Messages by Desiring God

All Christian relationships have this as their goal: to help each other stay satisfied in God.

John Piper | God is always doing more than any of us can see, including ruling and reigning over the affairs of every nation and ever people group on the earth.

When we give ourselves to the work of personal evangelism and world missions, God pours more life into our souls.

John Piper | While we may never know certain details about how God works, we can hold full confidence that he reigns supreme, and not even Satan can thwart his plans.

All things are by his grace because all things are for his glory. The all-sufficient, inexhaustible Giver gets the glory.

The fight for life requires overcoming all kinds of obstacles to love, and that will only happen when we live by faith in future grace.

Every mishap, every setback, and every roadblock in your life is an opportunity for God to lavish you with sustaining grace.

Believing that the Bible is the Word of God is a gigantic event in the soul. Therefore God does not leave it merely to man.

Faith works through love. It becomes active and visible in the form of love that people can see.

John Piper | The Bible presents God as one who has all power and control over our world, all the way down to the tiniest molecule and the shortest fraction of a second.

Jesus Christ has released the merciful power of God by his sin-bearing death; and the Holy Spirit is applying it to our church.

We exist to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.

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John Piper | God’s sovereignty means that he ordains everything that happens — including the fall of mankind.

The New Testament gives no hint that worship services and classes are the sum total of what church was supposed to be.

To give is not to buy. And that weekly crisis is utterly important to maintain.

John Piper | Providence is not just a doctrine for theologians to argue about, but an all-encompassing truth that ignites the joy of God’s people.

It dishonors God to treat him as a master in need of slave labor. What honors God is not slave labor, but childlike faith in his all-sufficiency.

God eagerly waits for his lost children to come home. When they do, he receives them with open arms and a glad heart.

Jonathan Edwards was used powerfully by God in the First Great Awakening both to promote and assess the revival in New England, as well as to leave behind a fruitful legacy of theological works that have greatly impacted the church.

Jesus eating with and receiving tax collectors and sinners displays God’s heart to seek and save the lost.

The Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost. He sought them, he received them, he ate with them, and he saved them.

The thought of Jonathan Edwards, demonstrated through a handful of notable works, had a profound impact on John Piper’s life and ministry.

We’ll never love like Jesus loved until we die to ourselves. But in that death, we’ll find more life than we even could have hoped.

You won’t discover freedom by indulging in whatever you want. True liberty begins when we submit our desires to God.

Without seeing Christ, the burden to show him to others becomes slave labor.

God intends for us not merely to do to others as we would have them do to us, but he wants us to feel toward other believers a certain way.

Jesus is calling us not just to do good things for our enemy; he is also calling us to WANT their best.

In this sermon on Matthew 5:43–48, John Piper explains how the Great Commission helps us understand the command to love our enemies. He shows us the basis for the Golden Rule.

Loving God sustains us through all the joy and pain and perplexity and uncertainty of what loving our neighbor should be.

All of Scripture hangs on two great purposes: that God be loved with all our heart, and that we love each other as we love ourselves.

The link between our love and Christ’s is faith and the Spirit. Without the Spirit, we have no faith, and without both, we have no love.

Of all the great things that Easter means, it also means this: it is a mighty "I meant it!" behind Jesus' death.

God might have rescued us, sacrificed for us, forgiven us, and not gone any further. But instead he took us into his family.

God loved us while we were enemies. God sacrificed his Son for us while we were enemies.

The most worthy of living, the least worthy of dying. This is the life Jesus gave for you—that you might live.

If we are to grow in our love to one another, we must first experience Christ’s love as a deep, unshakable love.

God is love. The implications of this for the way we live are big.

Pouring ourselves out for others is the path of greatest satisfaction and joy.

Religious fervor is no substitute for righteous living. Our words and actions must flow from love for God and neighbor.

Jesus is not teaching on whether we should fast or not. He assumes we will and teaches us how to do it and especially how not to do it.

He delivered more than 600 sermons before he was 20 years old. He is the most prolific Christian author ever. He did the work of 50 men. And he suffered, yet endured.

Shall we long for the Christ less than Anna longed for him?

Perhaps the Christian church has not used all the spiritual resources available to us in the effort to overcome darkness.

Fasting is God's testing ground—and healing ground.

We have tasted the wine of Christ's presence by his Spirit and cannot now be satisfied until the consummation of joy arrives.

If our efforts to spread the gospel to the least reached will ever succeed, the mercy of God must be our motive and the glory of God must be our goal.

The course of history has been changed again and again through the fasting of God's people.

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Why does eternity exist? It exists because it will take that long for us to know the inexhaustible glories of God.