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
When God Whispers "Sing" in Your Darkest Moments
Have you ever wondered where to find strength when your world collapses? In today's powerful episode, we explore an extraordinary testimony from Darlene Czech, former worship leader at Hillsong Church, that reveals the supernatural healing power of worship during life's most devastating moments.
Darlene's story takes us to that heart-wrenching day when a routine 12-week pregnancy checkup turned into unimaginable grief. Driving home alone after learning her baby had died, she heard the Holy Spirit whisper a seemingly impossible instruction: "sing." What happened next demonstrates how obedience in our darkest hours can open doorways to divine comfort that defies human understanding.
Whether you're walking through a season of profound loss or preparing for life's inevitable challenges, this episode offers hope and practical spiritual wisdom. God's grace appears most powerfully precisely when we need it most.
Good morning and welcome to Starting Right with Danny Mac. I'm going to be here five times a week to help you get a great five-minute start to your day. I'm going to give you some encouragement and some hope from God's Word because I really want you to know that you matter, that you are important and you have a purpose. So I invite you to subscribe to this podcast and join me here Monday to Friday to help your day by starting right with Danny Mac. Many of you will be familiar with the name, Darlene Check.
Speaker 1:She was the worship leader at Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia, for many years. She's written a book called Extravagant Worship and in it she tells this very powerful story. It was while they were getting ready for a tour in the United States and Darlene and her husband went to see the doctor for a checkup on her 12-week pregnancy. Tragically, this baby had died in the womb. She writes this in her book Shattered, brokenhearted. All those things you can think of do not even come close to describing the agony of that moment. We had taken separate cars to the doctor, so I had to drive back to the house by myself, with Mark following me. I got in the car and I just didn't know what to think or do. I can't really describe the depth of sadness I was feeling. On the way home, I heard the Holy Spirit whisper, sing. In that moment it was the absolute last thing I wanted to do. So after years of learning, it is much better to obey. Quickly I started to sing. My head didn't sing and I don't even know if my heart sang, but my soul sang. It was almost involuntary. I sang two songs. By the time I got home, something had happened in the spiritual realm. I had spoken many times on the power of worship and worshiping through a trial. Never had I experienced the power of God coming so sovereignly and fulfilling his word where it says he heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. Through being in the sweet presence of our glorious Savior, I was well on the way to complete healing and personal victory.
Speaker 1:We are all going to experience problems in our lives, some very severe. In the book of James, it tells us very clearly that we are all going to experience problems in our lives, some very severe. In the book of James, it tells us very clearly that we are going to have trials and tribulations. They're going to come. We're going to find times when we are so desperate to try and find an answer, when we are hurting so badly and so deeply that we don't know where else to turn or what else to do when we face those trials and those tribulations, those problems that are going to come into all of our lives. That's not a statement about how good a Christian we are. It's got nothing to do with that. So we're all going to have those times where we're going to be hurting deeply and we don't know the answers.
Speaker 1:It's at those times that God comes very clearly and distinctly and ministers to us and gives us his grace. And that is where we see what that verse that Darlene was talking about in Psalm 147 and verse 3. He comes and he heals the brokenhearted and he binds up their wounds. In those times when we are hurting the most, those are the times when God comes and surrounds us even more so, and he comforts us and he loves us and he helps us. It's never a question of if you will go through times of extreme pain like that. It's a matter of when.
Speaker 1:So know that God is always with you and do what Darlene did. She listened to what God said and she obeyed, and for her. The release came when she started to worship, and that worship of God for her brought peace and strength into her. That was completely supernatural. It couldn't have come any other way. Look to God for your answers. Let his strength be there for you even in the worst of your times. God loves you. He's with you always. Take care, We'll talk to you tomorrow. Thank you for joining us today and be sure to check out our brand new podcast, Life and Hope with Danny Mac, and keep tuning in Monday to Friday for Starting Right. Danny Mac will be on both of them. Take care and have a wonderful day, God bless, Thank you.
