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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What It Means to Bless the Lord
00:02:37
To bless the Lord is to speak well of his greatness and goodness — and really mean it from the depths of your soul.
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Aug 17, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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The End of the Gospel
00:03:05
The highest, fullest, deepest, sweetest good of the gospel is God himself, enjoyed by his redeemed people.
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Aug 09, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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Suffering That Crushes Faith
00:02:20
Knowing God’s design in suffering is one of the main means of growing through suffering.
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Jul 31, 2018 |
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Suffering That Strengthens Faith
00:03:13
Strange as it may seem, one of the primary purposes of being shaken by suffering is to make our faith more unshakable.
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Jul 30, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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Satan’s Strategy and Your Defense
00:03:48
The two great enemies of our souls are sin and Satan. And sin is worse, because the only way that Satan destroys us is by getting us to sin.
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Jul 25, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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Preach to Yourself
00:03:00
Preaching truth to ourselves about God’s future grace is all-important in overcoming spiritual depression.
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Jul 22, 2018 |
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Models for Combating Discouragement
00:03:26
The soul of the saint sometimes needs to be revived. So, God leads it to water in order to give it life again.
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Jul 21, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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God’s Grace in Spiritual Gifts
00:03:14
There are as many future graces as there are needs in the body of Christ — and more. So, receive and dispense God’s future grace to meet those needs.
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Jul 18, 2018 |
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The Power to Profess Christ
00:03:08
The apostles’ power to witness with faithfulness and effectiveness did not come mainly from memories of grace; it came from the new arrivals of “great grace.”
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Jul 17, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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We Work by Grace
00:04:06
As Paul faced each day, he confessed that, unless future grace was given for that day’s work, he would not be able to do it.
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Jul 15, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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What Moves You to Minister?
00:02:45
Faith loves to rely on God and see him work miracles. Therefore, faith pushes into the current where God’s grace flows most freely: the current of love.
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Jul 13, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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Saving Faith Loves Forgiveness
00:03:33
Saving faith cherishes being forgiven by God, and from there rises to cherishing the God who forgives.
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Jul 08, 2018 |
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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, 2018 |
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How Christ Conquered Bitterness
00:03:18
No one has ever lived who was more worthy of honor than Jesus; and no one has been dishonored more. But he triumphed by entrusting himself to God.
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Jul 06, 2018 |
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Give God Your Revenge
00:04:02
Your very soul is in danger if you hold onto an attitude of unforgiving bitterness. Leave it to the wrath of God.
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Jul 05, 2018 |
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When Will I Be Satisfied?
00:03:25
Imagine being able to enjoy what is most enjoyable with unbounded energy and passion forever. That is not our experience now, but it will be one day.
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Jul 04, 2018 |
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Good News: God Is Happy
00:02:55
God’s glory consists much in the fact that he is happy beyond our wildest imagination.
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Jul 03, 2018 |
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How Well Do You Know God?
00:02:58
Pray that our infinitely great God would incline your heart, and open your eyes to see him as fully as you can and seek to know him more.
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Jul 02, 2018 |
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God’s Pleasure to Do You Good
00:03:19
Jesus aims to defeat our fears that God is not the kind of God who really wants to do good for us.
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Jul 01, 2018 |
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Heaven’s Relief in the Coming Wrath
00:02:59
The unwillingness of others to repent will not hold the saints hostage. Hell cannot blackmail heaven into misery.
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Jun 30, 2018 |
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The Powerful Root of Practical Love
00:03:39
Faith in God’s promises must be so real that the love it produces proves the reality of the faith.
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Jun 29, 2018 |