Daily Bible Verse and Devotion – 1 Cor 2:9

Posted on March 13, 2025

That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.” – 1 Cor 2:9 (NLT)

It can be easy to feel like there’s nothing good going on right now in your life. Maybe you feel like you don’t have good friends. Perhaps you’ve been through a really hard year, and you’re just ready for things to look up in your life.

When things aren’t going the way you’d like them to, it can be easy to want to yell at God. You wonder why are things so tough and full of problems.

Instead of yelling and being angry, one of the most productive things you can do is focus on the goodness of God. God loves you. The bad things that you’re facing aren’t God’s fault. They’re a part of sin and living in a fallen world. So instead of anger, decide to change your focus.

Focus on God’s love. Make that be larger in your mind than your problem. Determine to let God’s love become more real than your difficulty. As you focus on God, you’ll find that instead of anger, you’ll begin to experience peace. Realize that God loves you in a big way. He wants you to experience good things in your life!

Daily Bible Verse and Devotion – Acts 13:38

Posted on March 12, 2025

Have you ever turned in a project for school, and when you got it back from your teacher, realized you forgot to do an important part of the assignment? It can be easy to get busy working on a project and forget to do all the things your teacher assigned for you.

In the same way, it can be easy to forget what makes the gospel special. Here’s what Acts 13 says about what Jesus did.

“Brothers, listen! We are here to proclaim that through this man Jesus there is forgiveness for your sins. Everyone who believes in him is declared right with God—something the law of Moses could never do. (Acts 13:38, 39 NLT)

That’s pretty amazing. Through Jesus, our sins are forgiven and when we believe in Jesus we are made right with God.

So don’t get too busy living your life, making friends, and doing homework that you miss the main point of the gospel. We’ve been made right with God. We can know the living God. That’s great news!

Daily Bible Verse and Devotion – Colossians 3:16

Posted on March 11, 2025

Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts. – Colossians 3:16 (NLT)

You might be faced with a decision today. Do I go on a missions trip with my youth group? Or do I attend volleyball camp and get extra practice to make the volleyball team? It can be really hard to know what the right choice is. How can you be confident that you hear from God concerning decisions like these?

First of all, you’ve got to know that God wants to speak to you. He wants to show you things to come and help you make good decisions. Once you’ve got that settled in your heart, then determine to do what today’s Bible verse says.

It’s challenging you to let the message or word of God fill our lives. Hearing from God often involves getting into the word of God. As you read your Bible, God will often lead you to a scripture that will help you make a decision. He often leads us through His word.

So today, if you haven’t already, decide to spend some time in God’s word. By getting into God’s word, you get God’s heart into your head and it helps you make a good decision. God wants to speak to you, you’ve just got to silence the noise around you and learn to spend time listening to Him.

Daily Bible Verse and Devotion – Psalm 119:1

Posted on March 10, 2025

Many times I’ve felt like when I was choosing to serve God that I was giving things up. I felt like if I was going to really live for God, it would require me to give up all the fun things in life. And for awhile, it was a struggle knowing what I wanted to do. Did I want to serve Jesus with my whole heart? Or did I want to live for myself and for fun? Then I came across today’s Bible verse.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord. – Psalm 119:1 (NIV)

When I read today’s verse, I see that you are blessed when you follow God. Instead of giving up everything, you’re getting something far better in return.

Really, it’s a perspective shift. Instead of thinking about all the things you give up to serve Christ, you can find joy by realizing how blessed it is to know Him. Knowing Jesus, following after Him is a blessing. It’s certainly not always easy, but there is purpose and joy in serving Him.

So today, if you’re struggling with whether to follow Jesus or not because you’re concerned of what you might have to give up, don’t be. Realize that it’s a matter of perspective. When you follow Jesus, you gain so much more than what you give up. Don’t be afraid to step out and follow Him.

Daily Bible Verse and Devotion – Romans 13:1

Posted on March 7, 2025
Teen Devotion and Bible Verse on Honor

Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. – Romans 13:1 (NIV)

We’ve been talking a lot in our devotions this week about honor. Yesterday, we talked about honoring our parents, but what about the other authority figures in our lives?

How can we honor our coaches, pastors, and teachers?

A lot of honoring comes down to developing respect for the position each of those people holds. For example, you may not love your coach’s decision to not start you in the game. But because that person is your coach, you choose to honor them.

That isn’t to say you agree 100% with their decision. It’s just saying that instead of yelling at them or quitting the team because you’re not starting the basketball game this Friday, that you’re going to choose to speak to them with respect.

There’s a big difference between agreeing with someone and still respecting them as a person. You might not understand why a decision was made. But you choose to respect that person because they’re your coach.

So today, if you’ve struggled with honoring your coaches, pastors, and teachers ask God for help. He can show you any heart adjustments you need to make to honor and respect those people in your life.

Daily Bible Verse and Devotion – Ephesians 6:2

Posted on March 6, 2025

“Honor your father and mother”–which is the first commandment with a promise–Ephesians 6:2 (NIV)

Yesterday we talked about what honor is. Today we’re going to talk about one of the people that should be honored in your life, your parents. Now, I’m sure you could list a lot of reasons why your parents don’t deserve to be honored.

Maybe your mom isn’t serving God and lies, cheats, and steals. Or perhaps your dad left your family and you don’t feel like he is honorable at all.

If we’re honest, we could probably think of a long list of reasons why our parents don’t deserve to be honored. But God didn’t give us an out. He didn’t say honor your parents if they deserve it. He just told us to honor them.

If God told us to honor them, then it’s something we can do. We just have to determine to look past their imperfections and the things we’d like to change about them. Instead, we just honor the place they have in our lives.

Honor doesn’t mean you always agree but rather that you respect the place your parents have in your life.

So even if you have a bad mom or dad, they still are the reason you’re here today. And because of that, you’re to show them respect. That doesn’t mean that you have to agree with the things they do. It does mean that you treat them with respect in the middle of your disagreement.

If you want to lash out, choose to control your tongue and say your thoughts with respect. Honor the place they have in your life. As you do that, you’ll find that you’re a lot more at peace and things go better for you as a result.

Daily Bible Verse and Devotion – Ephesians 2:10

Posted on March 5, 2025

For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. – Ephesians 2:10

Have you ever posted a photo on Instagram? One of the things I really like about posting on Instagram are the filters. I like how a boring photo can look really amazing when a filter is added.

In life, we can look at ourselves and see our shortcomings. We can feel like we have little value or not who we are. However, God just like Instagram has filters. He sees us through the filter of Jesus.

He doesn’t see our sin, our failure or shortcomings. Rather He looks at us and sees a masterpiece. He sees that we are new in Christ Jesus and sees the good things that He has planned for us.

Today’s Truth: When God sees us He sees the good things He has planned for us

So instead of focusing on your failures and shortcomings, choose to see yourself like God sees you. When he sees you, He sees someone that is a masterpiece.

Daily Bible Verse and Devotion – Galatians 6:8

Posted on February 28, 2025

Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. – Galatians 6:8 (NIV)

Have you noticed that you make time for the things that are important to you? If you really like sports, you’ll make sure that you’re free to watch the games. If you like to watch movies, you make sure you get to the theater to watch the latest release.

When something is important, you make time for it.

It’s easy to let yourself make so much time for fun things that you run out of time for the things of God.

For example, you might have so much fun hanging out with your friends that you stay out too late to get up early to read your Bible. With good intentions, you pull out your phone to read the Bible, only to realize 15 minutes later, you got sucked into watching lots of YouTube videos.

The things of God are important. In a difficult season of your life, it won’t matter if you watched all those YouTube videos. What will be important is whether you planted God’s word in your heart. God’s word is what will get you through.

So today, if you’ve let yourself become used to sowing to please yourself, make some adjustments. Determine to sow to spiritual things too!

Today’s Daily Bible Verse and Devotion – Ephesians 4:28

Posted on February 27, 2025

The thief must no longer steal. Instead, he must do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need.
Ephesians 4:28 (Holman)

As a student, you might not have a job. Even if you don’t, there is still something that you can do to earn some income.

Maybe you could babysit. Perhaps you could use a lawnmower and mow lawns, or grab a shovel and shovel driveways when it snows. Whatever it is, there’s something you can do to earn a little money.

Then instead of using all that money to buy some new shoes or go to the newest move, think what you could do with part of that money to be a blessing and help to someone else?

There might be someone at school that doesn’t have enough money for decent clothes, you could help get them some. There might be a homeless shelter near you, you could give to that. Or you might begin to give money to a cause at your church. This list can go on and on.

Today you can grow into the true joy of having money. This comes from learning to resist being a moocher and becoming a giver! Pray today that God would help get you a job or an idea of how to make money so that you’ll continually have some to give when a worthy need arises around you.

Daily Bible Verse and Devotion – Romans 10:17

Posted on February 26, 2025

So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ. – Romans 10:17 (NLT)

Have you ever listened to a song the first time and didn’t like it? But then maybe it kept being played on the radio or a friend really liked it and so you listened to it over and over again. After a few times of listening, the song that you didn’t really like stopped bugging you so much. Then, before you knew it, that song became one of your favorites. There’s power in listening to something time and time again.

The same is true with God’s word. Often we hear a scripture or verse one time and it’s easy to overlook it. But if we dig into it, and get it into our hearts, it can often become life-changing. It’s all about hearing it again and again.

There are truths in God’s word that can be overlooked if we just read them once quickly. However, if we dig beneath the surface, we can often find a life-changing truth. So today, take some time to get into God’s word. Pick a scripture and take a fresh look at it. Really think about what it is saying to you and how it can apply to your life. Faith comes as you hear God’s word over and over again!