{"id":5602,"date":"2017-03-29T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=5602"},"modified":"2017-03-28T11:21:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T18:21:03","slug":"there-is-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/there-is-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"THERE IS JOY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Psalm 16:11<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201cYou will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the deep shadows of my memory I recall as a young boy laughing at a lady in our church that frequently spoke of the joy in serving Jesus. The problem was that she had the sourest disposition imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>It is good to be sincere in our worship of the Lord, but He repeatedly calls us to find the joy of our salvation. The Hebrew word for joy is <strong>simch\u00e2h<\/strong>, which is defined as<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>mirth, gladness, joy, gaiety, pleasure, blithesomeness or glee. Do you have that in your walk with the Lord?<\/p>\n<p>All too often we observe believers who mirror few, if any, of those qualities. That should not be. We should have a glow that radiates the love of Jesus in our hearts and lives. That comes by spending time with Him in happy fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>The next time you find your spirits start to fade, read this passage of Scripture once again. Get happy in knowing that we have a home in glory that has our name engraved on the entrance. How about some blithesomeness?!<\/p>\n<p>Blessings dear hearts!<\/p>\n<p>May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 16:11 \u201cYou will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.\u201d In the deep shadows of my memory I recall as a young boy laughing at a lady in our church that frequently spoke of the joy in serving Jesus. The problem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}