Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Sometimes God will strengthen your faith directly. But most of the time, he does so through another person.

O God, help us to feel worse about our own shortfalls than the failure of others.

If you live inside the massive promise of Romans 8:28, your life is more solid and stable than Mount Everest.

In the Father, you are under God’s care and protection. In the Son, you are under God’s charge and authority.

Only one thing satisfies the heart whose treasure is in heaven: doing the works of heaven. And heaven is a world of love!

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.

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.

When others abandon you, strengthen your heart with God’s inexorable oath: “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Because Christ rose from the grave, God’s children are forgiven. No one can successfully bring a charge against those who are in Christ.

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.

When we trust Jesus, his presence and promise is so satisfying that we are not dominated by the alluring pleasures of sin.

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.”

Knowledge doesn’t guarantee godliness. But it seems that ignorance guarantees ungodliness. The power that leads to godliness is given through knowing God.

When temptations come, arm yourself with this thought: When my Lord suffered and died to free me from sin, I died to sin!

Whatever else gives way, whatever else disappoints, whatever else fails, God’s all-encompassing promise of future grace can never fail.