Desiring God Messages by John Piper Audio

Satan’s hand caused the suffering of Job. But in all of his calamities, Job still had reason for reverent worship because God was ultimately at work.

Nothing is more important than having eternal life.

Faith says to every temptation of the world: NO, BE GONE! I know where true satisfaction is to be found.

A life poured out in love for others on the basis of joyful confidence before God yields peace of mind and the hope of a glorious destiny.

Six questions to see if you have genuine faith in Christ and love for others.

The evidence of being indwelt by the Spirit of God is the experience of loving Jesus the way the Father loves him.

Hearing the gospel with openness and confessing Christ with loyalty is the work and the gift of the Holy Spirit.

The Spirit agrees with the apostolic doctrine or it is not the Spirit of God.

God offers an ever-flowing river of delight to anyone who will drink deeply of his goodness.

Unless there is hope of winning there is no motivation to fight. The apostle John motivates the fight with the confidence of victory.

Hate is the evidence of blindness to the light of God. Love is the evidence that sight has been given to the blind.

You can know that you know Christ if you obey his commands.

We must walk in the light if we are to go on experiencing the cleansing of Jesus. And if we sin, we do indeed have an advocate with the Father.

If we are not walking in the light, we have no warrant for believing that our sins are covered.

When God becomes a man, he strips away every pretense of man to be God.

Singing to God is not a nice little emotional trip to spice up a worship service. It is a matter of life and death.

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Regret can be good if it produces repentance and leads to salvation.

The only way to get victory over anger is to put off the old nature and put on the new.

When you battle with sexual temptation, you battle against Satan.

Without the Word of God abiding and taking root in our heart we cannot bear fruit, be disciples, or inherit eternal life.

There is no better way to spend a brief life on this little earth than to spend it in the ministry of the Word.

If the truth is lost, salvation is lost.

The ultimate goal of the church is to reflect and display the glory and worth of God. Missions is a means, not an end.

Jesus the Passover Lamb was slain to ransom people from every tribe and tongue and nation.

In the Lord's prayer, Jesus teaches that the first priority in praying is to ask that our heavenly Father's name be hallowed.

God responds with terrible wrath against those whose hearts should belong to him but go after other things.

The most loving thing God can do for us is glorify himself, because God himself is the greatest gift he can ever give us.

The lofty One whose name is Holy dwells with crushed and humble saints.

At the end of every road is God. You will meet him as light and life or as fire and torment.

God's self-sufficiency and sovereign freedom are the very sources from which his mighty mercy overflows.

The omnipotence of God means reverence, recompense, and refuge, for his covenant people.

God’s choice to show mercy to some and not others originates in the mystery of his own sovereign will, not in the will of his creatures.

Contained in the name Yahweh is the first and most important truth about God: he exists.

All Christians must lay hold on eternal life by fighting the good fight of faith.

We have no good reason to let anxiety disrupt our hearts. Jesus reigns over all, and he has purchased peace for his people.

The life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there. No matter where you are, if you love God, the best is yet to come.

Hopelessness makes us think we need to have illicit pleasures to be happy. But hope gives us a thrilling impulse to do good.

God will reward Ruth <em>because</em> she has sought refuge under his wings.

When it seems that God is farthest from you or has turned against you, he is actually laying foundations for your greater happiness.

God has given husbands the responsibility to lead their families. Men, it’s time we get serious about serving.

In their hour of greatest trial God gives his children courage and faith.

The Spirit wants the world for Christ, but the goal is not yet reached.

What is the kind of unity that will bring honor and credit to our high calling?

The first and most fundamental work of God's Spirit in the life of the natural man is to shatter pride.

Sanctification is obeying the Commander-in-Chief. Sanctification is a wartime word.

God's great desire for his people is that we feel secure in his love and in his power.

Christianity is not merely an array of glorious ideas. It is the life-changing experience of the Holy Spirit through faith in Jesus Christ.

If the Spirit of God indwells you, God is going to raise you from the dead at Christ's second coming and give new life to your mortal bodies.