I needed that reminded right now. I'm going through so much and God has given me the strength and courage to hold on and wait upon our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as He continue to pour His Spirit upon me and work everything out in His time and in the way He chooses for me. For I am not my own and God can do however He He wants to do for His glory and honor.
I'm struggling with unblief. Please pray to HIM to completely cleanse me of all my pride and self righteousness and all my sins and hidden Sins and to give me true repentance and humble me. To help my unbelief and give me true saving faith on Christ alone (Hebrews 12:2) and true repentance from Godly sorrow which leads to salvation and to remove all the worldly sorrow (despair, self pity, unbelief, etc) and cause me to be truly born again in CHRIST
Thank you for figuring out the years! I knew it was a long time but was never sure how long. I've been without full time, permanent work for 11 years. I no longer have hope of ever working again. I hope it's not going to be another 11 years. I can't stand this anymore. My life has passed me by. I'm 50 now. Please God, end this nightmare.
I will pray for you! Keep the faith, GOD is working on it for you, please keep praying!✝️ I have been without work too, not for as long, but I prayed and GOD delivered. Keep praying, He will hold u even thru this time of unemployment. ❤️
As always, when theres a problem to be addressed in my heart and life, I run into content about it soon after. Like God going "Alright kid, here's how you SHOULD'VE handled that"
Can all of you pray for my bad addiction please? I hate it so much, I always fall to temptation and do it. I tried to stop doing it my self but I failed.
We will all fail if we rely on our own strength! Call on JESUS, don't stop praying for deliverance to overcome and not give in to the tempations when it comes! Jesus said to be vigilant and pray always. I prayed for you, and I hope that you overcome with JESUS. ONLY HE can deliver u we cannot do it ourselves. It's impossible! Jesus says, "apart from Me you can do nothing!" I also highly suggest u also watch Pastor John's killing sin, lust and temptation series. Just type in Desiring God you have 5 seconds to kill lust/sin
Can someone explain the statement, "God doesn't sin, but he may ordain that things come about that happen through sin." I understand all things work for the good of those who are called according to His purpose. I understand nothing happens that is out of God's control. Why do you think God allows evil to be used against Joseph instead of allowing Joseph to grow in other ways? I could apply this to our lives as well and say why does God make us go through trials to grow instead of using other methods like giving us hearts that depend on Him without needing to go through a trial?
aaron pompura go ask a girl to give you her heart, without having earned trust and respect and see what she says. You can’t make anyone have a heart for you, you have to work for it and sometimes that means trials
The short and easy answer would be "for His glory, will, and good pleasure" but think of it like this: even though that answer is the bottom line, even though God isn't unfair or unjust in giving us trials, Jesus Himself came in the flesh and suffered along through life as we do. Remember He was a "man of sorrows acquainted with grief" and "was made perfect through suffering." For the spirit to thrive, the flesh needs to be beat down because it will oppose the spirit at all times. There's no easy way into heaven, but we've got Christ going through the road with us having gone through every manner of suffering already.
the lost adventurer Prayers for you! Be sure you tell some close, Christ-centered influences in your life to help hold you accountable. Remove yourself as much as possible from situations where the temptation is present. Pray relentlessly for God to remove the sinful desire in your heart to submit to the desires of your flesh being satisfied and to replace it with a desire to be spiritually satisfied by Christ alone. He is all you need. It is a fight, but sexual sin is serious and deadly. Praying for God to reset your heart and give you the strength and will to walk away from the temptation.
For me, I severed watching (exposing myself) pornographic stuff first because it felt disgusting at some point of my life. It took a while until I 'can' say I don't really watch those stuff, meaning it cannot be severed one day. However, there is still a possibility for me to again step into that land in the future so I MUST always be cautious, but what I can tell is that throughout continuous and intense fighting, your desire will be weakened than before. I would recommend stopping exposing yourself to pornographic stuff first, which indeed help sever any immoral activity. Also, I want to say that if your heart is colder, there is a higher probability that you will commit such sin, meaning that you must be 'closer' to God in order to sever the sexual sin rather than trying not to think and commit sexual sin (it helps though). I think what is important is not 'how' to stop sinning but 'how much do you want' to stop sinning (or maybe 'how much you want God'). If you consistently want God, you will naturally do everything possible or pray, and the frequency of sexual commitment will slowly be decreased.
I googled :don't think too much about God, it just makes it worse, is how I got here. a mention of a higher being is an insult to harsh reality. tornadoes earthquakes floods tsunami cancer etc. wish it wasn't so.
That's what happens in a sinful world. He never promised bad wouldn't happen, He promised He would be their with u thru it. Do not blame GOD and trample on His name! The world will go astray if they do not know Him. I've been thru hardship and none of it was GODS fault.
@@amandal.1422 I don't blame god for anything because I and everyone else cant prove there is a god. I blame people that say delusional bs and don't man up to harsh reality. I wish there's a god every day almost as much as I wish to win the lottery to save my hard working ass from financial stress! maybe god made all of this and then he died. you don't know I dont know. no one.
He couldn’t. It would go against his Being and character. If only he had chosen that, it would be so because what God has said IS and he has planned and predetermined will be so. It would be impossible for the fact of how such an arbitrary act would be commuted by him, voiding every word he had already spoken.
You need not listen to this man teach lawlessness. Love and Holiness will overcome sin, in absolutely anyone’s life, just as soon as we HEAR the instruction of YHVH, and OBEY it, and keep to the testimony of Christ Jesus. Believing, by his witnesses in Jerusalem, and all over to the ends of the earth, all those years ago, that God raised him from the dead. This is also the testimony of the prophets in all the written testimony of the saints both in the new and old testaments. Therefore learn how to love!!! 1John 5:2-3 “By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.” 1John 2:4-7 “Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked. Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.” As the word of God came to the prophet Malachi... Malachi 4:4-6 “Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.” for anyone still reading this....🙏 Do not be utterly destroyed! Become alive by reading the Word of YHVH and be baptized in God’s spirit by his son Yeshua of Nazareth, whom the world calls Jesus, to baptize you with the spirit of holiness sent from the right hand of God in heaven! And it will be fulfilled, in you, this prophecy in Ezekiel... Ezekiel 36:24-27 “I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. Shalom!:) 🙏
I needed that reminded right now. I'm going through so much and God has given me the strength and courage to hold on and wait upon our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as He continue to pour His Spirit upon me and work everything out in His time and in the way He chooses for me. For I am not my own and God can do however He He wants to do for His glory and honor.
Amen brother. I have been struggling with patience a lot lately. Woah. I can't believe impatience is a sin. But I completely agree. Thank you brother.
Thank you pasted piper for your teaching God has used you on my life to do many Good thank you for serving the lord
Thank you, Pastor John, & the 'Desiring God' team. Y'all are Godsent! Amen!
Thank you, Heavenly Father, for Your Love for us!
This was so helpful to me and I am so thankful for it. I will listen again often, reminding me of these wonderful truths. Thank you, John Piper.
I'm struggling with unblief.
Please pray to HIM to completely cleanse me of all my pride and self righteousness and all my sins and hidden Sins and to give me true repentance and humble me. To help my unbelief and give me true saving faith on Christ alone (Hebrews 12:2) and true repentance from Godly sorrow which leads to salvation and to remove all the worldly sorrow (despair, self pity, unbelief, etc)
and cause me to be truly born again in CHRIST
I thank the Lord for this teaching! It helped me so much!!
Thank you for figuring out the years! I knew it was a long time but was never sure how long.
I've been without full time, permanent work for 11 years. I no longer have hope of ever working again. I hope it's not going to be another 11 years. I can't stand this anymore. My life has passed me by. I'm 50 now. Please God, end this nightmare.
I will pray for you! Keep the faith, GOD is working on it for you, please keep praying!✝️ I have been without work too, not for as long, but I prayed and GOD delivered. Keep praying, He will hold u even thru this time of unemployment. ❤️
thank you pastor JohnPiper .
As always, when theres a problem to be addressed in my heart and life, I run into content about it soon after. Like God going "Alright kid, here's how you SHOULD'VE handled that"
Amen, thank you Pastor John
i love this serie is so uplifting
Thank you for this encouragement. This has meant a great deal to me. Thank you and may God bless you
-Ronnie
Helpful reminder of patience...
Thank you!
Powerful! ❤️
I like especially that last sentence.
Can all of you pray for my bad addiction please? I hate it so much, I always fall to temptation and do it. I tried to stop doing it my self but I failed.
Will be praying!
salted caramel cheesecake thank you
We will all fail if we rely on our own strength! Call on JESUS, don't stop praying for deliverance to overcome and not give in to the tempations when it comes! Jesus said to be vigilant and pray always. I prayed for you, and I hope that you overcome with JESUS. ONLY HE can deliver u we cannot do it ourselves. It's impossible! Jesus says, "apart from Me you can do nothing!" I also highly suggest u also watch Pastor John's killing sin, lust and temptation series. Just type in Desiring God you have 5 seconds to kill lust/sin
Good message, but John, please move the microphone further back from your face... It's quite distracting. God bless :)
Can someone explain the statement, "God doesn't sin, but he may ordain that things come about that happen through sin."
I understand all things work for the good of those who are called according to His purpose.
I understand nothing happens that is out of God's control.
Why do you think God allows evil to be used against Joseph instead of allowing Joseph to grow in other ways?
I could apply this to our lives as well and say why does God make us go through trials to grow instead of using other methods like giving us hearts that depend on Him without needing to go through a trial?
aaron pompura go ask a girl to give you her heart, without having earned trust and respect and see what she says. You can’t make anyone have a heart for you, you have to work for it and sometimes that means trials
The short and easy answer would be "for His glory, will, and good pleasure" but think of it like this: even though that answer is the bottom line, even though God isn't unfair or unjust in giving us trials, Jesus Himself came in the flesh and suffered along through life as we do. Remember He was a "man of sorrows acquainted with grief" and "was made perfect through suffering." For the spirit to thrive, the flesh needs to be beat down because it will oppose the spirit at all times. There's no easy way into heaven, but we've got Christ going through the road with us having gone through every manner of suffering already.
Joseph A Norman good analogy
i have fallin in sexual sin please pray that that old part of me dies and if you have any tips please tell me
the lost adventurer Prayers for you! Be sure you tell some close, Christ-centered influences in your life to help hold you accountable. Remove yourself as much as possible from situations where the temptation is present. Pray relentlessly for God to remove the sinful desire in your heart to submit to the desires of your flesh being satisfied and to replace it with a desire to be spiritually satisfied by Christ alone. He is all you need. It is a fight, but sexual sin is serious and deadly. Praying for God to reset your heart and give you the strength and will to walk away from the temptation.
@@cultivatingbeauty3217 thank you so much
@JA thank you man
For me, I severed watching (exposing myself) pornographic stuff first because it felt disgusting at some point of my life. It took a while until I 'can' say I don't really watch those stuff, meaning it cannot be severed one day. However, there is still a possibility for me to again step into that land in the future so I MUST always be cautious, but what I can tell is that throughout continuous and intense fighting, your desire will be weakened than before. I would recommend stopping exposing yourself to pornographic stuff first, which indeed help sever any immoral activity. Also, I want to say that if your heart is colder, there is a higher probability that you will commit such sin, meaning that you must be 'closer' to God in order to sever the sexual sin rather than trying not to think and commit sexual sin (it helps though). I think what is important is not 'how' to stop sinning but 'how much do you want' to stop sinning (or maybe 'how much you want God'). If you consistently want God, you will naturally do everything possible or pray, and the frequency of sexual commitment will slowly be decreased.
In Jesus almighty you can do it
I googled :don't think too much about God, it just makes it worse, is how I got here.
a mention of a higher being is an insult to harsh reality.
tornadoes earthquakes floods tsunami cancer etc.
wish it wasn't so.
That's what happens in a sinful world. He never promised bad wouldn't happen, He promised He would be their with u thru it. Do not blame GOD and trample on His name! The world will go astray if they do not know Him. I've been thru hardship and none of it was GODS fault.
@@amandal.1422 I don't blame god for anything because I and everyone else cant prove there is a god. I blame people that say delusional bs and don't man up to harsh reality.
I wish there's a god every day almost as much as I wish to win the lottery to save my hard working ass from financial stress!
maybe god made all of this and then he died. you don't know I dont know. no one.
There is a God. Believe it or not.
If God ceased to exist one day,
How would we know?
What would change?
He couldn’t. It would go against his Being and character. If only he had chosen that, it would be so because what God has said IS and he has planned and predetermined will be so. It would be impossible for the fact of how such an arbitrary act would be commuted by him, voiding every word he had already spoken.
You need not listen to this man teach lawlessness.
Love and Holiness will overcome sin, in absolutely anyone’s life, just as soon as we HEAR the instruction of YHVH, and OBEY it, and keep to the testimony of Christ Jesus. Believing, by his witnesses in Jerusalem, and all over to the ends of the earth, all those years ago, that God raised him from the dead. This is also the testimony of the prophets in all the written testimony of the saints both in the new and old testaments.
Therefore learn how to love!!!
1John 5:2-3 “By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.”
1John 2:4-7 “Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked. Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.”
As the word of God came to the prophet Malachi...
Malachi 4:4-6 “Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”
for anyone still reading this....🙏
Do not be utterly destroyed! Become alive by reading the Word of YHVH and be baptized in God’s spirit by his son Yeshua of Nazareth, whom the world calls Jesus, to baptize you with the spirit of holiness sent from the right hand of God in heaven! And it will be fulfilled, in you, this prophecy in Ezekiel...
Ezekiel 36:24-27 “I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
Shalom!:) 🙏
Don't speak bad about someone! Pastor John is truly a blessing.