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Desiring God

A short and substantive daily devotional to feed your joy in Jesus every day of the year.

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Today · 3 min
The Seminary of Suffering
God designs suffering not only as a way to wean Christians off of self and onto grace, but also as a way to spotlight that grace and make it shine.
Yesterday · 3 min
The Danger of Drifting
Be satisfied in Jesus so that you do not get lured downstream by deceitful desires.
Thursday · 4 min
Sin, Satan, Sickness, or Sabotage
Suffering proves our allegiance to Christ’s goodness and reveals his worth as an all-sufficient prize.
Wednesday · 2 min
Radical Recompense
Jesus himself makes up for every sacrifice he will ever call us to make. It is worth it to lose it all in order to gain Christ.
Tuesday · 3 min
Possible with God
God has a people in every people group. He will call them through the gospel with Creator power. And they will believe!
Monday · 2 min
Medicine for the Missionary
“All things are possible with God!” — in front the words give hope, and behind they give humility. They are the antidote to both despair and pride.
Sunday · 3 min
The Great Missionary Hope
God’s call is irresistible in the sense that it can overcome all resistance. It is infallibly effective according to God’s purpose.
October 24 · 3 min
Christ Is Like Sunlight
We see the sun by means of seeing the rays of the sun. So also we see God the Father by seeing Jesus.
October 23 · 3 min
God’s Final, Decisive Word
The Word that God spoke by his Son is the decisive Word. It will not be followed in this age by any greater word or replacement word.
October 22 · 4 min
Hedonism for Husbands and Wives
When Christ redeems marriage, he does not dismantle loving headship and willing submission. He restores it.
October 21 · 3 min
The Mystery of Marriage
Husbands and wives should seek to live after the distinctive model of God’s pure and glad design for Christ and the church.
October 20 · 3 min
Prayer’s First Priority
The first priority in praying is to ask our heavenly Father to cause his name to be hallowed. In us. In the church. In the world. Everywhere.
October 19 · 3 min
Love’s Greatest Happiness
The union between Christ and his bride is so close that any good done to her is a good done to himself.
October 18 · 3 min
Jesus’s Joy in Marriage
Jesus did not want a dirty and unholy wife. Therefore, he was willing to die to cleanse her so that he could present her to himself.
October 17 · 3 min
The Purpose of Prosperity
You can steal to get; or you can work to get; or you can work to get in order to give.
October 16 · 3 min
Fear and Hope in God’s Jealousy
It is a horrifying thing to use your God-given life to commit adultery against the Almighty.
October 15 · 3 min
Plan for Prayer
One of the main reasons we so often fail to have consistent habits of happy, fruitful prayer is simply that we don’t plan to.
October 14 · 4 min
God Heals by Humbling
God takes out our old proud hearts and gives new soft ones, which are easily humbled and crushed by the sin that remains.
October 13 · 3 min
The Master Servant
The very heart of God’s glory is the fullness of grace that overflows in kindness to needy people.
October 12 · 3 min
Beware of Serving God
God aims to be our servant, because he aims to get the glory as the Giver.

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