Solid Joys Daily Devotional

God is totally committed to the perseverance and eternal security of his blood-bought children.

Yahweh is a proper name (like Peter) built out of the word for “I am.” It teaches us that God absolutely is.

Between eternity past in God’s predestination, and eternity future in God’s glorification, none is lost.

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.

God has justified us. There is only future grace in front of us. Satan cannot overturn that decree.

Sometimes God makes seemingly strong people weaker so that his divine power will be the more evident.

Suffering must not drive you from God. Instead, it should drive you from everything but God.

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.

Our sovereign God says there is an appointed number of martyrs. They have a special role to play in planting and empowering the church.

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 with a seriousness that is willing to gouge out your own eye, you will go to hell and suffer forever.

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.

The way to thwart the devil is to strengthen the very thing he is trying most to destroy — your faith.

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.

When God’s word feeds faith’s appetite for God, it weans our hearts away from the deceptive taste of lust.

Trusting God’s future grace comes by hearing the word. Therefore, preaching the word to ourselves is all-important in overcoming spiritual depression.

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.

Prayer is the great link of faith between the soul of the saint and the promise of God’s future grace.

God promises not merely that we will find grace “to help in time of need,” but that the grace is well-timed by God.

Moment by moment, God supplies the strength in which we serve. He does this because the ongoing, inexhaustible supplier of power gets the glory.

Whatever added signs and wonders God may show to amplify our witness to Christ, they will come through his grace and power.

Believe in the promise that in this day God will be at work in you to will and work for his good pleasure.

Paul prayed for grace for the day, trusted that it would come with power, and then acted with all his might.

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.

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.