College is unarguably a tough place to be; this makes it incredibly difficult for a Christian student to grow his spiritual life practically and tangibly.
Thankfully, God has made a way out of every impossible situation. So if you are a college student looking to grow your faith even amid the pressures of campus life, you have a great ally in devotionals.
I have painstakingly made a list of the Best Devotionals for College Students for you. These devotionals are specifically designed to help you live out your faith effectively even while maintaining a balanced academic and social life on campus.
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Here are 25 Best Devotionals for College Students.
1. College: Real & Relatable Devotionals for Every College Girl by Jordan Lee.
Regardless of where you come from, how broken you might be right, or how unqualified you feel to be a believer, this challenges you and transforms your college years for the better.
2. At First Glance: A Devotional for College Students by Samuel C. Darr.
At First, Glance is a fascinating devotional for college students for a number of reasons. One provides a complete semester’s worth of daily devotions. Two, it shares biblical truths to enable college students to remain steady and grow in their faith.
Thus, equipping them to become ambassadors for Christ in their residence halls, on their college campuses; and everywhere else.
Coming from the heart of a fellow college student familiar with the challenges that come with remaining close to God in college, At First, Glance is the perfect gift for the high school graduate or college student in your life.
3. Fearless Faith: Devotions for College Students by Werre.
One, it will help you take your temptations, worries, successes, and joy to God daily.
Two, you can draw strength from the Word of God as you read the hope and encouragement that’s offered in the devotions.
Three, it will equip you to live out your college life and years with a fearless trust in and faith in God.
4. Desperate For Change: 31 Devotionals for College Men Changing Bad Habits into Winning Decisions by Maurice Smith.
Secondly, it will empower you as a college man to keep pressing forward despite the challenges faced to unlock the potential, purpose, vision, and the leader within.
In the pages of this devotional, you will discover 31 days of:
- Insightful readings
- Powerful prayers
- Affirmations that will increase your faith
- Scriptures that will bring the change you need and more.
5. A College Girl’s Guide to Living in Faith by Jenna Snavely.
Navigating college life is undoubtedly difficult. To top it all up, college can strain your spiritual life. Putting God first while managing your time effectively then becomes a challenge.
In this devotional, you’ll learn how to achieve both. Plus, you’ll discover your true identity. More so, all your questions and more will be fully expanded on. It also has lots of scriptures for meditation.
In sum, this devotional for college students will challenge and inspire you and give some practical tips for living in faith.
6. Prayers, Papers, and Play: Devotions for Every College Student by Barbara Canale.
Also, they will provide you with wisdom to help you deal with the temptations and challenges of college life.
Lastly, you’ll discover that prayer is not a simple task on a busy day but a practice that will bring every part of your life together. You’ll be able to focus, simplify your priorities, and achieve a happier, holier life with the help of this devotional.
7. Live on Purpose: 100 Devotions for Letting Go of Fear and Following God by Sadie Robertson Huff.
Live on purpose is a devotional that takes the life-changing messages of Sadie’s bestselling book Fearless and helps you apply the truths through Scripture, her passionate messages to live well, and prayer.
In this devotional also, you’ll find out that when you follow your God-given passions, especially as a student, nothing can stop you from living your purposeful and most enthusiastic life.
Readers will generally learn how to:
- overcome fear and live with confidence
- Live without limitations by setting anxiety, fear, and comparison aside.
- Dream big and live life on purpose.
- Celebrate every moment in life
- Replace temporary highs with God’s promises.
This devotional which made the ECPA and USA Today bestseller lists is a valuable message and tool for anyone eager to make a difference. Hence, it’s perfect for college students.
8. The One Year Alive Devotions for Students by Rick Christian.
The One Year Alive is one great devotional for students. First, it will help them focus on God’s Word with powerful and true-to-life illustrations from daily life in high school and college settings.
It’s a known fact that students are bombarded with all kinds of distractions in our media-saturated culture; this devotional for students will change how readers think about God and their world.
9. No More Excuses – Teen Devotional: A 90-Day Devotional for Teen Guys by Tony Evans.
In No More Excuses, Tony Evans gives the kind of inspiration and advice guys need to stop making excuses. Secondly, they will stop letting their past define them. Thirdly, they will learn to battle through life’s most difficult challenge.
Drawing from Biblical characters like Moses, Joseph, David, Jonah, and others who faced the worst, the author shows that the struggles we face are tools God uses to make us better people tomorrow.
Meanwhile, each day features a short devotion, Scripture verse, and thought-provoking questions to help young guys find meaning, purpose, the direction in life and become the man has called them to be.
10. All in All Journaling Devotional: Loving God Wherever You Are by Sophie Hudson.
Written by famous blogger and author Sophie Hudson, this inspiring devotional journal for young women and teens reminds you that Jesus is your everything and in all you do.
As you delve into Sophie’s wit and words, you’ll better understand the freedom and wholeness that come from a life filled with Christ.
11. One God, One Plan, One Life: A 365 Devotional by Max Lucado.
One God, One Plan, One life is a 365-day devotional for students that focuses on issues, such as purity, bullying, and self-esteem, delivered in short daily devotions.
Each devotion includes:
- An inspiring scripture
- A simple but thought-provoking devotional reading
- An application to help you put your trust in God and His plans
- Devotion for every day of the year and more.
Lastly, this devotional for teens and college students will help you cut through many distractions and rely on the one thing that’s truly important – your relationship with God.
12. Jesus Listens: Daily Devotional Prayers of Peace, Joy, and Hope by Sarah Young.
In Jesus Listens by Sarah Young, you’ll find the confidence to come to God in all situations with brief, heartfelt prayers based on Scripture.
Jesus Listens more than ideal for those who are:
- Going through tough times and looking for hope and rest
- Busy from life’s demands, but still want to grow their prayer life
- Do not know how to pray or not sure how to pray, and so on.
Finally, if you’re seeking to establish a more consistent prayer practice or return to God’s Word, then this devotional will is simply for you. You’ll experience how intentional God’s word and prayer connect us to God, changes our heart, and can even move mountains.
13. The Simple Truth Bible: The Best Minute of Your Day (365 Daily Devotions for Students) by Group Youth Ministry Resources.
The Simple Truth Bible features year-long devotionals for students—each one powerfully reveals what it means to love and trust God deeply, lead a Christ-centered life, and lean on God’s Word for wisdom and guidance for daily student life.
Through each devotional reading, readers will discover how to experience thought-provoking and life-shaping truths that bring hope and wisdom amid the daily struggles of being a student. Readers study this devotional and learn how God passionately loves them. They will also learn how to build an authentic relationship with Jesus.
Lastly, readers will learn how God created them to lead a life of impact far beyond high school or college.
Meanwhile, The Simple Truth features contributions from some leading voices in youth ministry, including Mark Oestreicher, Kurt Johnston, Tim Levert, and Greg Stier.
14. Take5forHIM: One Year Devotionals for Young Women by Rose Marie Martin.
Each devotion is a quick, powerful 5-minute message. It also features relatable topics such as college-bound anxiety, friendships, partying, mean girl syndrome); dating, sex, break-ups, purity, disappointments, eating disorders, unanswered prayers, anxiety, family relationships and conflicts, death, suicide, self-esteem, controlling the tongue, and so on.
Meanwhile, the author’s personal experiences and testimonies will connect with the reader. More so, girls will discover their identity in Christ and learn how to depend on God’s Word for answers.
Lastly, Take5forHIM will entice readers to understand how the Bible relates to their lives and will have them want to read more of the Bible independently.
15. Victory 365: Daily Motivation for a Champion’s Heart by Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
Growing in faith helps both athletes and coaches grow as positive influences on their teammates, opponents, coaches, and parents around them.
Hence, Victory 365-Day is a devotional that encourages Athletes and Coaches to take out time to focus on their relationship with Christ.
Each entry opens with a related Scripture and an inspirational thought. Lastly, the reflection question at the end of each entry helps readers apply the lesson to their lives as both believers and participants in the sports arena.
16. Adored: 365 Devotions for Young Women by Zondervan.
Adored: 365 Devotions tackle the toughest topics young ladies face, providing them with the true guidance they need to face each day gracefully.
Every page speaks to the changes and pressures young women face with honest and relatable messages.
Ultimately, Adored provides readers with a firm ground in an ever-changing world and real ways to find God in their hearts, so they are never caged to the latest status update, crush, or fashion trend.
17. The College Girl’s Survival Guide: 52 Honest, Faith-Filled Answers to Your Biggest Concerns by Hanna Seymour.
The Girl’s Survival Guide is filled with experienced-based and beneficial tips. Written by an author with ten years of experience helping female college students succeed, this devotional is like having a big sister giving you tips and advice.
This devotional will comfort and coach young women to make the most of their college experience with inspiring scriptures and illustrations.
In sum, this devotional is packed with answers to crucial questions to arm readers with the inspiration and knowledge to make college epic and enriching.
18. Revealed: Discovering Your True Identity in Christ for Teen Boys and Young Men by Alex Kendrick.
This devotional for both teen guys and young men will lead readers through an investigation to find answers. They will also learn that their identity is much more than their grades and their looks or athletic skills.
The only One who truly knows and defines us is the One who created us. Revealed will readers get a firm grasp of who they are and where they are going, leading them to uncover their true Christ-shaped identity.
19. The One Year Devos for Sports Fans by John Hillman.
In this devotional, readers will discover what the world of sports can teach them about spiritual principles. Each devotion focuses on a Bible verse and an illustration from the sports world.
Meanwhile, these illustrations come from more than 40 different sports, including football, basketball, baseball, snowboarding, track, skateboarding, golf, and more.
20. Let the Journey Begin: Finding God’s Best for Your Life by Max Lucado.
Let the Journey Begin is a devotional filled with encouragement, godly wisdom, and guidance for students. More so, readers will be reassured that they are not alone, as God is with them every step of the way.
This devotional also contains great topics such as Road Map for Success, Good Habits for a Good Journey, Stop, Look; Listen, and many more inspiring topics.
21. Thriving at College: Make Great Friends, Keep Your Faith, and Get Ready for the Real World! By Alex Chediak.
Thriving at college is filled with wisdom and practical advice from a seasoned student mentor and college professor.
It covers subject matters such as choosing a major, discerning your vocation, balancing academics and fun, cultivating relationships with peers and professors, as well as helping you figure out what to do with your summers.
Meanwhile, this devotional will help you not only keep your faith but build a more vibrant faith and become the person God created you to be.
22. Welcome to College: A Christ-Follower’s Guide for the Journey by Jonathan Morrow.
In Welcome to College, Jonathan Morrow tackles some of the tough questions that arise during the formative years in college, including:
- How do you grow spiritually?
- Are there good reasons to be a believer?
- How do you manage your time to study well and still have fun?
- As a believer, how should you view issues like sex dating?
- Is all truth relative?
23. MY SON, GIVE ME YOUR HEART: A devotional book for young men to live Christ-centered lives for the glory of God by Sonny L. Hernandez.
My Son, Give Me Your Heart is a devotional for young men. It teaches young men how they can never be wise in salvation by indulging in things.
Like watching movies, playing video games, texting on cell phones, hanging out at social events, and being involved in sports. Rather, the author instructs readers that with godly wisdom, they will.
24. Live in Grace, Walk in Love: A 365-Day Journey by Bob Goff.
Live in Grace, Walk in Love takes readers through year-long meditations and devotions on how to step out in love and confidence in every aspect of life.
Each of the 356 devotionals includes:
- A full in-text Scripture references
- 1-2 pages devotional reading
- Thought-provoking questions to encourage prayer and journaling
If you are looking to start each day with small nuggets of wisdom or end your day focused and inspired, this devotional is your best bet.
25. Dugout Devotions: Inspirational Hits from MLB’s Best (Stars of the Faith) by Del Duduit.
Dugout Devotions by Del takes an inside look at several famous baseball players and their successes on and off the pitch.
Recounting stories about their walk with Christ, readers will discover that these superstars serve God. Hence, readers will have a great counterbalance to the negative stories about athletes.
In conclusion,
All-round pressures can drive an average student of faith into putting God aside.
That’s why I encourage you to take advantage of these Devotionals for College Students to be firmly rooted in your walk with God.
