Devotional for teens and young adults
Word for Today: Romans 12:21 NIVDo not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.Reflection:Are there evil habits or sinful patterns that you've accepted as the norm?
Word for Today:Genesis 25:21 NIVIsaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife…the Lord answered his prayer.Reflection:How are you protecting God's promises to bring them to pass?
Word for Today:Hebrews 11:1-2 NKJVNow faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.Reflection:It's not enough to start the journey with God. We must finish it.
Word for Today:Genesis 18:19 NIV“I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just”Reflection:Is your faith contagious?
Word for Today:Genesis 22:12 NKJV where God said to Abraham:“..for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”Reflection:How will your faith hold up when you are tested?
Word for Today:Hebrews 11:17 NLTIt was by faith that Abraham offered Isaac as a sacrifice when God was testing him. Abraham, who had received God's promises, was ready to sacrifice his only son, Isaac.Reflection:When God asks you to give Him that one thing that you value most in your life, will you obey?
Word for Today:Numbers 23:19 NLTGod is not a man, so he does not lie. He is not human, so he does not change his mind. Has he ever spoken and failed to act? Has he ever promised and not carried it through?Reflection: No one can delay or block God's promises for your life except you!
Word for Today:Genesis 17:9 NLT“Then God said to Abraham, “Your responsibility is to obey the terms of the covenant. You and all your descendants have this continual responsibility.”Reflection:Are you fulfilling your own side of the covenant?
Word for Today:Genesis 17:1 NLTWhen Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am El-Shaddai—‘God Almighty.' Serve me faithfully and live a blameless life.”Reflection:Are you asking God to endorse your Plan B?
Word for Today:2 Timothy 2:13 AMPIf we are faithless, He remains faithful[true to His word and His righteous character], for He cannot deny Himself.Reflection: Are you trying to ‘help God?'
Word for Today:Genesis 15:6 NLT“And Abram believed the Lord, and the Lord counted him as righteous because of his faith.”Reflection:Have you given up on yourself when God hasn't given up on you?
Word for Today:Hebrews 5:7 NLT“While Jesus was here on earth, he offered prayers and pleadings, with a loud cry and tears, to the one who could rescue him from death. And God heard his prayers because of his deep reverence for God.”Reflection:How do you approach God? Do you esteem Him lightly or do you treat Him with the utmost reverence?
Word for Today:Hebrews 13:2 (NKJV)Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels.Reflection:On a scale of 1 to 10, where do you rank on your kindness and hospitality scale?
Word for Today:Genesis 14:23 NIV I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, ‘I made Abram rich.'Reflection:Are you willing to walk away from opportunities that will make you compromise God's glory in your life?
Word for Today:1 Corinthians 10:24 AMP“Let no one seek only his own good, but also that of the other person.”Reflection:Who around you needs help—but you've been too preoccupied to notice?
Word for Today:Romans 12:18 NIV“If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.”Reflection:Are there conflicts in your life that you need to step away from for the sake of peace?
Word for Today:Genesis 13:9 AMPC“Separate yourself, I beg of you, from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if you choose the right hand, then I will go to the left.”Reflection:Is there someone in your life that you need to separate yourself from so that you can move forward in your relationship with God and in His plan for your life?
Word for Today:Psalms 56:3 NIV“When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.”Reflection:Am I letting fear drive my decisions? Or am I choosing to trust God, especially in the areas I feel most vulnerable?
Word for Today:Genesis 12:10 NIVNow there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.Reflection:What do you do when things get hard, even after you've obeyed God? Do you give up? Or do you trust God to see you through the famine?
Word for Today:Genesis 12:7 NIVThe Lord appeared to Abram and said“To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.Reflection:What altar is in your home, your room, your area of influence? Don't leave that space open for just any spirit to take over!
Word for Today:Genesis 12:4 NKJVSo Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.Reflection:Am I trusting God in the unknown, or am I waiting for certainty before I obey?
Word for Today:Genesis 12:1 (NKJV)Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father's house, To a land that I will show you.”Reflection:This week, take some time to pray and ask: “Lord, what are the things You're calling me to leave behind in my walk with You?”
Word for Today:1 Chronicles 28:9-10 NLT“And Solomon, my son, learn to know the God of your ancestors intimately. Worship and serve him with your whole heart and a willing mind. For the Lord sees every heart and knows every plan and thought. If you seek him, you will find him. But if you forsake him, he will reject you forever. So take this seriously.”
Word for Today:Psalms 69:9 NIVZeal for your house consumes me, and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.
Word for Today:1 Chronicles 21:24 MSG“I'm not going to offer God sacrifices that are no sacrifice.”
Word for Today:Hebrews 12:5-6 NLTMy child, don't make light of the Lord's discipline, and don't give up when he corrects you. For the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.
Word for Today:Psalms 51:10 NKJV“Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.”
Word for Today:Proverbs 28:13 NKJV “He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.”
Word for Today:Psalms 34:3-4 NKJVOh, magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together. I sought the Lord, and He heard me, And delivered me from all my fears.
Word for Today:Ecclesiastes 5:4 NIVWhen you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow.
Word for Today:2 Samuel 7:2 NLTLook, David said, “I am living in a beautiful cedar palace, but the Ark of God is out there in a tent!”
Word for Today:2 Samuel 6:14 NLT“And David danced before the Lord with all his might.”
Word for Today:Acts 9:6 NKJVSo he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do You want me to do?” Then the Lord said to him, “Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
Word for Today:Proverbs 20:22 ESV“Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you.”
Word for Today:Psalms 34:6 NLTIn my desperation I prayed, and the Lord listened; he saved me from all my troubles.
Word for Today:1 Samuel 24:6 NLTHe said to his men, “The Lord forbid that I should do this to my Lord the king. I shouldn't attack the Lord's anointed one, for the Lord himself has chosen him.”
Word for Today:1 Samuel 18:18 NIVBut David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my family or my clan in Israel, that I should become the king's son-in-law?”
Word for Today:1 Samuel 18:5 MSG“Whatever Saul gave David to do, he did it—and did it well. So well that Saul put him in charge of his military operations. Everybody, both the people in general and Saul's servants, approved of and admired David's leadership.”
Word for Today:1 Samuel 17:32 NIVDavid said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine, your servant will go and fight him.”
Word for Today:1 Samuel 16:18 NLT“One of Jesse's sons from Bethlehem is a talented harp player. Not only that—he is a brave warrior, a man of war, and has good judgment. He is also a fine-looking young man, and the Lord is with him.”
Word for Today:1 Samuel 16:23 NLTAnd whenever the tormenting spirit from God troubled Saul, David would play the harp. Then Saul would feel better, and the tormenting spirit would go away.
Word for Today:1 Samuel 16:12 NLT “And the Lord said, “This is the one; anoint him.”
Word for Today:Acts 13:22 NLTBut God removed Saul and replaced him with David, a man about whom God said, ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart. He will do everything I want him to do.'
Word for Today:Jeremiah 31:3 NIV“I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.”
Word for Today:Song of Solomon 5:10-11 AMPMy beloved is exquisitely handsome and ruddy, Outstanding among ten thousand. His head is like [precious] gold, pure gold; His hair is [curly] like clusters of dates And black as a raven.
Word for Today:Proverbs 31:12 AMP“She comforts, encourages, and does him only good and not evil All the days of her life.”
Word for Today:Genesis 2:18 NLT“Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”
Word for Today:Ephesians 5:22-23 NKJV“Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.”
Word for Today: Ephesians 5:2 MSG“Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.”
Word for Today:Ephesians 5:28-29 NKJV“So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.”
Word for Today:1 Peter 3:7 NLT“In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God's gift of new life..”