Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Romans 13:1

At times you may feel as if you're the only one who is doing good toward others. You think, "Hey is anybody else out there helping anyone?" Galatians 6:9-10 is a good reminder when you are feeling this way.

As believers, we are called to be shining examples in our communities. But what does faith look like when it comes to taxes, traffic lights, and workplace rules? In a culture that often resists authority, the Bible calls us to submit to governing leaders as a reflection of our trust in God. Discover how honoring earthly authority—while keeping God first—transforms your everyday routine into a powerful testimony. This 3-day plan explores how living responsibly honors God, silences critics, and positively impacts the world around you.

This five-day reading plan taps into the pivotal question asked and debated for generations: Who Is Jesus? During this devotional journey, Pastor Louie Giglio invites you to meet God in both your intellect and heart by uncovering what history and Scripture have to say about Jesus.  

This five-day reading plan focuses on the promises of Jesus and nature, and the character of God, regardless of who is president, prime minister, or monarch at any time.

In this 5-day plan taken from Vance K. Jackson’s new book, Before You Start Your Day: A 21-Day Leadership Devotional, readers from around the world gather together to read this life-transforming message. Today, as you are reading these words, God has blessed you with “The Gift of Life.” Before you start your day, choose to surrender your day to Christ—the Author of time itself.

School teachers have a challenging job. Interactions with students, parents, co-workers, supervisors, and more can wear you down. Coupled with low pay and long hours, teachers can feel underappreciated and discouraged. Where do they find hope to avoid burnout? This five-day reading plan offers hope to teachers desiring to make a difference within their circles of influence as they walk out their faith.

Truth transcends all language, time, and cultural bounds.There are no social, moral, economic or political solutions to a spiritual problem. The hope of any nation is in what God is able to do, and the need of every nation is for praying Christians. We hope this study will challenge you to pray for your country. All scripture quotations are taken from the Authorized Version (KJV).

We talk a lot in our churches about “saving grace” but very little about God’s “common grace.” But as you’ll see in this 5-day series, the doctrine of common grace is supremely relevant to the work you do Monday through Friday!

In recent years, partisan politics have divided churches and friends and families like never before. This division suggests that as Christians, our allegiance to the state is sometimes, in practice, stronger than our allegiance to Christ. This week’s devotional brings us back to what it looks like to live out the beautiful, subversive, upside-down “politics” of the Gospel.

Do you have spiritual questions that you'd love answers for? Questions regarding faith, religion, God, or the Bible? Watch this video series to get some answers, but be prepared to dig into God's Word too!

The Bible has a lot to say about taxes, and it doesn’t change, regardless of who is in authority. This 5-day plan will help readers gain a biblical understanding and perspective on taxes, apply it to their lives, and prepare them to share this learning with others.

Self-control is more than willpower. It is the Spirit-empowered discipline of bringing our thoughts, desires, reactions, and choices under the ownership of Christ. This devotional explores how Scripture teaches believers to resist temptation, establish wise boundaries, respond to hardship with restraint, and live for God’s glory. As you read, ask the Lord to strengthen your heart and help you walk by the Spirit each day.

Join us as we pray over the crisis in the Ukraine.

Policing and first response has natural effects on sworn officers and unsworn members alike, continually facing the worst of human behaviour and navigating organisational frustrations. It can question your faith, erode your spiritual fitness, and challenge your relationship with God. This plan will help guard your heart and strengthen your faith. This plan is written by Artie Shepherd (Brisbane, Australia). Artie serves as a full-time Police Chaplain supporting the spiritual wellbeing of recruits, staff, officers, specialist units, their families, and retired police. He is also a sports chaplain, preacher, and church leadership coach. https://instagram.com/artieshepherd

Scripture calls us to pursue justice, but how we do that in a world so crooked? This reading plan will help. It pairs seven passages with short reflections on justice, comforting you with the truth that Jesus’s perfect reign is coming, and that until then, he has equipped us to walk uprightly.

As a law enforcement officer, you are on the front lines of painful events. Your work in public service is more than a job. How does the Bible inform your calling? How can it help you bear the heavy burden of the loss, tragedy, and evil that you witness?

While we’re called to pray at all times, we especially cry out to God in times of global crises—such as poverty, violence, disease. Yet how do we pray globally? How can we pray for everyone, everywhere? Over the next seven days, you'll find practical ways you can talk to God about people near and far, ensuring that “supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people” (1 Timothy 2:1-2).

Police officers have an incredibly challenging job. Interactions with citizens, co-workers, supervisors can wear you down. Coupled with stress and long hours, cops can feel underappreciated and discouraged. Where do they find hope to avoid bitterness or burnout? Written by award-winning author and police chaplain, Tez Brooks, this 7-day plan offers hope to officers desiring to make a difference within their circles of influence as they walk out their faith.

Election season always seems to bring an unwanted layer of uncertainty and tension, doesn't it? In this Bible Reading Plan, we'll talk about whether or not it matters to vote, how to pray through an election, and how to have conversations about politics without blowing up your valued relationships.

Discover the power of humility, forgiveness, and grace in diffusing conflicts at home, work, and everyday life. This devotional explores practical, Christ-centered ways to choose peace over pride, reflecting God’s love even in challenging moments. Let go, let God, and embrace His call to unity and patience.

This week, we will examine the Bible's teachings on "submission." Submission is not about choke holds and arm bars but rather about our will and God’s will. So, will you “step into the cage” and let God show you more about what true submission looks like and why it is actually a good thing? There’s only one way to find out! Written by Brad Klassen.

Every year since 2001, thousands of French and English-speaking people have interceded for France during the weeks before or after Easter through Pray for France. We collaborate with French ministry partners to create the Pray for France Prayer Campaign and its Prayer Guide, written by our French partner ministries on the ground, to share a clear and comprehensive picture of God's work right now in France! This 7-day prayer plan offers a big picture of France's current prayer needs and a glimpse into Pray for France, to intercede strategically for this country!

What does godly patriotism look like for the average Christian man? In a world of harsh political division, national pride, cultural conflict, and competing loyalties, many men find themselves asking, how in the world should they relate to their country? A godly man understands that he lives as a citizen of two kingdoms: the earthly and the heavenly, and over the next week, we will explore what that tricky balance looks like in everyday life. By Scott Roberts

As followers of Jesus Christ, how do we make decisions? Unfortunately, we often find ourselves afraid of moving forward because of past mistakes or current uncertainty. Thankfully, in His word, the Lord gives direction for our lives that provides confidence for His children in every decision we encounter. Over 8 days, we will study the will and wisdom of God to guide our next steps.

Pastor Bayless Conley unpacks from the Bible how and why you should develop God’s heart toward everyone in your world: your children, your enemies, the government, your boss, someone you know isn’t living right, and even in romance and marriage.