alive! studies in the psalms joy and happiness psalm 66:1-20 luke 19:37-40
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ALIVE! Studies in the Psalms
Joy and Happiness
Psalm 66:1-20 Luke 19:37-40
PSALM 66 Summary:
But God …. (12,19)
But I …. (13)
DISASTER!!
JOY and HAPPINESS!!
When? Who? Why? What?
WHEN?After deliverance (3)
WHO? Nation [‘all the earth’] (1-12)
Individual: ‘I’ (13-20)
Remembering the exodus (5,6)
When? Who? Why? What?
WHY?He’s learned something (16):
WHAT? The difference between joy and happiness:
happiness is temporary; joy is permanent
- how to rejoice in time of trouble (1,6) - how great and loving God is (5,20)
HAPPINESSa feeling
a response when good things happen to you
- and if the right things don’t happen … ?
(10-12)
JOYa fact
fruit of the Holy Spirit
“I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete”
(cf 12,20)
Taste Opinion
‘Whatever floats your boat’
Lucky Happiness
Truth Fact God is
God is love Blessed
Joy
HE MUST BE PRAISED!!! (Luke 19:40)
IN THE BEGINNING, GOD
Hallelujah anyway!!!
So, to know that joy within …
Shout (to God), sing, say, bow (or cringe), come, see, rejoice, sacrifice, offer, listen,
confess …