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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 DevotionalGood Works Through Good Resolves
The evidence of God’s power in our lives is not the absence of our willing, but the strength and joy of our willing.
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Arm Yourself with Promises
When some fear or craving threatens to lead us into sin, we are to take the sword of the Spirit and kill it.
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Where Our Comfort Comes From
Pilate’s authority over Jesus was subordinate to God’s authority over Pilate. So, Jesus did not fear.
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Finally and Totally Justified
God declares us righteous, which gives us unshakable security in the face of tremendous suffering.
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Radical Effects of the Resurrection
The hope of the resurrection radically changed the way Paul lived. His life counted. His suffering was meaningful.
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When God Becomes 100% for Us
God’s wrath was once on us. But because he made us alive, all that wrath is removed. He is now 100% for us.
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You Are Greatly Loved
Take heart. If you have faith in Jesus, God himself declares, “You are greatly loved.”
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God Opens the Heart
The clearest answer in Acts to the question why a person believes the gospel is that God opens the heart.
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The Hour of Unusual Threat
Those who suffer for Christ will receive the Holy Spirit’s power and rest at their greatest hour of need.
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Enjoying His Fullness
The fullness of Jesus Christ is a divine, accessible, glorious, delivered, blessed, true fullness.
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Our Servant, Jesus
Jesus Christ is exuberant with omnipotent service for the sake of all who trust him.
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Amazed at the Resurrection
Because of Jesus’s resurrection, he now has the glory for which we were made. Our ultimate destiny is to see him as he is.
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The Kind of Cold That Kills
When it’s forty degrees warmer in your freezer than it is outside, the message is clear: Don’t mess with God.
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When You Are Immortal
Christ said Paul was going to Rome. And that was that. No ambush can stand against the promise of Christ.
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The Sweet Designs of God
Oh, how sweet are the designs of God in the sovereign salvation of hardened, hopeless sinners!
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When Obedience Feels Impossible
Do you desire God? Will you trust him? The word of God to you is: God is worthy and God is able.
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Every Calvary Step Was Love
Every step Jesus took on the Calvary road meant, “I love you. I love you. I love you.”
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Christ as Means and End
Jesus is the end for which the universe was made, and the means that makes that end possible to enjoy.
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The Perfect City
When you desire the city of God above everything else on the earth, he is not ashamed to be called your God. Your life pleases him.
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Lincoln’s Providence
It is a most striking thing how personal and national suffering drew Abraham Lincoln into the reality of God, rather than pushing him away.
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The Best Form of Slavery
Amazingly, Paul connects our liberation with Jesus as our Master, and he connects our new slavery with Jesus as our Messiah.
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Saving Faith Isn’t Easily Satisfied
Living and dying by faith means having new desires and seeking new satisfactions.
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Better Than Money, Sex, and Power
Take all the things that drive this world, and ponder how much better and more abiding God is.
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Are You Glad You Are Not God?
Submitting to God enables us to have the supremely satisfying experience of not being God, but admiring the Godness of God.
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Eleventh-Hour Breakthroughs
God surely has reasons for waiting to give you the breakthrough you have sought for decades. Keep asking in hope.
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Reviled Here, Rewarded There
Because Jesus died in our place, he guaranteed that every good deed will prosper — sooner or later.
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The Main Purpose of Ministry
The main task of all the ministries of the church is helping people see the greatness of what Christ has purchased for everyone who will value it above the…
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Five Ways Affliction Helps
Suffering has a great sin-killing effect. The more pure we are, the more clearly we see God.
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The Greatest Love
We should emphasize that God loves and forgives for his own glory because the Bible does, and because it makes clear that God loves us with the greatest love.
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The Forgiveness Cycle
God forgave us when we first believed in Christ. Then, from that broken, joyful, grateful, hopeful experience of being forgiven, we offer forgiveness to others.
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Included in the Covenant
Christians are included in the Davidic covenant. What David received, we will also receive in Christ Jesus.
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Five Purposes for Suffering
Don’t let your ignorance of the micro reasons for suffering cause you to overlook the massive help God tells us in his word of his macro purposes for us.
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Prevailing Grace
Irresistable grace does not mean grace cannot be resisted. It means that when God chooses, he can and will overcome that resistance.
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Caused to Return
There is no hope for God’s people unless he causes them to return from their leaping into sin and unbelief.
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How to Repent
Feeling rotten about your sin is not the same as repenting from it. But it can lead there.
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He Knows Your Need
The same God who feeds billions of birds every hour around the world will take care of you.
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The Giver Gets the Glory
We get the help; God gets the glory. That arrangement keeps us humble and happy, and keeps him supreme and glorious.
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Delayed Deliverances
Times of suffering and deliverance are both God’s stages of care for you. He has not left you or forsaken you.
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Served in Serving Others
Jesus will take care of you when you take care of others. That’s why there were leftovers after Jesus fed the multitudes.
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Go Directly to God
Jesus provides an ever-present, ever-living witness to the removal of the Father’s wrath from us.
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We Will Rule All Things
When Jesus says, “I will grant him to sit with me on my throne,” he promises us a share in the rule of all things.
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The Anchor of Joy
Jesus anchored the happiness of suffering saints in the reward of heaven. And he anchored the happiness of successful saints in the same.
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The Battle to Remind
If we don’t call to mind what God has said about himself and about us, we will languish. Never forget that our God is the God of the impossible.
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How to Serve a Bad Boss
Every little thing you do that is good is seen and valued and rewarded by the Lord. And he will pay you back for it.
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The Remedy for Pride
Yield to the sovereignty of God in all the details of life, and rest in his infallible promises to show himself mighty on your behalf.
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Authentic Faith Is Eager for Christ to Come
Receive Christ, welcome Christ, embrace Christ — not just as your fire insurance policy, but as your eagerly awaited Treasure and Friend and Lord.
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Words for the Wind
Be patient and loving as despairing people wake up from their dark night and regret their hasty words.
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The Freeness of Grace
What act could be more one-sidedly free and non-negotiated than one person raising another from the dead? This is the meaning of grace.
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The Window of the Heart
Our emotions are governed in large measure by what we consider — what we dwell on with our minds.
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The Command That Creates
When the command of God comes with the creating, converting power of the Holy Spirit, it gives life. And we believe and rejoice and obey.
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The Experiential Key
Freedom from greed comes from the deeply satisfying faith in God’s future grace.
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Passionate for God and Truth
If God exists, then he is the measure of all things, and what he thinks about all things is the measure of what we should think.
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How Believers Will Be Judged
When God judges believers in the end, he will forgive us all our sins and grant us life everlasting.
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Only a Little While
God is not the God of some grace. He is the God of all grace — including the infinite, inexhaustible stores of future grace that we need to endure to the end.
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Gain What You Cannot Lose
Christ promises to work for us, and to be for us so much that, when our missionary life is over, we will not be able to say we’ve sacrificed anything.
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Grace Denied and Supplied
God gives both the sustaining grace we need in times of trouble, and the suffering which makes us depend on his grace.
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God’s Will Is That You Draw Near
This is God’s will for you and this is why Christ died: that you would draw near to God.
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Our Toothless Enemy
Satan is helpless to do the one thing he wants to do most: damn us. Christ bore our damnation.
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Hope for Imperfect Christians
Does your faith make you eager to forsake sin and make progress in holiness? That’s the kind of faith God requires.
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The Smallest Faith
The strength of your faith does not uproot trees. God does. The object of your faith is more important than the quantity of your faith.