Solid Joys Daily Devotional

When we trust Jesus, his presence and promise is so satisfying that we are not dominated by the alluring pleasures of sin.

Hear God say to you in all your troubles, “I will deliver you. You will triumph in the end. You will be more than a conqueror.”

Knowledge doesn’t guarantee godliness. But it seems that ignorance guarantees ungodliness. The power that leads to godliness is given through knowing God.

When temptations come, arm yourself with this thought: When my Lord suffered and died to free me from sin, I died to sin!

Whatever else gives way, whatever else disappoints, whatever else fails, God’s all-encompassing promise of future grace can never fail.

If there is any hope for eternity in the presence of God, we need a Redeemer, a Substitute, a Savior. Christ died and rose to be that hope.

Good news! Eternal life is a free gift to all who will trust in Christ as Lord and Savior and supreme Treasure of their lives.

The salvation Jesus obtained through his blood was everything it takes to save his people, not just part of it.

Prayer is the confident plea for God to make good on his promises of future grace — for Christ’s sake.

Christ can promise universal victory because he is sovereign. He knows the future because he makes the future.

Since Satan’s doom is sure, and he knows it, we can always remind him of it when he tempts us to follow him.

God is so powerful and so gracious that in the end he will turn ruthless nations to revere him. He cannot fail.

Because of Christ, we say Amen to God in our prayers to show that God gets the glory for the future grace we are counting on.

With all the power in the universe and with the absolute right to do as he pleases with what he made, God is for us.

The mercy and the sovereignty of God are the twin pillars of your life. They will stand by your deathbed, and with strong and tender hands lift you to God.

Your prayers are the aroma of heaven, sweet smelling before the throne of God and before the Lamb.

Pride is a form of unbelief. Faith admits need. Pride won’t. Faith banks on God. Pride won’t. Faith casts anxieties on God. Pride won’t.

A mustard seed of faith is infinitely closer to being a mountain of faith than it is to being no faith. There is an infinite difference between a spark and no spark.

How can you experience an outpouring of the Holy Spirit? Meditate day and night on the promises of God.

You cannot sink so low in despairing of your own resources that God does not see and care. He is at the bottom waiting to catch you.

Turn from self and come to Jesus as your source for true joy. His fullness will satisfy your itch of emptiness.

There are no lapses in God’s commitment or in his joy in doing good to his children — to those who trust him.

The evidence of God’s power in our lives is not the absence of our willing, but the strength and joy of our willing.

When some fear or craving threatens to lead us into sin, we are to take the sword of the Spirit and kill it.

Pilate’s authority over Jesus was subordinate to God’s authority over Pilate. So, Jesus did not fear.

God declares us righteous, which gives us unshakable security in the face of tremendous suffering.

The hope of the resurrection radically changed the way Paul lived. His life counted. His suffering was meaningful.

God’s wrath was once on us. But because he made us alive, all that wrath is removed. He is now 100% for us.

Take heart. If you have faith in Jesus, God himself declares, “You are greatly loved.”

The clearest answer in Acts to the question why a person believes the gospel is that God opens the heart.

Those who suffer for Christ will receive the Holy Spirit’s power and rest at their greatest hour of need.

The fullness of Jesus Christ is a divine, accessible, glorious, delivered, blessed, true fullness.

Jesus Christ is exuberant with omnipotent service for the sake of all who trust him.

Because of Jesus’s resurrection, he now has the glory for which we were made. Our ultimate destiny is to see him as he is.

When it’s forty degrees warmer in your freezer than it is outside, the message is clear: Don’t mess with God.

Christ said Paul was going to Rome. And that was that. No ambush can stand against the promise of Christ.

Oh, how sweet are the designs of God in the sovereign salvation of hardened, hopeless sinners!

Do you desire God? Will you trust him? The word of God to you is: God is worthy and God is able.

Every step Jesus took on the Calvary road meant, “I love you. I love you. I love you.”

Jesus is the end for which the universe was made, and the means that makes that end possible to enjoy.

When you desire the city of God above everything else on the earth, he is not ashamed to be called your God. Your life pleases him.

It is a most striking thing how personal and national suffering drew Abraham Lincoln into the reality of God, rather than pushing him away.

Amazingly, Paul connects our liberation with Jesus as our Master, and he connects our new slavery with Jesus as our Messiah.

Living and dying by faith means having new desires and seeking new satisfactions.

Take all the things that drive this world, and ponder how much better and more abiding God is.

Submitting to God enables us to have the supremely satisfying experience of not being God, but admiring the Godness of God.

God surely has reasons for waiting to give you the breakthrough you have sought for decades. Keep asking in hope.

Because Jesus died in our place, he guaranteed that every good deed will prosper — sooner or later.

The main task of all the ministries of the church is helping people see the greatness of what Christ has purchased for everyone who will value it above the world.

Suffering has a great sin-killing effect. The more pure we are, the more clearly we see God.