Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to John 15:5

If your words aren’t working with your kids, turn to the Word of God. Whether your kids blatantly ignore your instructions, melt-down at naptime, or throw fits over their homework, before you write a new script to speak to your kids, open the scriptures and let God speak to you. Allow the Word of God to renew your mind and your resolve, and ultimately transform the words you speak within your home.

The Practice of the Presence of God, by Brother Lawrence, is one of the treasures of Christian devotional writing. It’s a collection of notes, letters, and interviews that show us how to develop a conversational relationship with God right in the middle of our ordinary life.  This plan teaches us to integrate our work and faith, to chip away at that old barrier between sacred and secular.

The world tells us to find our identity in our bank accounts, our job title, and what others think of us. This merit-based living creates a heavy burden. But God never intended you to live with such pressure. Instead, he calls you to receive grace, love, and your individual calling. If you are trying to find your voice in a crazy world, here is an invitation to rest in a God whose burden is light.

It’s not for us to control our circumstances in life. That’s for God to decide. What we can control, however, is how deeply our roots go. When we strengthen our relationship with God from within, we move forward with Him. We bloom. This five-day plan will guide you in nurturing a deeper relationship with God so that you may grow ever stronger.

Have you ever wondered where worship songs came from? Vertical Worship is a ministry based out of a local church in Chicago that takes the christian inner life very seriously. The songs written are drawn from a deep well of reflection, prayer, meditation and teaching. They’ve prepared a devotional alongside the new album Bright Faith Bold Future in order that people might be able to go deeper in their faith. 

“This [was] good,” but it will get better when Jesus returns and fixes everything we’ve broken. This study plan surveys our loss of dominion and the strategy of our King to keep His promise to restore all things.

Just as God first breathed the spirit of life into man in Eden, so we rely on Him to sustain us still. We survive by His power, through His word, and for His glory. To believe the Gospel is to live; to live is to obey. This is the freedom for which Jesus set us free.

In this plan you will be blessed to read through several verses of the book of  John, chapter 15. Jesus knew His time with His 12 disciples was coming to an end but had a bigger plan not just for them but for all of us. We were called to follow Christ and walk with Him even in this time and age. Jesus tells us through a beautiful analogy that He is the vine and we are His branches. We are connected to Him, an extension of His good news, and we will bear fruit if we choose to remain in Him. Becoming disciples is His desire for His children and glorifies the Father. 

Staying connected to God is the only way we can walk in faith, victory and live the Christian life. That means we must stay close to the One in the Trinity who abides in us and is on the earth today. His name is the Holy Spirit. If you want to be the person God wants you to be, it’s impossible to do this without the Holy Spirit. 

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