Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to 1 John 4:4

I’m sorry if I’m the one to break this news to you: you were born into a world at war, and you will live all your days in the midst of a great battle, involving all the forces of heaven and hell and played out here on earth. You need to know you have an enemy. This week, we will explore this being called Satan.

A 5-day plan to help you move from panicked and depressed to alive and free

1 John is one of three letters written by John the Beloved, the same author as the Gospel of John and Revelation. Written as a response to false teaching in the church, John reminds his readers that just as God is both love and light, true believers are to show love and light to the world.

John, the last living apostle, wrote a Gospel. And it seems some people were distorting it. John writes to believers caught in the aftermath, bringing clarity and commentary on what he wrote. He shows them what it looks like to be people of light and life instead of people of death and darkness. This plan takes us through 1 John and how to live in the face of distorted Christianity.

This 5-day Bible plan weaves together stories from Allen Parr's own spiritual journey and the lives of those he's ministered to in order to show the painful consequences of following false teachings and to provide clear explanations of what the Bible really teaches about the gospel. Learn to decipher between a true prophet and false prophet.

Christians are different. They can’t help it. When you’re born again and filled with the Spirit, it changes you. This leads to different values about right and wrong and a different lifestyle to match it. This series of 5-day plans uses the 10 Commandments (following the classic Augustinian ordering) as a vehicle for an alternative, Christ-like morality and Jesus-way of living.

Countless Christian women struggle to have a balanced relationship with food and maintain a healthy weight. Former emotional eater and bulimic, Danna Demetre, author of Eat Live Thrive Diet, understands the battle and shares five spiritual perspectives that helped her gain lasting victory, vibrant health, and permanent weight loss.

A Bible plan that will help you discover the freedom you were designed and made for. So many chase freedom and deliverance, but Bible gives us a beautiful understanding of what Jesus has done and given to us, to live free.

Living “according to His power” transforms every part of the Christian life. God’s power replaces fear with faith, human limitation with divine possibility, and despair with overflowing joy. This 5-day devotional guides you into a deeper consciousness and expression of the resurrection power working in you. Each day explores how God’s power shapes your decisions, your identity, your expectations, and your responses to life. As you meditate, confess, and pray, you will learn to live boldly, joyfully, and victoriously—not by human effort, but by the unlimited power of God within you.

To walk with God is to walk into a spiritual war. Thankfully, God gave us 5 weapons of spiritual warfare. Based on Mark Driscoll's book Spirit-Filled Jesus , this 6-day devotional arms you with the tools to defeat the enemy.

Most of us have had good times and lean times in our life – some more lean than others! But it’s important to remember that God is always a God of multiplication, not subtraction, and He always wants to increase you. These six devotionals can help you take hold by faith of His abundant provision for your life. 

Exploring our creative freedom, enlivened by the gospel – this plan breaks the misconception that only a few are born to be creative. We are created in the image of God hence we inherit his creative nature. As we unravel our nature to create, write, draw, sing or cook – it will lift our eyes to transcendence that goes beyond who we.

We all desire to be successful, yet many people go year in and year out with the same goals in mind and never achieve the desired outcome - whether it is fitness goals, starting a new business, writing a book, or a song, etc. It is time to delve into the reasons for self-sabotaging your success. Break the cycle and reach your full potential.

The world is a battlefield. Not only literally, when people groups or countries are fighting, but also spiritually. Satan has declared war on God and God’s people. This sounds terrifying, and therefore it is important to know that Jesus is stronger. He is stronger than sin, stronger than Satan, and stronger even than death itself. And if you belong to Him, you share in His victory!

The New Testament books of 1, 2 and 3 John have a recurring theme: love. The author speaks repeatedly of Jesus’s command for believers to love one another. Christian believers should stand apart from the rest of the world, characterized by God’s love. This six-day devotional explores John’s words in his three epistles, offering tangible ways to show God’s love to fellow believers.

Jesus commands his people to love one another, and in his high priestly prayer, he asked for unity in the church. What does the Bible mean by love? What does it mean to be one in unity? How does our unity with other believers relate to our union with Christ? In this 6-day devotion, discover what it means to unite in love and grow in communion with God.

Enjoy these devotions relating to songs from Chris Tomlin's newest album Love Ran Red. This 7-day devotional plan will take you through scripture that inspired songs like "Waterfall", "At The Cross (Love Ran Red)", and "Jesus Loves Me".

Life can be hard and full of setbacks, but we can trust God to get us through and ultimately deliver us to our home in heaven.

A reader would be able to understand his/her relationship with the Lord, which is described in seven pictures. The seven studies are based on the Lord’s Prayer.

Knowing God’s heart changes everything. His love draws us in. His power fills our hands and hearts with might. His redemption rewrites even the worst stories of our lives. In this 7-day plan, you’ll discover to greater depths the heart of your heavenly Father, and learn how to live your life as a response to his unceasing love. 

Do the voices in your head say you're not good enough, smart enough, pretty enough...or just not enough, period? Popular author and speaker Sharon Jaynes exposes the lies that keep you bogged down in shame, insecurity, and feelings of inadequacy. Silence the lies that say you're not good enough, and embrace your incredible worth as a woman who is uniquely fashioned and loved by an Almighty God. 

Ever feel like you’re on a treadmill that just keeps getting faster? Maybe part of you wonders, “Is this how it's meant to be?” Dear one, God has designed us for certain rhythms, and maybe your rhythm has gotten out of whack. Read along and ask God what He has to say about the cadence of your life—and invite Him to speak into it, too.

The Bible says that the people who know their God shall be STRONG, and shall do great exploits. In this 7-day series, you will learn how to prepare and activate great exploits and mighty works in your life!

Jesus called His followers to be salt and light in this world. Many people think that means telling people the Good News of salvation—a great thing to do, of course—but it often leads to intimidating, fruitless conversations. What if the key to drawing people to Jesus is knowing who we really are in him? Learn to grow into your true identity.

Join the creative community of Hillsong Church as we read and pray through 1, 2, and 3 John. These works are likely penned by the apostle John, written to a known community of believers and to specific individuals within this community. John wrote to combat false teaching by re-anchoring believers in the truth of Jesus Christ and giving guidance on how to live in love as children of God.