Messages by Desiring God

God invites everyone to embrace the good news of Jesus. And he uses his people to proclaim and spread the message.

The sovereignty of God brings about the substitution of Christ, which produces the globally diverse solidarity of the church of Jesus Christ.

John Piper | The ultimate goal of missions is worship, which is pursued by reliance upon God through prayer and the life-giving means of the word of God.

John Piper | Our motivations of compassion for the lost and living for the glory of God come together as we pursue the highest joy of the nations through the gospel.

John Piper | Though the calling of a missionary may include some subjective and mysterious elements, it can never be divorced from a deep, prayer-saturated study of the Scriptures.

John Piper | The goal of global evangelization is both a great remaining task and also something that through the power of God the church is able to complete.

God made us to live life together. We can only flourish with brothers and sisters in Christ at our side.

Missions exists because the knowledge of God, the praise of God, the enjoyment of God, and the fear of God don’t exist among the nations.

True contentment that is able to weather all kinds of hardship comes from knowing Christ as our surpassing treasure.

God does not mainly love us in this life by sparing us from suffering. He mainly loves us by giving us more of himself and his glory.

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Jesus loved Lazarus so much that he allowed him to die. But he also raised Lazarus to life and promises to do the same for all who trust in him.

The way we glorify God is to pursue and live out of superior satisfaction in him at all costs.

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others; therefore, in order to love people we must pursue our deepest joy in God.

God pursues his own praise, which is the greatest act of love not because he won’t be God until he gets it, but because we won’t be happy until we give it.

John Piper | Showing Christ is a work of love, which will only take place as the overflow of our joy in all that God is for us in Jesus reaching out to meet the needs of others.

God is honored in our affections when our affections are rooted in knowledge of the truth.

In order to preach Christ faithfully we should preach his supremacy theocentrically, preach his love as the gift of himself, preach the cross from eternity to eternity, preach conversion as a miraculous gift, and preach sanctification as an effect of seeing the glory of Christ.

John Piper | God’s passion for his glory is not egomania but love, and it is manifested in his acts of predestination, creation, incarnation, propitiation, sanctification, and consummation.

The truth that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied with him has profound implications for the life of the church, pastoral ministry, preaching, and the broader evangelical world.

God owns us and has determined what the unwasted life is: living and acting in such a way that displays the supreme value of Christ.

John Piper | Proclaiming Christ in such a way that people receive him and see him as their supreme treasure can only be done in the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Everyone who believes in Jesus is a member of his flock. If you’re his, he’ll keep you safely to the end.