1 Chronicles 16:27 (NIV) Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy in his dwelling place.
Nehemiah 8:10 (NIV) Nehemiah said, "Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is sacred to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength."
Psalm 4:7 (NIV) You have filled my heart with greater joy than when their grain and new wine abound.
Luke 1:14 (NIV) He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth.
Acts 14:17 (NIV) 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."
Happiness is caused by things that happen around me, and circumstances will mar it; but joy flows right on through trouble; joy flows on through the dark; joy flows in the night as well as in the day; joy flows all through persecution and opposition. It is an unceasing fountain bubbling up in the heart; a secret spring the world can't see and doesn't know anything about. The Lord gives his people perpetual joy when they walk in obedience to him. Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899) Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World.
