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12/06/2020

What does God say about your happiness?

What does God say about your happiness?

All of the things you receive in your life that give you happiness are because you believe in God. “Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy.” The Good News: The people who make a few sacrifices will receive life-long happiness and good health. “The joy of the Lord is your strength.”

What does the Bible say about God lifting you up?

“Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.” The Good News: God will raise us up in the most difficult of times, we just have to pray and talk to him.

How do we get true happiness from God?

Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.” So, in addition to you and me finding happiness by trusting in the Lord, we find it by surrendering our will to God’s Word and what He expects of us. That’s what delighting “greatly in his commandments” means.

What does it mean to be lifted up by God?

But there are other words it translates to as well. One conclusion from this cursory survey is that one sense of this word can mean giving a high position. Practically, this is what most Christians are naturally inclined to do or sing. We lift the name of God up and give it a high position.

What is the meaning of spiritual upliftment?

Uplift is to raise something upwards, or to buoy someone mentally, spiritually or emotionally. To raise to spiritual or emotional heights; exalt. Music that uplifts the spirit.

What does Jesus say about happiness in the world?

Jesus is in the happiness business. If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. Joy is distinctly a Christian word and a Christian thing. It is the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the result of what happens of an agreeable sort. Joy has its springs deep down inside.

What makes a person happy according to the Bible?

It’s not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water.

Is there joy and happiness in the presence of God?

In God’s presence there is ultimate joy and happiness. You can experience God’s presence now through the Holy Spirit, and you will feel the greatest Love, Joy and Peace that you can ever know. The Joy of the Lord is your strength.

Is there such thing as a happy God?

Only Jesus gives that joy. He had joy, singing its music within, even under the shadow of the cross. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.