Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to James 4:8

This devotional takes an honest, compassionate and loving approach to the emotional challenges of self-harm. We look at why it happens and how God is ready to walk with us in order to redirect the pain and start healing from the inside out. Learn how Jesus knows our pain and wants to help us find true hope and joy.

When the devil knocks, you don’t always hear it. Right? He’d rather sneak in an open door. He’s the deceiver, destroyer, and accuser who will do anything to cover up God’s love and truth. He didn’t want this Life.Church Bible Plan written, and He definitely doesn’t want you or your LifeGroup to read it. But that’s another battle God's about to win.

What you choose to believe about your life affects everything—who you are as a person, your day-to-day decisions, and even your future. In the She Believes Devotional, Debbie Lindell helps you understand how living a faith-filled life will change you, your circumstances, and your relationships, and will make a difference in how you respond to everything that happens around you.

There are many obstacles, roadblocks and disappointments that we encounter on our journey in life while we are pursuing all that God has in store for us. We must learn that failure is not final and that set backs can become set ups for God’s plan to be revealed in our lives. Some circumstances may knock us down, but they can’t knock us out of the will of God. Through His love, His Word, and His guidance God empowers all of us to get back up, become resilient and overcome tough times.

This devotional series focuses on communing with God, the One who is near, and exploring what it means to be “gates of heaven” on the earth. This idea presents itself in Genesis with Jacob, and in the New Testament through the life Jesus and at Pentecost. We created this series as a way for anyone around the world to engage with the theme of our Heaven Come Conference: “God is Near”.

What if feelings like anger, sadness, and fear could improve your life for the better? In this accompanying devotional to the practical, life-changing book, Boundaries for Your Soul, Christian counselors Alison Cook and Kimberly Miller describe their unique, five-step process for bringing peace to overwhelming emotions and harmony to your inner world. 

Entrepreneurs are rarely short on ideas, but not every idea is one that should be pursued. How do you determine the difference between a good idea and a God idea? This 5-day reading plan provides Biblical insight to help you discern and pursue God ideas so you can have a greater Kingdom impact in the marketplace. 

The Book of James provides specific and practical instruction on what it means to have a life of authentic faith. This reading plan by Shae Bynes of Kingdom Driven Entrepreneur provides insights from the book of James that will encourage and strengthen you on your entrepreneurial journey.

 How do you experience God's intimate, comforting, tangible presence? In The Luckiest Man , John Paine reveals how he found the answer to this most important of all questions--by facing a terminal diagnosis.

Examine the book of James in three parts: the test of faith, the characteristics of faith, and the triumph of faith. Faith without works cannot be called faith. Faith without works is dead, and a dead faith is worse than no faith at all. Faith must be there, but it must be more. It must inspire action. Throughout his epistle to Jewish believers, James integrates true faith and everyday practical experience by stressing that true faith must manifest itself in works of faith.