November 20, 2023… Sharing Priceless Joy …
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from the group Rend Collective singing … Joy … Poignantly and yet powerfully singing of how God implants joy in our hears that we are call to share with other.
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Highlight Passage: …Proverbs 17:22 [NLT] …
22 A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirits saps a person’s strength.</i> God, thru Solomon’s wisdom shows that sharing a cheerful heart is good medicine for those who share joy with others and for those receiving the joy.
Highlight Passage (in context)</u>: Proverbs 17:12-22 (NLT) … USE THIS LINK …
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+17%3A12-22&version=NLT
… Solomon shares the priceless value of sharing happiness and joy with others.
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Reference Passage </u>: …Psalms 16;11 (NLT] … </b> 11 You (LORD) will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of Your presence and the pleasures of living with You forever.
… King David sings of the priceless joy of living for and being with God FOREVER. .
Reference Passage: … John 15:11, 13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus charges His disciples to share the joy of God’s love with others, declaring that there is no greater joy than sacrificing one’s self to serve God and God’s love with others.
Reference Passage: … Galatians 5:22-23 [NLT] … </b>
22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things </
… The Apostle Paul shows fellow Christians what God’s produces in those are born-again and live to share the Fruit of the Spirit with others.
Reference Passage: … 1Thessalonians 5:16a [NLT] …
16 Always be joyful.
… Paul also exhorts fellow Christians to ALWAYS be joyful in the presence of others who need God’s priceless joy.
Reference Passage: … 1Peter 1:8 [NLT] …
8 You love Him even though you have never seen Him. Though you don not see Him now, you trust Him; and you rejoice with a glorious, inexpressible joy.
…Paul teaches truth that Christians have not seen God but by trusting in His love, we share the priceless joy coming from the priceless love of God.
My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread entry at this link - author, Alyson Kieda … tells of a teacher who dressed up in different costumes every day (as in the attached photo) to bring smiles and happiness to the students as they boarded the bus to go home from school, … EVERYDAY, … sacrificing her time to bring some joy into the lives of her students.
I would think that all reading here with me would agree that all God’s children have human weaknesses that only God’s strength and grace can give us the power to overcome. So, if you’ve taken in ALL of Steven Curtis Chapman’s linked song, and mediated on the Scriptures
above, I believe you - as I was - will be uplifted and called to receive God’s empowering grace to lift us in the flight we call life.
My THANKFULNESS ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me your priceless joy to share with others every day.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … reach out with God’s love and share His Spirit implanted joy with someone today.
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1 comment:
Amen..
Kjetil
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