Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to 1 Peter 1:6

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.

This five-day devotional journey led by Emily Jensen and Laura Wifler, hosts of the popular Risen Motherhood podcast, will help you see how the gospel provides hope and help for your everyday challenges as a mom. With Emily and Laura, you’ll explore how the gospel can help you with negative thoughts and attitudes, adjust to life changes, avoid comparisons in your marriage, and deal with the mundane moments of motherhood.

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.

Everybody knows somebody who never grew up and while immaturity can me fun and silly at times, it gets old pretty quickly. God has a plan for us to move beyond the early stages of faith and into a mature faith that stands strong when trouble comes. Don't stay young in faith. Trust the process that leads to growth and become the person you already know you want to become.

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.

All who have ears to hear can know God’s surprising secret and enjoy a transformed life. That is what we are yearning for, after all. With God’s secret, there is no instant transformation. Through this plan, however, you will learn how to have peace and joy every day. These devotionals will teach you how to be wrecked by and for God—for good!—so you can experience true transformation.

In the valley of suffering, you can take hold of the fruit that can be found along the way to grow and sustain you. Discover a different fruit in this five-day devotional.

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!

We live in a crazy world that is drifting farther away from God by the day, but the power of Jesus’ resurrection is life-changing. The same power of God that raised Jesus from the grave is still available to you today. Let’s tap into that living hope so we can serve the Lord in a way that we never could before.

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.

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.

Are you overwhelmed by the current political scene? Does it feel like God has abandoned your country? Read “stories behind the story” from Michael Cassidy’s book A Witness Forever. You’ll be encouraged by God’s work behind the scenes during the end of apartheid in South Africa.

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.

Realizing how little control we have over our lives can make us fearful and anxious--or it can lead to greater intimacy with God, a richer prayer life, and a joyful eternal perspective. Learn how surrendering your expectations leads to a greater experience of God's love in this 5-day devotion from Lauren and Michael McAfee.

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.

Has your joy disappeared like water from a dry well? Your bucket scrapes the bottom but all you bring up is dust. Joy is a gift from God. It’s not something you can earn or manufacture, and you don’t have to fake happiness to be a “good” Christian. Discover the joy of receiving joy, even as you hope for the fullness of joy to come.

When Jesus rose from the dead, it changed everything! Easter stands at the heart of all our hopes and all of God’s promises. This 5-day plan will give you a sample of what the New Testament says about Jesus’s resurrection and why it’s so important.

Do you feel like you have no hope? Has the darkness of your suffering blinded you to all aspects of light? Do you need comfort to seep down into your soul? Through this letter, Paul wrote, Jesus will give you exactly what you need right now.

Christians are different. They can’t help it. When you’re in Christ and filled with the Spirit, it changes you. This leads to strange expectations. It’s a different kind of hope flowing from Christ’s perspective on things. This is the seventh in a series of 5-day plans that uses the Lord’s Prayer to show how Jesus invites us to approach life and the future.