Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to 1 John 5:13

That You May Know explores, over three days, the assurance of our Salvation. We will look at the Word of the Father, the Work of Jesus Christ, and the Witness of the Holy Spirit. God desires for us to know that we are saved and to live in the Peace, Joy, and Purpose that come from a relationship with Him. May this devotional strengthen your faith and deepen your understanding of God’s Love for you.

God wants you to KNOW you are saved and will go to heaven! Your assurance grows through encountering God and meditating on His Word. The following verses, when memorized, can help you rest assured in God in all of your days. Let your life be transformed by memorizing Scripture!

The apostle John, known as the beloved disciple because he lay on Jesus’ chest, shows us in his first letter some aspects of God’s love. In this plan, Pastor Jeff Wells highlights four aspects of the way God loves us. Delight yourself and enjoy this reading that will make you love the One who loved you first.

Many people are smiling, but hurting inside. I have discovered that God is doing something in everyone's life, and He's doing something in mine too! I'm loving/praying for strangers like never before. And they are grateful. These personal stories in my life are to help you help others move one step closer to God.

Does comparison steal your holiday joy? Do you feel constant pressure to look better, be better, or have better things during the holiday season? If you've ever felt discouraged after scrolling social media or disheartened after learning about a friend's fabulous holiday--stress not! This plan is for you. Author and podcast host Heather Creekmore takes you on a 4-day practical and relatable journey to help you enjoy a comparison-free Christmas.

We are saved by God’s grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. However, if we are truly saved, our lives must be truly changed. This 5-day study will help you evaluate the evidence of your salvation and pursue greater assurance through a life of holiness.

In this plan we will undertake a study of the book of 1 John, in the New Testament. The book of 1 John is the first of three books, written by John the elder to house church believers. The book of 1 John encourages believers to remember that God is light and love and therefore to live lives that reflect that light and love with one another and the world.

Clutter is real! Sometimes it’s physical things. Other times it’s stockpiles of emotional junk. But whatever the disordered heap may be, we’ve all got some in our lives. So how do we solve this clutter problem? Using Scripture, this five-day plan will guide us through four key simplification questions that will help us refocus on what’s truly important, strip away waste, and declutter our lives.

1 John is one of three letters written by John the Beloved, the same author as the Gospel of John and Revelation. Written as a response to false teaching in the church, John reminds his readers that just as God is both love and light, true believers are to show love and light to the world.

Anxiety isn’t something you can beat in a day, but it is something you can beat one day, one thought, one action at a time. In this 5-day study, Joyce offers practical tips for tackling worried thoughts and mindsets. Take your first step and start living a peaceful life—no matter the circumstance!

John, the last living apostle, wrote a Gospel. And it seems some people were distorting it. John writes to believers caught in the aftermath, bringing clarity and commentary on what he wrote. He shows them what it looks like to be people of light and life instead of people of death and darkness. This plan takes us through 1 John and how to live in the face of distorted Christianity.

When Jesus said that the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few, he also provided the initial step for solving this dilemma. “Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field” (Matthew 9:37-38, Luke 10:2, NIV). This plan examines how praying “sending prayers,” enables followers of Jesus, to have an impact in advancing the gospel.

Christians are different. They can’t help it. When you’re in Christ and filled with the Spirit, it changes you. This leads to weird ideas and alternate beliefs about reality. This series of 5-day plans uses classic Christian Creeds as a vehicle to explain the Christian worldview compared to the world’s, and help us see reality through Jesus’s eyes.

Sometimes life hurts. Sometimes life is hard. Sometimes life can be dark. And it leaves its mark—like ashes of grief—in the deepest parts of our souls, where no one but God can really see. In this plan, Darcie Stephens, Finding Hope Coordinator for Hope is Alive Ministries, shares some of her own story of loving those in the midst of substance abuse and how God brought her HOPE.

Are you married?  If so, congratulations!  You have been blessed.  Your wife is a gift from God (Proverbs 18:22), and no matter the state of your marriage at present, the covenant relationship you share with her is a God-ordained privilege.  This privilege of marriage comes with responsibility, not only to your spouse, but also to God, as marriage itself is a metaphor for Jesus’ relationship to the Church.  Want to glorify God and help advance the Gospel?  Learn how to love your wife well!

The New Testament books of 1, 2 and 3 John have a recurring theme: love. The author speaks repeatedly of Jesus’s command for believers to love one another. Christian believers should stand apart from the rest of the world, characterized by God’s love. This six-day devotional explores John’s words in his three epistles, offering tangible ways to show God’s love to fellow believers.

Many people struggle with the question: How can I be sure I am saved? This 7-day study will help you to understand what Jesus came to do for you and why you can be sure.

Hang on mom—there’s joy to be found under all those dirty dishes! This is a motherhood survival guide from popular blogger Lisa Pennington and her new book "Mama Needs a Do-Over."

How do we know we're forgiven when we mess up? How do we receive the power for living a new life every day? How do we enjoy a deep, personal connection with God? The same way we got started - by God's grace. Find out how you can live in freedom, purpose, and joy, just as God intended. Experience the full benefits of the simple gospel, simply by grace.

What a tragedy to go through one’s Christian life believing Christ is the Savior, but not having the assurance that if you died tonight you would wake up in His presence. Join the apostle John through chapter 5 of his epistle—1 John. Together we will learn to stand on God’s promises and to understand how to fight back when the enemy tries to seed doubt into our minds.

Join the creative community of Hillsong Church as we read and pray through 1, 2, and 3 John. These works are likely penned by the apostle John, written to a known community of believers and to specific individuals within this community. John wrote to combat false teaching by re-anchoring believers in the truth of Jesus Christ and giving guidance on how to live in love as children of God.

Escalating anxiety and depression have led far too many to die by suicide, leaving loved ones behind with more questions than answers—and these questions often cut to the core of their Christian beliefs. In this seven-day devotional, Dr. Jim Denison reveals what the Bible says about suicide and whether it is “the unpardonable sin.”

As Christians, someday we will leave this earth and live with God in heaven—yet many of us know very little about heaven. Thinking about heaven changes the way we live on earth. This week, Dr. Robert Jeffress takes us to God’s Word for answers to common questions about heaven. We’ll learn to live more wisely, prepare for the future, and possess the joy that heaven’s certainty brings today.

Half-hearted, lazy, who cares? Don’t you hate that attitude? Jesus hates it more, as He declared in Revelation 3:16; but how easily we fall into the deception that makes Him want to vomit us out of His mouth! Let’s look at ways we become lukewarm without realizing it, and how to move with our whole hearts into the joy and security of knowing and being known by Him.

There’s a reason that the two greatest commandments according to Jesus begin “You shall love….” There’s a reason that the apostle Paul says we can have all the spiritual gifts in the world yet still “gain nothing” if we lack love. In this seven-day survey on God’s love and ours, Alistair explains why love truly is at the heart of Christianity.