Messages by Desiring God

When God almighty pours himself into an individual, the inner life is changed; it is filled with God.

Why was Jesus' ascension into heaven good news for his disciples?

What is wisdom? And what are some biblical instructions for how I can get it?

A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will stay close to the heart of God and trust in his promises.

You can't bless somebody if you desire their harm. If you are a follower of Jesus, you must desire the good of everyone, no matter what their race or nationality.

Satan wants is to sift out our faith. If he can do it by suffering, he will try that. If he can do it by wealth, he will try that.

God is able to grieve over humanity’s sin and unbelief, therefore it is possible for us to have an anxious state of heart that is not sinful.

If we are going to love like Jesus loved, even in times of great stress and worry, then we must be filled with living hope.

Jesus Christ is always eager and willing to make peace with anyone who will accept the terms of peace he offers.

There are at least seven qualifications if a group wants to be a church in the NT sense.

The church is the cosmic showcase of God's mercy, but he gets cosmic reproach when we fail to receive his mercy with joy.

God gives us spiritual gifts so that we can help our brothers and sisters fight the good fight of faith.

The fundamental meaning of being filled with the Spirit is being filled with joy that comes from God and overflows in song.

From the moment you awake, till your head hits the pillow again, the Spirit waits to walk with you.

Something has to happen if we are to be saved from the wrath of God. We must be profoundly changed.

Marital sex is a great joy that also proves to be a fearsome weapon against our ancient foe. Learn what it means to keep the marriage bed undefiled.

God’s word is every Christian’s infallible guide to maximum sexual fulfillment. The good news for singles is that they are included.

There are six things that should characterize every effort at team ministry in the church.

Our prayers should always aim not merely at our own satisfaction, but also at the benefit of others.

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Christian Hedonism teaches that morality is not destroyed, but rather upheld, by pursuing our fullest and longest lasting joy.

Let your prayers embrace all kinds of people: high and low, white and black, democrats and republicans, Soviet premiers and Iranian Ayatollahs. Enlarge your heart until it embraces the world.

If we are unloving and unrepentant then we should not think that God is likely to answer our prayers.

Beware of a church that runs on the momentum of tradition rather than the power of prayer.

For me, the end of a year is like the end of my life. And in these last hours, I face the inevitable question: Did I live it well? Will Jesus Christ, the righteous judge, say "Well done, good and faithful servant"?

You can read every fairy tale that was ever written, every mystery thriller, every ghost story, and you will never find anything so shocking, so strange, so weird and spellbinding as the story of the incarnation of the Son of God.

There is a deadly disease and an awesome enemy. And every one of us will die from this disease and be devoured by that enemy if there is no horn of salvation for us.

If God values joyful, loving generosity so much as to give his beloved Son to create it in his people, then we can be absolutely assured that when we are more generous, we will be more happy and more fulfilled because God is bound to work mightily for those whose behavior he values so highly.

Since the first Christmas we have been living in the last days.

What does an all-sufficient God, who owns and controls all things, demand from the creature he has made? That we cease to be great in our own eyes and become small that he might appear great.

Baptism is an act of obedience to the command of Jesus (Matthew 28:19, 20). And for that very reason it should never divert our attention away from Christ onto a man. It should express our desire to rely on Christ alone for salvation and to boast only in him.

Who you invite to share in your abundance shows where your treasure is.

The way to get ready to make a case for your hope is to get hopeful. Apply yourself to settling the questions of your own heart.

Lord's Supper is a memorial service looking back to Jesus' utterly unique death—a death that so satisfied the righteous demands of God that Jesus was granted to rise from the dead and come again as King of all. The sacrifice of Christ set the charge for the explosion of his second coming.

God teaches us things for our good, and he intends for us to share them for the good of our neighbor.

The humble Christian does not crave the praise of men. He longs for God to be praised and thanked and for truth to be honored.

If we are unmerciful, unforgiving people, if we hold grudges or cherish resentments or plan revenge, then what we are saying in effect to God is, "This is the way I prefer life to be."

The death of Christ does not turn away the wrath of God from all people. In order to benefit from the work that God has done outside of us, we must now experience the work that he does within us by the Holy Spirit. What is this work and how is it related to the gift of justification?

God pursues us with goodness and mercy in both joy and trials — all for his name’s sake.

We unseat judges with indignation who acquit the guilty. Our moral sensibility is outraged when wrong and guilt are given legal sanction. Yet at the heart of our gospel stands the sentence: God justifies the ungodly who trust in him.

It seems that with this passage of Scripture, more than any other, to recite it is also to experience its reality. The psalm itself is green pasture, the psalm itself is still water, the psalm itself restores my soul.

Every responsible person, on the basis of their actions and attitudes, will meet the final judgment of God.

Don't let your sinfulness hinder your prayers. Run into the arms of God and fill his ear with arguments that aim for His honor.

Anything, absolutely any act or attitude which is owing to a lack of trust in God is sin, no matter how moral it may appear to men. God looks on the heart.

If God is in control of everything, why do we suffer? Here are six affirmations to hold you through seasons of suffering.

When we clamor for praise, we are prideful and petty. But when God commands us to praise him, he is loving us to the uttermost.

God gets glory not from our heroic exertion but from our reliance upon his strength—when we serve as one who serves with the strength which God supplies.

Don’t be stubborn like a mule, but run headlong to God in prayer while he may be found.