Don’t just do good things for your enemies. Desire their best, and express those desires in prayer, even when they’re nowhere around.

What It Means to Pray for Your Enemy

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.

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God has wise and holy purposes when he does not answer our prayers as we want. Trust him. He knows what he is doing.

When God Goes Against His Will

The sovereign grace of God can turn the unplanned place and the unplanned pace into the happiest ending imaginable.

The Payout for Patience

We can know that our sins are taken away and that we will be safe in the judgment, if we trust Christ in such a way that it makes us eager for his coming.

Authentic vs. Phony Faith

Patience is indeed a fruit of the Holy Spirit, but the Spirit empowers us (with all his fruit) through hearing with faith.

Strength to Wait with Patience

What feels to us like a waste is what God plans. He works through the most hopeless circumstances.

What It Means to Pray for Your Enemy

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