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Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 16 July 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Believe the promise that in this day God will be at work in you to will and work for his good pleasure.

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0:00.0	July 16, energy for today's to-do's.
0:06.9	Work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to
0:14.8	will and to work for his good pleasure, Philippians 2, 12, and 13.
0:24.4	God is the decisive worker here.
0:28.0	Work out your salvation for it is God who works in you, the willing and the working.
0:40.2	God wills and he works for his good pleasure, but believing this does not make Christians
0:48.3	passive.
0:50.4	It makes them hopeful and energetic and courageous.
0:55.8	Each day there is a work to be done in our special ministry.
1:02.4	Paul commands us to work at doing it, but he tells us how to do it in the power that God
1:10.1	supplies.
1:12.6	Believe him, believe in the promise that in this day God will be at work in you to will
1:21.3	and to work for his good pleasure.
1:25.3	It is God Himself graciously at work each moment that brings the promise of future grace
1:32.9	into our present experience.
1:35.9	He is not the gratitude for past grace that Paul focuses on when explaining how we work
1:45.6	out our salvation.
1:48.0	I mention this simply because so many Christians, when asked what the motive is for obedience,
1:55.6	will say gratitude, but that is not what Paul emphasizes when he talks about motive and
2:04.3	power for our working.
2:07.4	He focuses on faith in what God is yet to do, not just what He has done.
2:15.9	Work out your salvation.
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