SYMPOSIUM: What Contributes to Joy? • Meaningful Work
CHAIRMAN’S ADDRESS: Why Jehovah Is “the Happy God”
SYMPOSIUM: What Contributes to Joy? • True Friendships
SYMPOSIUM: What Contributes to Joy? - A Simple Life
Rejoice in Jehovah’s Acts of Salvation
SYMPOSIUM: What Contributes to Joy? • A Clean Conscience
DRAMATIC BIBLE READING: “Jehovah Caused Them to Rejoice”
Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Better is a handful of rest than two handfuls of hard work and chasing after the wind. 1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always having plenty to do in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in connection with the Lord.
Ezra 1:1–6:22; Haggai 1:2-11; 2:3-9; Zechariah 1:12-16; 2:7-9; 3:1, 2; 4:6, 7
1 Timothy 1:11 - according to the glorious good news of the happy God, with which I was entrusted.
Psalm 19:8 - The orders from Jehovah are righteous, causing the heart to rejoice; The commandment of Jehovah is clean, making the eyes shine.
Ecclesiastes 5:12 - Sweet is the sleep of the one serving, whether he eats little or much, but the plenty belonging to the rich one does not permit him to sleep.
Proverbs 18:24 - There are companions ready to crush one another, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Proverbs 19:4 - Wealth attracts many friends, But the poor man will be deserted even by his friend. Proverbs 19:6, 7 - Many seek the favor of a noble, And everyone is a friend to the man who gives gifts. All the brothers of a poor man hate him; How much more he is shunned by his friends! He pursues them with requests, but no one responds.
Psalm 9:14 - So that I may declare your praiseworthy deeds in the gates of the daughter of Zion, And rejoice in your acts of salvation. Psalm 34:19 - Many are the hardships of the righteous one, But Jehovah rescues him from them all. Psalm 67:1, 2 - God will show us favor and bless us; He will make his face shine upon us So that your way may be known throughout the earth, Your acts of salvation among all the nations. Isaiah 12:2 - Look! God is my salvation. I will trust and feel no dread; For Jah Jehovah is my strength and my might, And he has become my salvation.”
