Relationships

Sexual trauma is devastating not only for the victim but also for the survivor’s family and friends. Many husbands feel ill-prepared to shoulder the impact of sexual violence on marriage and to support their wives on the road to recovery. The GRACE Abounds for the Spouse devotional shares the truth about trauma and Jesus’ abundant love to husbands ready to support their wives along the healing journey.

GRACE Abounds for the Spouse

Have you ever wished for a Bible study that could take you beyond surface-level reading? If so, get ready for our journey through Psalms & Song of Songs! You'll get to immerse yourself in Scripture (by looking at key terms and ideas), explore what's behind it (by learning historical-cultural background), and also discover its impact by considering its implications, not only for you, but for the global church. Let's dive in!

Journey Through Psalms & Song of Songs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is not a plan to beat you up, tell you to double down on your efforts, and just get your act together. The Porn Free plan will lovingly take you by the hand, meet you where you are, and lead you with both grace and truth into freedom.

Porn Free With John Bevere

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

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 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

Pornography is a subtle threat to human relationships, as it distorts the idea of ​​intimacy and reduces the other to a simple object of desire. It fuels lust, preventing us from experiencing authentic and deep love. 

However, God offers us a solution through a love that is based on sacrifice, respect, and mutual care. 

By following His teachings, we can rediscover the true beauty of intimate relationships, learning to value the other and build healthy bonds, far from the traps of pornography and based on true communion.

The Obsession That Destroys

Your success on this Christian journey doesn’t rest solely on your abilities, ample resources, or sheer determination. Your success is based on being empowered by the Holy Spirit. As you submit to Christ, He will establish your ability to walk in purity. This Plan is filled with practical keys to help you partner with the Holy Spirit, overcome temptation, and experience victory in your life!

Six Keys to Sexual Purity

Solid is a devotional to help married couples or those engaged to be married build the best marriage possible. I pray that God opens your eyes to the wisdom in the content and that you are able to apply them to your own unique situation and build a solid marriage together.

Solid…building the Marriage of Your Dreams by Godman Akinlabi

The common struggles of singleness and celibacy are not often talked about: sex drive, masturbation, longings and desires. Discover what it means to honor God in the area of our sexuality, in the midst of the realities of singleness. This is PART 3 of the PureHeart Challenge—a 5-Part Bible Plan for men and women on the topic of sexuality and purity.


Honoring God With Our Sexuality in Singleness

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

The Ephesian Christians lived in a hypersexualized culture and many of them were stuck in sexual sin. Before Paul addressed their sin, he reminded them of who they are in Christ. In this 10-Day Bible Plan from the book of Ephesians, we’ll discover how Paul’s radical instructions to live out our identity in Christ also addresses the six roots of a sex or porn addiction. Identity conquers lust. 

Identity Conquers Lust

The enemy has distorted God's design for sexuality and as a result, lust runs rampant in our culture and even in the church. What does God's Word say about sex and how do we fight the temptation of lust? Learn how to stand firm through this five-day reading plan.

Overcoming Lust to Walk in Righteousness

In this 7-day devotional for men, we look at biblical and practical ways to find freedom in the area of lust - an area that many men struggle with! Written by Chris Walker of Impactus.

Overcoming Lust

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

You are not weird, and your standards are not too high simply because you choose to obey the Bible. You can date in a way that pleases God. These five daily devotions are based on Tovares and Safa Grey’s book, Godly Dating 101: Discovering the Truth about Relationships in a World that Constantly Lies.

Godly Dating 101 Discovering the Truth About Relationships  in a World That Constantly Lies

Born For War offers a roadmap through the sexual traps this generation faces, equipping young men for the battle the enemy has ahead. This course offers practical tools to navigate these sexual landmines and offers scriptural truths to empower young men for success.

Sexual Integrity: Young Men Born for WAR

Our God is a merciful and trustworthy God. He is eager to show mercy to those who truly seek Him and are ready to turn to Him in righteousness. Spending 10 minutes every day alone with God and His Word can help you understand how God's love impacts our lives in just three days. Join this plan and profit from God's gracious blessings.

God’s Mercy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Parenting Teens/Tweens

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friendships

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

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

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

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

Have you ever ditched a friend for a guy? Found yourself jealous because that other girl gets all the dates? Maybe it's time to get lost- in God. Discover how to get so lost in God that a guy has to seek Him to find you. Dannah Gresh traces God's language of love through Scripture to help you seek love the way God designed it to be. 

Get Lost: Love Feast

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

Society has it’s own definition of what it means to love and what true love is. However, that definition and God’s definition are very different. This 7-day devotional is designed to take you on a journey through God’s love in both the Old and New Testaments. Each day, a definition of God’s love will be explained through scripture and then defined in everyday language.  Let's get started! Go to afterthemusicstops.org for the full length version of this plan. 



What is Love? God's View On Love And Relationships

This 40-day reading plan is designed to help those in a relationship, those planning to get married, or those already married to get into the Word and understand the Biblical foundations of marriage. 