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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.

455 Episodes

“Only God” Moments

There is something unique about your story. Would you be willing to share it? Become well versed in your “only...

Transcribed - Published: 29 August 2025

Uncommon Forces

“Do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say… For it is not you...

Transcribed - Published: 28 August 2025

Day of Pentecost

“When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place” (Acts 2:1 NIV). Pentecost was one of...

Transcribed - Published: 27 August 2025

Let Thirsty Souls Come

Let’s pray prayers like this one: God, please release living water upon and through your children. Let us be sources...

Transcribed - Published: 26 August 2025

The Presence of Water

I did not grow up on a ranch, but I was raised in the land of ranches. I learned that...

Transcribed - Published: 25 August 2025

Let the Thirsty Come to Christ

“If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink” (John 7:37 NASB). Jesus spoke these words on an October...

Transcribed - Published: 22 August 2025

At Any Moment

Christianity is on the decline in our country. The number of believers has dropped 12 percent in the last decade....

Transcribed - Published: 21 August 2025

Trust in the Anointing

You have been anointed by the Holy Spirit. God offers this anointing to all of us. When you pray, preach,...

Transcribed - Published: 20 August 2025

The Greatest Gift Imaginable

“But you have an anointing from the Holy One [you have been set apart, specially gifted and prepared by the...

Transcribed - Published: 19 August 2025

Anointed by the Spirit

Anointing oil is a metaphor for the Spirit of God. “Now it is God who makes both us and you...

Transcribed - Published: 18 August 2025

Fire of the Spirit

“Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is...

Transcribed - Published: 15 August 2025

The Greatest Force in the Universe

Perhaps the greatest characteristic of fire is this: energy. It is the secret of the electric current. It has empowered...

Transcribed - Published: 14 August 2025

Victory Over Sin

The Holy Spirit will give you power over the struggle of sin. Many Christians can relate to these words of...

Transcribed - Published: 13 August 2025

A Refining Fire

Fire is a chemical reaction that releases energy in the form of light and heat.  If there is enough air,...

Transcribed - Published: 12 August 2025

A Soul Ablaze

“I baptize you with water. But one who is more powerful than I is coming and He will baptize you...

Transcribed - Published: 11 August 2025

Keep Listening for the Holy Spirit

The phrase “led by the Spirit of God” is such a happy one.  The Spirit gently leads us as a...

Transcribed - Published: 8 August 2025

Listen for The Verse and the Voice

The Spirit of God moves within us to lead us.  He does so with two tools:  the verse and the...

Transcribed - Published: 7 August 2025

Your Heart, His Tabernacle

During the wilderness wanderings there came a wonderful moment.  God had instructed Moses to build a tabernacle in which he...

Transcribed - Published: 6 August 2025

From Whom Do I Hear?

Why do we at times fail to detect the Holy Spirit?  How can we be led by him?  Here is...

Transcribed - Published: 5 August 2025

A Divine GPS

In a furiously fast turn of events, Pharaoh set the Hebrew people free. Centuries of slavery in Egypt were behind...

Transcribed - Published: 4 August 2025

The Ultimate Gift Giver

This is the age of much know-how and very little know-why.  The invisible enemy of sin and secularism has left...

Transcribed - Published: 1 August 2025

Decisions, Decisions

According to God’s plan life is a series of decisions. Do I move or stay? Hold on or let go?...

Transcribed - Published: 31 July 2025

Sure of Your Deliverer

“Along about midnight, Paul and Silas were at prayer and singing a robust hymn to God…Then, without warning, a huge...

Transcribed - Published: 30 July 2025

Clear the Debris

Our stress-laden society has developed many skills for dealing with anxiety. We have breathing exercises and mediation techniques. But the...

Transcribed - Published: 29 July 2025

Descending Like a Dove

“When He had been baptized, Jesus…saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him” (Matthew 3:16...

Transcribed - Published: 28 July 2025

Calming Presence

Anxiety. The emotion is not a sign of weakness, immaturity, or demon possession. It is simply the result of living...

Transcribed - Published: 25 July 2025

He Will Get Us Home

Why do you need to know that you are adopted by the Father and sealed by the Spirit? Simple—there is...

Transcribed - Published: 24 July 2025

Adopted into the Family

“You can tell for sure that you are now fully adopted as his own children because God sent the Spirit...

Transcribed - Published: 23 July 2025

A Relationship of Assurance

“For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God” (Romans 8:14 NLT). The father-child relationship...

Transcribed - Published: 22 July 2025

Sealed with the Spirit

To whom does the Trinity entrust your protection? You “were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit” (Ephesians 1:13 ESV). We...

Transcribed - Published: 21 July 2025

All Hands on Deck

Right now, at this moment, the Spirit of the living God is talking to the rest of the Trinity about...

Transcribed - Published: 18 July 2025

The Prayers of a Weary Soul

There is often a gap between what we want from life and what we get in life. And during such...

Transcribed - Published: 17 July 2025

Groans of the Heart

“We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us…” (Romans 8:26 NIV)....

Transcribed - Published: 16 July 2025

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

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