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

Go on a journey through the confusing yet beautiful Book of Job. From abundant blessings to deep grief, the book applies to every season of our (spiritual) life.


Lessons From the Book of Job

Quitting alcohol requires readiness and a renewed mindset with the Holy Spirit front and center.   Spend the next few days meditating on 5 of the most important biblical passages to prepare yourself to rid the psychological slavery of this habit.

Prepare to Quit Alcohol

This 14 day plan was designed for you to get back in the routine of reading your Bible. Many times we just need to hit the reset button and start fresh. Here is your chance! 

Faith Reset

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 

We all know fear and anxiety are part of the human experience. But so often fear and anxiety keep us overwhelmed and unable to enjoy the life God has given us. This reading plan focuses on the promises of God, journal prompts, and simple practices to anchor our hearts when waves of anxiety knock us around. Let’s find more peace, joy, and firm ground. 

Promises, Peace, & Journal Prompts for Fear & Anxiety

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

A consistent theme throughout scripture is God's profound connection with His people during their most trying times, often in the wilderness. "Whispers in the Wilderness: Divine Messages for Weary Souls in Lonely Places" is a 5-day devotional guiding you closer to God's purpose during life's darkest hours.

Whispers in the Wilderness

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

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

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

Are you feeling burnout, overwhelmed or just not motivated? This devotional is an opportunity for you to connect with God and experience Him in a new way. It is filled with encouragement, prayers and affirmations that will enrich and empower you. You are worthy of the pour. 

Pour: An Experience With God

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

What real difference can I make? When I look around, I see others more qualified, accomplished, respected, smarter, stronger...the list goes on. Why then should I think that God can use me to do anything of significance? While wrestling with this question, the Word revealed the type of men that God used to advance His Kingdom. In the end, He is more concerned about obedience than He is qualifications.

TheLionWithin.Us: I'm Just a Guy

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

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

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

Does pain from the past still haunt you to this day, preventing you from opening up to others and being real? In a society of facades, this plan will help you learn to be comfortable with being vulnerable and open with your Heavenly Father, yourself, and those around you. It’s time to stop being fake—It’s time to keep it real.

Keep It Real With Gabriella Lupisella

Often we condemn ourselves for pain in our past or present. We feel guilty for not getting over it more quickly. We assume someone else would have handled it better. But trauma will remain empowered to hurt us as long as we deny its existence. The truth is, you aren’t failing at healing. You’re finding healing. God is a God of restoration. And this is just the beginning.

Healing What's Hidden

It can be hard to trust God during our struggles.  During our wilderness. He can seem absent from our pain.
But God has promised to never leave or forsake us.  He has promised to lead us beside still waters.
In this 4 day devotional, be challenged to see how God is moving in your circumstance - and how you can redirect your gaze to him in the midst of the storm.

Trusting God During the Struggles

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life is often filled with trial, heartache, grief, and struggle. But perhaps there's a treasure to be found in those difficult seasons: intimacy with God Himself. Through our deepest pains, we can discover the Heart of the Father and the hope we have in Christ as our ultimate “Way Maker”. This Plan will remind you of His Faithfulness, comfort you with His Love, and renew you with His Presence. 

Festival in the Desert: 7 Days of Hope in the Hard Times

Feeling deflated by your circumstances? Discover a deeper source of joy that won’t run dry. In this 4-day study, Joyce uncovers practical, biblical truths that will help you live with God’s joy and the strength it brings—no matter what comes your way. Start today, and begin finding your joy!

How to Live a Joyful Life

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I extend this invitation to deepen healing with Jesus! God has walked me through 12 years of physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual exploitation, and being sex trafficked. For many years, the enemy convinced me that I was too broken & unworthy. Together we will dive into God's truth & grace over our lives! 

Glory in Our Sufferings

God sees you. He sees your disappointment, grief, and loneliness. He sees you in your unhappy marriage or unfulfilling job. Discover what happens when we encounter the God who sees us. His vision gives us value, hope, and strength. Join Andy Lee in this 3-day devotional as she digs into the story of Hagar and the Samaritan woman who were seen by the Living God when they needed Him most. 

El Roi: Encounter the God Who Sees You

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

Do you need comfort? If so, the God of all comfort is with you to minister to you. Pray through this easy, bullet-point prayer guide and let God the Holy Spirit, the Comforter Himself, encourage your heart! 

10 Days of Comforting Prayer

This reading plan is based on the Bible verse, Philippians 4:6-7. Through the Word of God and the power of the Holy Spirit, you can be released from all worry... I believe it! This series will strengthen your faith and help you to overcome the worries you have in your life..

Overcoming Worries

Life’s circumstances may have you feeling discouraged, frustrated, anxious, or even depressed. But God’s love is not dependent on your situation. Because his love for you is unchanging and his promises are true, you can choose to believe that today will be a good day. Find the hope that is abundant in God as you reflect on these devotions from "Hope for Today: 365 Devotions for Depression and Anxiety."

Hope for Today: Devotions for Depression & Anxiety

Have you struggled to find your path? So many people have battled depression, confusion, financial ruin, and relational problems. Jesus is calling you into your better future. In this reading plan, you can start the journey of discovery and destiny.

Cross Over Into Your Destiny

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)

In this devotional, I want to share how God has been faithful to me through my faithfulness to Him. I want to inspire women who feel like they've lost God's promise. I pray this devotional restores hope and faith in God to the many women whose faith has been snatched by rejection, low self-esteem, divorce, and other misfortunes. - Christina Bell

God Is Still Faithful - 7-Day Devotional by Christina Bell 

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

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?

The Bible is full of stories about people who try to live to God's glory - with ups and downs. Elijah is such a man. He is a prophet who serves God wholeheartedly, but is also prone to despondency and depression. He confronts the king fearlessly, but flees from the queen. And in all this, God continues to care for His servant.

Elijah. Man of Courage, Man of Faith, Man of God.

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

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!

Vance K. Jackson leads readers in this wisdom-filled devotional. The ground of your heart matters to God. A heart that’s submitted to God will produce His Fruit. When you allow the things and the cares of this world to contaminate your heart you’ll choke your peace and sabotage your joy. Let God lead your heart as you read this heart-transforming message.

A Cheerful Heart Is Good Medicine.

Do you relate to words like anxiety, fear, mental unrest, or hostility? If so, there is hope for you in Christ and I pray this devotion will direct you to abide in the Prince of peace. This devotion is taken from my new book, "Abiding in the Prince of Peace," and I want to share some raw and transparent truth that can help you on your journey to mental victory. 

Abiding in the Prince of Peace | How to Win Your Mental War 

A 5-day plan to help you move from panicked and depressed to alive and free

Attacking Anxiety

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 

All of us will face difficult times—lost opportunities, broken relationships, failing health, personal failures, and financial struggles. The best response we can have to hard times is to turn to God in prayer. Yet sometimes, we just don't know what to say or how to pray. This 7-day reading plan will lead you through prayers for life’s toughest moments and draw you closer to the Lord even in your losses, struggles, and disappointments.

100 Days of Prayer for Difficult Times: What to Pray During Your Hardest Days

We think that our thoughts can be kept in secret in our mind, but they cannot. The Bible makes this concept of the power of our thoughts simple: as a person thinks on the inside, this is who they will become on the outside. Thoughts produce a result. Our thoughts can make us ill or help us to heal. Jesus shows us how to become free from these things.

The Mind - Mental And Emotional Health 

This is a five-day devotional designed to help readers conquer spiritual desolation. You'll learn how to identify the signs of a wilderness mentality so you can seek God's presence, trust in His provision, discover your purpose, and embrace new beginnings. This devotion aims to help you overcome a spiritual wilderness mentality and encounter a renewed sense of God's presence in your life, ultimately leading you to restoration.

Trusting God in the Wilderness: A Journey From Desolation to Restoration

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 

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

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

Sometimes life brings loneliness, disappointment, and rejection, but God is always good, is always near, and always chooses you. In this 6-day devotional, designed specially for kids between the ages of 8-12, you'll learn how to focus on God's many blessings and pray through the hurts.

A Kid's Guide To: Knowing God Is Always Good

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

Anxiety is a normal response to the uncertainties we face in life. But what we do with our anxiety—and how long we allow it to live within us—is the key. Join Dr. Charles Stanley as he defines this destructive emotion, shows you how to gain the upper hand, and helps you find God’s solution for anxiety once and for all, leading you to enjoy a victorious, faith-filled life.

Victory Over Anxiety 

Win the battle with yourself by declaring war on the version of yourself that you don't want to be. Discover the thoughts, words, behaviors, and power you need to achieve ongoing victory. It’s likely you are your own worst enemy. Learn to get out of your own way and discover the secret weapon to winning the war within.

I Declare War: 4 Keys to Winning the Battle With Yourself

Romans 12:2 says transformation happens by changing the way we think. You cannot prevent every negative thought from knocking on the door of your mind, but you can choose how you answer. From Philippians 4:6-9 you will learn strategies in this devotional to change your thinking in a positive direction and win the battle in your minds so you can live emotionally healthy and spiritually strong.


Transformational Freedom Devotional

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).

Jesus, I Need You Part 6

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

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

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

If you’ve ever found yourself in darkness due to grief, depression, or loss, Mandisa’s words will reassure you that even when you’re walking through dark valleys, God will lead you on a path to joy and hope. This plan will encourage you to focus on God’s purpose for your life, surround yourself with friends who will fight for you, and face life’s challenges with courage and faith. 

From Depression to Finding God’s Joy

The 5-Day Devotional is inspired by Grace Graber’s sophomore EP “Conversations.” Join her as we dive deep into how God is not afraid of the things we might be struggling with. 

Conversations: 5 Day Devotional Plan

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

‘Carrying The Weight’ is a 5 day devotional series addressing the topics of addiction, anger, suicidal thoughts, and fatherlessness. Day 1 is a full music video along with an intro devotional, and the following days address the specific topics mentioned in the music video. 

Carrying the Weight - Addiction, Anger, Suicide, & Fatherlessness

Prayer changes things. When I pray consistently to God something changes within me. And it can change you too. This 5-day devotional plan can help you form a habit of coming to God in prayer every day. I have taken scripture and reworded them into prayers of gratitude. I pray these prayers help you overcome negativity through applying the power of prayer and God's Word to your life.

5 Prayers Of Gratitude

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

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

Whether we suffer emotional or physical wounds, forgiveness is the cornerstone of the Christian life. Jesus Christ experience all kinds of unfair and unjust treatment, even to the point of a wrongful death. Yet in his final hour, he forgave the mocking thief on the other cross and his executioners.

Forgiving Those Who Wound Us

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

Three common challenges to our mental health and wellbeing are anxiety, shame and despair/depression. While it is no sin to experience them, it is not God’s intention for you to stay there. Follow this 7-day plan to learn how applying real faith in God can make the difference.

Finding Freedom

Do you desire to experience deeper healing and emotional health? Courageous and Free - 8 Day Journey to Inner Healing will guide you to ask real questions and discover how God is speaking to you. As our world struggles with mental and emotional health, the Holy Spirit is eager to meet us. Allow Courageous and Free to launch you toward deeper levels of inner healing.

Courageous and Free - 8 Day Journey to Inner Healing

We have many battles yet to fight but we do not fight to achieve victory; we fight from the victory already achieved on the cross. There are certain enemies whom God delivers you from, but there are other enemies He empowers you to have dominion over. Deliverance is what God does in you; dominion is what He does through you.

Fight Back

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

In this three-day plan, we'll explore anxiety and how through our relationship with Jesus, we can grow in this area.

Overcoming Anxiety

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

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

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.

Depression

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.

Take It to Jesus: A 3-Day Devotional by Anna Golden

In this one-week devotional author, Kirt A. Schneider takes us on a journey to overcome struggles and dark moments in our life.  The Bible speaks to every aspect of our lives, and only when we are grounded in the truth of God’s Word,  are we able to walk in the strength,  peace, and victory of God’s promises.

Do Not Fear the Darkness

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

Emmanuel – God with us! The promise of a child born to save the world rings out to our spirits today with comfort and reassurance that we are not alone. God is with us! If you’re feeling lonely or dealing with depression at Christmas, this 5-day devotional by Laura Woodworth will help you explore Jesus as Emmanuel: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Emmanuel - God With Us: Christmas Comfort for a Lonely World

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!

Journey to the Jordan to reflect on the baptism of Jesus and His call to us to believe, repent, and follow Him. Find Jesus there. This is part three 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 3

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

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

The dip is when you can see where you want to be, but no matter how hard you try, it seems you can’t get there. You begin to lose hope and doubt you’ll ever reach it. It’s where your dream is just out of reach and you feel stuck. We all have a dream, but there is always a dip before you get there. Don’t Quit in the Dip.

Don't Quit in the Dip

Healing transcends the physical realm and extends into the spiritual, mental, and emotional dimensions of life. Rooted in the teachings of Christ, the concept of healing is deeply embedded in the Christian faith and brings restoration to the soul. This plan will address the impact of childhood trauma on the soul, principles of care for the soul, and strategies to equip believers to walk healed, restored, and whole.

Soul Care: Healing From Childhood Trauma

Jesus loves people—all people. But sometimes it seems that the people who need love the most are often the most rejected, even by the church. The truth is that Jesus loves the brokenhearted. Using Psalms 42 and 43 as the foundation, Skip Heitzig explores the reality of depression and brokenness in this 7-day devotional. Discover both reasons and remedies for spiritual depression through daily Scripture reading, relatable insights from Skip, and For Further Thought challenges.


Jesus Loves the Broken

‘Anchorage: The Storm of Depression’ is designed to inspire 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 joy. Choose this plan to discover how these realities help us victoriously overcome the storms of life.

Anchorage: The Storm of Depression | Part 4 of 8

What is God's will for our mental and emotional health? Does God have a remedy for depression, anxiety, stress or suicidal thoughts? The answer is yes. Christians and unbelievers alike deal with depression and other mental and emotional illnesses, but there is hope! Jesus promises and provides an abundant life—a life full of joy, purpose, and peace. Join in this seven day devotional as we focus on how to fight for mental and emotional health!


Fighting For Mental And Emotional Health

Our new song called “The Power of the Cross” depicts two realizations. The first realization is that God has rescued believers from the power of sin. Sin doesn’t control us anymore. God has rescued us from the wages of sin. We no longer face the eternal punishment we deserve for willingly rebelling against a holy God. The second...

The Power of the Cross by Casting Crowns

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.
 


