A short and substantive daily devotional to feed your joy in Jesus every day of the year.
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Sep 29, 2026 · 3:17
Take up the Bible, ask the Holy Spirit for help, lay the promises up in your heart, and fight the good fight — to live by faith in future grace.
Sep 28, 2026 · 4:16
God’s greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of his grace by making sinners happy in him.
Sep 27, 2026 · 3:29
The truth of Christ frees us from the slavery of sin, for the freedom of holiness.
Sep 26, 2026 · 2:24
Confidence in God’s absolute control is the source and power of radical obedience to the call of God.
Sep 25, 2026 · 3:15
The Bible is no empty word. It is your very life — the foundation and kindling of your joy!
Sep 24, 2026 · 3:01
What sustained Christ in the dark hours of Gethsemane was the hope of joy beyond the cross.
Sep 23, 2026 · 3:04
When it comes to being a candidate for grace, your background has nothing to do with God’s choice. That’s good news.
Sep 22, 2026 · 3:28
You have a possession in heaven that is better, and lasts longer, than anything this world can offer.
Sep 21, 2026 · 3:53
God intends for particular promises to help you fight against particular anxieties.
Sep 20, 2026 · 2:34
The Lord has spoken: It is more blessed to love than to live in luxury! More blessed now, and forever.
Sep 19, 2026 · 2:55
In Jesus Christ we who are born of God have the unspeakable privilege of knowing Yahweh as our Father.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2:44
Only Jesus, the Son of God who died and rose for us, can make us truly free.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2:42
Sit down to the feast of joy in Christ and worship the King of Glory. The banquet hall is very large.
Sep 16, 2026 · 3:10
To see God, and know him, and be in his presence is the soul’s final feast.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2:59
Two things have to be true if your joy is never to be taken from you. One is that the source of your joy lasts forever and the other is that you last forever.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2:40
If we live by faith in God’s promise of future grace, it will be very hard for anxiety to survive.
Sep 13, 2026 · 5:18
God will see to it that you are not tested in any given day more than you can bear.
Sep 12, 2026 · 4:12
God will certainly take his energy and creative skill, and use it to care for his children since they will live forever.
Sep 11, 2026 · 4:13
Jesus helps us to fight the good fight against unbelief and to be free from anxiety.
Sep 10, 2026 · 3:29
The way you fight the good fight for faith is by meditating on God’s assurances of future grace and by asking for the help of his Spirit.
Sep 9, 2026 · 2:39
If you treated your salvation no longer as a gift, but as a purchase, God would no longer be the free benefactor.
Sep 8, 2026 · 4:32
You can’t give anything to God or do anything for God that he hasn’t first given to you and done for you.
Sep 7, 2026 · 3:41
Fear not. Your adversaries can do no more than God grants. And he will grant you the faith you need. Those are gospel promises.
Sep 6, 2026 · 4:31
Nothing will separate us from the love of Christ because Christ is alive and is still loving us right now.
Sep 5, 2026 · 4:53
God loves us so much that he will not allow our preciousness to become our god.
Sep 4, 2026 · 3:50
In the old covenant, the gracious enabling power to obey God was not poured out as fully as it is since Jesus.
Sep 3, 2026 · 4:38
If you feel vulnerable, you can say to God, “Lord, help me. I’m not even sure how to pray.” Trust that he will respond and will help you.
Sep 2, 2026 · 4:14
This is one of the beauties of the biblical doctrines of grace: their worst devastations prepare us for their greatest delights.
Sep 1, 2026 · 3:50
God is never forced into a situation where he must do something in which he cannot rejoice.
Aug 31, 2026 · 3:01
The worth and beauty of the Son come not just from his majesty, nor just from his meekness, but from the way these mingle in perfect proportion.
Aug 30, 2026 · 3:54
By all means work. But always look to the Lord for the decisive, supernatural work needed to fulfill his purposes.
Aug 29, 2026 · 3:13
Never grow weary of exploring and exulting in the inexhaustible privilege of being “in Christ Jesus.”
Aug 28, 2026 · 3:34
The Father’s infinite pleasure in his own perfections is the fountain of our everlasting joy and forgiveness.
Aug 27, 2026 · 2:13
The extent of Christ’s reign reaches to the smallest and biggest enemy of his glory in your life, and in this universe. It will be defeated.
Aug 26, 2026 · 3:23
God rejoices in the works of creation because they point us beyond themselves to God himself.
Aug 25, 2026 · 3:53
The sweetest experience of God’s love is conditional on our transformation into the kind of people whose emotions and choices and actions please God.
Aug 24, 2026 · 2:45
Day and night are saying one thing: God is glorious! Turn away from the creation as your supreme satisfaction, and delight yourself in the Lord of glory.
Aug 23, 2026 · 3:15
God is love precisely because he relentlessly pursues the praises of his name in the hearts of his people.
Aug 22, 2026 · 3:53
If God loves us enough to make our joy full, he must not only give us himself; he must also win from us the praise of our hearts.
Aug 21, 2026 · 3:30
God’s pursuit of praise from us and our pursuit of pleasure in him are the same pursuit.
Aug 20, 2026 · 3:03
The Bible is a window that opens onto the sunrise glory of the risen Christ.
Aug 19, 2026 · 2:45
Christ’s resurrection is God’s declaration that we cannot work our way to glory, but that he intends to do the impossible to get us there.
Aug 18, 2026 · 3:18
You will always be better off to obey than to disobey Jesus, even if that obedience costs you your life.
Aug 17, 2026 · 2:36
Authentic speaking about God’s goodness and greatness must come from the soul. Blessing God with the mouth without the soul would be hypocrisy.
Aug 16, 2026 · 1:57
If we are to be sexually pure, God must have the supreme place in our feelings and thoughts.
Aug 15, 2026 · 2:42
All the other gifts of the gospel — forgiveness, justification, propitiation, eternal life — exist to make fellowship with God possible.
Aug 14, 2026 · 4:18
The death of the Son of God is outrageous enough, and the glory of God that it upholds is great enough, that God is vindicated to forgive our sins.
Aug 13, 2026 · 3:38
The power of God to fulfill your resolves will come to you as you trust in the future grace of his promises.
Aug 12, 2026 · 3:09
When we see the face of Christ, we see the face of God. And we see the glory of his face when we hear the story of the gospel of his death and resurrection.
Aug 11, 2026 · 3:29
Grace is not only God’s disposition to do good for us when we don’t deserve it. It is also a power that makes good things happen in us.
Aug 10, 2026 · 2:16
We know more of the mystery of our redemption than David did. We know Christ. But we lay hold of the mercy in the same way he did.
Aug 9, 2026 · 3:04
The gospel is the good news that God bought for us the everlasting enjoyment of God.
Aug 8, 2026 · 2:52
Stand in awe and be at peace, knowing that no natural event is outside of God’s wise and good purposes, and perfect control.
Aug 7, 2026 · 3:23
God made humans in his image so that the world would be filled with reflectors of God. Images of God. So that nobody would miss the point of creation.
Aug 6, 2026 · 2:30
God is totally committed to the perseverance and eternal security of his blood-bought children.
Aug 5, 2026 · 5:01
Yahweh is a proper name (like Peter) built out of the word for “I am.” It teaches us that God absolutely is.
Aug 4, 2026 · 2:09
Between eternity past in God’s predestination, and eternity future in God’s glorification, none is lost.
Aug 3, 2026 · 2:30
God will honor the work of his Son by raising our bodies from the dead, and we will use our bodies to glorify him forever.
Aug 2, 2026 · 4:15
God has justified us. There is only future grace in front of us. Satan cannot overturn that decree.
Aug 1, 2026 · 3:02
Sometimes God makes seemingly strong people weaker so that his divine power will be the more evident.
Jul 31, 2026 · 2:20
Suffering must not drive you from God. Instead, it should drive you from everything but God.
Jul 30, 2026 · 3:12
Faith is like muscle tissue: if you stress it to the limit, it gets stronger, not weaker. When your faith is tested, the result is greater capacity to endure.
Jul 29, 2026 · 3:37
Our sovereign God says there is an appointed number of martyrs. They have a special role to play in planting and empowering the church.
Jul 28, 2026 · 4:03
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.
Jul 27, 2026 · 3:44
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.
Jul 26, 2026 · 3:05
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.
Jul 25, 2026 · 3:46
The way to thwart the devil is to strengthen the very thing he is trying most to destroy — your faith.
Jul 24, 2026 · 3:14
Jesus is interceding for us today that our faith may not fail. Our endurance in faith and joy is finally and decisively in the hands of God.
Jul 23, 2026 · 3:43
When God’s word feeds faith’s appetite for God, it weans our hearts away from the deceptive taste of lust.
Jul 22, 2026 · 2:59
Trusting God’s future grace comes by hearing the word. Therefore, preaching the word to ourselves is all-important in overcoming spiritual depression.
Jul 21, 2026 · 3:25
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.
Jul 20, 2026 · 2:42
Prayer is the great link of faith between the soul of the saint and the promise of God’s future grace.
Jul 19, 2026 · 3:37
God promises not merely that we will find grace “to help in time of need,” but that the grace is well-timed by God.
Jul 18, 2026 · 3:13
Moment by moment, God supplies the strength in which we serve. He does this because the ongoing, inexhaustible supplier of power gets the glory.
Jul 17, 2026 · 3:07
Whatever added signs and wonders God may show to amplify our witness to Christ, they will come through his grace and power.
Jul 16, 2026 · 4:14
Believe in the promise that in this day God will be at work in you to will and work for his good pleasure.
Jul 15, 2026 · 4:04
Paul prayed for grace for the day, trusted that it would come with power, and then acted with all his might.
Jul 14, 2026 · 3:23
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.
Jul 13, 2026 · 2:44
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.
Jul 12, 2026 · 4:19
The glory of Christ is magnified when we are more satisfied with his future grace than we are with the promises of sin.
Jul 11, 2026 · 3:31
When we don’t believe all the promises of God, we won’t receive the full measure of the Spirit.
Jul 10, 2026 · 3:36
“Works” longs for the joy of being glorified as strong. “Faith” longs for the joy of seeing God glorified as strong.
Jul 9, 2026 · 3:52
When he was in anguish, Jesus rested his soul in the sovereign wisdom of God.
Jul 8, 2026 · 3:32
Faith in God’s forgiveness means savoring the truth that a forgiving God is the most precious reality in the universe.
Jul 7, 2026 · 3:19
All the wrongs that have been done against us by believers were avenged in the death of Jesus. Look to the cross of Christ.
Jul 6, 2026 · 3:17
No one has ever lived who was more worthy of honor than Jesus; and no one has been dishonored more. But he triumphed by entrusting himself to God.
Jul 5, 2026 · 4:01
Your very soul is in danger if you hold on to an attitude of unforgiving bitterness. Leave it to the wrath of God.
Jul 4, 2026 · 3:24
Imagine being able to enjoy what is most enjoyable with unbounded energy and passion forever. That is not our experience now, but it will be one day.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2:53
It is good news that God is gloriously happy. No one would want to spend eternity with a gloomy, unhappy God.
Jul 2, 2026 · 2:56
As the source of every good pleasure, God himself pleases fully and finally. It is therefore astonishing how little effort is put into knowing God.
Jul 1, 2026 · 3:17
Even if we know that God is good to us, we may believe that his goodness is constrained. But Jesus is at pains to help us not feel that way.
Jun 30, 2026 · 2:58
The unwillingness of others to repent will not hold the saints hostage. Hell cannot blackmail heaven into misery.
Jun 29, 2026 · 3:38
Faith in God’s promises must be so real that the love it produces proves the reality of the faith.
Jun 28, 2026 · 3:15
What can sustain the will to die for others, when you are innocent? Jesus banked on love and future joy.
Jun 27, 2026 · 2:17
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.
Jun 26, 2026 · 3:11
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.
Jun 25, 2026 · 3:00
What’s at stake in fleeing covetousness and fighting for contentment in future grace is eternal life.
Jun 24, 2026 · 3:46
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.
Jun 23, 2026 · 2:50
God is glorified when the power to be holy comes from humble faith in future grace.
Jun 22, 2026 · 3:16
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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