Connect the sunday message to your week!
These short devotionals help bridge the gap between sunday services. We pray this resource will help you grow in your journey with Jesus! If you'd like to join the New Testament-in-a-year reading, additional scripture for that is provided at the bottom of each section.
Day 1
Submitted to a Higher Authority
Reading: Romans 12:1-2
Devotional: At twelve years old, Jesus already understood something most adults spend a lifetime learning -- there is a higher authority over every life. When Mary and Joseph found him in the temple, he was not being rebellious. He was being obedient to the Father. His life was not his own, and neither is yours. Every decision you make, every direction you choose, every plan you build is either submitted to God's authority or it is not. There is no neutral ground. The question is not whether you will serve something. The question is whether you will serve the One who made you, knows you, and has a purpose for you that exceeds anything you could design for yourself. Today, surrender your plans to the Father's authority and trust that His will is better than yours.
New Testament-in-a-Year Reading: Colossians 3
Reading: Romans 12:1-2
Devotional: At twelve years old, Jesus already understood something most adults spend a lifetime learning -- there is a higher authority over every life. When Mary and Joseph found him in the temple, he was not being rebellious. He was being obedient to the Father. His life was not his own, and neither is yours. Every decision you make, every direction you choose, every plan you build is either submitted to God's authority or it is not. There is no neutral ground. The question is not whether you will serve something. The question is whether you will serve the One who made you, knows you, and has a purpose for you that exceeds anything you could design for yourself. Today, surrender your plans to the Father's authority and trust that His will is better than yours.
New Testament-in-a-Year Reading: Colossians 3
Day 2
Discovering Your Assignment for This Season
Reading: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Devotional: Jesus did not wait until he was thirty to be about the Father's business. At twelve, his assignment was to grow, to learn, to listen, and to obey his parents. He was faithful in the season he was in before stepping into the season that was coming. God does not waste any season of your life. The college student is not simply earning a degree. The new parent is not simply surviving sleepless nights. The empty nester is not simply watching the years pass. Every season carries a divine assignment. The danger is in waiting for a more convenient season to obey God when He is speaking to you clearly in the one you are already in. Faithfulness now prepares you for what is ahead.
New Testament-in-a-Year Reading: Colossians 4
Reading: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Devotional: Jesus did not wait until he was thirty to be about the Father's business. At twelve, his assignment was to grow, to learn, to listen, and to obey his parents. He was faithful in the season he was in before stepping into the season that was coming. God does not waste any season of your life. The college student is not simply earning a degree. The new parent is not simply surviving sleepless nights. The empty nester is not simply watching the years pass. Every season carries a divine assignment. The danger is in waiting for a more convenient season to obey God when He is speaking to you clearly in the one you are already in. Faithfulness now prepares you for what is ahead.
New Testament-in-a-Year Reading: Colossians 4
Day 3
Less of Me, More of Him
Reading: Philippians 3:7-11
Devotional: The Apostle Paul's great ambition was not fame, comfort, or recognition. It was simply to know Jesus more deeply and to be found in Him. This is the heart behind being about the things of the Father. It is not primarily about doing more religious activities. It is about becoming less consumed with yourself and more consumed with Christ. When Jesus increased in wisdom, stature, and favor with God and man, it was the natural result of a life fully yielded to the Father's purpose. The same is available to you. As you decrease in self-reliance and self-promotion, God increases in and through your life in ways that cannot be manufactured or forced.
New Testament-in-a-Year Reading: 1 Thessalonians 1
Reading: Philippians 3:7-11
Devotional: The Apostle Paul's great ambition was not fame, comfort, or recognition. It was simply to know Jesus more deeply and to be found in Him. This is the heart behind being about the things of the Father. It is not primarily about doing more religious activities. It is about becoming less consumed with yourself and more consumed with Christ. When Jesus increased in wisdom, stature, and favor with God and man, it was the natural result of a life fully yielded to the Father's purpose. The same is available to you. As you decrease in self-reliance and self-promotion, God increases in and through your life in ways that cannot be manufactured or forced.
New Testament-in-a-Year Reading: 1 Thessalonians 1
Day 4
Saved From Something, Saved For Something
Reading: Ephesians 2:8-10
Devotional: Salvation is not merely a rescue from eternal consequences. It is an invitation into eternal purpose. God did not send His Son to die on a cross simply so you could avoid hell. He saved you so that you could walk in the good works He prepared for you before the foundation of the world. You were not saved to sit. You were saved to serve, to love, to reach, to disciple, and to expand the kingdom of light in every corner of your life. Your workplace, your neighborhood, your family table, your school hallway -- these are not just locations. They are mission fields. The Father's business is being conducted everywhere, and He has placed you exactly where you are on purpose.
New Testament-in-a-Year Reading: 1 Thessalonians 2
Reading: Ephesians 2:8-10
Devotional: Salvation is not merely a rescue from eternal consequences. It is an invitation into eternal purpose. God did not send His Son to die on a cross simply so you could avoid hell. He saved you so that you could walk in the good works He prepared for you before the foundation of the world. You were not saved to sit. You were saved to serve, to love, to reach, to disciple, and to expand the kingdom of light in every corner of your life. Your workplace, your neighborhood, your family table, your school hallway -- these are not just locations. They are mission fields. The Father's business is being conducted everywhere, and He has placed you exactly where you are on purpose.
New Testament-in-a-Year Reading: 1 Thessalonians 2
Day 5
Growing in Wisdom, Stature, and Favor
Reading: Proverbs 3:5-7
Devotional: Luke 2:52 tells us that Jesus grew in wisdom, in stature, and in favor with both God and man. This was not accidental. It was the fruit of a life consistently submitted to the Father's authority and assignment. When you orient your life around the things of the Father, growth is the natural result. Not necessarily growth in wealth or public recognition, but growth in the things that matter most -- depth of character, clarity of purpose, and the kind of favor that opens doors no human hand could open. God breathes on the life that is surrendered to Him. He increases what is yielded to Him. Trust Him today with everything you are, and watch what He does with a life fully given over to His purposes.
New Testament-in-a-Year Reading: 1 Thessalonians 3
Reading: Proverbs 3:5-7
Devotional: Luke 2:52 tells us that Jesus grew in wisdom, in stature, and in favor with both God and man. This was not accidental. It was the fruit of a life consistently submitted to the Father's authority and assignment. When you orient your life around the things of the Father, growth is the natural result. Not necessarily growth in wealth or public recognition, but growth in the things that matter most -- depth of character, clarity of purpose, and the kind of favor that opens doors no human hand could open. God breathes on the life that is surrendered to Him. He increases what is yielded to Him. Trust Him today with everything you are, and watch what He does with a life fully given over to His purposes.
New Testament-in-a-Year Reading: 1 Thessalonians 3