Messages by Desiring God

Christian worship is duty-bound to drink deeply from God.

For a Christian leader to maximize his ministry, he must blaze with a flame of joy in God, and ignite the torches of his people week in and week out.

When God acts for the fame and praise of his name, he isn’t acting selfishly, but is offering us the best possible gift: full and everlasting joy in himself.

The snow God creates and ordains demonstrates his glory.

Cornelius would not have been saved if no one had taken him the gospel. And no one will be saved today without the gospel.

Jesus does not like pessimistic views of life or history. He has surprises in store that you have never dreamed.

The truth that Jesus is the Son of God needs to be one of the central pillars in our understanding of reality.

The test of the authenticity our worship on Sunday is whether we are a radically Christ-like people on Monday.

When we come to meet God (whether in corporate worship, or in judgment at the last day), we should prepare.

All God's plans for history from beginning to end have this one goal—WORSHIP GOD!

The purpose of every small group—whatever else it is—is to keep the love of its members warm.

How does God make your mouth a fountain of life?

Our calling, our vocation is to be misunderstood, criticized, ignored, and hurt for doing what is right, and not to return hurt for hurt.

The very nature of God is that he is eager to show his power on behalf of people who trust him.

Our culture wants power to escape weakness in leisure, but Christianity offers power to endure weakness in love.

The author of Hebrews knows nothing of coasting Christianity.

Something is wrong with a private God. But if our God is great, we go public with our worship.

The steadfast love of the Lord has been the same through all the changes of the last 120 years.

God’s design in converting Paul is to give you hope for yourself and for the people you want to see converted.

Congregational authority and strong leadership under that authority are not incompatible. They are biblical, and they are vital.

God has yet more wonders to show us in the work of evangelism and world missions than we can imagine.

Luke expects the receiving of the Holy Spirit to be a real, identifiable experience, not just a logical inference from a human act of will.

There is a "faith" or a "believing" that does not save, even though it rises in the presence of true preaching and true miracles.

God makes persecution and suffering serve the unstoppable mission of the church.

Death is not just defeated and kept from destroying us; it is enslaved and made the servant of God's people.

God is not eager to punish; he is eager to forgive. But there is an end to his patience.

The greatest news in all the world is in order to make you happy and glorify Jesus, God raised him from the dead to reign forevermore.

How did Jesus destroy the temple? Why did saying so cost Stephen his life?

A major threat to the Christian movement is whatever threatens the ministry of the Word.

We are not big. But we are part of something big.

The preciousness of spiritual power is that it is finally in God's control, not ours.

God wants us to pray for signs and wonders today.

Faking faith in the presence of God is a fearful thing.

For people who desire the salvation of sinners, the magnifying of God's glory, and the vindication of Jesus' name, this is the way to pray.

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We are not called to win; we are called to witness.

We are saved only by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus. It's the kind of truth that either makes converts or makes enemies.

Don't live for comforts, live for justice and compassion.

In meditation on the Word of God and in following it there is great reward—greater than much fine gold.

May the Lord forbid that we would lose heart and fail in the very thing needful: mighty prevailing prayer.

God is moving toward you today with blessing.

We should sing for joy because God fulfills his purposes, forgives sins, and will one day restore all things through Jesus Christ.

The Father is the ultimate source of all healing. Through Jesus the Father does his healing will.

A holy, happy fear of God makes our material possessions insignificant to us, except as means to serve others.

Even if you are a murderer of the Son of God, God himself is ready to forgive you! And not only to forgive you but to give you his Spirit!

Jesus, the Son of God, is alive today, and stands ready to serve you as your advocate with God the Father.

Do you join God in his affirmation of Jesus, or do you stand against God in the life of Jesus?

We live between the beginning of the kingdom of God and the consummation of the kingdom. What is that like?

May God unite us in one vision of what he is doing so that we might not only endure but delight in the design of these days.

When the Spirit comes in power, he comes suddenly—on his own terms and in his own time—and he comes for harvesting.