Podcasts about desiring god

The unwillingness of others to repent will not hold the saints hostage. Hell cannot blackmail heaven into misery.

How can Christians act in obedience when they face a life-changing cost? Grace can sustain us through the painful consequences of following God.

Faith in God's promises must be so real that the love it produces proves the reality of the faith.

What can sustain the will to die for others, when you are innocent? Jesus banked on love and future joy.

The experience of future grace often depends on whether we will take refuge in God, or whether we will run for cover to other shelters.

David Mathis | What happens when believers meet together? Christians both give and receive grace from the God who gathers them in true fellowship.

There is a fear that is slavish and drives us away from God, and there is a fear that is sweet and draws us to God.

How can we reconcile the pain we feel in this fallen world with God's promise to keep us from all evil? Pastor John applies Psalm 121 to this life.

What's at stake in fleeing covetousness and fighting for contentment in future grace is eternal life.

Whenever we sense the slightest rise of covetousness in our hearts, we must turn on it and fight it with all our might using the weapons of faith.

God is glorified when the power to be holy comes from humble faith in future grace.

Even great evil serves God's eternal purposes — yet God also gives us precious promises to comfort us in the midst of our pain and grief.

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The fight for good works is a fight to believe in future grace. Therefore, learning to fight for holiness by faith in future grace is supremely important.

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The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus. Faith embraces God — not just his promised gifts — as our treasure.

David Mathis | “Ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” Why would God attach such a staggering promise to prayer? Because he really wants us to pray.

Grace is not simply the pardon of our sins; it is the power to press on in obedience. We trust in God's ever-arriving gracious power to enable us to do what we should.

Jesus claimed that Moses wrote about him long before he ever walked the earth as man. If that's true, how could anyone miss Jesus in the words of Moses?

When we hear God's promises and trust him with courage, fearing the reproach brought upon God by our unbelief, then he is greatly honored.

Scott Hubbard | When you imagine a submissive wife, what kind of woman comes to mind? Is your picture embarrassing — or is it beautiful?

#bible #Biblia #Jesus #JesusChrist #WheatAndTares #GoodFruit In this discussion, Ric and Mary explore the difference between wheat and tares as described in Matthew 13:24-30. They reflect on how to maintain a heavenly perspective in our everyday lives and how to discern whether we are like wheat or tares. Being born again enables us to see the distinction between our relationship with the world and our relationship with our Creator. Our hope is to bear good fruit for Christ.

To redeem relationships, we need humility — but how do we get that kind of sacrificial heart? Looking to Christ and his cross strips away entitlement.

Prayer ascribes to God the right and honor to be the free and sovereign God that he is to choose and to save sinners.

The prayer of the upright that delights God comes from a heart that at first feels precarious in the presence of God. It trembles at his word.

The Lord is pleased not by those who treat him as a needy watering trough, but as an inexhaustible, all-satisfying spring.

Greg Morse | No matter how hidden sin seems to be, it will always find you. You can't run from the consequences, but you can hide in Christ from the condemnation.

How can Christians tell the difference between true and false zeal for God's name? Pastor John examines Jehu's tragic history in 2 Kings.

With God the honeymoon never ends. He is infinite in power and wisdom and creativity so that there will be no boredom for the next trillion ages of millenniums.

God's anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but his mercy has a hair trigger. He is infinitely energetic with unbounded and unending enthusiasm to do us good.

God did not spare his own Son, because it was the only way he could spare us and still be a just and holy God.

When David wrote a song about becoming king, he ascribed all his victories to the God who gave them. How do we join David in such God-besotted praise?

Not only are spiritual gifts a work of God's free grace in our lives, but so also is the very faith with which we use those gifts.

Should pastors expose every fresh cultural outrage from the pulpit? Pastor John encourages pastors to condemn sin without being consumed.

In order to live the radical lives Christ calls us to live, we must embrace him as the only one who can truly satisfy our souls.

Our hearts exploit our minds to justify what our hearts want. Our deepest desires incline our minds to perceive and think in a way that will make our desires look right.

If we recognize our sin, fight it, and cling to the cross of Christ as our hope, then God will hear us and answer our prayers.

We all go through seasons where we have little desire for God. We don't really want to pray, and reading our Bible doesn't sound exciting.Being honest about not wanting God isn't unbelief, but it may uncover areas of our life where we're believing a lie or not dealing with sin. There are so many things in life that compete for our affections, but God will meet us in our insufficiency and invites us to go deeper in our faith. Preston mentions John's Piper's book, “Desiring God” - https://www.amazon.com/Desiring-God-Meditations-Christian-Hedonist/dp/1433595974 This Episode is Sponsored By: https://gominno.com/ — Sign up online with code PERRY to get your first month FREE! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When we face day-to-day pressure and stress, Jesus's teaching steadies our hearts and minds. Pastor John offers eight truths to fight anxiety.

Worship is all the acts of the heart and mind and body that intentionally express the infinite worth of God.

The faith that justifies and the faith that sanctifies are not two different kinds of faith.

The best news in all the world is that our alienation from God is ended. We have been reconciled to the Judge of the universe.

David Mathis | How is meditation different from simply reading the Bible? Slowing down and sinking deep into God's word aids our joy and draws us closer to him.

Be devoted to glorifying the dependability of God. Lives of faith are the great mirror of his faithful love and provision.

Is God's pursuit of his glory and man's pursuit of our joy a selfish transaction? Pastor John insists on keeping our joy in God connected to God himself.

Open your eyes to the better country, the city of God that he has prepared for us, and let yourself desire it with all your heart. God will not be ashamed to be called your God.

Faith glorifies God because it is a future-oriented confidence in God's integrity and power and wisdom to follow through on all his promises.

Every recognition and reward we receive is a gift of God's steadfast love, poured out so that we might magnify the glory of his undeserved grace.