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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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September 11 · 4 min
7 Reasons Not to Worry, Part 1
Jesus helps us to fight the good fight against unbelief and to be free from anxiety.
September 10 · 3 min
How to Fight Anxiety
The way you fight the good fight for faith is by meditating on God’s assurances of future grace and by asking for the help of his Spirit.
September 9 · 2 min
Grace Must Be Free
If you treated your salvation no longer as a gift, but as a purchase, God would no longer be the free benefactor.
September 8 · 4 min
How to Repay God
You can’t give anything to God or do anything for God that he hasn’t first given to you and done for you.
September 7 · 3 min
God-Given Foes and God-Given Faith
Fear not. Your adversaries can do no more than God grants. And he will grant you the faith you need. Those are gospel promises.
September 6 · 4 min
Present and Powerful Love
Nothing will separate us from the love of Christ because Christ is alive and is still loving us right now.
September 5 · 4 min
The Goal of Christ’s Love
God loves us so much that he will not allow our preciousness to become our god.
September 4 · 3 min
What’s New About the New Covenant
In the old covenant, the gracious enabling power to obey God was not poured out as fully as it is since Jesus.
September 3 · 4 min
The “I Will” of God
If you feel vulnerable, you can say to God, “Lord, help me. I’m not even sure how to pray.” Trust that he will respond and will help you.
September 2 · 4 min
Devastated and Delighted
This is one of the beauties of the biblical doctrines of grace: their worst devastations prepare us for their greatest delights.
September 1 · 3 min
He Does All That He Pleases
God is never forced into a situation where he must do something in which he cannot rejoice.
August 31 · 3 min
The Lion and the Lamb
The worth and beauty of the Son come not just from his majesty, nor just from his meekness, but from the way these mingle in perfect proportion.
August 30 · 3 min
Church Growth God’s Way
By all means work. But always look to the Lord for the decisive, supernatural work needed to fulfill his purposes.
August 29 · 3 min
Six Things It Means to Be in Christ Jesus
Never grow weary of exploring and exulting in the inexhaustible privilege of being “in Christ Jesus.”
August 28 · 3 min
Forgiven for Jesus’s Sake
The Father’s infinite pleasure in his own perfections is the fountain of our everlasting joy and forgiveness.
August 27 · 2 min
Jesus Will Trample All Our Enemies
The extent of Christ’s reign reaches to the smallest and biggest enemy of his glory in your life, and in this universe. It will be defeated.
August 26 · 3 min
Shadows and Streams
God rejoices in the works of creation because they point us beyond themselves to God himself.
August 25 · 3 min
When God’s Love Is Sweetest
The sweetest experience of God’s love is conditional on our transformation into the kind of people whose emotions and choices and actions please God.
August 24 · 2 min
The Message of Creation
Day and night are saying one thing: God is glorious! Turn away from the creation as your supreme satisfaction, and delight yourself in the Lord of glory.
August 23 · 3 min
God Is Not an Idolater
God is love precisely because he relentlessly pursues the praises of his name in the hearts of his people.

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