Inhale (Exhale): A 40-Day Journey Breathing in Grace and Living Out Hope

A 40-day devotional experience inspired by MercyMe’s best-selling album, Inhale (Exhale) follows the 16-track record to create a path for listeners to breathe in and absorb God’s grace in their lives.

Inspired by MercyMe’s album of the same name, Inhale (Exhale): A 40-Day Journey Breathing in Grace and Living Out Hope follows the 16-track record to create a path for listeners to breathe in and absorb what God can do, and then release his spirit of grace by offering hope in the world.

The heart of this devotional is found in two days of entries, an “inhale” day and an “exhale” day, designed to coincide with each song as listeners work their way through the album and devotional. Each entry ties to a particular song and couples those thoughts and lyrics with scripture passages, application questions, meditative verses, and prayers. These entries are:

1. “Inhale”
2. “Blessed”
3. “On Our Way” (Ft. Sam Wesley)
4. “So Yesterday”
5. “A Little Love” (Ft. Gary LeVox)
6. “Whiplash”
7. “Bright Side of Broken”
8. “Let Yourself Be Loved”
9. “Hurry Up and Wait”
10. “Brand New” (Ft. Gloria Gaynor)
11. “Uh, Oh” (Here I Go)
12. “The Moment”
13. “Then Christ Came” (Demo)
14. “Say I Won’t”
15. “Almost Home”
16. “Exhale”

Marking the 20th anniversary of the band, after being named Billboard’s Top Christian Artist of the Decade from 2010-2020, coupled with the breakout success of the 2018 film I Can Only Imagine, songwriter and lead singer Bart Millard said, “Going to these dark places that you have to go to write, I didn’t know how to make music that wasn’t connected to something painful, especially when I associated that with the songs that mean the most to me. It’s been hard to go to that place, but I love the results when I do. For the first time, with Inhale (Exhale), it was more about other people’s stories than mine. I was writing out of something that I witnessed more than I experienced myself.”