Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Whether we focus on the riches of the reward or the refining effects of suffering, God’s purpose is that our joy in suffering be sustained.

We exhibit the sufferings of Christ when we ourselves suffer for those we are trying to win.

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.

Be satisfied in Jesus so that you do not get lured downstream by deceitful desires.

Suffering proves our allegiance to Christ’s goodness and reveals his worth as an all-sufficient prize.

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.

God has a people in every people group. He will call them through the gospel with Creator power. And they will believe!

“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.

God’s call is irresistible in the sense that it can overcome all resistance. It is infallibly effective according to God’s purpose.

We see the sun by means of seeing the rays of the sun. So also we see God the Father by seeing Jesus.

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.

When Christ redeems marriage, he does not dismantle loving headship and willing submission. He restores it.

Husbands and wives should seek to live after the distinctive model of God’s pure and glad design for Christ and the church.

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.

The union between Christ and his bride is so close that any good done to her is a good done to himself.

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.

You can steal to get; or you can work to get; or you can work to get in order to give.

It is a horrifying thing to use your God-given life to commit adultery against the Almighty.

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.

God takes out our old proud hearts and gives new soft ones, which are easily humbled and crushed by the sin that remains.