Good morning and welcome to Starting Right with Danny Mac . 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 .
Okay , this may seem like a bit of an odd question for you this morning , but when was the last time you sat down and you examined what you believe is your abilities and your potential ? That is still within you . Most of us rarely even think about that .
Particularly as we get older , we start thinking about our routine , just where we need to go and what we need to do today , but we don't realize how much God has placed within us and how much potential there is really deep inside of us .
One of the things that I've come across , that I'm seeing in more and more studies , is just how incredible and intricate each one of us is . As God has created us , we are made up of trillions of cells in our body and inside each of those trillion cells there are 3 billion DNA base pairs .
Can you imagine that , apparently , if you took your DNA and wrapped it around the world from one person , it would go around the world 30 times . That's the length of the DNA with inside each of our bodies .
It's absolutely amazing the way we are created and , along with that , every second , our body is producing 25 million new cells that all have the same DNA in them . Again , that means that every 15 seconds we've produced more cells than there are people in the United States . It's absolutely amazing the way God has made us .
Many of the books and studies I've read through recently have talked about human potential , about what we are capable of doing and capable of becoming . The general consensus from many of those studies tells us that the majority of individuals only use 10 to 30% of their potential . I'm not talking about brain power .
It used to be said we only use 10% of our brains and that's been disproven many , many times . Our brain is far more active than just 10% of it , so that really is not even in the equation here .
But when it comes to our human potential , our ability to do and accomplish , we're only at 10 to 30% of that level of what we could and should be , and there are a number of studies that have now shown this . I got thinking about that in terms of us as our walk with God . What does it mean for us to only be using about 30% of our potential .
That means that there's 70% more that we could be doing . That would impact our families , that would impact our God , that would impact our nation . We have so many opportunities for what we can do and what we should do . Ephesians 5 , verses 15 and 16 , it tells us to be careful how you live .
Don't live like fools , but like those who are wise and make the most of every opportunity in these evil days . I wanted to share with you three concepts this morning that , if you grasp these and begin to use them , they will help you to use more of the potential that is within you .
That is potential to grow you , to help your families , to serve your God and to serve church . Here are three things , real quick . Step . Number one is a phrase that my wife often used with our kids when they were growing up . Number one is figure it out . We need to stop questioning ourselves and asking can I ?
And need to look at what is there and say how can I ? We need our answers to be yes . Someone comes to you and gives you an opportunity for a business or for a ministry , or for an opportunity to stretch yourself in a new way , instead of coming up with all the reasons why you can't . Our first response needs to move to how can I get that ?
I can do that . What do I need to do to get to the yes ? Number two is stop thinking there's only one way and realize there are many ways to do almost everything . There are lots of opportunities and answers for us , and each one of them just requires a step for us to say yes . And then now I need to find a way to do this .
And along that way you will work out bits and pieces and solve it , but get to the answer . Don't get bogged down in the process . Get to the answer and realize that there's more than one way to get there . And number three really is the key to it all .
If you have goals and accomplishments that you want to see in your life and you've got them written down or you've thought about them a number of times throughout your life , stop putting those things off and thinking that someday I will get to that , someday I will take this course , someday I will go and see my kids , someday I will have my own business .
Someday my schedule will be such that I can spend a half hour with God every morning . Someday , someday , let's move beyond the someday and recognize that we need to do important things every day . I may not be able to teach a course every day , but I can be learning and growing in that course every day .
I may not be able to spend an hour with God in prayer every morning , but I can spend time with God in prayer every morning . Don't throw out the small steps towards your goal and start doing the important things every day , and always remember that you have been created in the image of God himself .
You are the most intricate , precise , incredibly powerful thing that God has ever created . Don't ever doubt what he did when he made you , because he made you the perfect . You have a great day , my friends . We will talk again tomorrow . Thank you for listening today and I invite you to join me Monday to Friday , right here on Starting Right with Danny Mac .