Suffering

The book of Isaiah contains rich imagery, prophecies about the coming Messiah, and reminders of God’s faithfulness towards his people. The prophet Isaiah recounts God’s faithfulness to the Israelites and speaks of his hope in a future redemption through Jesus. On this plan, you will learn more about God’s justice and compassion and how he is present and near to those who are suffering.

Hope for Wounded Hearts: Readings From Isaiah

While anxiety and stress are a natural part of life, they can become overwhelming, especially for families facing challenges such as serious illness, financial collapse, raising children with special needs, or caring for aging parents. God gave us human emotions, but he does not want them to enslave us. He offers Christians the courage to overcome stress and model his love to a hurting world.

Courage Under Stress

“Why, God?” is the most natural and dangerous question to ask when you are suffering. This reading plan explains.

Explanations for Pain

How do you move on after a tragic loss? When you feel you’ve lost the only good thing in life and you will never feel normal again? When you feel overcome by sadness and grief, you need to know there’s a God who understands and wants to comfort you. In this plan, you will learn that by choosing to focus on love, hope, and joy you can survive your grief. 

Surviving Grief

This devotional provides five practical lessons to apply to your life after heartbreak. If you have walked through a season similar to Ruth and Naomi, be encouraged. God is always working. In His sovereignty, He allows relationships to end, allows death, separation, and abandonment. But when we trust Him, even when we feel bitter and forsaken, God promises to work things together for our good.

Lessons From Ruth

The Bible may seem an unlikely source to turn to for answers, but there’s no mistaking the face of depression as a psalmist cries out to God in anguish or as Job laments the day of his birth. Amid their pain and suffering, they find hope in God. Their accounts and the encouraging words of others in Scripture can help you navigate the murky waters of depression. 

Finding God In Your Depression

There’s no way to sugarcoat it—something’s not right. Each morning we wake to a steady stream of pain. We scramble to comfort ourselves. But we know a better day is coming—a day when wrong things will be undone. And God’s promises start here and now. This 7-day devotional from Andrew and Wendy Palau will refresh you with living hope and inspire you to share Jesus with a world in pain.

A Better Day

Focus on God’s faithfulness with 10 devotions from Our Daily Bread that share stories illustrating how God has been faithful to His followers in the Black community.

Forever Faithful 10-Day Devotional

Suffering is something that many of us don’t like to think about. It can be confronting, challenging and sometimes depressing to think about. However, we have a God who is working in every situation. Even in the darkness. Even in our sorrow and suffering. Through this plan, we pray you will find hope, strength and God in your midst. He has never left you and will never forsake you.