OVERFLOWING WITH HAPPINESS
PSALM 5:11 (CEB)
...all who love your name
can rejoice in you.
ACTS 13:52 (CEB)
Because of the abundant presence of the Holy Spirit in their lives, the disciples were overflowing with happiness.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God's presence in our lives fills us with joy.
PRAYER
Glorious God, thank you for the Holy Spirit who resides among us and in us. It is wonderful to have you with us. Yet, even though there is so much cause for joy in my life I get distracted by the happiness-sucking things going on in the world. Help me to put those things in perspective so that my joy washes them out to sea never to be seen again. I'm going to allow your loving presence to fill my life with joy. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
