Daily Devotionals
Daily readings and reflections to help you grow deeper in your faith.
Tune to Love
The first frequency you need for joy is love.
June 22
Day 1: The Frequency of Love
Reading: John 15:5-11
John 15:5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. 8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. 9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete."
Devotional: Joy isn't something we manufacture—it's a signal we receive. Like a radio station broadcasting continuously, God's joy is always transmitting, but we must tune our lives to the right frequencies. And the first and important is love. Jesus connects His joy directly to remaining in His love and obeying His commands. This isn't about earning God's affection; it's about positioning ourselves to receive what He's already offering. When interference fills our lives—endless notifications, demands, noise—we lose the signal. But when you align your life to His love for you and allow yourself to love and be loved, joy breaks in.
Reflection: Today, consider what static is drowning out God's voice in your life. His command is simple yet profound: love each other as He has loved you. What "interference" is preventing you from experiencing God's joy? How can you create space today to tune into His love for you?
Reading: John 15:5-11
John 15:5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. 8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. 9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete."
Devotional: Joy isn't something we manufacture—it's a signal we receive. Like a radio station broadcasting continuously, God's joy is always transmitting, but we must tune our lives to the right frequencies. And the first and important is love. Jesus connects His joy directly to remaining in His love and obeying His commands. This isn't about earning God's affection; it's about positioning ourselves to receive what He's already offering. When interference fills our lives—endless notifications, demands, noise—we lose the signal. But when you align your life to His love for you and allow yourself to love and be loved, joy breaks in.
Reflection: Today, consider what static is drowning out God's voice in your life. His command is simple yet profound: love each other as He has loved you. What "interference" is preventing you from experiencing God's joy? How can you create space today to tune into His love for you?
June 23
Day 2: Unconditional Love, Conditional Relationships
Reading: John 15:9-11
John 15:9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete."
Devotional: When Jesus warns his disciples to obey his command so that they'll remain in his love, he's not threatening to withdraw His love, if they disobey. He's explaining what our relationship with Him needs to flourish. God's love for you is unconditional—you cannot earn it, and you cannot lose it. Yet healthy relationships require the right conditions to thrive. Just as a plant needs the right amount of sunlight and water, relationships need boundaries, respect, and mutuality. Some of us feel guilty setting boundaries, mistaking unconditional love for unconditional relationships. But relationships without healthy conditions cannot thrive and may even become toxic. Jesus loved perfectly and still established what the relationship required.
Reflection: Today, examine your relationships. Are there boundaries you need to establish—not to withhold love, but to allow it to grow healthily? Is there a relationship where you need to establish healthier conditions while still maintaining love?
Reading: John 15:9-11
John 15:9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete."
Devotional: When Jesus warns his disciples to obey his command so that they'll remain in his love, he's not threatening to withdraw His love, if they disobey. He's explaining what our relationship with Him needs to flourish. God's love for you is unconditional—you cannot earn it, and you cannot lose it. Yet healthy relationships require the right conditions to thrive. Just as a plant needs the right amount of sunlight and water, relationships need boundaries, respect, and mutuality. Some of us feel guilty setting boundaries, mistaking unconditional love for unconditional relationships. But relationships without healthy conditions cannot thrive and may even become toxic. Jesus loved perfectly and still established what the relationship required.
Reflection: Today, examine your relationships. Are there boundaries you need to establish—not to withhold love, but to allow it to grow healthily? Is there a relationship where you need to establish healthier conditions while still maintaining love?
June 24
Day 3: The Greatest Command
Reading: Matthew 22:34-40; 1 John 4:7-12
Matt. 22:34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
1John 4:7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
Devotional: Every rule, every command in Scripture boils down to one thing: love. Love God completely; love others sacrificially. When facing moral uncertainty, ask yourself: "What does love require?" This isn't warm feelings—it's laying down your life, putting others' interests ahead of your own. The most miserable people are those so self-absorbed they cannot give or receive love. They're walled off, focused only on their happiness, their needs, their disappointments. But we were made in the image of a God whose fundamental nature is love. When we love—genuinely, sacrificially—we become most fully ourselves. Joy flows naturally from lives synchronized with love's wavelength.
Reflection: Where is God calling you to love more sacrificially today? What would that look like practically? Ask God to show you an opportunity today to put someone else's needs or interest ahead of you own. Look for a chance to add value to someone's life, expecting nothing in return.
Reading: Matthew 22:34-40; 1 John 4:7-12
Matt. 22:34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
1John 4:7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
Devotional: Every rule, every command in Scripture boils down to one thing: love. Love God completely; love others sacrificially. When facing moral uncertainty, ask yourself: "What does love require?" This isn't warm feelings—it's laying down your life, putting others' interests ahead of your own. The most miserable people are those so self-absorbed they cannot give or receive love. They're walled off, focused only on their happiness, their needs, their disappointments. But we were made in the image of a God whose fundamental nature is love. When we love—genuinely, sacrificially—we become most fully ourselves. Joy flows naturally from lives synchronized with love's wavelength.
Reflection: Where is God calling you to love more sacrificially today? What would that look like practically? Ask God to show you an opportunity today to put someone else's needs or interest ahead of you own. Look for a chance to add value to someone's life, expecting nothing in return.
June 25
Day 4: Joy Has to Be Shared
Reading: Acts 2:42-47; Hebrews 10:23-25
Acts 2:42 [The new community of faith] devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
Heb. 10:23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. 25 Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Devotional: Joy is uniquely contagious and must be shared to be complete. You can't fully experience joy alone—it demands community. Yet our society pushes us toward isolation through technology and convenience. We bowl alone, eat alone, worship alone. But Jesus says His joy becomes complete in us through relationship—with Him and with others. The epidemic of loneliness isn't accidental; it's spiritual warfare against the very thing that produces joy. Deep friendships, where you're known, accepted, and loved, create space for deep joy. Don't settle for casual acquaintances. Lean into community, even when it's uncomfortable. Join a group. Serve alongside others. Keep showing up. The deeper the relationship, the deeper the joy.
Reflection: Who is one person you can reach out to today to deepen friendship? What step can you take toward genuine community? Ask God to give you an opportunity to either make space for someone in your friend group or get to know someone new.
Reading: Acts 2:42-47; Hebrews 10:23-25
Acts 2:42 [The new community of faith] devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
Heb. 10:23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. 25 Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Devotional: Joy is uniquely contagious and must be shared to be complete. You can't fully experience joy alone—it demands community. Yet our society pushes us toward isolation through technology and convenience. We bowl alone, eat alone, worship alone. But Jesus says His joy becomes complete in us through relationship—with Him and with others. The epidemic of loneliness isn't accidental; it's spiritual warfare against the very thing that produces joy. Deep friendships, where you're known, accepted, and loved, create space for deep joy. Don't settle for casual acquaintances. Lean into community, even when it's uncomfortable. Join a group. Serve alongside others. Keep showing up. The deeper the relationship, the deeper the joy.
Reflection: Who is one person you can reach out to today to deepen friendship? What step can you take toward genuine community? Ask God to give you an opportunity to either make space for someone in your friend group or get to know someone new.
June 26
Day 5: Amazed by Love
Reading: Ephesians 2:1-10; Romans 5:6-8
Eph. 2:1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Rom. 5:6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Devotional: If you don't wake up amazed that God loves you, you don't understand His love. You didn't earn it. You don't deserve it. That's the point. Jesus laid down His life for you—the greatest expression of love the universe will ever see. He didn't send good vibes from heaven; He became one of us, experienced our suffering, and let evil men nail Him to a cross. For you. All your shame, regrets, past, present, and future sins—already paid for. Already covered. This love unlocks the joy you're longing for. Some run from God out of shame or fear of His demands, but when you run from God, you're running from love itself. Stop running. Turn around. His arms are open. His love is waiting. Tune your life to His love, and let joy break in.
Reflection: Take a moment to think about God's love for you. Think about where you'd be without him. Without Jesus and his death for you. What would change if you truly believed you are completely loved by God?
Reading: Ephesians 2:1-10; Romans 5:6-8
Eph. 2:1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Rom. 5:6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Devotional: If you don't wake up amazed that God loves you, you don't understand His love. You didn't earn it. You don't deserve it. That's the point. Jesus laid down His life for you—the greatest expression of love the universe will ever see. He didn't send good vibes from heaven; He became one of us, experienced our suffering, and let evil men nail Him to a cross. For you. All your shame, regrets, past, present, and future sins—already paid for. Already covered. This love unlocks the joy you're longing for. Some run from God out of shame or fear of His demands, but when you run from God, you're running from love itself. Stop running. Turn around. His arms are open. His love is waiting. Tune your life to His love, and let joy break in.
Reflection: Take a moment to think about God's love for you. Think about where you'd be without him. Without Jesus and his death for you. What would change if you truly believed you are completely loved by God?