Dear Lord,
When my anxiety builds, it’s time to trust You more. When I do so, You replace my anxiety with joy, and my mood remarkably improves.
Help me to remain joyful as I continually reach out to You in prayer, thanking You for all the good things You give to me. When I remember to count my blessings, I am counted blessed.
No matter what happens, I have learned that I can count it all joy, even when I am in the midst of difficult trials; for trials help test my faith. These faith tests teach me how to remain steadfast in my relationship with You, and by remaining steadfast, I am made perfect and complete in You, lacking nothing.
As I follow after joy, I will make room for more of Your Holy Spirit’s presence in my life, for the Spirit’s presence gives me more love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control, traits no one can condemn.
Lord, You love me and show me the way to live. You bring me joy. You give me happiness forevermore.
I have decided to count this day as joyful, for this is the day you have made for me to share with You, which is all the more reason to rejoice and be glad.
In the name of Jesus, amen.
When anxiety was great within me,
your consolation brought me joy.
Psalm 94:19 NIV
Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Whatever happens, give thanks, because it is God’s will in Christ Jesus that you do this.
1 Thessalonians 5:16–18 GW
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
James 1:2–4 ESV
But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!
Galatians 5:22–23 NLT
You will show me the way of life. Being with You is to be full of joy. In Your right hand there is happiness forever.
Psalm 16:11 NLV
This is the day the LORD has made.
Let’s rejoice and be glad today!
Psalm 118:24 GW