Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to James 1:2

This devotional series can help you to honestly acknowledge and bring your doubts to God, turn to His Word when you doubt, and move toward God in faith. He is big enough to handle all your concerns, no matter how messy you may think they are!

Many of us speak words of defeat, telling ourselves things that we would never say to someone else. This week, we’re going to reshape those messages in the light of God’s Word. At the end of each day’s reading is a challenge, which is your opportunity to change the narrative of your self-talk and listen to what God thinks of you instead.

Joy. Most people want it. Few people have it. In this study, we’ll talk about what joy is and what it is not. By the end, you will have a deeper understanding of joy and how to practice it in your life (the keyword being practice). Along the way, we’ll discover some key truths from God’s word that will help us along this journey.

How do we justify the actions of God in the Old Testament? Who is this Father? In this devotional, we will see not only is God just, totally for mercy, and totally against cruelty, but He has given us the answer to overcome suffering through His Son, Jesus Christ. Even through trials, we have assurances that the Lord will deliver us from them all.

God is pleased by faith, so we need to know how to live by faith. One of the most overlooked aspects of faith is patience. Patience is needed for a life of faith. Patience has great benefits if we allow it to have its perfect work in us. - Devon Daniel, Executive Pastor at Believer's Victory Church

Do you want to build your life around a flip-flopping faith? Like, believing in God—but only if nothing better comes along? Or believing in God only if He does what you want? No way! Nobody wants that kind of faith. So, how do you get a durable faith that believes, trusts, and is active until the end? This Bible Plan will help you develop a lifelong, real, durable faith!

When you love someone addicted to drugs or alcohol you feel all alone, you blame yourself, and you lose all hope. This Bible plan will help guide you through the storm of your loved ones' addiction to find hope and healing. (Plan written and developed by Amy LaRue, Finding Hope Coordinator for Hope Is Alive.)

Sometimes life’s good and the surf is pumping. Other days, life’s hard and nothing seems to go right. So when you’re caught in the closeout, or everything’s turned to mush, what do you do? Join the Christian Surfers’ crew to explore how God can grow you through hard times—and how you can learn to rejoice in Him, even when life isn’t going the way you hoped.

What is joy? We can receive fleeting moments of it from time to time, but there is only one source of true, lasting joy—and that’s our Savior, Jesus. When everyday life fills us with uncertainties, we can learn to count it all joy by turning to God and His Word.

This reading plan includes five daily devotions based on Ben Stuart’s book Rest and War. The spiritual life can feel like it’s a struggle because it is! The pursuit of intimacy with God occurs within the context of adversity. And yet with struggle can come progress if we learn to struggle well.