{"id":1063,"date":"2025-12-20T00:08:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T08:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2025-12-18T21:19:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:19:33","slug":"dec-20-christmas-countdown-day-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/dec-20-christmas-countdown-day-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec.20-Christmas Countdown\u2014Day 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><u>JOYFUL<\/u><\/em><\/strong><em><br \/>\nMake a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands!<br \/>\nServe the Lord with gladness. Come before His presence with singing<\/em>. Psalm 100:1,2<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Today&#8217;s Thought:<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Somedays we don\u2019t feel like making a joyful shout, it\u2019s all we can do to make ourselves smile, yet, each day our joy should not be based on our circumstances but on the knowledge that we are in Christ and have His joy in us.<br \/>\nTherefore, don\u2019t let the world, satan, or your circumstances steal away the joy of your salvation.\u00a0 Determine to be joyful regardless and sing, shout and serve the Lord daily.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Today\u2019s Action:<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\nDecide to be joyful today. No matter what your circumstances are, choose to be happy, glad, and full of delight that you are a child of God.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SHOUT:<\/strong> <em>Shout with joy to the Lord, O earth!<\/em> Psalm 100:1<\/li>\n<li><strong>SERVE:<\/strong> <em>Serve the Lord with gladness <\/em>Psalm 100:2<\/li>\n<li><strong>SING:<\/strong> <em>Come before Him, singing with joy<\/em> Psalm 100:2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Worship the Lord with singing. Serve Him with gladness. Praise Him joyfully.<\/p>\n<p>Only 5 days left until Christmas!\u00a0 Make each one count!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9SGLY Ministry www.smilegodlovesyou.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOYFUL Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands! Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before His presence with singing. Psalm 100:1,2 Today&#8217;s Thought: Somedays we don\u2019t feel like making a joyful shout, it\u2019s all we can do to make ourselves smile, yet, each day our joy should not be based on our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1652],"tags":[1661,3,3311,369,1821,1825,1824,1823,1532,30,1822,1826,1808,1827,32],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-countdown","tag-christmas-countdown","tag-daily-devotionals","tag-december-2025","tag-joyful","tag-make-a-joyful-noise","tag-praise-god-joyfully","tag-psalm-1001-2","tag-serve","tag-serve-the-lord-with-gladness","tag-sgly-ministry","tag-shout","tag-shout-with-joy-to-the-lord","tag-sing","tag-sing-joyfully","tag-smile-god-loves-you"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Joyful-Psalm-1-1-2.jpg?fit=375%2C326&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1241,"url":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/day-11-conversation-heart-joyful-lips\/","url_meta":{"origin":1063,"position":0},"title":"Day 11&#8211;Conversation Heart&#8211;Joyful Lips","author":"SGLY Devotionals","date":"February 11, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"MOUTH MEDICINE: And my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips. 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