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!
Description
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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The Kind of Cold That Kills
00:03:18
When it’s forty degrees warmer in your freezer than it is outside, the message is clear: Don’t mess with God.
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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When You Are Immortal
00:02:40
Christ said Paul was going to Rome. And that was that. No ambush can stand against the promise of Christ.
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Feb 18, 2019 |
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The Sweet Designs of God
00:03:55
Oh, how sweet are the designs of God in the sovereign salvation of hardened, hopeless sinners!
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Feb 17, 2019 |
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When Obedience Feels Impossible
00:02:31
Do you desire God? Will you trust him? The word of God to you is: God is worthy and God is able.
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Feb 16, 2019 |
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Every Calvary Step Was Love
00:03:02
Every step Jesus took on the Calvary road meant, “I love you. I love you. I love you.”
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Feb 15, 2019 |
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Christ as Means and End
00:04:00
Jesus is the end for which the universe was made, and the means that makes that end possible to enjoy.
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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The Perfect City
00:01:57
When you desire the city of God above everything else on the earth, he is not ashamed to be called your God. Your life pleases him.
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Feb 13, 2019 |
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Lincoln’s Providence
00:03:45
It is a most striking thing how personal and national suffering drew Abraham Lincoln into the reality of God, rather than pushing him away.
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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The Best Form of Slavery
00:03:24
Amazingly, Paul connects our liberation with Jesus as our Master, and he connects our new slavery with Jesus as our Messiah.
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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Saving Faith Isn’t Easily Satisfied
00:02:11
Living and dying by faith means having new desires and seeking new satisfactions.
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Feb 10, 2019 |
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Better Than Money, Sex, and Power
00:03:18
Take all the things that drive this world, and ponder how much better and more abiding God is.
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Feb 09, 2019 |
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Are You Glad You Are Not God?
00:04:14
Submitting to God enables us to have the supremely satisfying experience of not being God, but admiring the Godness of God.
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Feb 08, 2019 |
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Eleventh-hour Breakthroughs
00:03:59
God surely has reasons for waiting to give you the breakthrough you have sought for decades. Keep asking in hope.
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Feb 07, 2019 |
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Reviled Here, Rewarded There
00:04:11
Because Jesus died in our place, he guaranteed that every good deed will prosper — sooner or later.
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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The Main Purpose of Ministry
00:02:56
The main task of all the ministries of the church is helping people see the greatness of what Christ has purchased for everyone who will value it above the world.
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Feb 05, 2019 |
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Five Ways Affliction Helps
00:03:55
Suffering has a great sin-killing effect. The more pure we are, the more clearly we see God.
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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The Greatest Love
00:04:12
We should emphasize that God loves and forgives for his own glory because the Bible does, and because it makes clear that God loves us with the greatest love.
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Feb 03, 2019 |
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The Forgiveness Cycle
00:03:41
God forgave us when we first believed in Christ. Then, from that broken, joyful, grateful, hopeful experience of being forgiven, we offer forgiveness to others.
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Feb 02, 2019 |
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Included in the Covenant
00:03:49
Christians are included in the Davidic covenant. What David received, we will also receive in Christ Jesus.
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Five Purposes for Suffering
00:04:59
Don’t let your ignorance of the micro reasons for suffering cause you to overlook the massive help God tells us in his word of his macro purposes for us.
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Jan 31, 2019 |
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Prevailing Grace
00:04:38
Irresistable grace does not mean grace cannot be resisted. It means that when God chooses, he can and will overcome that resistance.
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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Caused to Return
00:03:03
There is no hope for God’s people unless he causes them to return from their leaping into sin and unbelief.
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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How to Repent
00:04:17
Feeling rotten about your sin is not the same as repenting from it. But it can lead there.
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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He Knows Your Need
00:03:38
The same God who feeds billions of birds every hour around the world will take care of you.
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Jan 27, 2019 |
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The Giver Gets the Glory
00:02:44
We get the help; God gets the glory. That arrangement keeps us humble and happy, and keeps him supreme and glorious.
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Jan 26, 2019 |
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Delayed Deliverances
00:02:38
Times of suffering and deliverance are both God’s stages of care for you. He has not left you or forsaken you.
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Jan 25, 2019 |
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Served in Serving Others
00:02:24
Jesus will take care of you when you take care of others. That’s why there were leftovers after Jesus fed the multitudes.
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Jan 24, 2019 |
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Go Directly to God
00:03:32
Jesus provides an ever-present, ever-living witness to the removal of the Father’s wrath from us.
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Jan 23, 2019 |
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We Will Rule All Things
00:03:45
When Jesus says, “I will grant him to sit with me on my throne,” he promises us a share in the rule of all things.
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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The Anchor of Joy
00:02:58
Jesus anchored the happiness of suffering saints in the reward of heaven. And he anchored the happiness of successful saints in the same.
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Jan 21, 2019 |
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The Battle to Remind
If we don’t call to mind what God has said about himself and about us, we will languish. God is the God of the impossible.
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Jan 20, 2019 |
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How to Serve a Bad Boss
00:04:41
Every little thing you do that is good is seen and valued and rewarded by the Lord. And he will pay you back for it.
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Jan 19, 2019 |
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The Remedy for Pride
00:04:36
Yield to the sovereignty of God in all the details of life, and rest in his infallible promises to show himself mighty on your behalf.
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Jan 18, 2019 |
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Authentic Faith Is Eager for Christ to Come
00:02:36
Receive Christ, welcome Christ, embrace Christ — not just as your fire insurance policy, but as your eagerly awaited Treasure and Friend and Lord.
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Jan 17, 2019 |
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Words for the Wind
00:03:26
Be patient and loving as despairing people wake up from their dark night and regret their hasty words.
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Jan 16, 2019 |
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The Freeness of Grace
00:03:51
What act could be more one-sidedly free and non-negotiated than one person raising another from the dead? This is the meaning of grace.
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Jan 15, 2019 |
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The Window of the Heart
00:03:23
Our emotions are governed in large measure by what we consider — what we dwell on with our minds.
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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The Command That Creates
00:04:18
When the command of God comes with the creating, converting power of the Holy Spirit, it gives life. And we believe and rejoice and obey.
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Jan 13, 2019 |
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The Experiential Key
00:03:25
Freedom from greed comes from the deeply satisfying faith in God’s future grace.
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Jan 12, 2019 |
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Passionate for God and Truth
00:03:48
If God exists, then he is the measure of all things, and what he thinks about all things is the measure of what we should think.
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Jan 11, 2019 |
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How Believers Will Be Judged
00:03:56
When God judges believers in the end, he will forgive us all our sins and grant us life everlasting.
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Jan 10, 2019 |
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Only a Little While
00:02:26
God is not the God of some grace. He is the God of all grace — including the infinite, inexhaustible stores of future grace, that we need to endure to the end.
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Jan 09, 2019 |
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Gain What You Cannot Lose
00:03:17
Christ promises to work for us, and to be for us so much that, when our missionary life is over, we will not be able to say we’ve sacrificed anything.
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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Grace Denied and Supplied
00:04:20
God gives both the sustaining grace we need in times of trouble, and the suffering which makes us depend on his grace.
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Jan 07, 2019 |
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God’s Will Is That You Draw Near
00:02:47
This is God’s will for you and this is why Christ died: that you would draw near to God.
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Jan 06, 2019 |
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Our Toothless Enemy
00:03:07
Satan is helpless to do the one thing he wants to do most: damn us. Christ bore our damnation.
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Jan 05, 2019 |
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Hope for Imperfect Christians
00:02:20
Does your faith make you eager to forsake sin and make progress in holiness? That’s the kind of faith God requires.
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Jan 04, 2019 |
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The Smallest Faith
00:04:29
The strength of your faith does not uproot tress. God does. The object of your faith is more important than the quantity of your faith.
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Jan 03, 2019 |
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What Jesus Did to Death
00:02:48
If you are a Christian, death is no longer a punishment for sin. Your sin has been put away by the death of Christ. Christ took the punishment.
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Jan 02, 2019 |
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Grace for the New Year
00:02:35
Be thankful for the past grace from the last year, and be confident in the future grace for the new year.
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Jan 01, 2019 |