Solid Joys Daily Devotional

God’s mercies are new every morning because each day only has enough mercy in it for that day.

Don’t be stubborn like the mule. Instead, come to God in prayer while he may still be found.

God does all things “for his name’s sake” because he delights in having his name known.

The simple work of your sowing will bring sheaves of harvest. And your tears will be turned to joy.

It was hopeless then, it is hopeless today, and it will always be hopeless. Try as they may, people can’t keep Jesus buried.

When you are cast into the cellars of affliction, remember that the great King keeps his best wine there.

The biblical criterion for misplaced shame and for well-placed shame is radically God-centered.

It is good not to talk very long about God without talking to God.

When Christ died and rose again, Satan was defeated. Jesus struck the decisive blow at Calvary.

Don’t just do good things for your enemies. Desire their best, and express those desires in prayer, even when they’re nowhere around.

Jesus is not just alive from the dead, but he is alive as the King who will reign forever — of his kingdom there will be no end.

Salvation is secured for all who are written in the book of life, not because of their deeds, but because Christ was slain for them.

God makes us weak so that the strengthened becomes the strengthener. Because eternal security is a community project.

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.