DevoteAbility vs LivinIt

DevoteAbility is a group-based learning platform for your church or small group designed to cultivate the kind of lasting connectivity that fosters meaningful relationships and transformation. With our private social networking app, your small group can participate in time-based challenges and customized learning plans all while interacting with one another through the group's home feed. Team members can see how each person is progressing along with how the group is doing as a whole. As a member of a DevoteAbility team, you will receive the encouragement and accountability you need to move from distracted to engaged. Consistently learning and growing alongside other group members will bring you closer to God and your community. HERE’S HOW IT WORKS: 1. You or your group leader creates a team on our app or website and sends out invites to join. 2. Team members install the DevoteAbility app, create an account and accept the invitation. 3. The team leader selects one of our 40-day devotional challenges or creates a custom challenge or learning plan. 4. Team members report their activity daily and encourage one another by sharing insights and discussing life applications of what they are learning. 5. Team members create prayer requests to remind themselves to pray for specific needs, and can share these requests with the team. FEATURES: * Easy and intuitive interface * Customizable devotional goals – “Read one Bible chapter per day”, “Pray 30 minutes per day”, “Pray for a friend”, “Read Genesis 1 today”, etc. * Customizable learning plans with video, reading, task and response elements * Communication tools to help you keep in touch with your community * Accountability features to encourage engagement and participation * Prayer request features that maintain confidence while encouraging teams to pray for each other * Privacy. Your questions, comments, posts, prayer requests and goal data is only visible to those who are in your organization. * Friendly and helpful customer support We have learned that consistent daily devotions are key to building community, deepening our relationship with God, and experiencing the transforming power of Jesus in our life. God wants you and your group to be close to Him, to flourish, and be spiritually healthy. You can cut through the noise of life and help rekindle the fire of your spiritual life. DevoteAbility is here to help.

Are you LivinIt? Is this you..a believer, saved by Christ, but struggling with temptations or with continued growth. This app will help you keep yourself accountable to daily living for Christ. You can track your streaks, and build up crowns and badges. You will be motivated and reminded daily to avoid sin, break addictions, and live out your faith. (Not affiliated with a particular denomination. Based on the infallibility and authority of the Bible as God's Word.) All the functionality is FREE. (The only thing that costs is a themes package which is optional but doesn't add any functionality - it just lets you personalize the look of the app, and helps to pay for licensing fees for including the NKJV Bible). Besides helping you stay accountable, break addictions, and live for Christ, this app also includes the following: * Searchable Bible that also lets you track your reading, your memorization, your favorites, and make notes * Searchable Prayer Journal that lets you personally record your prayers in a book and search them, pray them, and mark them answered. * Social component to request other Believers to pray for someone or for yourself. * Free streaming Christian Radio stations. (Note: Only Bible versions in the app currently are the NKJV, KJV, and ASV. Those are the only ones we have permissions or licenses for at the moment. Others will be added if permissions are granted.) In the Bible, we hear Paul, a Christ follower, tell us... "For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing."(Romans 7:19 – NIV) Jesus Christ, God’s son, reminds us that we have to turn away from our evil desires every day when He said... "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me." (Luke 9:23 – NIV) Jesus Christ, God’s son, died on a cross as the perfect sacrifice to cover our sins and restore our relationship with God for all who believe. If you have understood and believed and loved who Christ is, and what He did for us, then you have been saved. The Bible tells us that... "to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God." (John 1:12 – NIV) If you are a believer and follower of Christ, you will be with God and His people in Heaven for eternity after this life, but the abundant life starts now. You have access to His Holy Spirit, His peace, His love, His wisdom. But we can still act on our evil desires, and when we do, we are out of God’s will, and that brings hurt, pain, and bad consequences. God has given us the church, the body of believers, to help us stay on track, but God also calls us to self-control or self-discipline. For example, the Bible tells us that... "God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. "(2 Tim 1:7 – ESV) Also, "Whoever has no rule over his own spirit Is like a city broken down, without walls." (Proverbs 25:28 - NKJV) That is where this app tries to help. You can track your daily biblical behaviors and actions to help keep yourself accountable to living the Christian life. On your profile, the ‘problem areas’ that you pick will show up on one of your checklists so you can track avoiding them. The ‘gifts’ you list in your profile will show up on one of your checklists so you can track that you are using your gifts for Christ. By tracking your streaks (days in a row you have checked something off), you will be able to challenge yourself more easily and build up discipline in following Christ. May God bless your journey! "Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it will spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." (Isaiah 43:18-19 – NKJV)