Psalm 30
I will extol you, O Lord, for you have drawn me up
and have not let my foes rejoice over me.
2 O Lord my God, I cried to you for help,
and you have healed me.
3 O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Sheol;
you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.
4 Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints,
and give thanks to his holy name.
5 For his anger is but for a moment,
and his favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may tarry for the night,
but joy comes with the morning.
6 As for me, I said in my prosperity,
“I shall never be moved.”
7 By your favor, O Lord,
you made my mountain stand strong;
you hid your face;
I was dismayed.
8 To you, O Lord, I cry,
and to the Lord I plead for mercy:
9 “What profit is there in my death,
if I go down to the pit?
Will the dust praise you?
Will it tell of your faithfulness?
10 Hear, O Lord, and be merciful to me!
O Lord, be my helper!”
11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
you have loosed my sackcloth
and clothed me with gladness,
12 that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent.
O Lord my God,
I will give thanks to you forever!
We met with family today, for the first time since both Pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, and discussed the events no one would have thought would happen. And have.
So many changes. And we can trace the changes to the vast computer changes.
No one anticipated seeing someone put drones, easily available, together and flying themselves, without a license, across the English Channel in the last few years. Meet Jane Jetson. George and Astro.
Texas A&M University did as I dreamed while I was a Freshman, Aggies knocked down so many buildings, the new ones match and are skyscrapers. Preston Hollow has so many stucco houses being built on a Texas size scale and California architecture. Changes abound. To ride down Central Expressway in Dallas and the LBJ is entirely different from my childhood and from 5 years ago. So many tall buildings reaching out into Preston Hollow, Dallas is far different than the 1970s. And oddly enough, Preston Hollow is about 20 minutes from downtown Dallas and is completely quiet in the evenings since the Pandemic. The traffic gets quiet and the stores are really empty. Different from The Woodlands, near Houston, and different from Uptown near Dallas. Changes abound.
Happiness. Will we be happy again. Is God concerned about our Happiness.
What a question. God of Love. God of Encouragement. Fierce God of the Old Testament Who has loathed child sacrifice and pagan gods of fertility despair. Is God concerned about our happiness. Biblically every Chapter tells us as Jesus did - Life will have struggles.
What a question. God of Love. God of Encouragement. Fierce God of the Old Testament Who has loathed child sacrifice and pagan gods of fertility despair. Is God concerned about our happiness. Biblically every Chapter tells us as Jesus did - Life will have struggles.
Back to the question - Is God concerned about our Happiness?
Proverbs 13:12
Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.
Like so much of the Scriptures, we find this is literally true, medically, and is the purity of Spiritual growth or the decline of Joy. Our observations on life, tell about our fears and hopes. How abundant are the Blessings of God. God tells us this:
Philippians 4:8
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Psychology agrees and calls this self-fulfilling prophesy. In a funk, help someone up. Help mankind prosper with good, gracious words and deeds not expecting to be repaid, Philanthropy and Volunteerism.
The Scriptures are real. Expect difficulty. Expect to Pray with Hope. Expect to be the blessings seeker and finder. God calls His own Spirit: Teacher, Comfort, Comforter.
Is God concerned with our Happiness?
Moses thought so and Psalm 90 tells us Moses asked to be happy. You gotta figure Moses knew something about God. Even the History Channel runs proof of the Exodus at Passover.
David believed in God's Joy at our Happiness.
Psalms 100:2
Worship the LORD with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.
Hebrews 1:9
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions
by anointing you with the oil of joy.
Psalms 97:11
Light shines on the righteous and joy on the upright in heart.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness
Luke 1:14
He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth
Acts 2:46
Every day they continued to meet together
in the temple courts.
They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts
John 15:11
I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
Acts 14:17
Yet he has not left himself without testimony:
He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons;
he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.
John 16:24
Until now you have not asked for anything in my name.
Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.
Acts 12:14
When she recognized Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, "Peter is at the door!"
2 Chronicles 29:30
King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to praise the LORD with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness and bowed down and worshiped.
1 Thessalonians 3:9
How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy we have
in the presence of our God because of you?
2 Samuel 6:12
Now King David was told, "The LORD has blessed the household of Obed-Edom and everything he has, because of the ark of God." So David went to bring up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David with rejoicing.
Psalms 4:7
Fill my heart with joy when their grain and new wine abound.
Mark 4:16
hear the word and at once receive it with joy
Esther 9:17
This happened on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar,
and on the fourteenth they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy.
Esther 9:19
That is why rural Jews – those living in villages – observe the fourteenth of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting, a day for giving presents to each other.
Nehemiah 12:27
At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from where they lived and were brought to Jerusalem to celebrate joyfully the dedication with songs of thanksgiving and with the music of cymbals, harps and lyres.
Zechariah 8:19
This is what the LORD Almighty says: "The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months will become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah.
Therefore love truth and peace."
Proverbs 10:28
The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hopes of the wicked come to nothing.
Numbers 10:10
"Also at your times of rejoicing – your appointed festivals and New Moon feasts – you are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, and they will be a memorial for you before your God. I am the LORD your God."
Philippians 2:29
Welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor people like him
Esther 8:17
In every province and in every city to which the edict of the king came, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating.
Esther 8:16
For the Jews it was a time of happiness and joy, gladness and honor.
Ecclesiastes 5:20
They seldom reflect on the days of their lives,
because God keeps them occupied
with gladness of heart.
Ecclesiastes 9:7
Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart,
for God has already approved what you do.
How to lift a funk
Esther 9:22
As the time when the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month when their sorrow was turned into joy and their mourning into a day of celebration. He wrote them to observe the days as days of feasting and joy and giving presents of food to one another and gifts to the poor.
Esther 9:18
The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and fourteenth, and then on the fifteenth they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy.
Ecclesiastes 9:8
Always be clothed in white, and always anoint your head with oil.
John 16:22
So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again
and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
John 17:13
I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them.
Psalms 100:2
Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.
Isaiah 35:10
And those the LORD has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing;
everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Jeremiah 31:7
This is what the LORD says: "Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations. Make your praises heard, and say, "LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.'
Isaiah 51:3
The LORD will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.
Psalms 30:11
You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy
Psalms 45:7
You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God,
your God,
has set you above your companions by anointing you
with the oil of joy.
Deuteronomy 28:47
Because you did not serve the LORD your God joyfully and gladly
in the time of prosperity
Psalms 35:27
May those who delight in my vindication shout for joy and gladness; may they always say,
"The LORD be exalted, who delights in the well-being of his servant."
Jeremiah 31:13
Then young women will dance and be glad, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into gladness; I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow.
Isaiah 51:11
Those the LORD has rescued will return.
They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
1 Chronicles 16:27
Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his dwelling place.
1 Chronicles 29:22
They ate and drank with great joy in the presence of the LORD that day.
Then they acknowledged Solomon son of David as king a second time,
anointing him before the LORD to be ruler and Zadok to be priest.
Jeremiah 33:11
The sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those who bring thank offerings to the house of the LORD, saying, "Give thanks to the LORD Almighty, for the LORD is good; his love endures forever." For I will restore the fortunes of the land as they were before,' says the LORD.
Isaiah 30:29
And you will sing as on the night you celebrate a holy festival; your hearts will rejoice as when people playing pipes go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.
Psalms 51:8
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
2 Chronicles 30:21
The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem celebrated the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great rejoicing, while the Levites and priests praised the LORD every day with resounding instruments dedicated to the LORD
2 Chronicles 30:23
The whole assembly then agreed to celebrate the festival seven more days; so for another seven days they celebrated joyfully.
Psalms 105:43
He brought out his people with rejoicing, his chosen ones with shouts of joy
Psalms 65:12
The grasslands of the wilderness overflow; the hills are clothed with gladness.
Psalms 45:15
Led in with joy and gladness, they enter the palace of the king.
Psalms 106:5
That I may enjoy the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may share in the joy of your nation and join your inheritance in giving praise.
Like the Book of Hebrews, the 11th Chapter, the quotes about faith with Gladness, Happiness, go on and on. More than we can know or imagine.
Abba, Father God,
Help us to Seek You first.
May the Word of God living in us,
Strengthen us in
all Goodness.
In the Name of Jesus for ourselves,
and those we love. Amen.
So the Sovereign Lord will make righteousness
and praise spring up before all nations.
Jesus bless Elliott with Your Willing Healing!
Please
Father God help us to fill those we love with renewed hope for years ahead
filled with love.
We ask in the Highest name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Let the Amen be of His Will being the Exact Nature of
Jesus Christ.
Blessings for the Goodness of Your Will and Plan. Amen!
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