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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 DevotionalGod Demonstrates His Love
The goal of everything God takes us through is hope. He wants us to feel unwaveringly hopeful through all tribulations. He wants us to know he loves us.
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Dirty Rags No More
God requires good works not as the ground of our justification (which is the righteousness of Christ alone), but as an evidence of it.
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Fifteen Tactics for Joy
In this life of sin and pain, how shall we fight for joy? Here are fifteen ways.
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The Day Is at Hand
The age of sin and misery and death is almost spent. The day of righteousness and peace and total joy is dawning.
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The Great Exchange
Our sins are laid on Christ and his righteousness is laid on us. That is the great exchange — and it becomes ours not by works but by faith.
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Children of a Singing God
It could not be otherwise but that Christianity be a singing faith. The founder sang. We are a singing people because we are the children of a singing God.
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You Were Made for God
When we speak of being a God-centered people, remember, this is because we are joining God in his God-centeredness.
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Paul’s Salvation Was for You
The point of Paul’s conversion happening the way it did is to make Christ’s incredible patience vivid for you.
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The Liberating Power of Forgiveness
When we live by faith, rooted in God’s forgiveness, we are freed from the lingering, paralyzing effects even of shame we deserve to feel.
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Seek Your City’s Good
Christians care about all suffering — especially eternal suffering. That’s the greatest danger every city faces.
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Five Reasons to Be Fearless
Not being afraid shows that you treasure God as your generous Shepherd, Father, and King.
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The Key to Radical Love
The key to joy is faith in God’s future grace — that is, being satisfied in all that God promises to be for us.
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Afraid to Stray
Cherish the goodness of the Lord, fear straying from him, flee from every sin, and take refuge in him.
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A Future for Failures
This is the gospel: Even though you have sinned greatly, nevertheless there is a future and a hope. Fear not!
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God, Touch Our Hearts
The One with infinite power in the universe reaches down to personally touch and transform us.
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Embracing Jesus
Faith in Christ is not just assenting to what God is for us, but also embracing all that he is for us in Christ.
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Mercy for Today
We won’t bear tomorrow’s load on today’s resources. Today’s mercies are for today’s troubles. Tomorrow’s mercies are for tomorrow’s troubles.
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Don’t Be Like the Mule
Come to God in prayer, to confess your sins, and to accept, as needy little farmyard chicks, the direction of God into the barn of his protection and provision.
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Pray for His Fame
God delights in having his name known and honored. The first and most important prayer that can be prayed is, “Hallowed be your name.”
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Talk to Your Tears
Sheer sowing produces reaping. You must remember this, even when your tears tempt you to give up.
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You Cannot Lose in the End
Trust Christ, no matter what. Go with him, no matter where. You cannot lose in the end.
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The Great King’s Wine
When you are cast into the cellars of affliction, remember that the great King keeps his best wine there.
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What Is Well-Placed Shame?
The biblical criterion for misplaced shame and for well-placed shame is radically God-centered.
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Talk to God, Not Just About Him
It is good not to talk very long about God without talking to God. Frequently interrupt your talking about God by talking to God.
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Make Satan Know His Defeat
When Christ died and rose again, Satan was defeated. Jesus struck the decisive blow at Calvary.
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What It Means to Pray for Your Enemy
Don’t just do good things for your enemies. Desire their best, and express those desires in prayer, even when they’re nowhere around.
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Two Ways to Remember Jesus
Jesus is not just alive from the dead, but he is alive as the King who will reign forever — of his kingdom there will be no end.
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The Books at the Judgment
Salvation is secured for all who are written in the book of life, not because of their deeds, but because Christ was slain for them.
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God Strengthens Us Through Others
Sometimes God will strengthen your faith directly. But most of the time, he does so through another person.
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How to Respond When You Falter
O God, help us to feel worse about our own shortfalls than the failure of others.
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Better Than Everest
If you live inside the massive promise of Romans 8:28, your life is more solid and stable than Mount Everest.
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Two of Our Deepest Needs
In the Father, you are under God’s care and protection. In the Son, you are under God’s charge and authority.
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What Binds the Hands of Love?
Only one thing satisfies the heart whose treasure is in heaven: doing the works of heaven. And heaven is a world of love!
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If He Calls, He Keeps
Our perseverance doesn’t rest decisively on the reliability of our own resolve. It rests decisively on God’s work to keep us trusting him.
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As Sure as God’s Love for His Son
God will not spare any effort to give you all that Christ died to purchase — all things, all good, and all bad working for your good.
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When Everyone Deserts You
When others abandon you, strengthen your heart with God’s inexorable oath: “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
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10 Results of the Resurrection
Because Christ rose from the grave, God’s children are forgiven. No one can successfully bring a charge against those who are in Christ.
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How to Delight in God’s Word
Never reduce Christianity to a matter of demands and resolutions and willpower. It is a matter of what we love, what we delight in, what tastes good to us.
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Forever Satisfied
When we trust Jesus, his presence and promise is so satisfying that we are not dominated by the alluring pleasures of sin.
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Ministry and the Fear of Man
Hear God say to you in all your troubles, “I will deliver you. You will triumph in the end. You will be more than a conqueror.”
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Ignorance Guarantees Ungodliness
Knowledge doesn’t guarantee godliness. But it seems that ignorance guarantees ungodliness. The power that leads to godliness is given through knowing God.
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Satan’s Candy Store
When temptations come, arm yourself with this thought: When my Lord suffered and died to free me from sin, I died to sin!
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God’s Best Promise
Whatever else gives way, whatever else disappoints, whatever else fails, God’s all-encompassing promise of future grace can never fail.
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Jesus Died for This Moment
If there is any hope for eternity in the presence of God, we need a Redeemer, a Substitute, a Savior. Christ died and rose to be that hope.
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A Six-Point Summary of the Gospel
Good news! Eternal life is a free gift to all who will trust in Christ as Lord and Savior and supreme Treasure of their lives.
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Why We Must Hold Fast Our Hope
The salvation Jesus obtained through his blood was everything it takes to save his people, not just part of it.
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Prayer’s Exclamation Point
Prayer is the confident plea for God to make good on his promises of future grace — for Christ’s sake.
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Jesus Will Finish the Mission
Christ can promise universal victory because he is sovereign. He knows the future because he makes the future.
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Subversive for the Savior
Since Satan’s doom is sure, and he knows it, we can always remind him of it when he tempts us to follow him.
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Triumph Is Sure
God is so powerful and so gracious that in the end he will turn ruthless nations to revere him. He cannot fail.
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Jesus Is God’s Amen
Because of Christ, we say Amen to God in our prayers to show that God gets the glory for the future grace we are counting on.
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When the Potter Is for Us
With all the power in the universe and with the absolute right to do as he pleases with what he made, God is for us.
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Two Infinitely Strong and Tender Truths
The mercy and the sovereignty of God are the twin pillars of your life. They will stand by your deathbed, and with strong and tender hands lift you to God.
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Let Us Adore the Lamb
Your prayers are the aroma of heaven, sweet smelling before the throne of God and before the Lamb.
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God Cares for You
Pride is a form of unbelief. Faith admits need. Pride won’t. Faith banks on God. Pride won’t. Faith casts anxieties on God. Pride won’t.
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Open the Windows of Your Heart
A mustard seed of faith is infinitely closer to being a mountain of faith than it is to being no faith. There is an infinite difference between a spark and no…
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How Can I Be Filled with the Spirit?
How can you experience an outpouring of the Holy Spirit? Meditate day and night on the promises of God.
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God Regards the Lowly
You cannot sink so low in despairing of your own resources that God does not see and care. He is at the bottom waiting to catch you.
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Look to Jesus for Your Joy
Turn from self and come to Jesus as your source for true joy. His fullness will satisfy your itch of emptiness.
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God Rejoices to Do You Good
There are no lapses in God’s commitment or in his joy in doing good to his children — to those who trust him.