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Overwhelmed with Joy and Love
(Copyright) by Eddie Hyatt (Grapevine, Texas)  Sarah Pierpont Edwards attended the Congregational Church in Northampton MA, which was pastored by her husband, Jonathan Edwards. Women were supposed to remain silent in the Puritan/Congregational churches, but a mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit was occurring (the Great Awakening) and she could hardly contain herself at times. “I could scarcely refrain from leaping with transports of joy,” she exclaimed. One day she was so overwhelmed by God’s presence that she could no longer stand but sank to the floor. It happened as she listened to a visiting minister lament that God’s children should […]
Joy, Gladness, Rejoicing
(Copyright) by David Antion (Pasadena, California)      If joy is a fruit of the Holy Spirit, can the unconverted ever have joy? The answer is YES! God has provided many types of joy, gladness, and rejoicing in this mundane life that any or all even non-religious people can have. What a miserable world it would be if there were no occasions for joy!     The Bible shows that people can have joy in the person they love (Ecclesiastes 9:9). People have gladness and joy at weddings and a wife should bring her husband joy (Proverbs 5:18).  The birth […]