Christianity Oasis Forum

[Lovingly4given]

Hey guys,

My heart is just so full right now it's pretty hard to describe the joy and peace that I have at the moment. Even since I joined in on the program last Wednesday things have really taken off in my relationship with God. I'm learning that I can keep "desires" from turning into obsession by renewing my mind and thinking on things of God. I keep my iPod handy and tuned into my Gospel and Christian music. I get up each morning and I read my Word and I pray. I found that I am falling in love with God all over again and it is the best feeling in the world. I'm just about full to bursting of praise and gratitude to God for all He's done for me. Like Wonderfilled said tonight I'm rebuilding that foundation and it's a stable one. Thanks so much for helping me get back on track. This program and you all have been such a blessing and I thank God for you all. I know everything won't always be perfect, but I know that I have a family that I can always talk to without judgement. Thank you and praise be to God.

Grace and Peace,
Lovingly4given

[Upward]

“They are seated on the highest throne of joy, and revel in the sweetest sunshine of delight, who know that God is their sure possession.
They who hold Him as their own by the hand of faith have greater riches than earth can give, and surer property than this world can amass. “

It sounds like you are rich indeed. May the Lord bless and keep you and your family. Much encouragement to you. God is gracious. He is our Delight and Joy.

"Joy in God is the happiest of all joys.
There are other sweets, but this is the virgin honey dripping fresh from the comb.

Joy in God is also a most elevating joy. Those who joy in wealth grow avaricious. Those who joy in their friends too often lose nobility of spirit.

But he who boasts in God grows like God. It is a solid joy, and he who joys in God has good reasons for rejoicing. He has arguments which will justify His joy at any time. It is an abiding joy.

In a word, it is celestial joy."

"I believe that exulting in God is the most biblical and effective means for exalting God!

Or to put it in other terms: to prize God is to praise God!

Or again, we are His pleasure when He is our treasure!

Or again, God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in Him."

Final quote before i bore ya too much hehe----May these bless you as they have blessed me..

"No power in the universe can rob you of it; none, but yourself, can even diminish it. “Your joy no man takes from you.”

What the power, or love, or presence of man can create – the power, or hatred, or absence of man can destroy.

But, the joy of the believer has a different origin, and, as no man bestowed it, so no man can take it away.

It has God for its author – the living Rock of Ages for its ever-flowing fountain – the Holy Spirit for the golden channel, which it conveys into the heart.

Thus, coming from the fountain of joy, it is of immortal origin – and, is far above the reach of mortal enemies.

All the sorrows of earth – all the temptations of hell, are vain against this joy.

So far from being diminished by what would crush earthly happiness, and reduce the stoutest heart, without Divine grace, to hopeless dejection – it is only realized more fully, amid the raging fury of the hurricane, or the dreary gloom of a starless midnight. "