Daily Bible Verse and Devotion – Romans 15:13

Posted on July 17, 2026

When you’re dealing with your parents, sometimes it can be really hard to have hope. Perhaps your relationship with your parents is not good. And you have lost all hope that it can be better.

Here’s the thing, with God’s help, and wisdom, even bad relationships with your parents can get better. Don’t give up hope. Let God fill you with the hope that things can change and things can get better.

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. – Romans 15:13 (NLT)

Go to God with your concerns about your relationship with your parents. The Holy Spirit can give you ideas and wisdom on things you can do to make the relationship better. Things can get better if you’ll believe God and ask Him for help. So don’t be afraid to act on what He tells you to do.

He loves you and wants you to have a healthy relationship with your parents.

Today’s Truth: Don’t give up hope, your relationship with your parents can get better!

Daily Bible Verse and Devotion – Psalm 42:2

Posted on July 16, 2026

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
    When will I come and appear before God? – Psalm 42:2 (MEV)

Can you remember who your best friend was your first year of school? If you can remember, do you still talk to them? Are they still one of your closest friends? For some, the answer might be yes, you still talk to that friend. But for others, like myself, my friend has moved away.

I no longer have any communication with that friend. As a result, we’re not really good friends any more. This is not due to any kind of fallout, or us no longer liking each other. Instead, we simply aren’t around each other, and as a result, we don’t talk that often.

Our relationship with God can be the same way. It’s up to us to determine our closeness to God. God is always near, but if we never reach out to talk to Him, we will never know Him. God has made Himself knowable to us, but we have to want to know Him in return.

As we spend time in reading our Bibles, prayer, worship, and thinking about Him, our nearness and desire for Him grows. In today’s verse, we see that David was thirsting for time with God. He loved God, and knew Him and as a result desired more time and fellowship with God.

We can have the same connection with God. God isn’t far off or hard to know. But He needs you to want to know Him. As you desire Him, He shows Himself more and more real to you. As a result, your knowledge and relationship with Him grows.

So today, realize that God wants to make Himself known to you. Determine to spend some time getting to know Him and see that your desire for Him grow.

Daily Bible Verse and Devotion – 1 Corinthians 13:7

Posted on July 15, 2026

This week we’ve been talking a lot about dealing with parents. Parents aren’t always easy, are they? Really, any relationship takes work to make it successful. However, hopefully, you’ve been challenged this week to not give up hope that your relationship with your parents can improve.

Today we’re going to look a little more about love. Because regardless of how we might feel about our parents, as their kids we’re called to treat them with love.

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. – 1 Corinthians 13:7 (NIV)

One of the main things to keep in mind is to not give up hope. Any relationship can with time and practice get better. So always keep hoping and believing that your relationship with your parents will get better. Keep striving to help make things better and do what you can to keep peace in your family.

Today’s Truth: Get God’s Wisdom on Your Relationship With Your Parents.

Keep trusting, and don’t give up. In time, your relationship with your parents can get better. Just be sure to keep working and praying for God’s help and wisdom, knowing that He is there to lead you, guide you, and help you out!

Daily Bible Verse and Devotion – 1 Corinthians 13:4-5

Posted on July 14, 2026

Don’t you hate getting in trouble? I know I do. When I get in trouble, I try to explain my way out of the situation and justify my behavior. It’s certainly not the right thing to do, but it seems to be my default.

In today’s Bible verse, we see a definition of love. Take a look:

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged – 1 Corinthians 13:4-5 (NLT)

When you get in trouble with your parents, what do you usually do? Do you try to demand your own way? Do you get mad at your parents?

While those can be natural reactions, part of loving our parents is learning to practice self-control when being corrected. Sometimes that can mean taking a moment to breathe and listen to what our parents have to say. It often means that we need to not get angry when corrected, but rather listen to what they have to say before losing our cool.

Loving your parents isn’t always easy. Especially if you have a parent that just seems to not get you or rubs you the wrong way. However, even in those situations, we’re called to practice love and self-control. With God’s help, you can learn to control your emotions and walk in love with your parents.

Today’s Truth: Practice Self-Control and Love When Corrected by Your Parents.

Daily Bible Verse and Devotion – James 1:3

Posted on July 13, 2026

If we’re honest, most of us would like to avoid tests and trials in life. No one likes going through hard times. However, this Bible verse shows us something really great about the tests of life. It tells us that those tests produce endurance in our lives.

Many times, athletes will undergo endurance training to help them become better in the sport they play. They train their bodies and their minds to withstand for long periods of time. This produces results like overall feeling better and having more energy.

Knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. – James 1:3

In the same way, we can grow in endurance training spiritually too. Each difficulty in our life gives us another chance to trust in God and each test can help make us better. If we let them, the tests and trials in life can be a way for us to learn to trust God in new ways, and to learn and grow in endurance. So the next time you’re faced with a test in life, you can be encouraged by what this Bible verse says. Realize that even though the trials can be hard, that they’re producing character in your life and if you let them, these trials can bring you to rely more fully on God.

Today’s Truth: Each difficulty we face gives us the chance to fully rely on God.

Daily Bible Verse and Devotion – Exodus 6:2

Posted on July 2, 2026

God also said to Moses, “I am the Lord – Exodus 6:2 (NIV)

In yesterday’s devotion, we looked a little at the discouragement Moses must have felt. Moses had gone to Pharaoh and asked him to free the children of Israel. Instead of it working, Pharaoh made life harder on them. I’m sure Moses felt really bad and wondered if he had made a mistake talking to Pharaoh.

When Moses was at his lowest point here, God didn’t tell Moses that Moses had what he needed to face Pharaoh. He didn’t say, Moses, you know you have the connections you need. Or Moses, you have the ability to convince people to follow you into the promised land. He didn’t even encourage Moses by saying what Moses said to Pharaoh before wasn’t all that bad.

No. Instead, God reminds Moses here of who God is.

That’s really powerful for us to think about. We don’t usually have what it takes to do what God calls us to do. Sometimes we mess up or do things wrong. And God doesn’t encourage us in our own strength. Rather he tells us who he is.

When we focus on who God is, it brings us encouragement. None of us are good enough. None of us have it all together, but we can focus on who he is and then we have the faith to do what it is that He calls us to do. Be encouraged. You haven’t messed up too bad for God to move. You haven’t fallen too far for Him. He always encourages us to do and be more for Him and we do that by focusing on who God is, not on who we are.

Daily Bible Verse and Devotion – Exodus 6:1

Posted on July 1, 2026

Can you think of a time in your life when you’ve been really discouraged? Moses felt this way in today’s Bible verse.

In Exodus 6:1 God give Moses encouragement. God tells him, “Now you shall see what I will do…” Moses had been discouraged by failure and by reports that nothing was changing.

When you face discouragement, it’s easy to focus on obstacles—the people who doubt you, the tests that won’t change, the inner voice that says you’ve blown it. But God is always working for good for us. And just like Moses, if we will believe, we will see Him move in our lives.

As a teen, you face school stress, shifting friendships, family conflict, and choices that feel huge. You may feel like no matter what you do, you’re always making mistakes. Exodus 6:1 says otherwise. God is not surprised by your struggles, and He does not abandon you when plans stall. Sometimes the next step is waiting for God’s timing; sometimes it’s obeying despite fear. Either way, God’s faithfulness doesn’t depend on your perfect performance.

Today, challenge yourself to pray honestly—tell God your frustration and ask for courage. Take one small obedient step today—send the message you’ve avoided, study for that test, or show kindness to someone who’s hard to love. Look back at times God acted in your life or others’ lives and let those reminders fuel hope.

Daily Bible Verse and Devotion Matthew 5:11

Posted on June 30, 2026

“God blesses you when people mock you and persecute you and lie about you and say all sorts of evil things against you because you are my followers. – Matthew 5:11 (NLT)

Have you ever been mocked for your faith? I remember a time when I had a job and my boss just hated Christians. He did everything in his power to make life hard for me. I worked at a restaurant, and he would try to knock trays of food and drinks out of my arms, all because he didn’t like me and what I stood for as a Christian.

Instead of retaliating, like I wanted to, I felt like God was leading me to ignore the bad treatment and to just keep a good attitude in the situation. So each day I showed up to work and I did my best to act like my boss’s actions didn’t bother me. I always treated him fairly and with respect.

After a year or so of working there, my boss’s attitude toward me began to change. He was never really over the top nice to me, but once he told me that I was the first Christian who hadn’t let him down or flaked out on him. He never came to know Jesus, but he respected me and with time treated me better.

Just like me, you’re going to face situations where people aren’t going to treat you right due to your faith. When that happens, ask God for wisdom. The person who is mistreating you might have a lot of hurt from other Christians that is causing them to act the way they do. If you ask Him, God will give you wisdom and show you how you should respond.

Daily Bible Verse and Devotion – 1 Samuel 15:29

Posted on June 29, 2026

“And He who is the Glory of Israel will not lie, nor will He change His mind, for He is not human that He should change His mind. ” – 1 Samuel 15:29 (NLT)

Have you run into some people that were unfaithful? Maybe you have some friends at school that suddenly decide they don’t like you because of what you wore today to school. It’s hard to know how to handle the difficult people that we face at school and on our jobs.

The good news is that regardless of how other people treat us, that’s nothing like how God is. He’s not like the people you know who say they’re going to do something and then forget. God is refreshingly different. This Bible verse says that He won’t lie and won’t change His mind.

Sometimes it can be hard to put your trust in God because we expect Him to be like all the other people in our lives who sometimes let us down. We know people that say one thing but mean another, or don’t follow through with their promises. However, that is the opposite of how God is.

God always comes through. He never gives up on us and He doesn’t lie or change His mind. God is the one constant in your life that you can always count on. Be encouraged today that you can trust in God’s faithfulness.

Today’s Truth: God is the one constant in your life that you can always count on.

Learn more about God’s faithfulness in this devotion.

Daily Bible Verse and Devotion – Psalm 23:6

Posted on June 24, 2026

Surely your goodness and love will follow me
    all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
    forever. – Psalm 23:6 (NIV)

I remember when I was in kindergarten, there was a boy who followed me around the playground. Everywhere I went, there he was. It was like he was my own little shadow. Sometimes, I’d try to run around to lose him, but no matter where I went, he was there too, right behind me.

That’s the picture I get when I read today’s verse. I see God’s goodness and love following you where ever you go. You can try to out run it, but it’s right there. Every time you turn around, there is God’s love ready to help you and give you what you need for each day.

What an awesome picture. There’s no where you can go to get rid of God’s goodness and love. It’s always following you, ready to bless you everywhere you go.

That should make you love God even more. He loves you so much that He wants nothing but the best for you. So determine to thank Him today for his love that follow you all the days of your life. There’s nothing better than being followed with the good things of God!