Men's Morning Devotional

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Men who stand strong prepare before the battle begins - so take a few minutes every morning to get into the Word before you face the world. Every weekday, the Men's Morning Devotional challenges and encourages men with Biblical lessons that speak to the pressures they carry as husbands, fathers, and leaders. Hosted by Steve Alessi, a pastor with over 40 years of ministry experience, along with his four sons and sons-in-law, you’ll get truth you can take straight into your day.  We’re here every weekday morning so make sure you follow and subscribe. Don’t let a single morning go by without putting on your armor. This is a perfectly timed, short Bible study for Christian men, so you can spend some quiet time with God and prepare for the challenges life brings you every day. Let’s get into God’s Word. It’s time to man up.

  1. 21 hr ago

    A Man Who Sleeps Well

    How a man sleeps tells you more about his heart than he'd ever admit. Some lie awake replaying conversations they wish they could take back. Others stare at the ceiling worrying about finances, family, work, or the future. We live in a world full of pressure — and most men are carrying burdens they were never meant to carry alone. Chris Muiña uses Proverbs 3 to point toward the source of a rest that doesn't depend on circumstances. The strongest pillow you'll ever lay your head on is a clear conscience before God. Sweet sleep isn't just the reward of a tiring day — it's the fruit of a heart that trusts God and a life lived in alignment with His wisdom. The world says security comes from a bigger savings account, a stronger retirement, or having everything under control. God says real security comes from walking with Him. A man who lives with integrity doesn't have to remember which lie he told. A husband who honors his wife has nothing to hide. God's wisdom gives a man confidence without arrogance and stability without perfect circumstances — because his hope rests on a faithful God, not a flawless life. Verse of the Day: Proverbs 3:21–24  Your Daily Man-Up Challenge  Tonight, do something different. Before bed, spend five minutes with God and ask three questions: Is there anything I need to confess? Anyone I need to forgive? Any burden I've been carrying instead of trusting God with it? Pray over those things and surrender them. Don't carry into tomorrow what God has invited you to leave at His feet today. Send Us A Message! 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

  2. 1 day ago

    Build Your Life On God's Wisdom

    As men, we spend our lives building: careers, businesses, homes, families, reputations. Every day we're laying bricks that become the legacy we leave behind. But a house can look beautiful from the outside and still have a cracked foundation. The same is true of a man's life. Today, Chris Muiña draws from Proverbs 3 to ask a question every builder needs to face: how often do we try to build without consulting the Master Builder? The same God who keeps the planets in orbit knows how to lead your family. The same God who established the foundations of the earth knows how to establish your life. Yet too many men climb impressive ladders only to discover they leaned against the wrong wall. Strength without wisdom eventually becomes exhaustion. God isn't looking for men who simply build bigger — He's looking for men who build wisely. And storms are coming: financial pressure, family challenges, health concerns, unexpected setbacks. The goal isn't to avoid the storm; it's to be standing when it passes. That only happens when a life is built on the solid rock of God's wisdom instead of our own emotions, instinct, and hustle. Verse of the Day: Proverbs 3:19–20 Your Daily Man-Up Challenge Take honest inventory of your foundation. Am I making my biggest decisions based on God's wisdom, or my own? Then choose one area — your marriage, parenting, finances, work, or personal habits — and invite God into it. Before your next significant decision, stop and pray: Lord, show me the wise way to build. One prayer of dependence can save you months, even years, of rebuilding. Send Us A Message! 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

  3. 2 days ago

    Chase Wisdom, Not Success

    Every man is chasing something — success, money, promotions, a bigger house, the next achievement. None of it is wrong. But what if you spent decades mastering how to make a living, and never learned how to build a life? Host Chris Muiña dives deeper into Proverbs 3 to hold up the one pursuit Solomon calls more valuable than silver, gold, or anything else a man could desire. Money can buy comfort, but it can't buy character. Wealth can open doors, but it can't guarantee good decisions. Success can earn respect, but it can't produce peace. The thing that bridges every one of those gaps is the pursuit most men never prioritize: wisdom. Wise men aren't born, they're built — one obedient decision at a time. Wisdom isn't reserved for pastors, scholars, or older men; God freely gives it to any man who humbly seeks it. Every day you open His Word, every time you choose His way over your own, every moment you invite Him into your decisions, you're gaining something worth more than anything money can buy. Because real success isn't measured by what you accumulate, it's measured by the wisdom that shapes the man you're becoming. Verse of the Day: Proverbs 3:13–15  Your Daily Man-Up Challenge  Before your next important decision — big or small — pause and ask not what's easiest, fastest, or most profitable, but what's wisest. Then spend at least ten minutes in God's Word before you reach for your phone or the TV, and ask Him for wisdom in one specific area where you need direction. Send Us A Message! 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

  4. 3 days ago

    Put God First, Not What's Left

    Look at your calendar and your bank statement. If a stranger studied both, what would they conclude is most important in your life? For most men, the honest answer is uncomfortable — because we tend to give God whatever's left after everything else gets covered. In this episode, Chris Muiña tackles a principle that cuts straight to the heart of what a man truly trusts. Pulling from Proverbs 3, he reframes a passage most men assume is only about money and reveals what it's actually testing: whether you'll put God first, or just give Him the leftovers. Passing that test means confronting the "self-made man" myth head-on. Every paycheck, every promotion, every opportunity ultimately comes from the Lord — and honoring Him with your first fruits isn't about the amount, it's about the condition of your heart. Real men don't cling tightly to what God has given them. They hold it with an open hand and live with an open heart, trusting that when they do their part, He takes care of the rest. What a relief it is to live under that. Verse of the Day: Proverbs 3:9–10  Your Daily Man-Up Challenge Take an honest look at your priorities and ask: Does the way I spend my money and my time show that God is first? Then take one intentional step today — start with the tithe, give to someone in need, thank God for His provision, or trade a financial worry for prayer and surrender. Choose to put Him first with your best, not with what's left over. Send Us A Message! 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

  5. 4 days ago

    Don't Just Hear It - Live it

    You've heard the sermons. You've read the verses. You can probably quote scripture on demand. So why doesn't your life always look like the truth you already know? In this Man Up Moment, host Chris Muiña gets underneath one of the quiet traps that catches faithful men: the gap between knowing God's Word and living it. Drawing from Proverbs 3, he uncovers why God was never after a head full of Bible facts — He's after a heart that's been reshaped. And here's the uncomfortable part: the longer you've walked with God, the easier it becomes to lean on your own understanding instead of His. Because real strength isn't found in knowing more — it's found in obeying what you already know. Every small decision to choose integrity over shortcuts, patience over anger, prayer over panic, and forgiveness over bitterness is you storing God's Word in your heart, where it slowly shapes the man you're becoming. Your family doesn't need a perfect man. They need one whose heart is anchored in God's truth — because when your heart is right, your life follows. Verse of the Day: Proverbs 3:1–2 Your Daily Man-Up Challenge Before your day ends, ask yourself one honest question: Is there one area of my life where I know what God says, but I haven't been living it? Don't overcomplicate it — pick one. Your attitude, your language, your marriage, your parenting, your work ethic, your integrity, or your time with God. Then take one concrete step of obedience, and ask God to move His Word from your head into your heart. Send Us A Message! 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

  6. 21 Aug

    Man Up and Remain

    The principled man isn't defined by what he says no to. He's defined by what he gets to keep. Chris closes out his series on Proverbs chapter 2 with a promise instead of a warning: "For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it." After a whole week building the portrait of the principled man, Solomon lands the chapter on a single powerful word — remain. The principled man doesn't just avoid the wrong road; he inherits the right one. Remain means to endure, to be left standing after everything else has been stripped away. It's the man whose marriage is still standing at the end of his life, still present with his grown kids, still trusted at work, still rooted in his faith when others have fallen off. And blameless doesn't mean perfect: it's the word used of Job, meaning whole, complete, undivided. His private life matched his public life. Here's the great irony: The shortcut man was chasing a full, flourishing life the whole time and never got it. The man who takes the long road ends up with the very thing the other man was after. Verse of the Day: Proverbs 2:21 Your Daily Man-Up Challenge Write down your answer to this question: What does it look like for me to remain — in my marriage, my family, my faith, and my integrity? Five years from now, if I stay on the road I'm building today, what does it mean to remain? Let that picture pull you forward. Send Us A Message! 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

  7. 20 Aug

    Man Up Before It's Too Late

    Some doors only swing one way. You tell yourself you'll make it up later — later, when the deal is closed, when the busy season ends, when the kids are older. But some windows close for good. Chris works through Proverbs 2:19 and one of the most sobering phrases in the chapter: "None who go to her return." Not most. Not few. None. The adulterous woman here is a symbol: she represents every path that promises pleasure and ease without the cost of doing things the right way. She's the embodiment of the shortcut. And Solomon's warning is stark: every shortcut has a point of no return, and the time to turn around is before you reach it. God can redeem anything, but some consequences we live with permanently, even after we're forgiven. The father who keeps telling himself he'll make it up to his kids eventually finds the window has closed and they're grown. The husband who erodes trust through small deceptions finds the foundation quietly crumbled. An oak tree takes decades to grow and a few hours to cut down. You don't get to choose the consequences of your choices — only the choices themselves. Verse of the Day: Proverbs 2:19 Your Daily Man-Up Challenge Ask yourself honestly — is there a path I'm on right now that I know is heading somewhere I don't want to end up? Name it. Then turn around today, before the point of no return. Don't wait for the weekend. Make the U-turn right here, right now. Send Us A Message! 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

  8. 19 Aug

    Man Up to The Long Road

    The shortcut always looks faster. The workaround always looks smarter. And almost every time a man walks off the straight path, it doesn't feel like walking into sin — it feels like being clever. In today’s episode, Chris works through Proverbs 2:15 and the picture of the man whose paths are crooked and devious. In Hebrew, crooked means something twisted out of its original shape: a path that should be straight but got bent and rerouted. And devious means to turn aside. Here's the catch: Solomon says these men left the straight path. It was a choice. There are no shortcuts to the life God has for you. The crooked path feels faster until it isn't. The temptation toward the crooked path almost never shows up as wickedness. It shows up as a shortcut. Stretch the truth to close the deal faster. Avoid the hard conversation to dodge the conflict. Look the part without doing the work. But we've watched lives play out over and over, and the shortcut always costs more than the long road. Always. The man who cuts the corner isn't ahead of you — he's already lost. Verse of the Day: Proverbs 2:15 Your Daily Man-Up Challenge Where are you tempted to take a shortcut right now? Be specific — marriage, work, spiritual life, health, or finances. Name the shortcut. Then name what the straight road actually looks like in that area, and commit to it. And if you want to take it seriously, tell somebody about it. Send Us A Message! 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

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Men who stand strong prepare before the battle begins - so take a few minutes every morning to get into the Word before you face the world. Every weekday, the Men's Morning Devotional challenges and encourages men with Biblical lessons that speak to the pressures they carry as husbands, fathers, and leaders. Hosted by Steve Alessi, a pastor with over 40 years of ministry experience, along with his four sons and sons-in-law, you’ll get truth you can take straight into your day.  We’re here every weekday morning so make sure you follow and subscribe. Don’t let a single morning go by without putting on your armor. This is a perfectly timed, short Bible study for Christian men, so you can spend some quiet time with God and prepare for the challenges life brings you every day. Let’s get into God’s Word. It’s time to man up.

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