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!
Mar 31, 2025•5 min
Solid Joys Daily Devotional
Solid Joys is a daily devotional written and read by John Piper. These short and substantive readings will feed your joy in Jesus every day of the year. Discover more from Piper at desiringGod.org.
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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.
Mar 30, 2025•4 min
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.
Mar 29, 2025•4 min
When Everyone Deserts You
When others abandon you, strengthen your heart with God’s inexorable oath: “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Mar 28, 2025•5 min
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.
Mar 27, 2025•4 min
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.
Mar 26, 2025•4 min
Forever Satisfied
When we trust Jesus, his presence and promise is so satisfying that we are not dominated by the alluring pleasures of sin.
Mar 25, 2025•3 min
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.”
Mar 24, 2025•3 min
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.
Mar 23, 2025•4 min
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!
Mar 22, 2025•4 min
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.
Mar 21, 2025•3 min
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.
Mar 20, 2025•4 min
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.
Mar 19, 2025•5 min
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.
Mar 18, 2025•3 min
Prayer’s Exclamation Point
Prayer is the confident plea for God to make good on his promises of future grace — for Christ’s sake.
Mar 17, 2025•3 min
Jesus Will Finish the Mission
Christ can promise universal victory because he is sovereign. He knows the future because he makes the future.
Mar 16, 2025•3 min
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.
Mar 15, 2025•3 min
The 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.
Mar 14, 2025•3 min
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.
Mar 13, 2025•3 min
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.
Mar 12, 2025•3 min
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.
Mar 11, 2025•4 min
Let Us Adore the Lamb
Your prayers are the aroma of heaven, sweet smelling before the throne of God and before the Lamb.
Mar 10, 2025•4 min
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.
Mar 09, 2025•4 min
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 spark.
Mar 08, 2025•3 min
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.
Mar 07, 2025•3 min
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.
Mar 06, 2025•3 min
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.
Mar 05, 2025•4 min
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.
Mar 04, 2025•3 min
God 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.
Mar 03, 2025•4 min
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.
Mar 02, 2025•3 min
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