Laughter With Friends Is a Great Connector
Becky Harling
“A cheerful heart is good medicine …” Proverbs 17:22 (NIV)
“When Jesus heard this, he said to him, ‘You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.’” Luke 18:22 (NIV)
“I have called you by name; you are mine.” Isaiah 43:1b (NLT)
“The faithful love of the LORD never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning.” Lamentations 3:22-23 (NLT)
“Yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. GOD, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places.” Habakkuk 3:18-19 (ESV)
“O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You.” Psalm 63:1a (NKJV)
“LORD, you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.” Psalm 16:5-6 (NIV)
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?” Romans 8:35 (ESV)
“These are the nations the LORD left to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan (he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience).” Judges 3:1-2 (NIV)
“But Naomi said, ‘Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb that they may become your husbands?’ … Then they lifted up their voices and wept again.” Ruth 1:11, 14a (ESV)
“Before a young woman’s turn came to go in to King Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments prescribed for the women, six months with oil of myrrh and six with perfumes and cosmetics.” Esther 2:12 (NIV)
“A cheerful heart is good medicine …” Proverbs 17:22 (NIV)
“I would have despaired had I not believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living.” Psalm 27:13 (AMP)
Lord, thank You for the strength to keep running the race You’ve marked out for me (Hebrews 12:1). When I feel tired or distracted, help me remember all You’ve done — how You forgive, heal, redeem,...
“Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all his benefits …” Psalm 103:2 (NIV)