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Good morning, and welcome to starting right with Danny Mac. I'm gonna be here five times a week to help you get a great five minutes. Start to your day. We're gonna talk about some hope and some truth from God's word that it will encourage you that will give you some strength that will give you some direction. And most of all, will help you get through your day better. So I invite you to come join us here every morning money to Friday for five minutes as we help your day by starting right with Danny back a while ago, I injured my back while doing something very athletic. Well, at least that's my story, and I'm sticking to it. Anyway, my back was hurt and I went to the chiropractor and she gave me some stretching exercises to keep my back loose and limber. In all honesty, I am not a big fan or was not a big fan of stretching the structure she gave me required that I moved my body in a way that I did not believe that God created it to move. However, I still did them. And as I stretched as I had been instructed. I was amazed at how well it worked, and what was even more amazing was how much those structures, which were terribly uncomfortable at first, became easier and help me ease the pain and make my back stronger. I came across a verse of Scripture that talks about a different kind of stretching. Jesus had been teaching on the mountainside, and as the day came to unendurable 5000 men plus women and Children who were there who were now very hungry. The disciples came to Jesus saying, We gotta feed these people in John. Chapter six versus Five and six of the Message. Translation. It says this. When Jesus looked out and saw that a large crowd it arrived, he said to Philip, Where can we buy bread to feed these people? He said this to stretch Phillips faith. He already knew what he was going to do. You see, Philip was being asked to stretch his faith well. To be constricting can be uncomfortable physically, it could be equally as uncomfortable when we need to stretch spiritually. There are times when God is going to want us to strike your faith. The Bible is full of great promises of God. God's love is carrying his assurance. It tells us of God's miraculous power and great works that we see in people. I know that the same power of God to work in our lives is very real. Today. He simply asked that we believe what he has said. That is faith. Faith will stretch us. There are times when believing God over our circumstances, getting dick a real stretch. Can you imagine the striking Peter did when he stepped out of that boat to walk the walk on the water? Don't don't condemn him that he sunk. I mean, the guy walked on water that takes a big stretch of faith. Stretching of our faith in God's purposes is not always an easy place to be in, because he's moving us in a way that we don't necessarily feel comfortable with when I stretch my body. Its purpose is to make my body do something that it wasn't comfortable with before. It's very uncomfortable to stretch, and every day you push the stretch further than the day before, and as he stretch, you get movement that you didn't have before. As you stretch your body gets stronger and as you stretch there's a healthier you. But it comes because you stretch. One of the things about our bodies is that if we don't stretch the muscles, they will atrophy. They will become useless to us. We have to stretch them in order to make sure that they are alive and that they're working. And so it is with our walk with God. God wants you and I to stretch. He wants us to strike your faith. He wants us to be able to use those faith muscles that we've got those belief muscles that we've got and put them into the belief in his word. Those belief muscles will allow us to take steps of faith even when it's uncomfortable. We will go through things and have times of struggle in our lives what we all do. We all have stuff that comes our way. And it's in those times that we need to be able to take the steps of faith for the strength of faith, to be able to trust God in his word, trust God, to give us the comfort that we need, Trust God, to give us the guidance that we need and even to trust God to do something miraculous in our lives or in the life of somebody else around us. So as you're starting your day today and you're looking ahead at what you're going to face today, if you know there will be problems if you know there are difficult decisions to make. If you know there are tough situations to overcome, I invite you right now to decide to stretch your faith and put your trust wholly in God to guide you through that situation. If you believe God for his wisdom and guidance and answers, you will not be let down. You will not let fear overwhelm you, but you will know that you can trust God by stretching, and he will honor you in that step of faith. Today. Put your faith in God experience, but he has for you today last thank you for joining us today on starting right with Danny Mac. Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and check out our website at I am Danny mac dot com, where you'll find lots of more of teaching lessons and some fun stuff there as well. So have a great day. God bless