Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Matthew 26:41

When anxiety strikes it can be overwhelming and debilitating. Whether it is slowly built over time, or when it suddenly crashes down like a wave, our response to it determines the outcome. This devotional is meant to give you the tools to fight back and thrive under anxiety.

An Easter devotional featuring podcast teacher Tara-Leigh Cobble from “The Bible Recap.” This 8-day exploration of the events of Holy Week allows you to walk with Jesus through the momentous days from Palm Sunday through Easter. Along with devotional content that helps bring the personal experience of Jesus to life.

This plan will guide you through the events of each day in Holy Week, from the triumphal entry on Palm Sunday to the resurrection on Easter Sunday.

Bible teacher Ken Boa answers the question, “How can I discover what God wants me to do with my life?” Using insight from Scripture, he shows how following God is not a matter of techniques and rules but of cultivating a relationship with Him.

Easter is central to our faith. In this 8-day plan, journey through Scripture and reflections that bring you closer to Jesus—His sacrifice, victory, and love. Take time to reflect on His story and how it shapes your life today. Let these readings deepen your faith, renew your hope, and remind you of God’s incredible love as you draw nearer to Jesus and embrace the power of His resurrection.

This Holy Week Guide provides daily reflections from Palm Sunday to Resurrection Sunday, including scripture readings, reflection questions, and prayer prompts. Each day offers insights into Jesus' final days on earth, guiding you toward Easter with intentional focus and renewed hope.

Jesus Christ is the most glorious and tragic figure in history. No one was better, yet no one suffered more. His suffering reveals God’s greatest glory: “While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom. 5:8). The Suffering Servant invites you to reflect on: Jesus’ suffering, Old Testament foreshadowing, and how His suffering brings salvation. May these reflections deepen your understanding of God’s love and inspire you to follow Christ faithfully in today’s world.

The story of Easter in holy scripture gives us exact times, dates, and sequences of the events during Passion week. This audio plan will walk you in real time through each day. We hope you will join us for what will most certainly be an extraordinary and life-changing experience.

Quiet Waters is a series of nine inspirational Bible reading notes with activities for families, produced by Scripture Union movements from across English-speaking Africa. Based on Psalm 23, this series has global implications as it offers reflections to a world facing an uncertain future in the wake of COVID-19.

Sometimes problems seem insurmountable, like a steep rock rising right in front of us. Where do we find help then? Psalm 121 helps us find the answer: “My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.”

This plan walks through the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6:9–13, where Jesus teaches us how to pray.

This devotional was written to help us as believers level up! As we walk our journey with Christ we may reach a point where we need to progress and advance and step up in devotion to God - if this is where you are then this devotional is for you!

Can we prosper even as we suffer? The Bible shows us that Joseph, Jeremiah, Paul, and Jesus suffered with purpose—so that lives would be saved. In their suffering, they modeled for us a true prosperity that exceeds what this world promises. True prosperity in suffering reveals God’s presence and faithfulness, our perseverance, our ransom, our forgiveness, and our hope.

We all face crises in life – and they can shake us to our very core. The new Alcon Entertainment/Warner Bros. film THE 33 tells the true-life story of the Chilean miners whose crisis was being trapped underground for 69 days after a catastrophic cave-in. While the story ended joyously – all 33 were rescued – the film depicts the emotional and physical turmoil of their time in crisis. Are you in turmoil today? This devotional is designed to help you navigate some of the thoughts and feelings you may encounter as you walk out your trial. The messages over these 10 days are not intended to be a “cure” for the circumstances you find yourself in, only daily encouragement as you lean into God to navigate your way back to daylight.

What Christian doesn’t want to be more effective in prayer?  Take an expedition for ten days and travel deeply into the prayers of Jesus. Look directly into Jesus’ prayer life and let Him be your personal tutor. It is the most important lesson you will ever learn in life—how to pray more like Jesus. 

Are you longing for deeper—deeper intimacy with the Lord of love? In this plan, I share practical steps to personal revival and spiritual intimacy with God. I pray that your journey into His magnificent heart will take you deeper than you dreamed possible on this side of Heaven.

As we walk through this reading plan together, may we be reminded that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ. No matter how low we feel, Jesus can forgive us, restore us, and even use us for His glory. What was once the place where we were most ashamed can now become the place where God performs his greatest miracles in our lives. – Tauren Wells

Prayer is a place. A secret place in the Spirit. A place of divine encounters with our heavenly Father where we express our love for Him, where we welcome His presence, receive His revelation and guidance for our life, and are empowered to serve His purposes on earth. Discover essential keys for Breakthrough Prayer, including how to have your prayers answered according to God's will and Word.

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.

Every year, Christians from around the world pause and reflect on the final hours of our Saviour’s life – to take time to be still and sit in the moments of pain, sacrifice, forgiveness and love written for us in the Gospels - so that we can understand the gravity and cost of the gift given to us through Christ.

We are again at the time of year when we remember Jesus' great sacrifice for our redemption. As Easter approaches, let us spend time everyday to meditate on Him, His work on the Cross and most importantly, the impact it is meant to have on our lives. Originally excerpts from the works of C.S.Lewis, this 10-day plan is a series of infographics to help us meditate on this theme.

This 10-Day Contemplative Prayer Guide through the Lord’s Prayer is intended to slow you down, practice listening in moments of silence and solitude, and experience prayer relationally over wish-listing and mental effort. We encourage you to start with silence and acknowledgement of God’s presence, then dwell on the given scriptures, and finally take 30 slow minutes on the devotional deep-dive provided for each day’s focus line of the Lord’s prayer.

In Hope Has a Name, you’ll learn alongside the earliest disciples that sharing the hope of Christ is worth sacrificing our lives. Witness Stephen stand trial and remain unshaken as He testifies to the promised Messiah. Enter Matthew’s action-packed account as Jesus faithfully prepares to redeem His people. Like the first disciples, will you tell Jesus’s story of hope with the life He’s won for you?

Tracing the lives of high-impact Christian leaders from Abraham to Billy Graham, Dave Earley reveals the central role that prayer played in their effectiveness. In doing so, he points out the eight practices Christian leaders can apply to become more effective in their prayer lives, and therefore, more spiritually influential as a leader.

We have the greatest prayer book in the world—the Word of God. Yet many people separate prayer and Bible reading. It is almost like prayer and the Bible are mutually exclusive. But this is not how God intended for us to live. In this 10-day plan, we explore how to begin praying the Bible. Learning and applying these truths will bring new life to your prayers and a deeper love for the Word of God. All Scripture quotations are from the Authorized Version.