Benjamin Franklin came to the meeting with his mind already made up. He would not put one coin in the collection. Then the preacher began to speak. By the end, even the gold was gone, and the most famous skeptic in America walked home with empty pockets and a head full of wonder.

The preacher was George Whitefield, and in the year 1740 he was turning the American colonies upside down. Only twenty-five years old. English. Barely off the boat. But God had given him a voice like nothing anyone had heard. Franklin paced off the distance one day and figured thirty thousand people could hear that voice at one time.

Whitefield preached in open fields, on courthouse steps, from the back of a wagon, two and three and four times a day until his shirt was soaked through and his voice gave out. From Georgia all the way up to Maine. To rich and poor, free and enslaved, churchgoer and scoffer. And when he came to Jonathan Edwards's church in Northampton, Edwards wept through the whole sermon, and Edwards's wife Sarah noticed the secret. He aims more at affecting the heart, she said.

In this five-minute Take 5 devotional, Pastor Rodney Coe shares the story of George Whitefield (1714-1770), the open-air evangelist of the First Great Awakening, and what one young Englishman's voice can still teach us about Romans 10:17 today.

Scripture: Romans 10:17

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A brilliant young Englishwoman sat at her desk one day, packing nearly fifty pieces of jewelry into a box to give away, and called it the happiest packing of her life.

This is the story of Frances Ridley Havergal (1836-1879), who wrote the hymn Take My Life and Let It Be and then proved she meant every word, shipping a fortune in jewelry to the mission field with pure joy.

Born in England in 1836, the youngest child of a country pastor who nicknamed her Little Quicksilver. She was reading at three, mastered Hebrew and Greek, and tucked away the whole New Testament, the Psalms, and Isaiah in her memory. Her health was always frail, so she gave God everything while she still could. She once said she never spent so much as a sixpence without the quiet sense that the money was His.

One sleepless night, too full of joy to sleep, she sat up and wrote the hymn that would outlive her by more than a hundred years. Line by line she handed God everything she had. Her hands and her feet. Her voice and her lips. Her silver and her gold. Her will. Her heart. And then she did the unthinkable. She actually meant it.

In this five-minute Take 5 devotional, Pastor Rodney Coe shares the story of Frances Havergal and what one box of jewelry can teach us about real consecration. God is not after a slice of you. He is after all of you.

Scripture: Romans 12:1

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A robbed man picks up his pen, and what he writes will still be preaching three hundred years later.

On a dark road outside Chester, thieves took every coin in Matthew Henry's pockets and disappeared into the woods. He walked home shaken, cold, and empty-handed. Most men would have filled their diary that night with anger.

Matthew Henry filled his with thanks. Thankful he had never been robbed before. Thankful they took his purse and not his life. Thankful that what they took was not much. Thankful he was the one robbed, and not the one robbing.

How does a man write words like that on the worst night of his week? In this five-minute Take 5 devotional, Pastor Rodney Coe shares the story of Matthew Henry (1662-1714), the Welsh-born pastor and biblical commentator whose words still feed pulpits and kitchen tables today, and what one robbed diary page can teach us about giving thanks in everything.

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:18 | Job 1:21

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A preacher with a weak voice. A bored New England town. Twenty minutes of monotone reading. And heaven came down anyway.

On a warm Wednesday in July of 1741, Jonathan Edwards stepped into the pulpit at Enfield, Connecticut. He never looked up from his page. He read his sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, in a flat monotone. Twenty minutes later, grown men were gripping the pews to keep from sliding to the floor.

Here is what most people miss. Edwards did not rise to that morning cold. For years he had worn grooves in the floor of his study. He had fasted. He had wept over his people before he ever read them a single line. The fire in that meetinghouse was lit long before, in a quiet room, on a man's knees.

In this five-minute Take 5 devotional, Pastor Rodney Coe walks through the story of Jonathan Edwards and the Enfield revival of July 1741, and what it tells us about the kind of prayer heaven still answers.

Scripture: Psalm 85:6 | Acts 1:14 | Deuteronomy 32:35

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They told her there was no place for a Black missionary to Africa. She called it the greatest disappointment of her life.

Mary McLeod Bethune was born in 1875 on a South Carolina cotton field, the fifteenth of seventeen children of former slaves. She trained for years to become a missionary. When the door slammed, she opened a school in Daytona Beach with a dollar and fifty cents, charred wood for pencils, and ink she crushed from elderberries. That ragged little school became a college that still trains young men and women today. The woman who was once told she was not wanted ended up advising four U.S. presidents and helping write the charter of the United Nations.

A five-minute reminder that the door God closes is never the end of your story. The detour may be the destination all along.

Scripture echo: Proverbs 3:5-6
Key figure: Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955), educator, founder of Bethune-Cookman College, presidential adviser

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A Sunday school teacher named Edward Kimball stood on the sidewalk outside a Boston shoe store, working up the nerve to go in. He nearly turned and walked away. Then he pushed the door open and went looking for a clerk named Dwight Moody.

That awkward conversation in a stockroom led D.L. Moody to Christ. He became the greatest evangelist of his century. The ripples never stopped, Moody's revivals reached J. Wilbur Chapman, Chapman taught a washed-up ballplayer named Billy Sunday to handle the gospel, Sunday's fruit reached a fiery preacher named Mordecai Ham, and in 1934 a teenage farm boy slipped into the back of one of Ham's revivals in Charlotte and gave his heart to the Lord.

His name was Billy Graham.

Edward Kimball never preached to a stadium. He just walked into a shoe store he almost skipped. A five-minute reminder that God prefers to write His biggest stories with the most unlikely cast.

Scripture echo: 1 Corinthians 1:27; Jeremiah 1:5-7
Key figure: D.L. Moody (1837-1899), American evangelist, founder of Moody Bible Institute

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They summoned him for treason. He told them he had already been summoned by a higher Judge.

Samuel Rutherford was a country pastor banished to a cold northern city, where exile turned him into one of the most beloved letter-writers in church history. This is the story of the book they burned, the pulpit they took, and the deathbed words that have comforted believers for more than three hundred years.

Scripture echoes: Romans 8:31; John 14:2; Psalm 73:25

Key figure: Samuel Rutherford (c. 1600-1661), Scottish pastor and author of the Letters and Lex Rex.

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A man stands at the railing of a ship in the middle of the Atlantic late at night. A few weeks ago he had four daughters, Annie, Margaret, Bessie, and little Tanetta who was only two. Now the captain has come to find him with the words no father should ever have to hear. "Sir, this is the place. We are passing over the spot where your daughters went down."

This is the story of Horatio Spafford, a Chicago lawyer who had already lost a son and a fortune, whose wife Anna sent the telegram from Wales that read simply "Saved alone." Crossing the ocean to reach her, he reached for a pen above the dark water and wrote not a complaint but a song. It is well with my soul.

"The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves such as have a contrite spirit.", Psalm 34:18

Whatever you are carrying today, whatever loss has left you standing at the railing in the dark, He is closer than your next breath. One day He will make it well.

And that, friend, is how God lifts up your day.

- Pastor Rodney Coe

Noon on a Wednesday in 1857, in a third-floor room above an old church in lower Manhattan, a forty-eight-year-old man sat down by himself to pray. For thirty minutes, nobody came. Then footsteps on the stairs. Then five more men. Within a year, ten thousand New Yorkers were praying every day, and close to a million Americans came to faith in eighteen months.

This is the story of Jeremiah Lanphier and the Fulton Street Prayer Revival. A failed businessman, no platform, no following, just a faithful half hour in an empty room. A five-minute reminder that heaven is not waiting on the crowd, heaven is waiting on the one who will show up at twelve-twenty-nine when nothing seems to be happening.

"For who has despised the day of small things?", Zechariah 4:10

Do not despise your small beginning today. Heaven was waiting on him. Heaven may be waiting on you.

And that, friend, is how God lifts up your day.

- Pastor Rodney Coe

The true story of missionary Amy Carmichael and the childhood prayer God answered with 'no' (Isaiah 55:8).

A little girl in Ireland once begged God for blue eyes and woke up disappointed. She had no idea He was preparing her for a rescue that would not make sense for another forty years. This is the story of Amy Carmichael, the missionary who slipped past temple gates in the dark to save children from slavery, and the plain brown eyes God used to do it. A five-minute reminder that the prayer you think He ignored may be the one He is answering most carefully of all. "And that, friend, is how God lifts up your day."

- Pastor Rodney Coe

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Scripture: Isaiah 55:8 • Isaiah 6:8 • 2 Corinthians 12:9

Episode 13 of the Take 5 series (True Stories of Faith)

The true story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the pastor who left safety in America to resist Hitler in Nazi Germany (Hebrews 11:6).

In 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was safe in New York City. His American friends had arranged a teaching post at Union Theological Seminary specifically to keep him out of Hitler's reach. He lasted 26 days. Then he boarded the last passenger ship crossing the Atlantic before the war shut the ocean down and sailed back into Nazi Germany.

Two years later he was in a Gestapo prison. Two years after that, he was executed at Flossenbürg concentration camp, twenty-three days before Germany surrendered. He never saw the victory he gave his life for.

But God did. And the letters he wrote from that prison cell are still preaching eighty years later.

Today's Take 5 is the true story of Bonhoeffer's costly faith, the choice he made on a Manhattan pier, and what Hebrews 11:6, Romans 8:28, and Psalm 116:15 say to every person wondering whether following Jesus is worth the price.

Heaven comes down. Lift up your day.

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The true story of William Seymour, the overlooked preacher behind the Azusa Street Revival (Acts 10:34).

In 1906, William J. Seymour arrived in Los Angeles with one good eye, a borrowed pulpit, and a message that got him locked out of the first church he preached in. He found a small group of seekers, a borrowed room, and his knees. What happened next ignited the Azusa Street Revival, one of the greatest outpourings of the Holy Spirit in modern history. And it still echoes today in over 600 million believers worldwide.

This is Episode 11 of Lift Up Your Day, a 5-minute Christian devotional podcast from Pastor Rodney Coe. Short stories with a biblical heartbeat. Stories of God breaking through in ordinary lives. Around the world, and around the corner.

Scriptures: Acts 10:34 | 1 Corinthians 1:27 | Psalm 34:18

New episodes every weekday, Monday through Friday at 6 AM Eastern.

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The true story of missionary Gladys Aylward, the rejected housemaid who led nearly 100 children to safety across China (Isaiah 6:8).

In 1932, a London parlor maid named Gladys Aylward was rejected by the China Inland Mission as too plain, too ordinary, and not intelligent enough to learn Chinese. So she saved every penny she earned, bought a one-way train ticket, and traveled alone across Europe and Siberia into northern China. A decade later, when Japan invaded, she walked over one hundred orphaned children across the frozen mountains of Shanxi to safety. Every single child survived. This is her story, and the reason “I didn’t have the courage. I just had a God who said ‘Go’” is one of the most powerful sentences in missionary history.

Scriptures referenced: Isaiah 6:8 • 2 Corinthians 12:9

In this 5-minute Take 5 episode:

• The London parlor maid the mission board said couldn’t do it

• The one-way ticket through Siberia into wartime China

• The thousand-year-old practice she helped end

• 12 days. 100 children. Frozen mountains. Every child survived.

• Why ordinary obedience is the only credential heaven asks for

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The true story of Blaise Pascal's 'Night of Fire', the encounter with God he sewed into his coat.

On the night of November 23rd, 1654, the most brilliant scientific mind in Europe had a two-hour encounter with the living God that broke him wide open.

Blaise Pascal was thirty-one years old. By twelve, he'd worked out Euclid's first thirty-two propositions on his bedroom floor. By nineteen, he'd invented the first mechanical calculator. By twenty-two, he'd proven the existence of a vacuum. He had conquered science, mathematics, and physics. He was the toast of Paris. And he was still empty.

That night, alone in his room, between roughly 10:30 PM and 12:30 AM, something happened that no equation could explain. Pascal grabbed a scrap of parchment and began to scrawl. We call it the Memorial. It begins with a single word: "Fire."

Then: "God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and scholars." Then: "Certainty. Certainty. Feeling. Joy. Peace."

When the candle burned low, Pascal did something strange. He sewed that parchment into the lining of his coat. He would wear it next to his heart for the rest of his life, eight more years, and never mention it to a soul. It was only discovered after his death, when a servant cleaning his coat noticed a strange lump in the fabric.

This Take 5 devotional from Pastor Rodney Coe is for anyone who's tried to fill the God-shaped hole with success, with approval, with one more title, and discovered that the deepest truth in the universe cannot be calculated. It has to be encountered.

Pascal's famous line: "There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God the Creator."

He would know. He tried genius first.

Scripture: Jeremiah 29:13 · Psalm 42:1-2 · Matthew 11:28

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The true story of Peter Marshall, the Scottish immigrant who became Chaplain of the U.S. Senate (2 Samuel 7:8).

How does a working-class kid from Coatbridge, Scotland, with no college degree, no connections, and no money, end up praying over the U.S. Senate and pastoring the church where Abraham Lincoln once sat in the pews?

This is the true story of Peter Marshall, one of the great American preachers of the 20th century. A man who bought a one-way ticket across the Atlantic because he believed God told him to go. He didn't know how. He didn't know where. He just trusted the orders from his Chief.

In 2 Samuel 7:8, God reminded King David that He took him "from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people." Nobody saw a king. But God did. Nobody saw a Senate chaplain in a small-town Bible class either. But God did.

If you've ever felt unqualified, behind, or overlooked, this 5-minute devotional is for you. God doesn't call the qualified. He qualifies the called.

Scripture: 2 Samuel 7:8 · Proverbs 16:3 · Psalm 37:5

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The true story of missionary John Paton and the night angels guarded his mission house (Psalm 91).

What do you do when the cannibals are coming and you've already buried your wife and son?

In 1858, John Paton sailed to the New Hebrides, a chain of Pacific islands where the previous missionaries had been killed and eaten within minutes of landing. He buried his wife and infant son in the first year. He slept with one eye open. And one night, a war party of hundreds of warriors surrounded his mission house, intent on killing him.

He prayed. They left.

Years later, the chief who led that war party became a Christian. Paton finally got to ask him: "Why didn't you kill me that night?" The chief's answer is one of the most stunning lines in missionary history. "Who were all those men with you there?"

Paton was alone. The chief had seen a host.

If you've ever wondered whether God really sees you in the dark, whether He really protects His people, whether there might be more standing around your life than you can see, this 5-minute devotional is for you.

Scripture: Psalm 91:11 · 2 Kings 6:17 · Hebrews 13:5

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The true story of Shamgar and John Wooden's father, two overlooked heroes who beat the odds (Judges 3:31).

The Bible mentions Shamgar exactly one time. One verse. Judges 3:31. He grabbed a farmer's ox goad, basically a long sharpened stick, and killed six hundred Philistines with it. And then he just goes back to farming.

Centuries later, in a farmhouse in Centerton, Indiana, a quiet farmer named Joshua Hugh Wooden lost his entire herd of cattle to a hog disease. His banker called in the loan. The family lost the farm. And on the day his oldest son left home, he handed him a small card with seven things written on it: "Be true to yourself. Help others. Make each day your masterpiece..." That son was John Wooden, the greatest coach in college basketball history.

How can we be the people God called us to be, even when adversity comes? Shamgar was the third judge of Israel, and he is one of the most overlooked figures in the entire Bible. But don't skip past him. Because the Bible, like real life, is full of these anybodies who became somebodies.

This 5-minute devotional from Pastor Rodney Coe is for anyone who's ever felt overlooked, behind, or like their shaky start or messy middle disqualified them from a faithful finish. It doesn't. Shamgar got one verse. Joshua Wooden got no headlines. And both of them changed history.

Scripture: Judges 3:31 · 1 Corinthians 13 · Proverbs 22:6

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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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