, but it is still more in the …