Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to 1 Corinthians 13:4

We pray that this weeklong devotional will bring you comfort and encouragement as you walk alongside a spouse, child, parishioner, or friend who is recovering from addiction. You are not alone as you go through recovery beside a loved one. As we have discovered, there is hope for healing in community.

The deepest cry of the human heart is to have close, powerful, loving relationship with Almighty God. That can’t happen unless we have a deeper revelation of His great, amazing love for each of us. He loves you! Let these seven lessons help reveal that to your heart and mind in a new way, so that His deep love for you can revolutionize your life in every way.

Living Lust-Free is our birthright as Christians. The secular world we live in calls on us to lust daily. God calls us to live a life of sexual integrity - free from lust and sexual sin. This devotional is an invitation for you to start a lust-free lifestyle. You will be equipped with biblical principles that can help you fight and be free from the temptations of lust.

Parenting can be a rewarding, though challenging, process. Joy and sorrow, satisfaction and disappointment, sickness and health are part of the package. We often wish that our children arrived with a manual that tells us what to do, when, and how. No matter where we are on our parenting journey, we can turn to Scripture for guidance to help us get through the maze that is parenting!

Ash Wednesday begins the season of Lent—a time for reflection, repentance, and renewal when Christians are invited to prepare themselves for the celebration of the Lord’s resurrection. Throughout the forty weekdays and six Sundays in Lent, pray and reflect on God’s renewing power.

God’s communication with humanity was intended from the beginning for “every nation, tribe, and language.” While all languages are equally competent in expressing the message of the Bible, each language has unique capacities to communicate certain biblical messages in exceptionally enriching ways that other languages cannot. This Bible Plan explores seven of those hidden treasures that will expand how you think about God and his good news.

How can you cultivate a close, loving relationship with your child, no matter his or her age? Even “small” things such as an unexpected hug can remind our kids of how much we—and their heavenly Father—love them. This week-long devotional gives us ideas of simple but powerful ways we can love our children better—setting the foundation for a meaningful, trusting relationship that will stand the test of time.

YOU are brilliant- uniquely formed and divinely woven together with the ability to light up this world through goodness and kindness, bravery and resilience. Your shimmer is multi-faceted and potential uncontainable. Created with purpose, you were destined to shine. Over the next seven days, explore who God created you to be and awaken to a life defined by radical love, bold faith, and unstoppable hope.

The author of this plan illustrates how, when we were without Christ, we had put on the body of Adam. Since the day we believed in Jesus, we began to put on the body of Christ. It is our decision to put on the new clothes someone gives us, or leave them for moths to ruin. God did not only give us new clothes, but the best clothes.

Introverts make up half the population, yet most people still don't truly understand what it means to be one. Learn how to embrace the gifts God had given you and live with clarity, courage, and confidence in a world that needs what only you can give.

Trade comparison for contentment, self-criticism for confidence, and insecurity for peace! You don’t have to keep fighting to live up to the world’s ideals. Join author Crystal Stine on this 7-day plan that will help you let go of worldly standards and goals, and embrace all your heavenly Father has in store for you.

My heart’s desire is to help you strengthen your most important relationship – your marriage. The course is designed to be very doable, clear, practical, and enjoyable. The 30 days are broken into four weekly themes: unity, joy, peace, and purpose. There are 30 short daily marriage videos; each video comes with three discussion questions and an inspiring challenge to complete together.

Every girl has a story. Sadly, many of these stories are filled with heartbreaks, pain, rejection, confusion, hidden hurts, and even abuse. What could have gone wrong or, better still, going forward, how can it be avoided? This devotional will expose the hidden traps of the enemy and fireproof you from opposite-sex relationship pitfalls.

In Scripture we are clearly told to pursue certain things – first, because they are important, and second, because without an active pursuit, we will never experience them in our lives. These attitudes and actions reflect God’s heart and will bless your life, but they will not automatically come to you unless you take action to pursue them just like He intended.

There is a difference between simply raising your children, and raising your children to be kingdom builders. This 7-day plan is geared toward parents who desire to see their children build the Kingdom of God.

This series, that began with faith and hope (see You Version … Faith – In other Words, and Hope Reframed), is written to help re-frame, re-define, and re-fresh the great biblical themes of faith, hope and love. I hope you are inspired - to have faith, to live in hope, and to express love. “So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”

Why is fun an integral part of what God has in store for you, and how can the pursuit of fun answer some of the deeper questions rooting around inside you? In this week-long YouVersion plan, Annie F. Downs, host of the That Sounds Fun podcast, talks about the sense that our lives are lacking something, what it really is, and how to find it.

Relationships are never easy, but they are rewarding. There is a right way to build healthy relationships and a wrong way. In this reading plan, writer Paul Marc Goulet shares about this topic and how you can love on the right way.

How important is patience to your spiritual growth and victory? You may think patience isn’t a big deal, but it is. Bible patience will go after a promise or blessing for as long as it takes. It will keep you standing and believing the Word of God until the full manifestation comes. Spend the next seven days learning how you can begin walking in patience, a fruit of the spirit.

After a year spent hunkering down, living smaller, and experiencing a little more fear and anxiety than usual, we are declaring this is the year of going big. No longer will we wait to “get back to normal”; instead, we will start making space for the new things God has for us. We will become less guarded and more daring because this is our year to live All For Love.

Refreshingly different from other studies that promise help with sexual temptation, this devotional from Noah Filipiak (based on his new book) turns typical "purity" strategies on their head by addressing head-on our sense of self-entitlement and our self-seeking tendencies. You'll discover how the mercy of Jesus uniquely satisfies your unmet longings and provides you with unparalleled fullness that can only be found in Christ.

Love. Such an elusive topic. We have put together a devotional series that will encourage you to look at the subject of love and consider its depth. Our prayer is that you discover something new that will help you to display love in a fresh and authentic way.

Until a person becomes a caregiver, they have no idea of the pressure and stress that accompanies the title. A caregiver involves more than caring for an individual. It is being present daily and watching as their loved one or patient ebbs away. Join me as we find there can be peace on this journey.

God designed husbands to be the lead servants of their homes/marriages. He is to lead his wife and children in the same manner that Christ led the church. When husbands do not know God as their Lord and Savior, they cannot lead by Christ's example. This devotional will provide seven effective prayers wives can pray for their unsaved husbands so that they may come into the knowledge of God's truth.

As a mother of eight kids that I birthed, seven boys and one girl, the journey of motherhood wasn't always easy. Over the next seven days, come into agreement with me as we pray these powerful prayers and scriptures over our children. The heart of a praying mother is so POWERFUL!