Max Lucado Daily Devotional: Recent Episodes
Max Lucado
It doesn’t matter if it’s a good day, a hard day, or somewhere in-between—we need the hope God offers every day. Max shares words of hope and help through simple, one-minute daily devotionals to encourage you to take one step closer to Jesus.
Jacob lied to his father. He cheated his brother. He ran away from home. He ran away from God. Yet,...
Angels convey our prayers into God’s presence. In the apostle John’s vision, he saw an “Angel, carrying a gold censer,...
Millions of mighty spiritual beings walk on earth around us. When John, the apostle, caught a glimpse of heaven, he...
I was called ‘America’s Pastor’ but that didn’t tell the whole story. I have had my own occasions in which...
May I gently but firmly remind you of something you know but may have forgotten? Life is not fair. That’s...
For some, the service of communion is a sleepy hour in which wafers are eaten, juice is taken, and the...
How do you simplify your faith? How do you get rid of the clutter? How do you discover a joy...
No child understands the logic of going to bed while there’s energy left in the body. My daughter Andrea was just...
It’s the beginning of a new school year! But going back to school can give rise to fear or anxiety...
How would you fill in this blank: A person is made right with God through…? Simple statement, yet don’t let...
God did what we wouldn’t dare dream. He did what we couldn’t imagine. He became a man so we could...
There are those in God’s family who find a controversy and stake their claim to it. Every church has at...
Take this quiz. Name the ten wealthiest men in the world. Name the last ten Heisman Trophy winners. Name eight...
You’re invited. Jesus gives the invitation in Revelation 3:20: “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock.” To...
Invitations are special. To be invited is to be honored—to be held in high esteem! The most incredible invitations aren’t...
When our oldest daughter was two, I lost her in a department store. I panicked. All of a sudden only...
When religion is used for profit and prestige, people are exploited and God is infuriated. When Jesus entered Jerusalem the...
I don’t know his name or what he looks like; I only know what he gave. He gave a donkey...
You know there is a time for extravagant gestures. A time to pour out your affections on one you love....
Could you use a reminder on how to slow your life down? One of the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20,...
When my daughter was small, she wrote a song for me. From a musical standpoint, everything was wrong with it....
When people are refused access to Christ by those closest to him, the result is empty, hollow religion. Ugly religion....
Matthew 20:28 says of Jesus, “The Son of Man did not come to be served. He came to serve others and...
A day late and a dollar short. One brick short of a load. You pick the phrase – the result...
Fear feels dreadful. It sucks the life out of the soul, curls us into an embryonic state, and drains us...
“Where God’s love is there is no fear, because God’s perfect love drives out fear” (1 John 4:18 NCV). We...
Believing prayer ushers in God’s peace. Not a random, nebulous, earthly peace, but his peace, imported from heaven. The same...
An Ironman triathlete told me the secret of his success: “You last the long race by running the short ones.”...
Our faith is not in religion; our faith is in God. A hardy, daring faith that believes God will do...
God dispenses life the way he manages his cosmos: through seasons. “To everything there is a season, a time for...
“God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies” (Philippians 4:9 MSG). The Unseen Conductor...
Want to worry less? Then pray more. Rather than look forward in fear, look upward in faith. “Don’t worry about...
It’s a simple promise: “Everyone who believes in him will have eternal life” (John 3:15 NLT). The simplicity troubles many...
God never gives up. When Joseph was dropped into a pit by his own brothers, God didn’t give up. When...
We eat our share of forbidden fruit. We say what we shouldn’t say, go where we shouldn’t go, pluck fruit...
Arthur Hays Sulzberger was the publisher of The New York Times during the Second World War. Because of the world...
Jesus said, “If you believe, you will get anything you ask for in prayer” (Mark 11:24). Don’t reduce this grand...
You look at tomorrow’s demands, next week’s bills, next month’s silent calendar. Your future looks as barren as the Sinai...
My friend and I went on an extended Hill Country bike trek. After forty-five minutes I had to dismount and...
Sound burdensome? Are you wondering, My business needs attention, my children need dinner, my bills need paying. How can I...
God has never rendered a wrong decision, experienced the wrong attitude, taken the wrong path, said the wrong thing, or...
When ancient sailors sketched maps of the oceans, they disclosed their fears. On the vast unexplored waters, cartographers wrote words...
Yes, you Lord, rule the universe. But yes, yes, yes, you are with me. The Lord is with me. The Creator...
Fear, it seems, has taken a hundred-year lease on the building next door and set up shop. Oversized and rude,...
“…an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, ‘Joseph son of David, do not be...
On my list of things I wish I’d learned earlier, this truth hovers near the top. Grace came my way...
Dry mouth. Moist palms. Pulse pounding. Eyes darting over your shoulder. Heart in your throat. You know the feeling. You...
God is using your struggle to toughen you up! It’s like viewing a movie after you’ve read the book. When...
The sign said Found: Potbellied Pig. Did I just read what I think I read? I’d never seen such an...
Some of us have postgraduate degrees from the University of Anxiety. We go to sleep worried that we won’t wake...
The sky is dark. Sudden waves of water tilt up our sailing vessel until we see nothing but sky and...
Why anyone would pester Hannah Lake is beyond me. If her sweet face doesn’t de-starch your shirt, her angelic voice...
We used to have a backyard trampoline. One afternoon all three of our girls were bouncing on it. Like all...
As a Christian you have all the power you need for all the problems you face. The Bible says your...
It’s been a long time, but there was a time when my daughters celebrated my daily arrival. Jenna was five...
You’ve been claimed. Adopted. God’s very own child! Romans 8:29: “For God knew his people in advance, and he chose...
Dread of death ends when you know heaven is your true home. In all my air travels I’ve never seen...
Is the dread of death robbing your joy of life? It can. At the age of 37, Florence told her...
As a group of fishermen relaxed in an old Scottish seaside inn, one of the men gestured widely, depicting a...
When the doctor who’d examined the tremor in my hand said, “You’re fine. You’re in good health,” I did what...
October 1347. A fleet returning from the Black Sea carries its death sentence for Europe. Most of the sailors are...
Don’t deny your anger. Don’t dismiss your loneliness. Your restless spirit, your sense of dread. Don’t let your heart shrink into...
Your body is 80% fluid. Stop drinking and see what happens. Coherent thoughts vanish, skin grows clammy, and vital organs wrinkle. Deprive...
The hero of heaven is God. Angels don’t worship mansions or glittering avenues. God is not the grand marshal of the...
Psalm 89:6 asks the question, “Who among the sons of the mighty is like the Lord?” And the answer is: any pursuit...
God has one goal: God. God says in Isaiah 48:11, “I have my reputation to keep up” (The Message). Surprised? Isn’t such an...
Have you ever gone to the grocery on an empty stomach? You’re a sitting duck when you do. You buy everything...
How did Jesus endure the terror of the crucifixion? He went first to the Father with his fears. He modeled the words...
Romans 8:32 says, “God did not keep back his own Son, but he gave him for us. If God did...
God said, “Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of...
For thousands of years, God gave us his voice. Prior to Bethlehem, he gave us his messengers, his teachers, his...
Holiday travel. It isn’t easy. Then why do we do it? Why cram the trunks and endure the airports? You...
Are you in prison? You are if you feel better when you have more and worse when you have less. If...
God endows us with gifts so we can make him known. God endues the Olympian with speed, the salesman with...
You’ve had enough of human love, haven’t you? Enough tabloids telling you that true love is just a diet away. Enough...
After Christ’s forty-day pause in the wilderness, the people of Capernaum tried to keep him from leaving them. But he...
What of those who die with no faith? My husband never prayed. My grandpa never worshiped. And so we ask, What...
Doubt. He’s a nosy neighbor. He’s an obnoxious guest. He’ll pester you, he’ll irritate you, he’ll kick the stool out...
When we traveled with our young daughters, I carried our plane tickets in my briefcase. When it came time to...
If we’re saved by good works, we don’t need God. Weekly reminders of do’s and don’ts will get us to...
Don’t be afraid. God even knows how many hairs are on your head. Why did Jesus grow weary in Samaria, disturbed...
None of us pray as much as we should, but all of us pray more than we think, because the...
Those who don’t believe in Jesus note what we who believe in Jesus do. They make decisions about Christ by...
Luke 17:33 says, “Those who try to keep their lives will lose them. But those who give up their lives...
When God entered time and became a man, he who was boundless became bound. For more than three decades, his...
There is something unique about your story. Would you be willing to share it? Become well versed in your “only God”...
“‘Do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say…For it is not you who...
“When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place” (Acts 2:1 NIV). Pentecost was one of...
Let’s pray prayers like this one: God, please release living water upon and through your children. Let us be sources of...
The phrase “led by the Spirit of God” is such a happy one. The Spirit gently leads us as a...
The Spirit of God moves within us to lead us, and he does so with two tools: the verse and...
During the wilderness wanderings there came a wonderful moment. God had instructed Moses to build a tabernacle in which he...
Why do we, at times, fail to detect the Holy Spirit? How can we be led by him? Here is a...
In a furiously fast turn of events, Pharaoh set the Hebrew people free. Centuries of slavery in Egypt were behind...
According to God’s plan, life is a series of decisions. Do I move or stay? Hold on or let go?...
“Along about midnight, Paul and Silas were at prayer and singing a robust hymn to God…Then, without warning, a huge...
Our stress-laden society has developed many skills for dealing with anxiety. We have breathing exercises and meditation techniques. But the...
“When He had been baptized, Jesus…saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him” (Matthew 3:16...
Anxiety. The emotion is not a sign of weakness, immaturity, or demon possession. It is simply the result of living...
Why do you need to know that you are adopted by the Father and sealed by the Spirit? Simple. There...