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
Grace For A New Day
Start the morning with a soundtrack that tells the truth about your past and points you toward a better future. We sit with Micah Tyler’s “I See Grace,” tracing how a song written from pain can become a compass for anyone battling shame, regret, or decision fatigue. When the mind replays old failures, grace offers a different loop: purpose, favor, and a future that isn’t chained to yesterday.
We also press into the tension of unanswered prayers through 2 Corinthians 12. Paul’s thorn doesn’t vanish, but he receives a promise that changes the weight he carries: “My grace is sufficient for you.” Sufficiency isn’t ease; it’s enough—enough presence to steady the heart, enough strength to take the next step, enough favor to keep hope alive. If you’ve felt stalled by what you can’t undo, this is a gentle but firm invitation to look ahead and walk forward with courage.
Tap play for a five-minute reset that pairs honest lyrics with grounded hope, and stick around for a clip of “I See Grace” plus the full video link in the notes. If this encouraged you, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs it, and leave a quick review to help others find a fresh start.
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. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Music Monday. Today we're going to look at a song by Micah Tyler called I See Grace. You know there are some songs that you you like to hear because they're fun, they encourage you, they're just joyful kind of songs that you like to sing along with. Well, this is a really good song as well, but it's one of those songs that you not only will like to hear, but it's one that we really need to hear because it talks about the grace of God. Let me give you a sample of how it starts. It says, I've seen shame, the kind that comes from mistakes, the kind that won't go away. When I turned around, they were right there to remind me. I've seen regret, the kind that messes with your head, the failures and the can't forget. But standing here now, I'm thankful God that it's behind me. Now I see grace. One of the greatest weapons that is used against us is to bring back our past mistakes, our failures, all of the things that we've done wrong, and to make those memories replay through our minds. Those negative things that we all have done become a great weapon to be used against us to make us ineffective and not willing to take steps of faith with what God has for us. But that's where God's grace comes in. Second Timothy one verse nine tells us He has saved us, called us to a holy life, not because of anything we have done, but because of His own purpose and grace. This grace was given to us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time. God's grace is part of his love. It is his gift to us, and because of that love and grace, he always accepts us. He comes in to forgive us even when we don't deserve to be forgiven, to love us when we don't deserve to be loved, to accept us when nobody else accepts us, and sometimes even when we don't accept ourselves, God comes along and gives us that love and acceptance that we need. Micah wrote this song with Zack Cale and Matthew West, and when Cale was asked about it, he said this is how the song came about. Last Christmas I was walking through one of the most difficult seasons of my life, and out of that pain I wrote I see grace. There's a verse in the Bible, Philippians chapter one and six, that says, He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. When I find myself stressed, anxious, depressed, angry, uncertain of what decision to make, hopeless or a thousand other emotions, I look back at God's goodness and faithfulness in my life. Because when I look back, I see grace. And if Philippians is true and God is who he says he is, then I believe grace is with me now and will meet me in the future as well. When God shows us his grace, he is showing us his favor, that he's going to work in our lives and help us, that he's for us and not against us. And when the enemy throws all of those things of the past into our faces and tries to make us stop or slow down, God's grace is there to say, That's paid for, that's gone, that's behind you. Look ahead at what I have for you now, because what I have for you is greater than anything you can ever imagine on your own, because I have goodness and favor for you in your future. God's got grace for all of us, and we all really need it. And I know that some of you out there today are going through some very difficult times. You're wondering how you're going to get through or what the answers may be. In Second Corinthians chapter twelve, Paul is struggling with something in his life that he can't get rid of. He calls it his thorn in the flesh. Things are not going right. He's asked God three times to have it gone from him, and still this problem persists. So we ask God one more time. And in verse nine, we have God's answer. Paul says, He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in your weakness. God was simply telling Paul, Trust, trust me, trust that what I have given you is enough to help you get through this. Trust that I will never leave you or forsake you. Trust me, because I am with you, and I will give you everything you need to get through it. And that's something that we all need to remember and to hang on to. God will always give us what we need to get through. I'm going to leave you with a clip of Micah Tyler singing I see Grace, and in your show notes today there will be the link to it in YouTube where you can take a look at the entire video. Have a great day, my friends, and don't forget, God's grace is with you and upon you today. So you have the favor and goodness of God wherever you go. Have a great day, my friends. We will talk again tomorrow, and here is Micah Tyler.
