Max Lucado Daily Devotional

Listen to Today's Devotion Make a list of your blessings. We cannot be anxious and thankful at the same time. God’s pathway to peace is paved with thoughts of appreciation. Practice Picky Thinking when you’re tempted to grumble. Choose gratitude. Sometimes God calms the storm. Sometimes he calms the child. No storm ever hit harder than the one that raged through Gethsemane’s garden. And no prayer was ever prayed with more passion than the one Jesus prayed. The cross was part of God’s plan to redeem his children. God did not calm the storm. But our Father calmed his Son, and Jesus marched to Calvary in peace. You can find this peace. Trust God. Tell God. Thank God. I pray God calms your storm. If he does not, may he calm you. And may you find the “peace of God, which surpasses all understanding” (Philippians 4:7 ESV). Read more Tame Your Thoughts: Three Tools to Renew Your Mind and Transform Your Life For more inspirational messages please visit Max Lucado.

Listen to Today's Devotion “God raised Christ from death and set him on a throne in deep heaven, in charge of running the universe, everything from galaxies to governments, no name and no power exempt from his rule. And not just for the time being, but forever. He is in charge of it all, has the final word on everything” (Ephesians 1:20-22 MSG). Christ runs the show. He has authority over the world, and he has authority over your world. Your date of birth, your date of death. Your mood swings, sleep patterns, eating habits, your salary. He’s never surprised, he’s never caught off guard. He’s never ever uttered the phrase, “ Now how did that happen?” Uproot your fear of pandemonium and replant the assuring promise: “God makes everything work out according to his plan” (Ephesians 1:11 NLT). Read more Tame Your Thoughts: Three Tools to Renew Your Mind and Transform Your Life For more inspirational messages please visit Max Lucado.

In this inspiring discussion, the power of prayer takes center stage as a formidable weapon against evil. It emphasizes how Satan trembles at genuine, heartfelt prayer more than any other Christian practice. Listeners are encouraged to seek peace through persistent prayer and to let go of the need to control the uncontrollable. With a motivating conclusion, the message is clear: no matter the challenges we face, prayer is the essential response we must embrace.

Listen to Today's Devotion Jesus offers this assurance: “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (John 14:27 NKJV). Jesus contrasts two types of peace—the peace the world offers and the peace he offers. The peace the world offers depends upon circumstances. If the weather is right, if the traffic is light, if the stock market is up. If…If…If. Exchange if peace for his peace. We can have the peace of Jesus. We can uproot thoughts of catastrophe and replace them with truths like this one: “The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts” (Philippians 4:7 NKJV). When your heart needs peace, trust God. Read more Tame Your Thoughts: Three Tools to Renew Your Mind and Transform Your Life For more inspirational messages please visit Max Lucado.

Listen to Today's Devotion Philippians 4:4 commands, “Be full of joy in the Lord always. Again I will say, be full of joy.” How can you be full of joy when you’ve got bills to pay and kids to raise? Those anxious, negative thoughts? Refuse to indulge them. Grab the weed of anxiety and give it a good yank. Then before the enemy can sow a seed, remind him and yourself that you live life “in the Lord.” If you believe you face your problems alone, you will never find deep and lasting peace. On the other hand, if you believe that you face your challenges in the Lord—in the presence of the Lord, in the name of the Lord, in the power of the Lord, in the protection of the Lord—then you can be full of joy because you are full of the Lord. Read more Tame Your Thoughts: Three Tools to Renew Your Mind and Transform Your Life For more inspirational messages please visit Max Lucado.

Listen to Today's Devotion Anxiety in a limited dose is a good thing. Healthy anxiety prompts us to pay bills, eat right, and stay out of snake pits. A dose of anxiety is helpful. A daily deluge of anxiety? Not so much. God designed our bodies to respond to a spike of stress and then return to normal. Unhealthy anxiety resists the reset. It is the alarm system that never shuts down. Paul’s prescription for the anxious heart: He wrote, “Be full of joy in the Lord always…The Lord is coming soon. Do not worry about anything, but pray and ask God for everything you need, always giving thanks. And God’s peace, which is so great we cannot understand it, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:4-7 NCV). Read more Tame Your Thoughts: Three Tools to Renew Your Mind and Transform Your Life For more inspirational messages please visit Max Lucado.

Listen to Today's Devotion Three big ideas are critical for taming our thoughts: Practice Picky Thinking (thought prevention). Just because you have a thought doesn’t mean you need to think it. Identify UFOs (thought progression). An untruth leads to a false narrative that creates an overreaction. Uproot and Replant (thought extraction). Rather than let the untruth grow, give the lie a tug and replace it with God’s truth. These are the tools in your thought management toolbox. Until we put these ideas to work, they are simply that— ideas. I trace issues to one cause: stinking thinking. You will see that the tools in your toolbox will work on anything Satan throws at you. Read more Tame Your Thoughts: Three Tools to Renew Your Mind and Transform Your Life For more inspirational messages please visit Max Lucado.

Listen to Today's Devotion Paul wrote, “Let the peace that Christ gives control your thinking” (Colossians 3:15 NCV). How does this happen? The answer appears in the next verse: “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another” (Colossians 3:16 NKJV). Don’t treat Scripture like a guest, an occasional visitor, or temporary roommate. His truth sits at the dinner table, lingers in the living room, and is welcome in the bedroom. And it occupies its place richly. It pays dividends. It brings benefits. Ingested Scripture is vitamin C for the inner person. Satan is allergic to God’s truth. When you speak Scripture, he skedaddles. He hopes you never hear these words spoken by Jesus: “You will know the truth and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32 NIV). Read more Tame Your Thoughts: Three Tools to Renew Your Mind and Transform Your Life For more inspirational messages please visit Max Lucado.

Listen to Today's Devotion James, the half-brother of Jesus, gave this admonition: “Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls” (James 1:21 ESV). What a grand invitation! It’s not enough to uproot, we must also replant. Jesus described a demon who had been cast out of a person. It roams about, looking for a new home. Not finding one, it returns to its former place of residence and finds it “spotlessly clean, but vacant” (Matthew 12:43 MSG). The demon sees no barrier, alerts its buddies, and they show up with a keg of chaos. To clean out the old is wonderful, but to usher in the new—that’s essential. Uprooting weeds of lies is necessary. Replacing them with truth is vital. Read more Tame Your Thoughts: Three Tools to Renew Your Mind and Transform Your Life For more inspirational messages please visit Max Lucado.

Listen to Today's Devotion Ephesians 4:23-24 (CEV) reads, “Let the Spirit change your way of thinking and make you into a new person.” How? I have a three-word answer to that question: Uproot and Replant. Your mind is like a lawn. Your toxic thoughts are like grass burrs. They prompt a predictable chain reaction. These are untruths that lead to false narratives that result in overreactions. They stick and they hurt. They sour your mood and embitter your heart. You might mow them down. Give yourself pep talks. Read a book on positive mental attitude. And, for a day or two or ten, the weeds will disappear. But eventually they return. God has a better plan: Yank ‘em out by the roots. Your Father gives you his Word, and he invites you to treat the lies of hell with the words of heaven. Read more Tame Your Thoughts: Three Tools to Renew Your Mind and Transform Your Life For more inspirational messages please visit Max Lucado.