help us Lord to rejoice in You! even if we come up short let us keep trying for our Father is always happy to see his children trying even if imperfect!
Tears may stay in the night but the joy of the Lord comes in the morning. Tears is good for us it humbles us and cleanses us. Thanks so much John Piper!! Adonai bless you!
My 40 year depression make it a physical impossibility for me to feel joy but I still feel tremendous guilt for not being able to feel the joy of the holy spirit and my 40 year avoidant personality disorder make it very hard for me to share the gospel and I feel really bad about that. I think this is making my mental health and fear of the Lord worse.
The Lord God sees your heart and desire. You struggle enough without adding the worry of displeasing our loving God for the inability to feel that happiness. Rejoice in the lord in spite of how you feel without denying how you feel. Hope that makes sense. God bless. 🙏🏾
Jesus, hear my prayers these past three years have been difficult on me I am weak. Give me guidance. Please come back soon I don’t know how much longer I can hold on. As a single parent things are hard on me both of my sons are autistic and my hours to work are limited because I’m now homeschooling them. I’m constantly struggling to provide the basic necessities for them I’m so ashamed. I suffered an heart attack and I’m battling lupus I’m overwhelmed. Lord heal me. Father God hear my prayers. I constantly struggle to pay my bills and struggle to provide groceries. BUT I KEEP FAITH. Even though I want to give up. Jesus please take the fear from my heart. Father God it is you that gives me the strength to keep going. I praise you Father even as I fear homelessness please continue to give me strength.
Y’all, if you see anyone talking about how much they make, REPORT IMMEDIATELY. All the comments under their comment are not real people. I say this because I see those kinds of comments under every video of this channel.
Jesus wept. Jesus felt sadness, anger, and in Gethsamane we see him pleading with Father, sweating blood because of emotional distress, and even he picked a stanza of a Psalm asking God why he was abandoned. All these are emotions not typically associated with joy. There is a different kind of “joy” for a Christian undergoing emotional distress. It might not be the feeling when we are happy and victorious. But, “joy” shows itself in our hope and trust in God, which may not be a feeling of victory or release at the moment. In the midst of sadness, in the midst of the valley, the Christian hopes and with that endures and trusts that God will wipe away all our tears on that Day. Being unhappy or in a dark place emotionally at the moment is not sin. Being unhappy without hope and trust in God is sin.
In December 2016 I watched my wife die from breast cancer. In that same month the movie Collateral Beauty was in theatres (which I saw a few years later). Will Smith's character is mourning the death of his daughter and in one beautiful scene says "I've heard all of your platitudes. I got them, I know. 'She's in a better place.' And, 'This is all a part of a master plan.' Heard that one, too. Here's my favorite: 'God looked down and saw the most beautiful rose, so beautiful that he picked it to have it in Heaven all for Himself.' I got it. I got it! It all basically says that death is a natural part of life, we shouldn't hate it, we shouldn't fear it. I guess we should just accept it, right? That's it? I get it. Here's the thing. It's all a bunch of intellectual BS because she's not here holding my f***ing hand."
I understand and am so sorry to hear about your loss. I pray that you will find the peace and joy of the Lord amidst your pain and are able to live forward. It’s tough. And I get it…. I really do. 🙏🏾
The joy of the Lord is my strength. Always rejoice in the Lord always and I say it again rejoice. In every thing give thanks unto the Lord. The house of the wise is in the funeral home. In good day rejoice but when sad day come consider and be still before God for He makes them all. 🌹🕊️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Not true because everyone with depression has a reason why they are depressed, which means they let their situation overpower them and let go of faith in God. No one wakes up and is all of a sudden depressed, it all boils down to life events
@@jonkite0071 if you have Jesus, you can afford to lose the entire world. The degree to which you believe this will have a profound influence on your mental state.
It’s unbiblical to say we can never be upset or annoyed. I love all of your content and generally agree with you Pastor John, but just because it says “rejoice always” doesn’t mean you’re going to like some hardships. You can be thankful in your heart but you’re definitely sometimes going to be distraught or annoyed (especially in a righteously indignant kind of way), so you kind of put that unnecessary pressure on people who panic more for not being fully happy when that’s not possible in this life and Jesus acknowledged that. Even He was distraught in the garden of Gethsemane because He was and is fully God and fully human.
Where did he say you cannot be upset or annoyed? I think the question here relates to unending sorrow which means you have no faith in God. Believers should know this world is not our final place, yes, terrible things do happen but we should keep our eyes on the prize...imagining the disciples that preached the gospel in the early church and seeing themselves being killed one by one but never gave up and instead walked to their death. Plus what yo heart is full of is what shows on the outside so no, you cannot be thankful in yo heart and put on a mean magged face 24/7
@@jonkite0071 I’m pretty sure he said it a couple times in the past but I guess that’s my fault if he had a more nuanced take this time since I didn’t watch the video. Shouldn’t have assumed then if I haven’t seen it.
The joy of the Lord is my strength. Always rejoice in the Lord always and I say it again rejoice. In every thing give thanks unto the Lord. The house of the wise is in the funeral home. In good day rejoice but when sad day come consider and be still before God for He makes them all. 🌹🕊️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
