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Welcome to Lift Up Your Day, a 5-minute daily Christian devotional podcast where Pastor Rodney Coe shares true stories of faith to lift your heart.

Welcome to Lift Up Your Day with Pastor Rodney Coe, a 5-minute Christian devotional podcast for the heart that needs lifting.

Why stories? Because Jesus told them. Because the Bible is mostly story. Because when truth comes wrapped in a person, a missionary in the dark, a Senate chaplain who wasn't ready, a farmer with an ox goad, a watchmaker's daughter in Ravensbrück, it lodges in a place that a sermon outline can't reach.

In this short opening episode, Pastor Rodney Coe, author of 5 books, devotional writer, and pastor, explains why we tell true stories of faith. What you can expect from each Take 5 episode. And why every one of them ends the same way: "And that, friend, is how God lifts up your day."

If you've ever needed a five-minute reminder that the God who walked with Carver at 4 a.m., who stood beside Paton when the warriors came, who held Corrie ten Boom in Ravensbrück, that same God is walking through your day with you, this podcast is for you.

Subscribe. Press play. And let the stories lift your day.

Scripture: Psalm 78:4 · Hebrews 11 · 2 Timothy 1:5

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The true story of Corrie ten Boom, the Holocaust survivor who came face to face with her Ravensbrück prison guard and chose forgiveness (Romans 8:1).

It was 1947, and Corrie ten Boom had just finished speaking in a Munich church basement about God's forgiveness. Then she saw him in the back: the guard from Ravensbrück. The man who had stood at the shower door watching her sister Betsie die.

He walked up the aisle with his hand extended. "A fine message, Fräulein. How good it is to know that, as you say, all our sins are at the bottom of the sea."

Corrie froze. The blood drained from her face. And then she did the most impossible thing a human being can do.

This is the true story of Corrie ten Boom, the watchmaker's daughter from Haarlem who hid Jews behind a false wall in her family's home, was sent to Ravensbrück, watched her sister Betsie die there, and lived to tell the world about forgiveness that only Jesus could give.

If you've been trying to forgive someone in your own strength and failing, this 5-minute devotional is for you. Corrie's famous line: "Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart."

Scripture: Romans 8:1 · Micah 7:19 · Matthew 6:14

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The true story of Sergeant Alvin York, the conscientious objector who became the most decorated American soldier of World War I (Hebrews 4:12).

On his World War I draft card, Alvin York wrote one line that would change his life forever: "I don't want to fight."

He was a backwoods kid from Pall Mall, Tennessee. He had a praying mother. He had a Bible underlined and worn. And he had a real, honest wrestling with what God wanted him to do. So he went to a hill alone. He prayed. And he came down with peace.

On October 8, 1918, in the Argonne Forest, Corporal Alvin York found himself pinned down with seventeen other men against a German machine gun position. By the end of that day, he had killed twenty-five enemy soldiers and captured one hundred and thirty-two. With a 1903 Springfield rifle and a Colt .45. Alone.

The most decorated American soldier of World War I came from a one-room cabin and a praying mother. God uses willing hearts, not perfect ones.

This 5-minute devotional from Pastor Rodney Coe is for the one who feels too small, too late, too unqualified. God doesn't need your strength. He needs your "yes."

Scripture: Hebrews 4:12 · John 14:15 · 1 John 2:5

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The true story of the Hebrides Revival, how desperate prayer, not a program, sparked a Spirit-led awakening on the Isle of Lewis (2 Chronicles 7:14).

"Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down." That's Isaiah 64:1. And that's the prayer that has preceded almost every real revival in church history.

Revival doesn't start with a program. It doesn't start with a building campaign. It doesn't start with a celebrity preacher. Revival starts with a man, or a woman, or a teenager, alone in a room, saying, "Lord, rend the heavens."

This 5-minute devotional walks you through one of the greatest revivals of the 20th century, and shows you where it actually started. Not in the place you'd expect. Not with the person you'd expect. Just one ordinary heart, one ordinary verse, one prayer that wouldn't quit.

God promised in 2 Chronicles 7:14: "If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."

That's still on the table. The Holy Spirit is still moving. And the question isn't whether God can send another revival. The question is whether He'll find someone ordinary enough to ask.

If you've been praying for revival in your own life, your family, your church, drop one word in the comments: "praying." Pastor Rodney will add you to his prayer list this week.

Scripture: 2 Chronicles 7:14 · Isaiah 64:1 · Joel 2:28 · Acts 2:17

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The true story of George Washington Carver, born into slavery, he met God in the woods at 4 a.m. and changed American agriculture (Proverbs 3:5-6).

In 1864, in Diamond, Missouri, a band of slave raiders kidnapped a young mother and her infant son. The mother was never seen again. The baby was traded for a racehorse. His name was George Washington Carver.

That stolen baby, half-dead from whooping cough, raised by the white farmer who bought him back, became the man who would walk with God at 4 a.m. in a small garden, talk to peanuts, and revolutionize American agriculture.

Carver said his time with God in the garden every morning at 4 a.m. was when he received his ideas. From peanuts, he made 300 products: ink, soap, shampoo, paper, plastic, gasoline. From sweet potatoes, 118 products. He testified before Congress. He turned down a $100,000 offer from Thomas Edison. And he died with $60,000, all of which he gave to a research institute.

This 5-minute devotional is for anyone who's wondered if your ordinary morning walk with God really makes a difference. It does. Proverbs 3:5-6: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths."

The path may start in a peanut field. Or a kitchen. Or a hospital room. Or a cubicle. But the God who walked with Carver at 4 a.m. is walking with you, too.

Scripture: Proverbs 3:5-6 · Genesis 5:24 · Psalm 5:3

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