Solid Joys Daily Devotional
A short and substantive daily devotional to feed your joy in Jesus every day of the year.
Episodes
Not Nearly Hedonistic Enough
The Lord has spoken: It is more blessed to love than to live in luxury! More blessed now, and forever.
Our Unspeakable Privilege
In Jesus Christ we who are born of God have the unspeakable privilege of knowing Yahweh as our Father.
The Only True Freedom
Only Jesus, the Son of God who died and rose for us, can make us truly free.
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.
The Soul’s Final Feast
To see God, and know him, and be in his presence is the soul’s final feast.
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.
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.
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.
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.
7 Reasons Not to Worry, Part 1
Jesus helps us to fight the good fight against unbelief and to be free from anxiety.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Present and Powerful Love
Nothing will separate us from the love of Christ because Christ is alive and is still loving us right now.
The Goal of Christ’s Love
God loves us so much that he will not allow our preciousness to become our god.
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.
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.
Devastated and Delighted
This is one of the beauties of the biblical doctrines of grace: their worst devastations prepare us for their greatest delights.
He Does All That He Pleases
God is never forced into a situation where he must do something in which he cannot rejoice.
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.
Church Growth God’s Way
By all means work. But always look to the Lord for the decisive, supernatural work needed to fulfill his purposes.
Six Things It Means to Be in Christ Jesus
Never grow weary of exploring and exulting in the inexhaustible privilege of being “in Christ Jesus.”
Forgiven for Jesus’s Sake
The Father’s infinite pleasure in his own perfections is the fountain of our everlasting joy and forgiveness.
Jesus Will Trample All Our Enemies
The extent of Christ’s reign reaches to the smallest and biggest enemy of his glory in your life, and in this universe. It will be defeated.
Shadows and Streams
God rejoices in the works of creation because they point us beyond themselves to God himself.
When God’s Love Is Sweetest
The sweetest experience of God’s love is conditional on our transformation into the kind of people whose emotions and choices and actions please God.
The Message of Creation
Day and night are saying one thing: God is glorious! Turn away from the creation as your supreme satisfaction, and delight yourself in the Lord of glory.
God Is Not an Idolater
God is love precisely because he relentlessly pursues the praises of his name in the hearts of his people.
Pleased to Praise
If God loves us enough to make our joy full, he must not only give us himself; he must also win from us the praise of our hearts.
The Unshakably Happy God
God’s pursuit of praise from us and our pursuit of pleasure in him are the same pursuit.
Jesus Is Who You’re Looking For
The Bible is a window that opens onto the sunrise glory of the risen Christ.
What the Resurrection Means for Us
Christ’s resurrection is God’s declaration that we cannot work our way to glory, but that he intends to do the impossible to get us there.
Hope to Obey Hard Commands
You will always be better off to obey than to disobey Jesus, even if that obedience costs you your life.
What It Means to Bless the Lord
Authentic speaking about God’s goodness and greatness must come from the soul. Blessing God with the mouth without the soul would be hypocrisy.
Why You Give In to Sexual Sin
If we are to be sexually pure, God must have the supreme place in our feelings and thoughts.
What We Were Made For
All the other gifts of the gospel — forgiveness, justification, propitiation, eternal life — exist to make fellowship with God possible.
God Forgives and Is Still Just
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.
Three Examples of How Faith Fulfills Good Resolves
The power of God to fulfill your resolves will come to you as you trust in the future grace of his promises.
My Soul Thirsts for God
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.
The Different Tenses of Grace
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.
Have Mercy on Me, O God
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.
The End of the Gospel
The gospel is the good news that God bought for us the everlasting enjoyment of God.
Ruler of All Nature
Stand in awe and be at peace, knowing that no natural event is outside of God’s wise and good purposes, and perfect control.
The Point of Creation
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.
Jesus Bought Your Endurance
God is totally committed to the perseverance and eternal security of his blood-bought children.
10 Things “Yahweh” Means
Yahweh is a proper name (like Peter) built out of the word for “I am.” It teaches us that God absolutely is.
As Secure as God Is Faithful
Between eternity past in God’s predestination, and eternity future in God’s glorification, none is lost.
Why You Have a Body
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.
Afraid of Death No More
God has justified us. There is only future grace in front of us. Satan cannot overturn that decree.
Our Weakness Reveals His Worth
Sometimes God makes seemingly strong people weaker so that his divine power will be the more evident.
Suffering That Crushes Faith
Suffering must not drive you from God. Instead, it should drive you from everything but God.
Suffering That Strengthens Faith
Faith is like muscle tissue: if you stress it to the limit, it gets stronger, not weaker. When your faith is tested, the result is greater capacity to endure.
God’s Plan for Martyrs
Our sovereign God says there is an appointed number of martyrs. They have a special role to play in planting and empowering the church.
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.
If You Don’t Fight Lust
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.
What It Means to Love Money
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.
Satan’s Strategy and Your Defense
The way to thwart the devil is to strengthen the very thing he is trying most to destroy — your faith.
Jesus Keeps His Sheep
Jesus is interceding for us today that our faith may not fail. Our endurance in faith and joy is finally and decisively in the hands of God.
How to Defy Sinful Desire
When God’s word feeds faith’s appetite for God, it weans our hearts away from the deceptive taste of lust.
Preach to Yourself
Trusting God’s future grace comes by hearing the word. Therefore, preaching the word to ourselves is all-important in overcoming spiritual depression.
Models for Combating Discouragement
The Bible is replete with saints struggling with sunken spirits. But God includes such testimonies so that we might use them to fight the unbelief of despondency.
Grace for Every Need
Prayer is the great link of faith between the soul of the saint and the promise of God’s future grace.
His Timing Is Perfect
God promises not merely that we will find grace “to help in time of need,” but that the grace is well-timed by God.
God’s Grace in Spiritual Gifts
Moment by moment, God supplies the strength in which we serve. He does this because the ongoing, inexhaustible supplier of power gets the glory.
The Power to Profess Christ
Whatever added signs and wonders God may show to amplify our witness to Christ, they will come through his grace and power.
Energy for Today’s To-Dos
Believe in the promise that in this day God will be at work in you to will and work for his good pleasure.
We Work by Grace
Paul prayed for grace for the day, trusted that it would come with power, and then acted with all his might.
Ministry — More Important Than Life
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.
What Moves You to Minister?
Costly acts of love don’t just happen. They are impelled by a new appetite — the appetite of faith for the fullest experience of God’s grace. We want more of God.
Faith Expels Guilt, Greed, and Fear
The glory of Christ is magnified when we are more satisfied with his future grace than we are with the promises of sin.
We Experience the Spirit Through Faith
When we don’t believe all the promises of God, we won’t receive the full measure of the Spirit.
Proud Works vs. Humble Faith
“Works” longs for the joy of being glorified as strong. “Faith” longs for the joy of seeing God glorified as strong.
Six Ways Jesus Fought Depression
When he was in anguish, Jesus rested his soul in the sovereign wisdom of God.
Saving Faith Loves Forgiveness
Faith in God’s forgiveness means savoring the truth that a forgiving God is the most precious reality in the universe.
When Another Christian Hurts You
All the wrongs that have been done against us by believers were avenged in the death of Jesus. Look to the cross of Christ.
How Christ Conquered Bitterness
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.
Give God Your Revenge
Your very soul is in danger if you hold on to an attitude of unforgiving bitterness. Leave it to the wrath of God.
When Will I Be Satisfied?
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.
Good News: God Is Happy
It is good news that God is gloriously happy. No one would want to spend eternity with a gloomy, unhappy God.
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