Daily Light on the Daily Path Jonathan Bagster & Family

Evening July 20

The cheerful of heart has a continual feast.

“The joy of the Lord is your strength.”—The kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.—Be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with all your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.

Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.—As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing.—More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings.

Prov. 15:15; Neh. 8:10; Rom. 14:17; Eph. 5:18-20; Heb. 13:15; Hab. 3:17, 18; 2 Cor. 6:10; Rom. 5:3