If you feel hopeless, or you've experienced self-harm or suicidal thoughts, you need to know there's a God who loves you, has a purpose for you, and who's with you now. This six-day Life.Church Bible plan will help you understand who God says you are and empower your journey to healing. ***If you're in an emergency, please reach out to someone. Resources are included with each day's devotional.

Overcoming Thoughts of Suicide and Self-Harm

If you've reached a point of desperation with the state of your spirit, invite the Lord to sit with you in your pain. This 10-day excerpt from Joanna Teigen gives words to guide you to refuge in the Lord. When your mind feels flooded with thoughts of anxiety, destruction, and hopelessness, cast your eyes to the light of Jesus in the midst of your darkness. 

Prayers to Cope With Depression

Grief is a journey we all face, yet we often carry it silently. Unpacking My Griefcase is a 5-day devotional designed to help you process loss, release unspoken burdens, and embrace God’s healing. Through daily scriptures and reflections, you’ll learn to name your grief, surrender it to God, and take steps toward restoration. Whether your loss is recent or long past, this plan will guide you in finding comfort and peace in God’s presence. It’s time to unpack your grief-case and trust Him to bring healing.

Unpacking My Griefcase: 5 Day Devotional

Throughout this ten-day plan, I want to 'egg you on' - to encourage you to be bolder in your walk with God. The Christian life is not easy, and we have to develop a daring spirit to be a great example of God's love. This plan will focus on the lives of nine biblical characters, looking at themes like depression, fear, failure, challenge, and stress, highlighting the ways God can help you overcome these difficulties. Warning - contains many terrible egg-related puns!




Egging You On! Beating Life's Difficulties & Cracking on With God

This Bible plan presented by Design2Be Employment Relations offers guidance and encouragement for those facing pain, frustration, or injustice in their workplace. Through biblical insights, readers will discover how to find hope, purpose, and strength in the midst of difficult work situations. With reflections from Author Jennifer Brown's own experiences of navigating difficult work places, this plan helps readers navigate the complexities of work-related suffering while trusting in God's plan for their lives.

When Work Hurts: Finding Hope and Purpose When Suffering on the Job

We all have parts of us we try to keep hidden – thoughts we don’t say out loud, feelings we push down, struggles we hope no one sees. But healing can’t happen in hiding. God is inviting you to bring your struggles into the light. Through this plan, explore what Scripture says about the battles we fight beneath the surface and how honesty, community, and God’s truth can set us free.

Under the Surface: Facing What's Hidden & Finding Freedom

The concept of the "orphan spirit" refers to a deep-seated feeling of abandonment, alienation, and spiritual disconnection, often leading individuals to feel separated from God's love and family. For believers, overcoming the orphan spirit is vital to embracing their true identity as children of God and living in the fullness of their divine inheritance.

The Orphan Spirit: Inner Healing From Deep Wounds of Rejection

Depression. Anxiety. Triggers and traumatic events take a mental, emotional, and spiritual toll on us. During these times seeking God seems difficult and redundant. The plan, "Seek God Through It" aims to encourage and teach you how to be proactive in the presence of God so you may experience the peace of God, no matter your situation.

Seek God Through It

Elijah, an Old Testament prophet of God, lived a life of faith. The Bible says he was a normal person just like us, yet he prayed enormous prayers – and God answered! Elijah saw God’s miraculous provision and heard God’s voice, but also encountered doubt and despair. This 9-day plan by David Guzik will encourage you to follow Elijah’s example and trust in the living God!

The Life of Elijah: Faith in the Living God

In this broken world, suffering is no stranger to any of us… You may be facing a storm right now that has you feeling hopeless, but thank God that our feelings do not determine His faithfulness!  He sees you. He cares. He’s able. I hope by the end of this devotional, you are reminded where your peace is found as you give Him your “Hallelujah Even Here.” 🖤 -Lydia Laird

Hallelujah Even Here: A 5 Day Devotional by Lydia Laird

Welcome to the 40-Day Worship Experience, a personal and transformative journey in God’s Presence. I encourage you to find a quiet space to be alone with the Lord for fifteen minutes each morning. Worship begins by surrendering our will over to God's Will. It's in those intimate moments in His Presence that we receive His Love.


40 Day Worship Experience 

In Romans 12:2  Apostle Paul said that we are transformed by the renewing of the mind. Many of us think that once our life is transformed, then our mind will be renewed. It is the other way around. When we were born, most of us came out into this world, head first. When your mind is changed, your life will be transformed. Remember, where your mind goes, your life follows. 

7 Ways to Renew Your Mind

Ever felt thankful at Thanksgiving but wondered why that feeling didn't last long? Perhaps, you need a new way to think about gratitude and a new approach to practicing it. In this plan and 5 day challenge, you'll learn how to exercise your gratitude muscle, especially in moments when you're struggling to thank God or feel joyful. 

The Gratitude Muscle! A 5 Day Challenge

If you find yourself in this devotional as a single mom, it’s likely the weight is heavy, right now. Does anybody hear me? Does anybody see me? You may be wondering. Are you desperate for true freedom – the freedom that restores your joy, offers fresh hope, removes the weight of the past, and lifts the burden? What are you bound to? Comparison? Bitterness? Unforgiveness? Fear? I know those feelings very well. As you read, may there be deep revelation, may every chain fall.   

Freedom and the Single Mom: By Jennifer Maggio

In this 5-day devotional, Christian Bilingual Singer-songwriter & Author, Deora Clairé, encourages you to remember God’s truth about your life when you’re dealing with negative circumstances, bad days, or depression, with lyrics from her song titled, “Keep Breathing 2.0.” May God uplift you and bless you as you read this devotional. 

Keep Breathing, God Is Still Working

No matter what you're facing, waiting on, dreaming up, or praying for—Jesus is for you, He loves you, and He has made a way for you. Nothing is too big or too small for Jesus. Find out how to grow your faith, love, and trust for Jesus in this 5-day devotional based on themes from the song "My Jesus" by Anne Wilson and her miraculous testimony of faith.

My Jesus 5-Day Devotional by Anne Wilson

Seek comfort and encouragement from the Lord's never-ending supply of mercy, grace, and love. In this section from her book of prayers, Kate Motaung provides words for you to pray when you don't have any. God will always surround you with his love no matter what you are going through. 

Prayers for Comfort

The Bible doesn’t talk specifically about the postpartum season, but it does have stories of people going through hard things, showing there is hope in every season. In this 5-day plan, there’s hope for postpartum moms in what can be an unexpectedly dark time. Together, Amanda Taylor, who victoriously walked through PPD, and professional counselor, Jan Kimball, LMSW, LCSW, provide hope for postpartum moms in this encouraging Bible reading plan

Hope for the Postpartum Mom

When Jonathan Pitts took his wife of 15 years into his arms for their anniversary dance, he had no idea that within a month he would be on a completely different journey, navigating life after Wynter's sudden death at the age of 38. In this plan, Jonathan’s story of losing the most wonderful gift he had ever been given and his journey toward understanding life without her.

Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief

Have you heard the saying that when it rains, it pours? Well how do you handle your life when it’s one storm after another? In partnership with Jd & Dee Fomby Ministries,  in this 5-Day Devo, Wynika will share with you how she endured the worst storms of her life and strategies on how to remain anchored in the storm. 

Anchored in the Storm - 5 Days to Handling the Storms of Life

Did you know there's no one like you? The truth is, you’ve been created with unique gifts, talents and character traits by God for a purpose. The real you is beautiful, priceless, and much-needed by those around you. In this 5-day plan, Joyce unpacks principles from Scripture and examples from her own life to help you avoid comparisons and learn to be your authentic self with Him, yourself and others. 

Authentically, Uniquely You

Bestselling author Max Lucado explores God’s treatment plan for anxiety found in Philippians 4:4–8. As you follow this prescription – celebrating God’s goodness, asking for his help, leaving your concerns with him, and meditating on good things – you will experience God’s peace. While anxiety is a part of life, it doesn’t have to dominate your life. 

Anxious for Nothing

I dedicate this devotional to my late friend and mentor, Loverna, who lived her life according to Biblical wisdom about the age-old problem, known as aging. In 2021, the global anti-aging market was valued at 62 billion U.S. dollars. The average American spends $15,000 in their lifetime. Together lets change this aging mindset. 

Aging Gracefully  According to God's Plan

My husband of 53.5 years died in 2017 and before death, he had several losses.  In the last few years, I have learned to not allow any loss to consume me. God showed me that ‘death does not own me,’ and 'loss does not have to own you!’ In this study learn that when loss comes you can conquer it, by reaching out beyond yourself and trusting God.

Death Does Not Own Me

This devotion was written with special needs mommas in mind!

What I pray this devotional does:

1. Reminds you God is for you.

2. Gives you peace, hope, and strength.

3. Helps you develop a deeper relationship with the Lord.

Rays of Hope for Special Needs Moms

Words, words, words, power-filled words! Words that build or words that tear down. Words that give life or words that bring death. The choice is ours. Let’s evaluate the significant power that is held in our words.

Speaking Life

This study involves steps to intimacy with God that will encourage you during your time alone with Him. I invite you to spend time alone with God every day in an atmosphere of worship. Giving God the first 15 minutes of your day, surrendering your life to His and receiving His love. These times will become the most important and the most energizing part of your day.

Steps to Intimacy With God

Do you ever feel that no matter what you do, it never seems to be enough? That the broken parts of your life - the failures and the heartache - overshadow the possibilities? In this 7-day Bible reading plan, Brittany Maher and Cassandra Speer, leaders of the popular, Her True Worth online community, share Scripture and relatable stories of leaning on God through anxiety and learning to embrace vulnerability.

There's Beauty in Your Brokenness: A 7-Day Plan for Anxiety and Worry

In this seven-day plan based on his book Broken By Fear, Anchored in Hope: Faithfulness in an Age of Anxiety, Rob Merchant explores issues of shame, despair, anxiety—and how we can begin to heal and find hope when we surrender fully to Christ.

Broken by Fear, Anchored in Hope

Don't let worry steal your peace!   Join Lynette Johnson for a three-day Bible plan on overcoming anxiety and discovering how to trust in God and find peace.  Through exploring Matthew 6:24-34, you'll discover the power of God's comfort in the midst of your worries.

Don’t Worry

Inspired by Grace Graber's song "Breakthrough". This devotional plan will take you deeper into the biblical truth that inspired the song. 

Breakthrough: 3-Day Devotional

These seven devotions are based on Trina McNeilly’s book "Unclutter Your Soul: Overcome What Overwhelms You". Your soul was created for wide-open spaces (for a kingdom within!). Emotional pain, stress, anxiety, and depression no longer need to crowd or control your life. Transformation is possible.

Unclutter Your Soul: A 7-Day Devotional

Grace Graber presents a three-day devotional plan based on her newest song "The Light." Join her as she talks about transparency, community, and strength.

The Light: A 3-Day Devotional Plan

Emotions—love them or hate them—we’ve all got them. And we’ve all got to figure out what to do with them. But wait. Can we do anything about emotions? Can we learn how to identify, express, experience—and yes, sometimes wrangle—our feelings in order to live a vibrant, healthy life for Jesus? These devotions will equip you with the Biblical perspectives and practical tools you need to thrive.

All the Feels: Take Charge of Your Feelings (Instead of the Other Way Around)

How does a person renew their mind and experience a personal transformation with Jesus? 

In this 6-day plan, we'll look at precisely what the Bible says about the Renewing of the Mind—partnered with tips and steps on how to step into the personal transformation you've been desiring with your Lord and Savior, King Jesus. The plan is simple, and your transformation with Jesus starts today. Enjoy!

The Renewing of the Mind

Do you need breakthrough in the toughest times? If so, these 7 days of detailed prayer directives will encourage you, equip you, and help you receive the miracles you need from the Lord! As you pray through these Scriptural prayer points, God who hears and answers will move with strength and power in your life! He always watches over His Word to perform it.

7 Days of Miracle Prayer

In a post-COVID world, everyone seems to be talking about well-being. Everyone has an opinion on how to look after themselves and live a flourishing life, but what does the Bible have to say? Journey through the different areas of well-being from physical, emotional, and spiritual to relational, financial, and vocational well-being. 

Wellbeing: An Invitation to a Flourishing Life

Discover the transformative power of sowing seeds in your soul with Blooming Within. In this devotional, we will uproot weeds like offense and regret to cultivate a healthy spiritual life, while also planting seeds of grace, surrender, faith, and trust. Allow the Holy Spirit to nurture and grow these seeds within you, and experience the abundance and fulfillment that come from aligning with God's word.

Blooming Within

In this 7-day plan, licensed counselor Debra Fileta shows you how Jesus’ own life rhythms can guide you to true health and rest, teaching you how to live full rather than empty.  As you learn to be filled as Jesus was by intentional rhythms and practices, you will experience renewed energy, motivation, and strength to serve others as you never have before!

Soul Care: 7 Days of Life-Giving Practices

Fear has a couple of ugly first cousins that cause a lot of trouble; they are anxiety and worry. All three are toxic and must be dealt with. The Good News is … God, in His word, reveals everything we need to know to totally eradicate them from our lives. God’s word is like medicine to the soul and spirit: apply it daily until you are anxiety free.

Anxiety Not!

After being stuck in a pit of depression for several years, Mandisa is back with new music and an even deeper relationship with Christ. This devotional plan, written by Mandisa herself, walks readers through select tracks from her album 'Out Of The Dark,' which is exactly where God brought her out of. If you are battling depression, sadness, despair, or hopelessness, remember that Jesus is the one who lifts us up from the mud and the mire and brings us into His glorious Light!

Mandisa - Out Of The Dark Devotional

Project of Love is: the Bible in song. This plan contains six songs especially for you when you're battling depression. All words are straight from the book of Isaiah, 100% scripture put to song. One chapter, one song every day. Hear & proclaim the amazing Words of the Father sung to and over you - Words of Life, sung to life! 

Music: Bible Songs to Fight Depression

So many of us are exhausted––but not just physically. We’re worn down deep in our souls, bearing a heaviness we can’t seem to shake. But what if we didn’t have to feel so soul-weary? This five-day study will help you let go of heavy burdens like condemnation, worry, and despair and pick up the easy yoke and light burden Christ offers instead.


All Who Are Weary: A 5-Day Study to Find Rest for Your Soul

When the enemy comes against us, what can we do? How did Jesus handle being tempted in the wilderness? This is part four of eight in the "Jesus, I Need You" series by Thistlebend Ministries, focusing on drawing closer to Jesus. The plans in this series can be done in any order. See also "Jesus, I Need You" (companion prayer).

Jesus, I Need You Part 4

Bestselling author and pastor Chris Hodges helps those struggling with depression find liberating solutions by drawing from the life of the prophet Elijah.

Out of the Cave 

God’s word tells us that “tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” (Proverbs 18:21) Knowing this truth, believers should be mindful of the words they speak.  In the Watch Your Mouth Bible Plan, readers will discover in scripture accounts where individuals mouths either produced progression or regression in their lives.

Watch Your Mouth

After being set free, we are called to help set others free. The enemy is advancing and we need more men and women of God to get back in the fight. Deliverance is still a taboo subject in the Body of Christ, however, Damien is devoted to changing the narrative. Join him as he provides a biblical and healthy way to walk with individuals through deliverance by following Jesus’ model.

Biblical Deliverance: The Jesus Model

We’ve looked at Jesus’ radical impact on culture—now we get personal. Can I relate to Jesus’ “normal” life—in all his quiet and personal decisions? Like how he chose right from wrong, like when he lost someone he loved, like when he was misunderstood, marginalized, and underestimated? Together, we go deeper and look behind the stories of the Bible to discover how Jesus may have faced those personal crises. 

He Gets Us: Diving Deeper  | Plan 2

We stop fearing when we discover how powerful and fearsome our God is. A plan with the objective of neutralizing fear.

The Storm Tormentor

Have you ever wondered if the Bible is silent on trauma?  In this 6-day devotional, Carla Arges takes you through some of the major interactions of healing and shows you what the Bible has to say about it.

Healing From Trauma: The Science & the Scriptures

The "Healing From Deep Disappointment" devotional is a 5-day journey designed to help Christian believers navigate through the pain of deep disappointment. It aims to provide spiritual comfort, reinforce trust in God's sovereignty, encourage the release of bitterness, instill hope through God's promises, and guide believers toward rebuilding their faith and moving forward.

Soul Care: Healing From Deep Disappointment

The Bible says we are all called to be disciples. How do we live in the fullness of that calling without the calamities around us leading us to despair? How do we stay hopeful in a world filled with so much hurt?
 
This reading plan will take you into the heart of Jesus's biggest calamity – the night He spent in the Garden of Gethsemane. The goal is to learn from Jesus how to wrestle through the calamities of life whilst remaining faithful to our calling.
 




Between Calamity & Calling

Fear has a way of changing our focus from God to the problems around us. Fear can change our confession from God’s promise to what we are feeling. All throughout the Scripture we are  commanded: “Do not fear.” The reason for not fearing is that we are not alone. God is with us; that’s the promise God gives us to combat fear. 

How to Overcome Fear

The devotions in this reading plan are based on what I call my “fighting words”: the promises of God that I have clung to over the years. I hope that these verses will become your fighting words too, and that we’ll all start walking right up to the darkness in our own hearts and in the weary world around us to speak God’s love and light and truth.	

Fighting Words: 7 Days of Speaking Truth Into the Darkness by Ellie Holcomb

How do we help those who are hurting or struggling with mental health challenges? In this study, based on the best-selling book, SEEN: Healing Despair and Anxiety in Kids and Teens Through the Power of Connection, Dr. Chinwé Williams and Will Hutcherson give a Biblical and research-based perspective on how to help kids and teens who are facing despair, depression, anxiety, and other mental health challenges. 

Seen: Healing Despair and Anxiety Through Connection 

We all face the challenge of controlling our thoughts, which have a huge impact on our actions and emotions, and sometimes feel out of our control. Satan uses our thoughts as a way of trying to control us. If you sometimes feel trapped in a cycle of wrong thinking, let bestselling author Tony Evans show you how to take control of your thought life and find the victory Christ offers.

Who Controls Your Thoughts?

Made From Something Marred, is a four-day reflection on God's transformative power, using the imagery of the Potter and the clay from Jeremiah 18. Each day's devotion explores a different aspect of God's work in our lives

Made From Something Marred

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

Do you ever find yourself saying “this isn’t turning out the way I thought it would”? Whether it’s a relationship crisis, the loss of a loved one, an unexplained illness, or a hard life situation, Lysa TerKeurst understands and invites you to join this 5-day reading plan. Together, we’ll learn where disappointment comes from and how to discover the strength you need to face heartbreak in a biblical way.

It’s Not Supposed To Be This Way: A 5-Day Challenge By Lysa TerKeurst

Through this 5-day Bible plan, Killing Comparison, author Nona Jones offers practical insight and down-to-earth encouragement to help you avoid the despair of comparison and pursue a free, joyful life—to live confident in who God made you to be. Order the full book Killing Comparison to go further in your journey to freedom.

Killing Comparison

Every day has the potential to introduce complex new challenges into our lives. But it’s equally likely that each new day will gift us with exciting new opportunities. In this seven-day devotional, staff members at YouVersion help you apply truths from God’s Word to whatever you’re facing today. Each day’s devotional includes a Verse Image to help you share what God is speaking to you.

7 Things The Bible Says About Anxiety

Trauma of any kind impedes our ability to experience the wholeness found in Christ. Relational trauma, trauma resulting from an abusive or dysfunctional relationship, often fractures our perception of God, self, and others. As a licensed Christian therapist specializing in trauma, I have witnessed true healing from trauma. In this devotional you will explore, heal, and grow beyond the areas of your heart that have been fragmented by relational trauma. 

Being Whole: 21 Days to Overcoming Relational Trauma

Are you anxious about the direction your life is headed? Do you feel too weak and exhausted to face the next stretch ahead? In examining the Israelites’ journey in Exodus, we learn how God takes care of us in our own journeys! God wisely leads us. He gives us strength in our weakness. He provides for our daily needs. And He revitalizes us in our exhaustion. 


Fuel for Your Journey

What is Salvation? 
Is it a prayer we pray to ensure we go to heaven? 
A lifestyle? An event? 

In this 7-day devotional, we go over exactly what the Bible says about Salvation. 

-Jesus finished work on the cross
-What is salvation? 
-What are we saved from? 
-What are we saved into? 
-What is our identity as a new creation in Christ? 
-And more... 

Let's go!

Living in Salvation

Do you ever feel trapped under the crushing weight of negative thoughts? Whether it’s regret, worry, fear, or frustration, God wants to help you find freedom. This super short, 3-day Bible Plan is designed to help you control your negative thoughts to find hope, peace, and purpose.  

How to Overcome Negative Thoughts

Stop the Spiral: A Devotional by Jennie Allen
Join us for 5 days of devotions to inspire you to stop the toxic thinking patterns and remind you of God’s power to set you free. Each day includes a verse for meditating on God's word, a Rewire the Spiral statement to repeat throughout your day, and a personal prayer for sparking deeper intimacy with God.

Stop the Spiral of Negative Thought Patterns

This devotional is designed to help you reflect on Holy Week and draw closer to God.

Holy Week

Where should you turn when you're struggling with anxiety and depression? To God and His Word! With each day of this devotional, you'll encounter a memorable scripture, a truth-filled reading, and a prayer that promise to encourage, inspire, and strengthen your faith. With the heavenly Creator by your side, you'll be well on your way to conquering your anxiety and depression.

Devotions to Conquer Anxiety and Depression

Learn to face evil and stay calm in our unpredictable culture. Based on the book Never Shaken by Pastor Daniel Henderson, this 5-day devotional will help you find unshakeable courage and remain steadfast no matter life's trials. 

Defying Evil, Doing Good 

Stress has a way of piling up in a woman’s life until she is unable to make quality decisions, enter into meaningful conversation, or enjoy what she has been given. You were not created to be an anxious woman whose life is being frittered away at the altar of busyness. You are a woman of significance, created for joy, peace, and eternal impact!

A Woman Of Significance: Overcoming Stress 

Embark on a dynamic 5-day journey with "Scripture-Based Healing Declarations." As children of God, each day we will speak 10 powerful affirmations from scripture, written in the first person. Whether you're battling acute, chronic, physical, or emotional illnesses, boldly declare these truths to invite divine healing and reclaim your health and vitality. Our Father, The LORD Who Heals You, is with us every step of the way.

Scripture-Based Healing Declarations

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

In this 7-day devotional, Bilingual Singer-songwriter, Deora Clairé, shares how she overcame depression and suicidal thoughts through the power of God. With seven steps, you uncover how to take action against depression and be reminded that your life has purpose. May God bless you and comfort you as you read this devotional. 

Taking Action Against Depression

Inspired by their own experiences with suffering and loss, Pat Elsberry and Boyd Bailey share gospel-based hope for others who mourn. Follow these authors' testimonies of grief and be encouraged to lean on Jesus more deeply because His love can conquer your grief. 

Comforted by God

In today’s world, we are on the brink of a mental health epidemic that estimates that 1 in 4 adults suffer from a diagnosable mental illness. Mental illness reaches across all boundary lines as depression and anxiety impact the church-goer just as much as those who don’t. So, what do we do with this? Join us for a 3-day journey through the Psalms as we discuss mental health.

The Maker and Mental Health

Are you facing an obstacle at every turn? It may have been a challenging emotional season. Do you sometimes feel like just throwing in the towel? Take a 7-day journey through the truth of God's Word and His promises. Allow Him to restore joy, courage, and strength.

7 Ways to Fight Discouragement: By Jennifer Maggio

This 10-day devotional is an invitation to feel, sit with, and fully acknowledge your suffering after miscarriage or infant loss. It is also an invitation to be seen, understood, and to find Biblically-anchored hope, even amid pain. Ultimately, this is about God. A reminder that He is gracious and meets us right where we are, no matter how lost we may feel.


It Will Be for Something

Life happens, and sometimes it can get the best of you. If you’re frustrated, angry or depressed over who you have become, it’s time to be changed. Change can seem insurmountable at first, but you don’t have to do it by yourself. This devotional will connect you to God’s transforming power to become the person he intended you to be. Your change can begin today!

Changed: A 5-Day Transformation

Be the light to the world Jesus intended you to be! This is part eight of eight in the "Jesus, I Need You" series by Thistlebend Ministries, focusing on drawing closer to Jesus. The plans in this series can be done in any order. See also "Jesus, I Need You" (companion prayer).

Jesus, I Need You Part 8

Hello, dear friend! My prayer is that you are seeing miracles, big and small, in your life every single day. Over the next seven days, we are going to see the miracle of transparency as I share some of my own journey with you. My journey of finding hope in a time of heaviness.

Finding Hope in the Heaviness

In a world where depression and anxiety abound, what is our option for joy? Is there really an abundant life? Can we really walk in a peace beyond all understanding? Join Roxanne as she shares her journey to overcome her anxious heart and walk in a peace tethered to the character and faithfulness of God, and not to people, events or circumstances.

Stop, Drop and Worship

Sometimes problems seem insurmountable, like a steep rock rising right in front of us. Where do we find help then? Psalm 121 helps us find the answer: “My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.”

Where Can I Find Help?

There are at least seven major aspects of wholeness involved in seeking God’s best for your emotional life. You don’t need to take these in sequence. Join Dr. Charles Stanley as he helps you build key habits into your life that will help you become increasingly whole in your spirit and emotions. Discover more reading plans like this one at intouch.org/plans.

Seven Keys To Emotional Wholeness

Are you struggling with anxiety, depression, or trauma? If so, you know that the weight of emotional pain makes it hard to talk to God or know what to say to Him. Licensed trauma therapist and Christian counselor Kobe Campbell will walk you through this 7-day plan where she'll teach you how to draw near to God in a way that improves both your mental and spiritual health.

Cry Out: How to Bring Your Anxiety, Depression & Trauma to God

Are you going through a difficult time right now? If so, God loves you, He sees what you’re going through, and He desires to help you right where you are. In this 5-day study, Joyce shares Biblical principles to help you combat feelings of depression and thoughts of suicide…and allow God to breathe new hope and life into your situation.

Hope for Those Struggling With Thoughts of Suicide and Depression

Regret is something we all face at one time or another because we all make mistakes. How do we work through that regret when the pain is deep? This plan will explore ways we can acknowledge our regrets and move on from them. We don't have to be stuck, and if submitted to God, we can come out better on the other side of it.

Regret: How to Move Forward

God will test you in the area most important to you. The test is to reveal whether you value Him or the things He can do for you the most. How do you handle it when you don’t get the answer to your prayers that you wanted? This devotional will develop having an “even if” relationship with God.

Even If: When God Says No

Sometimes it can feel like we are drowning in negativity. The world around us, and our own minds, can seem dominated by fear, anger, and depression. But what if we could harness that negativity, and use it to bring us closer to God?  We will show how God can turn our problems into solutions. He gives us the very lesson we need each day, if we are open to Him.

Invite Jesus to Heal Your Negative Mindset

Jesus cares for each and every one of us, and he invites you and me to bring to him our worries and anxieties of the world and lay them at his feet. In this plan, we will look at how casting our care and trusting God can help improve your overall mental health and well-being. 

Cast Your Care

The first thing we say when we introduce ourselves is “I am.” We say our names, our occupations, and anything else that communicates who we are. The problem is, we tend to misidentify ourselves. Who we are is not determined by what we do, but rather by to whom we belong. Join Natalie Grant and Charlotte Gambill as they share how to live with God-sized confidence.

Developing Godly Self-Confidence

Don’t get over it. Get through it. Dr. Carol Peters-Tanksley helps you discover your unique path through the grieving process in this powerful fourteen-day journey.

Your Journey Through Grief

Five days of biblical comfort and advice for a challenging Christmas season. Based on excerpts from the Christian Standard Bible (CSB) Life Counsel Bible.

Hoping Through Hurt: 5 Days of Biblical Counsel for the Holidays

Ginia Bishop, author of Grace to Start Over: You are worthy of a new beginning, invites you on a heartfelt journey in her latest book, "El-Roi: The God Who Sees." Through her personal story, she uncovers the beauty of being seen and loved by God, even in the most forgotten moments of life.

In "El-Roi," you will discover that you are never alone; your heavenly Father God is always there, watching you with love and compassion. 


El-Roi the God Who Sees Me

Many people would say they do not like mornings because of the habits they have developed over time. My goal with this is not to change you, but to make you realize the power that developing a habit of waking up early to seek God can cause in every other aspect of your life.

The Power of Morning Prayer

Everybody experiences trauma at some level in their life.  During this 7-day devotional, Brian Dickinson, a former US Navy Aviation Rescue Swimmer and Mount Everest survivor, shares his personal military experiences of trauma and provides biblical guidance for finding freedom. There is so much life to live, but only through God will we be able to fully embrace His promise!

Surviving Trauma

What does your heart need to hear as you wrestle with depression and anxiety? As Sarah Robinson has discovered in her own struggles, you don’t need to do everything right or believe all the Christian clichés to have a peace-filled life in the midst of mental illness. No matter how you feel in this moment, God hasn’t abandoned you. There is light ahead & you’re going to make it there. 

I Love Jesus, but I Want to Die: A 5-Day Plan to Give You Hope in the Darkness of Depression 

Jesus is the light that dispels our darkness! This is part five of eight in the" Jesus, I Need You" series by Thistlebend, focusing on drawing closer to Jesus. The plans in this series can be done in any order. See also" Jesus, I Need You" (companion prayer).

Jesus, I Need You Part 5

Do your ever feel overwhelmed by shame? 

Perhaps you failed and made a huge mistake. Maybe you did something which hurt someone you love dearly. 

In the Psalms, we find a deep resource to navigate our shame and even overcome it! In this 3-day reading plan, Scott Savage shares how the Psalms equipped him to overcome shame.

Overcoming Shame With the Psalms

Joan Hunter has devoted her life to carrying a message of hope, deliverance, and healing to the nations. In this plan, she candidly discusses issues common to veterans and their families, and offers words of encouragement to help them seek God for their healing.

Healing for Veterans and Their Families

Sometimes, we have to go through circumstances that we don’t understand. Knowing that all things work together for our good encourages us and gives us hope for the future. The goal of this reading plan about Romans 8:28 is to engrave this truth into your heart: God causes everything to work together for your good!
