Solid Joys Daily Devotional

“Amen” is an exclamation point of hope and warranted confidence after a prayer for help.

Christ can promise universal victory because he is sovereign. He knows the future because he makes the future.

Christ has guaranteed resurrection for all who fight. But he has not guaranteed comfort or acceptance or prosperity in enemy territory.

God is so powerful and so gracious that in the end he will turn ruthless nations to revere him. He cannot fail.

In Christ Jesus, God says his Yes to us through his promises, and in Christ we say our Yes to God through prayer.

With all the power in the universe and with the absolute right to do as he pleases with what he made, God is for us!

The mercy and the sovereignty of God are the twin pillars of your life. They will stand by your deathbed, and with strong and tender hands lift you to God.

Adore Christ with your prayers, and then doubly rejoice that the council of heaven offers them again to Christ as sweet smelling incense.

Turn from self-reliance to God-reliance, and put your faith in the all-sufficient power of future grace.

The Holy Wind of God will not break or quench. He will lift up your head and fan your spark into a flame. He is the Spirit of encouragement.

How can you experience an outpouring of the Holy Spirit? Meditate day and night on the promises of God.

You cannot sink so low in despairing of your own resources that God does not see and care. He is at the bottom waiting to catch you.

There will always be an emptiness in the soul that struggles to be satisfied with the resources of self. We were made for God.

God doesn’t begrudgingly fulfill his promise to work everything together for your good. He loves to!

The evidence of God’s power in our lives is not the absence of our willing, but the strength and joy of our willing.