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
Belonging Starts The Day Right
Some mornings start with a thud: the email you’re dreading, the bill on the counter, the ache you can’t quite name. We open the day with a five-minute reset built around one idea with real teeth—belonging changes everything—and a track that helps it stick: Bethel Music’s “I Belong to Jesus.”
We walk through the scriptures that ground identity when life feels loud. First John 4:4 reminds us we belong to God and that the Spirit in us is greater than the pressure around us. From there, we unpack the lyrics that move truth from head to heart: God as shepherd, keeper, provider, protector; the promise that he surrounds every step; the bold line that fear will not conquer because we are not on our own. This isn’t theory for a quiet weekend. It’s a working faith for a Monday grind.
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Here is the youtube link to "I belong to Jesus".
https://youtu.be/hgRxjHLRfw0
Good morning and welcome to Starting Right with Danny Mack. I'm going to be here every Monday to Friday to help you get a great five-minute start to your day. So grab your cup of coffee, sit back, relax, and let me help you start your day right. Today, as always, is Music Monday, and we're going to look at a song from Bethel Music called I Belong to Jesus. This song was released back in 2021, and quite frankly, I think it's great. It's one of the songs that I really, really like. And man, there's nothing I need more at the beginning of the day than a song that lifts me up, that encourages me, that helps me, then deals directly with some of the things that I may be feeling that may be on the negative side of things. Well, this song does that. It reminds us that we belong to Jesus. Now, before we get into the words, let me just give you the biblical foundation for this. First John chapter 4, verse 4 says, You belong to God, my dear children. You've already run a victory over those people because the spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world. Romans chapter 14, verses 7 and 9 says, For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. If we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. When was the last time that you really stopped and thought about what it really means to belong to God? We're not just following Him like some people follow others on Facebook or Instagram or wherever else. We are his children. We are part of his family, and as he leads our family, he will teach us and guide us as to what it means to be like him. His desire is to impart into each and every one of us the truths about who he is and what he is and what he can do. He wants that to become real inside of each one of us. So that times when we are struggling or we want some direction or we need some help in our lives, we should not be worrying about whether God cares enough about us to help us. We should know that as his family we belong to him and he will help us. Here's some things that the song reminds us. You're my shepherd, you're my keeper, my provider, my protector. You surround me in every step I take. I believe you're the goodness, you're the constant, you're my first love and my future. You are with me, Father, you're for me. Fear will never conquer me because I belong to Jesus. There are tremendous benefits when we remember that we actually belong to Jesus. Because we belong to him, that means that he will help take care of us. He's not going to leave us or forsake us. We're part of his family. So he is always there to give us strength and wisdom and guidance whenever we need it. That's how much he loves us. So let me ask you as we begin this week, what's weighing heavy on your mind? What are you worried about? What are you fearful of? What are the things that concern you about your family or your friends or your situation or your finances or your health? What are those things? Will you take a step this morning and just say, Father, I believe in your word and in your promises, and I will not fear, because I belong to you and I know that you will care for me. If you can do that and mean it, it will make a huge difference in your day. And then eventually, as you do it every day, it will make a huge difference to your week, to your month, and ultimately to every part of your life. When we start to trust what God's Word says about him and his love for us, our world changes and our lives get better. I'm gonna leave you with just a short clip to the song I Belong to Jesus, and then also in your show notes there'll be the link to the YouTube version of it. Check it out. You will enjoy it, it will bless you, and have a great week, my friends. We will talk again tomorrow.
