Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Philippians 4:16

This Christmas, take time each day to slow down and focus on the joy of the season. In this 5-day Advent reading plan, best-selling author and pastor Greg Laurie shares wisdom, Scripture, and prayers designed to help you connect with God and find hope and peace amid the holiday rush. Adapted from his brand-new 25-day Advent devotional 'Heaven's Light Breaking.'

The Bible has a lot to say about coveting. Our lives have been crowded with competition that encourages us to constantly compare ourselves to others and want what they have, but God’s Word warns us about coveting. This 5-day plan will help readers gain a biblical understanding and perspective on coveting, apply it to their lives, and prepare them to share this learning with others.

Christians are different. They can’t help it. When you’re in Christ and filled with the Spirit, it changes you. This leads to strange expectations. It’s a different kind of hope flowing from Christ’s perspective on things. This is the fifth in a series of 5-day plans that uses the Lord’s Prayer to show how Jesus invites us to approach life and the future.

Missional living is not self-powered or self-directed. It’s not about seeing a challenge, gearing up, and running toward it all on your own strength. That way lies sure disillusionment and even bitterness. Missional living is 100% empowered by the gifts of the Holy Spirit — his power, presence, provision, and perspective. In this 5-day plan, we’ll look at how the first disciples and apostles learned to live missional lives shaped by the gifts that Jesus gave them through his Spirit.

The Bible has a lot to say about contentment. While contentment often gets confused with complacency in our society, they are very different. This 5-day plan will help readers gain a biblical understanding and perspective on contentment, apply it to their lives, and prepare them to share this learning with others.

A look at actual examples of fundraising in Scripture including Moses, David, Hezekiah, Nehemiah, Jesus, and Paul. Spend a week learning the variety and creativity used in raising support for the Kingdom.

In 2 Corinthians 9 Paul says that what we give we will receive in abundance. So instead of asking God to keep increasing our gain, we are to give bountifully and cheerfully. In this plan, Tony Evans teaches the six Laws of the Harvest, and how we are to implement them into our lives.

This week, I want to help you become someone’s miracle! Don’t listen to this lying voice that suggests that the world would be much better without you...it’s not true! You can be a blessing to your family, your friends, your coworkers. You are the channel through which the Lord desires to flow into their lives and hearts. You are God’s choice, and your life counts!

God seeks stewards in His kingdom. Everything created belongs to Him. He desires us to utilize the gifts He has given us to build His kingdom. However, many of us want to do things our way, trying to take possession of these gifts as though they were our own. But it might help to know of the benefits of letting go, allowing God to use you as a kingdom steward.

What kind of person can sit in prison and write a book about joy? The apostle Paul’s joy transcended his earthly circumstances, and he felt compelled to share it with his friends at Philippi. He teaches that happiness is found through Christlike humility, contentment, and service. In just six short lessons, favorite teacher Dr. J. Vernon McGee shows you what it means to have that same kind of joy.