101 Most Powerful Promises in the Bible
Chapter One
Unbridled Joy
He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts
of joy.
Job 8:21
HAVE you ever felt as if someone passed you by when handing out the
gift of joy? Sometimes you're simply mired in a joyless disposition.
You slog through days or weeks when you just can't seem to surface
from a serious funk. You know the Bible tells you to be joyful, but
when you're down in the dumps, verses such as Philippians 4:4
(NKJV)-"Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!"-fall
on your deaf ears.
Those are the kinds of verses your friends are most likely to quote
in a well-meaning but futile attempt to cheer you up. It's all well
and good for others to tell you to rejoice, but just once, wouldn't
it be great if someone would tell you how?
Fortunately, God not only wants you to rejoice in him, but he also
promises to enable you to rejoice in him. Jesus-who, by the way,
cannot be separated from joy-said God will give you the kind of joy
that no one can ever take away from you (John 16:22). And just look
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