My Word ~ Joy!

Hello Dear friends!

I trust your Christmas Holiday was beautiful, surrounded by your loved one's

and the New Year has found you with peace in your heart

as you look to God with each new day for His unfailing love towards you

because of the hope we have through the promises

of God found in the Scriptures.

My husband and I were blessed by bringing in the New Year

with our three oldest grandsons.

We had a most wonderful time!

Lots of sledding and snow playing days where forts and snow tunnels

were created using their "boy" imaginations. 😉

We had two daughters and mostly girls in both of our family's,

so we are learning how very different the two are from one another.

God's perfect and lovely design as He created male and female

in His image amazes me time after time.

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I have been pondering and praying on the word "JOY" for some time now

and though joy has been a word I love to use and apply in my life,

I have chosen the word "JOY" because of the qualities of this word.

"Rejoicing" keeps coming to mind with my word

and that is the desire of my heart ~ to rejoice outwardly with joy

showing pleasure, delight, faithfulness and gratitude 

to God, my Savior, for His fullness of joy in my life.

In the Scriptures, God has much to show us in the way of Joy.

Verse upon verse can be found and applied to our lives

as we faithfully walk the path of life God has called us to walk.

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"Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices;

My flesh also will rest in hope."

(Psalm 16:9)

" You will show me the path of life;

In Your presence is fullness of joy;

At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore."

(Psalm 16:11)

God is present in all the experiences of life, our every day happenings

and we can take joy and be blessed and be satisfied ~ content ~

with whatever may come across our paths 

showing pleasure, delight and rejoicing with JOY overflowing

so that others will want the joy of the Lord that fills our hearts.

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"The JOY of the Lord is our strength" ~ Nehemiah 8:10

" JOY cometh in the morning" ~ Psalm 30:5

"Restore unto me the JOY of my salvation" ~ Psalm 51:12

"Thy word was unto me the JOY" ~ Jeremiah 15:16

"Will turn their mourning into JOY" ~ Jeremiah 31:13

"That our JOY may be full" ~ 2 John 1:12

Year's ago I challenged myself to start a notebook by collecting

Scripture verses about "My God" and then categorizing them so that when I wanted

to look up a verse that would pertain to a particular topic

it would be right there and handy, plus,

this is an excellent way of writing out and memorizing the Scriptures.

Maybe this New Year you too would find it a challenge 

as well as rewarding by starting your very own notebook on Scripture verses God brings to your mind or directs you to write down, memorize

and apply to your individual life?

Here are just a few of my particular topics ~

My God will hear me

My God is my shield 

My God and my tongue

 My God will be my guide

My God's mercy and grace

My God wants me to have joy

My God wants me to trust Him

My God is the Righteous Judge

God wants me to love His Word

My God is my help and strength

My God wants solitude prayer time

 My My God wants me to love my enemies

My God wants me to be a virtuous women

My list goes on, but you get the idea.
Once I have the topic I then look up Scripture verses that pertain to that topic.

Take JOY my friends and be blessed!

"Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.

Serve the Lord with gladness:

come before His presence with singing"

~ Psalm 100:1&2 ~

Joy!

 Debbie 

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