Solid Joys Daily Devotional
By Desiring God
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Klaas de Vries
Jul 23, 2018
Short, strong and thought provoking little nuggets, I love it!
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Solid Joys is a daily devotional written and read by John Piper. These short and substantive readings will feed your joy in Jesus every day of the year. Discover more from Piper at desiringGod.org.
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Five Reasons to Be Fearless
00:04:16
Not being afraid shows that you treasure God as your generous Shepherd, Father, and King.
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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The Key to Radical Love
00:04:38
The key to joy is faith in God’s future grace — that is, being satisfied in all that God promises to be for us.
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Apr 21, 2019 |
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Afraid to Stray
00:04:23
Cherish the goodness of the Lord, fear straying from him, flee from every sin, and take refuge in him.
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Apr 20, 2019 |
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A Future for Failures
00:03:43
This is the gospel: Even though you have sinned greatly, nevertheless there is a future and a hope. Fear not!
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Apr 19, 2019 |
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God, Touch Our Hearts
00:03:31
The One with infinite power in the universe reaches down to personally touch and transform us.
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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Embracing Jesus
00:05:22
Faith in Christ is not just assenting to what God is for us, but also embracing all that he is for us in Christ.
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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Mercy for Today
00:03:03
We won’t bear tomorrow’s load on today’s resources. Today’s mercies are for today’s troubles. Tomorrow’s mercies are for tomorrow’s troubles.
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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Don’t Be Like the Mule
00:03:05
Come to God in prayer, to confess your sins, and to accept, as needy little farmyard chicks, the direction of God into the barn of his protection and provision.
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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Pray for His Fame
00:03:00
God delights in having his name known and honored. The first and most important prayer that can be prayed is, “Hallowed be your name.”
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Apr 14, 2019 |
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Talk to Your Tears
00:03:28
Sheer sowing produces reaping. You must remember this, even when your tears tempt you to give up.
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Apr 13, 2019 |
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You Cannot Lose in the End
00:03:52
Trust Christ, no matter what. Go with him, no matter where. You cannot lose in the end.
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Apr 12, 2019 |
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The Great King’s Wine
00:03:13
When you are cast into the cellars of affliction, remember that the great King keeps his best wine there.
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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What Is Well-Placed Shame?
00:03:28
The biblical criterion for misplaced shame and for well-placed shame is radically God-centered.
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Apr 10, 2019 |
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Talk to God, Not Just About Him
00:02:43
It is good not to talk very long about God without talking to God. Frequently interrupt your talking about God by talking to God.
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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Make Satan Know His Defeat
00:03:10
When Christ died and rose again, Satan was defeated. Jesus struck the decisive blow at Calvary.
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Apr 08, 2019 |
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What It Means to Pray for Your Enemy
00:02:43
Don’t just do good things for your enemies. Desire their best, and express those desires in prayer, even when they’re nowhere around.
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Apr 07, 2019 |
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Two Ways to Remember Jesus
00:03:07
Jesus is not just alive from the dead, but he is alive as the King who will reign forever — of his kingdom there will be no end.
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Apr 06, 2019 |
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The Books at the Judgment
00:04:42
Salvation is secured for all who are written in the book of life, not because of their deeds, but because Christ was slain for them.
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Apr 05, 2019 |
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God Strengthens Us Through Others
00:02:46
Sometimes God will strengthen your faith directly. But most of the time, he does so through another person.
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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How to Respond When You Falter
00:02:35
O God, help us to feel worse about our own shortfalls than the failure of others.
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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Better Than Everest
00:02:20
If you live inside the massive promise of Romans 8:28, your life is more solid and stable than Mount Everest.
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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Two of Our Deepest Needs
00:03:29
In the Father, you are under God’s care and protection. In the Son, you are under God’s charge and authority.
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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What Binds the Hands of Love?
00:04:31
Only one thing satisfies the heart whose treasure is in heaven: doing the works of heaven. And heaven is a world of love!
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Mar 31, 2019 |
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If He Calls, He Keeps
00:03:36
Our perseverance doesn’t rest decisively on the reliability of our own resolve. It rests decisively on God’s work to keep us trusting him.
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Mar 30, 2019 |
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As Sure as God’s Love for His Son
00:03:43
God will not spare any effort to give you all that Christ died to purchase — all things, all good, and all bad working for your good.
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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When Everyone Deserts You
00:04:30
When others abandon you, strengthen your heart with God’s inexorable oath: “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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10 Results of the Resurrection
00:03:46
Because Christ rose from the grave, God’s children are forgiven. No one can successfully bring a charge against those who are in Christ.
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Mar 27, 2019 |
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How to Delight in God’s Word
00:03:40
Never reduce Christianity to a matter of demands and resolutions and willpower. It is a matter of what we love, what we delight in, what tastes good to us.
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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Forever Satisfied
00:02:42
When we trust Jesus, his presence and promise is so satisfying that we are not dominated by the alluring pleasures of sin.
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Mar 25, 2019 |
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Ministry and the Fear of Man
00:02:51
Hear God say to you in all your troubles, “I will deliver you. You will triumph in the end. You will be more than a conqueror.”
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Mar 24, 2019 |
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Ignorance Guarantees Ungodliness
00:03:34
Knowledge doesn’t guarantee godliness. But it seems that ignorance guarantees ungodliness. The power that leads to godliness is given through knowing God.
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Mar 23, 2019 |
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Satan’s Candy Store
00:03:40
When temptations come, arm yourself with this thought: When my Lord suffered and died to free me from sin, I died to sin!
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Mar 22, 2019 |
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God’s Best Promise
00:03:00
Whatever else gives way, whatever else disappoints, whatever else fails, God’s all-encompassing promise of future grace can never fail.
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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Jesus Died for This Moment
00:03:53
If there is any hope for eternity in the presence of God, we need a Redeemer, a Substitute, a Savior. Christ died and rose to be that hope.
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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A Six-Point Summary of the Gospel
00:05:10
Good news! Eternal life is a free gift to all who will trust in Christ as Lord and Savior and supreme Treasure of their lives.
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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Why We Must Hold Fast Our Hope
00:02:45
The salvation Jesus obtained through his blood was everything it takes to save his people, not just part of it.
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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Prayer’s Exclamation Point
00:02:55
Prayer is the confident plea for God to make good on his promises of future grace — for Christ’s sake.
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Mar 17, 2019 |
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Jesus Will Finish the Mission
00:02:49
Christ can promise universal victory because he is sovereign. He knows the future because he makes the future.
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Mar 16, 2019 |
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Subversive for the Savior
00:02:30
Since Satan’s doom is sure, and he knows it, we can always remind him of it when he tempts us to follow him.
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Mar 15, 2019 |
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The Triumph Is Sure
00:02:39
God is so powerful and so gracious that in the end he will turn ruthless nations to revere him. He cannot fail.
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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Jesus Is God’s Amen
00:03:16
Because of Christ, we say Amen to God in our prayers to show that God gets the glory for the future grace we are counting on.
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Mar 13, 2019 |
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When the Potter Is for Us
00:02:48
With all the power in the universe and with the absolute right to do as he pleases with what he made, God is for us.
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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Two Infinitely Strong and Tender Truths
00:03:30
The mercy and the sovereignty of God are the twin pillars of your life. They will stand by your deathbed, and with strong and tender hands lift you to God.
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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Let Us Adore the Lamb
00:03:41
Your prayers are the aroma of heaven, sweet smelling before the throne of God and before the Lamb.
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Mar 10, 2019 |
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God Cares for You
00:04:15
Pride is a form of unbelief. Faith admits need. Pride won’t. Faith banks on God. Pride won’t. Faith casts anxieties on God. Pride won’t.
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Mar 09, 2019 |
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Open the Windows of Your Heart
00:03:04
A mustard seed of faith is infinitely closer to being a mountain of faith than it is to being no faith. There is an infinite difference between a spark and no spark.
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Mar 08, 2019 |
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How Can I Be Filled with the Spirit?
00:02:47
How can you experience an outpouring of the Holy Spirit? Meditate day and night on the promises of God.
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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God Regards the Lowly
00:03:06
You cannot sink so low in despairing of your own resources that God does not see and care. He is at the bottom waiting to catch you.
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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Look to Jesus for Your Joy
00:03:43
Turn from self and come to Jesus as your source for true joy. His fullness will satisfy your itch of emptiness.
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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God Rejoices to Do You Good
00:03:00
There are no lapses in God’s commitment or in his joy in doing good to his children — to those who trust him.
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Mar 04, 2019 |