Starting Right
Starting Right is a 5 minute Day Starter to help keep you motivated, encouraged, and focused throughout your day. DannyMac is a pastor, teacher, motivational speaker, husband, and father. His years of leading and training people have given him vast experience in helping individuals to accomplish change in their lives and meet their goals. He can help you set the course for your day by offering practical advice from God's Word in a positive and fun way. There is no better way to begin your day than by Starting Right with DannyMac.
Starting Right
Daily Bread, Fresh Ears
What if the prayer you’ve recited for years still has untapped power to steady your mind and reorder your day? We take a slow, honest walk through the Lord’s Prayer and uncover how its structure—worship first, surrender next, then provision, mercy, and protection—reframes the way we approach God and the world around us. It’s a short, focused journey that trades hurry for clarity and turns a familiar passage into a living pattern you can carry into every conversation, decision, and challenge.
If you’ve ever felt stuck repeating words without engagement, this reflection offers a fresh lens: simple, grounded, and ready for your next morning. Listen, reflect, and let these ancient lines become your daily map. If this encouraged you, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs hope today, and leave a quick review to help others find Starting Right.
Good morning. I am Denny Mack, and you're listening to Starting Right. Every weekday morning, I'm going to be here to share stories of life and hope from God's Word. So grab a cup of coffee, sit back and relax for the next five minutes as I help you start your day by starting right. The Bible is full of so many powerful, wonderful truths that we can continue to learn no matter how long we study it. One of the challenges that we have sometimes though is that we get very familiar with certain parts of it. And so when we hear stories again or the references again to those familiar parts, we can almost tune out or get lazy in our hearing about some of them. You hear again about Noah and the Ark, and you think about your kids' stories. We hear about David and Goliath, we go, oh yeah, I know that story. We hear verses like John three sixteen, and although we know them well and we respect them highly, it's easy to not really listen to learn anything new about it because we think we know it so well. One of those portions of scriptures is the Lord's Prayer. And I want to spend just a few minutes this morning just walking through that, maybe with some things that you already know very well, or maybe this is the first time you're hearing some of these things. Whichever the case, I want to stir within us an understanding of the power of this prayer, found in the book of Matthew, chapter six, starting in verse nine. And Jesus says, This is how you should pray. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Jesus tells us that as we begin to pray, one of the first things we need to do is to honor God and worship God for who he is and what he's done, because he is God. He goes on to say, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. God, all the things that you want done in heaven, all the way you work in heaven, all the power that you show in heaven, all the authority, all of the grace, all of the goodness that you display and give to those who are with you in heaven, bring all of that into this world, into our world. Let your power be displayed here in everything around us. Verse eleven, give us today our daily bread. Here Jesus is halfway through this example of prayer, and he just now is beginning to ask for the meeting of the personal needs. We get this backwards sometimes. We want to jump this to the first. Dear Lord, I need your help. Dear Lord, I need your provision. Dear Lord, I need your healing. We take it up to the first, but Jesus has brought it down into the middle of this prayer. After he has begun by honoring and worshiping the Father and asking for God's power and work to be brought into the world around us, that all of the grace of God from heaven will be displayed around us. He now says, Lord, meet my needs. Verse 12, forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors. Lord, forgive me for what I've done, and help me to be a forgiver. He goes on to talk about our attitudes. We need to be forgiving as we understand that we are forgiven. As Christians, we can't be people who hold grudges. We want to be able to love the people around us, to love God and to love our neighbors. Verse 13, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. He's saying, Father, give us the understanding of what is evil and what is wrong, and help us to know when the temptation comes that wants to pull us away from you. Oh God, help us to know what's right. In that very simple prayer, Jesus has given us an example of how to approach God. We ask that he bring all of his power, all of his goodness to work in this place, in our lives, in this world, so that we can see his glory around us, because in him that's the only hope we have to get through this world. He is our hope, he is our strength. And then we ask for our needs to be met. God, I need you to work in this today. I bring this to you and ask that you supply it for us. And then, Lord, forgive us. Help us to forgive and help us to be aware of the traps the enemy puts around us so that we can walk strong in you. Lord, I thank you today that you are our strength, that you show us, you guide us, and you bless us. And bless us with your word and bless us with this prayer as we are reminded today on how powerful and good you really are. Have a great day, my friends. We'll talk to you tomorrow. Thank you for listening today. And I invite you to join me Monday to Friday right here on Starting Right with Danny Mack.
