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Podcast: I AM PASTOR DEB
Episode: Joy In July
Description: Did you know there is no explicit difference between happiness and joy? Both involve emotions, both are pleasurable feelings, and both are mentioned in Scripture in passages that equate the two.A dictionary definition of happiness is “a state of well-being; a pleasurable or satisfying experience.” And the definition of the word joy is “to feel great delight; to be glad.” Now depending on the translation, the Bible uses the words happy and happiness about 30 times, while joy and rejoice to appear over 300 times. Jeremiah 31:13 says, “I will turn their mourning into gladness...