11/16/25 being a happy prayer warrior.❤️

Being a happy prayer warrior Can be achieved by seeking perfection in Christ

You can have perfection every day, perfect joy, perfect peace, perfect satisfaction, and perfection for all of those that have lived before you. Also perfect understanding in suffering.

For the cloud of witnesses.
Hebrews 11:39 - 12:1
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Every day you live is perfect, perfect joy

• John 15:9–11 (Jesus speaking):
“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love… These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.”
→ Obedience and abiding in Christ lead to a deep, full joy—even if external circumstances are hard.
• Philippians 4:4–7:
“Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice… The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything… and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
→ Paul wrote this while in prison. The peace and rejoicing are real, but they coexist with suffering.
• Galatians 5:22–23:
The fruit of the Spirit (which grows as we walk in step with the Spirit) includes love, joy, and peace.

Perfect satisfaction in your day and life

• Psalm 16:11
“In your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”
→ This is ultimately fulfilled in eternity and in our moments of closest communion with God.
• Psalm 17:15
“As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.”
→ The final satisfaction comes when we see Him face-to-face.
• Psalm 63:1–5
“My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips… because your steadfast love is better than life.”
• John 4:13–14 (Jesus to the Samaritan woman)
“Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.”
• John 6:35
“Jesus said… ‘I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.’”
• Philippians 4:11–13 (Paul)
“I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content… I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”

Passages that show perfect understanding in suffering.
• Psalm 42:1–2
“As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God… When shall I come and appear before God?”
• Philippians 3:12–14 (Paul again)
“Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect… I press on toward the goal…”
• 2 Corinthians 5:2–4
“Here indeed we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling…”
• Romans 8:23
“We ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.”

No, the Bible never says it is possible (or expected) to feel happy every single day of your earthly life in the ordinary sense of “happy” (cheerful mood, pleasant emotions, no sadness, no pain, no bad days).
The Bible is remarkably realistic on this point. It actually promises the opposite in several places:
Clear statements that sadness, grief, and hard days are normal—even for the godliest people
• John 16:33
Jesus: “In the world you will have tribulation…” (literally “pressure, affliction”).
• Ecclesiastes 3:4
There is “a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.”
• Romans 12:15
“Weep with those who weep.” (This assumes believers will sometimes be the ones weeping.)
• Psalm 30:5
“Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.”
→ Implies that nights of weeping are part of life.
• Jesus Himself was “a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief” (Isaiah 53:3) and wept openly (John 11:35).
What the Bible does promise about joy and happiness
The Bible uses two different concepts that are often translated or felt as “happy”:
1. Makarios (Greek) = “blessed.”
This is the deep, stable happiness that comes from being rightly related to God.
Jesus says you can be “blessed/happy” even when you are poor in spirit, mourning, persecuted, or reviled (Matthew 5:3–12).
→ This kind of happiness can coexist with tears.
2. Chara (Greek) = joy.
This is a fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22) and can be experienced in the worst circumstances (Habakkuk 3:17–18; Acts 5:41; 2 Corinthians 6:10; James 1:2).
So Scripture teaches:
• You can have an undercurrent of real, deep joy and blessedness every day because you belong to Christ.
• You will not feel cheerful, upbeat, or “happy” in the shallow emotional sense every day.
Honest examples from Scripture
• Paul and Silas sang hymns in prison after being beaten (Acts 16)—real joy, not a “happy day” by normal standards.
• David wrote Psalm 88—one of the darkest, most depressed-sounding chapters in the Bible—yet he was still a man after God’s own heart.
• Jeremiah is called “the weeping prophet.”

Hebrews 12:2
Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.