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Solid Joys Daily Devotional
A short and substantive daily devotional to feed your joy in Jesus every day of the year.
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Solid Joys Daily DevotionalSin, Satan, Sickness, or Sabotage
Suffering proves our allegiance to Christ’s goodness and reveals his worth as an all-sufficient prize.
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Radical Recompense
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.
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Possible with God
God has a people in every people group. He will call them through the gospel with Creator power. And they will believe!
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Medicine for the Missionary
“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.
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The Great Missionary Hope
God’s call is irresistible in the sense that it can overcome all resistance. It is infallibly effective according to God’s purpose.
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Christ Is Like Sunlight
We see the sun by means of seeing the rays of the sun. So also we see God the Father by seeing Jesus.
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God’s Final, Decisive Word
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.
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Hedonism for Husbands and Wives
When Christ redeems marriage, he does not dismantle loving headship and willing submission. He restores it.
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The Mystery of Marriage
Husbands and wives should seek to live after the distinctive model of God’s pure and glad design for Christ and the church.
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Prayer’s First Priority
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.
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Love’s Greatest Happiness
The union between Christ and his bride is so close that any good done to her is a good done to himself.
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Jesus’s Joy in Marriage
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.
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The Purpose of Prosperity
You can steal to get; or you can work to get; or you can work to get in order to give.
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Fear and Hope in God’s Jealousy
It is a horrifying thing to use your God-given life to commit adultery against the Almighty.
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Plan for Prayer
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.
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God Heals by Humbling
God takes out our old proud hearts and gives new soft ones, which are easily humbled and crushed by the sin that remains.
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The Master Servant
The very heart of God’s glory is the fullness of grace that overflows in kindness to needy people.
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Beware of Serving God
God aims to be our servant, because he aims to get the glory as the Giver.
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We Can Do Nothing
God is glorified when we turn away from ourselves to him in the confidence that he will provide the help we need.
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Best Passage Ever
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.
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God’s Wise Mercy
The good news is that God himself has decreed a way to satisfy the demands of his justice without condemning the whole human race.
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Our Good Is God’s Delight
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.
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We Wait, He Works
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.
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The Happy God
When we share in the happiness of God, we share in the very pleasure that the Father has in the Son.
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Justice Will Be Done
When you lay down the burden of vengeance, God will pick it up.
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Joy Unbound
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.
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Absolute, Sovereign, Almighty Love
God does not need us. Instead, his infinite self-sufficiency spills over in love to us who need him.
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God Isn’t Gloomy
If none of God’s purposes can be frustrated, then he must be the happiest of all beings.
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The All-Satisfying Object
The quest for joy is not optional, but commanded.
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The Most Liberating Discovery
Joy is not a mere option alongside worship. It is an essential component of worship.
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Make War with Unbelief
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.
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Our Good Is His Glory
God’s greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of his grace by making sinners happy in him.
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The Power of a Superior Promise
The truth of Christ frees us from the slavery of sin, for the freedom of holiness.
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Live Confident in God’s Sovereign Power
Confidence in God’s absolute control is the source and power of radical obedience to the call of God.
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Life Hangs on the Word of God
The Bible is no empty word. It is your very life — the foundation and kindling of your joy!
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Jesus’s Pursuit of Joy
What sustained Christ in the dark hours of Gethsemane was the hope of joy beyond the cross.
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Hope for the Worst of Sinners
When it comes to being a candidate for grace, your background has nothing to do with God’s choice. That’s good news.
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Let Goods and Kindred Go
You have a possession in heaven that is better, and lasts longer, than anything this world can offer.
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Ammunition Against Anxiety
God intends for particular promises to help you fight against particular anxieties.
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Not Nearly Hedonistic Enough
The Lord has spoken: It is more blessed to love than to live in luxury! More blessed now, and forever.
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Our Unspeakable Privilege
In Jesus Christ we who are born of God have the unspeakable privilege of knowing Yahweh as our Father.
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The Only True Freedom
Only Jesus, the Son of God who died and rose for us, can make us truly free.
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Worship in a Lightning Storm
Sit down to the feast of joy in Christ and worship the King of Glory. The banquet hall is very large.
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The Soul’s Final Feast
To see God, and know him, and be in his presence is the soul’s final feast.
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The Only Enduring Happiness
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.
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God Will Supply All Your Needs
If we live by faith in God’s promise of future grace, it will be very hard for anxiety to survive.
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7 Reasons Not to Worry, Part 3
God will see to it that you are not tested in any given day more than you can bear.
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7 Reasons Not to Worry, Part 2
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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7 Reasons Not to Worry, Part 1
Jesus helps us to fight the good fight against unbelief and to be free from anxiety.
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How to Fight Anxiety
The way you fight the good fight for faith is by meditating on God’s assurances of future grace and by asking for the help of his Spirit.
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Grace Must Be Free
If you treated your salvation no longer as a gift, but as a purchase, God would no longer be the free benefactor.
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How to Repay God
You can’t give anything to God or do anything for God that he hasn’t first given to you and done for you.
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God-Given Foes and God-Given Faith
Fear not. Your adversaries can do no more than God grants. And he will grant you the faith you need. Those are gospel promises.
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Present and Powerful Love
Nothing will separate us from the love of Christ because Christ is alive and is still loving us right now.
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The Goal of Christ’s Love
God loves us so much that he will not allow our preciousness to become our god.
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What’s New About the New Covenant
In the old covenant, the gracious enabling power to obey God was not poured out as fully as it is since Jesus.
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The “I Will” of God
If you feel vulnerable, you can say to God, “Lord, help me. I’m not even sure how to pray.” Trust that he will respond and will help you.
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Devastated and Delighted
This is one of the beauties of the biblical doctrines of grace: their worst devastations prepare us for their greatest delights.
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He Does All That He Pleases
God is never forced into a situation where he must do something in which he cannot rejoice.
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The Lion and the Lamb
The worth and beauty of the Son come not just from his majesty, nor just from his meekness, but from the way these mingle in perfect proportion.