Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Luke 6:44
The Counsel Of The Lord Shall Stand.
3 days
Vance K. Jackson leads readers in this powerful heart transforming devotional. Let God examine the ground of your heart. Choose to submit to His Word and Counsel. Only God can intimately understand, weigh and judge the heart of man. Only His Word can sift through the intentions and motives of the heart. Let go of the past and let God heal you. Let His Word every aspect of your heart.
How to Be a Kingdom Builder
3 Days
Some people spend their lives building their own little empires, focused on their own needs, wants, circumstances, and fears. But others focus on building God’s Kingdom in this world—and find their life’s true power, fulfilment, and freedom. Join Bible teacher Berni Dymet from Christianityworks as he opens the Bible to discover how you can get your heart right, see things from God’s perspective, and make your life count.
Keys to a Powerful Prayer Life
4 Days
There are many things that we should do in addition to prayer, but there is nothing that we can effectively do without prayer. We should learn to live a quality prayer life just like Jesus did.
Guard Your Heart
4 Days
Our day-to-day situations can be quite challenging. And if we don't take care of our inner selves, we can become vulnerable to the attacks of the enemy. Every attack is aimed at shaking our faith and making us give up. In this devotional you will learn four essential attitudes, according to God's Word, to protect your heart and thus overcome all attacks.
Wholehearted: Living Life By The Greatest Commandment
5 Days
Deep within us is a desire to live an integrated life, especially when it comes to our faith. In fact, the "greatest commandment" in Scripture (Deuteronomy 6:4-5) exhorts Christians to live this way, loving God with our whole being - heart, soul, and strength. In this 5-day plan, you will learn more about this "greatest commandment" and how to live it out. Ultimately, loving God not only impacts your inner life, but also extends to your external life, including your work and wealth.
Speak To My Heart, Jesus
5 Days
This five-day plan will help you listen to His words of wisdom to bring clarity to your soul and comfort to restore your heart.
Grow: Becoming More Like Jesus
5 Days
The Bible talks a lot about "growing" - learning more about Jesus, following him more closely, obeying him more naturally, and becoming more like him in our attitudes and actions. "Grow: Becoming More Like Jesus" includes verses about seeds, roots, plants, trees, and fruit, all great images for thinking about what it means to live for Jesus.
Designed to Last
5 Days
We’re Dino and Ashley Petrone, and we have a passion for healthy, God-centered marriages. We pray that by sharing our own experiences of confronting our failures, seeking after the future, and being intentional, we can encourage others by suggesting ways to move forward with a God-centered marriage.
Fighting the Fires of Dangerous Thoughts.
5 Days
Do you ever work yourself up over conversations that you have with people . . . in your head? Do you ever play out worst case scenarios for things that could possibly go wrong in the future? Our thoughts can be like dangerous wildfires, if we let them. In this devotional, we’ll learn how God can help us extinguish those wildfire thoughts.
Jesus, I Need You Part 6
6 Days
It’s important to know Jesus and what is important to Him so we understand our need for Him. Reflecting on what Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount, will help us draw closer to Him. This is part six of eight in the "Jesus, I Need You" series by Thistlebend Ministries. These plans can be done in any order. See also" Jesus, I Need You" (companion prayer).
Lord, Look Inside My Heart
6 Days
Often, we can be overwhelmed by the symptoms of sin in our lives but afraid to look at the root of our sin. This plan will teach us how to examine the roots of our actions and the fruits they produce. ‘Heart of a Woman’ (a full-length Bible study) and ‘Lord, Look Inside My Heart’ (abridged paperback) are available online.
Lord, Help My Critical Heart
6 Days
Do you have a critical spirit? Do you find yourself more prone to comparison than confidence? God has created us to live in the purpose He planned for us and called us to, but we can easily be derailed when we consistently notice the negative. This plan, by Lindsay Few, will help renew your mind with biblical truth and unleash God’s purpose and power in your life!
Jesus…at Home in Your Heart
6 Days
Your home is not your physical address. Your real home, this side of heaven, is your heart. As a Christian, it’s the most sacred part of your life, where Christ lovingly resides. Contentment is found when Jesus fully occupies every room and holds the keys to your heart. Join me on a journey to transform your heart into a home of comfort, stability, and peace. At home with Him!
Discipleship: God's Plan for Reaching the World
6 Days
Many churches today are like spiritual orphanages, filled with people who accepted the gospel but never grew in maturity because no one has discipled them. This 6-day devotional plan will help you break the cycle of spiritual abandonment by exploring Jesus' command to discipleship. May it reignite your passion for becoming a disciple-making disciple.
How to Face Life's Challenges
6 Days
Stephen Foster presents this six-day plan on how Jesus’ teachings unlock some of life’s major challenges. Each day equips you with Biblical application relating to different challenges like worry, failure, anger, loving enemies, judging others, and facing temptation. Be encouraged to approach these struggles with confidence in the love, power, and wisdom of Jesus, who is worthy of our worship even amidst the very real difficulties of life.
Extravagant – When Worship Becomes Lifestyle
7 Days
The word extravagant comes from the Latin, extravagari, meaning to “wander outside or beyond.” It describes working outside of prescribed lines, even recklessly so. The woman who anointed Jesus’ feet with perfume was someone prepared to go “outside the lines” of what was deemed acceptable in her passion to demonstrate her love for Jesus. Read to learn more about a lifestyle of extravagant worship!
Forgiveness
7 Days
Offering forgiveness to others is one of the most challenging, but life-giving aspects of the Christian faith. In forgiving we find healing for our own hearts. When we forgive, we become like Christ in offering undeserving mercy and grace in love. In this 7-day plan, you’ll embark on the journey to healing and restoration as you receive and give forgiveness in the power and presence of Jesus.
Does God Care About What I Say Online?
7 Days
Social media was made to bring us together. But few things have driven us further apart. Daniel Darling believes we need an approach that applies biblical wisdom to our engagement with social media, an approach that neither retreats from modern technology nor ignores the harmful ways in which Christians often engage publicly. In short, he believes that we can and should use our online conversations for good.
Simply Church
7 Days
I LOVE MY CHURCH. People talk about what they love. They love their spouse, love their children. Or they love their job, sports team or pet, but how many people say they love their church? My prayer is that as you follow this plan, you may re-discover your love of the church and its purpose. Helping our churches today to be authentic, mirroring the original church. That is Simply Church.
A Time to Sow
7 Days
Our lives are like spiritual gardens. Creating a beautiful, flourishing garden takes time and effort, but that time and effort is ultimately meant to be enjoyed. Over the next 7 days, follow Dr. Kent Ingle as he walks you through the joy of sowing good seed into your life. Dr. Ingle is the President of Southeastern University and has contributed numerous written works within the fields of leadership and spirituality.
Guard Your Heart
7 Days
Our heart is precious. We consider it the source of our emotions, thinking and feeling. Therefore, it is important to protect our hearts from wrong influences. This reading plan helps you discover how to fill your heart with good things and how it can be cleansed from evil by the Lord God.
Love at First Sex? Finding Purity in a Sex-Crazed World
7 Days
I was once slave to my flesh and sin, but now I am free. Jesus pulled me out of a life of pain and emptiness and brought me into His loving arms. He wants this for you too! God has given us freedom through His son. We don’t have to be slave to this world so obsessed with sex. We can be transformed even if we’ve failed repeatedly. Walk through this 7 day plan and hear God’s word set to song.
Hope for Recovery: A 7-Day Plan for Those in Recovery
7 Days
Whether you’re on day one of your recovery or day one thousand, this plan from Hope is Alive will help give you the tools and encouragement to maintain your sobriety.
Ready, Steady, Grow
7 Days
Congratulations on the best decision you will ever make! You are a new creation! The old is no more! You are transformed, renewed, and now have eternal life! This devotional was written as a foundational guide for new believers in Christ but also for old timers to refresh on foundational truths. We hope these words will help you start this incredible journey or keep you going.
Storms of Life: Encouragement for Seasons of Struggle
7 Days
Feeling caught in life's storms? Major changes in life can bring anxiety, but the Bible offers encouragement for times of stress and struggle. Using the metaphor of a hurricane, this series gives direction and hope through God’s Word for the storms of life. Build your life on the solid foundation of Jesus Christ and trust his promises to help you prepare, persevere, and recover through any challenge.