Messages by Desiring God

Having just and honest dealings in the world display our confidence that God always cares and provides for his children.

Obedience to God makes our God-glorifying hope visible and proves that it is real in our lives.

Prayer is that wonderful transaction where the wealth of God’s glory is magnified and the wants of our soul are satisfied.

God delights in those who place the full weight of their hope in him.

God's pleasure in his name and his pleasure in doing good to sinners meet and marry in his pleasure in bruising his Son.

God does not do you good out of some constraint or coercion. He is free! And in his freedom he overflows in joy to do you good.

God takes pleasure in election because it magnifies his name.

God’s first love is his name and not his people. And because it is, there is hope for his sinful people.

God rejoices in what he has made because all of creation points to the grandeur and majesty of his glory.

God is never constrained to do a thing that he despises. He does whatever he pleases.

The first and most fundamental thing we can say about the pleasures of God is that he takes pleasure in his Son.

Fight the social stupor that gripped Nazi Germany and imagine what is really happening behind clinic doors.

God lives in the soul of man by the indwelling of his Spirit.

The Lord's Prayer is an invitation not only to pray but to pray together with other believers.

We all need a cause to live for that accords with our Creator's purposes.

God prepares a person to receive Christ by stirring up a longing for consolation and redemption that can come only from Christ.

The use of money can make or break your eternal destiny.

The great obstacle to recognizing the truth of Christ is not deficient resources but deep rebellion against God.

To recognize and receive Christ for who he really is, God the Father must reveal it to you.

How are we supposed to understand and live out the paradoxes of Scripture?

God's purpose is to be known and praised and enjoyed and feared among all the nations of the earth.

The most potent antidote for sin’s sickness is gratitude to God for the glories of the gospel.

Christian kindness is not merely an external change of manners; it is an internal change of heart.

Four kinds of rotten language, and a whole new way to think about words.

You can live to HAVE, either legally or illegally. Or you can become a Christian and live to give.

If we walk with Jesus, we will be straightforward, open, and honest in all our dealings and in every relationship.

When Paul says, put off the old person and put on the new person, he is not talking about an optional elective, but core curriculum in the school of Christ.

God has ordained that we be related to other believers in such a way that we can help each other fight the fight of faith successfully day in and day out until the end.

Escape from futility! Live a different way. Walk a different path.

Endurance is a gift and endurance is a duty. And these are not in conflict.

A great hope produces great boldness.

Heavenly-mindedness is what frees our hands to do the works of love.

Without Christian hope my life and your life cannot yield Christian joy or love or boldness or endurance.

If there is any wonder, or awe, or admiration, or fame, or praise, or applause, it belongs to the glory of God.

Dads, father your children in a way that shows what kind of father God is.

A wise son makes a glad father, says the Lord, and it is the Word of God that makes a son wise.

The presence of a struggle with sin in this life is not a sign that we are lost. Perfection is not the test of spiritual life in this age.

There is coming a day when our bodies are going to be redeemed and there will be no more groaning.

The blessed hope of all who believe is the appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. Do you eagerly await the coming of Christ?

The daughters of Sarah fight the anxiety that rises in their hearts. They wage war on fear, and they defeat it with the promises of God.

The strength to endure comes from the hope before us. And the hope before us comes from the Scriptures.

To get well from the disease of sin, and to have a living hope, you have to undergo surgery.

The gospel is the good news that there is hope for sinners — even the worst of us.

From beginning to end our salvation—our election, our calling, our faith, our sanctification, and our glorification—is a work of divine grace.

Our hope in God isn’t just a wish or a dream, but a sure confidence that what God says will happen will happen.

Academic stature has never been a guarantee of religious insight.

You were made to admire Jesus Christ the Lion and the Lamb.

As a Christian, your light might offend our dark world, but Jesus promises a reward greater than anything you stand to lose in this life.

God has made peace with his people, and he calls us to push for peace with friends and enemies alike.

It is not enough to clean up our act on the outside. Jesus is concerned about our heart. Because from the heart are all the issues of life.