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A JOYFUL HEART – JANUARY 2010 SPIRITUAL DAILY DOSE
We have appreciative reasons to lift up God and exalt Him to the
possible highest level, for what He did to our heart in being
FAITHFUL last month. An appreciative stance moves us to count
our blessings, and see how fortunate we’ve been in God’s hand.
This poise reels us to a JOYFUL HEART this month. “God has
designed us for happiness. He has created us for peace and joy”;
according to Catherine Marshall. A joyful setting keeps us in
readiness to receive from God. As we move on in the new month,
with A JOYFUL HEART, it is quite sure that the LORD will be ready
to respond to us in our bright and pleasant state. Your cheerful
disposition should cause a spiritual contagion this month in Jesus
name. Whenever people around you ask why you are full of joy,
simply tell them that God is doing some great things in your life.
DAY 1. God feels our pain and our joy. He lives intimately with us
in our world(Psalm 16:11)……………………………………………………………..
……………………………………………………Rebbe, Menachem Schneerson.
DAY 2. Take God seriously, but don’t take yourself too seriously….
(Romans 15:13)……………………………………………………Charles Swindle.
DAY 3. Life isn’t a goal that we’ve achieved; it’s a gift that we’ve
received(Proverbs 16:20)………………………………Warren W. Wiersbe.
DAY 4. I want what God wants, that’s why I am so merry……………..
(Nehemiah 8:10)………………………………………..Saint Francis Of Assisi.
DAY 5. Our only victory over temptations is through persisting
courage, and an indomitable cheerfulness(Habakkuk 3:18)…………..
…………………………………………………………………..Frederick W. Wiersbe.
DAY 6. Cheerfulness in the service of Christ is one of the first requisites to
Make that service Christian(Isaiah 12:3)……………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………….Frederick Temple
DAY 7. Joy is love, the normal result of heart burning with love……
(Proverbs 16:20)……………………………………………………Mother Teresa.
DAY 8. Happiness… is nothing else but a cheerful and eternal
compliance of all the powers of the soul with the will of God……….
(Luke 1:46-47)…………………………………………………………Samuel Shaw.
DAY 9. Obedience to the will of was Jesus’ highest joy(Luke1:46-
47)…………………………………………………………………….Andrew Murray.
DAY 10. I believe the happiest of Christians are those who never dare to
doubt God, but who take His WORD simply as it stands(Psalm 126:3)………..
......................................................................................Charles Spurgeon.
DAY 11. Yes, in spite of the way some of His people act and look our God is
a happy God(John 17:13)…………………………………………….Warren W. Wiersbe
DAY 12. If we believe this life is our best shot at happiness… we shall as
desperate, demanding, and eventually despairing men and women(I Peter
1:8)……………………………………………………………..Brent Curtis & John Eldredge.
DAY 13. Peace with God. What a happy consequence of faith!(John 10:10
……………………………………………………………………………………………….Max Lucado
DAY 14. God’s every thought, purpose, and plan since the beginning of
time has been for His children’s welfare and happiness(John 16:24)………….
……………………………………………………………………………………Catherine Marshall
DAY 15. Real love creates a generous openness(Jeremiah 33:6)……………….
……………………………………………………………………Brent Curtis & John Eldredge.
DAY 16. The contended man is never poor, the discontented never rich….
DAY 16. (contd.)………………………………………………………………….George Eliot
DAY 17. May our whole household be “holiness to the Lord” and may all
sing for joy because the Lord has done great things(Matthew 19:26)……….
…………………………………………………………………………………Charles H. Spurgeon.
DAY 18. If you have a murmuring spirit, you cannot have cheerfulness……
(Galatians 5:22)………………………………………………………………Priscilla Maurice
DAY 19. It is the certainty of the goodness of God that enables us to live
in fullness of joy(1 Corinthians 14:33)……………………………………………………….
……………………………………………………………………………………………..John T. Faris
DAY 20. When God works in our life, helping us to become humble, He
gives us a permanent joy(Psalm 126:5)……………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………..Max Lucado.
DAY 21. Think good thoughts, speak good things—even if you don’t fully
feel it inside(Psalm 31:19)……………………….Rebbe, Menachem Schnerson.
DAY 22. Grace is “the unmerited favor of God”. If we doubt it, we have
only to look at the Cross(1 Peter 1:8)………………………………………………………..
.................................................................................Catherine Marshall.
DAY 23. In the world, tribulation; yes, but good cheer in spite of that, for
the Son of God, whom we love, overcome the world(Proverbs 12:25)……..
…………………………………………………………………………………………George Hodges
DAY 24. It is only when we are doing our God-appointed function in life
that we are really and truly happy (Proverbs 15:13)………………………………..
………………………………………………………………………………………Peter Marshall.
DAY 25. We are called to be content with what we have since we have
God-and He is fully sufficient(Psalm 89:15)……………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………….Joseph Stowell
DAY 26. God leads in the little things and big things because He is making
DAY 26. (CONTD.) all things work together for good(2 Thessalonians 3:16).
……………………………………………………………………………… Warren W. Wiersbe.
DAY 27. Jesus has a definition for greed. He called it the practice of
measuring life by possessions(Psalm 71:23)……………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………………Max Lucado.
DAY 28. Only when we try to do things beyond us will we end our
attempts at power…. and rely solely on God(Nehemiah 12:27)………………….
…………………………………………………………………………………………..Marva J. Dawn
DAY 29. A vague prospect that what we want will transpire in the future
is not faith, but hope(Psalm 19:8)………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………Catherine Marshall
DAY 30. As God alone in the Source and Fount of holiness, let us seek
holiness, from Him(Psalm 4:7)……………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………… Arthur W. Pink.
DAY 31. He will never , ever forsake us(Psalm 90:14)………………………………..
…………………………………………………………………………………….Charles Swindoll.
COMMENT: The human heart is naturally selfish and often destructive.
Without God as top priority, we will likely be governed by the pursuit of
earthly goods. But when He is our first love, those warped cravings are
replaced by desires that fit His will and purpose for us. And God is able
to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all
sufficiency in all things may have an abundance for every good work……
(2 Corinthians 9:8).
For God’s sake take it solid, your sufficiency is not in your material
wealth .
They are perishable items regardless of value and cost. Simply said and
supernaturally authoritative, your sufficiency is in the LORD, Who all
the treasure in heaven and earth belongs to in all ramifications. It is a
wise decision for you to have as David encouraged us in Psalm 37 to
seek God diligently as he did. Then if you allow God to be your
obsession henceforth; then you’ll be filled with a continual poise of a
A JOYFUL HEART. Pastor Victor Brown Amudipe – July 1, 2008.
