Messages by Desiring God

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.

If the truth is lost, salvation is lost.

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

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 because 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.

Jesus did not come to snuff out your struggling flicker but to fan it carefully into a torch for his glory.

God wants us to worship him in both spirit and truth. He desires our hearts and our heads.

None of us knows when our toying with sin will pass over into irrevocable hardness of heart. Very few people feel how serious sin is.

Everything Jesus said and did was to make us trust him and imitate him. Everything he did is a ground for faith and a call to action.

Satan might do anything to prevent you from suffering.

The Holy Spirit may be shy, but he is also omnipotent.

If you long for the touch of God's Spirit on your life, give yourself daily to the reading of his Word.

Bible confirms its divine origin again and again as it makes sense out of our experience in the real world and points the way to harmony.

We need to know the experiences of Old Testament saints in order to understand the immensity of our privilege in these last days.

If I'm so depraved that I can't do anything good, what do you expect me to do?

There is only one power that can break the spell of Satan, waken the armies of the Lord, and rout the god of this age—the power of the Holy Spirit.

Strategies and actions to seek and save the lost must have high priority in the life of our church.

God intends to guard us for salvation through Christian community. We won’t survive without our brothers and sisters in Jesus.

Why do we have to pursue God, and how should it be done?

If we want revival to happen, we need to see God for who he is. Only when we see God as God and confess him as so, then we can have real delight.

When God makes a covenant he reveals his own job description and signs it.

What was freely given under Moses was purchased by Christ.

We need a solid insight into the meaning of Christ's coming that will keep us sober in a world intoxicated by the love of things.

The story of Noah and the flood is incomplete in itself. God still hates sin and no remedy was found. The story cries out for an epilogue.

The human heart hates the truth that creation teaches because it is too humbling.