Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
"Daily do we need to pray for afresh realization of the preciousness of the Gospel, a fresh appropriation of its blessed contents; and then there will be a renewing of our joy."
A.W. Pink
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
"The final joy in any truly Christian discipline or practice or rhythm of life is, in the words of the apostle, 'the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord' (Philippians 3:8)
David Mathis
Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
"It is in God that the fount of spiritual and everlasting joy originates: from Him it all flows forth."
A.W. Pink
"If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. "These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.
"None can build a beautiful, shining character upon covered sins. Joy is part of a complete Christian life, and no one can be joyous with sins concealed in his heart."
J.R. Miller
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
"Those who understand God’s sovereignty have joy even in the midst of suffering, a joy reflected on their very faces, for they see that their suffering is not without purpose."
R.C. Sproul
A joyful heart is good medicine, But a broken spirit dries up the bones.
"Obedience to Christ’s commands may not always begin with joy, but it will end with joy."
Glenna Marshall
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
"When we realize that God is the perfection of all that we long for or desire, that he is the summation of everything beautiful or desirable, then we realize that the greatest joy of the life to come will be that we “shall see his face.”"
Wayne Grudem
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.
John Piper
So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
The resurrection of Christ is the most joyful event that ever came to pass.
Jonathan Edwards
Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!
No man shall ever take from me the joy that Christ rose from the dead.
Charles Spurgeon
For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for a lifetime; Weeping may last for the night, But a shout of joy comes in the morning.
The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth; Break forth and sing for joy and sing praises.
Human history is the long terrible story of a man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
C.S. Lewis
You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.
How wise we be of, with joyful certainty, we accepted each unfolding of his will as a proof of his faithfulness and love!
Susannah Spurgeon
"For you will go out with joy And be led forth with peace; The mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you, And all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
In the hands of a loving God, sorrow and suffering become the doorways into the greatest and most indestructible joys.
David Powlison
For You, O LORD, have made me glad by what You have done, I will sing for joy at the works of Your hands.
The Gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the Gospel.
John Piper
Shout for joy, O heavens! And rejoice, O earth! Break forth into joyful shouting, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people And will have compassion on His afflicted.
The fear of God promotes spiritual joy; it is the morning star which ushers in the sunlight of comfort.
Thomas Watson
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
If you love gladly to make other glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.
John Piper
Great is my confidence in you; great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.
The secret of joy is Christ in me, not me in different circumstances.
Elisabeth Elliot
For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; He also is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But the LORD made the heavens. Splendor and majesty are before Him, Strength and joy are in His place.
Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.
Sam Storms
Your words were found and I ate them, And Your words became for me a joy and the delight of my heart; For I have been called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts.
Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
C.S. Lewis
My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
Those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.
D. A. Carson
Shout for joy to God, all the earth;
The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies and put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.
Matthew Henry
Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; And let them say among the nations, "The LORD reigns." Let the sea roar, and all it contains; Let the field exult, and all that is in it. Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the LORD; For He is coming to judge the earth.
Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.
A. B. Simpson
With trumpets and the sound of the horn Shout joyfully before the King, the LORD. Let the sea roar and all it contains, The world and those who dwell in it. Let the rivers clap their hands, Let the mountains sing together for joy
Joy is best sown in broken ground.
Jack Wellman
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
No one can get Joy by merely asking for it. It is one of the ripest fruits of the Christian life, and, like all fruits, must be grown.
Henry Drummond
Restore to me the joy of Your salvation And sustain me with a willing spirit.
There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.
Augustine
For You have been my help, And in the shadow of Your wings I sing for joy.
If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
C.S. Lewis
They who dwell in the ends of the earth stand in awe of Your signs; You make the dawn and the sunset shout for joy.
It is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the Lord, His joy in ransoming us, His joy in dwelling within us as our Saviour and Power for fruitbearing and His joy in possessing us, as His Bride and His delight; it is the consciousness of this joy which is our real strength. Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.
Hudson Taylor
O satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness, That we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.'
Elisabeth Elliot
O come, let us sing for joy to the LORD, Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.
Spiritual joy is: The settled conviction that God sovereignly controls the events of life for the believers’ good and His glory. Spiritual joy is not an attitude dependent on chance or circumstance. It is the deep and abiding confidence that regardless of one’s circumstances in life, all is well between the believer and the Lord. No matter what difficulty, pain, disappointment, failure, rejection, or other challenge one is facing, genuine joy remains because of that eternal well being established by God’s grace in salvation. Thus, Scripture makes it clear that the fullest, most lasting and satisfying joy is derived from a true relationship with God. It is not based on circumstances or chance, but is the gracious and permanent possession of every child of God.
John MacArthur
Let the rivers clap their hands, Let the mountains sing together for joy
What the Bible Says About Joy:
1. Jesus’ aim in all He taught was the joy of His people (Jn. 15:11).
2. Joy is what God fills us with when we trust in Christ (Rom. 15:13).
3. The kingdom of God is joy (Rom. 14:17).
4. Joy is the fruit of God’s Spirit within us (Gal. 5:22).
5. Joy is the aim of everything the apostles did and wrote (2 Cor. 1:24).
6. Becoming a Christian is finding a joy that makes you willing to forsake everything (Mat. 13:44).
7. Joy is nourished and sustained by the word of God in the Bible (Psm. 19:8).
8. Joy will overtake all sorrow for those who trust Christ (Psm. 126:5; 30:5)
9. God Himself is our joy (Psm. 43:4; 16:11).
10. Joy in God outstrips all earthly joy (Psm. 4:7)
11. If your joy is in God, no one can take your joy from you (Jn. 16:22).
12. God calls all nations and peoples to join in the joy He offers to all who believe. No racism. No ethnocentrism (Psm. 67:4; Psm. 66:1).
13. The whole Christian message from beginning to end is good news of great joy (Lk. 2:10; Isa. 51:11).
14. When we meet Christ at His second coming we will enter into his indestructible joy (Mt. 25:23).
John Piper
Shout for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done it! Shout joyfully, you lower parts of the earth; Break forth into a shout of joy, you mountains, O forest, and every tree in it; For the LORD has redeemed Jacob And in Israel He shows forth His glory.
In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.
Therefore you too have grief now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,
