Joy

Reasons For Doubting Christ

Matthew 14:31

… you from falling and to present you faultless before His Presence with exceeding joy? Yes, you did know that and therefore that meets all difficulty—and I have …

Lowly Service

Numbers 4:24-26

… He is not his own master, but he is the servant of Another, even the Lord Jesus Christ, and it is his joy to labor faithfully as a …

By The Fountain

Genesis 49:22

… and hold it as our heart's treasure, we shall neither know the joy of it in days of calm, nor be held by it in nights of …

A Blast of the Trumpet Against False Peace

Jeremiah 6:14

… soul that will not let him rest until he has tasted the solid joy, the lasting pleasure which none but Zion’s children know. 2. Well, now I …

Faithful Stewardship

1 Corinthians 4:2

… True, there is a certain amount of comfort and joy arising out of every Christian, but there is a measure of difficulty that must come to the steward …

"Speak, Lord!"

1 Samuel 3:10

… When the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, applies the Truth of God to your heart, then are you filled with joy! I do not know what particular state you …

Paul's Parenthesis

1 Corinthians 15:10

… when we lay down our vile bodies and our spirit enters into the joy of our Lord! Now, these two things being true, and being surely believed among …

Faith Versus Sight

2 Corinthians 5:7

… Or, if I have strong faith and am possessed of great joy, that is no proof of my being saved. It is my believing that is the proof …

Good News for the Aged

Matthew 20:6

… A year is begun with fear and trembling—it closes with joy and thankfulness. In the beginning of the year, we are like the sailor when he leaves …

The Story of God’s Mighty Acts

Psalm 44:1

… away with enthusiasm, springing to their feet, clapping their hands, and shouting for joy again? Numberless were the conversions in his day. God was exceedingly magnified, for sinners …

"Without Carefulness"

1 Corinthians 7:32

… Oh, that we did thoroughly know God and did fully believe in Him! Then would our peace be as a river, and our joy like that of birds …

A Singular Plea in Prayer

Psalm 41:4

… For I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept …

Am I Clear Of His Blood?

Genesis 4:10

… You shall hear of it! As long as you live her spirit shall haunt you, track you to the filthy joy which you have planned for a future …

Achsah's Asking—a Pattern of Prayer

Judges 1:12-15

… displeasure to your God to hear you pray, tonight! It shall be a joy to Him to have your petition spread before Him. Many fathers would quite as …

Watching to See

Habakkuk 2:1-4

… These three go together—may we all have them and may it be your joy and mine to keep on telling others what God has revealed to us …

Compassion on the Ignorant

Hebrews 5:2

… This ignorance is most ruinous in its consequences and ought, therefore, to excite the compassion of all good men! Even now it robs the mind of joy and …

Right Replies To Right Requests

Luke 11:11-13

… We see Him as our suffering Substitute, and our soul feels joy and peace as the result of faith. Our faith does lay her hand upon His head …

Moses' Decision

Hebrews 11:24

… This ought also to strengthen us, that the worst of Christ is better than the best of the world! That even now we have more joy as Christians …

The Real Presence, the Great Want of the Church

Solomon 3:4-5

… We are walking with Christ, rejoicing, leaping for joy; and anon the cold frosts of worldliness come over us, and we depart from him. Ye will never be …

The Great Mystery of Godliness

1 Timothy 3:16

… in penitence at Jesus' feet, and have been lifted up into the loftiest joy as we found pardon in His blood. The Spirit of God is with us …

On Humbling Ourselves before God

1 Peter 5:6

… They have always been very regular in their giving, constant in their religious observances, persevering in their prayers and yet they have never had much joy. But they …

Salvation All of Grace

Ephesians 2:8

… to Jesus at this very moment and that in Heaven there may be joy in the presence of the angels of God because a soul has confided in …

When Should We Pray?

Luke 18:1

… MY mind alights with great joy upon the simple Truth of God which gleams on the very surface of our text—then, man may pray! If men ought …

The Marvelous Magnet

John 12:32

… But the most illiterate and rude have equally been drawn by Jesus and it has been their joy to come. I love to hear of the Gospel being …

The Heavenly Wind

John 3:8

… flow out." Oh, what a sweet freeing of holy gratitude, love, hope and joy has there been in our heart when the Spirit of God has visited us …

The Secret of Failure

Matthew 17:19-21

… and while He was with them their days were to be days of joy. But, still, Holy Scripture does speak of fasting. In certain cases it advises fasting …

The Blind Beggar of the Temple and His Wonderful Cure

John 9:5

… The person I am searching for at this time has no idea of the joy of true religion for he has no sense of spiritual life and light …

The Shame and Spitting

Isaiah 50:6

… His sensitive nature than they can be to us; and yet, “For the joy that was set before him he endured the cross, despising the shame.” He was …

Life's Ever-Springing Well

John 4:14

… But here is joy for our heart to recollect that under the worst possible conditions such is the energy of the Divine Grace which God implants, that it …

The Chief Physician and the Centurion's Servant

Matthew 8:7

… If we could bring our neighbors to Christ, it would be the utmost joy to us—their perishing souls are, to some of us, as a burdensome stone …

The Blind Eye and the Deaf Ear

… They exhibit the heart which was once lighted up with joy all damp and deserted, and haunted by those birds of ill omen that nestle in ruins.” O …

Bread For The Hungry

Deuteronomy 8:3

… Moreover, we need to have spiritual food also for our joy as well as for our strength. How often do you see a man sad and troubled, who …

The Prophet Like Unto Moses

Deuteronomy 18:15-19

… But if Immanuel's face appears, My hope, my joy begins; His name forbids my slavish fear, His Grace remo ves my sins." II. This brings us to …

No Fixity Without Faith

Isaiah 7:9

… very short time their castle in the air melts away—they have no joy, no hope, no peace. No, "If you will not believe, surely you shall not …

A Feast For Faith

Isaiah 28:29

… My Brother shall be made a perfect man in Christ Jesus by his joys—some excellencies will be in him which nothing but joy could have fostered. You …

"Goodness, as a Morning Cloud"

2 Chronicles 24:2

… I mean, those who have begun well, who are now the hope and joy of those who know them, but who will end badly, in dishonor to themselves …

A Portrait No Artist Can Paint

Revelation 1:16

… He is forever pouring it forth and this is His splendor, that He shines upon the sons of men to fill them with joy. Yet this figure of …

In Him: Like Him

1 John 2:6

… But, oh, the pleasure, the joy, the bliss of delighting in God! How many times have I sung to myself that last dear stanza of the psalm, wherein …

Where True Prayer is Found

2 Samuel 7:27

… in prayer like the chariots of Amminadib outstripping the wind—this is a joy worth worlds! Beloved, this finding in the heart to pray proves, in the sixth …

Kicking Against The Pricks

Acts 9:5

… say nothing—but see what you are doing to yourself—you are losing joy and comfort. You are injuring your own soul. You are sowing for yourself the …