Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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.

We should emphasize that God loves and forgives for his own glory because the Bible does, and because it makes clear that God loves us with the greatest love.

God forgave us when we first believed in Christ. Then, from that broken, joyful, grateful, hopeful experience of being forgiven, we offer forgiveness to others.

Christians are included in the Davidic covenant. What David received, we will also receive in Christ Jesus.

Don't let your ignorance of the micro reasons for suffering cause you to overlook the massive help God tells us in his word of his macro purposes for us.

Irresistable grace does not mean grace cannot be resisted. It means that when God chooses, he can and will overcome that resistance.

There is no hope for God's people unless he causes them to return from their leaping into sin and unbelief.

Feeling rotten about your sin is not the same as repenting from it. But it can lead there.

The same God who feeds billions of birds every hour around the world will take care of you.

We get the help; God gets the glory. That arrangement keeps us humble and happy, and keeps him supreme and glorious.

Times of suffering and deliverance are both God's stages of care for you. He has not left you or forsaken you.

Jesus will take care of you when you take care of others. That's why there were leftovers after Jesus fed the multitudes.

Jesus provides an ever-present, ever-living witness to the removal of the Father's wrath from us.

When Jesus says, “I will grant him to sit with me on my throne,” he promises us a share in the rule of all things.

Jesus anchored the happiness of suffering saints in the reward of heaven. And he anchored the happiness of successful saints in the same.

If we don't call to mind what God has said about himself and about us, we will languish. Never forget that our God is the God of the impossible.

Every little thing you do that is good is seen and valued and rewarded by the Lord. And he will pay you back for it.