Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Matthew 26:39

One of the most overlooked parts of the Easter story is the time Jesus spent with His disciples in the garden just prior to being betrayed and arrested. Yet this part of the story is so very rich. Over the next five days, we are going to visit this story and unpack some key lessons that I believe you will find transformative.

Connection. We are created for connection. From the first breath in the darkness at the beginning of time through to today, God has always desired to be connected to His people. To live with us. However, sin destroyed this plan. Through these readings in Exodus, we see the lengths God is willing to go to remain connected to His people despite our sin and constant rejection.

Whatever sorrow you're walking through, this plan leads you to the sweetness found in trusting God with suffering--and the deeper faith that comes from seeing His purpose in the pain.

Loneliness. Rejection. Fear that you will never find a spouse. Wondering if something is wrong with you. Questioning if God really has a plan. Singleness brings many difficulties. But singleness doesn’t have to be a time of hardship. God has a wonderful purpose for it. This week’s devotion dives into the comfort we have through God to help us find joy and contentment in our single lives.

Remaining in Christ has frequently been misunderstood by Bible readers, as though it were a special, mystical, and indefinable experience. In John 15:1-17, first, Christ helps us to understand what it means to remain in Him. Second, Christ helps us to understand the methods that strengthen our remaining in Him. Third, Christ describes three ways in which our lives are marked by our remaining in Him.

Through a lens of faith and Biblical truth, this 5-day reading plan unpacks the importance of praying to God with confidence, expectancy, and persistence while challenging, encouraging, and inspiring sports fans to follow Jesus and become more like Him.

For most of us, prayer can be a struggle. If we're honest, many of us find ourselves asking, “Do my prayers even matter? What, if anything, happens when we pray? Are we having words with God or just words with ourselves? In this 5-day journey, Addison Bevere invites you to trade boring, empty prayer for real connection with God.

Have you ever felt like quitting on the church? So has Natalie Runion, worship leader, songwriter, and teacher. But as Natalie reminds us in this week’s devotional, it’s possible to question behaviors and beliefs we have seen in the church, in religious organizations, and in Christians without quitting Jesus or divorcing the family of God. Jesus is right there with us, in the midst of our wandering and our wondering.

Jonah 1:1-17 and Mark 4:1 & 35-41 give us a gospel view of first, the inevitability of our storms of life, second, the intensity of these storms, and third, how the identity of Jesus Christ, our greater Jonah, enables us to successfully face these storms of life.

Breathe deeply. God is in control. Do you long to let go of the anxiety that weighs on you, to breathe out the fear that hangs over your days, and breathe in the calm? Trusted author Max Lucado offers Scripture and practical tools in this five-day reading plan to let your anxieties go, one by one, into the safe hands of a God who will never leave you.