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Satan's aim is to destroy our joy and trust and delight in God, and to make God look worthless in the world's eyes. Everytime someone forsakes God for the world, gets angry at God when part of the world is taken away

Satan's aim is to destroy our joy and trust and delight in God, and to make God look worthless in the world's eyes. Everytime someone forsakes God for the world, gets angry at God when part of the world is taken away from them, they highlight the world as valuable... and everytime someone stays with God, when the world is taken away, and praises God, they highlight the value and glory of God.

Faith, Religious, Taken

The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

Believe, Delay, Detours

John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.170, Multnomah

The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!

Jesus, Events, Way

Not going to God because your faith is weak is like not going to the doctor because you feel sick.

Doctors, Sick, Weak

If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.

Joy, Risk, Wasted Life

Life is war. That's not all it is. But it is always that. Our weakness in prayer is owing largely to our neglect of this truth. Prayer is primarily a wartime walkie-talkie for the mission of the church as it advances against the powers of darkness and unbelief.

Prayer, War, Darkness

John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.65, Baker Academic

May we catch enough of a vision of Christ that we will not be satisfied unless we know him more fully.

Vision, May, Christ

God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.

Powerful, Inspiration, Passion

Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.

Christian, Humility, Grace

A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will wait for the Lord. She will hope in God. She will stay close to the heart of God and trust in his promises. The prospect of departing into the way of sin will be too fearful to pursue; and the benefits of abiding in the shadow of the Almighty too glorious to forsake.

Running, Heart, Waiting

We embrace the hand we've been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly.

Hands, Embrace, Deals

Loving God with all our mind means that our thinking is wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express the heartfelt fullness of treasuring God above all things.

Heart, Mean, Thinking

John Piper (2013). “Think”, p.86, SPCK

To love God does not mean to meet His needs, but rather to delight in Him and to be captivated by His glorious power and grace, and to value Him above all other things on earth. All the rest of the commandments are the kinds of things that we will do from our hearts, if our hearts are truly delighted with and resting in the glory of God's grace.

Heart, Mean, Grace

It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

Greatness, Men, Made

Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.

Sweet, Love Is, Roots

John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.11, Multnomah

God tests His people through hardship.

People, Hardship, Tests

We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.

Thinking, Joy, Needs

John Piper @JohnPiper, twitter.com. November 9, 2009.

Don't coast through life without a passion.

Passion, Coast, Waste Of Life

John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.

Treasure, Pleasure, Obedience

John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.250, Multnomah

You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

Jesus, Life Is, Christ

The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.

Jesus, Purpose, Life Is

Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.

Sweet, People, Needs

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland or anything else that may hold them back from a life of love under the wings of Jesus.

Mother, Jesus, Father

Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith.

Running, Long, Waiting

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

Knowing, Secret, Atheism

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