Wondering what are the best devotions for couples? These devotionals will not only draw you closer to God but also grow you closer together as a married couple. Strengthen your Christian marriage by taking a few minutes each day to do a short, daily devotion together!

 

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Whether you’ve been married a short time or for decades you know there’s always room for growth in your marriage.

These devotions for couples for will encourage you in your Christian marriage, stretch you to be the best husband and wife that God has called you to be, make you laugh (and maybe even cry at times) and draw you not only to the Lord but to each other.

Encouraging Daily Devotionals for Married Couples

Love Always by Broadstreet Publishing Group

The first days or weeks of marriage might feel easy; loving your spouse is as natural as breathing. But if you’ve been married for longer than a month, you’ve likely run into times when choosing love requires effort—sometimes a lot of effort. What would it look like to always protect each other? How can you trust when trust has been broken? Is there hope for a relationship that feels like a constant struggle? What can you do to persevere in the moments you want to yell, cry, throw things, run away, or do all of the above?
 
Commit your marriage to God. Spend time in his presence together. Keep short accounts. Say sorry. Forgive quickly. Use this devotional as a tool strengthen your marriage. It will encourage you to dive into God’s Word, seek his wisdom, ask for help, and lean into his love. You cannot always choose love in your own strength, but everything is possible with God, and God is love. So, you can love because he loves you—always.


Moments Together for Couples by Dennis and Barbara Rainey

In the midst of the stress and pressure of everyday life, Moments Together for Couples will give you and your mate a chance to pause, relax, and draw upon the strength of the Lord. This easy-to-use devotional helps you set aside anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes every day with your spouse to grow closer to God and closer to each other.


Devotions for a Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas

Do you consider your marriage to be holy? What if holier meant having a happier marriage? Your marriage is more than a sacred covenant with your spouse. It is a relationship God uses to help you know Him more, trust Him more fully, and love Him more deeply.

Devotions for a Sacred Marriage written by Gary Thomas explores how God can reveal Himself to you through your marriage and help you grow closer to Him as well as to your spouse. 


Mr. and Mrs. 366 Devotions for Couples by Rob and Joanna Teigen

Making time to become still before the LORD as a couple is vital to a healthy and happy marriage. So, start your new adventure as Mr. and Mrs.

Each daily reading offers a Scripture verse, a short inspiring devotion, and a powerful prayer. Whether it’s 5 or 30 minutes, the Mr. & Mrs. Devotions for Couples will give you a chance to grow in your faith and to draw from the LORD’s strength. 


5 Minute Couple’s Devotional by Jake Morrell

Pausing to reflect on how you engage with your faith is a powerful tool for any couple—even if it’s just for a few minutes. This Christian couples’ devotional helps both new and lifelong partners connect with each other more deeply through guided conversation and prayer. Together, you’ll move through simple devotions rooted in powerful excerpts from Scripture, exploring everything from grief and gratitude to bravery and forgiveness. 


Renewing Your Love Devotions for Couples by Dr. Gary and Barb Rosberg

If you’re like most couples, the busyness of life slowly begins to crowd out intimate time with the one you love.

Renewing Your Love: Devotions for Couples helps rekindle the wonder, the romance, and the love in your marriage by providing you and your spouse an easy way to connect with each other and with God.


Night Light: A Devotional for Couples by Dr. James and Shirley Dobson

Whether you’re just married or are celebrating your golden anniversary, you need regular, quiet moments with your mate―times to renew love and intimacy with each other and with the Lord. Night Light,by Dr. James Dobson and his wife, Shirley, will help you do just that.

This daily devotional offers the personal, practical, and biblical insights that have sustained the Dobsons’ marriage for forty years and encouraged couples and families around the world. Let Night Light enrich your marriage too―tonight and every night.


Celebrate Your Marriage: Daily Devotions for Busy Couples by Jay and Laura Laffoon

This daily devotional for married couples was designed with busy spouses in mind. Each reading is short enough to enjoy together over your first cup of coffee or right before bed. Devotions include: 

  • inspiring Scripture, 
  • practical tips for fostering meaningful connection, 
  • thought-provoking questions, 
  • simple action steps, and 
  • encouraging prayers. 

Stay happily married for life with Celebrate Your Marriage —the perfect gift for newlyweds and seasoned couples alike. 


After You Say I Do Devotional: Meditations for Every Couple by H. Norman Wright

To have a marriage that works, you must work at it. Whether you’ve just put a ring on it, or have been married for years, you don’t have to figure marriage out on your own.

Through Scripture, storytelling, and thought-provoking questions, this devotional will minister to your heart and draw you closer to your spouse. Each devotion offers heartfelt daily readings that will encourage and uplift you and provide practical and creative problem-solving tools for a joy-filled marriage that lasts.

Make the most of your marriage by starting each day reading the Word together. As you draw closer to God, you will grow closer together.


The Blended Family Devotional for Couples by Emily Jordan

Blending families brings its own unique challenges, but together with Christ you can all move toward love, happiness, and healing. This encouraging book provides you and your partner a year of Bible-based devotions that will help you navigate the adventure of a blended family. 

What sets this parenting and relationship book apart from other devotional books:

  • 52 inspiring devotions – Find ways to grow as a family with weekly devotions that focus on a specific theme, including – serving God together, patience, and grace.
  • Bonding activities and actions – Deepen your connection by repeating your wedding vows to each other, practicing empathy for family members, and more.
  • Guided prayer – Through God, you’ll open your eyes to new ways of understanding, learn how to be honest and build trust, and heal your heart so you can love your family even more.


The One Year Love Language Minute Devotional by Gary Chapman

Are you and your spouse speaking the same language? He sends you flowers when what you really want is time to talk. She gives you a hug when what you really need is a home-cooked meal. The problem isn’t love―it’s your love language. The Love Languages Devotional is your daily guide to how to express heartfelt love to your loved one.


Moments with God for Couples by Our Daily Bread

Invite God into your marriage with this 100-day devotional specifically created to draw you closer to your spouse and to God.

Whether you’ve been married for a month or 50 years, reclaim the joy in your relationship that sometimes gets lost amid personality differences, moments of pride, and life circumstances. From the Moments with God series, this volume will help you and your spouse make space to reflect Christ in your marriage every day through relatable stories, relevant Bible verses, and practical applications.

It’s time to strengthen your relationship with God and each other by replacing day-to-day disappointments and offenses with the love and grace that can only come from Him.


Married for a Purpose by Greg and Julie Gorman

Does the busyness of life choke your time for quality connection? Could you use some positive affirmation to cultivate transformation in a world filled with negativity? Do you aspire to live fully in God’s purpose as a couple?

In Married for a Purpose, Greg and Julie Gorman share 52 power-packed devotions, filled with encouragement, Scriptures, prayers, and practical next-step actions to help you live purpose focused, not problem focused in your marriage.

Each week you’ll uncover insights to create new habits of thought in your relationship, enriching your communication and unifying you physically, intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually.

Welcome God’s purpose for your marriage. Live the life God intended. He created you and your spouse to live Married for a Purpose!


Christian Marriage Devotional for Couples by Teri Reeves

In Christian Marriage Devotional for Couples, here is just a fraction of what you will discover:

  • 52 weekly studies that provide spiritual insights and practical applications to use in your day-to-day life
  • Unique scripture selections for topics such as handling conflict, discussing finances, and accepting help from one another
  • The secret to maintaining physical intimacy — and how you can incorporate it naturally into your routine
  • How to find God in the everyday and embrace His decisions, even when they seem impossible to understand
  • Thought provoking discussion questions that will help you assess your own relationship with God and family as you progress through the year
  • Weekly prayers designed to keep you and your spouse actively engaged in your spiritual practices
  • How to overcome unfaithfulness without breaking, even when it feels like it’s the last thing you can possibly manage
  • Simple, practical action steps that will guide you on your journey to rediscovering love and joy in your marriage

The Love Dare Day by Day by Stephen and Alex Kendrick

Love is a choice. A daily choice. The Love Dare Day by Day is a daily reminder of how it’s done — and done well. With 52 weekly dares, this one-year devotional invites you to go deeper into the scriptural principles of The Love Dare and is meant to enrich your relationship with God and your spouse through a daily time of reading, prayer, and action. 

Make this more than a year of your life. Make it your bold, next step to a lifetime of love. Features of this book include: 

  • 365 devotional readings on unique aspects of genuine love
  • 52 weekly dares to help you express love in your marriage
  • Dozens of specific prayers to pray for yourself and your spouse
  • Questions to get you thinking strategically about your relationship
  • More than 100 Go Deeper sections that enhance personal Bible study

 


#staymarried A Couples Devotional by Michelle Peterson

#Staymarried: A Couple’s Devotional gracefully blends Scripture readings and therapeutic best practices to help couples bond. Michelle Peterson skillfully highlights issues that all married couples face. With her smart, empathetic advice and understanding that cookie-cutter solutions don’t work, every couple can learn to grow closer to each other, and to God.

As you spend time discussing the reading with your spouse, you’ll learn practical techniques for effective communication and conflict management. You’ll be able to better connect with your spouse, and strengthen your commitment to sacred marriage.


Called 2 Love: A 40 Day Journey Into Marriage Intimacy by Dr. David and Teresa Ferguson and Steve and Barbara Uhlmann

Love your spouse as Jesus loves you. 

Called 2 Love: A 40-day Journey into Marriage Intimacy shows you how to love like you’ve been loved. You can experience deepened closeness, freedom to share all of yourself, healing for disappointments and hurts, skills to pass on a legacy of love, and clarity on how God can involve you and your marriage in Kingdom plans. 

The authors share the ups and downs of their relationships and 100+ years of marriage wisdom through the power of story. Using vulnerability, encounters with Jesus, and Scripture reflection, you will learn how to write your own marriage story as well as develop adequacy in sharing the gospel with others. 

 


The Meaning of Marriage: A Couple’s Devotional by Timothy and Kathy Keller

Marriage is the most profound human relationship there is. Coming to know and love your spouse is one of the most rewarding and wondrous things we can experience in life. But it is also one of the most difficult and painful. In this 365-day devotional, Timothy Keller and his wife of forty-three years, Kathy Keller, share powerful instructions on how to have a successful marriage.

The Kellers draw from and expand upon lessons they first introduced in their book The Meaning of Marriage, offering stories, daily scriptures, and prayer prompts that will inspire anyone who wants to know God and love more deeply in this life.


Indivisible: One Marriage Under God by Robert Noland

Marriage is worth the fight. Equip yourself for the journey with Indivisible: One Marriage Under God, a powerful new devotional. Based on the movie Indivisible, this tells the true story of Army Chaplain Darren Turner and his wife Heather’s battle to restore their marriage. The devotional offers couples inspirational devotions, prayers, guided journaling, and a Take Action challenge. It is great for any couple who wants a strong marriage under God.

Invite God into your marriage and experience His incredible power in your daily life.


A Little God Time for Couples by Broadstreet Publishing Group

In a world full of distractions, it can sometimes feel virtually impossible to disconnect from work, news, social media, friends, or whatever life throws your way. Finding moments for quality connections as a couple can seem difficult, but it’s incredibly important for maintaining a healthy marriage!

Whether you have been married for five days, five years, or a lifetime, a little God time is the ultimate way to begin or end your day together. Offering fresh insight on relationships, encouraging Scriptures, thought-provoking questions, and inspirational prayers, this book will help you intentionally engage with God and each other.

 


Devotions for Ministry Couples by Stan and Linda Tyler

Having served in ministry together for more than thirty years, Stan and Linda Toler are able to speak with compassion and wisdom to ministry couples. This husband–and–wife team offers inspiration on subjects including family life, marriage, partnering, rest, refreshment, freedom, parenting, and spiritual growth. 


Wild About You: 60 Day Devotional for Couples by John and Stasi Eldredge

Are you looking to reignite the spark in your relationship? Hoping to deepen your relationship with your spouse and with God? These 60 days of uplifting devotions will lead you to a life of passion, freedom, and adventure, all while strengthening your hearts for each other. 

Wild About You gracefully blends timely Scripture readings, devotions, and heartfelt prayers designed to draw couples closer together and help them discover who God created them to be.

No matter what season of life and love you and your spouse are currently walking through, Wild About You has something for every couple. With a deep understanding of the hearts of men and women, John and Stasi are here to support you with their practical and loving advice.


Love Notes for Couples by Gary Chapman

Are you and your spouse speaking the same language? He sends you flowers when what you really want is time to talk. She gives you a hug when what you really need is a home-cooked meal. The problem isn’t love―it’s your love language.

Adapted from The One Year Love Language Minute Devotional, this devotional is perfect for you and your spouse! As you learn how to express heartfelt love to your loved one, you’ll find yourselves deeper in love and growing closer to God―together―as a result.


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