How Can You Find True Joy?

IS JOY SAME AS HAPPINESS?

November 12, 2023199 views0

How Can You Find True Joy?

2023-11-12T11:33:32+01:00

By Esther

Does True Joy Truly Exist? IS Joy the same as happiness? JOY THERAPY DEVOTIONALSJoy labels: JOYGod’s word says: Psalm 4: 7“You have filled my heart with greater joythen when their grain and new wine abound.”NIVJoy is great happiness and pleasure. It is a positive attitude or pleasant emotion. The manylevels of joy are bliss, contentment, delight, thrills, gladness and cheerfulness.Joy makes you ecstatic, jubilant, elated, radiant, on top of the world and over the moon.Joy is holy and pure. This joy is in contrast to the joy that some wicked people feel after their evil deeds.Joy is an inward feeling or experience. It has nothing to do with what you have or don’t have.Joy enriches and beautifies your spirit, soul and body. It helps you rise above heartache, sorrow, inner conflict or turmoil.True joy emanates from God. If you know God you will know joy and if you have not yetexperienced God then you can never understand what real joy is or what I am talking about.Real joy comes with the salvation of our souls. It is a soul-lifting experience.Joyful passage: Isaiah 12:3With joy, you will draw water from the wells of salvation.Joy quote – Joy is not a feeling, it is a choiceJoy label: JOY OF SALVATIONGod’s word says: Isaiah 61:10 ‘I will rejoice greatly in the Lord, my soul will exalt myGod; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation…”God’s salvation is a great reason for joy. Our salvation experience is a joyful encounter. That particularday brings joyful memories to us because on this day the story of our lives changed. We are saved from death to life. Our names entered into God’s register and we became Christians. Christ’s atonement for our sins was not in vain. Therefore, let us work out our salvation with fear and trembling as the scriptures enjoin us. In so doing, we will get in constant touch with the source of all joy which is God. Joy scroll: Psalm 51:12Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit to sustain me.Joy quote: Joy is a state of rest and contentment Written by: ESTHER ADEKOYAALSO READ: Baseball Champions Attribute Success to God