Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to John 4:26

Cru is a movement dedicated to helping everyone know someone who truly follows Jesus. In July 2017, over 5,000 Cru staff gathered for a week of inspirational growth - leaving in awe of Jesus and the gospel. Each of these five devotionals from Cru17 contains a short audio segment from a main speaker ( 1-2 minutes ). Our prayer is that these highlights help you trust God to make your life count. 

In today’s world, the topic of diversity is messy, difficult, and often divisive. In this five-day study, we explore what the Bible says about the subject, from celebrating our diversity of talents to the grand vision of every tribe, tongue, and nation joining together to worship God. Written by the staff of HOPE International, a Christ-centered nonprofit, this study draws on their experience working across multiple countries and cultures. 

When the Samaritan woman encounters Jesus at Jacob’s well, her life is completely transformed. She was drinking water from the wrong wells of life and Jesus offered her living water. She quickly casts her old water jar aside and runs to tell others of her experience with Jesus. He is our Living Water and when we drink from Him, we’re not only saved, but we’re transformed, and nothing will ever be the same. Join me in this five-day study as we see what it means to drink the living water.

Loneliness is a human longing, and it its very existence points to something common to us all. This 5-day devotional reading plan is aimed at helping you turn to God—who meets us where we are and draws us to himself.

The reader will be able to appreciate how Jesus, the Wonderful Counsellor engaged individuals in life-transforming conversations. Hopefully, the readers will be motivated to seek opportunities to come alongside those that are in need and walk with them on their journeys of transformation. 

What is the source of your hope? In this five-day plan brought to you by Lifewater, we’ll explore our true source of hope, and how Gospel hope gives us confidence and security to love others.

Over 200 million people will face surgery this year alone. An overwhelming and sometimes scary experience, thankfully we can turn to the Bible for encouragement and peace. As you aim to correct your physical ailment, a worldly temporary restoration, allow this plan to fuel your spiritual, eternal restoration. This dual purpose will be unpacked over the next 5 days as you walk through the healing steps of post-operative surgery.  

It can be easy to feel that your faith has little or no bearing on the people around you. How can you effectively share the hope you have? This plan gives practical steps for what it means to live a life on mission.

Encountering Jesus’ compassionate heart produces life. Jesus’ heart is for the lost, the broken, and the hurting. He came to demonstrate God’s never-ending love for creation. Time and time again, we see His heart moved with compassion and compelled by kindness toward the outcast.

A simple yet profound guide to facilitate the instinctively human desire to pray. We pray because we are human, not because we are religious. Something in our nature points beyond itself; something in us searches for and desires personal connection with God. Although communicating with our Creator through prayer is innate, the effective practice of it often feels just beyond our reach.