devotional-readings

Ephesians 2 speaks of the exceeding riches of God’s grace. For a family, a truly God-sized vision for the home may have less to do with size and more to do with what happens inside.

Saving for a deposit, waiting for a title, paying down a debt: some seasons feel endless. Peter says the Lord is not slow in keeping His promise, but His timing is not always ours.

In Haggai, God calls Zerubbabel His signet ring. Anyone trusted to act for a parent or an overseas relative on property matters knows how weighty it is to carry another’s seal.

For some people, the danger is inside the house. A gentle devotional for those living with abuse, and for churches and neighbours who want to be a real refuge.

When exam results fall short and a young person stays home instead of leaving, the whole household has to adjust. A devotional on Romans 8:37 for families in that season.

Psalm 27 speaks of seeing God’s goodness in the land of the living. For families waiting on a house, a loan or a finished build, that goodness is already at work.

Wronged by a contractor, a landlord or a relative over property? A devotional on Psalm 56:8 and the God who records every sorrow and can be trusted with justice.

Proverbs 16 says the heart of the wise teaches the mouth. A devotional on the words spoken over money, building decisions and family land, and the atmosphere they create at home.

Eden was God’s garden, and Adam was placed there to tend it. That old picture still speaks to the quiet pride that can grow in anyone who owns a home.

When hardship means letting go of a home, Jesus’s night in the garden shows us how to pray honestly, grieve openly and still say, ‘Not my will.’

Isaac Watts’s carol, drawn from Psalm 98, reaches all the way to thorns and hard ground. A Christmas devotional for anyone whose land, house or work feels under a curse.

John 1:14 says the Word made His dwelling among us. A Christmas-season devotional on the God who took up residence on an ordinary street, and what that means for ours.

Our walls carry graduation portraits, wedding pictures and faded snaps of grandparents. John says no one has seen God, yet His likeness can still be found in a home where people love one another.

John says no one has ever seen God, but when we love each other, God lives in us. A reflection on 1 John 4 for households, and on what completed love looks like at the gate, the table and the landlord’s door.

Good Friday looked like defeat, yet it was victory. A reflection for households facing repossession letters, sickness and bad news, on the Christ who has already overcome the world.