My Morning Devotional

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Mind Your Mind Jun 19, 2025

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Do your thoughts start to take over during challenging seasons? In today’s episode, hosts Gaby and Mary Alessi invite us into day four of their “Submit to the Season” series, focusing on the crucial topic of minding our minds. We’ll learn together how to take every thought captive, overcome doubt, and intentionally fill our lives with faith—especially when circumstances or even people around us try to plant seeds of unbelief. Through personal stories and scriptural wisdom, we’ll explore practical ways to replace anxious thoughts with God’s truth and surround ourselves with encouragement that builds our faith.

Let’s gather as a community in prayer and devotion, asking God to help us guard our minds and trust His faithfulness in every season.

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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.

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Believe For It Jun 18, 2025

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Struggling to believe in God's promises when nothing seems to be working out? In today's episode, host Gaby and her mother, Mary Alessi, invite us into an honest conversation about faith during seasons of delay. Together, we'll explore what it means to believe that God is faithful, even when we feel weary or when life doesn’t go according to plan. Through scripture, personal stories, and encouragement, we’ll discover how stretching our faith opens us up to God’s greater promises and how a shift in perspective can transform our waiting into a time of faith-building.

Join our community today as we pray and devote these moments to trusting God’s timing and believing for all He has promised. Let’s seek His strength together as we grow in faith, one morning at a time.

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True Understanding Jun 17, 2025

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What do we do when life doesn’t go as planned and our prayers seem to go unanswered? In today’s episode, host Gaby Alessi brings her mother, Mary Alessi, along to continue a series on “submitting to the season.” Together, they explore how letting go of our limited perspective allows us to lean on God’s wisdom and trust in His timing. We’ll discover the beauty of exchanging our uncertainties and frustrations for the deeper grace God offers when we submit to His ways.

Join our community as we turn our hearts in prayer and devotion—asking God for courage to let go of our understanding and to receive His peace on the journey.

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Submit To A Season Jun 16, 2025

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How do you honestly surrender your plans to God - especially when the waiting feels never-ending? In today's episode, host Gaby Alessi brings a special guest - her mother, Pastor Mary Alessi - to have a heartfelt conversation about "Submit to a Season." As we dive into the first step of their new devotional acronym—surrender—we’ll explore how letting go of our timelines and desires can actually fast-track us to God’s perfect plan. Together, we’ll learn the power of surrendering everything, trusting that no matter the season of delay or uncertainty, God is faithful to fulfill His promises.

Join our community today as we commit our hearts to prayer and devotion, asking God to help us embrace surrender and trust Him fully with every part of our journey.

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A Great Responsibility Jun 13, 2025

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Is there a greater purpose for your life than you realize? In today's episode, host Lauren Alessi explores what it takes to grow our capacity to serve and impact others. Together, we’ll dive into the powerful message of Luke 12:48 – "To whom much is given, much will be required" – and reflect on how God entrusts us with greater influence and responsibility, not just for our own blessing, but to make a greater difference in the world around us.

Let’s discover how we can respond to God’s call with faithful stewardship instead of fear, nurturing the dreams and gifts He has placed within us.

Join our community today as we come together in prayer and devotion, seeking wisdom and courage to embrace the responsibilities God entrusts us with.

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Strength Training Jun 12, 2025

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Is it possible that you are able to carry more than you think? In today’s episode, Lauren Alessi guides us through the idea of “strength training” for our faith, inspired by Ephesians 3:16. Together, we’ll explore how God may be increasing our inner capacity through life’s challenges—not only so we can carry more, but so we can steward blessings and responsibilities with grace and strength. Whether you’re wishing for lighter burdens or waiting for your prayers to be answered, we’ll learn how God equips us to handle more than we imagine.

Let’s gather as a community to pray for renewed strength, inviting God to grow us from the inside out through each devotion and each new day.

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New Wine Jun 11, 2025

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What does it look like to embrace change and allow God to work something new in our lives? In today’s episode, host Lauren Alessi explores the powerful message behind Mark 2:22 and the idea of “new wine.” Together, we’ll discover what it means to shed old mindsets, grow our capacity, and be made ready for God’s blessings. Whether it’s our habits, our thinking, or every part of who we are, we’ll reflect on how God invites us to become new so He can pour new things into our lives.

Join our community in this moment of prayer and devotion as we invite God to stretch us, renew us, and make us ready for all He has in store.

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Stretch Before Strength Jun 10, 2025

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Are your circumstances pushing you out of your comfort zone? In today’s episode, our host Lauren Alessi guides us through the idea of “stretching before strength.” Together, we’ll explore how God uses seasons of stretching—not just to prepare us for greater strength, but to grow our faith, expand our capacity, and ready us for new opportunities of influence and purpose. Drawing from 2 Corinthians 10:15, we’ll discover how spiritual and emotional stretching, while uncomfortable, is an essential part of becoming who we’re meant to be.

Join our community in prayer and devotion as we ask God for courage and grace to embrace growth, even when it feels challenging, and let’s strengthen our faith together.

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Made For More Jun 09, 2025

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When life starts to feel overwhelmingly difficult and you’re tempted to give up - what’s your response? In today’s episode, host Lauren Alessi invites us to dig deep and discover what it really means to be made for more. We’ll explore the story of the Miami Seaquarium, draw inspiration from Jeremiah 12:5, and reflect on how challenges in our daily lives aren’t meant to break us, but to build us up for the greater purpose God has in store. Together, we’ll learn how to reframe our struggles as training grounds, and find encouragement in knowing that God is preparing us for something bigger—even when life feels exhausting.

Join us as we pray and devote ourselves to trusting God’s process, embracing the challenges, and stepping boldly into the “more” for which we were created.

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Prayer: Why Jun 06, 2025

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Do you ever find yourself questioning God's ways - and is it wrong to do so? In today’s episode, we’re diving deep into the heart of prayer—why we pray, especially when it feels like our prayers aren’t being answered. Our host for this week, Stephanie Muiña, shares her personal journey, drawing a beautiful parallel between the ‘why’ questions of her three-year-old daughter and our own questions for God.
You'll see how our daily conversations with God—no matter how small—lay the foundation for deeper trust and faith, even in seasons of waiting.

Whether you’re a seasoned prayer warrior or just starting to explore what prayer means, this episode will uplift and motivate you to keep building your relationship with God, one prayer at a time.

Grab your coffee and join us for your five-minute daily dose of heaven!

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