Joy

Evening, January 11

Lu 22:32

… Here is a matter for joy, gratitude, hope, and confidence.

Job Among the Ashes

Job 42:5

… So in repentance itself, with all its sorrow, there are traces of joy. Repentance is a bitter-sweet or a sweet-bitter. After you have tasted it in …

Evening, December 21

Eze 16:10

… What, then? Is there no inference from this? Surely there is gratitude to be felt and joy to be expressed. Come, my heart, refuse not thy evening hallelujah …

Morning, February 27

Ps 91:9

… Let prospects be blighted; let hopes be blasted; let joy be withered; let mildews destroy everything; I have lost nothing of what I have in God. He is …

Everybody's Sermon

Hosea 12:10

… Think, beloved, of the joy of thy harvest. How does it tell us of the joy of the redeemed if we, being saved, shall at last be carried …

The Followers of the Lamb

Revelation 14:4

… There are among you some who are very much like your Master—you are the joy of the Church. There are among all the Churches some who bear …

Morning, January 21

Ro 11:26

Morning, January 21 Go To Evening Reading “And so all Israel shall be saved.” Romans 11:26 When Moses sang at the Red Sea, it was his joy …

Morning, January 28

Col 1:28

… Doth not thy heart leap for joy at the thought of it? Black as thou art, thou shalt be white one day; filthy as thou art, thou shalt …

Evening, September 12

Ps 101:1

… fray. “All I meet I find assists me In my path to heavenly joy: Where, though trials now attend me, Trials never more annoy. “Blest there with a …

'Christ Is All'

Colossians 3:11

… Throne of God! Next, Christ will be all as the source of your joy. Some people seem to think that Christians are a very melancholy sort of folk …

Morning, August 6

Is 21:11

… yet come in Spirit to my sighing heart, and make it sing for joy. “Now all the earth is bright and glad With the fresh morn; But all …

Changefulness

… How different the sorrow of an abject distrust which breaketh us in pieces as with a strong east wind, and the joy of a holy confidence which bears …

Morning, March 8

Ac 14:22

… They were chosen in the furnace of affliction; they were never chosen to worldly peace and earthly joy. Freedom from sickness and the pains of mortality was never …

Morning, April 6

Heb 13:13

… No joy can excel that of the soldier of Christ: Jesus reveals himself so graciously, and gives such sweet refreshment, that the warrior feels more calm and peace …

Morning, March 18

Ga 3:26

… not honour our Master much on our pilgrimage, neither shall we abound in joy and peace. If then you would live to Christ’s glory, and be happy …

Morning, November 17

Ro 11:36

… Do you enjoy happier times than you once had? Have you been restored from sickness, and has your sorrow been turned into peace and joy? Then give him …

Morning, August 23

Is 65:19

… The joy of Christ, which is an infinite fulness of delight, is in them. They bathe themselves in the bottomless, shoreless sea of infinite beatitude. That same joyful …

Morning, March 10

Ps 30:6

… the song perpetually on his lips; let his eye be ever sparkling with joy—and the natural consequence of such an easy state to any man, let him …

Morning, December 28

Ga 2:20

… Here, then, is established a living, sensible, and delightful union which casts forth streams of love, confidence, sympathy, complacency, and joy, whereof both the bride and bridegroom love …

Morning, May 11

Mt 28:20

… Put thine all in Christ; set all thine affections on his person, all thy hope in his merit, all thy trust in his efficacious blood, all thy joy …

The Sealing of the Spirit

Ephesians 1:13

… I have frequently been asked this question, "What is a person to do who believes in Jesus, but yet is not conscious of peace and joy, but is …

Could He Not? Ah! But He Would Not

John 11:37

… But then, oh what joy they had when they saw their dear brother restored again! Such a meeting did make amends for all the grief of parting! And …

Evening, May 18

Heb 12:11

… much peaceable fruit in this life, what shall be the full vintage of joy “afterwards” in heaven? If his dark nights are as bright as the world’s …

The Bellows Burned

Jeremiah 6:29

… Make not pleasure the bellows of your life, lest these bellows be burned in the fire and the flame of your joy go out. Others have made the …

Morning, September 9

Je 33:3

… There are the common frames and feelings of repentance, and faith, and joy, and hope, which are enjoyed by the entire family; but there is an upper realm …

Morning, October 28

Jn 15:19

… Come, my soul, exult before the God of grace and leap for joy of heart.

Morning, January 11

Lu 8:13

… Thou hast received the word with joy; thy feelings have been stirred and a lively impression has been made; but, remember, that to receive the word in the …

Morning, August 20

2Sa 23:1

… He had temptations from without to disturb his peace, and from within to mar his joy. David no sooner escaped from one trial than he fell into another …

"Your Rowers Have Brought You Into Great Waters"

Ezekiel 27:26

… Men wonder why it is that for them there seems to be no music in the lute, no pleasure in the bowl, no joy in the dance. They …

The Lord's Supper—a Remembrance Of Jesus

Luke 22:19

… You remember Him with joy at this moment because of your past experience of Him. He is so dear to you that you must remember Him. You could …

Morning, March 14

1Co 10:12

… to thy word.” He is able, and he alone, “To keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.”

Morning, March 20

Song 2:8

… beheld his glory, yet he was the consolation of Israel, the hope and joy of all the chosen, the “beloved” of all those who were upright before the …

Evening, April 8

Ps 23:4

… is to let the earthly strain melt into the heavenly chorus, the temporal joy into the eternal bliss! Let us have confidence, then, in the blessed Spirit’s …

Morning, August 28

Ex 25:6

… Truth, holiness, joy, knowledge, love, these are all beams of the sacred light, but we cannot give them forth unless in private we receive oil from God the …

Morning, July 18

Nu 2:31

… The experienced Christian will find much work for his weapons in aiding those poor doubting, desponding, wavering, souls, who are hindmost in faith, knowledge, and joy. These must …

Morning, December 26

1Co 15:45

… O blessed change, O sweet permutation!” this is the very groundwork of the gospel of our salvation, and is to be received with strong faith and rapturous joy.

Morning, September 17

Mk 9:19

… They may be a great joy or a great bitterness to their parents; they may be filled with the Spirit of God, or possessed with the spirit of …

Evening, November 27

Eph 1:7

… What joy is this! What bliss to be a perfectly pardoned soul! My soul dedicates all her powers to him who of his own unpurchased love became my …

Evening, April 13

Le 1:4

… I leaned my soul entirely upon him; and now it is my unceasing joy to know that my sins are no longer imputed to me, but laid on …

Jesus Near but Unrecognized

Luke 24:16

… Perhaps you have only seen Jesus as your joy and consolation—under that aspect may you always see Him, but, remember—"He shall sit as a Refiner. He …