Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to 2 Corinthians 4:9

This study is an opportunity to experience the passion Angus holds for Jesus. If you will open your heart and listen, you will find that His enthusiasm is contagious. Whenever I am with Angus, I gain a new determination to trust God and walk my life path with a bold faith. - Pastor Allen Jackson

Missionaries, pastors, and the average Christian will encounter suffering in their lives and the lives of those they love and serve. This devotion is designed to look at real-life stories illustrating how God uses suffering to teach, guide and mold us to be more like Jesus. By God’s grace, we can glorify God as we embrace suffering in our lives, knowing that Jesus willingly laid down His life for us.

Have you ever felt that what you’re experiencing is not the fullness that God desired for you? Many people do. The good news is that Jesus has come to give much more than this! Let this be your first move towards living from the wholeness he gives.

Some of the biggest choices we make are internal ones, like the words we choose to speak to ourselves daily. Often, these are lies from the world we have chosen to believe. In this plan, discover six beautiful and wonderful truths to help replace some of those lies and, instead, simply choose to reflect on what God our Creator says about you.

Every company has a Chief Human Resource Officer (CHRO) or an equivalent, overseeing all aspects of people management. Naturally, employees look to the HR on career matters. Believers, however, can confidently look to God as our ultimate CHRO. For only He has the holistic, long-term view, placing us at the right place, at the right time, to meet the right persons for very specific kingdom purposes.

This six-day devotional series will encourage your spirit and point your heart to Jesus for those struggling with mental health. Each day you will have an affirmation and prayer to cling to as you build your faith.

Ever thought, “This isn’t how I envisioned MY story”? Sometimes the stressors of life can make you feel like overcoming is impossible. What if the only way to overcome the pain of your story is to embrace the imperfections within it? Over the next six days, you will move from regretting that life hasn’t been perfect, to embracing its challenges while allowing them to move you closer to your passions.

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.

Discipleship works against fear. As we obey God’s commands, we entrust ourselves to him. Like the students attending the schools founded by D. L. Moody in Northfield, MA, God’s people “are encouraged to test the meaning and value of the Bible’s teachings experimentally, by acting upon them, and living them out.” As we “test experimentally” the word of God, we will find that we will have fewer and fewer reasons to be afraid. You can get an expanded version of this plan at moodycenter.org/fear.

How do we get beyond simply praying, “Lord, bless those missionaries"? The New Testament actually tells us what to pray for missionaries. In fact, the authors of the New Testament were missionaries! Pastor Sean Christensen, World Team missionary and Bible professor, guides us through five missionary prayer requests that Paul asked for and one that Paul and John mentioned. This plan is useful both individually or in a prayer group.