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You don't have to make the mistake yourself to learn from it; you just have to be willing to listen to someone who already did.

Today, Solomon is handing you the ending of the story before you have to live it.

Chris closes out the week in Proverbs 7, where Solomon comes back to the voice he started with: a father speaking directly to his son. After all the keeping, the binding, the writing on the heart, and the story of the young man in the twilight, verses 24–27 land as something closer to a plea than a lecture. It's what a father says when he knows exactly what's at stake and needs his son to actually hear him.

Learn from someone else's window instead of your own wreckage. Solomon says her victims are many and her slain are a mighty throng. That isn't a rare danger he's describing; it's a well-worn path with a long casualty list. Men of strength and reputation walked it. Men who were sure they had it handled. The wrong path doesn't discriminate, and it will take down the man who thinks he's too strong to heed the warning. What Solomon offers here is the wisdom of a father who has watched from the window and knows how the story ends. Receiving that from a wise earthly father, and always from your heavenly Father, isn't weakness. It's wisdom. Keep it, let it keep you, listen and live.

Verse of the Day: Proverbs 7:24–27

Your Daily Man-Up Challenge

Write down one piece of wisdom a father figure has given you that you haven't fully applied yet. Your dad, a pastor, a mentor, or God through Scripture. This weekend, apply it. Don't let it just stay advice you heard. Move it from your head to your heart to your hands, until it becomes a life you've actually lived.

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NEW TO THE MEN’S MORNING DEVOTIONAL? 

Welcome!

The Men's Morning Devotional is a podcast to help you man up in every way - in your faith, your family and your work - by spending a few minutes getting into the Word before you face the world. 

Every weekday, you'll get a challenge and encouragement from Scripture that speaks to the pressures you carry as a husband, a father, and a leader. You’ll get truth you can take straight into your day. And you’ll know you’re not standing alone, because men everywhere are waking up to fight the same battle.

Your hosts are Steve Alessi, pastor of Metro Life Church of Miami, FL, along with his son, Chris Alessi, and his sons-in-law Christopher Muina, Christian Calatayud, and Dani Burgos. 

Join us every weekday to man up! 

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My Morning Devotional

The Family Business with The Alessis

The Mary and Martha Show 

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Are you making plans for your future while leaving God out of them?

In today’s episode, Gaby Alessi Calatayud takes us into James 4:13–17 and the reminder that while planning is wise, tomorrow is never guaranteed. We can pursue goals, dream about the future, and steward our lives well while still holding every plan with open hands and saying, “If the Lord wills.”

We’ll be challenged to surrender our plans, desires, and need for control to God while also responding when He shows us our next step. If we know we need to forgive, apologize, let go, move forward, or step back, we’re called to do more than simply hear God’s Word. We’re called to obey it.

Let’s join in prayer and devotion as a community, asking God to search our hearts, give us the courage to obey, and help us live fully surrendered to His plans and His will.

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Welcome! We're four sisters - Stephanie, Lauren, Gaby, and Richelle - and our family works together at Metro Life Church in Miami, FL. We're so blessed to produce this daily devotional podcast for you and continue the great work done by the show's founder, Alison Delamota.

We pray these devotions will help you to grow in your faith, and that you'll join us every weekday for a morning prayer and some time in God's Word!

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Could pride be showing up in your life in ways you haven’t recognized?

In today’s episode, Gaby Alessi Calatayud takes us into James 4:10 and the powerful call to humble ourselves before the Lord. True humility isn’t thinking less of ourselves. It’s recognizing that God is God, trusting His wisdom over our own, and surrendering our need to control everything.

We’ll be challenged to examine the subtle ways pride can take root in our hearts and learn to say, “Lord, I don’t have to control everything. I don’t have all the answers. Your way is better than mine.” When we trust that God sees us, loves us, and knows what is best, we no longer have to fight to elevate ourselves.

Let’s join in prayer and devotion as a community, asking God to reveal areas of pride in our hearts, lead us toward humility, and help us grow in spiritual maturity as we surrender our way for His.

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If you enjoy our 5 minute daily doses of heaven, you'll LOVE our MMD Buy Me a Coffee community! 

When you support us by buying us a coffee, you help us share God's word daily - PLUS you can get access to bonus content and episodes for just $5 a month!

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NEW VIDEO EPISODES! 

You can now watch our video episodes on YouTube, Apple Podcasts AND Spotify! 

NEW TO MY MORNING DEVOTIONAL?

Welcome! We're four sisters - Stephanie, Lauren, Gaby, and Richelle - and our family works together at Metro Life Church in Miami, FL. We're so blessed to produce this daily devotional podcast for you and continue the great work done by the show's founder, Alison Delamota.

We pray these devotions will help you to grow in your faith, and that you'll join us every weekday for a morning prayer and some time in God's Word!

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• The Family Business with The Alessis
• Men's Morning Devotional
• The Mary and Martha Show 

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Before a man ever makes a choice, especially a bad one, he starts walking towards it. If you’ve felt like you’ve been drifting recently, today’s episode is for you.

Chris moves into the body of Proverbs 7, where Solomon stops instructing and starts telling a story. From his window, he watches a young man who hasn't done anything wrong yet. He's just walking near her corner, taking the road toward her house, at twilight. Solomon, with a wise father's eyes, can already see where that road ends.

Two things stand out in Solomon's description. First, the young man isn't lacking talent, strength, opportunity, or even good intentions. He's lacking sense: the practical wisdom that reads a situation correctly and acts accordingly. He can't see what Solomon sees from the window. Second, there's the timing: twilight, evening, darkness. That isn't a scheduling accident; it's a choice of environment, a place where the light is low, and the consequences are harder to see. Men do this constantly. The late-night phone in a dark room. The trip taken alone with no one checking in. The conversation drifting somewhere it shouldn't. The guarded man knows his own vulnerabilities well enough that he doesn't trust himself to make the right call at the corner. He stays away from the corner.

Verse of the Day: Proverbs 7:6–9

Your Daily Man-Up Challenge

Ask yourself honestly: what direction am I walking in that's heading somewhere I don't want to end up? Not a decision yet, but a pattern, a habit, an environment you keep returning to. Name it, then take one step to redirect it before the corner becomes a choice you can't take back.

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Support the show

NEW TO THE MEN’S MORNING DEVOTIONAL? 

Welcome!

The Men's Morning Devotional is a podcast to help you man up in every way - in your faith, your family and your work - by spending a few minutes getting into the Word before you face the world. 

Every weekday, you'll get a challenge and encouragement from Scripture that speaks to the pressures you carry as a husband, a father, and a leader. You’ll get truth you can take straight into your day. And you’ll know you’re not standing alone, because men everywhere are waking up to fight the same battle.

Your hosts are Steve Alessi, pastor of Metro Life Church of Miami, FL, along with his son, Chris Alessi, and his sons-in-law Christopher Muina, Christian Calatayud, and Dani Burgos. 

Join us every weekday to man up! 

MORE PODCASTS YOU'LL ENJOY

Find more podcasts about faith and family from Metro Life Studios, including:

My Morning Devotional

The Family Business with The Alessis

The Mary and Martha Show 

You can listen to all of these shows on our Metro Life Studios app here! 

Get The Metro Life Studios app 

Have you been feeling distant from God and wondering how to find your way back?

In today’s episode, Gaby Alessi Calatayud takes us into James 4:7–8 and the powerful invitation to submit, resist, and draw near. When we surrender to God, we’re strengthened to resist what pulls us away from Him. And when we choose to draw near to Him, we’re given an incredible promise: He will draw near to us.

We’ll be reminded that God isn’t waiting for us to fix everything before coming to Him. Whether you feel distant, unworthy, or unsure of your next step, you can seek Him right where you are through prayer, Scripture, repentance, or simply spending time in His presence.

Let’s join in prayer and devotion as a community, choosing to submit to God, resist the enemy, and take one intentional step closer to our Heavenly Father today.

Tap HERE to send us a text!

SUPPORT THE SHOW - AND GET BONUS EPISODES! 

If you enjoy our 5 minute daily doses of heaven, you'll LOVE our MMD Buy Me a Coffee community! 

When you support us by buying us a coffee, you help us share God's word daily - PLUS you can get access to bonus content and episodes for just $5 a month!

Tap here to join the My Morning Devotional Coffee Club! 

Support the show

NEW VIDEO EPISODES! 

You can now watch our video episodes on YouTube, Apple Podcasts AND Spotify! 

NEW TO MY MORNING DEVOTIONAL?

Welcome! We're four sisters - Stephanie, Lauren, Gaby, and Richelle - and our family works together at Metro Life Church in Miami, FL. We're so blessed to produce this daily devotional podcast for you and continue the great work done by the show's founder, Alison Delamota.

We pray these devotions will help you to grow in your faith, and that you'll join us every weekday for a morning prayer and some time in God's Word!

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• The Family Business with The Alessis
• Men's Morning Devotional
• The Mary and Martha Show 

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Wisdom only changes a man when it moves from his head to his heart. If you’ve ever struggled with doing the right thing, this is one episode you can’t afford to miss. 

Chris continues the week in Proverbs 7. After Solomon tells his son to keep wisdom three times in the first two verses, verse 3 takes it deeper with two images that work together: bind them on your fingers, and write them on the tablet of your heart. Most men have plenty of wisdom stored up in their heads from the sermons, books, and podcasts they've taken in. The problem is that knowing and being are two different things, and "if I know better, I'll do better" doesn't always hold.

Wisdom written on your heart leads differently than wisdom sitting on your shelf. Your fingers are always in use, so whatever is bound there shapes your work, your parenting, and every conversation you have. The heart, in Hebrew thinking, is the seat of will and decision. What's written there drives your choices when no one is watching, when you're tired, and when the pressure is on. The man with wisdom only in his head will abandon it under pressure. The man with it written on his heart holds the line when it costs him something. And that writing happens the way anything gets written: slowly, repeatedly, every day, through prayer, Scripture, honest self-examination, and community.

Verse of the Day: Proverbs 7:3

Your Daily Man-Up Challenge

Pick one verse, principle, or truth you know in your head but haven't fully lived yet. Write it down somewhere you'll see it all week, and read it morning and night. Start moving it from your shelf to your heart.

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Support the show

NEW TO THE MEN’S MORNING DEVOTIONAL? 

Welcome!

The Men's Morning Devotional is a podcast to help you man up in every way - in your faith, your family and your work - by spending a few minutes getting into the Word before you face the world. 

Every weekday, you'll get a challenge and encouragement from Scripture that speaks to the pressures you carry as a husband, a father, and a leader. You’ll get truth you can take straight into your day. And you’ll know you’re not standing alone, because men everywhere are waking up to fight the same battle.

Your hosts are Steve Alessi, pastor of Metro Life Church of Miami, FL, along with his sons and other leaders of our Goodfellas men's ministry.

Join us every weekday to man up! 

MORE PODCASTS YOU'LL ENJOY

Find more podcasts about faith and family from Metro Life Studios, including:

My Morning Devotional

The Family Business with The Alessis

The Mary and Martha Show 

You can listen to all of these shows on our Metro Life Studios app here! 

Get The Metro Life Studios app 

Are there areas of your life where you’re trying to please the world more than you’re trying to please God?

In today’s episode, Gaby Alessi Calatayud takes us into James 4:4–6 and challenges us to examine where our loyalty truly lies. Following Jesus means allowing God’s truth and values to shape our lives, even when doing so feels uncomfortable or goes against what the people around us believe.

We’ll be encouraged to consider where popularity, acceptance, success, relationships, or comfort may be influencing us more than God. Whether it’s at work, at school, on social media, or even within our families, God isn’t asking for part of our hearts. He wants our full devotion.

Let’s join in prayer and devotion as a community, asking God for the strength to stand firm in our faith, the wisdom to navigate difficult moments with grace, and hearts that choose Him above everything else.

Tap HERE to send us a text!

SUPPORT THE SHOW - AND GET BONUS EPISODES! 

If you enjoy our 5 minute daily doses of heaven, you'll LOVE our MMD Buy Me a Coffee community! 

When you support us by buying us a coffee, you help us share God's word daily - PLUS you can get access to bonus content and episodes for just $5 a month!

Tap here to join the My Morning Devotional Coffee Club! 

Support the show

NEW VIDEO EPISODES! 

You can now watch our video episodes on YouTube, Apple Podcasts AND Spotify! 

NEW TO MY MORNING DEVOTIONAL?

Welcome! We're four sisters - Stephanie, Lauren, Gaby, and Richelle - and our family works together at Metro Life Church in Miami, FL. We're so blessed to produce this daily devotional podcast for you and continue the great work done by the show's founder, Alison Delamota.

We pray these devotions will help you to grow in your faith, and that you'll join us every weekday for a morning prayer and some time in God's Word!

JOIN THE MMD COMMUNITY

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• The Family Business with The Alessis
• Men's Morning Devotional
• The Mary and Martha Show 

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What desire in your heart has become more important than God’s will?

In today’s episode, Gaby Alessi Calatayud takes us into James 4:1–3 and challenges us to look beyond the conflicts happening around us and examine what may be happening within us. Sometimes our frustration, jealousy, or anger isn’t simply about what someone else did. It can come from a desire, expectation, or unanswered prayer that has started to take priority over trusting God.

We’ll be encouraged to examine our motives and surrender our desires back to God, remembering that even when life doesn’t unfold according to our plans, He is still good and His will is still greater than our own.

Let’s join in prayer and devotion as a community, asking God to reveal what may be ruling our hearts and help us surrender every desire, plan, and prayer to His will.

Tap HERE to send us a text!

SUPPORT THE SHOW - AND GET BONUS EPISODES! 

If you enjoy our 5 minute daily doses of heaven, you'll LOVE our MMD Buy Me a Coffee community! 

When you support us by buying us a coffee, you help us share God's word daily - PLUS you can get access to bonus content and episodes for just $5 a month!

Tap here to join the My Morning Devotional Coffee Club! 

Support the show

NEW VIDEO EPISODES! 

You can now watch our video episodes on YouTube, Apple Podcasts AND Spotify! 

NEW TO MY MORNING DEVOTIONAL?

Welcome! We're four sisters - Stephanie, Lauren, Gaby, and Richelle - and our family works together at Metro Life Church in Miami, FL. We're so blessed to produce this daily devotional podcast for you and continue the great work done by the show's founder, Alison Delamota.

We pray these devotions will help you to grow in your faith, and that you'll join us every weekday for a morning prayer and some time in God's Word!

JOIN THE MMD COMMUNITY

• Subscribe to the show
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Enjoy more podcasts from Metro Life Studios, including:

• The Family Business with The Alessis
• Men's Morning Devotional
• The Mary and Martha Show 

Available on our Metro Life Studios app!

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If you hate losing, then today's episode is for you. A man has to guard wisdom the way he guards his home and family, because what you don't guard, you will lose. 

So what are you actually guarding right now?

Chris Alessi opens a new week in Proverbs 7, where Solomon returns with another warning and another man standing at a crossroads. But before the warning comes a command, repeated three times: keep. In the original language, it's a soldier's word: to guard, to watch over, to protect. Most men treat wisdom like content to consume: a podcast, a sermon, a verse they immediately think someone else needs to hear. Solomon has something far more active in mind.

What you don't guard, you will lose. You don't casually lock your doors or occasionally set the alarm. You guard what matters constantly, because you know what's at stake. Solomon goes one step further: keep my teaching "as the apple of your eye," the most sensitive, instinctively protected part of your body. That's the posture of the principled man toward wisdom: reflexive protection of something he can't afford to lose. Whatever you protect most reveals what you value most.

Verse of the Day: Proverbs 7:1–2

Your Daily Man-Up Challenge

Take inventory today. What are you actively guarding: your marriage, your mind, your integrity, your time with God? Or is it your comfort and your pride? Name one thing you've been passive about and decide today to guard it on purpose.

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Support the show

NEW TO THE MEN’S MORNING DEVOTIONAL? 

Welcome!

The Men's Morning Devotional is a podcast to help you man up in every way - in your faith, your family and your work - by spending a few minutes getting into the Word before you face the world. 

Every weekday, you'll get a challenge and encouragement from Scripture that speaks to the pressures you carry as a husband, a father, and a leader. You’ll get truth you can take straight into your day. And you’ll know you’re not standing alone, because men everywhere are waking up to fight the same battle.

Your hosts are Steve Alessi, pastor of Metro Life Church of Miami, FL, along with his sons and other leaders of our Goodfellas men's ministry.

Join us every weekday to man up! 

MORE PODCASTS YOU'LL ENJOY

Find more podcasts about faith and family from Metro Life Studios, including:

My Morning Devotional

The Family Business with The Alessis

The Mary and Martha Show 

You can listen to all of these shows on our Metro Life Studios app here! 

Get The Metro Life Studios app 

How can you tell if the wisdom you’re receiving is truly from God?

In today’s episode, Lauren Alessi Burgos closes out James 3 with verses 17–18 and a powerful description of wisdom from above. Godly wisdom is pure, peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere. These qualities give us a guide for discerning the voices and advice we allow to influence our lives.

We’ll be challenged to examine the fruit of the wisdom we receive and the wisdom we share. Does it produce peace or conflict? Does it align with God’s Word? Does it lead us toward mercy, sincerity, and righteousness?

Let’s join in prayer and devotion as a community, asking God to fill us with wisdom from above and help us become peacemakers who bring His peace into our conversations, relationships, and communities.

Tap HERE to send us a text!

SUPPORT THE SHOW - AND GET BONUS EPISODES! 

If you enjoy our 5 minute daily doses of heaven, you'll LOVE our MMD Buy Me a Coffee community! 

When you support us by buying us a coffee, you help us share God's word daily - PLUS you can get access to bonus content and episodes for just $5 a month!

Tap here to join the My Morning Devotional Coffee Club! 

Support the show

NEW VIDEO EPISODES! 

You can now watch our video episodes on YouTube, Apple Podcasts AND Spotify! 

NEW TO MY MORNING DEVOTIONAL?

Welcome! We're four sisters - Stephanie, Lauren, Gaby, and Richelle - and our family works together at Metro Life Church in Miami, FL. We're so blessed to produce this daily devotional podcast for you and continue the great work done by the show's founder, Alison Delamota.

We pray these devotions will help you to grow in your faith, and that you'll join us every weekday for a morning prayer and some time in God's Word!

JOIN THE MMD COMMUNITY

• Subscribe to the show
• Share with a friend
• Join our newsletter 
• Follow Us on ⁠Instagram⁠ and ⁠Facebook⁠
• ⁠Leave a review

MORE PODCASTS YOU'LL ENJOY

Enjoy more podcasts from Metro Life Studios, including:

• The Family Business with The Alessis
• Men's Morning Devotional
• The Mary and Martha Show 

Available on our Metro Life Studios app!

Get The Metro Life Studios app