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Max Lucado Daily Devotional

Max Lucado Daily Devotional

Max Lucado

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.61.3K Ratings

Overview

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.

422 Episodes

Hoist the Sail

“‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord of Hosts” (Zechariah 4:6 NASB). Jesus invites...

Transcribed - Published: 15 July 2025

Like the Wind

The Spirit is like the wind. Had Jesus stopped with this comment, Nicodemus would have had plenty to ponder. Yet...

Transcribed - Published: 14 July 2025

Mighty Yet Gentle

The Spirit is wholly holy and unlike any being in our world, which is such good news! We need a...

Transcribed - Published: 11 July 2025

Second Birth

On one side, Nicodemus, representing all well-meaning, God-fearing, scripture-memorizing folk. On the other, Jesus Christ. And what the latter says...

Transcribed - Published: 10 July 2025

Keep in Step

“Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit” (Galatians 5:25 NIV). Make it your...

Transcribed - Published: 9 July 2025

A Reminder from the Spirit

I recall an afternoon early in my ministry when the invitation of Jesus to the weary became the invitation of...

Transcribed - Published: 8 July 2025

Our Teacher Speaks

The Holy Spirit has a specific, overarching mission. His task is to teach us about Jesus. The apostle Paul echoed...

Transcribed - Published: 7 July 2025

The Spirit Is a Person

Jesus doesn’t want us to think of the Holy Spirit as an it or a thing. The Spirit is a...

Transcribed - Published: 4 July 2025

Don’t Neglect the Spirit

Some time ago I realized my car’s gas tank was nearly empty. I spotted a convenience store and parked next...

Transcribed - Published: 3 July 2025

The Promised Power

Jesus would not let his followers begin their ministries unless they knew the Holy Spirit. By this point the disciples...

Transcribed - Published: 2 July 2025

I Know that Person

In Luke 24:49 (TLB) Jesus said, “And now I will send the Holy Spirit upon you, just as my Father...

Transcribed - Published: 1 July 2025

For Your Down Days

How do you handle your tough times? When you’re tired of trying, tired of forgiving, tired of hard weeks, or...

Transcribed - Published: 30 June 2025

Leave It in God’s Hands

It’s one thing to give grace to friends, but to give grace to those who give us grief? Most of...

Transcribed - Published: 27 June 2025

Perfect Justice

God occupies the only seat on the supreme court of heaven. He wears the robe and refuses to share the...

Transcribed - Published: 25 June 2025

Not Out of God’s Reach

Some years ago a Rottweiler attacked our golden retriever puppy at a kennel. The animal climbed out of its run...

Transcribed - Published: 24 June 2025

A Friend for Life

I spent too much of a high school summer working in the old field. We donned gas masks, waded into...

Transcribed - Published: 20 June 2025

For the Misfits

1 Samuel 16:7 (NKJV) says, “…man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” Those words...

Transcribed - Published: 19 June 2025

First and Most

Giants. We must face them, yet we need not face them alone. Focus first, and most, on God. Read 1...

Transcribed - Published: 18 June 2025

See God More

You could read David’s story in the Bible and wonder what God saw in him. He fell as often as...

Transcribed - Published: 17 June 2025

Nothing Beyond God’s Reach

See the cross on the hill? Can you hear the soldiers pound the nails? Jesus’ enemies smirk. “This time,” Satan...

Transcribed - Published: 16 June 2025

God Will Make Good

Life turns every person upside down. No one escapes unscathed. Not the woman who discovers her husband is having an...

Transcribed - Published: 13 June 2025

Make A Plan

You can’t control the weather. You aren’t in charge of the economy. You can’t un-wreck the car. But you can...

Transcribed - Published: 12 June 2025

Begin and End with God

Calamities can leave us off balance and confused. Consider the crisis of Joseph’s generation as recorded in Genesis 47: “Now...

Transcribed - Published: 11 June 2025

One Huge Family Reunion

The word goodbye. This word may be the challenge of your life. How does a person get through raging loneliness,...

Transcribed - Published: 10 June 2025

Keep Forgiving

Colossians 3:13 says, “As Christ forgave you, so you also must do.” Really, God? Begin the process of healing. How?...

Transcribed - Published: 9 June 2025

Stay the Course

Vengeance is God’s. He will repay—whether ultimately on the Day of Judgment or intermediately in this life. God can discipline...

Transcribed - Published: 6 June 2025

God Will Execute Justice

God moves us forward by healing our past. Can he really? Can God heal this ancient hurt in my heart?...

Transcribed - Published: 5 June 2025

A Lonely House

In 1882 in New York City, Joseph Richardson owned a narrow strip of land, 5 feet wide and 104 feet...

Transcribed - Published: 4 June 2025

You Are God’s Child

Family pain is often the deepest pain because it was inflicted so early, and because it involves people who should’ve...

Transcribed - Published: 3 June 2025

Let God Do His Work

God gives us more by going deeper than we ask. He wants not only your whole heart; he wants your...

Transcribed - Published: 2 June 2025

The Process of Forgiveness

Ephesians 4:26-27 (ESV) says, “Do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil...

Transcribed - Published: 30 May 2025

A Redemptive Pattern

It’s the repeated pattern in Scripture: Evil. God. Good. Evil came to Job. Tempted him, tested him. Job struggled, but...

Transcribed - Published: 29 May 2025

The Steady Drumbeat of Faith

Life turns every person upside down. No one escapes unscathed. Not the woman who discovers her husband is in an...

Transcribed - Published: 28 May 2025

What A Day That Will Be

You sleep alone in a double bed. You walk the hallways of a silent house. You catch yourself calling out...

Transcribed - Published: 27 May 2025

From Mournful to Hopeful

In May of 2008, Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife, Mary Beth, lost their five-year-old daughter in an automobile accident....

Transcribed - Published: 26 May 2025

This Is Our Hope

Goodbye. No one wants to say it. And death is the most difficult goodbye of all. After our church had...

Transcribed - Published: 23 May 2025

Do What You Can

You can’t control the weather. You aren’t in charge of the economy. You can’t un-wreck the car. But you can...

Transcribed - Published: 22 May 2025

God Is in Your Crisis

Do you recite your woes more naturally than you do heaven’s strength? No wonder life’s tough. You’re assuming God isn’t in...

Transcribed - Published: 21 May 2025

A Place Prepared for You

God’s purpose from all eternity is to prepare a family to indwell the kingdom of God. “’For I know the...

Transcribed - Published: 20 May 2025

Forgive Your Enemies

Seems too easy. Doesn’t mom need to experience what she gave? A few years wondering if she’ll see her daughter...

Transcribed - Published: 19 May 2025

It Stops Here

Your family history doesn’t have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and now. Don’t give your...

Transcribed - Published: 16 May 2025

The Space of Grace

Revenge builds a lonely house. Space enough for one person. The lives of its tenants are reduced to one goal:...

Transcribed - Published: 15 May 2025

Part of God’s Family

Were your growing up years your hard years? Family pain is the deepest pain because it was inflicted so early....

Transcribed - Published: 14 May 2025

A Cup of Blessings

My friend Rob cried freely telling his story about his young son’s challenging life. Daniel was born with a double...

Transcribed - Published: 13 May 2025

Find a Way to Give Thanks

God notices the grateful heart. He took a praise-singing shepherd boy and made him a king. There’s no hint of...

Transcribed - Published: 12 May 2025

Reasons for Gratitude

If you feel the world owes you something, brace yourself – you’ll never get reimbursed. Henry Ward Beecher said, “A...

Transcribed - Published: 9 May 2025

The Grateful Heart

Some things were not made to co-exist. Long-tailed cats and rocking chairs? Bad combination. Bulls in a china closet? Not...

Transcribed - Published: 8 May 2025

The Snap of a Finger

Suppose I invited you to experience the day of your dreams. Twenty-four hours on an island paradise with your favorite...

Transcribed - Published: 7 May 2025

The Definitive Goodness of God

At some point, we all stand at this intersection and ask the question: Is God good when the outcome is...

Transcribed - Published: 6 May 2025

In All Things

When the cancer’s in remission, we say, “God is good.” When the pay raise comes, we announce, “God is good.”...

Transcribed - Published: 5 May 2025

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