No Flow No Grow is a five-day Bible study focusing on our spiritual heart, lungs, blood, and—most importantly—the spiritually brokenhearted. The overall emphasis is on aligning one’s heart with God's will and seeking His presence.



No Flow, No Grow

The story of David told in 2 Samuel 11 and 12 is one of the most profound narratives in the Bible, as it shows us the power of sin, the consequence of human actions but also the great Mercy of God that He has shown not only to David and all the accomplices of the story but also, after several millennia, to our lives. This story focuses on David, the King of Israel, who fell into a series of serious sins, but who found the way to forgiveness thanks to his sincere repentance.

The Prince Without a Name

When death takes a beloved spouse, it can feel like our faith goes to the grave with them. Yet, in despair, God holds us close in His steadfast love. In this 7-day devotional, we look at Jesus’ heart for those grieving the loss of a spouse.

We would like to thank Elise Boros and FamilyLife for providing this plan. For more information, visit www.familylife.com.

Surviving Year One: After the Death of Your Spouse

There’s no limit to who can experience tragedy. Sooner or later, everyone will be faced with the sadness and difficulties associated with sudden traumatic events that change life forever. Join Dr. Charles Stanley as he invites you to experience God’s compassion during times of crisis and helps you discover how to respond when tragedy strikes.

When Tragedy Strikes

Everyone's story comes with unique challenges that leave you lost and drowning in their wake. Dr. Tony Evans, bestselling author and pastor, understands life's hardships firsthand. In less than two years, he lost his brother, sister, brother-in-law, two nieces, father, and wife. Join him on this 5 day journey and see that there is hope for the hurting: His name is Jesus.

Hope for the Hurting

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

On the journey of life, loss is an inevitable companion. Amid the pain and emptiness, we have two options: to dwell on what has been lost or to embrace what remains and discover uncharted paths. The latter unveils the opportunity for transformational growth. This 4-day plan directs attention to the possibilities in new beginnings. Prepare to discover God’s plan for restoration.

NEW BEGINNINGS: Life After Loss

This reading plan includes five daily devotions based on the book Divine Disruption. The Evans family has experienced numerous losses in recent years, and they have learned as a family to continue to place their faith in God and His goodness. This study will explore how the inevitable disruptions, losses, and heartbreaks in life carry a divine message that could ultimately bring us closer to each other and God.

Divine Disruption: Holding on to Faith When Life Breaks Your Heart

Whether you’re experiencing the loss of a friendship, a broken dream, or a breakup—experiencing heartbreak can be confusing and challenging. In this 7-Day Bible Plan, you’ll learn how to tend to your broken heart God’s way. 

Near to the Brokenhearted: How to Heal From Heartbreak God’s Way

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

Has something happened that you didn't see coming? Are you in an emotional place you never planned to be? Grief shows up in our lives uninvited. Unhealed grief has sent me to the emergency room and onto my knees in prayer. What I discovered in the Psalms helped me heal, and I want to help you too! 

Healing From Grief With the Psalms

This study is a precious devotional gift to the suffering soul: 4-days of wisdom, hope, and encouragement. It draws upon stories from past saints, experiences with suffering, and rich truths from Scripture to help fellow sufferers: to embrace one day at a time, trust and love Jesus more, and put themselves "In the Hands of a Fiercely Tender God."

In the Hands of a Fiercely Tender God - 4 Days of Hope and Encouragement for the Sufferer

In the middle of the pain you didn’t cause, the change you didn’t want, the reality you didn’t know was coming . . . your life can still be beautiful. Because with God, there’s always more than we see being worked out behind the scenes. Join Lysa TerKeurst as she invites you to start hoping again with this 5-day reading plan from her devotional, Seeing Beautiful Again.

5 Days to Seeing Beautiful Again by Lysa TerKeurst

When life gets hard it is easy to wonder where God is and if he hears our prayers. Let me reassure you, he does! Keep standing in the light! May this Bible reading plan give you the hope you need for another day. 

Still Standing While Wrestling With the Dark

No one wants this title:  Widowed.  Whether a male or female, the death of a soulmate catapults the survivor into a new way of living.  We dislike the name given, yet it is so fitting, as we feel trapped in this terrible web.  I invite you to join me as we walk through this 6-day devotional that helps bring a new perspective to our walk!


The Widow's & Widower's Walk

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

When hurtful situations leave us worn out and unmotivated to spend time with God, sometimes we need more than just a pep talk. We need a friend to come alongside us with biblical truth and encouragement. Through 5 days of devotions inspired from her devotional, You’re Going to Make It, Lysa will give you powerful scriptures and practical tools to help you work through what you’re walking through right now.



5 Days to Believe You’re Going to Make It 

Do you feel like you have no hope? Has the darkness of your suffering blinded you to all aspects of light? Do you need comfort to seep down into your soul? Through this letter, Paul wrote, Jesus will give you exactly what you need right now.

Hopeful Grief

Losing a loved one is utterly heartbreaking. It’s a terrible pain that no one can understand unless they’ve been in your shoes. This 5-day plan was written by women who have experienced loss and want to help you find comfort and peace in God’s Word. While this plan can’t help you accelerate the grief process, we believe it will help you endure the everyday hurts and give you hope.

Living Changed: Through Grief

If you are struggling with grief, know you are not alone. Scripture is filled with examples of people who experienced the death of someone they held dear. Whether your loss was recent or not, God is able to comfort you. This five-day devotional plan will remind you of His care for those who grieve and mourn. 

God Help Me, I’m Grieving

As a young father of two precious children, Tommie Harris Jr. lost his wife to a brain aneurysm. At that point, he had to learn to stand on his knees. Tommie was a chubby kid, a high school athlete, a college football All-American and an NFL star. He learned to play through the pain at every level. This plan is the fourth of five in the series.

Playing Through the Pain: Deflated

We are never ready to lose someone we love. 

When Mike Nappa lost his wife, Amy, to cancer, he desperately asked friends to send Bible verses, which became a lifeline and source of comfort in his hardest hours. A collection of these verses, along with some of Mike's personal reflections on loss, will bring comfort when you need it and words to pray when the pain feels overwhelming. 

Reflections for the Grieving Soul

We all experience great loss- a relationship, a job, a loved one, or simply life as it once was. We’re sure that life is not supposed to be this way and so we grieve and mourn for what could have been. And we’re not alone. Join us for the final week of a 5-part plan that will help us learn the language and heart of lament in Scripture.

Good Grief Part 5: Learning to Lament Your Sin

Where is God in the trials and tribulations of life? Where is He when you need Him most? In this 5-day devotional by Daystar’s Joni Lamb, you’ll discover what it means to walk hand-in-hand with God even when life brings its biggest blows and setbacks. If you’re ready for a greater, renewed strength in Christ, then this devotional is for you. 

Through the Storm

Running from the Heart was written from the broken heart of a mother as a legacy to her beautiful daughter, Rebecca, who unexpectedly, was called home to Heaven. Each devotional is based on Rebecca's journal entries that speak of a life well lived.  We pray that each devotional will inspire you on your own spiritual journey, to live a courageous life for Jesus Christ.

Running From The Heart

In the TrustWorthy plan by Charla Turner, readers will be equipped with a biblical understanding of what trust is, whom they should trust, and how they can deepen trustworthy relationships in their lives.

TrustWorthy

Offenses are one of Satan’s weapons to create in you arguments of destruction that fill you with hate, bitterness, and resentment, blocking you from receiving the overabundant blessings that God has already decreed for you. That's why, in this reading plan, we want to show you the weapon with which you can be free: “forgiveness.” God wants you to have a healed heart!

Wounds and Forgiveness!

There comes a point in the grief journey where it feels as if no one understands. Those feelings are real and valid because we have a “hurry up and get over it” culture that brushes over grief. In this devotional, you will learn how to sit with God in your grief—to know you are never alone, he understands, and he can comfort every grieving heart, including yours.

Can You Just Sit With Me? Sitting With God in Grief

In the beginning was the Word … but what came next? This plan is for anyone who wants a better understanding of the Bible. It provides a chronological reading program that endeavors to place all biblical passages in their date order. Part Eight of this twelve-part one-year reading plan is titled ‘A Destroyer Carries Judah into Exile: 629 BC–587 BC’.

Reading the Bible in Historical Sequence Part 8

This devotional plan will help you overcome your vulnerabilities. Pastor Jeremy reminds you that no matter what you feel, Jesus is always with you.

Overcoming Vulnerability: Video Devotions From Time Of Grace

Finding The Light in Grief takes a deeper look into God's response to our sorrows through a study of John 11:35. Find Biblical truth in three minutes a day for one week in this study on Grief.

Finding the Light in Grief

For some of us, waiting can be painful. Maybe you are nearly at a point of losing hope but wait...Is it really the end or is it a new beginning? You may look at it as a dead-end but it can be a different story when God Said, LIVE!


God Said, Live!

The Bible gives clear instructions on what to do with weights, worries and weariness – so why do we find it so difficult to let go and to recharge? This Bible reading plan will help you to discern what’s stopping you from letting go of the weights and worries that you’re carrying, and what’s keeping you in a state of weariness. 

Weights, Worries & Weariness

Do you ever feel uncomfortable or insecure being around friends who are suffering? With grace and practical advice, the late Kara Tippetts (author of bestseller The Hardest Peace) and good friend Jill share their journey through Kara's cancer and explore the beauty of just showing up. Taken from their book Just Show Up: The Dance of Walking Through Suffering Together.

Just Show Up By Kara Tippetts

When Job wrestled with questions in his grief, God invited him to consider the wonders of nature. God has written his redeeming love into every part of his creation. If you’re struggling to remember God’s goodness or see his guiding hand in the midst of your pain, take this week to listen to creation’s song of resilience and resurrection. You, too, can grow and flourish after loss. 

Consider the Lilies: Lessons From Nature on Growing Again After Loss

Losing a child can be crippling. If you are now struggling to recognize your value or purpose after suffering child loss, this devotional is for you. The Word of God shines a light to help you through your darkest moments--to restore and remind you of how beautiful and powerful you truly are. Be encouraged and know you are not alone.

Grace to Grieve: After the Loss of a Child

Spikenard designed 'Anchorage: The Storm of Loss,' for individuals, small groups, and families to navigate mental health and wellness topics. This seven-day plan incorporates character discussions, reflective questions, and prayers to help participants explore biblical examples of how these realities help us victoriously overcome the storms of life.

Anchorage: The Storm of Loss | Part 7 of 8

When someone we love dies, we often feel many different emotions. In this 10-day devotional, learn how to handle grief when our loved ones go to be with the Lord. These are lessons that the Lord has been teaching me after my beloved wife went home to be with the Lord at the end of June 2021.


Handling Grief

Delays, losses, or life challenges affect Christian believers in unique ways. These crises put our relationship with God to the test. We may question: “Is God really looking out for me?” We may feel like shutting down or even coming close to abandoning our faith. This devotional plan explores how we can move from grief to praise and strengthen our relationship with God when we face life challenges.

Praying Through Pain: Moving From Grief to Praise  a 10 - Day Plan by Kathy-Ann C. Hernandez, Ph.d.

Until a person becomes a caregiver, they have no idea of the pressure and stress that accompanies the title.  A caregiver involves more than caring for an individual. It is being present daily and watching as their loved one or patient ebbs away.  Join me as we find there can be peace on this journey.

Peace for the Caregiver

Raising the bar for a conversation on grief. 

A high school devotional designed to help students navigate seasons of grief in their lives. In this devotional, you’ll find encouragement to turn to Jesus for support, love, and comfort as you grieve.  

Elevate Grief

Bad things happen in life, and we're often left wondering...why? Is God mad at me? Does He really hear my prayers? In this five-day series, Andrew and Wendy Palau tackle our most common faith struggles with empathy and grace. Let God meet you with His encouragement and reassure you that—yes—He cares about you deeply, and He'll never stop.

Does God Really Care?

How can we trust God even when we suffer unfairly? Join us for this six-day reading plan to reflect on Job’s story and discover what it looks like to trust God's wisdom even as we face difficult times.

BibleProject | Trusting God Through Suffering

Experiencing a miscarriage is one of the most difficult and heart-wrenching losses a woman can go through. It’s often accompanied by anger, doubt, grief, loneliness, and shame, just to name a few. This plan will help bring healing to your weary soul and guidance to the thoughts of doubt, showing you how to find hope and God in your loss.

Finding God In Your Miscarriage

We all find it difficult to understand why God allows wickedness. Christians often wonder: "Does God care?" Is God fair? Is God present? By following this strategy, you will learn the answers to all three questions in just three days of daily prayer and Bible study.

3 Questions Every Christian Asks

Mental illness and symptoms of mental illness are an ever-growing phenomenon in our society. How can we discover a healthy way of dealing with mental health? What concrete approaches does God give us? How do I deal with depression?

Mental Health

This 3-day devotional aims to help you understand that hope can be found in the middle of sorrow. This hope can lead you to a path of peace, joy and purpose.

How Can I Find Hope in the Middle of Sorrow?

Grief is hard to understand or explain. When I lost my husband, it was like combining sadness and loneliness with anxiety over what tomorrow would bring and fear of how I could possibly handle it all. If you find yourself struggling with grief, know you’re not alone. As I share in my novel The Shell Collector, God is always with us through pain and will help us navigate the path.

Navigating Grief to Hope and Healing

Grief is hard. There are no words to erase our earthly pain, but there is an eternal reality where our loved ones are being held perfectly whole by our Savior. In this three day devotional with Casting Crowns, you will walk through loss, acknowledge our hurts, and remember Jesus for who He is - a loving, gracious God who holds us when we fall apart.

Scars in Heaven: A 3-Day Devotional With Casting Crowns

Losing a child through miscarriage is devastating and lonely. All the excitement and joy you once had for the precious life inside of you is now instantly gone. It is crucial that these emotions are handled carefully and intentionally. No matter how long its been since your miscarriage, there is comfort and healing to be found when walking with God. Only God can give the peace and comfort needed in miscarriage.

Walking Through Miscarriage With God

Do you ever feel like there is something more to life? Deep down inside, you sense something new and exciting is just around the bend if you could only move past your grief or recover your momentum. Whether you’re sorrowing or simply stuck, this four-day devotional by Laura Woodworth will help you regain your vision and purpose to move forward in God.

Through the Valley—Move Your Life Forward in God

When Kim's three-year-old son passed away, she found plenty of resources on grieving. She says what she really needed, though, “was someone who would give me advice for living, not just grieving.”  In this five-day devotional, Kim will share a raw vulnerability, a deep well of wisdom, and the knowledge of someone who’s been there as she walks grieving parents through the life-after-death process and surviving the sorrow of loss.

Surviving Sorrow: Devotions for Parents in Mourning

All kinds of deaths are woven through this life, from the physical death of loved ones to the figurative deaths of dreams, relationships, careers, trust, security, beliefs, and plans. Though grief is a universal experience, those who hope in God have a way through it. With great compassion, Pastor Tim Timberlake, author of The Art of Overcoming, shines the light on our ultimate hope: no death is ever the end.

Death Is Not the End 

Whether the loss you've experienced is large or small, it's not the end of your story. This 5-day plan walks you through some steps to move through grief and navigate your loss with God's help. You are not alone.

Moving Through Grief

Why does God allow suffering? How can we be joyful in all circumstances? When can Christians expect their trials to end? In this seven-day plan, Alistair Begg answers questions like these by diving into classic passages on suffering from Genesis, Job, the Psalms, James, and more.

Suffering Knows No Strangers

Thousands of us have found comfort and hope through Kara Tippetts's story of family, cancer, and grace. Here Kara offers gentle reflections on living and dying well, sharing what she learned through both suffering and joy.

And It Was Beautiful

This seven-day Bible plan is designed to help those recovering from abortion process their emotions and find renewed hope in God's love and forgiveness. This plan is adapted by Suzy Silk from a nine-week support group curriculum offered online and in-person by Avail - a non-profit organization that exists to empower women and men facing an unexpected pregnancy or with a past abortion.

Hope After an Abortion

Are the waves of grief taking you under because of pain and sorrow weighing down on your heart? Do you find it difficult to accept what was - is no longer? Fortunately, through God’s promises, a grieving heart can heal. This 5-day Bible plan guides the bereaved through healing, reflecting, and applying God’s promises to a grieving heart.

God’s Promises for a Grieving Heart

In this 10-part devotional, Pastor Dylan Dodson teaches through the book of Esther. This plan will encourage you to trust in God’s providence, even when you can’t see him working.

Esther: God's Perfect Work Through Imperfect People

This 5-day devotional is for those considering remarriage after the loss of a spouse. Don't let your desire to remarry cloud God's intended path for you. Through my personal story, scripture, prayer, and reflection, my hope is that you are led towards healing and wholeness in Christ, encouraged to trust God's timing, and wholeheartedly embrace His plan as you navigate the road to remarriage.

Am I Ready to Remarry?

When couples lose a baby due to miscarriage, stillbirth, or early death, grief is expected. Though there are many resources available for women, few resources speak directly to men. This plan will unpack the ways men may feel differently from women during their loss and will help men find their path toward God and healing. Additionally, permission will be granted to feel deep feelings and to work toward healthy communication. Women can also benefit from learning the struggles men face!

When a Couple Loses a Baby:  a Man's Perspective

One in four women experience pregnancy loss. It is a complicated and heart-wrenching grief. In these daily readings, author Sarah Philpott gently walks alongside readers as they experience the misguided shame, isolation, and crushing despair that accompany the turmoil of miscarriage and stillbirth. Sarah helps point readers toward the hope of Christ and the promise that our children are in Heaven.  This devotional is based on Philpott's book,  Loved Baby: 31 Devotions Helping You Grieve and Cherish Your Child After Pregnancy Loss .

Loved Baby: A 7-Day Plan After Pregnancy Loss 

Each of us is sure to suffer at some point in our lives. As a counselor, I’ve seen sufferers transformed. I’ve seen those once debilitated by trauma learn to suffer well. In this brief devotional, I pray that you will realize that your story is not over. You may experience suffering, but you can suffer well. You can ask,  What’s next?  instead of getting stuck asking,  Why?  You can become resilient.

How To Move Through Suffering And Come Back Stronger

When we lose our jobs or plans go awry, the feeling of discouragement can be overwhelming, leaving us feeling far away from God. But the Bible equips us to learn how to deal with discouragement so that we feel CLOSER to Him than ever before. Drawn from the UCB Word For Today by Bob and Debby Gass, this plan brings you God's Word to lean on when you're discouraged.

When You’re Discouraged…

Grief has many phases, and some phases make it difficult for us to find the words or motivation to pray. In the moments when we need God the most but can’t seem to connect with Him, this 21-day reading plan can give us language to bridge the gap. It helps you remember that God is close to the brokenhearted, deeply attentive to your pain, and capable of healing and restoring all of us. Each day, read a short message about a promise from God, find a corresponding Scripture, and let the daily prayer guide your time with the Lord.

Daily Prayers for Grieving Hearts: A 21-Day Plan for Comfort on the Road to Recovery

As a young father of two precious children he lost his wife to a brain aneurysm. At that point he had to learn to stand on his knees.  Tommie Harris Jr. was a chubby kid, a high school athlete, a college football All-American and an NFL star. He learned to play through the pain at every level. This plan is the first of five in the series.


Playing Through the Pain: Growing in Darkness

Due to the pandemic, the last two years have left many without loved ones, changed an individual’s health, and for some, job loss!  
Are you looking for a new beginning? If you are, it is time to step out of circumstances and step inside your heart!  As we make some positive changes, life can begin anew! 
Please join me in this 6-day devotional using God’s Word as our guide!  


Love Is Enough

Discover the power of hope to get you through difficult times, and learn how to turn any sorrowful journey into a “roar story."  This six-day plan is based on Levi Lusko's Bible Study: Through the Eyes of a Lion.


Hurting With Hope - From Levi Lusko

Any grieving process is painful. But if you are facing the loss of a loved one, the Bible says God is ‘near to the broken-hearted’ (Psalm 34:18 ESVUK), and He is able to carry you through the process of grieving. Read this 30-day devotional from UCB about how God draws close to those experiencing grief and loss.

Facing the Giant of Grief and Loss

For the woman experiencing the anguish of grief after pregnancy or infant loss, the journey of faith can be challenging. Where is God in your pain? Where was He when your baby died? How can you keep moving forward amidst such grief? This plan pairs hope-filled Scripture with daily devotionals written specifically for the grieving mother – so that God’s Word may fill you with hope amidst your hurting.

Finding Hope After Pregnancy or Infant Loss

This is a three-day plan of  encouragement for people diagnosed with a chronic disease. Daniel chapter 10 is a picture of our spiritual renewal in the strengthening power of God's Word. We can trust Him through challenges to our physical health as we obtain a clearer picture of our eternal health.

As He Spoke to Me I Was Strengthened

In this three-day study, we'll explore how to walk through the loss of a loved one. 

Living Through Loss

Disappointment, in one way or another, happens to us all. How we process the disappoint determines if it will be the foundation for God to do a miracle or if it will be an anchor that weighs us down. 

It's Ok to Be Disappointed, but Don’t Stay There, Overcome!

Has a trial, loss, or hardship knocked your breath out of you? This 45-Day reading plan will reveal how to get your breath back after “life” knocks it out of you. Through seeking God’s heart and healing, this Bible plan shows how we can find great treasure through the hardships we face in life.

Grief Bites: Finding Treasure In Hardships

I pray the "Knowing God Has A Plan: 5-Day Devotional" reminds you the Lord makes us a promise to look after us. He is a promise keeper who restores the good when it feels lost. I have seen firsthand how much of a blessing it is to have God hold you and weep with you. I pray you trust that He has a plan that exceeds your expectations.

Knowing God Has A Plan: 5-Day Devotional by Anne Wilson

This plan will help you understand how each process we go through is not in vain but helps us to grow up and, consequently, help others to get out and be restored. 

Broken to Restore

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

Foster faithful endurance in seasons of suffering, tragedy, and loss with Bible stories, real-life stories, and reflection questions.

Our Daily Bread: Unshakable

Take steps forward in taking back your life. This 5-day devotional is based on Levi Lusko’s book Take Back Your Life. You'll explore how the power of the Holy Spirit can help you recognize what’s weighing you down or holding you back, and equip you to embrace it head-on as you become the best version of yourself.

Take Back Your Life: Thinking Right So You Can Live Right

This plan is a pathway to HOPE—a roadmap through the pain of grief and loss.  Whether you’ve lost someone you love, your marriage, your health, or your dreams, you will discover new strength through a new closeness to others and to God. And you will learn how to make the decisions that lead to comfort, growth, and life. 

Hope When Your Heart Is Breaking

We all experience great loss- a relationship, a job, a loved one, or simply life as it once was. We’re sure that life is not supposed to be this way, so we grieve and mourn for what could have been. We’re not alone. Join us for the second week of a 5-part plan that will help us learn the language and heart of lament in Scripture.

Good Grief Part 2: Learning to Lament in the Psalms

What do you do when it seems God hasn’t come through for you? Stacy Henagan struggled to hold on to her faith in the aftermath of losing her daughter but refused to remain stuck in a place of grief. In this 7-day reading plan, Henagan offers the truth that God is good and trustworthy, even when we don’t think His plans make sense.

Breathe Again: A 7-Day Plan

Pain. Sorrow. Anxiety. Anger. Relief. Numbness. Fear. Joy. The emotions that we feel when going through the grieving process are numerous. In this five-day devotional journey, we'll explore some of the every-day practicalities involved in the grieving process, all while helping to see God as present in a time where that may not be easy to see and feel.

Sitting in Grief: A Devotional Journey Towards Standing Again

Death is part of life. Or so we tend to think. But the Lord God has conquered death. He offers us eternal life. Connected to Him, we experience a fullness of life in body and soul.

A Biblical Perspective on Death and Life

No one wants to experience loss, right? But, when circumstances beyond our control come in and rip opportunities right out of our hands, what are we supposed to do with the sense of loss that creates? How do we handle it when everything we thought was going to happen just vanishes? This plan will help us reflect on how God can walk with us through that pain.

Loss

Grief is the proof that we have loved and an undeniable process that we will all face at some point in our lives. This plan will walk through the Five Stages of Grief.  The process of grief is circular so there is no definitive end or time frame that can be placed on it, but undoubtedly, He will be there through every second of it.

The Final Act of Love

Losing a loved one is always hard, but God always heals.

God Heals

Grief is not an experience reserved for death. It's a human response to loss, endings, and unwanted goodbyes. Our hard stories are grief-worthy, but many of us don't let ourselves grieve because our loss doesn't fit into the typical grief box. 

This plan showcases women of the Bible who held hard stories and found hope and healing when they put their trust in the God Who sees. 


Grieving Our Hard Stories - a 6-Day Devotional on Living Grief

This reading plan includes five daily devotions based on Mattie Jackson Selecman’s book Lemons on Friday: Trusting God Through My Greatest Heartbreak. This study will explore how each person uniquely walks through suffering and grief, and how faith in our redeeming God as we pursue healing ultimately brings hope for today and for the future.

Lemons on Friday: Trusting God Through My Greatest Heartbreak

We all experience great loss- the loss of a relationship, a job, a loved one, or simply the loss of life as it once was. We’re sure that life is not supposed to be this way and so we grieve and mourn for what could have been. And we’re not alone. Part 3 of this series will help us learn the language and heart of lament in Scripture.

Good Grief Part 3: Learning to Lament With Jesus

Life after a husband’s death is full of grief, uncertainty, and loneliness. These 14 prayers will help you express what it feels like to be caught in the unsought solitude of widowhood. Each prayer is accompanied by a verse from Scripture that grounds the prayer not in self-pity, but in an awareness of the boundless care of the God of all comfort, inviting you to trust in Him.

14 Prayers for a Widow's Journey

As believers, we are all living with the expectation of living again. However, while we still live in these fleshly bodies, confronting death and grief can be heartbreaking. Learn how to navigate this space and let the healing process begin!

Coping With Death & Grief as a Believer

There are seasons in life when we find ourselves drifting in the wilderness. We feel uncomfortable, lost, isolated and afraid. But throughout Scripture, God has used the wilderness to teach and remind His people who He is and what He can do. This plan will help readers reaffirm their identity in Christ and discover not just a way out of the wilderness but the Way-Maker Himself.

A Way In The Wilderness

Life doesn’t always go the way we hope, and sometimes God doesn’t answer our prayers the way we’d like. This devotional plan by Katie Faris offers insight into our suffering and helps to enable readers to see God’s grace in the midst of struggle.

Finding God’s Grace in Our Suffering by Katie Faris

Why does God allow suffering in the world? What would change if you knew the purpose of your pain? As news headlines continue to be grim and personal circumstances have you wondering if anyone is listening, look to Scripture. In this 5-day Bible reading plan from world-renowned evangelist Billy Graham, you'll find peace and enduring hope in the midst of turmoil.

Who's in Charge of a World That Suffers? a Billy Graham Devotional

Anyone who has gone through a transition of any kind knows it isn’t easy. “The day I boarded the plane alone, I felt homeless and helpless.” Life is filled with challenges and changes, and although we may want to hide rather than face them, transition can be filled with blessings!  Please join me as I share my personal journey and how God accompanied me each step of the way.  

Transition = Facing Change Head-On!

Life brings unexpected pain, making us question everything. Is God truly there, or even care?  Can grief and joy coexist?

In this 14-day journey inspired by Pastor Ed and Lisa Young's new book, "A Path Through Pain," you'll discover the profound realization that even in the darkest moments, there's a path through pain, and on that path, you'll find hope, joy, and renewed faith. www.PathThroughPain.com

A Path Through Pain

Whether it’s the loss of a job, a child who has gotten into serious trouble, a relationship that’s in peril, or a loved one with a debilitating illness, at some point, something in our lives will strip us of all control. Life comes apart at the seams, and hope begins to evaporate. Bestselling author Frank Viola shows us how to weather the storms of life.

Hang On, Let Go

This plan is a 60-day new approach to grief recovery. If you've experienced great loss, this plan will minister to you and bring a fresh perspective on how God wants to reveal Himself to you, and help you experience His love.

Grief Bites: A New Approach to Growing Through Grief

In this devotional, I want to share the lifelong impact that I believe comes when we take someone to Jesus. I want us to discover what it looks like to allow ourselves to be carried to Jesus when we can’t find the strength to walk on our own and to experience how it feels to be completely restored by Jesus so we can take up His charge to carry others.