Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to 1 Peter 1:8

This study will look at how all people want happiness and how we naturally look for happiness in the wrong places. It will show readers how they can access the true happiness found only Christ.

The Essential 100® Bible Challenge is a simple tool to read through the Big Story of God's Word. The reading plan is based on 50 Old Testament and 50 New Testament passages. Continue with the nineteenth part "The Apostles' Teaching." ®Produced by American Bible Society in partnership with Scripture Union, Inc.

In this life we all encounter suffering. But we can rest in the eternal promise of God that He will give us His faithful love to comfort us in every situation we may go through. In this devotional, we will discover the comforting love of God for us and for all those around us.

Read through God’s Word, within each devotional, and reflect through guided questions for both individual consideration or group discussion. We pray it encourages you to reframe your reality.

With a clear-eyed acknowledgment of how misguided and misinformed she was about mental illness, Kayla Stoecklein shares her story in hopes that anyone walking through the wilderness of mental illness will be better equipped for the journey and will learn to put their hope in Jesus through it all.

I’m excited to share this “Since I Met You” devotional because I believe that continuing to meet with Jesus is the most important thing we will do today! Join me as we explore what wonderful things God has done for us through His son. Let’s experience anew the peace, hope & joy that builds our faith and breaks down our hurts as we commune with God together. -Jamie Kimmett

Sooner or later in this life, we all run into struggles. Good, bad, rich, poor, young, old… everyone must deal with suffering. And when the storms of life strike, the single, most important thing for you to know is that your Redeemer lives! So, join Bible teacher Berni Dymet and open up God’s Word to discover the powerful truth that will see you through your life’s hardest moments.

No matter what trials come our way, we can rise up and stand firm in our faith. In fact, this 4-part Bible Plan from Pastor Amy Groeschel is designed to help you grow in your knowledge of God, expand your love for Him, and give you the courage to live out the truth of Scripture in every season—especially the heavy ones.

There are people in the world who are vibrant. Their joy is contagious, their peace is deep, and their compassion is engaging. You were chosen to live vibrantly at your moment in history. Not only have you been given the job of living vibrantly, but you have also been fully equipped to live a vibrant and expansive life.

We’ve all gone through times that cause us to question if God loves us—or even sees us. We try to believe that he is always there, but when our prayers go unanswered, our hearts and souls ache to know he is there. With us. In us. For us. This plan calls us to seek answers in Scripture about the God who is always reaching toward us with love.

Many of us speak words of defeat, telling ourselves things that we would never say to someone else. This week, we’re going to reshape those messages in the light of God’s Word. At the end of each day’s reading is a challenge, which is your opportunity to change the narrative of your self-talk and listen to what God thinks of you instead.

Our lives are the books the world will read. But all in all our prayer is that our lives are inevitably seen as a living letter from the King of Kings to His beloved people. A letter wrapped in the story of our lives that is evidence of a God who is working in every situation and circumstance. This life we live isn’t ours – it’s His.

Who among us would gladly volunteer for or jump at the opportunity to go through a trial or suffering? And not just one trial but several at the same time? Nope, not me either. In this devotion by Evelyn Kay, you'll be encouraged during those times where you're not okay, but you want to be.

Do you want to build your life around a flip-flopping faith? Like, believing in God—but only if nothing better comes along? Or believing in God only if He does what you want? No way! Nobody wants that kind of faith. So, how do you get a durable faith that believes, trusts, and is active until the end? This Bible Plan will help you develop a lifelong, real, durable faith!

Storms in life are inevitable. This 5-day plan will guide you through helping yourself and others when they come.

This year and last year have felt chaotic, stressful, uncertain, but God (I love those two words!) is unchanging, faithful, and our source of peace. Christmas is a time of remembrance, to reflect on what our God really did when Jesus was born in a manger. Follow along as we meditate on Christmas, joy, peace, love, and hope this Advent season. -Matthew West

Duck Dynasty matriarch Miss Kay and her daughter-in-law Lisa encourage you to live your strongest, happiest, most fulfilled life centered around the only One who loves you perfectly: Jesus.

We have all failed in various ways at one point or another. Failure is not something you can always avoid. It can happen in relationships, where you work, and in everyday life. How we respond to it can help us move forward. This devotion seeks to help those who have failed and how to overcome it.

1 Peter was written to the “elect exiles of the Dispersion” (1 Peter 1:1), a group of believers forced to flee their homes and lives due to persecution. Although they lost much, Peter reminds his readers that they have “an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading” (1 Peter 1:4). Truly, Jesus is our Living Hope, transcending all our difficulties to provide hope and courage amid opposition.

For women experiencing the journey of infertility, it can be a struggle to believe that God has our best interests at heart. In this devotional based on their book Waiting in Hope: 31 Reflections for Walking with God Through Infertility, authors Kelley Ramsey and Jenn Hesse give women actionable tools for keeping their eyes on the hope and joy only Jesus can provide.

Have you ever felt like quitting on the church? So has Natalie Runion, worship leader, songwriter, and teacher. But as Natalie reminds us in this week’s devotional, it’s possible to question behaviors and beliefs we have seen in the church, in religious organizations, and in Christians without quitting Jesus or divorcing the family of God. Jesus is right there with us, in the midst of our wandering and our wondering.

In this five-day devotional, we'll explore the godly attribute of joy, the second fruit of the Spirit listed in Galatians 5:22-23.

Explore a love story…of a father who sought a bride for his son—a bride who would enter into a world of wealth and privilege as one chosen and beloved. It’s the Old Testament story of Abraham sending his servant to seek a bride for his son Isaac. This is a beautiful allegory of our heavenly Father who seeks a bride for His Son.

Are your days full of worries and whys? In this devotional, popular Bible teacher Lisa Whittle addresses five important questions that most people have, reassuring you that God’s sovereignty is at work in your life. Let Jesus love you, guide you, teach you, and maybe even surprise you through the next five days of interacting with God’s truth.

In a 5-day devotional, we explore the timeless lessons from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol about choosing joy, finding contentment, and extending mercy during the holiday season. It's a reminder that Christmas offers a second chance for all, just as it did for Ebenezer Scrooge in the past and for us today.