Medicine for the Missionary

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

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

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🗓️ 26 October 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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“All things are possible with God!” — in front the words give hope, and behind they give humility. They are the antidote to both despair and pride.

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0:00.0	October 26, medicine for the missionary. All things are possible with God. Mark 10.27.
0:12.9	Sovereign grace is the spring of life for the Christian hedonist. For what the Christian hedonist loves best
0:22.6	is the experience of the sovereign grace of God
0:26.6	filling him and overflowing for the good of others.
0:34.6	Christian hedonist missionaries love the experience of not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
0:44.0	1 Corinthians 1510.
0:46.5	They bask in the truth that the fruit of their missionary labor is entirely of God. 1 Corinthians 3.7, Romans 1136.
0:59.4	They feel only gladness when the master says, apart from me, you can do nothing.
1:08.5	John 15.5, they leap like lambs over the truth that God has taken the impossible weight of new creation
1:18.6	off their shoulders and put it on his own.
1:22.6	Without begrudging, they say, not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as
1:31.1	coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God. 2 Corinthians 3.5. When they come home on furlough,
1:42.3	nothing gives them more joy than to say to churches,
1:46.1	I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me
1:54.0	to bring the Gentiles to obedience, Romans 1518.
2:00.1	All things are possible with God.
2:04.6	In front the words give hope.
2:08.1	And behind, they give humility.
2:11.9	They are the antidote to despair and the antidote to pride.
2:18.8	The perfect missionary medicine.

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