The Christian Reading Room
- Staff Writer
- Nov 5, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Dec 29, 2025
The Christian Reading Room is a place for inspiration and hope. It contains links to devotionals, prayers, and Bible excerpts. For those who need a break from negative news and social media, this page will help add some positivity and peace to your day.
Joyce Meyer Affiliate Link Source: Starting Your Day Right
The Peace Prayer
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Joyce Meyer
Affiliate Link Source: Ending Your Day Right by Joyce Myers
The Lord's Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen.
Devotion by Billy Graham
The Beatitudes
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness,
for they shall be satisfied.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.
Blessed are those who suffer persecution for righteousness' sake,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Background: The Beatitudes capture the heart of Jesus’ message about what it really means to live as part of God’s kingdom. They appear right at the start of a longer teaching in the Gospel of Matthew known as the Sermon on the Mount. In this moment, Jesus is following a familiar pattern from Jewish history. Just as Moses taught the people of Israel from a mountain after receiving the Commandments, Jesus begins his own ministry by going up a mountain and teaching his disciples.
Devotion by Billy Graham
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