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VERSES ABOUT JOY
Think about it: the joy of the Lord doesn't just fill you with strength, it brings us all together. It's a joy that's not meant to be kept to yourself; it needs to be shared. Just like the Israelites were instructed to celebrate and share what they had with each other, you can spread the joy of the Lord with everyone you know.
This joy challenges you to love your neighbor and share the Gospel. When your heart is joyful in God, you are strong and empowered to spread that joy throughout your community. It's a lasting joy, something no one can take away.
Psalm 98:4-6 says, "Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music; make music to the Lord with the harp, with the harp and the sound of singing, with trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn— shout for joy before the Lord, the King." You can find so many verses like this that talk about the joy of our God.
I will give you many descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will bless you and make your name famous, so that you will be a blessing.
The Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says, “When I restore the people to their land, they will once again say in the land of Judah and in its towns, ‘May the Lord bless the sacred hill of Jerusalem, the holy place where he lives.’
When that time comes, Israel will rank with Egypt and Assyria, and these three nations will be a blessing to all the world.
He will love you and bless you, so that you will increase in number and have many children; he will bless your fields, so that you will have grain, wine, and olive oil; and he will bless you by giving you many cattle and sheep. He will give you all these blessings in the land that he promised your ancestors he would give to you.
When Aaron had finished all the sacrifices, he raised his hands over the people and blessed them, and then stepped down.
Live here, and I will be with you and bless you. I am going to give all this territory to you and to your descendants. I will keep the promise I made to your father Abraham.
So he blessed them that day, saying, “The Israelites will use your names when they pronounce blessings. They will say, ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” In this way Jacob put Ephraim before Manasseh.
I will bless those who bless you, But I will curse those who curse you. And through you I will bless all the nations.”
They will be famous among the nations; Everyone who sees them will know That they are a people whom I have blessed.”
It is your father's God who helps you, The Almighty God who blesses you With blessings of rain from above And of deep waters from beneath the ground, Blessings of many cattle and children,
If you obey the commands of the Lord your God, which I give you today, if you love him, obey him, and keep all his laws, then you will prosper and become a nation of many people. The Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are about to occupy.
“Comfort my people,” says our God. “Comfort them!
The Sovereign Lord is coming to rule with power, bringing with him the people he has rescued.
He will take care of his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs together and carry them in his arms; he will gently lead their mothers.
Can anyone measure the ocean by handfuls or measure the sky with his hands? Can anyone hold the soil of the earth in a cup or weigh the mountains and hills on scales?
Can anyone tell the Lord what to do? Who can teach him or give him advice?
With whom does God consult in order to know and understand and to learn how things should be done?
To the Lord the nations are nothing, no more than a drop of water; the distant islands are as light as dust.
All the animals in the forests of Lebanon are not enough for a sacrifice to our God, and its trees are too few to kindle the fire.
The nations are nothing at all to him.
To whom can God be compared? How can you describe what he is like?
He is not like an idol that workers make, that metalworkers cover with gold and set in a base of silver.
Encourage the people of Jerusalem. Tell them they have suffered long enough and their sins are now forgiven. I have punished them in full for all their sins.”
From then on, because of Joseph the Lord blessed the household of the Egyptian and everything that he had in his house and in his fields.
People of Judah and Israel! In the past foreigners have cursed one another by saying, ‘May the same disasters fall on you that fell on Judah and Israel!’ But I will save you, and then those foreigners will say to one another, ‘May you receive the same blessings that came to Judah and Israel!’ So have courage and don't be afraid.”
Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which can never be shaken, never be moved.
As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people, now and forever.
The Lord will protect you from all sickness, and he will not bring on you any of the dreadful diseases that you experienced in Egypt, but he will bring them on all your enemies.
Praise the Lord, the God of Israel! He alone does these wonderful things.
Praise his glorious name forever! May his glory fill the whole world. Amen! Amen!
Now you will summon foreign nations; at one time they did not know you, but now they will come running to join you! I, the Lord your God, the holy God of Israel, will make all this happen; I will give you honor and glory.”
“The Lord will defeat your enemies when they attack you. They will attack from one direction, but they will run from you in all directions.
That decision was their own; but, as a matter of fact, they have an obligation to help them. Since the Jews shared their spiritual blessings with the Gentiles, the Gentiles ought to use their material blessings to help the Jews.
Anyone who strikes you strikes what is most precious to me.” So the Lord Almighty sent me with this message for the nations that had plundered his people:
The scripture predicted that God would put the Gentiles right with himself through faith. And so the scripture announced the Good News to Abraham: “Through you God will bless all people.”
May I never be able to play the harp again if I forget you, Jerusalem!
May I never be able to sing again if I do not remember you, if I do not think of you as my greatest joy!
The little you had before I came has grown enormously, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I went. Now it is time for me to look out for my own interests.”
The mountains and hills may crumble, but my love for you will never end; I will keep forever my promise of peace.” So says the Lord who loves you.
The Lord remembers us and will bless us; he will bless the people of Israel and all the priests of God.
He will bless everyone who honors him, the great and the small alike.
All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants—all because you obeyed my command.”
They will be as numerous as the specks of dust on the earth. They will extend their territory in all directions, and through you and your descendants I will bless all the nations.
He will turn all these curses against your enemies, who hated you and oppressed you,
But you are the chosen race, the King's priests, the holy nation, God's own people, chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his own marvelous light.
“The Lord your God will bless you in the land that he is giving you. Not one of your people will be poor
The Sovereign Lord says to his people: “I will signal to the nations, and they will bring your children home.
The Lord has chosen Zion; he wants to make it his home:
“This is where I will live forever; this is where I want to rule.
When the Lord brought us back to Jerusalem, it was like a dream!
How we laughed, how we sang for joy! Then the other nations said about us, “The Lord did great things for them.”
Then tell them that I, the Sovereign Lord, am going to take all my people out of the nations where they have gone, gather them together, and bring them back to their own land.
I will unite them into one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. They will have one king to rule over them, and they will no longer be divided into two nations or split into two kingdoms.
On your walls, Jerusalem, I have placed sentries; They must never be silent day or night. They must remind the Lord of his promises And never let him forget them.
They must give him no rest until he restores Jerusalem And makes it a city the whole world praises.
May nations be your servants, and may peoples bow down before you. May you rule over all your relatives, and may your mother's descendants bow down before you. May those who curse you be cursed, and may those who bless you be blessed.”
There is a river that brings joy to the city of God, to the sacred house of the Most High.
I will take you from every nation and country and bring you back to your own land.
I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you clean from all your idols and everything else that has defiled you.
I will give you a new heart and a new mind. I will take away your stubborn heart of stone and give you an obedient heart.
Make the tent you live in larger; lengthen its ropes and strengthen the pegs!
You will extend your boundaries on all sides; your people will get back the land that the other nations now occupy. Cities now deserted will be filled with people.
The Lord built his city on the sacred hill;
more than any other place in Israel he loves the city of Jerusalem.
Listen, city of God, to the wonderful things he says about you:
“I will fill the descendants of David and the other people of Jerusalem with the spirit of mercy and the spirit of prayer. They will look at the one whom they stabbed to death, and they will mourn for him like those who mourn for an only child. They will mourn bitterly, like those who have lost their first-born son.
“I will bless them and let them live around my sacred hill. There I will bless them with showers of rain when they need it.
The trees will bear fruit, the fields will produce crops, and everyone will live in safety on his own land. When I break my people's chains and set them free from those who made them slaves, then they will know that I am the Lord.
May the Lord give you children— you and your descendants!
May you be blessed by the Lord, who made heaven and earth!
The Sovereign Lord says to his people: “I will signal to the nations, and they will bring your children home.
Kings will be like fathers to you; queens will be like mothers. They will bow low before you and honor you; they will humbly show their respect for you. Then you will know that I am the Lord; no one who waits for my help will be disappointed.”
The Lord says, “Nations, listen to me and proclaim my words on the far-off shores. I scattered my people, but I will gather them and guard them as a shepherd guards his flock.
God rises up and scatters his enemies. Those who hate him run away in defeat.
your people made their home there; in your goodness you provided for the poor.
The Lord gave the command, and many women carried the news:
“Kings and their armies are running away!” The women at home divided what was captured:
figures of doves covered with silver, whose wings glittered with fine gold. (Why did some of you stay among the sheep pens on the day of battle?)
When Almighty God scattered the kings on Mount Zalmon, he caused snow to fall there.
What a mighty mountain is Bashan, a mountain of many peaks!
Why from your mighty peaks do you look with scorn on the mountain on which God chose to live? The Lord will live there forever!
With his many thousands of mighty chariots the Lord comes from Sinai into the holy place.
He goes up to the heights, taking many captives with him; he receives gifts from rebellious people. The Lord God will live there.
Praise the Lord, who carries our burdens day after day; he is the God who saves us.
As smoke is blown away, so he drives them off; as wax melts in front of the fire, so do the wicked perish in God's presence.
People from one end of the world to the other honor me. Everywhere they burn incense to me and offer acceptable sacrifices. All of them honor me!
In days to come the mountain where the Temple stands will be the highest one of all, towering above all the hills. Many nations will come streaming to it,
When that day comes, they will throw away the gold and silver idols they have made, and abandon them to the moles and the bats.
When the Lord comes to shake the earth, people will hide in holes and caves in the rocky hills to try to escape from his anger and to hide from his power and glory.
Put no more confidence in mortals. What are they worth?
and their people will say, “Let us go up the hill of the Lord, to the Temple of Israel's God. He will teach us what he wants us to do; we will walk in the paths he has chosen. For the Lord's teaching comes from Jerusalem; from Zion he speaks to his people.”
And this is how all Israel will be saved. As the scripture says, “The Savior will come from Zion and remove all wickedness from the descendants of Jacob.
I am now giving you the choice between life and death, between God's blessing and God's curse, and I call heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Choose life.
If you and your descendants will turn back to the Lord and with all your heart obey his commands that I am giving you today,
Love the Lord your God, obey him and be faithful to him, and then you and your descendants will live long in the land that he promised to give your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
Proclaim God's power; his majesty is over Israel, his might is in the skies.
How awesome is God as he comes from his sanctuary— the God of Israel! He gives strength and power to his people. Praise God!