READ: Nehemiah 12 Key Verse: Nehemiah 12:43 Key Principles: 1. Joy comes from an obedient finish. 2. Joy can be handed down to the next generation. Also that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women also and the children […]

Principle:  Joy causes worship and worship causes joy. I Chronicles 15:16 David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers to sing joyful songs, accompanied by musical instruments: lyres, harps and cymbals. I Samuel 2:1 “My heart rejoices in the Lord; in the Lord my horn […]

Ezra 1 sets the background for Ezra 3 – the people have gone out of exile in Babylon to begin rebuilding the Temple.  Some in this group of returning captives had been born in Babylon and had no idea what the original House of God had looked like…others, however, had […]

Seriously, I could spend a long vacation in the words of Psalm 16. At first glance, it may seem unrelated to the other two scriptures, but hang in there with me and I promise it’s going to make sense and make us all happy in the end. READ: Psalm 16; […]

While these two stories may look unrelated, I assure you they are a perfect little tag team and essential for our joy project.  There is much treasure to be found as we look beneath the skin of these scriptures and continue to dissect joy. READ: I Chronicles 15 & 2 […]