Hello everybody this is

this is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope if you're joining us for the first time or you've

been listening every day for 10 years we just want to say welcome, we love you, and we pray for you every day.

So we're continuing with this series called Daring Faith The Key to Miracles.

And in this series you're learning how to have a bold unshakable

faith that gives you courage to impact the world around you and if you're like me

you'd really like to be more bold and have more courage to share your faith in Christ.

All right, well, right now let's join Pastor Rick with part one of a message called

daring to give God my best.

I said in a previous message just the... daring to give God my best.

I said in a previous message that the greatest

tragedy in life is not death, but a wasted life.

And as your pastor, I am committed to helping you be all God wants you to be.

I don't want you to settle for second place.

I don't want you to settle for also-ran.

I want you to win the race that God has given to you. I want you to be the best that you can be.

And so I want us to look at these three analogies of a soldier and an athlete and a farmer from the Bible. it starts off the Bible starts off by saying look at the military

He says you can learn a lot about faith and about being the best you can be in the military. Do you remember that old army had?

Be all you can be in the army? Remember that? And how do I do that? What can we learn from

effective soldiers that we had applied to our spiritual life.

Well, there's a lot we can learn about being the best from the military.

It reminds me of a story.

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