Gratitude & Joy
Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion! For behold, I come and I will dwell within you,’ says Yahweh.
Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.
We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works.
Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God.
There is no purer or more thrilling delight to be known this side heaven than that of having Christ’s joy fulfilled in us.
And I make it my business only to persevere in His holy presence, wherein I keep myself by a simple attention, and a general fond regard to GOD, which I may call an actual presence of GOD; or, to speak better, an habitual, silent, and secret conversation of the soul with GOD, which often causes in me joys and raptures inwardly.
Every crocus pushing through the dark mould; every firefly in the forest; every bird that springs up from its nest before your feet; everything that is--all are as full of God’s presence as the bush which burned with His fire.
The saint hath spiritual joy and pleasure by a kind of effusion of God on the soul.
when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, saying, ‘For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever!’ then the house was filled with a cloud, even Yahweh’s house
It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;
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