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Rooted Against the Storm · Men's Morning Devotional

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SPEAKER_01: Gentlemen, every day is a battle.
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SPEAKER_01: A battle for your faith, your family, and your purpose.
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SPEAKER_01: The men who stand strong don't prepare when the battle arrives.
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SPEAKER_01: They prepare before it begins.
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SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the men's morning devotional.
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SPEAKER_01: Let's get into God's word.
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SPEAKER_01: It's time to man up.
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Chris Alessi: Good morning and welcome back to the men's morning devotional.
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Chris Alessi: My name is Chris Alesi, and we're looking at Proverbs 12 today as we continue to talk about the type of man that we should be.
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Chris Alessi: Now, this is a very rich chapter, Proverbs chapter 12.
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Chris Alessi: We're going to hit six verses over the next five days as we continue to paint the type of man God is calling you to be.
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Chris Alessi: Before a man can lead well at work, speak well at home, or lift the people around him, that man has to be rooted.
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Chris Alessi: And so here's our man up moment for today.
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Chris Alessi: A man can look stable for years and still have no root.
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Chris Alessi: The storm will tell the truth.
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Chris Alessi: We're looking at Proverbs 12, verse 3.
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Chris Alessi: It says, No one is established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.
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Chris Alessi: I really like those words.
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Chris Alessi: Established and the root.
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Chris Alessi: Solomon seems to put two different men side by side.
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Chris Alessi: There's one that's trying to establish himself, to build his life, his reputation, his legacy, but he's trying to do it on the wrong foundation.
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Chris Alessi: And this is where it's really interesting to see even Jesus when he presents building your house, he just kind of gives these two options.
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Chris Alessi: Meaning, if it's not on him, then it's on the wrong thing.
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Chris Alessi: It's not like there's many options.
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Chris Alessi: There's really two.
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Chris Alessi: On God or not, the right foundation or not.
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Chris Alessi: And the interesting thing is it says about the righteous man, it says that his root will never be moved.
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Chris Alessi: The contrast between these two men isn't talent, luck, effort, or opportunity.
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Chris Alessi: It's about what's underneath.
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Chris Alessi: I really like focusing on that word established because it's what every man wants.
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Chris Alessi: We want our families, our work, all of that to be established.
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Chris Alessi: We want to become established.
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Chris Alessi: We say it in sports, we kind of use this mafioso term.
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Chris Alessi: He's a made man, he's established.
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Chris Alessi: We all want that.
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Chris Alessi: But Solomon says you can't build it on wickedness.
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Chris Alessi: And I know you're thinking, of course, I'm not a wicked guy.
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Chris Alessi: But in this reference, wickedness is not like the bad option.
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Chris Alessi: It's just the non-God option.
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Chris Alessi: Anything that's not building the foundation of righteousness is wickedness.
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Chris Alessi: Which means if we're building on anything except righteousness, we're in the wrong camp here.
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Chris Alessi: And we don't have the root.
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Chris Alessi: According to the scripture, anything that's not built on righteousness is actually it's got instability baked into its own foundation.
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Chris Alessi: But the righteous man's root, by contrast, will never be moved.
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Chris Alessi: Solomon doesn't say his circumstance won't move or that life won't hit him hard.
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Chris Alessi: He just says the root holds.
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Chris Alessi: A tree can lose branches in a storm and still survive because the root system underneath is deeper than the storm can reach.
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Chris Alessi: And look, I've actually seen this myself.
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Chris Alessi: We've grown turmeric and ginger up at our farm, and I can't believe how there's so much green above the ground, and we can cut all the green down, but that root is still going, still surviving.
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Chris Alessi: That's the kind of man we can be.
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Chris Alessi: Not a man that doesn't have to deal with pressure or storms, but a man whose root is so deep that that pressure can't move us.
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Chris Alessi: So how do our roots grow?
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Chris Alessi: Man, if you are currently not where you want to be in life, but you're remaining faithful anyways, you're growing the root.
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Chris Alessi: That's righteousness.
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Chris Alessi: The root is built in the quiet season.
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Chris Alessi: In the daily choices, nobody sees and nobody celebrates.
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Chris Alessi: It's in the years of faithfulness before the storm even comes.
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Chris Alessi: The time to build your root system is right now.
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Chris Alessi: So, man, your man up challenge is how can you be faithful today?
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Chris Alessi: How can you be righteous today?
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Chris Alessi: Honestly assess your root system, not the visible life, the hidden life, your prayer life, your integrity, your faithfulness in the small things.
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Chris Alessi: Because that's what will hold you in the storm.
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Chris Alessi: Let's pray.
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Chris Alessi: Father, I want to be a man whose root cannot be moved, and that's the kind of men we want to be.
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Chris Alessi: Build something in us that goes deeper than our circumstances, deeper than our pressures, and deeper than the storm.
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Chris Alessi: Let our foundations be rooted in you.
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Chris Alessi: In Jesus' name, amen.
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SPEAKER_01: All right, gentlemen, you've heard God's word.
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SPEAKER_01: Now go live it.
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SPEAKER_01: Lead well, stand strong, honor God in everything you do.
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SPEAKER_01: Share this devotional with another brother.
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SPEAKER_01: Remember, every day is another opportunity to man up.