Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens

READ: JOHN 13:34-35; GALATIANS 5:22-23; EPHESIANS 4:24-32

On the night before Jesus went to the cross, He told His followers, “As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone w…

READ: EPHESIANS 4:1-16; PHILIPPIANS 1:3-6, 9-11

Imagine for a moment you were caring for a newborn baby, and then, the day after their birth, you just expected them to be able to walk. That would …

READ: PSALM 108:1-5; JOHN 3:16-17

Your love is so great I can’t stop talking about it

I want to sing it loud

I want to share the news

I want others to see what You have done

Your l…

READ: MATTHEW 22:34-40; ACTS 9:1-20

When I worked in Japan as a young international schoolteacher, I often spent weekends exploring Tokyo’s neighborhoods or other parts of Japan. Sometimes, I’d ge…

READ: PSALM 13; 1 THESSALONIANS 5:16-18; HEBREWS 10:36-39

There are times when I get on my knees to pray, and I don’t feel like praying. There are times when I talk to God, and it doesn’t feel lik…

READ: GENESIS 18:25; JOHN 3:16-18; ROMANS 8:1-11; 14:11-12

Do you know anyone who has been on a jury in the United States of America? In the USA, a person accused of a crime has the right to a tri…

READ: MATTHEW 12:1-14

How do you deal with conflict? I may have an unpopular approach, but I tend to address conflict head on, right away. I don’t like using the silent treatment or leaving passiv…

READ: ROMANS 12:4-10; 1 CORINTHIANS 12:1-27; 1 PETER 4:8-11

Not all Christians are potatoes. Let me explain. Let’s say you have a vegetable garden filled with carrots, potatoes, beans...and then y…

READ: JEREMIAH 29:11-13, 33:2-3; ROMANS 8:26-27

I have always prayed before bed; it’s something my parents started doing with me when I was little, and it stuck. But there’s one problem with this:…

READ: MATTHEW 1:23; JOHN 1:1-18; ROMANS 5:6-11

Over two thousand years ago, Jesus was born. God became human and lived on earth with other humans. Stop for a moment and think about that. Isn’t tha…

A scorching sun beats down from a red sky, hot sand making my throat and nose raw. I cough wheezily, my chest tight and vision blurry. Hours have passed since I got separated from the caravan, and I …

READ: PROVERBS 1:1-7; 1 CORINTHIANS 1:30; JAMES 1:5-8; 3:13-18

The ball was out, right? It all happened so fast that I couldn’t tell. Did it touch the line? I tried to replay it in my head, but th…

READ: GALATIANS 5:16-26

SMASH! TWANG! I picked up my tennis racket off the sidewalk and moped toward the bus. Surprisingly, throwing my racket to the ground hadn’t broken it. I had lost another ma…

READ: JOHN 16:5-15; COLOSSIANS 1:3-14

The tennis team needed help. A lot of help. They desperately needed more players, and that’s why they asked me to join. I had never even held a tennis racquet…

READ: PSALMS 34:15-19; 139:1-12; 1 PETER 5:6-7

God hears when I talk to Him

His ears are always open

No matter what I have to say

He hears

God hears me when it is late at night

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READ: ISAIAH 40:28-31; 41:9-14

We all want to be strong and able to get through the tough things in life without falling apart. You might be someone who prides yourself in your strength, or you mi…

READ: PSALM 46; MATTHEW 14:22-33; HEBREWS 13:8

One of my family’s favorite summer activities is going boating. The water sport we do most often is wake surfing, which is like surfing on the ocean,…

READ: LUKE 22:19-20; ACTS 2:42-47; 1 CORINTHIANS 11:23-26

Jesus has a habit of taking something ordinary and making it incredible. Take bread and wine, for example. During Jesus’s life on earth, b…

READ: MARK 2:13-17; LUKE 19:1-10; ROMANS 3:9-26

"We’ve got churches of Christians. I’d like to see a church of all sinners!” my coworker joked. I stopped and looked at him. He and another coworker…

READ: JUDGES 13:2-5, 16:26-30; LUKE 1:26-33; PHILIPPIANS 2:5-11

The story of Samson’s life is really fascinating, and it contains many parallels to the story of Jesus’s life. Let’s take a closer l…