Parents

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Parenting Teens/Tweens

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In-law relationships can be challenging at times. But honoring the parental relationship was important enough to God that He put upholding it into the Ten Commandments. Taking God at His Word means honoring your spouse’s parents with this high standard too! 


Love Because: Devotions for In-Law Relationships

Sweet Mama,
Have you ever wondered what your purpose is in the middle of the sleepless nights, endless dishes, and everyday chaos of motherhood? You’re not alone. It’s easy to feel lost in the busy and forget that your life holds eternal value. As we walk through the final days before Jesus’ crucifixion, you’ll begin to see how His story tenderly speaks into yours. Your purpose isn’t defined by what you accomplished today—it’s anchored in the love of a Savior who gave everything to be close to you. You are deeply loved, fully seen, and never forgotten. 💛

Your Purpose Is Not in Your Perfection

Find a sense of sacredness, meaning and worship in the ordinary moments of parenthood with a daily liturgy + accompanying devotional. 

Liturgies for the Little Years

Dear Survivor,
You are here, and that matters. This devotional is a sacred space to breathe, belong, and begin again. Through the story of Tamar, you’ll gather the torn threads of your life and invite God to weave something beautiful. Each day offers a thread of healing, worth, voice, release, reimagining, and reweaving. Come as you are. Light a candle. Breathe. You may cry, write, revisit a day, or rest. There is no wrong way to heal. You are not broken, you are becoming. You are not too far gone. Your life is a tapestry that God lovingly designed.

The Thread for Survivors: A 5-Day Devotional Journal of Healing, Finding Your Voice and Sacred Becoming

Here's the 3-day devotional for the song “Time To Help" from 3 Little Words – Let It Shine (Volume 3) — a simple yet deep way to reflect on God's presence in our lives, with a Bible verse, fun reflection, and practical activity for each day! Let's teach our kids about the Kingdom, cultivating this devotional habit and encouraging them to see God's presence in our daily lives!

Time to Help

Here's the 3-day devotional for the song “Only The Power Of God" from 3 Little Words – Let It Shine (Volume 3) — a simple yet deep way to reflect on God's presence in our lives, with a Bible verse, fun reflection, and practical activity for each day! Let's teach our kids about the Kingdom, cultivating this devotional habit and encouraging them to see God's presence in our daily lives!

Only the Power of God

In this 5-day devotional, Shaquana Springfield leads women through powerful biblical encounters that reveal Christ as Healer, Restorer, and Redeemer. Stories like the man in the tombs, the woman at the well, and the woman with the issue of blood expose emotional and spiritual battles women face—and the breakthroughs available through faith. Each day offers prophetic insight, practical application, and a call to rise as a Proverbs 31 Warrior.

Clothed in My Right Mind

Here's the 3-day devotional for the song “Name Above All" from 3 Little Words – Let It Shine (Volume 3) — a simple yet deep way to reflect on God's presence in our lives, with a Bible verse, fun reflection, and practical activity for each day! Let's teach our kids about the Kingdom, and give praise to our Lord together!

Name Above All

If we don’t own the process of discipling our kids as they play sports, sports culture will do it for us. But as parents, we can get so consumed with our young athletes’ physical development that we miss the chances athletics provide to help them grow spiritually. This 7 day devotional challenges us to be more than spectators on the sidelines of our kids’ spiritual lives and turn sport moments into discipleship opportunities. 