Relationships

Lasting marriages are not sustained by feelings alone, but by intentional choices made over time. In this 7-Day devotional, Building a Love That Lasts, Barnie & Grace Achoki guide couples through practical habits that strengthen connection and deepen trust in everyday married life. Each day invites couples to read together, engage in honest conversations, pray intentionally, and take simple action steps that nurture unity. Designed for both growing and struggling marriages, this plan helps couples move from survival to purpose as they learn how to actively build a love that lasts.

Building a Love That Lasts: 7-Day Devotional in Marriage, Thistles & Flowers Series

After unmasking misconceptions, identifying dysfunction triggers, and exposing unhealthy patterns, one vital question remains: Is there hope for change? Scripture answers with a confident "Yes".

This 7-day devotional invites men to pursue transformation by looking to Jesus Christ as the ultimate model for husbandhood. Though Jesus was not married, He perfectly embodies love, leadership, sacrifice, purity, and protection. God’s goal is not perfection, but Christlikeness.

Each day focuses on a defining attribute of Christ that forms an activated husband—guiding men from dysfunction to formation, and from good intentions to lived, obedient faith.

Jesus' Model for Husbands: Loving Like Christ by Titus Otieno 

This 7-day honeymoon devotional is designed to help newlyweds intentionally begin marriage with God at the center. Each day focuses on a key part of a healthy, Christ-centered relationship.

With insightful reflections, creative activities and simple prayers, this plan encourages meaningful conversations and spiritual connection during your honeymoon. It’s easy to follow, flexible for travel, and created to fit naturally into your time together.

A Couples' Bible Plan for Your Honeymoon or Vacation

This 7-day Bible devotional invites women to discover how to live out the virtues of the Proverbs 31 wife while staying true to their God-given identity. Each day offers wisdom, encouragement, and reflection to help balance faith, strength, love, and self-care. Rooted in Scripture, it reminds wives that Proverbs 31 isn’t about perfection but authenticity—thriving in marriage, honoring God, and embracing their unique God-given identity with confidence and grace.

Becoming a Proverbs 31 Wife Without Losing Yourself: A 7-Day Devotional by Damia S. Rolfe, Esq.

Marriage was designed by God to be a place of purpose, peace, and partnership, not fear. Yet many singles today are anxious about marriage due to past pain, stories they’ve heard, and experiences they’ve witnessed.
This 7-day devotional will help you identify the roots of marital anxiety, heal your heart, restore your trust in God, and prepare you for the “good land” God has promised you. Through scripture, reflection, and prayer, you will learn how to guard your heart, confront fear, and rest in God’s promise for your future.

Overcoming Marital Anxiety

Marriage is a sacred covenant, and God calls us to love in a way that reflects His heart. In this 7-day devotional, we place love back on the altar and allow the Holy Spirit to revive our hearts through 1 Corinthians 13:4–7. Exploring what it means to live out patient, humble, faithful, and enduring love in marriage. Each day invites you to surrender your own way, seek the Holy Spirit’s guidance, and revive your covenant through prayer and obedience. This is an invitation to a love set apart, refined, and revived for God’s purposes.

Marriage on the Altar: A Love Set Apart for God

Not everyone who wounds you is simply misunderstood. In this plan, you will explore how Jesus identified narcissistic patterns, named harmful behavior, and engaged with clarity and strength. Learn how to discern wisely, set healthy boundaries, and respond in a way that reflects both truth and Christlike love.

How Jesus Handled Narcissists

Loss can leave you questioning your future, your faith, and your place in God’s plan. Using the story of Ruth, this 5-day plan walks Christian singles through seasons of grief, disappointment, and emotional loss with honesty and hope. Rather than rushing healing, this plan invites you to process pain in God’s presence and discover how redemption unfolds slowly, faithfully, and intentionally. You’ll learn how God rewrites stories that feel broken, restores what was lost, and brings purpose out of pain. If you’re carrying unresolved grief or mourning unmet expectations, this plan will help you heal and trust God again.

When God Rewrites Your Story

God made you and your spouse different on purpose — not to frustrate you, but to complete you. 

In this 5-day plan, discover why your differences are actually advantages, how men and women think differently, and practical ways to understand each other more deeply. 

When you see your spouse the way God does, frustration turns into appreciation, and what once felt like opposition becomes your greatest strength.

Different by Design

Life is hard and complicated navigating the ups and downs of marriage and parenting. Spend five days with Mary Beth and Steven Curtis Chapman reflecting on their family’s challenges and celebrating the ways that God has equipped and empowered them to persevere. You’ll be encouraged in your own walk as you face trials to seek first the Lord and trust in Him for the same grace to endure. 

Still Here: Seeking God Through Life’s Challenges

A plan for couples to grow closer to Jesus and to each other.
Read God’s Word together, apply it to daily life and marriage, and deepen your relationship through intentional connection and commitment.

Proven: Coaches Time Out

This devotional is designed for couples seeking to heal and strengthen key areas of their marriage and uncover hidden treasures within their relationship. Through thoughtful reflection, guided conversations, and intentional practices, couples will be encouraged to grow closer, deepen their understanding of one another, and build a foundation rooted in God, love, trust, and purpose. 

Making the Most of Your Marriage; a 7-Day Healing Journey

“This isn’t the end of your story.”
When infertility, loss, or childlessness change your path, where do you turn? This series helps you find hope, redefine legacy, and most of all let you know "You're Not Alone"


You're Not Alone

Your husband carries many responsibilities—leading, working, providing, and walking in faith. But he was never meant to carry them alone. As his wife, one of your greatest callings is to cover him in prayer. This 5-day devotional will equip you to pray specifically and powerfully for your husband’s heart, mind, work, relationships, and spiritual life. Each day includes Scripture, encouragement, a focused prayer, and a simple challenge to put faith into action.

Praying for Your Husband: Covering Your Husband in Faith & Power

What’s the secret to living “happily ever after”? A good marriage isn’t going to just happen; it requires some give and take…and a willingness to let God direct you all along the way. In this 5-day study, Joyce shares biblical principles and lessons from her and Dave’s more than 54 years of marriage to help you cultivate a greater relationship than you ever thought possible. 
 


Keys to a Stronger Marriage

Emotional support is one of the greatest gifts a husband can give his wife. In this 5-day plan, Dr. Kim Kimberling shares simple, biblical steps to care for your wife’s heart with compassion and intentionality. Each day focuses on a practical way to strengthen emotional connection. Through Scripture and real-life insight, you’ll learn how to support your wife in ways that build trust, deepen intimacy, and reflect Christ’s love. This plan will help you love her well, every day.

5 Ways to Support Your Wife Emotionally

No one wants this title:  Widowed.  Whether a male or female, the death of a soulmate catapults the survivor into a new way of living.  We dislike the name given, yet it is so fitting, as we feel trapped in this terrible web.  I invite you to join me as we walk through this 6-day devotional that helps bring a new perspective to our walk!


The Widow's & Widower's Walk

Most of us were raised to view conflict as a bad thing. And we carry that belief into our marriages—too often believing that no conflict = happy, healthy relationship. But in any close relationship, conflict is inevitable. In this 10-day devotional,  Dr. Juli Slattery explores how God wants conflict to be used as a catalyst for intimacy in our marriages, instead of catastrophes that destroy them.

Conflict as a Catalyst

Jennifer Smith's collection of prayers is a great resource for wives as they pursue a godly marriage. Inspired by Scripture and guided by Smith's personal experience, these prayers will encourage wives to trust God's power to transform their marriage. 

Prayers for My Husband

Marriage goes through storms—big and small. The question is not whether they will come, but what your home is built on. 
This plan is about love that is based not only on feelings, but on the covenant, grace, and obedience to Christ. It is about a marriage that is not perfect, but alive. It is about love that learns to forgive, guard the heart, draw strength from the Gospel, and trust God every day. 

If you want to build a relationship that can withstand everything, this plan is for you.


Despite Everything

Jesus set the example for how to forgive. Now he calls us to the difficult task of forgiving those who have hurt us. The good news is, he gives us the power to forgive and let it go. In this reading plan, Joël Malm talks about some of the myths of forgiveness and how to walk in the power that God offers to forgive ourselves and others. 

The Power to Forgive

Does your business own you, instead of the other way around? We’ve been there. We battled the frustration of being controlled by our business until we discovered that everything needs to be Built By The Lord. 

In this Bible plan, you’ll uncover one key principle each day to help you take back control, restore balance, and build your family and business the way God intended.

Built by the Lord: God's Design for Family and Business Success From Psalm 127

Discover God’s beautiful design for marriage with Marriage God’s Way. This Bible plan guides couples to align their relationship with God’s purpose, offering wisdom, encouragement, and practical steps for building a Christ-centered marriage. Whether you’re newlyweds or have years together, explore what Scripture says about love, unity, and faithfulness to help your marriage thrive according to God’s plan. Let His Word transform your relationship today!

Marriage God's Way

What does it take to keep your marriage strong for the long run? In Part 4 of The Marriage Talks, Kris Langham searches the Bible to find the keys to making it last, with a clear explanation on joy and honor, plus a compassionate discussion of Jesus’ teaching about divorce. With engaging audio and practical discussion questions, The Marriage Talks is perfect for marital or premarital couples and small groups.

The Marriage Talks Part 4 | Making It Last

The evil one wants your marriage to fail. He accomplished just that with me in 2015, and it’s becoming more apparent than ever that his sole goal is to steal, kill, and destroy everything that God designed as good. I’m done being a victim, and it’s time to go on the offense. How about you?

I'm Just a Guy: Fighting for My Marriage

Marriage

Few areas of life bring as much joy or confusion as dating. This plan helps you navigate relationships with wisdom, boundaries, and God-centered guidance. Each day, explore Scripture, reflect on your heart, and gain practical tools to discern readiness, communicate with love, and build relationships that honor God. Perfect for singles, mentors, or anyone seeking to understand God’s design for love.

Guard Your Heart: A Biblical Guide to Dating

Waiting can be one of the hardest seasons of life, especially when prayers seem unanswered. This 5-day plan is designed to help you trust God’s timing without losing faith, or hope.
Through this plan, you’ll learn how to wait well and rest in God’s process. Instead of rushing outcomes or attaching deadlines to God’s promises, this plan invites you to anchor your heart in His wisdom, faithfulness, and perfect timing.
Whether you’re waiting for clarity, healing, or the fulfillment of a promise, this plan will help you cultivate peace, strengthen trust, and stay aligned with God while you wait.



Wait Well: Trusting God's Timing

Waiting can feel confusing, lonely, and intense especially when you desire marriage, companionship, or waiting in line for your next season. But the waiting room is not punishment; it’s preparation. One of the strongest lessons God teaches us in the wait is that He is always in the details of our lives and no matter how long the wait is, God is more interested in who you become in the wait.  
In this 7-day plan, you’ll learn how to grow in intimacy with God, and become ready for what God is building in your future.

Finding God in the Waiting Room

Tired of dating from a place of need? Stop the cycle of heartbreak by getting your heart right first.

This 21-day spiritual boot camp, led by Pastor Simon Richardson III and Olaolu Ogunyemi (U.S. Marine, Parent-Child-Connect), moves you from neediness to wholeness.

You will master self-leadership, heal past wounds, and set clear boundaries before commitment. 

Each day includes a devotional, a Daily Detox Action, Reflection Questions, and a Prayer.

Stop waiting for a partner to complete you. Start becoming whole.

BEFORE YOU CUFF: The 21-Day Pre-Relationship Detox

Do you believe you’re worthy of a love that respects and cherishes you? Too often, we settle for less than we deserve, forgetting our immense value. In this 5-day devotional, we’re sharing practical insights and biblical truths to help you build self-worth, set healthy boundaries, and pursue relationships that honor who you are in Christ. 

The Love You Deserve: How to Value Yourself in Dating

A thriving marriage doesn’t happen by chance—it takes intention. In this 7-day plan, Pastor Ed Young share biblical wisdom and practical steps to help you build deeper love, strengthen communication, and experience lasting connection. Whether you’re newly married or years in, discover how God’s design can transform your relationship and ignite lasting intimacy.

Ignite Your Marriage: 7 Days to Deeper Love & Lasting Connection

Everything God created was good, including marriage. Why then do we witness so much pain and dysfunction in present-day marriages? How did the author of this esteemed institution intend for couples to conduct themselves? This 10-day devotional reveals fundamental principles that will help steady and grow your marriage.

You will be stirred to love in action, protect, communicate effectively, choose faithfulness, serve with joy, forgive deeply, sprinkle some romance, pray together, and grow purposefully. 

Each day offers relevant scriptures, a simple step, and a short prayer to strengthen your connection with your spouse. 


Ten Commandments of Marriage: A 10-Day Devotional

Several years ago, I wrote a book called, Pray While You’re Prey: How God Turned my Loneliness and Frustration into Contentment and Commitment. It was always my intention to revisit the Bible verses in the book and other Scriptures that have been uplifting to me during this season of singleness to encourage others. The first part of this devotion received a lot of feedback and requests for more, so here is and additional part. I pray that this devotion continues to honor Him and bless you. Enjoy!

Pray While You’re Prey Devotions For Singles, 2

Marriage is an “art” of practicing love every second. In order to live it, a lifetime of learning is required. Let us allow the word of God to teach and shape us daily so that we can build a family and marriage with a heavenly atmosphere. This 7-day devotional will remind you about God’s desire for your marriage.

You and Me, Forever

Several years ago, I wrote a book called, Pray While You’re Prey: How God Turned my Loneliness and Frustration into Contentment and Commitment. It was always my intention to revisit the Bible verses in the book and other Scriptures that have been uplifting to me during this season of singleness to encourage others. I pray that this Devotion honors Him and blesses you. Enjoy!

Pray While You’re Prey Devotion For Singles, Part III

Wives 2 Be Bootcamp is a five-day devotional designed to prepare women who desire to be married by helping them become healed, whole, and delivered. This devotional will guide you through understanding your value, embracing your singleness as a season of preparation, and trusting God’s timing for your future marriage. Each day will include a deep reflection, scriptures, and a prayer to encourage and strengthen you on this journey.


Wives 2 Be Bootcamp

You’ve been praying to meet your future husband and get married. As friends get married around you, how do you trust God when your biggest dream goes unfulfilled? And what does waiting for a spouse in this hookup culture look like?

In this devotional, learn how to trust God as you navigate singleness and dating and how to wait on God’s timing for marriage when you feel like giving up.


Trusting God With Your Love Story

Many relationship struggles do not begin in marriage; they begin long before, in unhealed emotional wounds. This 3-day plan is for singles, engaged couples, and anyone preparing for healthy relationships. You will learn how emotional wounds form, how they affect relationships, and how God brings healing. This plan will help you recognise hidden pain, pursue restoration, and step into relationships with wholeness, wisdom, and hope.

Healing Before Marriage 

Ah, the beginning stages of a new relationship. There are butterflies in your stomach and excitement in the air as you get to know each other. But there’s also not much trust. That’s because trust is built over time. Fortunately, there are some things you can do to speed up the process. In this 5-day devotional, we’re sharing six practical tips for building trust in a new relationship.

Practical Tips for Building Trust in a New Relationship

Being a young adult in your 20s and 30s comes with challenges. Whether in college or the workforce, life's struggles, pain, and joys appear often. In this plan, six young adults share their stories and how God has worked in their lives regarding family hurt, anxiety, community, self-worth, sex, and loneliness. We welcome you to come along, and then consider sharing your own story with us.

Young Adults + Our Stories

Ladies, how do you let go of the pain when love turns toxic when rejection, betrayal, abuse, or addiction have shattered your soul? Love isn’t supposed to hurt, but if you’re tired of the heartache, it’s time to leave the past behind and find emotional freedom in relationships. Discover soul-strengthening secrets that will empower you to soar into your future with confidence, freedom, and the intoxicating power of forgiveness. 

Free Looks Good on You: Healing the Soul Wounds of Toxic Love

As a teenager, you are in an amazing season of life! Your future is limitless, and you have energy and passion for so many things. You also have a Savior who wants to be your Best Friend. He will guide you into adulthood if you will open up your heart to Him. As you read this devotional, we are praying that you will feel God’s love in a tangible way. 

You Are God's Daughter

God desires us to live in sexual consecration. Our destinies are inextricably tied to this.

Sexual Purity and Destiny

What does it mean to be shepherded by Jesus as a single Christian? How does God take care of you? We’ll take nine days to see Psalm 23 from a new perspective, looking at timeless truths, applied honestly, to the unique season of singleness. Be refreshed with the reality of the deep affection your Shepherd has for you.

Shepherded: Psalm 23 for the Single Christian

You’ve just experienced a tough break up. You sacrificed so much and now you feel like you’ve lost a part of your identity. You feel like God has forgotten about you and you know He has a plan but you’re tired of waiting. What do you do? This 7 day devotional will guide you through the healing process as you break free and make room for God’s promises for you.

Breaking Free After A Breakup

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.

7 Days of Prayer to Prepare for Marriage

Dating

“My life is nothing like I thought it would be.” Many of us feel this way in times of transition. Sometimes we need a boost of encouragement to embrace change, take a chance on our dreams, and realize that we are not alone. If you’re facing a new season of life, this devotional will help you realize that no matter what, God’s got you.

God's Got You

What happens when the life you prayed for shatters? This four-day devotional is for women walking through the heartbreak of separation or divorce from a spouse who battles addiction. With the word Redeem as a lifeline, you’ll be reminded that God is still at work. He’s restoring your identity, your peace, and your future. He’s not just healing you. He’s redeeming you.

REDEEM: A Journey of Healing Through Divorce and Addiction

Feeling distant or helpless in your marriage?  This 5-day devotional will help you silence the lies, refocus your heart, and see your husband the way God sees him. There is still hope.

Struggling With Loving the Man You Married

Is it unchristian to set a boundary or sometimes have to say a necessary goodbye? Lysa TerKeurst has asked these questions. But after countless hours of counseling intensives and theological research, Lysa is more committed than ever to loving people without losing the best of who she is. She wants to help you begin to do the same through this 5-day devotional.

Good Boundaries and Goodbyes

What do we do when our dreams seem out of reach or even shattered? Having overcome abuse and trauma, as well as the heartbreak of a divorce, I have been faced with this question again and again. Whether you’re experiencing the devastation of tragedy or loss, or the frustration of a long season of waiting, the God-dream for your life is still alive! Friend, it’s time to dream again.

Dreams Redeemed

Your purpose and destiny are so close to being fulfilled! God is about to open up major doors in your life, and He wants to bring the right relationships and connections to you, but He needs to make room in your life for them. In this 10-day reading plan, Pastor Mike Signorelli of V1 Church, explains why and how God is removing people from your life.

Why God Removes People

A Christian devotional for single moms offering healing, encouragement, and hope for single mothers walking through heartbreak and finding wholeness in Christ.

Hope and Healing for Single Moms

Shadows are quite intriguing when you’re a kid playing in the sun. But when those shadows are cast by divorce, they’re not so fun anymore. Divorce has a way of blocking the light of God’s love, causing us to live in shadows of disillusionment, insecurity, and fear. This 10-day devotional will help you cast off those shadows to begin living fully in the light of God’s love once again!

Shadow-Breakers: A 10-Day Devotional for Christian Divorcees

Navigating the world of dating can often feel like riding a rollercoaster with its thrilling highs and disappointing lows. Loneliness and heartbreak are real, but so are excitement, joy, and hope for a Christ-centered relationship. In this 5-day devotional, we’re sharing five prayers for your journey as you move through all the emotions that come with dating.

5 Prayers for the Christian Single

The scriptures are replete with God's demonstration of his love for all mankind. Yet during the darkest seasons of our lives, we often question if God indeed loves us individually and personally. Journey with me through the scriptures and rediscover his love for you, ESPECIALLY YOU.

Dear Single Mom

Dealing with a broken heart is painful and exhausting. The only one who can heal you and bring you through this heartbreak is your Heavenly Father. In addition, He has so much waiting for you on the other side of your healing. Will you trust and draw nearer to Him? Let me help you over the next five days as you invite God on this healing journey with you. 

Close to the Brokenhearted: Grow Closer to God After a Breakup

This 7-Day Devotional Plan serves as a compassionate and faith-based resource for those navigating life after divorce. With its daily readings, prayers, and reflections, this devotional offers guidance and support to individuals looking to heal, find hope, and live purposefully.


Unyoked Living: Living a Life on Mission Post Divorce

Join Pastor Rick for this series of broadcasts on “Life’s Healing Choices” as he walks through the Beatitudes from Matthew 5, which are the eight steps to physical, emotional, social, financial, and personal health.

Life's Healing Choices

Blending a Family 40-day Devotional written by Moe and Paige Becnel at Blending a Family Ministry is a resource for remarried families. The Becnel’s married in 1989 with 5 children, and were quickly overwhelmed with many issues exclusive to blended families. The plan discusses the cause of the issues many families face, and provides solutions found in God’s Word that fuel family growth. God is for you!

Blending a Family 40 Day Devotional

When divorce hits, it feels like the first thing we have lost is our peace. In this plan, we will dissect Philippians 4:4-9 to more fully understand peace and how to maintain it in the future. God is the God of peace and wants you to receive that peace. Join us in Finding Peace.

Divorce to Healing: Finding Peace

The day you marry, you never consider that the life you’re building could be destroyed. The ruins left are a reminder of what you’ve been through. God uses everything for your good. He intends to rebuild your broken places. Over the next six days, you’ll find God’s restoring H.O.P.E. after divorce. You’ll be encouraged, validated, yet challenged to seek healing while God does the hard work of rebuilding ruins.

Rebuilding Ruins: Restoring H.O.P. E. After Divorce a 6-Day Devotional by Kelly A. Foster

If you’re in a relationship, you’re bound to have disagreements. It’s simply part of doing life with another person. We’re not all the same, and sometimes, our differences can lead to arguments. In this 5-day devotional, we’re sharing tips on how to “fight fair” and use Biblical truths to navigate conflicts constructively.

What Does It Mean to Fight Fair in a Christian Relationship?

What if you could learn how to resolve painful conflict within your marriage? This week, you will begin to recognize the process that happens when you are in conflict with your spouse and how your response can either diminish your partner or strengthen your marriage. This devotional is not for the faint of heart. You are more responsible than you realize and more capable than you believe. Are you ready to build a successful marriage?

10 Choices Successful Couples Make

God has called us to live holy lives, lives without blame in a tainted world. But what do you do when you’ve been slandered or spitefully used or even cursed? This 4-day devotional by Laura Woodworth will help you access divine power to turn this enemy attack into an opportunity for God’s love and mercy.

Love Your Enemy – Godliness in a Tainted World

In this devotional, I want to share how God has been faithful to me through my faithfulness to Him. I want to inspire women who feel like they've lost God's promise. I pray this devotional restores hope and faith in God to the many women whose faith has been snatched by rejection, low self-esteem, divorce, and other misfortunes. - Christina Bell

God Is Still Faithful - 7-Day Devotional by Christina Bell 

This 10-part Bible study for blended (step) families is designed to help you build peace in your marriage, stepparenting, co-parenting, and other blended family relationships. 

10 Steps to Unity in Your Blended Family

Divorce

Parenting Young Children

Parenting Teens/Tweens

Shaunti Feldhahn studied thousands of men and women to learn the most important things that matter to an abundant, happy marriage. It turns out, her research findings match what the Bible has said all along. This reading plan highlights those key Biblical secrets that we often miss — and which, once we apply them, usually make an immediate, wonderful difference.

See more of her research, books, or speaking at shaunti.com.

Biblical Secrets to a Happy Marriage

Life is a series of choices, each determining the trajectory it will take.  Will we choose life, by allowing our hearts to be changed by God's Word? Or will we default to our human nature, a passive choice leading to death?  

Choices

Unity has the ability to transform both personal relationships and the body of Christ. This reading plan explores the 4 attributes in Ephesians 4 that lead to unity and how you can cultivate each, leading to transformational growth in your life and in the church.