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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When God’s Love Is Sweetest
00:03:55
The sweetest experience of God’s love is conditional on our transformation into the kind of people whose emotions and choices and actions please God.
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Aug 25, 2019 |
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The Message of Creation
00:02:46
Day and night are saying one thing: God is glorious! Turn away from the creation as your supreme satisfaction, and delight yourself in the Lord of glory.
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Aug 24, 2019 |
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God Is Not an Idolater
00:03:16
God is love precisely because he relentlessly pursues the praises of his name in the hearts of his people.
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Aug 23, 2019 |
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Pleased to Praise
00:03:54
If God loves us enough to make our joy full, he must not only give us himself; he must also win from us the praise of our hearts.
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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An Unshakably Happy God
00:03:31
God’s pursuit of praise from us and our pursuit of pleasure in him are the same pursuit.
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Aug 21, 2019 |
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Jesus Is Who You’re Looking For
00:03:04
The Bible is a window that opens onto the sunrise glory of the risen Christ.
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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What the Resurrection Means for Us
00:02:47
Christ’s resurrection is God’s declaration that we cannot work our way to glory, but that he intends to do the impossible to get us there.
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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Hope to Obey Hard Commands
00:03:19
You will always be better off to obey than to disobey Jesus, even if that obedience costs you your life.
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Aug 18, 2019 |
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What It Means to Bless the Lord
00:02:37
Authentic speaking about God’s goodness and greatness must come from the soul. Blessing God with the mouth without the soul would be hypocrisy.
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Aug 17, 2019 |
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Why You Give In to Sexual Sin
00:01:58
If we are to be sexually pure, God must have the supreme place in our feelings and thoughts.
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Aug 16, 2019 |
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What We Were Made For
00:02:44
All the other gifts of the gospel — forgiveness, justification, propitiation, eternal life — exist to make fellowship with God possible.
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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God Forgives and Is Still Just
00:04:19
The death of the Son of God is outrageous enough, and the glory of God that it upholds is great enough, that God is vindicated to forgive our sins.
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Aug 14, 2019 |
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Three Examples of How Faith Fulfills Good Resolves
00:03:39
The power of God to fulfill your resolves will come to you as you trust in the future grace of his promises.
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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My Soul Thirsts for God
00:03:11
When we see the face of Christ, we see the face of God. And we see the glory of his face when we hear the story of the gospel of his death and resurrection.
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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The Different Tenses of Grace
00:03:30
Grace is not only God’s disposition to do good for us when we don’t deserve it. It is also a power that makes good things happen in us.
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Aug 11, 2019 |
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Have Mercy on Me, O God
00:02:17
We know more of the mystery of our redemption than David did. We know Christ. But we lay hold of the mercy in the same way he did.
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Aug 10, 2019 |
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The End of the Gospel
00:03:05
The gospel is the good news that God bought for us the everlasting enjoyment of God.
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Aug 09, 2019 |
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Ruler of All Nature
00:02:53
Stand in awe and be at peace, knowing that no natural event is outside of God’s wise and good purposes, and perfect control.
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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The Point of Creation
00:03:24
God made humans in his image so that the world would be filled with reflectors of God. Images of God. So that nobody would miss the point of creation.
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Aug 07, 2019 |
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Jesus Bought Your Endurance
00:02:49
God is totally committed to the perseverance and eternal security of his blood-bought children.
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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10 Things “Yahweh” Means
00:05:03
Yahweh is a proper name (like Peter) built out of the word for “I am.” It teaches us that God absolutely is.
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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As Secure as God Is Faithful
00:02:10
Between eternity past in God’s predestination, and eternity future in God’s glorification, none is lost.
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Aug 04, 2019 |
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Why You Have a Body
00:02:31
God will honor the work of his Son by raising our bodies from the dead, and we will use our bodies to glorify him forever.
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Aug 03, 2019 |
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Afraid of Death No More
00:04:16
God has justified us. There is only future grace in front of us. Satan cannot overturn that decree.
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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Our Weakness Reveals His Worth
00:03:04
Sometimes God makes seemingly strong people weaker so that his divine power will be the more evident.
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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Suffering That Crushes Faith
00:02:20
Suffering must not drive you from God. Instead, it should drive you from everything but God.
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Jul 31, 2019 |
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Suffering That Strengthens Faith
00:03:13
Faith is like muscle tissue: if you stress it to the limit, it gets stronger, not weaker. When your faith is tested, the result is greater capacity to endure.
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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God’s Plan for Martyrs
00:03:38
Our sovereign God says there is an appointed number of martyrs. They have a special role to play in planting and empowering the church.
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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Why We Don’t Lose Heart
Strengthen your heart and renew your courage by fixing your gaze on the invisible truth you see in the testimony of those who saw Christ face to face.
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Jul 28, 2019 |
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If You Don’t Fight Lust
00:03:45
If you don’t fight lust with a seriousness that is willing to gouge out your own eye, you will go to hell and suffer forever.
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Jul 27, 2019 |
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What It Means to Love Money
00:03:06
The heart that loves money is a heart that pins its hopes, and pursues its pleasures, and puts its trust in what human resources can offer.
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Jul 26, 2019 |
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Satan’s Strategy and Your Defense
00:03:48
The way to thwart the devil is to strengthen the very thing he is trying most to destroy — your faith.
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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Jesus Keeps His Sheep
00:03:15
Jesus is interceding for us today that our faith might not fail. Our endurance in faith and joy is finally and decisively in the hands of God.
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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How to Defy Sinful Desire
00:03:44
When God’s word feeds faith’s appetite for God, it weans our hearts away from the deceptive taste of lust.
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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Preach to Yourself
00:03:00
Trusting God’s future grace comes by hearing the word. Therefore, preaching the word to ourselves is all-important in overcoming spiritual depression.
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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Models for Combating Discouragement
00:03:26
The Bible is replete with saints struggling with sunken spirits. But God includes such testimonies so that we might use them to fight the unbelief of despondency.
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Jul 21, 2019 |
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Grace for Every Need
00:02:43
Prayer is the great link of faith between the soul of the saint and the promise of God’s future grace.
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Jul 20, 2019 |
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His Timing Is Perfect
00:03:38
God promises not merely that we will find grace “to help in time of need,” but that the grace is well-timed by God.
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Jul 19, 2019 |
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God’s Grace in Spiritual Gifts
00:03:14
Moment by moment, God supplies the strength in which we serve. He does this because the ongoing, inexhaustible supplier of power gets the glory.
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Jul 18, 2019 |
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The Power to Profess Christ
00:03:08
Whatever added signs and wonders God may show to amplify our witness to Christ, they will come through his grace and power.
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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Energy for Today’s To-Dos
00:04:16
Believe the promise that in this day God will be at work in you to will and work for his good pleasure.
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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We Work by Grace
00:04:06
Paul prayed for grace for the day, trusted that it would come with power, and then acted with all his might.
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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Ministry — More Important Than Life
00:03:24
You may think you need to save your life in order to do your ministry. On the contrary, how you lose your life may be the capstone of your ministry.
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Jul 14, 2019 |
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What Moves You to Minister?
00:02:45
Costly acts of love don’t just happen. They are impelled by a new appetite — the appetite of faith for the fullest experience of God’s grace. We want more of God.
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Jul 13, 2019 |
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Faith Expels Guilt, Greed, and Fear
00:04:20
The glory of Christ is magnified when we are more satisfied with his future grace than we are with the promises of sin.
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Jul 12, 2019 |
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We Experience the Spirit Through Faith
00:03:32
When we don’t believe all the promises of God, we won’t receive the full measure of the Spirit.
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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Proud Works vs. Humble Faith
00:03:37
“Works” longs for the joy of being glorified as strong. “Faith” longs for the joy of seeing God glorified as strong.
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Jul 10, 2019 |
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Six Ways Jesus Fought Depression
00:03:53
When he was in anguish, Jesus rested his soul in the sovereign wisdom of God.
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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Saving Faith Loves Forgiveness
00:03:33
Faith in God’s forgiveness means savoring the truth that a forgiving God is the most precious reality in the universe.
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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When Another Christian Hurts You
00:03:20
All the wrongs that have been done against us by believers were avenged in the death of Jesus. Look to the cross of Christ.
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Jul 07, 2019 |