Messages by Desiring God

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All Christians have the high, spiritual status of being a child of God. And with this high standing, there is a call to go low.

God is sovereign not only over our belief, but also our unbelief. He plans both for his glory in all things.

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The Christian life is far from being easy. It’s no stroll in the park. But God guarantees that our journey will end in glory.

John Piper | John Piper lays out some practical implications for corporate worship in relation to the previous sessions, which covered the intensification of worship as an inward experience of the heart and the essence of worship as being satisfied in God.

John Piper | God making much of God, in communicating his glory to our minds and hearts, is the greatest act of love toward us.

John Piper and Bob Kauflin | Gravity and gladness on Sunday mornings does not need to be dour or gloomy, but should be done with sensitivity to the moment and in the spirit of sorrowful yet always rejoicing.

John Piper | The essence of worship is the experience of being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

If Jesus is your greatest treasure, then your affections for him should be lavish and unbounded.

The only hope we have for genuine, lasting ethnic harmony is the death and resurrection of Christ along with all of its implications for our unity.

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Adultolescence impedes the advance of the gospel. Skip years of immature indulgence and get a holy ambition.

God invites everyone to embrace the good news of Jesus. And he uses his people to proclaim and spread the message.

The sovereignty of God brings about the substitution of Christ, which produces the globally diverse solidarity of the church of Jesus Christ.

John Piper | The ultimate goal of missions is worship, which is pursued by reliance upon God through prayer and the life-giving means of the word of God.

John Piper | Our motivations of compassion for the lost and living for the glory of God come together as we pursue the highest joy of the nations through the gospel.

John Piper | Though the calling of a missionary may include some subjective and mysterious elements, it can never be divorced from a deep, prayer-saturated study of the Scriptures.

John Piper | The goal of global evangelization is both a great remaining task and also something that through the power of God the church is able to complete.

God made us to live life together. We can only flourish with brothers and sisters in Christ at our side.

Missions exists because the knowledge of God, the praise of God, the enjoyment of God, and the fear of God don’t exist among the nations.

True contentment that is able to weather all kinds of hardship comes from knowing Christ as our surpassing treasure.

God does not mainly love us in this life by sparing us from suffering. He mainly loves us by giving us more of himself and his glory.

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Jesus loved Lazarus so much that he allowed him to die. But he also raised Lazarus to life and promises to do the same for all who trust in him.

The way we glorify God is to pursue and live out of superior satisfaction in him at all costs.

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others; therefore, in order to love people we must pursue our deepest joy in God.

God pursues his own praise, which is the greatest act of love not because he won’t be God until he gets it, but because we won’t be happy until we give it.

Showing Christ is a work of love, which will only take place as the overflow of our joy in all that God is for us in Jesus reaching out to meet the needs of others.

In order to preach Christ faithfully we should preach his supremacy theocentrically, preach his love as the gift of himself, preach the cross from eternity to eternity, preach conversion as a miraculous gift, and preach sanctification as an effect of seeing the glory of Christ.

God is honored in our affections when our affections are rooted in knowledge of the truth.

The truth that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied with him has profound implications for the life of the church, pastoral ministry, preaching, and the broader evangelical world.

God’s passion for his glory is not egomania but love, and it is manifested in his acts of predestination, creation, incarnation, propitiation, sanctification, and consummation.

God owns us and has determined what the unwasted life is: living and acting in such a way that displays the supreme value of Christ.

Proclaiming Christ in such a way that people receive him and see him as their supreme treasure can only be done in the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Everyone who believes in Jesus is a member of his flock. If you’re his, he’ll keep you safely to the end.

Abundant life is not about having more stuff, but about having Jesus. Only he can save, satisfy, and give life because he is is the way, the truth, and the life.

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Hallowing God’s name is a heart action that transforms and shapes every other thing we do, from instituting laws to building cultural institutions.

Sin blinds us all. We can only stumble about in darkness until Jesus takes us by the hand, and leads us into his heavenly light.

Jesus does the very works of God so that all might know that he himself is God.

Every sorrow and every time we suffer, there is a divinely designed purpose to display God’s glory and increase our joy.

One day your strength will fade and your body will fail, but if you are trusting in Jesus you will never see death.

We are commanded to pursue all-satisfying, never-ending, invincible joy. The place we can find, keep, and share this happiness is only in God.

How can you enjoy lunch or have sex with your spouse to the glory of God, so that those pleasures do not become supreme but appropriate? What does it mean to lay down your life for your brothers?

If God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him, the life we must pursue for the sake of God’s glory and the good of others is the life of maximal joy in God.