Solid Joys Daily Devotional God Works Through Good Resolves
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Mar 3, 2026 A short devotional explores how divine power energizes our own willing and resolves. It contrasts active obedience with passivity and highlights commands to fight sin. The talk stresses that genuine resolve and work remain necessary as God works through our intentions. It urges exercising the will and striving in faith for holiness while trusting divine help.
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God's Power Strengthens Our Willing
- God's power in sanctification enhances, not replaces, our willing.
- John Piper explains the power works behind, within, and beneath our active will to strengthen joyful resolve.
Engage Your Will In Spiritual Warfare
- Do actively engage your will against sin instead of passively waiting for God to act.
- Piper cites commands to wage warfare, resist the devil, and strive for holiness as reasons to resolve and fight.
God Works Through Our Good Resolves
- Good resolves and works of faith are necessary channels for God to work powerfully in us.
- Piper emphasizes God appears with power in our will only through our exercised intentions, plans, and resolves.
