365 Ways to Put Jesus First Athletes and actors, models and musicians, pastors and politicians ... many have stepped forward, looked in the camera, and proclaimed, “I am second.” But most in the I Am Second movement are not celebrities. They are ordinary people—and they’ve come to the simple realization that when God comes first in their lives, everything makes sense. But living second is not easy. It takes grit and humility, submission to God’s will, a willingness to listen and serve, an openness to God’s healing and call. Live Second is a daily guide to help you. With 365 readings, prayers, actions steps, and an invitation to join other Christ-followers online, what you hold in your hands is a tool built with truth, scripture, and a sure path to put Jesus first every day. The Christian life is not meant to be easy, just worth it. Live Second is exactly what you need as you become the new, inspired, God-honoring creation he made you to be.

In this 365-day devotional, children will get to know God better day by day. The devotional specifically target girls separately in order to make the content more gender relevant. Girls will learn that by applying simple instructions from the Word, like obedience, praying and sharing, God will become more real to them as they begin to walk in His ways. Each devotion ends with a “ChallengePoint” that requires an action, as well as something to think about all day long. 365 DAYS TO KNOWING GOD will encourage girls to live for God and to know Him better with each passing day.

365 Ways to Know God provides one devotional reading for each day of the year, including a key verse, devotional message, prayer, Scripture references for further study, and a key thought. As you read and pray through each devotional, exploring a different name of God each day, you will learn more about God's character. You will begin to know Him more intimately and live closer to Him than ever before. When you choose to go deeper and study the suggested Bible reading, you will develop even more understanding of the name assigned for that day. Get ready to be transformed through this devotional study as you draw near to God. “Elmer Towns know a lot about the names of God. He has lectured on the names of each of the three Persons of the Godhead and has written three best-selling books on them…to give us information on God’s names and to help us understand the nature of God from His names. Many people have used them in their Bible studies or Sunday school classes. Now, in this devotional, Dr. Towns writes to our hearts so that we can feel and apply God to our everyday living,” says author Tim LaHaye in the book’s Foreward. “Through the names of God, we can touch God each day in a new and different way; but most important, God can touch us daily.”

Take comfort in knowing that God hears you. The story of Hannah in 1 Samuel tells of one woman’s personal heartache and trust in the One who could fulfill her desires. She poured her heart out to God, and He heard her. The Our Daily Bread devotions selected for this collection reassure you that God is with you, God is for you, and God hears you. The personal stories and Scripture passages lift you up and remind you that God is bigger than the trials you face.

Being close to God means telling him what is on our hearts and understanding what he is saying to us. But how do we hear God? In these daily devotionals Dallas Willard helps us understand how we can know the voice of God and act on it, with daily Scripture readings and suggestions for prayer, journaling and reflection to draw you into God's presence.

What does the gospel say about your fears? What does it say about the irrational ones, like sinkholes in the Target parking lot? How does it speak to the rational ones, like pet scan predictions? And does the gospel have a word for the fears you feel you'll have for life, like the possibility of losing the one you love most? Growing up in the green room of SNL, being born to a fire-eater and adopted by a SWAT cop, having internal organs explode, and adopting a deaf girl from China, Scarlet Hiltibidal has been given some strange life experiences—and lived in fear through most of them. But life changed for Scarlet when she learned to hold the gospel up to her fears. She realized that though she can't fix herself or protect herself, Jesus walked into this broken, sad, scary place to rescue, love, and cast out her—and your—fear. Seeing life in light of the cross will help you avoid fear, overcome fear when you can’t avoid it, and live beyond fear when you don’t overcome it. You don't have to be afraid of all the things.