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Enjoy this Sit and Listen devotional from Judah Smith's LIFE IS audiobook. To listen to a new devotional everyday, enable the Devotionals Alexa skill on your Alexa-enabled device - http://bit.ly/Devotionals-Alexa. 

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Life is ____. How would you finish that sentence? Judah Smith believes Jesus shows us how to live life to the fullest. In this follow-up to his New York Times and USA Today best seller Jesus Is ____, Judah completes the new sentence again and again, revealing how:.

* Life is to be loved and to love.
* Life is to trust God in every moment.
* Life is to be at peace with God and yourself.
* Life is to enjoy God.

Judah writes as a friend, welcoming new believers, lifelong followers of Jesus, and even the merely curious. He shows us the love of God that defies human logic and the life that God intends for us to have in the here and now. With excitement and humor, Judah looks at the stories in the Bible from his unique angle and shows how life is all about loving God and loving others.

©2015 Judah Smith (P)2015 Thomas Nelson Publishers

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Devotional: Living Like Jesus from Judah Smith's LIFE IS

Enjoy this Sit and Listen devotional from Sarah Young's JESUS CALLING audiobook. To listen to a new devotional everyday, enable the Devotionals Alexa skill on your Alexa-enabled device - bit.ly/Devotionals-Alexa.

Jesus Calling is a devotional filled with uniquely inspired treasures from heaven for every day of the year. After many years of writing in her prayer journal, missionary Sarah Young decided to “listen” to God with pen in hand, writing down whatever she believed He was saying to her. It was awkward at first, but gradually her journaling changed from monologue to dialogue. She knew her writings were not inspired as Scripture is, but journaling helped her grow closer to God. Others were blessed as she shared her writings, until people all over the world were using her messages. They are written from Jesus’ point of view, thus the title Jesus Calling. It is Sarah’s fervent prayer that our Savior may bless readers with His presence and His peace in ever deeper measure.

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Devotional: Sarah Young's Jesus Calling

Enjoy this Sit and Listen devotional from Ann Voskamp's ONE THOUSAND GIFTS DEVOTIONAL audiobook. To listen to a new devotional everyday, enable the Devotionals Alexa skill on your Alexa-enabled device - bit.ly/Devotionals-Alexa.

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This One Thousand Gifts Devotional includes 60 devotions inspired by the New York Times best seller One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp. Each devotion provides a daily scripture and prayer, inviting you to go deeper into the concept of grace explored in her book and on her blog.

©2015 Ann Voskamp (P)2015 Zondervan

Devotional: Ann Voskamp's One Thousand Gifts Devotional

Enjoy this Sit and Listen devotional from Rachel Macy Stafford's ONLY LOVE TODAY audiobook. To listen to a new devotional everyday, enable the Devotionals Alexa skill on your Alexa-enabled device - bit.ly/Devotionals-Alexa.

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In her new book, Only Love Today, Rachel Macy Stafford shares simple words of inspiration - both new content and pieces from her popular blog The Hands Free Revolution - in a format to help listeners begin or end their day by focusing on what matters most.

©2017 Rachel Macy Stafford (P)2017 Zondervan

Devotional: Rachel Macy Stafford's Only Love Today

Enjoy this Sit and Listen devotional from Angus Buchan's LIVING A MIGHTY FAITH audiobook. To listen to a new devotional every day, enable the Devotionals Alexa skill on your Alexa-enabled device - bit.ly/Devotionals-Alexa.

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A simple potato farmer with a mighty faith and a willing heart - God steps in and changes everything, just like he can do for you.

Internationally best-selling author and ministry leader Angus Buchan is the author of Faith Like Potatoes and the founder of Mighty Men Conferences, which have drawn more than 500,000 attendees to Buchan's Shalom Farm Ministry in South Africa, with additional Mighty Men Conferences drawing thousands more worldwide.

Although Buchan speaks to thousands all over the world, he and his wife, Jill, are simple potato farmers who know what it means to allow God to do more through them than they could ever imagine. They founded Beth-Hatlaim, a ministry that aims to provide permanent homes for children who have been abandoned or orphaned, with no known relatives. Buchan travels and leads crusades similar to the likes of Billy Graham.

This 365-day devotional will help you see what God can do in your life when you believe big and open your heart. Devotions focus on sharing your faith, serving others, and becoming a little more like Jesus each day.

Devotional: Angus Buchan's Living a Mighty Faith

Enjoy this Sit and Listen devotional from Max Lucado and Andrea Lucado's HE FIGHTS FOR YOU audiobook. To listen to a new devotional every day, enable the Devotionals Alexa skill on your Alexa-enabled device - bit.ly/Devotionals-Alexa.

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This short audiobook features 40 scriptures of promise and purpose and corresponding inspirational passages to encourage those facing everyday battles. Ideal for daily listening, each segment includes a reminder that even in difficult times, God fights for his people.

Devotional: Max Lucado and Andrea Lucado's He Fights for You

Enjoy this Sit and Listen devotional from Ken Gire's MOMENTS WITH THE SAVIOR audiobook. To listen to a new devotional every day, enable the Devotionals Alexa skill on your Alexa-enabled device - bit.ly/Devotionals-Alexa.

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Moments with the Savior is a devotional tapestry, richly woven from the threads of Scripture, meditation, and prayer. It captures the intimate moments Jesus spent with individuals and how those moments forever changed their lives. In reliving those life-changing moments, you will walk where Jesus walked. You will travel with him in the sweltering heat to a Samaritan well. You will stand with him on the windswept shores of Galilee. You will ascend with him up the fateful step of Calvary. At those places, you will see the people Jesus saw. Your heart will melt for Peter, ache for the hemorrhaging woman, and break for Judas. You will also see what these people saw in Jesus. You will see the kindness in his face, the forgiveness in his eyes, the power in his hand. With these people, you will reach out to touch the hem of his garment. With them you will weep. With them you will kneel. And moment by intimate moment, you, too, will be changed. Intimate Moments with the Savior is the first book in Ken Gire's award-winning Moments with the Savior series. The second book, Incredible Moments with the Savior, examines the profound meaning of the miracles of Jesus. Instructive Moments with the Savior, the third book is a series of meditations on the parables of Jesus and how they changed the lives of the original hearers. The fourth and last book, Intense Moments with the Savior, takes you inside the mind of Jesus himself.

Devotional: Ken Gire's Moments With The Savior

Enjoy this Sit and Listen devotional from Max Lucado and Andrea Lucado's HE FIGHTS FOR YOU audiobook. To listen to a new devotional every day, enable the Devotionals Alexa skill on your Alexa-enabled device - bit.ly/Devotionals-Alexa.

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For peace, for strength, for courage and inspiration, look Unto the Hills

Day by day, you can join the nation’s most beloved spiritual leader for a moment of quiet and reflection—a Scripture, a thought, and a prayer.

Billy Graham draws from his lifetime of study and ministry to offer this devotional classic, featuring 365 meditations to calm you and point you toward the One who can always help.

Devotional: Billy Graham's Unto the Hills

Enjoy this Sit and Listen devotional from the Pressing Pause audiobook. To listen to a new devotional everyday, enable the Devotionals Alexa skill on your Alexa-enabled device - bit.ly/Devotionals-Alexa.

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You're busy and tired and craving peace - and you're not alone. Whether you're a stay-at-home mom who has a list of 17 errands to do between dropping the kids off and picking them up or the working mom whose day job is just as tough as your mom job or the brand-new mama who is experiencing the pain and joy of motherhood for the very first time, Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus is for you.

These 100 devotions for moms focus on moving from just making it through to making a real difference and not losing yourself along the way. In order to have this seismic shift in perspective, a mom needs to drink deeply from the well of God's word each day, filling her spiritual reservoir enough to then pour out into the lives of her husband, children, and others with whom her life naturally intersects. This can be done only with regular times spent alone with God, drawing on his power, ingesting his word, and learning to love and serve more like his Son.

Sound like a tall order? A time commitment you just can't handle? These simple, accessible devotions offer you brief moments of respite in your busy days, taking just enough time to center your heart and mind on what God has for you as his beloved daughter. Press "pause" on the chaos, and find your rest.

©2016 Karen Ehman and Ruth Schwenk (P)2016 Zondervan

Devotional: Karen Ehman and Ruth Schwenk's Pressing Pause

Enjoy this Sit and Listen devotional from The Turquoise Table audiobook. To listen to a new devotional everyday, enable the Devotionals Alexa skill on your Alexa-enabled device - bit.ly/Devotionals-Alexa.

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A simple way to connect your neighborhood, your community and build friendships.

Are you consumed with a busy life but unsure how to slow down? Do you desire connection within your community and think, “Absolutely, but I don’t have time for that” or “I can’t create that”? What if there was another way through it all, a way to find those moments of peace and to create a time for honest, comfortable connection? What if meeting neighbors and connecting with friends was as simple as showing up and being available?

Desperate for a way to slow down and connect, Kristin Schell put an ordinary picnic table in her front yard, painted it turquoise, and began inviting friends and neighbors to join her. Life changed in her community and it can change in yours, too. Alongside personal and heartwarming stories, Kristin gives you:

 

Stress-free ideas for kick-starting your own Turquoise Table

Simple recipes to take outside and share with others

Stories from people using Turquoise Tables in their neighborhoods

Encouragement to overcome barriers that keep you from connecting

New ways to view hospitality

 

Today, Turquoise Tables are inviting individuals to connect with each other in nearly all fifty states and seven countries. Ordinary people like you wanting to make a difference right where they live.

Community and friendship are waiting just outside your front door.

Devotional: Kristin Schell's The Turquoise Table

Enjoy this Sit and Listen devotional from Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet audiobook. To listen to a new devotional everyday, enable the Devotionals Alexa skill on your Alexa-enabled device - bit.ly/Devotionals-Alexa.

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In the age of fingertip access to answers and a limitless supply of ambitions, where do we find the God who was birthed in dirt and straw? Sara Hagerty found him when life stopped working for her. She found him when she was a young adult mired in spiritual busyness and when she was a new bride with doubts about whether her fledgling marriage would survive. She found him alone in the night as she cradled her longing for babies who did not come. She found him as she kissed the faces of children on another continent who had lived years without a mommy's touch.

In Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet, Hagerty masterfully draws from the narrative of her life to craft a mosaic of a God who leans into broken stories. Here listeners see a God who is present in every changing circumstance. Most significantly, they see a God who is present in every unchanging circumstance as well. Whatever lost expectations readers are facing - in family, career, singleness, or marriage - Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet will bring them closer to a God who longs for them to know him more. What does it look like to know God's nearness when life breaks? What does it mean to receive his life when earthly life remains barren? How can God turn the bitterness of unmet desire into new flavors of joy?

With exquisite storytelling and reflection, Hagerty brings readers back to hope, back to healing, back to a place that God is holding for them alone - a place where the unseen is more real than what the eye can perceive. A place where every bitter thing is sweet.

Devotional: Sara Hagerty's Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet

Enjoy this Sit and Listen devotional from You Are Free audiobook. To listen to a new devotional everyday, enable the Devotionals Alexa skill on your Alexa-enabled device - bit.ly/Devotionals-Alexa.

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We all want to know exactly what we were made for. Yet a calling feels like something for an exclusive few. You Are Free by Rebekah Lyons reminds us that God has plans for each and every one of us, and that abiding in God's presence is how we run free.

Devotional: Rebekah Lyons's You Are Free

Enjoy this Sit and Listen devotional from And Still She Laughs audiobook. To listen to a new devotional everyday, enable the Devotionals Alexa skill on your Alexa-enabled device - bit.ly/Devotionals-Alexa.

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Kate Merrick examines the Bible’s gritty stories of resilient women as well as her own experience losing a child—a journey followed by more than a million on prayfordaisy.com—to reveal the reality of surprising joy and deep hope even in the midst of heartache.

Is it possible live fully—even joyfully—in the middle of overwhelming pain?

In the excruciating aftermath of her young daughter’s death from cancer, Kate Merrick struggled to find a way to live. Not just to survive or go through the motions, but to live fully. Faithfully. With real joy amid inevitable tears.

To discover how, Kate delved into the stories in the Bible of real women who suffered deeply and emerged somehow joyful. How did Sarah, after twenty-five years of achingly empty arms, learn to laugh without bitterness? How did Bathsheba, defiled by the king who then had her husband killed, come to walk in strength and dignity, to smile without fear of the future? In her encounters with these heroines of the faith, Kate discovered how to have contentment—and even joy—whatever the circumstances. 

By turns heartbreaking and humorous, And Still She Laughs reveals the secret to finding hope in the midst of devastation. In the end, no matter what hardships we face, we can smile, cry, and come away full—laughing without fear and eagerly looking for what is to come.

Devotional: Kate Merrick's And Still She Laughs

Enjoy this Sit and Listen devotional from Draw the Circle audiobook. To listen to a new devotional everyday, enable the Devotionals Alexa skill on your Alexa-enabled device - bit.ly/Devotionals-Alexa.

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Do you pray as often and as boldly as you want to? There is a way to experience a deeper, more passionate, persistent, and intimate prayer life.

Drawing from 40 days of true stories, Mark Batterson applies the principles of his New York Times best-selling book The Circle Maker to teach us a new way to pray. As thousands of listeners quickly became many tens of thousands, true stories of miraculous and inspiring answers to prayer began to pour in, and as those stories were shared, others were bolstered in their faith to pray with even more boldness.

In Draw the Circle, through 40 true, faith-building stories of God's answers to prayer, daily scriptures, and prayer prompts, Batterson inspires you to pray and keep praying like never before. Begin a lifetime of watching God work. Believe in the God who can do all things. Experience the power of bold prayer and even bolder faith in Draw the Circle.

Devotional: Mark Batterson's Draw the Circle

Enjoy this Sit and Listen devotional from Sarah Young's Jesus Calling audiobook. To listen to a new devotional everyday, enable the Devotionals Alexa skill on your Alexa-enabled device - bit.ly/Devotionals-Alexa.

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Uniquely inspired treasures from heaven for every day of the year by missionary Sarah Young.

Jesus Calling is a devotional filled with uniquely inspired treasures from heaven for every day of the year.  After many years of writing in her prayer journal, missionary Sarah Young decided to listen to God with pen in hand, writing down whatever she believed He was saying to her.  It was awkward at first, but gradually her journaling changed from monologue to dialogue.  She knew her writings were not inspired as Scripture is, but journaling helped her grow closer to God.  Others were blessed as she shared her writings, until people all over the world were using her messages.  They are written from Jesus' point of view, thus the title Jesus Calling.  It is Sarah's fervent prayer that our Savior may bless readers with His presence and His peace in ever deeper measure.

Enjoy this Sit and Listen devotional from Max Lucado's Glory Days audiobook. To listen to a new devotional everyday, enable the Devotionals Alexa skill on your Alexa-enabled device - bit.ly/Devotionals-Alexa.

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The wilderness. Maybe you know it well.

The Israelites sure did. After all, they spent 40 years wandering the desert. Victories were scarce. Progress was slow. They were free from Pharaoh but not free from fear. Saved but stuck.

Sounds a lot like midlife misery. Caught in a rut. Stalled out. Running on empty. Are you mired in the same?

You can name the day you became a Christian and escaped Egypt. But you can't remember the last time you defeated a temptation or experienced an answered prayer. You're fighting the same battles you fought the day you came to Christ. You're out of Egypt, but Egypt's not out of you.

Isn't the Christian life supposed to be better than this?

Jesus offers abundant joy. Yet you live with oppressive grief. The epistles speak of grace. You shoulder guilt. You are more than a conqueror yet are commonly conquered by temptation or weaknesses.

But there's good news. With God's help you can close the gap between the person you are and the person you want to be. Like Joshua and the Israelites, you can move from a wilderness existence into a promised inheritance. This is God's vision for your life. You, at full throttle. You, as you were intended. You, as victor over the Jerichos and giants. You, minus the stumbles, hurts, and hate.

You and your Promised Land life.

New York Times best-selling author Max Lucado invites listeners to leave the wilderness and discover a life defined by grace, refined by challenge, and aligned with a heavenly call. By studying the life of Joshua and the biblical book that bears his name, Lucado reveals God's promises for every step and reminds listeners that God still fights for them.

Devotional: Max Lucado's Glory Days

Enjoy this Sit and Listen devotional from Judah Smith's Jesus Is audiobook. To listen to a new devotional everyday, enable the Devotionals Alexa skill on your Alexa-enabled device - bit.ly/Devotionals-Alexa.

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Judah Smith digs deep to answer the most common and the most difficult questions about Jesus, a man so few understand and so many desperately need.

In Jesus Is, Judah Smith explores a number of topics that reveal Jesus' purpose for coming, what he accomplished while he was here, and what that means for those of us who came after. Jesus is greatly revered, harshly criticized, and sorely misunderstood.

Judah breaks down who Jesus is and explains to listeners how understanding that more fully will not only enrich their lives, but also give meaning to them and save them.

Jesus Is gives listeners the intimate knowledge that makes for a deeper, lasting relationship with Jesus, allowing them to commune with and grow in him. Judah wants listeners to know that Jesus is more than a good teacher, more than an inspiring leader. He is the point of all life.

Devotional: Judah Smith's Jesus Is

Enjoy this Sit and Listen devotional from Max Lucado's Anxious for Nothing audiobook. To listen to a new devotional everyday, enable the Devotionals Alexa skill on your Alexa-enabled device - bit.ly/Devotionals-Alexa.

When it comes to anxiety, depression, and stress-related illnesses, America is the frontrunner. Thankfully, there’s a practical prescription for dealing with these issues. Anxious for Nothing, the most recent book from New York Times bestselling author, Max Lucado, provides a roadmap for battling with and healing from anxiety.

Does the uncertainty and chaos of life keep you up at night?

Is irrational worry your constant companion?

Could you use some calm?

If the answer is yes, you are not alone. According to one research program, anxiety-related issues are the number one mental health problem among women and are second only to alcohol and drug abuse among men. Stress-related ailments cost the nation $300 billion every year in medical bills and lost productivity. And use of sedative drugs like Xanax and Valium have skyrocketed in the last 15 years. Even students are feeling it. One psychologist reports that the average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950s. Chances are, you or someone you know seriously struggles with anxiety.

Max writes, "The news about our anxiety is enough to make us anxious.” He knows what it feels like to be overcome by the worries and fear of life, which is why he is dedicated to helping millions of readers take back control of their minds and, as a result, their lives.

Anxious for Nothing invites readers to delve into Philippians 4:6-7. After all, it is the most highlighted passage of any book on the planet, according to Amazon:

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

In the characteristic tone of his previous books like You’ll Get Through This and Fearless, Max guides readers through this Scripture passage and explains the key concepts of celebration, asking for help, leaving our concerns, and meditating.

Stop letting anxiety rule the day. Join Max on the journey to true freedom and experience more joy, clarity, physical renewal, and contentment by the power of the Holy Spirit. Anxiety comes with life. But it doesn't have to dominate your life.

Devotionals: Max Lucado's Anxious for Nothing

Enjoy this Sit and Listen devotional from Lara Casey's Make It Happen audiobook. To listen to a new devotional everyday, enable the Devotionals Alexa skill on your Alexa-enabled device - bit.ly/Devotionals-Alexa.

You were created for a purpose, and it's time to make it happen.

Make It Happen is the story of how I surrendered my fear, took the leap, and got a life. In my case, a perfectly imperfect, fulfilling life as a mama, a working woman, and a grateful wife. This is the story of how I chose to make "it"―a greater purpose than mine―happen, and how you can too.

Make It Happen is for
* women who find themselves worried, anxious, and completely overwhelmed by the constant chase for perfection
* those seeking the courage to jump into a new venture
* working women who are struggling to "do it all"
* weary wives and moms looking for relief from burning the candle at both ends
* anyone who dreams of a life lived not by accident, but on purpose

Your time has come to take a leap of faith. Join me as we surrender our fears, end the chase for perfection, and say yes to cultivating the meaningful lives God desires for us.

You know all those things you've always wanted to do?
You should go do them.

Devotional: Make It Happen by Lara Casey

Enjoy this Sit and Listen devotional from Max Lucado's God Came Near audiobook. To listen to a new devotional everyday, enable the Devotionals Alexa skill on your Alexa-enabled device - bit.ly/Devotionals-Alexa.

It all happened in a moment - a most remarkable moment. God came near. He came not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by a peasant girl and a sleepy carpenter. The hands that held him were not manicured, but callused and dirty. No silk. No ivory. No hype. No party. No hoopla. God had come near...for you.

Travel back in time and relive Christ the Son of God becoming man. Come with Max as he brings to life the most important event in history...when God came near. And as you catch a vision of this incredible moment, let it mark the beginning of a new life for yourself. God came near. If he is who he says he is, there is no truth more worthy of your time.

Devotional: God Came Near by Max Lucado

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