Relationships

In this 15-day study, we’ll explore how the gospel changes everything, including the different relationships in our lives. From being single, dating, and marriage to parenting, family dynamics, co-workers, and the world, learn to see purpose in your purpose (who God has called you to be), purpose in your people (the relationships He’s positionally put around you), purpose in your placement (the season you’re in).

Relationships & the Gospel

Getting married is one of the biggest decisions of your life. Here you will learn practical steps you can do to get ready for marriage. This plan by Dr. Kim Kimberling will get you on the way to being ready for marriage!


Getting Yourself Ready for Marriage 1: The Tough Questions

Do you feel disconnected from your spouse? Has your marriage lost the closeness you once shared? If so, you are not alone. God’s desire for your marriage is intimacy so close that “two become one.” This 15-day plan from Awesome Marriage Content Editor, Lindsay Few, combines Scripture, practical application steps, and prayer to move you toward that vision. 

Reconnect: Refresh Your Marriage 

The words you use in marriage can be … slippery. Not only because they seem to slip through your lips before you think them through, but because they can also put you on a slippery slope toward conflict and hurt. In this 7-day devotion, read real-marriage examples of how the power of our words can be used to lift our spouses higher, or tear them (and our marriage) apart. 

The Power of Words

Search for #RelationshipGoals on social media, and you’ll find seemingly perfect images of couples in love. But what if the vision of relationship that our society is selling is a mirage? Pastor Michael Todd has written Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex about having relationship goals that come from God and align with who He has made us to be. 

Relationship Goals

In this four-day plan, Dr. Bob DeMaria shares how regaining your health is the foundation to restore the pursuit of your spouse and relationship with God.

A Healthy Look At Sex & Romance 

Marriage is designed to be the closest possible relationship of increasing intimacy and growing interdependence. But this is not automatic; we have to keep working at our marriage to stay connected. Adapted from The Marriage Course by Nicky and Sila Lee, this 7-day plan aims to introduce you to tools to build a healthy marriage and strengthen your connection—or to restore your connection if you feel you’ve lost it.

The Marriage Course

Dear Sister, Do you long to grow closer to your husband? Do you find your marriage growing stale and in need of revival? Perhaps you desire more intentionality as a wife? Join the Help Club for Moms community as we discover powerful Scriptures and learn new habits to help us to love our husbands well. We hope you will join us! Your marriage will never be the same!

Love Your Husband Challenge

In this three-day plan, Dr. Temi Michael-O shares prayers that strengthen marriages and empower husbands to honor God and their wives. 

Faithful: 3 Scriptures to Pray Over Your Husband

Many couples visualize what married life should look like—then reality shows up. If the many storms of life have taken a toll on your relationship—maybe you are keeping up appearances, but inwardly you feel dissatisfied, unhappy, alone, or are even standing at the brink of divorce—only Jesus will help you experience the redeeming grace of God for your marriage with the help of this 10-day reading plan.

Daily Habits Of Marital Intimacy - 10 Day Reading Plan

Jesus is praying for your husband, and He invites you to join Him! Recall an image of Jesus you’ve likely seen on His knees, praying. Imagine leaning in to listen to what He is praying and hearing Him speak your husband’s name. Experience Jesus’ heart for your husband as you claim Bible promises for his future, intercede for his spiritual growth and witness, and declare his freedom and passion to love the Lord.

Praying for My Husband

Just as nature cycles through seasons, relationship go through four important stages that will either make or break your love life: Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. No matter your relationship status, join licensed professional counselor and relationship expert, Debra Fileta, and learn how to navigate through love in every season. 

Love in Every Season

Many couples know their marriage has room for improvement, but it is hard to pinpoint exactly why a relationship is suffering. Often times everyday triggers are the culprit. Angry reactions sabotage our marriages. Rather than run from the things that cause conflict, like poor communication, financial clashes, exhaustion, and feeling unloved,these triggers are opportunities for growth, to renew your commitment to responding gently and biblically towards your partner.

5 Days to Freedom from Anger in Your Marriage

Christian subculture is notorious for telling you there’s one God-approved way to date. But that isn’t true. Our culture invented dating, not God. But God doesn’t leave us in limbo when it comes to relationships. God’s Word gives you a framework for finding a spouse, not a formula. He is just as interested in who you become during the dating process as he is in who you will marry.

How Should a Christian Date?  A 5-Day Devotional by Eric Demeter

After the shock of discovering infidelity, you need to take care of yourself if you want to have the best opportunity for restoration. This 5-day reading plan will give you tips on how to care for yourself spiritually and emotionally on this difficult journey.

Get resources on marriage, parenting, faith, and more at FocusOnTheFamily.com.

Staying Healthy During Recovery From Infidelity

In this reading plan, we have invited several married couples to share about their journey developing spiritual intimacy. Participants will learn some of the practical barriers that prevent couples from connecting spiritually. This is a great plan for married couples but may also be beneficial for dating couples who are open to learning about strengths and challenges that may arise in marriage when aiming to grow spiritually, together.

Spiritual Intimacy as Couples

It will help the reader to discover biblical principles on why God created marriage.



The Wedding Knot - For What?

You know the saying, "Won the battle but lost the war." It's a profound description of what can happen in a marriage if one spouse insists on always winning arguments and getting their own way. The victory may feel good in the short term, but it can do serious damage to your relationship, long term. Pete Briscoe brings a fresh perspective about what it really means to win at marriage.

Choosing To Lose Wins In Marriage By Pete Briscoe

Getting caught up in a new relationship can be a truly exhilarating experience. As you grow closer together, remember to draw even closer to God.

Dating and Relationships

As devastating as an affair is, God does amazing things when a couple commits to rebuild their marriage. In this plan by Dr. Kim, we meet Adam and Kristi and hear their story. If there has been an affair in your marriage, this plan will help in your healing. If not, it will help you understand each other and take steps to protect your marriage from this marriage killer. 

Affair Prevention in Marriage

Have you ever considered marriage? Have you ever wondered if your relationship is what God wants? Have you ever felt that singleness is just a last resort? Read on to find out what the Bible has to say about these important life stages.

Relationships Of The Kingdom – A Plan On Marriage, Dating And Singleness

So...what's a "Living Room Reset?" Think of it more as a verb instead of an adjective. An action...not a description. Join me on this 5-day journey to learn EXACTLY what a "Living Room Reset" is and how it changed my marriage and my family. I pray it changes yours as well!

Living Room Reset w/Kirk Cameron

This 40-day reading plan is designed to help those in a relationship, those planning to get married, or those already married to get into the Word and understand the Biblical foundations of marriage. 

"Sexodus" Relationships Devotional

Motown Gospel artists & spouses, Jerard & Jovaun share their perspective on staying encouraged on their journey through life & how you can do the same. Through this plan, they stress the tools that God has given us all to make it safely.

Jerard & Jovaun: Faith to Faith

Marriage is a challenging and rewarding relationship, and so often we forget that “I do” is only the beginning. Fortunately, the Bible has much to say about marriage from both the husband’s and wife’s perspectives. The brief Scripture passages you’ll encounter each day of this plan are designed to help you grow in your understanding of God’s design for marriage—and deepen your relationship with your spouse in the process.

Marriage

What happened in Eden has shaped us all. From joy in the Creator’s presence to the collapse that brought death—still felt and passed down until He comes.
The principles of Creation reveal God’s character and His mind. And when we look at the first man and woman, we also see ourselves more clearly.
As both a psychologist and a follower of Christ, I find this deeply moving. So I invite you to join me in returning to Eden, to reflect on what truly happened there—and what it means for us today.

What Happened to Us in Eden? - Psychology of the Fall

Jesus calls us to shine His light and influence others for His Kingdom. Some friends draw you closer to your purpose; others slowly lead you off course. The people you walk with shape your faith. Are your friendships helping you grow—or pulling you back? 

In this 7-day plan, discover how to reflect Christ, resist compromise, and be a light that leads others closer to Him.



Are Your Friendships Fueling Your Faith?

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

If you’re tired of carrying the weight of trying to change the man you love, this plan is for you. Over the next five days, you’ll finally discover how to move from fix and control to surrender and prayer. Experience the peace that comes from learning how to trust God with your partner’s future.

Pray for Him - From Fixing to Praying

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

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

Why get married when you can cohabit? This plan shows how marriage is different from cohabitation by showing the theological roots of marriage. As we reflect on the biblical concept of covenant, we will see what is so valuable about marriage. Invest in your marriage and learn wisdom for relationships from the scriptures.

Why Marriage | Covenant: The Heart of Commitment

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

Sexual Purity and Destiny

Marital anxiety is often the result of fear shaped by experiences, stories, observations, disappointments, and unanswered questions. Many singles desire marriage but are terrified of what it might cost or expose within them.
This 7-day devotional is designed to confront the fears surrounding marriage with God’s truth: the Scriptures. Each day addresses a specific fear that keeps many singles stuck in avoidance, helping you identify its root, dismantle its power, and replace it with trust in God.
This plan invites you to bring your fears and release them to God, in preparation for the “good land” He has promised.


Fear Not: Confronting the Real Fears About 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

Take a journey with Marcus Mooki through this Spirit-led, Christ-centred 3-day devotion on grief, thoughtfully designed to guide hurting hearts toward healing, restoration, and renewed hope. This devotional journey creates a safe space for honest grieving, welcomes God’s healing presence into places of loss, and anchors the reader in the assurance that grief does not have the final word. Through Scripture, prayer, prophetic encouragement, and reflection, readers are gently led to process pain without shame, receive divine comfort, and rise again with strength, purpose, and hope in Christ.

HEALING FROM GRIEF

This 3-day devotional invites you to rediscover biblical love from a practical, motivating, and deeply spiritual perspective. Through well-known passages about love, you will find inspiration to heal, grow, and love more authentically—beginning with the love God has for you.

Love That Transforms

Before you can build a healthy relationship with someone else, you first have to understand who you are. But between society’s expectations, past heartbreaks, and our own insecurities, identity can get lost in the shuffle. Knowing yourself isn’t just self-help jargon—it’s the foundation for everything else. Let’s explore the five W questions: Who am I? What am I? Where am I? When am I? Why am I even here?

Student of Love: Your Guide to Discover, Uncover, and Recover Healthy Relationships

Valentine’s Day often highlights emotional love, but the Bible reveals a deeper, stable, and transforming love. This 5-day reading plan invites you to discover love according to God’s heart—a love that is chosen, built, and rooted in truth. Open to everyone, regardless of relationship status, it explores the love that comes from God, heals, forgives, and reflects Christ. Through Scripture, practical reflections, and prayer, this plan helps align your heart with the very source of love and live out healthy, lasting relationships.

Valentine's Day: Loving as God Loves - Jean-Luc Trachsel

'KEEPING GODLY RELATIONSHIPS' is a 4-day devotional reading plan designed to help you build and maintain relationships rooted in God’s Word. Through each day’s reflection, you’ll discover essential biblical values for nurturing love, trust, and understanding in all types of relationships—whether in marriage, friendship, or business. This plan will guide you toward practicing godly principles that strengthen your connections, foster harmony, and reflect Christ’s character in every interaction.

Keeping Godly Relationships

Every human being is born into a world filled with voices - some nurturing, some deceptive, and others downright destructive. From the moment we open our eyes, the world begins to tell us who we are & who we are not. 

It names us before we can name ourselves. “You’re not enough.” “You’re too broken.” “You’ll never be like them.”

These whispers- subtle, persistent, and often inherited - shape our sense of self long before we encounter the truth of who God says we are.

Who Told You?

How do you pray for someone you have never seen, especially someone as consequential to your life as your future husband? Over the next five days, we will discuss why you should pray for him, how to navigate the waiting period with faith, what specifically to pray for, and what to do if you’re losing hope that he’ll ever show.

Future Husband Present Prayers: How to Pray for Your Future Husband

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

Everything God created was good, including marriage. Why then do we witness so much pain and dysfunction in present-day marriages? How did the author of this esteemed institution intend for couples to conduct themselves? This 10-day devotional reveals fundamental principles that will help steady and grow your marriage.

You will be stirred to love in action, protect, communicate effectively, choose faithfulness, serve with joy, forgive deeply, sprinkle some romance, pray together, and grow purposefully. 

Each day offers relevant scriptures, a simple step, and a short prayer to strengthen your connection with your spouse. 


Ten Commandments of Marriage: A 10-Day Devotional

Few areas of life bring as much joy or confusion as dating. This plan helps you navigate relationships with wisdom, boundaries, and God-centered guidance. Each day, explore Scripture, reflect on your heart, and gain practical tools to discern readiness, communicate with love, and build relationships that honor God. Perfect for singles, mentors, or anyone seeking to understand God’s design for love.

Guard Your Heart: A Biblical Guide to Dating

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

You want to pray together as a couple. It’s so important, yet many couples find it difficult or intimidating. This practical plan is filled with small, simple tools to help you train yourselves to pray together. Each day includes discussion questions and a prayer; we’re excited for you to grow closer to God as a couple. 

How to Pray as a Couple

Singleness is truly a gift—a season not to waste, but to lean into with intention and faith. This is a time to lock in with God, grow in wisdom, and discover who you are without distraction. It’s not just powerful; it’s purposeful. And I don’t believe it’s an accident that you’re here. Something in you is craving a fresh perspective, a new way to view this season of your life. God has something new, something life-giving, waiting for you. This is your moment to lean in, trust Him deeply, and embrace the journey ahead with confidence and expectancy.

Single, Secure, & Thriving

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

Relationships shape our lives deeply, yet many people enter them guided by lies rather than truth. This plan exposes common relationship lies that damage hearts, marriages, and destinies, and replaces them with God’s wisdom. Are you single, dating, engaged, or married? These seven days will help you pause, discern wisely, walk in purity, and build relationships rooted in truth and honour. You will learn how to recognise red flags early, value commitment over emotion, and trust God’s design for love. Here is an invitation to choose truth, walk in wisdom, and experience love the way God intended.

Love, Lust, and Lies

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

Dig into God's Word to find answers about divorce from Jesus, who is full of grace and truth. 

Divorce

Author and pastor Debra B. Morton reveals the secret to surviving and even thriving in the midst of setbacks and painful circumstances.

How To Thrive In Life's Toughest Seasons By Pastor Debra Morton

Being a stepmother is challenging and can often seem very unrewarding. From one stepmother to another, I understand! That is why I wrote this devotional. I want to walk with you as you learn to unapologetically walk in your assignment as a Stepmother. 

Your assignment is critical to the life of your stepchildren and in this devotional, we will discuss just what that 'assignment' might look like.  

But I'm ONLY The Stepmom!

Marriage is hard work. And things don't always go as we hoped they would. Whether your marriage has struggled because of betrayal or years of neglect, you can have a new marriage. This plan is just seven days, but you can read more in Cindy's book, Rebuilding A Marriage Better Than New.

Rebuilding A Marriage Better Than New

Divorce grieves the heart of God. He hates seeing us in pain and holding onto guilt, shame, and fear. Despite our mistakes, He longs for us to accept His grace and know we are valued, cherished, and irreplaceable. No matter your circumstances, this plan will help you find healing from your divorce, so you can live the redeemed life God has for you—one full of hope, joy, and purpose.

Living Changed: After Divorce

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

Most of us know marriage won’t always be a honeymoon, but no one plans for a marriage crisis. Sadly, deep wounds, affairs, addiction, and divorce threaten so many marriages. But there’s good news: no matter what crisis you face, there’s still hope in Christ. Want more of that? Start this hope-filled Bible Plan by finds.life.church.

Marriage Crisis

Betrayal is one of the worst things we can do to another person. What do we do when we feel betrayed by a friend or a family member? Jesus is the expert at understanding Betrayal. Let’s look into His response to His betrayal and actually become good at knowing how to handle this hurtful but human issue.

Hollywood Prayer Network On Betrayal

Does the word "happily" come to mind when you think about your marriage commitment? What if both how you treated your spouse and how you were treated by your spouse was happily? This is a devotional about the "hows" of relationships. We will look at the nuts and bolts of what makes marriage lasting, fun, and characterized by love. You may be surprised at the commitment essentials to your own happily ever after.

Happily By Kevin Thompson

Whether you’re single or divorced, the idea of dating can be overwhelming at times.  It’s easy for your emotions to get overwhelmed with the feelings that come with past failed relationships.  The heartache, tears, disappointment and hurt can leave you never wanting to date again.  This reading plan will guide you on a journey that will introduce you to dating and making intentional decisions for your next relationship.

Kiss Dating Hello

There are seasons where most stepparents feel that they do most of the giving and get very little in return. Stepparenting is hard. A relationship plagued by love conflicts and a child's lower motivation toward love and bonding are usually at the roots of this. For these seven days, learn to get past these stepparenting challenges and get on the road to building love together.

7 Day Devotional for the Stepparent 

Divorce is messy. In the aftermath, relationships with your ex-spouse and children can be tense. We invite you to follow along with this seven-day devotional where we’ll find transformation, healing, and victory in Jesus Christ, even in the aftermath of divorce.

UNCOMMEN: Broken

Divorce is the death of a marriage. It is one of the most challenging experiences a couple can encounter. Whether it occurs for one's safety, sanity or whatever reason, it is devastating for the couple, their extended family, and friends. This devotional will guide you into wholeness and renewal of spirit. There is life after divorce.

Life After Divorce

Whether or not you've completed our Daily Encouragement for the Smart Stepfamily devotional, here are 7 more daily pieces of encouragement to continue growing your blended family relationships. Read them as a stepfamily together or separately, but create a space for everyone to share their thoughts and feelings.

More Daily Encouragement for the Smart StepFamily

Join Pastor Rick for this series of broadcasts on “Life’s Healing Choices” as he walks through the Beatitudes from Matthew 5, which are the eight steps to physical, emotional, social, financial, and personal health.

Life's Healing Choices

What’s your response when your wife says she’s done with your relationship? Crisis mode ensues. This 12-day devotional gives practical insight from a man’s real-life perspective. If your marriage is dying or thriving, this devotional will be worth the read.


Man In Crisis

Satan uses popular culture, books, movies, and even other people to tell us what marriage "should" be. No wonder so many couples are unsatisfied and looking elsewhere to find happiness. Satan's ultimate goal is to divide husbands and wives and to destroy families, and he'll use anything at his disposal to do it. Pete Briscoe shines a spotlight on eight lies that can devastate your marriage.


Lies That Can Ruin a Marriage by Pete Briscoe 

Blending a Family 40-day Devotional written by Moe and Paige Becnel at Blending a Family Ministry is a resource for remarried families. The Becnel’s married in 1989 with 5 children, and were quickly overwhelmed with many issues exclusive to blended families. The plan discusses the cause of the issues many families face, and provides solutions found in God’s Word that fuel family growth. God is for you!

Blending a Family 40 Day Devotional

Marriage is hard. Sometimes it feels like the best way is out, and we feel the relationship cannot survive another day. But the truth is, there is a better, more excellent way. In this 5-day plan, Pete examines the challenges all married couples face and shares how Jesus wants to breathe life and love into your marriage—even when it seems broken beyond repair.

Don't Walk Away From Your Marriage By Pete Briscoe

Parenting Young Children

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

Marriage is a blessing from God, but because we are flawed individuals, it can be hard at times. This reading plan offers words from God’s Word about common marital issues.

Marriage Is Hard

God looks beyond what we do (even the good we do) to see our heart. He cares about our motives when we give, pray, fast… The heart of the issue, with God, is always the heart. He wants to guide us by our heart so we can make a radical difference for Him!

Give God Your Heart And Keep Your Motives Pure

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. 

