TSK · John 16:22

I will praise the LORD as long as I live! I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist!

At that time they will say,“Look, here is our God! We waited for him and he delivered us. Here is the LORD! We waited for him. Let’s rejoice and celebrate his deliverance!”

“For a short time I abandoned you, but with great compassion I will gather you.

But be happy and rejoice forevermore over what I am about to create! For look, I am ready to create Jerusalem to be a source of joy, and her people to be a source of happiness.

When the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines; when the olive trees do not produce, and the fields yield no crops; when the sheep disappear from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls,

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the best part; it will not be taken away from her.”

‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

Now during the blessing he departed and was taken up into heaven.

Jesus’ Parting Words to His Disciples“Do not let your hearts be distressed. You believe in God; believe also in me.

Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I have said these things to you.

I tell you the solemn truth, you will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice; you will be sad, but your sadness will turn into joy.

Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter,“It is the Lord!” So Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, tucked in his outer garment(for he had nothing on underneath it), and plunged into the sea.

So they left the council rejoicing because they had been considered worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the rest of the prisoners were listening to them.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,

For in fact you shared the sufferings of those in prison, and you accepted the confiscation of your belongings with joy, because you knew that you certainly had a better and lasting possession.

But rejoice in the degree that you have shared in the sufferings of Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may also rejoice and be glad.