Solid Joys Daily Devotional
Solid Joys is a daily devotional written and read by John Piper. These short and substantive readings will feed your joy in Jesus every day of the year. Discover more from Piper at desiringGod.org.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 3 minutes
- Episodes
- 437
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
God’s Plan for Martyrs
Our sovereign God says there is an appointed number of martyrs. They have a special role to play in planting and empowering the church.
00:03:38 |
Tue 29 Jul 2025
Why We Don’t Lose Heart
Strengthen your heart and renew your courage by fixing your gaze on the invisible truth you see in the testimony of those who saw Christ face to face.
00:04:03 |
Mon 28 Jul 2025
If You Don’t Fight Lust
If you don’t fight lust with a seriousness that is willing to gouge out your own eye, you will go to hell and suffer forever.
00:03:45 |
Sun 27 Jul 2025
What It Means to Love Money
The heart that loves money is a heart that pins its hopes, and pursues its pleasures, and puts its trust in what human resources can offer.
00:03:06 |
Sat 26 Jul 2025
Satan’s Strategy and Your Defense
The way to thwart the devil is to strengthen the very thing he is trying most to destroy — your faith.
00:03:48 |
Fri 25 Jul 2025
Jesus Keeps His Sheep
Jesus is interceding for us today that our faith might not fail. Our endurance in faith and joy is finally and decisively in the hands of God.
00:03:15 |
Thu 24 Jul 2025
How to Defy Sinful Desire
When God’s word feeds faith’s appetite for God, it weans our hearts away from the deceptive taste of lust.
00:03:44 |
Wed 23 Jul 2025
Preach to Yourself
Trusting God’s future grace comes by hearing the word. Therefore, preaching the word to ourselves is all-important in overcoming spiritual depression.
00:03:00 |
Tue 22 Jul 2025
Models for Combating Discouragement
The Bible is replete with saints struggling with sunken spirits. But God includes such testimonies so that we might use them to fight the unbelief of despondency.
00:03:26 |
Mon 21 Jul 2025
Grace for Every Need
Prayer is the great link of faith between the soul of the saint and the promise of God’s future grace.
00:02:43 |
Sun 20 Jul 2025
His Timing Is Perfect
God promises not merely that we will find grace “to help in time of need,” but that the grace is well-timed by God.
00:03:38 |
Sat 19 Jul 2025
God’s Grace in Spiritual Gifts
Moment by moment, God supplies the strength in which we serve. He does this because the ongoing, inexhaustible supplier of power gets the glory.
00:03:14 |
Fri 18 Jul 2025
The Power to Profess Christ
Whatever added signs and wonders God may show to amplify our witness to Christ, they will come through his grace and power.
00:03:08 |
Thu 17 Jul 2025
Energy for Today’s To-Dos
Believe the promise that in this day God will be at work in you to will and work for his good pleasure.
00:04:16 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
We Work by Grace
Paul prayed for grace for the day, trusted that it would come with power, and then acted with all his might.
00:04:06 |
Tue 15 Jul 2025
Ministry — More Important Than Life
You may think you need to save your life in order to do your ministry. On the contrary, how you lose your life may be the capstone of your ministry.
00:03:24 |
Mon 14 Jul 2025
What Moves You to Minister?
Costly acts of love don’t just happen. They are impelled by a new appetite — the appetite of faith for the fullest experience of God’s grace. We want more of God.
00:02:45 |
Sun 13 Jul 2025
Faith Expels Guilt, Greed, and Fear
The glory of Christ is magnified when we are more satisfied with his future grace than we are with the promises of sin.
00:04:20 |
Sat 12 Jul 2025
We Experience the Spirit Through Faith
When we don’t believe all the promises of God, we won’t receive the full measure of the Spirit.
00:03:32 |
Fri 11 Jul 2025
Proud Works vs. Humble Faith
“Works” longs for the joy of being glorified as strong. “Faith” longs for the joy of seeing God glorified as strong.
00:03:37 |
Thu 10 Jul 2025
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