Relationships

Marriage is one of God’s greatest gifts, and preparing for it is one of the wisest decisions you can make. This plan will help you build a strong, Christ-centered foundation; one marked by love, humility, and purpose. Don’t wait until marriage to grow. Start now, and let God shape the relationship that will shape your future.

Preparing for Marriage

If you’re expecting a baby, first of all, I would like to say congratulations! Preparing to welcome a child into your life is such an exciting, but at times, a difficult and nerve-wracking thing! Over the course of the next five days, I would love to guide you through some thoughts using Scripture and also give you some ideas for how you can raise your child in accordance with God’s eternal Word.

Expectant Parents | Preparing Your Lives and Hearts to Nurture God’s Precious Gifts

If you love someone battling addiction or alcoholism, then you know this fight isn’t just their fight — it becomes yours too. You feel the fear, the uncertainty, the hope, the disappointment, the exhaustion, and the constant guessing game of what might happen next. And you cling to your faith to get through it all.

Faith Stronger Than Addiction is a seven-day journey to help you lift your eyes, pick up your spiritual armor, and hold fast to the God who fights for you.

Faith Stronger Than Addiction

Marriage is a gift from God, but thriving together requires intention, love, and wisdom. This plan explores the relationships of biblical couples, some thriving, some struggling, and draws practical lessons for your own marriage. Each day highlights God-centered principles like trust, communication, forgiveness, and intimacy, with actionable steps to strengthen your connection and grow closer to each other and to Christ.

God Centered Marriages: Lessons From Biblical Couples

Welcome to the first devotional in our Chat Series! The importance of God and Jesus as the foundation of fruitful relationships is undeniable.

Many couples are looking for ways to grow and mature together in a very simple format that is quick, conversational, effective, and most importantly, Spirit filled. 

This devotional is an application devotion, designed for partnerships to complete together, connecting us to God’s word. Here’s to Couple’s Chatting, while God’s Spirit moves!


Couples Chat God's Spirit  Part I

Seasons of hiding can feel confusing, lonely, and discouraging, especially for Christian singles who desire clarity, movement, or partnership. Yet the Book of Esther reveals a powerful truth: obscurity can be God’s strategy, not His neglect. This 7-day devotional invites you to explore what it means to be hidden yet deeply known, unseen yet divinely remembered. Through Esther’s journey, you will discover how God uses quiet seasons to protect identity, refine character, and prepare you for future responsibility.

Hidden but Not Forgotten

Seasons of famine test more than our patience, they test what we truly believe about God. In the Book of Ruth, famine is not just a backdrop; it is the environment where faith is refined, obedience is tested, and redemption quietly begins. This 5-day plan is designed for Christian singles navigating seasons of emotional, relational, spiritual, or circumstantial lack. You will learn how famine does not cancel promise, how obedience still matters when resources feel scarce, and how God often uses lack to redirect, refine, and prepare you for restoration.

Faith in Famine

Do your words build up or tear down? Hi, I’m Roell Morales. I invite you to join me on this 7-day journey where I will speak from the heart about how the Bible teaches us to tame our tongues. Together, we will discover how to transform the way we speak, heal our hearts, and use our words to bless, build up, and glorify God.

The Power of the Tongue: Words That Give Life

During this devotional, we will discuss the power of permission in our lives. Our relationship with Christ was birthed from permission. 

We will look at how important it is to never lose sight of the very principles that created our salvation and what God's expectations are of us as men. Acceptance, invitation, and application are essential to the power of permission and how we navigate our roles as fathers, brothers, husbands, king, and priest. 

We also explore how diligence, support, encouragement, and accountability play a role in walking in our roles confidently. Unapologetically. For the glory of God. 



The Power of Permission

How much is too much information? This devotional was made to guide singles and couples in courtship to share past experiences with honesty, embrace God’s redemption, and respond with grace, building relationships rooted in truth and trust.

Truth Before the Ring

Love is a word we use often, but the Bible gives it a deeper meaning. In 2 John 1:6, we discover that love is not limited to a feeling; it is expressed in the way we walk each day. Loving God and loving others involves concrete choices and a direction of life that reflects His heart. In this plan, you will discover how biblical love can transform the way you live and relate to others. These few days can help you learn to love in a more genuine way.

Learn to Love Truly

Many couples face significant challenges in their marriages, from emotional detachment to infidelity, leaving one partner feeling abandoned and desperate for connection. When only one spouse seems invested in the healing process, it can feel overwhelming and hopeless. Dr. James C. Dobson offers hope and guidance for those struggling through marital difficulties in a five-day series based on his book, Love Must Be Tough. He provides practical strategies to encourage restoration even when your partner is disinterested.

Love Must Be Tough

If you are single and feeling emotionally overwhelmed, this 7-day devotional will guide you toward healing and wholeness. 

Many struggles, fear of abandonment, overthinking, emotional shutdown, and anxious attachment can be rooted in unresolved emotional wounds. 

Through Scripture, reflection, and prayer, you will learn how God meets you in your brokenness and restores your heart. 

Each day offers biblical truth and practical steps to help you process emotions, renew your mind, and build secure, Christ-centered patterns.

The Single’s Guide to Emotional Healing

Have you ever felt like your heart has quietly closed off after disappointment, rejection, or emotional pain?
This 7-day devotional helps you recognize the subtle ways your heart may have become guarded and invites you into God’s process of restoration. Through Scripture and reflection, you will learn that you are not broken, you are wounded, and God is able to heal.
If you’ve struggled with trust, emotional numbness, or fear of love, this plan will guide you back to openness, wholeness, and truth.

Is My Heart Still Open?

God created marriage as a precious covenant of love, faithfulness, and unity. It is not just a relationship between two people, but a reflection of God’s love for us and the unity He intends in Christ. May these four meditations help you grow in humility, awareness, and intentionality in your marriage—because we truly are better together.

Marriage - God's Plan

Marriage can and should be a beautiful thing, but even the best of marriages deal with many challenges. God invites you to bring every part of your marriage to Him in prayer. In this 5-day plan, you will cover your husband in Scripture-based prayer, lifting up his mind, faith, leadership, and future. 

Whether your marriage is thriving or facing difficulty, these guided prayers will help you stand in faith, release control, and trust God to work in his life. Each day includes Scripture and focused prayer to strengthen your heart and help you grow as a praying wife.

Praying Over Your Husband: 5 Powerful Prayers for Your Marriage

Do you feel like your marriage is lacking strength? Ecclesiastes 4:12 says that "a cord of three strands is not quickly broken." In this 5-day plan, we will dive deep into God's original design for marriage. Discover the biblical context of becoming "one flesh" and how inviting Jesus Christ to be the center of your relationship builds an unbreakable unity. 

A Cord of Three Strands: Foundations of Marriage

Every relationship begins with excitement. The butterflies, the constant conversations, and the emotional highs are beautiful and God-given. But butterflies were never meant to sustain love. This 3-day plan is for anyone in courtship, engaged, or married who wants a healthy, lasting relationship. You will learn how to move from feelings to foundation, building love on character, communication, forgiveness, and Christ-centred values. Beyond butterflies is not the end of love; it is the beginning of mature, intentional, and enduring love.

Beyond Butterflies

The Book of Esther reveals a powerful truth for every single believer: God is always working behind the scenes, even when He seems silent. This 7-day plan is designed for Christian singles navigating seasons of waiting, obscurity, preparation, and unanswered questions. Through Esther’s journey, you’ll discover how God uses hidden seasons to shape identity, build courage, and prepare you for divine positioning. This plan will help you discern timing, surrender control, overcome fear, and trust God’s process. This devotional invites you to see your single season as purposeful preparation for “such a time as this.”

... For Such a Time as This

True intimacy begins long before physical connection. Scripture reveals it grows through honesty, friendship, spiritual depth, and healthy boundaries, a foundation that protects purity and prepares the heart for covenant.
For Christian singles, building non-sexual intimacy is one of the most vital relational skills you can develop. It shapes how you date, how you discern, and how you love.
Through Scripture, reflection, and prayer, this plan equips you to connect meaningfully without compromise, pursuing relationships that are emotionally healthy, spiritually grounded, and Christ-honoring in every season of your journey.

Building Non-Sexual Intimacy

Marriage is one of God’s greatest gifts, but it’s also one of life’s greatest challenges. Whether you’re newly married or celebrating decades together, a healthy marriage doesn’t happen by accident—it happens by design. This 7-day plan explores the biblical foundations for a lifelong, thriving relationship. Designed as a couple's devotional. 

Marriage Basics: A 7-Day Plan for a Healthy Marriage

Together, we’ve been blessed to see the world through the lens of many amazing opportunities. But our family’s still just like your family. Our marriage’s just like your marriage. Our relationship goal when we married: love God, love each other, and inspire our kids to see marriage differently. We hope this series inspires you to do marriage and family God’s way – and to give them all you’ve got.  

Us Against the World: Our Secrets to Love, Marriage, & Family

Bringing your marriage before the Lord is both powerful and redemptive. When two imperfect people stand on Scripture and invite God to strengthen their bond, they build a defense the enemy cannot break. What a gift to know God is for your marriage, and for you. These next 30 days are an invitation to declare his Word over your relationship and trust him with what only he can do: protect, grow, and fortify your marriage from the inside out.

30 Scripture Based Prayers for Your Marriage

Many relationship problems stem more from a lack of listening than from a lack of love. This 4-day reading plan explores the biblical art of listening, before and after marriage, in friendships, family, and everyday conversations. Through Scripture, reflection, and practical insight, you will learn how listening builds understanding, reduces conflict, and strengthens connection. Whether you are single, dating, married, or simply seeking healthier relationships, this plan will help you move from reacting to truly hearing, and from assumptions to understanding.

When Listening Speaks Love

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

Marriage

Healing after a broken church courtship—finding clarity, dignity, and hope in God again.

Healing From Broken Courtship Relationship

Virtues are about our character and our personality. When we walk into a room, what energy and culture comes with us? How do we show up with others and for others? In this study well explore both the why, the what, and the how of the masculine virtues: humility, discipline, responsibility and chivalry. 

4 Virtues of Authentic Masculinity by Seth Troutt

In this Bible plan, psychologist and relationship expert Dr. Doug Weiss uses teachings from his book Finding Mr. Right to help you ask the deeper questions that reveal whether the man you’re dating is truly the man you should marry. In this plan you will learn how to look beyond words and emotions to evaluate character, maturity, honesty, and readiness for marriage. You will be encouraged to seek God’s wisdom and trust what is revealed as you discern the qualities you want in your future life partner.  

How Do I Know He's the One?

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

These 30 days of devotions will encourage you to find your security in Christ as you let Him transform you and your relationships! This plan is written by Chelsea Neal, Director of Personal Client Advocacy at Avail-- a non-profit organization that exists to empower confident decisions and foster futures of hope for those facing unintended pregnancy, past and present.

Relationships That Flourish: A 30-Day Devotional on Finding Security in Christ and Growing Healthy Connections

Lust is more than temptation; it is a battle of the heart and mind. In a culture saturated with sexual imagery and instant gratification, many believers struggle silently with shame, desire, and confusion. This 7-day Bible plan offers hope, clarity, and practical steps toward freedom.

Through Scripture, reflection, and prayer, you’ll learn how to renew your mind, guard your heart, resist temptation, and cultivate Spirit-led self-control. Freedom is possible, not through willpower alone, but through transformation in Christ.

Overcoming Lust

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

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

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

If you’re tired of carrying the weight of trying to change the man you love, this plan is for you. Over the next five days, you’ll finally discover how to move from fix and control to surrender and prayer. Experience the peace that comes from learning how to trust God with your partner’s future.

Pray for Him - From Fixing to Praying

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

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

In this 5-day devotional, we’ll help you open up the "closet" of your heart and “spring clean” your dating life as you trust God to fulfill the desires of your heart.

Spring Cleaning Your Dating Life

Friendship seems simple—find people you like and do life together. But in reality, relationships can be tricky, no matter your season of life. It’s one thing to have your squad; it’s another thing to know why. God has a purpose for every friendship in your life. Your squad isn’t just there for fun—it’s there to shape you, encourage you, and help you step into His plan. In this 7-day devotional, we’ll explore how to build intentional, God-honoring relationships that move your life in the right direction. Because when your friendships have purpose, everything changes.

Squad Goals

Break-ups are hard, whether you initiated the breakup or not; whether you’d been dating for five years or five months; even if you knew it was the right thing to do. It can feel like you’ll never heal or move past the hurt–that you’ll never be alright again. In this 5-day devotional get Biblical advice for moving through a breakup, finding yourself, and reconnecting with God along the way. 

Your Post-Break-Up Guide to Being Alright 

Dating

Heartbreak doesn’t just end a relationship; it often shatters your identity. But God is the Binder of the brokenhearted. In this 7-day journey, explore how to peel back the layers of pain and allow Jesus to rebuild you from the ground up. Whether you are navigating a broken marriage or deep loss, you will discover that your scars are not signs of shame, but seeds of a new, powerful story. God is not just fixing your life; He is reclaiming your heart. 

UNCRUSHED: Reclaiming Your Spirit After Heartbreak

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

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

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

Narcissistic and manipulative people can cause deep confusion and harm, leaving many unsure how to respond. In this devotional, you will explore how Scripture helps us recognize destructive patterns, set wise boundaries, and guard our hearts. Learn how to live with both compassion and discernment when dealing with narcissistic people.

Navigating Narcissistic People

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

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

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

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

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

“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

Divorce is heartbreaking. This 5-day plan gives you space to process divorce, whether your own or a loved one’s. Drawing on Scripture and her own experience as a divorcee, Vaneetha Risner gently guides you through sharing your heartbreak with God honestly as you lament, grieve, and bring him your feelings and needs.

Lamenting Divorce: 5 Days of Getting Honest With God

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

Divorce grieves the heart of God. He hates seeing us in pain and holding onto guilt, shame, and fear. Despite our mistakes, He longs for us to accept His grace and know we are valued, cherished, and irreplaceable. No matter your circumstances, this plan will help you find healing from your divorce, so you can live the redeemed life God has for you—one full of hope, joy, and purpose.

Living Changed: After Divorce

When life is hard and negative thoughts creep in, you can feel like you’re sinking under the weight. Unsinkable Faith helps you embrace God’s truth and provides practical tools to help you transform the way you think, feel, and live regardless of your circumstances.

Unsinkable Faith

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 

Vanessa Torres offers compassionate guidance rooted in faith to support and empower survivors on their journey of restoration. 

Strength in Brokenness: Reflections for Assisting Others With Traumatic Pasts

God is the only answer for complete healing and wholeness, especially when it comes to divorce. Through this plan you will draw closer to God while gaining wisdom on how to handle your emotions and feelings during this most difficult time. Choosing to repeat the 31 days will reveal your progress while God continues to bind the wounds and give you greater closure. 

Divorce To Healing: 31 Days Of Healing And Wholeness

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

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?

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

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

It can be tempting to take things into our own hands and settle for relationships that are less than God’s best. The single season doesn’t have to be a time of emptiness and fear, but a fulfilling one as we embrace our relationship with God. This plan will help you learn how to embrace your single season with boldness as you embrace your relationship with God.

Single but in a Relationship With God

Divorce

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

Parenting Young Children

Parenting Teens/Tweens

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?  