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Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens

Keys for Kids Ministries

Unlocked is a daily teen devotional, centered on God’s Word. Each day’s devotion—whether fiction, poetry, or essay—asks the question: How does Jesus and what He did affect today’s topic? With daily devotions read by our hosts, Natalie and Dylan, and questions designed to encourage discussion and a deeper walk with Christ, Unlocked invites teens to both engage with the Bible and to write and submit their own devotional pieces.

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00:05:03

Changes Come but God Doesn’t Change

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2025/03/27

READ: PSALMS 46:1-3; 102:25-27; MALACHI 3:6; JAMES 1:17 The world changed for everyone in 2020. I know my family experienced some big changes in that year. Then 2021 brought even more changes for us, and in 2022 I lost a family member. Looking back to 2019 now, I had no idea what was to come. I never could have guessed the ways that my life would change between then and now. Change is constant. New leaders come into power, family dynamics shift…there is nothing on this earth that we can be

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00:05:11

“Real” Accomplishments

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2025/03/26

READ: ECCLESIASTES 2:11; MATTHEW 6:19–7:12; COLOSSIANS 3:17 When someone talks about their achievements in a video game, people who share their passion for gaming will often celebrate with them! But other people’s reaction might just be to shrug and dismiss it based on the assumption that: “Those types of accomplishments don’t really matter.” Often, the people who feel this way prefer to spend their time and energy on things such as their career, physical appearance, grades, or any number of

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00:06:31

The Table (Part 2)

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2025/03/25

READ: ISAIAH 55:1; LUKE 5:29-32; COLOSSIANS 3:12-15 "Why is there an empty seat?” Banji asked after swallowing a warm bite of soup. “Is someone else joining us?” Banji, Laz, and Sera enjoyed the food laid out in front of them on the mysterious table in the middle of the darkness. The man’s light still encircled them, and it even softened the sounds of the battle beyond. But Banji was right; there was an empty seat at the other end of the table, directly across from the man who had called them

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00:06:33

The Table (Part 1)

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2025/03/24

READ: PSALMS 23:1-6; 46:8-11; ISAIAH 25:6; LAMENTATIONS 3:24-26 This darkness wasn’t just pitch black like the night or chilled like a cave deep within the terrain, no, it was consuming, alive, and predatory. It crept up on Laz, Banji, and Sera as they huddled close, petrified they’d lose each other in whatever this chasmic place was. Their swords were gone, and they’d been stripped of their armor. They were utterly defenseless. “What is this place?” Banji exclaimed. Sera immediately shushed

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00:04:29

Confirmed

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2025/03/23

READ: ROMANS 8:26-30; HEBREWS 13:20-21; JAMES 1:2-8 "I don’t know, Lord,” I said. This was two weeks ago. I was sitting in my car before worship practice. For the last two years, I have been following the Lord on a wild journey. I switched churches to lead a youth group. It has been an amazing ride, but recently I’ve been feeling discouraged. I’ve been missing going to church with my parents. I’ve been wrestling with doubt. I’ve been feeling stuck. But I know the Lord led me to where I am. He has

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00:04:55

Redeemed

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2025/03/22

READ: GENESIS 3; ROMANS 8:19-39; GALATIANS 3:13-14 I love trees. They’re strong, and beautiful, and their shade feels great on a hot day. The real reason I like them so much, though, has nothing to do with their physical characteristics. I love trees because they remind me of God’s redemption. How do they do that? Well, to explain we have to go back to the very beginning. When God created the world, everything was perfect and life-giving. He told the first man and woman they could eat from any

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00:04:01

Different Ways of Studying the Bible

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2025/03/21

READ: 2 TIMOTHY 3:14-17 I just started a Bible-reading plan that encouraged me—encouraged me—to skim through the chapters that I was going to be reading. This plan lists so many chapters to read per day that it suggests you simply fly through them, get the main idea of the passage, and then move on. That is very different from the way I usually read my Bible—and the way I’ve heard I “should” read it. But, as I’ve been following this Bible-reading plan over the course of recent months, I have

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00:04:29

An All-Powerful God

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2025/03/20

READ: DANIEL 6:16-23; MATTHEW 19:26; ROMANS 1:20; 1 PETER 1:3-5 The sky at night is one of the most amazing sights in the world. Thousands of stars hang against a dark sky, with the moon lighting up the earth on a clear night. In a word, it’s beautiful. But have you ever thought about how difficult it would be for a human to recreate that? We don’t know how to hang one star, let alone thousands. We couldn’t build a moon even if we tried. The Milky Way, the endless galaxies, the aurora

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00:04:55

March Madness

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2025/03/19

READ: MATTHEW 5:21-22; JAMES 2:10; ROMANS 3:23-24 Every year in the college basketball tournament called March Madness, four sets of teams, numbered one to sixteen, are assigned to play each other. In each of the first sets, number 16 plays number 1, number 15 plays number 2, etc. It seems each game should be easy to predict. Just pick the better ranked team. But watching a lower-ranked team beat a higher-ranked team is why the tournament is so much fun. And it’s why nobody has ever predicted all

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00:04:07

You Never Change or Disappoint

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2025/03/18

READ: PSALM 33:6-15; HEBREWS 13:8 Rain was in the forecast again today, But there’s none falling, only clouds. The weather never seems to be What we’re expecting, what is said to be coming. She told me that we’d get together, Then she canceled at the last minute. Plans never seem to work out How I’m expecting, how I think they will. I saved my money, ready for this, But the price is too high now. The cost doesn’t ever stay the same, It’s not what I’m expecting, it’s too much for me. You are

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00:05:30

The Power of Prayer

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2025/03/17

READ: JAMES 5:13-20; 1 JOHN 5:13-15 As a freshman student attending college in the hub of Nashville, Tennessee, I took it upon myself to explore the best coffee stops in the area. One afternoon I happened to visit a small, rustic coffee shop run by a local church. Upon entering, the first thing that caught my attention was a large bulletin board that stretched along one side of the seating area. The bold letters on the sign above it read Prayer Wall. After ordering, I paused to read through the

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00:04:34

Dare to Hope

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2025/03/16

READ: MARK 10:13-16 Even though I would be one among a crowd of thousands, I was completely confident I could meet the President of the United States of America. As a child, I joined one of my classes in visiting a political rally. We drove a couple of hours to hear the current president speak as he campaigned for a second term. On the way to be dropped off for the field trip, I announced to my mom that I’d brought a special journal in which I planned to ask the president to sign his autograph. I

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00:05:26

Jesus in the Book of Esther

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2025/03/15

READ: ESTHER 4:1-17; 1 CORINTHIANS 15:57 In the book of Esther, a young Jewish orphan named Esther is living in captivity in Persia, being raised by her older cousin, Mordecai. Esther is most likely a teenager when she becomes the wife of a powerful Persian king. She keeps her true identity a secret until Mordecai learns of a horrible plot to destroy the Jewish people: a high-ranking official named Haman has convinced the king to order that all Jews be killed on a set day. So Mordecai asks Esther

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00:04:41

A Lying Mind

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2025/03/14

READ: ROMANS 8:16-17, 28-39; EPHESIANS 2:1-10; 1 PETER 5:8-11 I can’t do this. I’m worthless. I’m a failure. I’ll never be enough. Sometimes our minds can be our own worst enemy, telling us things that we know deep down aren’t true, yet we can’t help but believe them anyway. We may know the truth of what God says about us in our hearts, but the whispers keep coming back, drawing us in and tearing us apart. How can we stop believing the lies when it seems like they’re all we hear? It’s

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00:05:12

Who Are You Called To?

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2025/03/13

READ: MATTHEW 6:31-34; 22:37-39; 28:18-20; 1 PETER 4:8-11 When I was in my final year of high school, I dreaded the moment when people asked me, “Do you know what you want to do?” It felt like something was wrong with me when I replied, “I don’t know.” There were so many different paths I could take—how could I ever figure out what God was calling me to? I wanted to serve the Lord but had no clue what exactly He wanted me to do. Eventually, I buckled down, held my breath, and made a choice

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00:04:39

Maria Fearing: Ready for Adventure

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2025/03/12

READ: ROMANS 10:14-15; EPHESIANS 2:10; 2 TIMOTHY 4:2 In the year 1838, near Gainesville, Alabama, a girl named Maria Fearing was born into slavery. While she was still a kid, she heard her white master talking about the children in Africa who had never heard the gospel. This fact stuck in Maria’s mind for the rest of her life, and impacting the lives of children for God’s glory became her calling. After the American Civil War, Maria became a free woman. Though she was already an adult and past

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00:04:36

Not Abandoned

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2025/03/11

READ: PSALM 9:9-10; JOHN 14:16-21; ROMANS 5:5-8; 8:16, 35-39 One morning, I rushed into my parents’ room to say, “Good morning.” Mom removed her wedding ring and shoved it to the bottom of her jewelry box. “Mommy, where’s Daddy?” “He’s not coming back,” she said. I returned to my room and wept in my closet. The number of times I saw him after that, I could count on my fingers. Abandoned. I felt utterly and completely abandoned. As a teen, I made foolish choices to mask my pain. Losing my

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00:04:21

Loved

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2025/03/10

READ: EPHESIANS 2:4-9; 3:12-21 One of the things that bothered me about God while I was growing up was that I thought He just loved me because He had to. I learned that God loved the whole world (John 3:16), but I didn’t think He really loved me personally. I thought He just loved me because I was part of “the world.” And honestly, I thought the main reason God saved me was so that He could save other people through me. Thankfully, God has been slowly breaking down this lie that says He

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00:06:25

Worship Is More Than a Feeling

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2025/03/09

READ: PSALMS 103:1-22; 139:7-12; JOHN 14:16-18 Have you ever heard someone say, “I really feel the Lord’s presence?” I hear this most often after or during a worship service. Whether it be a church service, youth group, or some other event, I’ve heard many people say they feel closest to God when worshipping through music. Maybe you agree with them, and during worship songs you find yourself throwing your hands up in praise to God and singing with joy. Or maybe you’re not sure what you feel. You

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00:04:51

Flotation Belt

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2025/03/08

READ: JOHN 8:32; EPHESIANS 6:10-20 I participate in a unique physical therapy program for a spine condition I have. Before getting into a swimming pool, I snap on a wide, thick flotation belt, which makes my body very buoyant. With this big blue belt around my midsection, I go to the deep end and stay upright. In that position, I can do all sorts of exercises to help my spine condition improve. And I am improving, as the vertebrae “decompress” in that nearly gravity-free environment. Part of

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