Joy Background Research

1. 1a feeling or state of well-being and contentment <the inexpressible joy that the couple are feeling upon the birth of their first child>Synonyms beatitude, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, felicity, gladness, happiness, warm fuzziesRelated Words elatedness, elation, exhilaration, exultation, high, intoxication; ecstasy,euphoria, glory, heaven, nirvana, paradise, rapture, rapturousness, ravishment, seventh heaven, transport; delectation, delight, enjoyment, pleasure; cheer, cheerfulness, comfort,exuberance, gaiety (also gayety), gladsomeness, glee, gleefulness, jocundity, jollity,joyfulness, joyousness, jubilance, jubilation, lightheartedness, merriness, mirth; content,contentedness, gratification, satisfaction, triumphNear Antonyms agony, anguish, desolation, joylessness, sorrow, sufferance, woe,woefulness; blues, cheerlessness, dejection, depression, desolateness, despondency,disheartenment, dispiritedness, doldrums, downheartedness, gloom, gloominess,melancholy, mournfulness, plaintiveness; Gehenna, hell, purgatoryAntonyms calamity, ill-being, misery, sadness, unhappiness, wretchedness

2. 2a source of great satisfaction <my car is my pride and joy>Synonyms delectation, feast, gas [slang], delight, kick, manna, pleasure, treatRelated Words amusement, diversion, entertainment, fun, recreation; comfort, relief,solace; gratification, indulgence; ambrosia

3. Origin and Etymology of joy

   Middle English, from Anglo-French joie,from Latin gaudia, plural of gaudium, fromgaudēre to rejoice; probably akin to Greekgēthein to rejoice.
   First Known Use: 13th century

   Related to joy

   Synonyms

   beatitude, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness,felicity, gladness, happiness, warm fuzzies

   Antonyms

   calamity, ill-being, misery, sadness,unhappiness, wretchedness

   Related Words

   elatedness, elation, exhilaration,exultation, high, intoxication; ecstasy,euphoria, glory, heaven, nirvana, paradise,rapture, rapturousness, ravishment,seventh heaven, transport; delectation,delight, enjoyment, pleasure; cheer,cheerfulness, comfort, exuberance, gaiety(alsogayety), gladsomeness, glee,gleefulness, jocundity, jollity, joyfulness,joyousness, jubilance, jubilation,lightheartedness, merriness, mirth;content, contentedness, gratification,satisfaction, triumph

   Near Antonyms

   agony, anguish, desolation, joylessness,sorrow, sufferance, woe, woefulness; blues,cheerlessness, dejection, depression,desolateness, despondency,disheartenment, dispiritedness, doldrums,downheartedness, gloom, gloominess,melancholy, mournfulness, plaintiveness;Gehenna, hell, purgatory

    
   Article by John Piper on “Joy”  -Cristian Joy

Joy is not optional. It’s essential.  John Piper walks us through a short study of how to understand joy, pursue it for ourselves, and then apply it in all of life. Here are the videos in the series:

Part 1: How Do You Define Joy?

Part 3: What Is the Secret of Joy in Suffering?

Part 4: Do We Have to Enjoy God to Believe?

Part 5: How Does Joy Overflow in Love?

Part 6: Does Joy Die in Sorrow? -Christian Joy does not die when sorrow abound. Joy  and sorrow are not  sequential but can be simultaneous. ReJoyse Always in the Lord. Sorrow breaks like wave over our lives often. Morning brings Joy. soms 9:5. he believes there is a kind of happy euphoric joy but also one that needs be pushed to through our fiscal being of existence. Philippians 3:1> REJOICE IN THE LORD Wach OUT for EVIL- workers, Dogs and flesh mutilators.Rejoice ALWAYS! John

• 1st peter chapter 1– ⁶ In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. ⁷ These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. ⁸ Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, ⁹ for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
• REjouyce -LET YOUR GENTALNESS BE KNOWN- Don’t be anxious for anything, but in everything in pray and supplication let your requests be known to god, and the peace of god that passes all understanding will guard your hearts and minds. (Theses are personal notes and paraphrased as instruments of research so if your reading this please note its from the Bible)

Sovereign and sweetness in Christ.

The letter by Apostle Paul to the Philippians- The good feeling (JOY) is in the soul.

By that, I am drawing attention to the fact that it is not in the body. The soul, the immaterial part of my personhood, experiences joy. The body may feel the effects of that. I may get butterflies in the stomach. I may have a spring in my step. There may be tears of joy rolling down my face. None of those effects in my body, though, is itself joy. They are all distinct from joy.

The third part of the definition is these movements of the soul are produced by the Holy Spirit, which is clear because I cannot make these things happen. They are called the fruit of the Holy Spirit. “The fruit of the [Holy] Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, [and] self-control” (Galatians 5:22–23). Therefore, the joy in my soul overflowing towards God is coming from the work of the Holy Spirit.according to John 16:14, to glorify Jesus Christ, which means the Holy Spirit opens the eyes of my heart to see the beauty of Christ. When I see Christ in all that he is doing, and all that he is, then my heart is drawn out in joy towards him.

-Holy Spirit inspired the word

Christian Joy is NOT an idea, persuasion or thought.  it IS an Emotion and Feeling in the soul not the body. The soul is a moral significance produced by the fruit of the Holly Spirit.

Edwards, Lewis

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Funny I found an artical “Joy of not cooking” couldnt think of how this would make me joyful! I love to cook for people and share in the good tastes in shareing of time. Obviousely  Joy is applyed to differnent situations and people.

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Brainard Carey an interesting set of talk shows by Harvard http://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/category/academic/