Promises About Sharing Joy

This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of God's people but is also 

overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God.

2 Corinthians 9:12

Do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

Hebrews 13:16

God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as 

you have helped his people and continue to help them.

Hebrews 6:10

Promises About Friendship

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.  

Proverbs 17:17

Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves.  

A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Ecclesiastes 4:12

There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 18:24

Jesus says, "Here I am!  I stand at the door and knock.  

If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, 

I will come in and eat with him, and he with me."

Revelations 3:20

A Perfect Friendship

Friendship is good for your health -- even your cardiovascular and immune systems.  We need good friends even if we have wonderful husbands.  We need the companionship of others in the body of Christ.  We need other women to laugh and cry with.

When we're all anchored in the same harbor, we're able to help each other patch the holes in our boats.  If a friend has hurt my feelings,  I find it hard to be honest about that.  But sometimes speaking the truth about a hurt is very important.  When we can walk through that field with a few thorns in the grass and make it to the other side, our friendships will be stronger and our joy will be real.

Real friendship grows when we are prepared to be there equally in the bad moments and the good, when we weep with those who weep -- and rejoice with those who rejoice.

Sheila Walsh

Promises About Celebrating Your Days

This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Psalm 118:24

Lord, you have assigned me my portion and my cup; you have made my lot secure.  The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.  I will praise the Lord, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me.  I have se the Lord always before me.  Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.  Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure.

Psalm 16:5-9

Promises About Joy and Peace

Lord, you establish peace for us; all that we have accomplished you have done for us.

Isaiah 26:12

Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.  His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

2 Peter 1:2-3

May the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in very way.

2 Thessalonians 3:16

I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.

Psalm 4:8

Jesus Gives Joy and Peace

Jesus is the one who offers us the confidence that no matter how risky life becomes or what tragedy befalls us, he will be our peacemaker.  That adds to my security.  No matter how devastating my fall, or even how debilitating my crash, he will be there for me.  Our safety is not in the Lord preventing all our falls, but in the net of peace he spreads beneath regardless of what befalls us.  He will ultimately use our slips and spills.  When we fall, he helps us begin again.

God's peace isn't fragile.  Not only can't it be broken; it is powerful.  It isn't the absence of problems that demonstrates peace, but being able to rest in the midst of turmoil and threat.  That's when we exemplify the "peace that passes understanding."

Patsy Clairmont

Promises About the Benefits of Laughter

The cheerful heart has a continual feast.
Proverbs 15:15

A cheerful heart is good medicine.
Proverbs 17:22

Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart,
for it is now that God favors what you do.
Ecclesiastes 9:7

A man's spirit sustains him in sickness.
Proverbs 18:14

An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up.
Proverbs 12:25