Relationships

Marriage is what you make it—for richer or for poorer, for better or for worse. But you may not feel like your marriage is all it could be. Thankfully, you don’t have to wonder which choices and behaviors support a flourishing marriage. God has a design for a loving, lasting, thriving marriage. No matter what you’ve been through, it’s still possible to be and to stay in love.

Thrive: Building Stronger Marriages . . . Together

This devotional is for believers who desire to have their minds cleansed and refocused on Christ. If you struggle with impure thoughts, pornography, or lust, this devotional will help you replace those mental images with Christ-centered ones and develop new habits in your thinking. Let Jesus free you as you cultivate purity one thought at a time. 
Part 2 of the Purify Your Mind Series by Joe Kirby. 

Purify Your Mind Series (Part 2) by Joe Kirby

The Bible presents marriage as a sacred covenant. But what does that mean, and how do we live it out in the everyday challenges of marriage? Listen together as Kris Langham opens the Word to provide clear explanation and insightful application on key issues like commitment, connection, holiness, and sex. With engaging audio and practical discussion questions, The Marriage Talks is perfect for marital or premarital couples and small groups.

The Marriage Talks Part 3 | Covenant

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

This biblically based and scientifically informed approach to porn addiction recovery/discipleship helps you renew your mind with God’s truth. The challenge is to go 30 days without porn or other sexual sin while addressing the roots of addiction. The 10 minutes or less of content each day will include at least one of the following:
(1) A video and reflection questions 
(2) A scripture meditation
(3) A devotional/testimony

Freedom From Porn Begins Here

Oh, the ol’ bugaboo of dating. The excitement of a new relationship is often eclipsed by the fear that you might be left broken, hurt, and disappointed - not to mention the potential of hurting your children! This five-day devotional was written for the single mom considering dating, starting to date, or even wondering if she should begin dating in this season of life. So, let’s jump right in. 

Dating & The Single Mom: By Jennifer Maggio

Born to Bloom, is designed for both men and women wounded by sexual abuse. Emotional Wellness Coach La Vonne Earl will walk you through this 7-day plan to help you discover your value, learn how to speak life over yourself and build a new godly inner narration so you can have the peace of mind you desire. Get your passion and purpose back! Come join me in this life-changing plan!




Born to Bloom, Heal From Sexual Abuse

Drawing on biblical truth, psychology, and brain science, Ben Bennett offers steps to help you break free from porn and unwanted sexual behaviors. God wants you to live a life of sexual wholeness. This 5-day devotional plan will help you kickstart your journey to healing and freedom in your daily life.

Overcoming Porn

There is life and death power in sex and romance. You are destined for impact and you have the ability to protect your future by living carefully right now. This 12-day devotional based on Swipe Right by Levi Lusko goes through scripture and real life examples to help you train today for the relationship you want tomorrow.

Swipe Right: The Life and Death Power of Sex and Romance 

What does the Bible say about temptation? Discover how to stand firm, stand in the love of God, and walk in freedom! Freedom is when temptations become a training ground—for strengthening us and developing our character. This is PART 4 of the PureHeart Challenge—a 5-Part Bible Plan for men and women on the topic of sexuality and purity.

Dealing With Sexual Temptation

Do you need a jumpstart in your marriage? Engage in scripture and each other for 3 1 straight days and see how Jesus shows up!

31 Day Marriage Reset

These five daily devotions were selected from Levi and Jennie Lusko's new devotional, The Marriage Devotional: 52 Days to Strengthen the Soul of Your Marriage. Even in the midst of mortgage payments, emotional baggage, drama, mistakes, and a whole lot of laundry, your marriage can not only survive, but be sweet, steady, and strong.

The Marriage Devotional: 5 Days to Strengthen the Soul of Your Marriage

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

Marriage is designed to be the closest possible relationship of increasing intimacy and growing interdependence. But this is not automatic; we have to keep working at our marriage to stay connected. Adapted from The Marriage Course by Nicky and Sila Lee, this 7-day plan aims to introduce you to tools to build a healthy marriage and strengthen your connection—or to restore your connection if you feel you’ve lost it.

The Marriage Course

As we look at the life of David this week, we see the power of sin and temptation and how one night of pleasure can lead to a lifetime of pain. We all have clay feet. Therefore, let us confess our sin before the Lord, give it to Him, and ask Him to protect us and fill us so that we can flee temptation.

[Life Of David] A Night Of Passion Becomes A Life Of Pain 

Infidelity is constantly increasing in our culture and poses a real threat to many marriages. This plan will help you learn about avoiding infidelity, and how to heal if it has happened in your marriage.This plan is a continuation of the plan Infidelity Part 1. It includes videos of Dr. Kimberling teaching on infidelity and is designed to help you take practical steps to protect and heal your marriage. 

Infidelity - Part 2

What if the shame and guilt of sexual sin no longer made you feel cut off from God? Join Titania Paige of the Purpose in Purity Podcast to practice the Apostle Paul’s strategic spiritual habit for overcoming your mental-blocks, eliminate the three lies that keep you bound to sexual sin with scriptural truths, and adopt a practical framework to sustain your journey toward freedom, forgiveness, and healing in Christ. 

come home. | A Redemptive Roadmap from Lust Back to Christ

Experiencing betrayal by a spouse can be deeply traumatic. Sadly, many Christians walk through the horrible aftermath of betrayal without guidance or support. This devotional was written to encourage, support, and guide hurting spouses on their journey to healing.

Broken Vows: Healing From Spousal Betrayal

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

This 31-Day Devotional is for believers wrestling with impure thoughts who desire to have their minds cleansed and refocused on Christ. If you struggle with impure thoughts, pornography, or lust, this devotional will help you replace those mental images with Christ-centered ones and develop new habits in your thinking. Let Jesus free you as you cultivate purity one thought at a time.

Purify Your Mind Series (Part 1) by Joe Kirby

Contrary to popular opinion, marriage is ministry. In this 8-day devotional plan we ask 8 critical questions that every couple must ask themselves in order to reach their full God-given potential in marriage.

The Ministry of Marriage

This 4-day plan dives into God’s design and purpose for husbands, exploring the biblical mission to love, serve, and lead their wives. Through Scriptures like Ephesians 5 and Genesis 1, husbands will discover their God-given role to protect, nurture, and encourage their wives in faith. Learn practical ways to prioritize your marriage, grow in spiritual leadership, and overcome challenges as you seek to fulfill this high calling. Start today and embrace the mission God has for you as a husband!

Visionary Marriage: God's Call to Husbands

So many of us have learned about sex and sexuality through media, friends, or our own experiences. Let’s discover what God says and how to walk in His ways. This is PART 1 of the PureHeart Challenge—a 5-Part Bible Plan for men and women on the topic of sexuality and purity.

Sex & Sexuality - God’s Ways vs. The World’s Ways

How can we effectively fight against sin? God has already won the war against sin, and as you examine His Word along with Ashley Chesnut, you’ll be equipped to battle against sin and aid others in the fight.

How to Fight Against Sin: A 5-Day Devotion From Colossians

The trauma experienced from sexual abuse can be devastating. The pain may be overwhelming and often results in a struggle to understand God and our identity. Unfortunately, few resources exist to meet the needs of victims of sexual trauma. The GRACE Abounds devotional is a resource that offers support and the truth of Jesus’ abundant love to women ready to begin their healing journey.

Grace Abounds: Hope and Healing From Sexual Abuse

No words can express how amazing it is to hold your newborn child in your arms. Parenting is such a holy and life-changing opportunity. One of the most powerful things a parent can give their child is their prayers for them. In this 5-day Bible plan, Evangelist Matt Brown shares 5 powerful prayers you can pray for your children every day. 

What to Pray For Your Children

The Bible tells us children are a gift from God. Yet parenting them from toddler to teenager can sometimes be an immense challenge! Perhaps no task on earth demands greater love, patience, and wisdom. Thankfully, God has provided plenty of guidance for us to follow. Join Dr. Charles Stanley as he instructs and inspires you to apply godly wisdom in this clear and concise approach to parenting God’s way.

Parenting God’s Way

The purpose of this devotional is to see what God's Word has to say about the parenting challenges every parent faces.  Each day includes a passage of Scripture and an application of that passage to the trials and triumphs of leading families to maturity in Christ.  The devotionals are created by Parenting by Design, a Fort Worth ministry devoted to teaching parents to lead their children the way God lead His children.

Parenting by Design Daily Devotional

Today, many Baby Boomers are smack dab in the middle of their grandparenting years. They don’t want to be merely adequate grandparents. They want to be rockstar grandparents! Chrys Howard—best known to many as mom of Korie Robertson of Duck Dynasty—shows you how, using lyrics from classic Boomer songs, her own stories as “2-mama” (grandma), and powerful truths in God’s Word.

Rockstar Grandparent

Refreshing devotions for weary mamas who find themselves in need of truth and encouragement! These devotions are aimed to help a mom find her identity in Christ as she faces the challenges, surprises and joys of caring for young children. No need for her to compare herself to the supermoms around her; God has recruited her for her kids and He has big plans for her!

Grit & Grace: 5-Day Devos For Moms Of Young Kids

This devotional is designed to help you trust that God loves your son even more than you do. To bring you hope when your son has lost his way or is struggling with weaknesses or temptations. To lead you to praise God for his power in your son’s life. As you pray through these devotionals over the next week, rest in the knowledge that your son is in God’s hands.

Powerful Prayers For Your Son By Rob & Joanna Teigen

Your home is the primary training ground for developing your child’s character, so parenting must be intentional.  We’ve compiled a 14-day devotional for parents, each session concentrating on a different character trait. From toddlers to teenagers, you can adapt these principles for any age. 

Building Character in Your Child

Dr. Tim Elmore joins with Life.Church to share 12 Huge Mistakes Parents Can Avoid. We all want the best for our kids, but sometimes our own good intentions misdirect their paths. Let’s correct course and lead our children to become thriving adults and fully devoted followers of Christ. For more content, check out finds.life.church

12 Huge Mistakes Parents Can Avoid

Throughout Scripture, God is called Father. Yet how does He father His children? What parenting principles can we learn by observing His interactions with humanity? This seven-day study will examine key Scriptures which will help you to father like the Father.

Father Like the Father

You may be a care provider who impacts kids in care, or a parent who understands that “if it’s not Ok for MY Kids - it’s not OK for any of God’s kids.”  Whatever your motivation, God wants to use YOU for His Glory and their Good. Ignite Hope invites you to Stand in the Gap for the Modern Orphan - with this segment focused on children in Foster Care.

God’s Got This: Praying For Kids In Foster Care

Raising kids is tough, even in the best of circumstances. In this seven-day devotional, real-world parents — who also happen to be staff members at YouVersion — share how they apply principles from God’s Word to this important aspect of their lives. Each day’s devotional includes a Verse Image you can use to help you share your own journey.

7 Things The Bible Says About Parenting

Each day, learn a new biblically-grounded concept that you can begin applying immediately in your family. When you lead your family by living out love, mutual respect, intentionality, and service, you’ll see their relationships with you and with each other radically transformed.

Family ID:  7 Keys To A Great Family

From the moment a child enters our life, parenting is a tough job. It’s even harder when a child is struggling with difficult behaviors. Parenting a child in crisis leaves parents worn out from exhaustion, frustration, and fear. God doesn’t leave us, even in the midst of our fears, failures, and fatigue. For foster and adoptive parents, or any battle-weary parent in warfare for their child.

Battle-Weary Parents for Parenting in Crisis

Truth Becomes Her is a movement that transcends the emphasis on feminine beauty and focuses on teaching young women about their true worth in Christ.

Unlocking Your Daughter’s True Potential

Parenting Young Children

As a parent of teens, you probably wonder how to keep social media, culture, and peers from having a stronger voice than God in their lives. Jeffrey Dean wants to remind you that you are still the greatest influence in your child's life—and that’s good news! Use this guide to spend the next five days in intentional reflection and prayer for your teen as you parent with purpose and hope.

Raising Successful Teens

As much as we want the fruit of the Spirit to be present in our own lives, we want that for our children too. So where do we begin? In this 9-day devotional, you'll learn principles taken from Scripture and tools for applying them to your parenting.

Developing the Fruit of the Spirit in Your Child

Navigating your teen's rebellion can be scary, challenging and even heartbreaking. In this Bible plan, Roxanne Parks shares ways that she and her husband kept their sanity during some of the confusing and murky days raising 4 teenagers.

Navigating Teenage Rebellion

Parenting Teens/Tweens

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.

Cultivating Unity

This reading plan includes seven daily devotions based on Louie Giglio’s curriculum Relat(able): Making Relationships Work. This study will explore what makes us relatable to others, how God can bring peace in the midst of conflict, and how we can help restore relationships that seem broken beyond repair.

Relat(able): Making Relationships Work

God looks beyond what we do (even the good we do) to see our heart. He cares about our motives when we give, pray, fast… The heart of the issue, with God, is always the heart. He wants to guide us by our heart so we can make a radical difference for Him!

Give God Your Heart And Keep Your Motives Pure

You’ll meet a lot of people in your life and you’ll need wisdom and discernment in order to pursue God honoring relationships. In the Wise Bond Bible plan readers will discover through scripture how to develop and identify positive characteristics of Christ-centered friendships, bonds and associations. 

Wise Bond

It seems like relationships are everywhere you look. Whether you’re in one, waiting for one, or happily single, we can all work on the common denominator in our relationships—ourselves. In this 5-day Plan, we’ll look at what it means to be dateable—and you may be surprised.

Dateable

Marriage is a blessing from God, but because we are flawed individuals, it can be hard at times. This reading plan offers words from God’s Word about common marital issues.

Marriage Is Hard

When we spend our first energy tending our relationships, including our relationship with God, all of our needs will be met.

Building Healthy Relationships

Based on the latest series of Fearless TV UK, in this devotional we will be looking at the fundamentals of healthy relationships. We will be focusing on sex, singleness and friendship, and seeing how the Word of God can help us to have fruitful and fearless relationships. Follow @fearlesstvuk on social media.

Baesics: The Devotional

Through the latest scientific research and poignant, personal stories, a father / daughter team help parents and their teenage girls navigate the traps and temptations of the teen dating years.