Choosing to enjoy life

"I call heaven and earth to wittness this day against you that I have set before you life and death, the blessings and the curses; therefore coose life, that you and your descendants may live." Deut. 30:19

The Hebrew word for "life" in that verse is "chay"
and means ( among other things)
:: Fresh, strong, lively, merry

"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance ( to the full, till it overflows)." John 10:10

"I have told you these things, that my joy and delight may be in you and that your joy and gladness may be of full measure and complete and overflowing. " John 15:11

"Up to this time you have not asked a single thing in my name [as presenting all that I AM]; but now ask and keep on asking and you will recieve, so that your joy (gladness, delight) may be full and complete." John 16:24

"And now I am comming to you [Father]; I say these things while I am still in the world, so that My joy may be made full and complete and perfect in them [the diciples] [that they may expirence My delight fulfilled in them, that My enjoyment may be perfected in thier own souls, that they may have My gladness within them, filling thier hearts.] John 17:13

Proverbs 17:22 says that "A happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing, but a broken spirit dries up bones"

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" Now faith is the assurance ( the confirmation, the title deed) of things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of thier reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]." Hebrews 11:1

"But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him..." Hebrews 11:6

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"God has not given us a spirit of fear.." 2 Tim. 1:7

In Deuteronomy 1:29 & 30 it says:: "Then I say to you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. The lord your God who goes before you, he will fight for you just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes."

1 Chronicles 22:13 says:: "... Be strong and of good courage. Dread not and fear not; be not dismayed."

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"May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in believing [through the expirence of your faith] that the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound and be overflowing ( bubbling over) with hope." Romans 15:13