The LORD has done great things for us; we are filled with joy.Yahweh has done great things for us, and we are glad.The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.Jehovah hath done great things for us, Whereof we are glad.
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… Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, the Lord has done great things for them. The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy. Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like streams in the Negev. Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy. He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him. Step number seven on the southern steps. The pilgrim would be remembering the 70 years in captivity in Babylon. and remembering that even after seven decades of being carried away from Jerusalem, the temple being destroyed, being enslaved into Nebuchadnezzar's empire, God still had a plan. He still was able to rescue and restore. He brought back his people to the city of God, back to the temple of God, back to the place of worship and back to a relationship with God. So on step number seven, I'm remembering we, because of our own choices, got carried away into Babylon. …
… that's the people of God. The Lord has done great things for us and we are glad. Are you glad tonight? A part of the fruit of the Spirit is of course joy, a genuine deep-seated reality that is not dependent on the moving of circumstances. Whether I'm happy in my relationships, whether I am successful in my studies, whether I am clear about my future or not, that even in the midst of that, there's a wonderful line or two in a hymn. actually the hymn begins, My God, I thank thee who has made the earth so bright. And it goes on from there. And at one point in the hymn, the hymn writer says, I thank thee too that all my joy is touched with pain, that shadows fall on brightest hours and thorns remain, so that earth's bliss may be my guide and not my chain. And the joy that emerges here in the first section of this psalm is the joy of those who are reliving the wonder of what God has done. …
… That'll foster joy in your... This is what David did when he said in Psalm 126, 3, the Lord has done great things for me, and we are glad. The Lord has done great things. Has God been good to you? Has God been kind to you? Do you got, like I do, a smoking hot wife? Do you got kids who are awesome? Do you got a church that's fantastic? Do we got a country that we get to live in that's the greatest on this planet? Come on, I'm grateful. God has done great things for us, and we are glad. How about this? You're not headed to hell if you're in Christ. You're headed to heaven. He gave you that Holy Ghost. He gave, you see what I'm saying? And when we start recounting, gladness, right? What would someone say if they spent half an hour next to you and you never talked? What is your non-verbals? What is your groaning and grumpy sounds like, right? Is there just a sense that you're bummed out? Kids flocked to Jesus. Kids have a good sense of creepy. …