Relationships

In this 11-day plan, you will study Genesis chapters 1-14. It will introduce this great book of the Bible, focusing on the families and generations that begin human history. Before planning how to correct the problems we face in this world, we must understand who God is, how He made the world, what we have done to destroy it, and His plan for His new earth.

In the Beginning: A Study in Genesis 1-14

Matthew writes to God’s people and walks them on a journey that will take them from where they are to be Disciple Makers. This is 19 of 27 devotional plans walking us through the book of Matthew.  In this portion, Jesus shows how we must forgive and God’s perspective on marriage and the family.

Forgiveness & Marriage—Disciple Makers Series #19

In this three-day reading plan, popular devotional writer Heather Hair explores two conversations every marriage faces—romance and conflict. One keeps the spark alive, the other can dim it if we’re not careful. Discover how to speak (and listen) in ways that turn both into pathways toward deeper connection. 

Whether you’ve been married three months or thirty years, you’ll find honest encouragement, a few smiles, and fresh hope for loving the one you promised your heart to.

Communication in Marriage

During this nine day reading plan you will explore God’s design and purpose for marriage. We will also discuss five habits of a healthy, God-honoring marriage and how you can incorporate them into your own marriage. So whether your marriage is “going well” and you’re looking for a little more or you’re about to “throw in the towel” and call it quits, this plan can help!


True North: LIVE Free In Marriage

In a world where communication is easier than ever, why does it seem that no one can communicate effectively? It’s hard enough to communicate the Gospel to someone based on opportunity, openness, and willingness. So let’s make the best of it and communicate with not only the Truth of God but also with the Love of God.

UNCOMMEN: Uncommen Words Of Husbands, Dads, & Leaders

Marriage is one of the most beautiful representations of Christ and His bride. When our hearts are aligned toward Him and loving our spouse well, we are simply more pleasant humans! Wisdom for Marriage is meant to move us from settling for a mediocre love that only loves expecting something in return to an unselfish love that flows from being thoroughly loved by the Lord.  

Wisdom for Marriage

This 7-day devotional is a message of faith, hope, and love for those fighting for a marriage that seems hopeless and helpless.  I pray that over the next few days you will gain insight and tools on how to stay encouraged and empowered in the fight for your marriage.

How to Fight Fair and Fearless in Your Marriage by Treal Ravenel

From the day they are born, everything revolves around our kids. Realistically, it has to. Yet, what is fine at first must change over time, otherwise couples risk creating an unhealthy home culture. Tony and Natalie Doland, parents of five,  join Dr. Kim in this plan. This is part of a series to help you go deeper into the keys from Dr. Kim’s book 14 Keys to Lasting Love. 

Marriage On Hold: Kids

Each of you woke this morning in your version of home: a 2-story beach-side condominium, a 1-level ranch on acreage, a fixer upper, an urban high rise, a studio apartment. Whatever it might look like to you there’s a place called home where you live. Here are 5 reasons that the work you do within those walls morning after morning, midnight after midnight truly does matter.

Your Home Matters

This plan begins with a desperate prayer: "How do we get to you, God? How do we stand and believe light can shine here, right here?" Through 5 days of journaled conversations between a tender heart and a Good Father, read along and ask Holy Spirit to speak to you in a fresh, powerful way in the week ahead.

Breathing Eden: Conversations With God

Marriage

This 7-day plan introduces the next step in understanding the five love languages: learning to speak the unique “dialect” that matters most to the person in front of you. Through Scripture and practical reflection, you’ll discover why good intentions sometimes fall flat and how empathy brings every love language to life. These daily insights will help you love more clearly, more personally, and more like Jesus.

The Love Language That Matters Most

The first and last marriages in the Bible point us to the gospel-focused spiritual profile and purpose of marriage, and the power we have in Christ to make our marriages successful.

A Gospel View of Marriage

Waiting can be one of the hardest seasons of life, especially when prayers seem unanswered. This 5-day plan is designed to help you trust God’s timing without losing faith, or hope.
Through this plan, you’ll learn how to wait well and rest in God’s process. Instead of rushing outcomes or attaching deadlines to God’s promises, this plan invites you to anchor your heart in His wisdom, faithfulness, and perfect timing.
Whether you’re waiting for clarity, healing, or the fulfillment of a promise, this plan will help you cultivate peace, strengthen trust, and stay aligned with God while you wait.



Wait Well: Trusting God's Timing

Kingdom Marriages by Minister Kia Durham is for couples who are dating, courting, or newly married and desire a relationship that reflects God’s heart. Each day offers practical guidance and honest reflection to help you communicate with grace, pursue unity, and strengthen your spiritual foundation. Invite Jesus into every step of your union and build habits that honor God and each other for a lifelong Kingdom marriage rooted in Christ.

Kingdom Marriages: A 5-Day Plan to Build a Christ-Centered Relationship

God desires us to live in sexual consecration. Our destinies are inextricably tied to this.

Sexual Purity and Destiny

No sooner have the Christmas carols faded and the New Year celebrations settled than our surroundings begin to turn red, drawing our attention toward Valentine’s Day. For those who are single, this season can quietly stir questions of longing, worth, or waiting. This 7-day devotional is an invitation to pause and be reminded of God’s faithful love. Together, we will ground our identity in Christ, reframe singleness as a meaningful season, and celebrate a fuller understanding of love rooted in God’s presence extending far beyond romance.

7 Day Valentines Devotional

This 5-day devotional equips you to overcome the battle of lust through the power of God’s Word and the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Each day offers Scriptures to meditate on, confessions to declare, teachings to strengthen your walk, and Spirit-led prayers to empower you for victory. Lust is not stronger than the Spirit of God within you. Through Christ, you are called to walk in freedom, discipline, and holiness. As you journey through these devotions, you will learn to flee temptation, embrace your identity as a new creation, and stand confident in God’s strength to overcome.

OVERCOME Lust WITH TRUST

This 7-day reading plan offers space to reflect on love as Scripture reveals it — gently, honestly, and without pressure. Through daily Bible passages and quiet reflection, you’re invited to slow down, notice where fear or striving may be present, and consider what it might look like to live loved. This plan is for anyone longing for rest, clarity, or a deeper sense of connection with God. 

What the Bible Says About Love

Snare Marriage: Discerning Between God’s Covenant and the Enemy’s Trap by Patrick Omukhango is a 7-day devotional designed to help believers recognize the difference between God-ordained relationships and subtle relational snares. Through powerful biblical examples, this plan exposes how love, emotion, pressure, and compromise can quietly derail purpose. Whether single, dating, married, or recovering from relational pain, this devotional invites you into deeper discernment, healing, and alignment with God’s covenant design—so relationships become instruments of destiny, not traps that hinder obedience.

Snare Marriage: Discerning Between God's Covenant and the Enemy's Trap by Patrick Omukhango 

Waiting for love doesn’t mean waiting to grow. In this 5-day plan, discover how to pray with purpose and faith as you prepare your heart — and your future marriage — for God’s perfect timing. Learn to intercede for your future husband, deepen your relationship with God, and turn your waiting season into one of hope, healing, and preparation.

Dear Future Husband: Trusting God With Your Love Story

Dating

This reading plan is based upon Cindy Beall's book, Healing Your Marriage When Trust Is Broken. Learn how to find hope and healing for your wounded marriage as you navigate the waters of betrayal. Cindy, and her husband, Chris, have walked out their healing by trusting in God's mighty power and encourage you to join them on this healing journey.

Healing Your Marriage When Trust Is Broken

During divorce and other extremely difficult times, there comes a moment when you will wonder if you will ever make it. Over the next 7 days, you will be able to connect with God through prayers, advice, and action plans. Learn to not just survive, but survive and thrive.

Divorce To Healing: Survive And Thrive

The heartbreak, the lost love, the grief and the shame that comes with unwanted divorce doesn’t have to stay forever. You don’t need to go through this alone. In this study, we’ll learn how we can lean heavily on God’s strength despite life’s most troubling events.

UNCOMMEN: Surviving Divorce

What you know is what gets you through. If you don’t know the right things when the rouge winds and tsunamis of life come, you’re going to fall over.  But if our lives are built on the rock solid, bedrock truth of the Bible, we know some unchanging truths.

How To Get Through What You're Going Through

This 15 day reading plan offers biblical insight for personal growth and wholeness from doctors Henry Cloud and John Townsend—bestselling authors of How People Grow and the Boundaries series. The devotions are perfect for those entering new phases of life or dealing with difficult relationships. Readings provide help in translating God’s Word into a plan for staying spiritually healthy.

Henry Cloud & John Townsend - Life Journey

No one gets married anticipating the moment when they will be signing divorce papers. The path to divorce is often paved with guilt, shame, fear, and unforgiveness. This devotional plan , written by two divorcees, seeks to give an honest and hopeful perspective on how you can walk through some of the lingering effects of divorce with the help of God.

Living in Christ After Divorce

Fight or flight? When marriage gets messy, the question is real and sobering. Though the promise you’ve made is “…till death do us part,” letting go seems like such an easier option. What choice will you make when it comes to your marriage? In this 5-day reading plan, Pete Briscoe provides biblical insight for couples who long to fight for an enduring marriage—not one they’re merely struggling to endure.

Enduring Marriage By Pete Briscoe

This reading plan by Tracie Miles takes a deep dive into understanding and overcoming the emotional toll divorce, separation, and the loss of a serious long-term relationship has on a woman’s well-being. Tracie Miles leads women on a powerful, life-changing journey that provides much-needed hope, encouragement, and practical guidance for living their best life even if it’s not the life they once imagined. 

Living Unbroken: Reclaiming Your Life and Heart After Divorce

What do we do when our dreams seem out of reach or even shattered? Having overcome abuse and trauma, as well as the heartbreak of a divorce, I have been faced with this question again and again. Whether you’re experiencing the devastation of tragedy or loss, or the frustration of a long season of waiting, the God-dream for your life is still alive! Friend, it’s time to dream again.

Dreams Redeemed

Las rupturas son dolorosas e incómodas, y muchos de nosotros tendremos que caminar este oscuro y solitario camino. Para mí, es una de las cosas más difíciles sobre las que escribir o hablar: el dolor de la intimidad que no llegó al matrimonio. Así que aquí hay nueve lecciones para crear esperanza y amar a otros cuando se termina un “casi matrimonio”.  


Más allá del dolor de la ruptura

Divorce

When we spend our first energy tending our relationships, including our relationship with God, all of our needs will be met.

Building Healthy Relationships: Devotions From Time of Grace

It seems like relationships are everywhere you look. Whether you’re in one, waiting for one, or happily single, we can all work on the common denominator in our relationships—ourselves. In this 5-day Plan, we’ll look at what it means to be dateable—and you may be surprised.

Dateable

“Love can’t be earned, it can only be given. And it can only be exchanged by people who are completely true with each other,” says Donald Miller. In this 7-day reading plan based on the book Scary Close, Don challenges our assumptions about what makes for good relationships and shares reflections from his own journey to “drop the act” and find true intimacy. 

Scary Close-Reflections For Finding True Intimacy

Shaunti Feldhahn studied thousands of men and women to learn the most important things that matter to an abundant, happy marriage. It turns out, her research findings match what the Bible has said all along. This reading plan highlights those key Biblical secrets that we often miss — and which, once we apply them, usually make an immediate, wonderful difference.

See more of her research, books, or speaking at shaunti.com.

Biblical Secrets to a Happy Marriage

Society has it’s own definition of what it means to love and what true love is. However, that definition and God’s definition are very different. This 7-day devotional is designed to take you on a journey through God’s love in both the Old and New Testaments. Each day, a definition of God’s love will be explained through scripture and then defined in everyday language.  Let's get started! Go to afterthemusicstops.org for the full length version of this plan. 

