Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Psalms 51:17

It's often easy for us to beat up on Jonah for his self-centered, foolish rebellion. But as we'll discover, there's a bit of Jonah in all of us. Overcome by self-centeredness and personal prejudices, we too sometimes resist God's call. Thankfully, when we act like Jonah, God acts like God—lovingly pursuing us with his unrelenting grace. It's a wild ride, but one you don't want to miss!

Part 3 of Relating with Women of the Bible focuses on New Testament women and shows how an encounter with Jesus transforms lives and brings about fresh starts. Let this devotional lead you to a place of healing, encouragement, affirmation of God’s love, restoration, and a new beginning.

What do you believe about prayer? As believers prayer is the most powerful weapon we have but is often neglected. Just Five is for every believer because prayer is every believer's responsibility. When I felt I couldn’t pray, the Holy Spirit gave me these thoughts to help me in prayer!

Do you struggle with impure thoughts or sexual strongholds and want to cry out to God for deliverance but do not know what to pray? If you are ready to overcome sexual temptation, this Bible plan is for you. Over the next seven days, we will provide you with key Bible verses and effective prayers to help you receive the grace and strength to walk in sexual purity and holiness.

At one time or another, we’re all caught up in those silly little false statements about ourselves or about someone else. Whether you acknowledge it or not, we collect a trunk full of lies and become entangled in them. It became natural for me to present this fake version of myself; therefore, it was a daily emotional “assume-a-cide.” This plan offers a “safe” zone and helps you discover God’s Truth.

Most people find the topic of purpose mysterious and sit around waiting for God to reveal their purpose in life. This plan redefines purpose and features 7 devotionals and scriptures that clarify God’s primary and secondary purpose for your life. You will walk away grounded in God’s love and confident in your reason being alive!

The best time to start praying for your marriage is before you say "I do." If you're in a relationship that's leading to marriage, it's a crucial time to begin praying together about your shared life to come. In this 7-day prayer journey, you'll learn how to pray over your coming marriage, pray for your future spouse, and pray for Christlike attributes in yourself.

Are you becoming someone you don't recognize? After years of managing the weight of the household, saying hard goodbyes, and enduring the trials of military life, it's no wonder you're exhausted, military wife. You weren't meant to carry it alone. In this seven-day journey through the heart of a military wife, you'll refresh your tired bones as you reorient your heart to reflect God's goodness and love.

Church planting is not for the faint of heart. Each planter juggles a dozen different roles–recruiter and fundraiser, janitor and drummer, visionary and scheduler, just to name a few. This is often on top of our role with our spouse and children at home. How do we keep all the plates in the air, and continually walk closely with the Lord? We’re going to spend the next seven days looking at the prayers of David and his writings. These seven qualities of his prayers are interwoven together throughout each psalm.

Do you ever struggle with how to pray or wonder if you’re doing it right? This week-long reading plan invites you to explore powerful examples of prayer in Scripture—from cries of desperation to bold praise in suffering. Whether you're new to prayer or seeking a deeper connection with God, each day offers encouragement to call on the Lord with honesty, trust, and hope—no perfect words required.

God is mysterious, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God. Our lives, however, can become mundane, tedious, and cold. This 8-day study will renew your reverent awe toward our Creator, and inspire your worship to become more profound, spontaneous, and authentic. Explore the wonder of the nature of God, and learn why He deserves our unabashed worship and adoration! This plan is written by Amy Groeschel, and is a part of her SOAR with God study. To continue this Free SOAR Bible study go to www.SoarwithGod.com.

Your life can be a rolling snowball of constant miracles—one breakthrough, one miracle, one dream fulfilled after another. Here are the seven Biblical keys YOU can use to get your breakthroughs and miracles started!

Join us in praying for our leaders with this 8-day reading plan, featuring prayers from The One Year Pray for America Bible.

The Spiritual Disciplines are one of the greatest paths to Christlikeness that God has given us. In this 8 day devotional, our goal is to refocus our minds on the Spiritual Disciplines, ultimately reorienting our hearts toward our God.

Between Psalm 1 and Psalm 150 we find every kind of prayer; prayer that includes every emotion, complaint, resolution, lack of resolution, marvel, wonder and praise, and everything in between.

The Master has a master plan for your life, and it is a good plan — exceedingly, abundantly above anything that you could ask or think. So, with this confidence we can begin our journey, looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith — knowing that He who began a good work in you, will complete it till the day of Christ Jesus!

Sometimes we get caught up in the world’s efforts to do enough good things to save ourselves. But does that really work? What does God truly want from us? Join us and explore some Biblical aspects of how our service and sacrifice to the Lord should transform our hearts and lives.

What happens when you feel like you’ve done everything right, but things go completely wrong? Kris Darrah and her husband Mike did all they could to raise their four kids in a loving Christian home. But when the grip of mental illness and addiction overtook their oldest daughter, Lexi, Kris soon realized that life doesn’t always go the way we hope and plan. Her story is a testament to the fact that hope can be restored when we lean on our loving and sovereign Savior.

Choose Life invites you to start of a 10 day journey of making wise choices. These short readings are filled with truth and humor, quotes and wisdom, guiding you, the reader, into weeks of intentional decision making. Who will you follow when times get tough? Where will you turn when things don’t work out? May we all, wherever we find ourselves, choose to love God and love people with all that we’ve got, living life to the full as we follow unashamedly in the footsteps of the risen Jesus Christ.

What if God's people prayed? Prayer is the perfect antidote for fear and anxiety. An hour of prayer will do wonders in leading you down the path of peace. Find a quiet place to spend an hour with God in prayer. Let God's word be your guide as you pray in the Spirit. These are 10 different sets of scriptures for each of the 12 five minute prayer segments.

If life feels hopeless, you’re probably not alone. Many of us try hard to overcome the challenges and difficulty that surrounds us, yet we continue to come up short. Is it possible that our self-help strategies lack the one thing necessary for real change? This reading plan will reveal what no self-help strategy can: where the power necessary for lasting transformation can be found.

All Christians have a relationship with the Holy Spirit, but not all Christians have intimacy with Him. There is a difference between a relationship and intimacy. A relationship with the Holy Spirit comes through salvation. However, intimacy only comes through the surrender of our lives to the Holy Spirit.

Serving God with your whole heart, and yet experiencing devastating trouble? These devotions explore why God allows heartaches and afflictions to enter the lives of godly people. God’s express desire, for each of us who love Him, is to produce spiritual brokenness in us. It describes every useful man and woman of God in the Bible. Are you ready for God’s glory to be released through you?

There are six basic aspects that are inseparable from every human life. Together and in interplay, they make up “human nature.” Jesus highlighted this when He said to love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength and love your neighbor as yourself. Together we’ll review each aspect to help us learn how we can bring each one, thereby our whole selves, under God’s rule.

David's life emphasizes obedience, worship, and prioritizing God's presence. David facilitated Israel's access to God; Jesus did the same for all nations. The call is to continually seek God, stretching beyond comfort. Jesus tore the veil for unrestricted access. It's a challenge to desire all God has. Explore the 10-day journey into Amos, Saul, David, and Acts, unveiling the significance of a simple tent in Jerusalem.