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Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

300 episodes

A short and substantive daily devotional to feed your joy in Jesus every day of the year.

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  1. The Seminary of Suffering

    · 3:21

    God designs suffering not only as a way to wean Christians off of self and onto grace, but also as a way to spotlight that grace and make it shine.

  2. The Danger of Drifting

    · 3:13

    Be satisfied in Jesus so that you do not get lured downstream by deceitful desires.

  3. Sin, Satan, Sickness, or Sabotage

    · 4:37

    Suffering proves our allegiance to Christ’s goodness and reveals his worth as an all-sufficient prize.

  4. Radical Recompense

    · 2:45

    Jesus himself makes up for every sacrifice he will ever call us to make. It is worth it to lose it all in order to gain Christ.

  5. Possible with God

    · 3:17

    God has a people in every people group. He will call them through the gospel with Creator power. And they will believe!

  6. Medicine for the Missionary

    · 2:34

    “All things are possible with God!” — in front the words give hope, and behind they give humility. They are the antidote to both despair and pride.

  7. The Great Missionary Hope

    · 3:56

    God’s call is irresistible in the sense that it can overcome all resistance. It is infallibly effective according to God’s purpose.

  8. Christ Is Like Sunlight

    · 3:07

    We see the sun by means of seeing the rays of the sun. So also we see God the Father by seeing Jesus.

  9. God’s Final, Decisive Word

    · 3:16

    The Word that God spoke by his Son is the decisive Word. It will not be followed in this age by any greater word or replacement word.

  10. Hedonism for Husbands and Wives

    · 4:16

    When Christ redeems marriage, he does not dismantle loving headship and willing submission. He restores it.

  11. The Mystery of Marriage

    · 3:50

    Husbands and wives should seek to live after the distinctive model of God’s pure and glad design for Christ and the church.

  12. Prayer’s First Priority

    · 3:14

    The first priority in praying is to ask our heavenly Father to cause his name to be hallowed. In us. In the church. In the world. Everywhere.

  13. Love’s Greatest Happiness

    · 3:20

    The union between Christ and his bride is so close that any good done to her is a good done to himself.

  14. Jesus’s Joy in Marriage

    · 3:54

    Jesus did not want a dirty and unholy wife. Therefore, he was willing to die to cleanse her so that he could present her to himself.

  15. The Purpose of Prosperity

    · 3:13

    You can steal to get; or you can work to get; or you can work to get in order to give.

  16. Fear and Hope in God’s Jealousy

    · 3:06

    It is a horrifying thing to use your God-given life to commit adultery against the Almighty.

  17. Plan for Prayer

    · 3:26

    One of the main reasons we so often fail to have consistent habits of happy, fruitful prayer is simply that we don’t plan to.

  18. God Heals by Humbling

    · 4:21

    God takes out our old proud hearts and gives new soft ones, which are easily humbled and crushed by the sin that remains.

  19. The Master Servant

    · 3:49

    The very heart of God’s glory is the fullness of grace that overflows in kindness to needy people.

  20. Beware of Serving God

    · 3:44

    God aims to be our servant, because he aims to get the glory as the Giver.

  21. We Can Do Nothing

    · 3:39

    God is glorified when we turn away from ourselves to him in the confidence that he will provide the help we need.

  22. Best Passage Ever

    · 3:42

    The greatest news is that the cross upholds the worth of God’s glory, the honor of his Son, and the eternal salvation of his elect.

  23. God’s Wise Mercy

    · 2:53

    The good news is that God himself has decreed a way to satisfy the demands of his justice without condemning the whole human race.

  24. Our Good Is God’s Delight

    · 2:43

    All the omnipotent energy that drives the heart of God to pursue his own glory also drives him to satisfy the hearts of those who seek their joy in him.

  25. We Wait, He Works

    · 3:53

    Be freed from the burden of bearing your own load. Let God do that work. God loves to show his God-ness by working for us.

  26. The Happy God

    · 3:25

    When we share in the happiness of God, we share in the very pleasure that the Father has in the Son.

  27. Justice Will Be Done

    · 4:04

    When you lay down the burden of vengeance, God will pick it up.

  28. Joy Unbound

    · 3:15

    Imagine being able to enjoy what is most enjoyable with unbounded energy and passion forever. One day, God’s delight in his Son will be in us.

  29. Absolute, Sovereign, Almighty Love

    · 3:08

    God does not need us. Instead, his infinite self-sufficiency spills over in love to us who need him.

  30. God Isn’t Gloomy

    · 3:48

    If none of God’s purposes can be frustrated, then he must be the happiest of all beings.

  31. The All-Satisfying Object

    · 2:58

    The quest for joy is not optional, but commanded.

  32. The Most Liberating Discovery

    · 3:42

    Joy is not a mere option alongside worship. It is an essential component of worship.

  33. Make War with Unbelief

    · 3:17

    Take up the Bible, ask the Holy Spirit for help, lay the promises up in your heart, and fight the good fight — to live by faith in future grace.

  34. Our Good Is His Glory

    · 4:16

    God’s greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of his grace by making sinners happy in him.

  35. The Power of a Superior Promise

    · 3:29

    The truth of Christ frees us from the slavery of sin, for the freedom of holiness.

  36. Live Confident in God’s Sovereign Power

    · 2:24

    Confidence in God’s absolute control is the source and power of radical obedience to the call of God.

  37. Life Hangs on the Word of God

    · 3:15

    The Bible is no empty word. It is your very life — the foundation and kindling of your joy!

  38. Jesus’s Pursuit of Joy

    · 3:01

    What sustained Christ in the dark hours of Gethsemane was the hope of joy beyond the cross.

  39. Hope for the Worst of Sinners

    · 3:04

    When it comes to being a candidate for grace, your background has nothing to do with God’s choice. That’s good news.

  40. Let Goods and Kindred Go

    · 3:28

    You have a possession in heaven that is better, and lasts longer, than anything this world can offer.

  41. Ammunition Against Anxiety

    · 3:53

    God intends for particular promises to help you fight against particular anxieties.

  42. Not Nearly Hedonistic Enough

    · 2:34

    The Lord has spoken: It is more blessed to love than to live in luxury! More blessed now, and forever.

  43. Our Unspeakable Privilege

    · 2:55

    In Jesus Christ we who are born of God have the unspeakable privilege of knowing Yahweh as our Father.

  44. The Only True Freedom

    · 2:44

    Only Jesus, the Son of God who died and rose for us, can make us truly free.

  45. Worship in a Lightning Storm

    · 2:42

    Sit down to the feast of joy in Christ and worship the King of Glory. The banquet hall is very large.

  46. The Soul’s Final Feast

    · 3:10

    To see God, and know him, and be in his presence is the soul’s final feast.

  47. The Only Enduring Happiness

    · 2:59

    Two things have to be true if your joy is never to be taken from you. One is that the source of your joy lasts forever and the other is that you last forever.

  48. God Will Supply All Your Needs

    · 2:40

    If we live by faith in God’s promise of future grace, it will be very hard for anxiety to survive.

  49. 7 Reasons Not to Worry, Part 3

    · 5:18

    God will see to it that you are not tested in any given day more than you can bear.

  50. 7 Reasons Not to Worry, Part 2

    · 4:12

    God will certainly take his energy and creative skill, and use it to care for his children since they will live forever.

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