God's Word on That

  • God Loves Us Individually

    Remember, O Lord, Your great mercy and love for they are from of old…  According to Your love remember me, for You are [beyond] good, O Lord (Psalm 25:6).

    Out of the goodness of Your love, deliver me (Psalm 109:21).

    Preserve my life according to Your love, and I will obey the statues of Your mouth (Psalm 119:88).

    Because he loves Me, says the Lord, I will rescue him.  I will protect him for he acknowledges My name (Psalm 91:14).

    Help me, O Lord my God; save me in accordance with Your love (Psalm 109:26).

    Turn to me and be gracious to me, after Your manner with those who love Your name (Psalm 119:132).

    Hear my voice in accordance with Your love; preserve my life according to Your laws (Psalm 119:149).

    Turn O Lord, and deliver me; save me because of Your unfailing love (Psalm 6:4).

    “I have loved you,” says the Lord… (Malachi 1:2)

    I have loved you with an everlasting love, I have drawn you with loving-kindness (Jeremiah 31:3).

    For great is Your love toward me…  You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness (Psalm 86:13, 15).

    My faithful love will be with him…  I will maintain My love to him forever…  I will not take My love from him nor will I betray My faithfulness (Psalm 89:24, 28, 33).

    Through the unfailing love of the Most High he will not be shaken (Psalm 21:7).

    Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your unfailing love; according to Your great compassion blot out my transgressions (Psalm 51:1).

    Answer me, O Lord, out of the goodness of Your love; in Your great mercy turn to me (Psalm 69:16).

    Do not withhold Your mercy from me, O Lord; may Your love and truth always protect me (Psalm 40:11).

    In Your love You kept me from the pit of destruction; You have put all my sins behind You… (Isaiah 38:17)

    For Your love is ever before me; and I walk continually in Your truth (Psalm 26:3).

    You are forgiving and good, O Lord, abounding in love to all who call to You… (Psalm 86:5)

    The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me; Your love O Lord, endures forever (Psalm 138:8).

    The Lord will command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and His song will be with me on the night;  [my every breath shall be] a prayer to the God of my life (Psalm 42:8).

    He has taken me to the banquet hall and His banner over me is love (Song of Songs 2:4).

    The Lord your God… will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing (Zephaniah 3:17).

    When I said, “my foot is slipping,” Your love, O Lord, supported me (Psalm 94:18).

    In Your unfailing love silence my enemies… (Psalm 143:12)

    I love the Lord because He hears my voice and my supplications (Psalm 116:1).

    He grants sleep to those He loves (Psalm 127:2).

    In Your great love, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation (Psalm 69:13).

    May Your unfailing love come to me, O Lord; Your salvation according to Your promise (Psalm 119:41).

    May Your unfailing love be my comfort according to Your promise to Your servant (Psalm 119:76).

    Deal with Your servant according to Your love… (Psalm 119:124)

    Let the morning bring me word of Your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in You… (Psalm 143:8)

    The Lord’s unfailing love surrounds the man who trusts in Him (Psalm 32:10).

    The eyes of the Lord are on those… whose hope is in His unfailing love (Psalm 33:18).

    May Your unfailing love rest upon us, O Lord, even as we put our hope in You (Psalm 33:22).

    God sends His love and His faithfulness… for great is Your love, reaching to the heavens (Psalm 57:3, 10).

    For great is Your love, higher than the heavens (Psalm 108:4).

    For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His love for those who fear Him…  From everlasting to everlasting, the Lord’s love is with those who fear Him (Psalm 103:11, 17).

    For the Lord loves the just and will not forsake His faithful ones (Psalm 37:28).

    Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail (Lamentations 3:22).

    “… My unfailing love for you will not be shaken, nor My covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you (Isaiah 54:10).

    Since you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you… (Isaiah 43:4)

    I trust in Your unfailing love (Psalm 13:5).

    My only hope is in Your unfailing love and faithfulness (Psalm 40:27).

    I trust in God’s unfailing love for ever and ever (Psalm 52:8).

    [It is God] Who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion (Psalm 103:4).

  • God’s Love For His Creation

    The earth is filled with Your love, O Lord… (Psalm 119:64)

    How priceless is Your unfailing love, O God! (Psalm 36:7)

    Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens; Your faithfulness to the skies (Psalm 36:5).

    Within Your Temple, O God, we meditate on Your unfailing love (Psalm 48:9).

    The Lord loves righteousness and justice.  The earth is full of His unfailing love (Psalm 33:5).

    Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; love and faithfulness go before You (Psalm 89:14).

    Love and faithfulness meet together, righteousness and peace kiss each other (Psalm 85:10).

    To Your name be the glory, because of Your love and faithfulness (Psalm 115:1).

    The compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abounding in love and faithfulness (Exodus 34:6).

    Showing love to a thousand generations of those who love Me (Exodus 20:6).

    For the Lord is good and His love endures forever (Psalm 100:5).

    For great is His love toward us… (Psalm 117:2)

    With the Lord is unfailing love and with Him is full redemption (Psalm 130:7).

    Out of His great love He relented (Psalm 106:45).

    In His love and mercy He redeemed them… (Isaiah 63:9)

    Rise up and help us; redeem us because of Your unfailing love (Psalm 44:26).

    Save us and help us with Your right hand that those You love may be delivered (Psalm 60:5).

    Save us and help us with Your right hand that those who love You may be delivered (Psalm 108:6).

    Continue Your loving-kindness to those who know You (Psalm 36:10).

    Show us Your unfailing love, O Lord, and grant us Your salvation (Psalm 85:7).

    In accordance with Your great love, forgive the sin of these people (Numbers 14:19).

    In Your unfailing love You will lead the people You have redeemed (Exodus 15:13).

    I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love… (Hosea 11:4)

    For the Lord is righteous; He loves justice; upright men will see His face (Psalm 11:7).

    The Lord loves the righteous (PSM 146:8).

    The Lord watches over all who love Him… (Psalm 145:20)

    He loves those who pursue righteousness (Proverbs 15:9).

    I am the Lord, who exercises loving-kindness, justice and righteousness on the earth, for in these I delight, says the Lord (Jeremiah 9:24).

    You love righteousness and hate wickedness.  Therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions (Psalm 45:7).

  • Study On Love

    Well, we climbed the ladder of Fruits of the Spirit. We made it to the top: Love. There are many, many verses of love in God’s Word, and many, many, many quotes on what love is and what love can be and what love means to creatures as well as to the Creator. But I believe the most important one to meditate on is that God’s kind of love – Agape or Hesed – is not about a feeling but about a willful action.

    This is God’s love – in and for me, without which I am nothing.  It cannot be merited, earned or deserved.   And we cannot do anything bad enough to chase God away!  We have to change our mindset on what love is. According to God’s Word, love is strong affection, charity, benevolence, a giving to others; any kind of deliverance from selfishness.

    No love is more powerful, more intense, more continuous, more pure, or more full-of-delight in the beloved than the love of God the Father for God the Son!  It is an energy of joy that makes atom bombs look like fire crackers.

    And Jesus tells us, “As the Father has loved Me, so I have loved you” (John 15:9). Then He continues on to say, “…love one another as I have loved you” (John 15:12).

    Love needs an object to whom it can give itself away, in whom it can lose itself, with whom it can make itself one.  The nature of love is always one, however different the object.

    Love feeds on truth and when our hearts begin to know the truth of how God loves and desires us all, and who we are in Him, we are transformed from being weak in heart to bold in love!  We are renewed by the knowledge of what we look like to Him. 

    Until you have a proper sense of self-love, a healthy and wholesome self-esteem, you are not able to freely and fully love someone else.  You don’t give yourself to others or consider them valuable if you don’t first of all consider yourself worthy.  Meditate on this: Love draws upon the resourcefulness of one’s own esteem in order to have sufficient supply to release it to someone else.  It takes personal security to do this.

    We succumb to society’s false judgment of our worth.  As a result, a large segment of the population is plagued by feelings of worthlessness, inferiority, and self-condemnation.  God has not equally distributed gifts, talents, and intellect, but He has equally distributed Himself.  Our sense of worth must come from knowing who we are as children of the Great King.  Something happens to us when we become convinced that our Heavenly Father is aware of and involved in our activities, and is, in fact, applauding our lives.

    It is tempting for us to want to be like someone else, to be dissatisfied with who we are and what we can do.  Yet God made us to be what He wanted us to be – what we are now.  We should be content with who we are – it is only a work in progress anyway.  It is so liberating to accept yourself!

    I learned early on to respond to people who ask “Who do you think you are?” with a slew of scripture verses: “I’m more than a conqueror; I’m a chosen generation; I’m a royal priesthood, a peculiar person; God is for me, so who can be against me?  I am a child of the One True King…

    The Word of God is full of verses that tell us we are worthy to receive God’s promises.  But remember that you can say all the right verses you want, yet if your heart doesn’t believe you are what you say you are, your promise will stay in lay-away until you are ready to claim it.

    The depth of God’s love:

    [You have shown] the wonder of Your great love (Psalm 17:7).

    God demonstrates His own love for us in this: that while we were still sinners Christ died for us (Romans 5:8).

    For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believed in Him shall not die but have eternal life.  For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him (John 3:16-17).

    See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called Sons of God! (1 John 3:1)

    Heirs of the Kingdom – which He promised to those who love Him (James 2:5).

    God, our Father, who loved us (2 Thessalonians 2:16).

    Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?  … We are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.  For I am convinced that… nothing in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:35-39).

    For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight – in love He predestined us to be adopted as His sons… in accordance with His pleasure and will (Ephesians 1:4-5).

    But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our transgressions (Ephesians 2:4-5).

    I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me (Galatians 2:20).

    I in them and You in Me.  May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know You sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me (John 17:23).

    That the love You have for Me may be in them and that I Myself may be in them (John 17:26).

    For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed I came from the Father (John 16:27).

    What wonderful things God has ready for those who love Him! (1 Corinthians 2:9)

  • So Let Us Continually Show Joy

    Rejoice always! (1 Thessalonians 5:16)

    Rejoice in the Lord always!  I say it again: Rejoice! (Philippians 4:4)

    Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him glory! … (Revelation 19:7)

    Be glad and rejoice.  For the Lord has done marvelous things (Joel 2:21).

    Be glad, O people of Zion; rejoice in the Lord our God… (Joel 2:23)

    Be glad in the Lord, you righteous ones, and give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name (Psalm 97:12).

    Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you righteous ones.  Shout for joy all you who are upright in heart (Psalm 32:11).

    Be glad and rejoice with all your heart…  The Lord your God… will exult over you with joy… (Zephaniah 3:14, 17).

    The righteous shall be glad in the Lord and trust in Him.  And all the upright in heart shall glory and offer praise (Psalm 64:10).

    Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous!  For praise from the upright is beautiful (Psalm 33:1).

    Rejoice in everything you put your hands to, because the Lord your God has blessed you (Deuteronomy12:7).

    The Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you shall be altogether joyful (Deuteronomy 16:15).

    I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise… (Psalm 42:4)

    For you will go out with joy and be led forth with peace.  The mountains and hills will break forth into shouts of joy (Isaiah 55:12).

    Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in your believing… (Romans 15:13)

    Joyously draw water from the springs of salvation (Isaiah 12:3).

    We will be glad and rejoice in You (Songs 1:14).

    Let the heart of those who seek the Lord rejoice (Psalm 105:3).

    Let all those who seek You rejoice and be gad in You… (Psalm 40:16)

    May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You… (Psalm 70:4)

    May the righteous be glad and rejoice before God; may they be happy and joyful (Psalm 68:3).

    In Him our hearts rejoice for we trust in His Holy Name (Psalm 33:21).

    We will rejoice in Him! (Psalm 66:6)

    This is the day the Lord has made; I will rejoice and be glad in it (Psalm 118:24).

    Be glad in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven (Luke 6:23).

    Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven…. (Matthew 5:12)

    Rejoice with those who rejoice… (Romans 12:15)

    Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs.  Sing and make melody in your heart to the Lord (Ephesians 5:19).

    Let them also offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and tell of His works with joyful singing (Psalm 107:22).

    Let the saints be joyful in glory; let them sing for joy in their beds (Psalm 149:5).

    Come, let us sing to the Lord.  Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation (Psalm 95:1).

    Let them shout for joy and rejoice who favor My vindication (Psalm 35:27).

    Rejoice over [Babylon], O Heavens.  Rejoice, saints and apostles and peoples, for God has avenged you on her (Revelation 18:20).

    Be joyful in hope… (Romans 12:12)

    Glory in His Holy Name!  Let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice (1 Chronicles 16:10).

    Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation (Isaiah 25:9).

    [We pray that you may be] strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy, giving thanks to the Father… (Colossians 1:11-12)

    You are a chosen people… that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.  [We are created to rejoice.] (1 Peter 2:9)

    In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy (Philippians 1:4).

    When God gives any man wealth and possessions and enables him to enjoy them, to accept his lot and be happy in his work – this is a gift of God (Ecclesiastes 5:19).

    Nothing is better for a man… than to eat and drink and be glad.  Then joy will accompany him in his work (Ecclesiastes 8:15).

    He shall pray to God and He will delight in him; he shall see His face with joy… (Job 33:26)

    The sound of joyful shouting and salvation is in the tents of the righteous… (Psalm 118:15)

    Light is shed upon the righteous and joy on the upright in heart (Psalm 97:11).

    The execution of justice is joy for the righteous… (Proverbs 21:15)

    The prospect/hope of the righteous is joy… (Proverbs 10:28)

    Counselors of peace have joy (Proverbs 12:20).

    Love… rejoices with the truth (1 Corinthians 13:6).

    Then you will find your joy in the Lord… (Isaiah 58:14)

    May the Lord rejoice in His works! (Psalm 104:31)

    Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord (Philippians 3:1).

  • Personal Expressions of Joy

    You turned my wailing into dancing.  You removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy that my heart may sing to You and not be silent.  O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever (Psalm 30:11-12).

    May my meditations be pleasing to Him as I rejoice in the Lord (Psalm 104:34).

    I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High (Psalm 9:2).

    I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy… (Psalm 31:7)

    My spirit rejoices in God, my Savior (Luke 1:47).

    I will offer in His tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord (Psalm 27:6).

    I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall be joyful in my God… (Isaiah 61:10)

    My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises to You – I, whom You have redeemed (Psalm 71:23).

    I will go to the altar of God; to God, my Exceeding Joy.  And on the harp I will praise You, O God my God (Psalm 43:4).

    My heart leaps for joy and will give thanks to Him in song (Psalm 28:7).

    My mouth offers praise with joyful lips (Psalm 63:5).

    Your statues … are the joy of my heart (Psalm 119:111).

    The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart… (Psalm 19:8)

    Your words become for me a joy and the delight of my heart.  For I have been called by Your name, O Lord God of Hosts (Jeremiah 15:16).

    For You make me glad by Your deeds, O Lord; I sing for joy at the works of Your hands (Psalm 92:4).

    You have filled my heart with greater joy than when the grain and new wine abound (Psalm 4:7).

    Bring joy to Your servant, for to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul (Psalm 86:4).

    My heart rejoices in the Lord…  I smile at my enemies, because I rejoice in Your salvation (1 Samuel 2:1).

    Make me to hear joy and gladness; let the bones which You have broken rejoice…  Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your [gracious and] generous Spirit (Psalm 51:8, 12).

    Let Your servant rejoice (Psalm 109:28).

    Yet I will exult in the Lord; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation (Habakkuk 3:18).

    My heart rejoices in Your salvation (Psalm 13:5).

    Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices…  You have made known to me the path of life.  You will fill me with joy in Your presence (Acts 2:26, 28).

    That I may share in the joy of Your nation, and join Your inheritance in giving praise (Psalm 106:5).

    For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit (Romans 14:17).

    Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits are subject to you, but rather that your names are recorded in heaven (Luke 10:20).

    Rejoice before the Lord your God… (Leviticus 23:40)

    You shall rejoice before the Lord your God… (Deuteronomy 16:11)

    You shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all to which you put your hands (Deuteronomy 12:18).

    You shall eat there before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household (Deuteronomy 14:26).

    For the joy of the Lord is your strength (Nehemiah 8:10).

    The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field.  When a man found it, he hid it again and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field (Matthew 13:44).

    There is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one’s lifetime (Ecclesiastes 3:12).

    Let each one examine his own work, and then he will have reason for rejoicing… (Galatians 6:4)

    Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works (Ecclesiastes 9:7).

    These things I have spoken to you that My joy may be in you and your joy may be made full (John 15:11).

    Ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be made full (John 16:24).

    And these things we write so your joy may be complete (1 John 1:4).

    These things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy made full in themselves (John 17:13).

  • Joy During Trials

    When anxiety was great within me, Your consolation brought joy to my soul (Psalm 94:19).

    In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials (1 Peter 1:6).

    We rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.  Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings… we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ… (Romans 5:2-3, 11)

    In the day of prosperity be joyous; but in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other (Ecclesiastes 7:14).

    Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present… (Hebrews 12:11)

    [Jesus] for the joy that was set before Him, endured the cross (Hebrews 12:12).

    But insofar as you are sharing Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, so that when His glory is revealed, you may also rejoice with triumph (1 Peter 4:13).

    Consider it all joy when you encounter various trials (James 1:2).

    So they went on their way… rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer for His name (Acts 5:41).

    And the disciples were continually filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit (Acts 13:52).

    In the same way… there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents (Luke 15:7, 10).

    See, this is the joy of going the way [of the ungodly], and from the dust others will spring up [and take his place]. (Job 8:19)

    The heart knows its own bitterness, and a stranger does not share its joy (Proverbs 14:10).

    The joy of the godless and defiled is but for a moment (Job 20:5).

    Weeping may last for a night, but joy comes in the morning (Psalm 30:5).

    A man has joy in an apt answer, and how delightful is a timely word (Proverbs 15:23).

    The light in the eyes [of him whose heart is joyful] rejoices the hearts of others… (Proverbs 15:30)

    The friend of the bridegroom… rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice.  Therefore this joy is mine and it is now complete.  He must become greater; I must become less (John 3:29-30).

    You will weep and mourn while the world rejoices.  You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy…  Now is your time of grief; but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away that joy (John 16:20, 22).

    Believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible…  For you are receiving the goal of your faith: the salvation of your souls (1 Peter 1:8).

    Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy.  He who goes to and fro weeping, carrying his bag of seed, shall indeed come again with shouts of joy bringing his sheaves with him (Psalm 126:5-6).

    That he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together (John 4:36).

    Well done, good and faithful servant… come and enter into the joy of your master (Matthew 25:21, 23).

  • We Can Give God Joy

    The Father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice; and he who becomes the father of a wise child shall have joy in Him (Proverbs 23:24).

    A wise son makes a father glad… (Proverbs 15:20)

    A wise son brings joy to his Father… (Proverbs 10:1)

    A man who loves wisdom makes his Father rejoice… (Proverbs 29:3)

    Will You not revive us again that Your people may rejoice in You? (Psalm 85:6)

    They will celebrate Your abundant goodness and joyfully sing of Your righteousness (Psalm 145:7).

    Joy and gladness will be found in [Zion]; thanksgiving and the sound of singing (Isaiah 51:3).

    Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! … (Zechariah 9:9)

    Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst (Isaiah 12:6).

    Let Israel rejoice in his Maker.  Let the children of Zion be glad in their King (Psalm 149:2).

    How blessed are the people who know the joyful sound!  …  They rejoice in Your name all day long… (Psalm 89:15-16)

    Announce this with shouts of joy… the Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob (Isaiah 48:20).

    Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people…. (Deuteronomy 32:43)

    May Your priests be clothed with righteousness; may Your saints sing for joy (Psalm 132:9).

    But let all those who take refuge and put their trust in You rejoice; let them ever sing and shout for joy because You make a covering over them and defend them; let those also who love Your name be joyful in You and be in high spirits (Psalm 5:11).

    O satisfy us in the morning with Your mercy, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our day (Psalm 90:14).

    The humble also shall increase their gladness in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel (Isaiah 29:19).

    And the ransomed of the Lord will return and come with joyful shouting to Zion, with everlasting joy upon their heads.  They will find gladness and joy… (Isaiah 35:10)

    May Your saints rejoice in Your goodness (2 Chronicles 6:41).

  • God Gives Joy

    Godly idea of joy is cheerfulness, delight, gladness; enjoying life. It is too simple to complicate.

    Joy is not something we can create by ourselves. It’s not something we earn or can grasp. And we definitely can’t buy it. Joy is a gift; it is a fruit of the Holy Spirit that comes from surrendering ourselves to God and His will for our lives. (Amanda Zurface)

    Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which will be for all people (Luke 2:10).

    He… fills your hearts with joy (Acts 14:17).

    He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouts of joy (Job 8:21).

    [O Lord,] You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy, at Your right hand there are pleasures forever more (Psalm 16:11).

    These I will bring to My Holy Mountain and I will give them joy… (Isaiah 56:7)

    But be glad and rejoice in what I will create!  For behold, I will create Jerusalem for rejoicing and her people for gladness.  I will also rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people… (Isaiah 65:18-19)

    Behold, My servants shall sing for joy of heart… (Isaiah 65:14)

    Instead of humiliation they will shout for joy over their portion… everlasting joy will be theirs (Isaiah 61:7).

    And He brought forth His people with joy, and His chosen ones with gladness and singing (Psalm 105:43).

    You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy; they rejoice before You as people rejoice at the harvest… (Isaiah 9:3)

    They will come and shout for joy to the heights of Zion; they will rejoice in the bounty of the Lord…  I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them and give them joy for their sorrow (Jeremiah 31:12-13).

    I will clothe her priests with salvation and her saints will ever sing for joy (Psalm 132:16).

    Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good… (Jeremiah 32:41)

    As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you (Isaiah 62:5).

    Our mouths were filled with laughter; our tongues with songs of joy…  The Lord has done great things for us and we are filled with joy (Psalm 126:2-3).

    And on that day they… rejoiced because God had given them great joy…  So the joy of Jerusalem was heard from afar (Nehemiah 12:43).

    [Our Father] is able to keep you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy… (Jude 1:24)

    For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight… (Ecclesiastes 2:26)

  • Study On Joy

    To increase your joy seek God’s presence.  Your joy is a gift from God to you – if you lose it, it is your job to find it, and not let it escape again.  Depression, sickness, despair – most any problem can be overcome with remembering our joy.  Our singing can shut the devil up and drive him away.  Make a joyful noise!  Even if you can’t sing, God will like it.

    Creation expresses joy.

    Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; and let men say among the nations, the Lord reigns! (1 Chronicles 16:31)

    Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice … then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy (Psalm 96:11-12).             

    Sing, O Heavens, for the Lord has done it!  Shout you lower parts of the earth; Break forth into singing, you mountains… (Isaiah 44:23)

    Shout joyfully to God, all the Earth! (Psalm 66:1)

    Shout joyfully before the King, the Lord (Psalm 98:6).

    Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth!  Serve the Lord with gladness.  Come before Him with joyful singing (Psalm 100:1-2).

    Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth; break forth in song, rejoice, and sing praises (Psalm 98:4).

    Let the nations be glad and sing for joy… (Psalm 67:4)

    Sing for joy to God our Strength; shout joyfully to the God of Jacob (Psalm 81:1).

    Shout for joy, O Heavens!  And rejoice, O Earth!  Break forth into joyful shouting, O Mountains! (Isaiah 49:13)

    Burst into songs of joy together… for the Lord has comforted His people… (Isaiah 52:9)

    Therefore rejoice, you Heavens! … (Revelation 12:12)

    The morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy! (Job 38:7)

    You make the dawn and sunset shout for joy! (Psalm 65:8)

    I [wisdom] was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in His presence; rejoicing in His whole world and delighting in mankind (Proverbs 8:30-31).

  • Our Calling Is To Peace

    Be eager and strive earnestly to guard and keep the harmony and oneness of the Spirit in the binding power of peace (Ephesians 4:3).

    Be at peace and strive to live in harmony with one another (Mark 9:50).

    For God has called us to peace(1 Corinthians 7:15).

    So far as it is up to you, live at peace with everyone( Romans 12:18).

    Remind the people… to be peaceable and considerate… (Titus 3:1-2)

    Live in peace with one another (1 Thessalonians 5:13).

    All [Wisdom’s] paths are peace (Proverbs 3:17).

    Pursue peace with everyone… (Hebrews 12:14)

    That we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness (1 Timothy 2:2).

    The mind set on the spirit is life and peace (Romans 8:6).

    Peace and mercy be upon all who walk by this rule… (Galatians6:16)

    A heart of peace gives life to the body… (Proverbs 14:30)

    The Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit (Romans 14:17).

    Those who walk uprightly enter into peace… (Isaiah 57:2)

    Mark the blameless man, and observe the upright, for the future of that man is peace (Psalm 37:37).

    For the counselors of peace there is joy (Proverbs 12:20).

    Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God (Matthew 5:9).

    When a man’s ways are pleasing to the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him (Proverbs 16:7).

    But the meek shall inherit the earth and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace (Psalm 37:11).

    How lovely on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good tidings, who publishes peace… (Isaiah 52:7)

    Behold on the mountains the feet of him who brings good tidings, who proclaims peace… (Nahum 1:15)

    Having shod your fee with the preparation of the gospel of peace (Ephesians 6:15).

    Send him on his way in peace… (1 Corinthians 16:11)

    Yield now and be at peace with Him… (Job 22:21)

    May grace and peace be given you in increasing abundance (1 Peter 1:2).

    To all God’s beloved ones… grace, spiritual blessings, and peace be yours from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 1:7).

    Peace be to the brothers (Ephesians 6:23).

    May grace (God’s favor) and peace (which is perfect well-being, all necessary good, all spiritual prosperity, and freedom from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts) be multiplied to you in [the full, personal, precise, and correct] knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord (2 Peter 1:2).

    The Lord bless you and keep you.  The Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you.  The Lord lift up His countenance on you and give you His peace (Numbers 6:24-26).