Hello everybody. 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 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.

And 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 ad, be all you can be in the Army?

Remember that?

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. You know, it reminds me of a story. Admiral Hyman

Rickover was the father of America's naval nuclear navy,

the nuclear subs and the nuclear navy. And he was a genius. And I remember reading a story one

time that he was recruiting young graduates from Naval Academy cadets who just graduated to have the privilege of serving on a nuclear

submarine. And there was one young man who came in and sat down. He wrote this story later.

...