WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:08.119 Pastor Rick Warren often says, you were made by God and for God, 2 00:00:08.359 --> 00:00:14.199 and until you understand that, life will never make sense. Welcome to Pastor 3 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:19.199 Rick's Daily Hope Today. In our series called God's Vision for the Rest of 4 00:00:19.239 --> 00:00:24.359 your Life, Rick continues in his effort to help you discover the unique purpose 5 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:28.839 and vision that the Lord has for your life. Now, in just a 6 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:32.399 few moments, we're going to let you know how you can get your very 7 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:37.479 own copy of Open Doors, a Year of Daily Devotions book. It's a 8 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:44.880 beautifully illustrated three hundred sixty five day devotional from Pastor Rick that offers daily encouragement 9 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:48.679 from the Bible. You can take a sneak peek right now by going to 10 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:52.960 Pastorick dot com while you listen, and if you want, you can just 11 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:58.479 text the word Daily to eight hundred six hundred five thousand and four to find 12 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:03.359 out more. Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with the final part of 13 00:01:03.399 --> 00:01:10.719 a message called Choosing your Future. Now, there's a fourth life shaping choice 14 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:15.280 that Moses made. It's a fourth resolution, and it is this number four. 15 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:21.799 I choose to live by faith rather than by fear. I choose to 16 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:26.480 live by faith, not by fear. If you will make this resolution and 17 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:32.519 you'll keep it, it will change your life dramatically for the rest of your 18 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:38.079 life. You stop living in fear and you start living in faith Verse twenty 19 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:42.840 seven. By faith. Moses left Egypt, in other words, with all 20 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:49.599 of the slaves, not fearing the king's anger. That's favors anger circle faith 21 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:52.920 a circle, not fearing. You're gonna live by one or the other. 22 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:55.480 You're gonna live by faith in life. You're gonna live by fear in life. 23 00:01:55.920 --> 00:02:00.519 By faith. Moses left Egypt not fearing the king's anger. He pursed 24 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:07.760 because he saw him who is invisible as Christ. Now Moses goes to the 25 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:10.199 most powerful man in the world, and he says, you know these slaves 26 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:15.919 that are building all your pyramids, I'm taking them and we're all leaving. 27 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:19.960 We're packing up and we're leaving, and you're not going to have slave labor 28 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:25.639 anymore, letting my people go. Now, Moses had every reason to be 29 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:31.639 afraid because he's going up against the most powerful man on the planet. At 30 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:37.919 this point. Pharaoh's Egyptian empire is the most powerful empire on the planet at 31 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:43.360 this point. Pharaoh in those days was considered a god. And whatever Pharaoh 32 00:02:43.599 --> 00:02:46.080 said you had to do. If Pharaoh said cut your right arm off, 33 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:51.080 you had to cut your right arm off. If Pharaoh said, murder your 34 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:53.360 wife, you had to murder your wife. If Pharaoh said you got to 35 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:58.400 drown your children, you had to drown your children. What he said was 36 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:01.520 the law. And Moses comes and says, We're not going to do that 37 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:06.879 anymore. I'm going to choose to live by faith, not by fear. 38 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:10.639 We're leaving, We're out of here, goodbye. And Pharaoh goes you and 39 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:15.360 who else? And Moses say, I'm not afraid of you, because I 40 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:23.680 report to a higher authority. And the closer you get to God, the 41 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:28.919 less fear you're going to have in your life. The more further you get 42 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:31.960 away from God, the more you're going to be filled with fear. The 43 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:36.759 closer you get to God, the more you're going to be filled with faith. 44 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:44.719 I cannot overemphasize the importance of faith for the rest of your life. 45 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:49.800 The Bible says, whatever is not of faith is sin. How many times 46 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:52.840 did you send this week? A lot? So did I? Because anything 47 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:54.759 I did that wasn't done in faith, that I did in doubt, and 48 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:59.759 I doubted about doing it. It was it was a sin. The Bible 49 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:02.879 says, without faith, it is impossible to please God. How many times 50 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:08.639 did you please God this week? See? God doesn't listen to your complaints, 51 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:12.719 He listens to your faith. You want something to change in your life, 52 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:16.560 Stop complaining, start believing. God is not moved by complaints. God 53 00:04:16.600 --> 00:04:21.360 has moved by faith according to your faith. The Bible says, it would 54 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:25.240 be done unto you. You get to choose what I do in your life. 55 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:29.360 And during the next six weeks, We're going to build your faith on 56 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:33.439 God's purpose and plant for your life. It's so important that you live by 57 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:39.160 faith. Now here's the key. What matters is not the size of your 58 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:43.040 faith listen, but the size of the God. You put it in. 59 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:48.399 A little faith and a big God gets big results. The key is who 60 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:51.439 you put your faith in. That makes the difference. See, everybody's got 61 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:58.279 faith. Everybody has faith. Even an atheist has faith. You can't live 62 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:01.560 in a world without faith. You use faith every day. It's just what 63 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:04.639 you put in. You had faith when you came in and sat down in 64 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:09.439 that chair that it would hold you up. For some of you, that 65 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:15.639 took great faith. When you get in your car and you drive home, 66 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:18.720 you're going to go through an intersection and there'll be red lights stopping the other 67 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:24.319 cars. You have faith that they're going to abide by their law. You're 68 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:27.360 not going up very genuinely going are you gonna go through or not? No? 69 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:30.040 No, you have faith that they're going to keep the law. Everybody 70 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:33.959 has faith, it's just what you put it in. The key is to 71 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:40.600 put it in Jesus Christ. There are people who are lived their lives by 72 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:45.639 fear, and they're all afraid of the fear of rejection. I was thinking 73 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:48.680 this week about Bethany Hamilton, that young surfer girl. Remember that fourteen year 74 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:54.040 old who lost her arm. She's surfing in a y a couple of years 75 00:05:54.040 --> 00:05:59.639 ago. Fourteen years old shark came up, bitter left arm off and they 76 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:02.639 sold. She'll never compete again. In fact, she'll never get in the 77 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:06.839 water again because this She'll be afraid. She'll be scared to death. Bethany 78 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:13.319 faced her fears. She got back in the water and became a champion surfer. 79 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:18.040 Some of you, I don't know what this refers to you. You 80 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:23.680 need to get back in the water. You've been scared to death. You 81 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:27.600 got bit, you got burned, you got hurt, maybe by a relationship. 82 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:31.240 You need to get back in the water. You need to live by 83 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:34.480 faith, not by fear. You need to go I am not gonna let 84 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:39.600 fear dominate my life. I am not gonna let fear dominate my life. 85 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:45.240 I am gonna be filled with faith, and I'm gonna put that faith not 86 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:49.319 in just myself. I'm gonna put that faith in God. If you put 87 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:54.639 your faith in somebody else, you are gonna severely be disappointed, whether it's 88 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:58.959 a boyfriend or the president of the United States, because everybody is gonna let 89 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:04.600 you down eventually. The Bible says this in Galatians too. No one can 90 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:10.399 please God by simply obeying the law. Why, because we're not perfect, 91 00:07:10.519 --> 00:07:16.399 we break the laws. So we put our faith in Jesus Christ, and 92 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:21.480 God accepted us because of our faith. Have you done that? Have you 93 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:28.079 put your faith in Jesus Christ. If you haven't, you need to do 94 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:30.480 that. That's the first thing you need to do. By the way, 95 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:32.439 it says Jesus Christ, have you a listen. Sometimes in the Bible it 96 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:38.079 says Jesus Christ, and sometimes it says Christ Jesus. Which is it. 97 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:46.360 Jesus is his name, Christ is his title. Christ means Messiah, it 98 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:50.680 means savior, it means the anointed one. Jesus is his name. Christ 99 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:54.639 is his title. So you can say Jesus Christ, or you could say 100 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:59.319 Christ Jesus. It's like saying Jesus is Lord or saying Lord Jesus. Does 101 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:01.160 that make sense? Some of you didn't know that. That's the only thing 102 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:05.639 you're going to get out of today's sermon. Okay, Christ is his title, 103 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:09.480 Jesus is his name. All right, I'm being a Christian for forty 104 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:13.279 years. I never knew that. All right, Well, now you know 105 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:20.519 you're listening to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. Rick will be back in just a 106 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:24.720 moment with the rest of today's lesson. If you've missed any part of today's 107 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:31.240 teaching, you can listen online anytime at pastorick dot com. That's pastorick dot 108 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:35.879 com. Do you want to live the full and abundant life God desires for 109 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:39.600 you? 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That's Pastorick dot com or eight hundred six hundred five zero 127 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:13.799 zero four. You're listening to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope once again. Here's Pastor 128 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:22.480 Rick Warren. So how do you keep these life shaping resolutions? Two ways? 129 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:26.320 Write them down. Here's how you keep them. Number one, get 130 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:33.240 support. You need to get support from a small group. You weren't made 131 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:35.240 to go through life on your own. You need to be part of a 132 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:39.799 small group that supports you in your goals, in your resolutions. In life. 133 00:10:39.960 --> 00:10:45.080 It's like climbing Mount Everest. You can't climb Mount Everest on your own. 134 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:48.120 You won't make it. You have to have a team to climb Mount 135 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:52.080 Everest. You can't keep these kind of major resolutions. You won't keep them 136 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:56.559 on your own if you don't have some people in your life to give you 137 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:01.159 support and give you energy to keep you going. You got to keep on 138 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:03.879 having support. I remember one time there was a guy, you know. 139 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:07.840 I talk about small groups all the time because they're more important than what we're 140 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:11.559 doing right now. We have on the weekends maybe twenty thousand people at Saddleback 141 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:16.720 Church, about thirty two thousand are in small groups. Every week during the 142 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:20.600 week. That's more important. Why because that's the real church. Because you 143 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:24.720 can't share your prayer request here in a crowd. When you get sick and 144 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:28.600 in the hospital, A crowd can't visit you when you need prayer. A 145 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:33.759 crowd can't help you when you're out of work, when you need a babysitter, 146 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:35.440 when you're sick, when you need a meal brought to your house, 147 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:39.120 A crowd can't do that. I'll never forget. A number of years ago, 148 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:41.120 there's a guy who came to saddle Back for many, many years, 149 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:46.759 set up in the bleachers, came every week, but never met anybody, 150 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:50.279 never got into small group, got very very sick, was in the hospital 151 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:54.000 for nearly a month. During that month, I was on a world tour. 152 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:56.879 I was gone almost a whole month. When I got back, I 153 00:11:56.919 --> 00:12:00.279 was one of the f you guys who actually knew the guy. I'll go 154 00:12:00.360 --> 00:12:01.679 visit him. So I go to the hospital see him. He was so 155 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:05.360 mad, he said, I've been in here a month. Nobody from the 156 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:09.360 church visited me. It was his fault. He had nobody blamed bout himself. 157 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:13.440 He hadn't made any relationships, he hadn't joined a small group. He 158 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:18.879 hadn't made any connections. Now, as your pastor who loves you, let 159 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:20.480 me just tell you this. I hate to tell you this, but it's 160 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:26.720 true. You're probably going to have a crisis that's called life. You're probably 161 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:31.559 going to have some kind of crisis, financial crisis, relationship crisis, physical 162 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:37.159 illness crisis. I don't know, but the likelihood of you going through the 163 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:41.720 next urn of sixty five days while crisis is pretty rare. I highly recommend 164 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:46.799 you put the support system in place before the crisis happens. That you build 165 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:52.120 the safety net now that you established the relationships, that you be there for 166 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:56.200 people in their crisis, so they will be there for you in yours. 167 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:01.720 You need to get in the group now, not when the problem comes. 168 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:05.159 Now, not before you hear that your best friend or your loved one of 169 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:11.519 your spouse has gotten cancer. You need it now. Get in the group. 170 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:16.159 Now. Here's what the Bible says to Hebrews chapter ten. Let us 171 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:20.879 be concerned for one another and help one another. We want to help one 172 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:24.399 another, show love. We want to help one another do good. That's 173 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:28.639 what groups do. Let us not give it, give up the habit of 174 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:33.960 meeting together circle. The word habit small group is a habit. Let us 175 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:37.360 not give up the habit of meeting together some are doing. Instead, let 176 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:43.879 us encourage each other. You know what, We started the Daniel Plan for 177 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:46.799 people who wanted us to get in shape, and about twelve thousand people in 178 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:52.120 our church ligned up, and last year our church lost two hundred and sixty 179 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:56.399 nine thousand pounds on the Daniel Plan, a lot of people getting healthier and 180 00:13:56.480 --> 00:14:01.759 healthier. One of the things we discovered is that people who did the Daniel 181 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:05.200 plant in a small group lost twice as much weight as those who did it 182 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:13.080 on their own. Scientifically statistically proven people in a group lost twice as much 183 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:18.360 weight got healthier doing it with others than doing it by themselves. Let's have 184 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:24.480 a little true confession. I had some major back problems all fall. I 185 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:28.200 was in pain most of all, and finally in November, I had some 186 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:33.639 couple of procedures back procedures of surgery, and I think it's going to be 187 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:37.200 okay. But all during that time because of the procedures, because of back 188 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:43.399 pain, three things. Number one, I couldn't exercise like I've been doing. 189 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:46.120 And number two, during the holidays you started bringing me all kinds of 190 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:54.240 really great food. It was delicious, but it was not good for me. 191 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:58.360 Okay. And Third, my small group, which was my support group 192 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:01.960 I've been in for years. Many of them travel on the Peace Plan, 193 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:05.720 and we weren't getting to meet every week during the fall. Those three combinations 194 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:09.200 were lethal for me, and I fell off the wagon. And during the 195 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:16.360 fall, I gained about ten pounds because I didn't have my support group there. 196 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:20.799 So what do you do? You just get back on the wagon and 197 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:24.799 I get my support group back, and I say, Okay, we're gonna 198 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:28.320 We're gonna get this thing, you know, going again. I mean, 199 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:31.440 it's like having a quiet time. You say, well, I try to 200 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:35.559 have a quiet time, but I couldn't be consistent in it. Because I 201 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:37.240 can't be consistent, I'm just not gonna have a quiet time every day. 202 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:41.159 That's like saying, you know what, I missed the last four meals. 203 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:43.960 If I can't be consistent in eating, I'm just gonna give up. I'm 204 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:48.480 not gonna eat anymore. You know, I didn't get a bath for two 205 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:50.720 days. If I can't, because it's I'm gonna stop. I'm gonna give 206 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:54.039 up bathing Okay, no more showers. If I can't be good, no, 207 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:58.960 no, you just get back on the wagon. Some of you need 208 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:03.039 to get back on the wagon in the Daniel plan and you know it. 209 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:07.200 Some of you need to get back on the wagon in a daily quiet time. 210 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:10.320 Some of you need to get back on the wagon in a small group. 211 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:12.679 You need to be a part of that. Get support from a small 212 00:16:12.679 --> 00:16:15.320 group. Number two. The other thing you need to do to keep these 213 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:25.080 life shaping resolutions, ask and expect God to help. Ask and expect, 214 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:30.679 expect is the prayer of faith. Expect God to help. Isaiah fifty says 215 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:37.600 this, because the sovereign Lord helps me, I'm expecting him. I will 216 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:42.039 not be this made. Therefore I have set my face like a stone. 217 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:51.200 That's commitment, determined, that's resolution, determined to do his will. And 218 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:56.480 I know I will triumph. That's faith. I'm gonna make it now. 219 00:16:56.480 --> 00:17:00.679 In that verse, it says two things. Focus on good God, have 220 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:04.720 faith in God. That's how you keep a resolution. You focus on God 221 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:11.799 and you have faith in God. The Bible says about Moses, he persevered 222 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:17.079 because he saw him who is invisible. You can only accomplish impossible if you 223 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:22.519 see the invisible. He's living in life of eternity. That's the only thing 224 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:25.880 that's going to keep you on track. And my job as your pastor is 225 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:30.559 to keep you on track, to keep you focused. So you're ready to 226 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:37.599 do this? Are you ready to make these four life shaping resolutions that will 227 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:41.519 change your life? Let's bow our heads for prayer. As we begin this 228 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:48.039 together, I urge you to make these four life shaping resolutions and then ask 229 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:51.720 God's spirit to empower you to keep them and they will set you on a 230 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:56.440 successful course. I want you to succeed in life, and in the next 231 00:17:56.480 --> 00:17:59.599 six weeks we're going to look at God's plan for your life in detail. 232 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:04.240 But nothing happens until you make some choices. Are you ready? As I 233 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:07.640 pray this prayer, you follow me in and say me to God? Me 234 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:14.559 too, Dear God. As I begin this year, I don't want to 235 00:18:14.680 --> 00:18:19.599 drift through it. I want to move with direction and purpose. So today, 236 00:18:19.880 --> 00:18:26.720 like Moses, I want to commit these four life shaping resolutions. First, 237 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:34.079 with your help, I resolve to not let other people define me anymore, 238 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:41.119 say me to Lord. Second, I resolve to choose short term pain 239 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:47.640 in order to have long term gain. Third, I resolve for the rest 240 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:52.000 of my life to live by your values, not the world's values, which 241 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:56.799 aren't going to last. And finally, I resolve to live the rest of 242 00:18:56.839 --> 00:19:00.720 my life is best I know how faith, and not by fear. I 243 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:04.039 don't want to live by fear. I don't want to fear driven life anymore. 244 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:14.039 No, Father, I realize that only by your grace and power can 245 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:19.559 I keep these commitments. So Jesus Christ, I put my total faith in 246 00:19:19.640 --> 00:19:26.319 you starting today, Jesus, I ask you to save me, empower me, 247 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:33.240 and help me guide me. And I pray this in faith in Jesus's 248 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:49.880 name. Amen. Hi everybody, this is Rick and I hope you enjoyed 249 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:53.839 today's broadcast. You know, if you just prayed that prayer for the very 250 00:19:53.880 --> 00:20:00.279 first time, or you just recommitted your life to Jesus again today, would 251 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:03.279 you let me know about it. There's something real about sharing your commitment. 252 00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:07.759 So write me Rick at Pastorick dot com and say, Rick, I prayed 253 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:11.480 that prayer of commitment. I gave my life to Christ. And I'll send 254 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:15.880 you some material that'll help you on your journey with Jesus. And I'll also 255 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:22.559 pray for you God bless you. This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. Rick 256 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:26.359 will be right back to close out our time today, but first, if 257 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:32.240 you enjoy Rick's free email devotional, then we are excited to let you know 258 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:37.079 that for the very first time, these devotions are available in a three hundred 259 00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:42.599 and sixty five day devotional hardcover book called Open Doors a Year of Devotions. 260 00:20:42.880 --> 00:20:48.880 The Open Doors a Year of Daily Devotions book makes a great gift for a 261 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:52.039 friend or loved one and will send it to you as our way of saying 262 00:20:52.200 --> 00:20:56.799 thanks when you give a gift to help daily hope take the certain hope of 263 00:20:56.920 --> 00:21:03.160 Jesus to people around the world. Quantities are limited, so don't wait to 264 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:07.759 get your copy of this great resource. Call eight hundred six hundred five thousand 265 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:14.319 and four or go to Pastororrick dot com. That's eight hundred six hundred five 266 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:18.920 thousand and four or Pastorrick dot com. By the way, tomorrow is Giving 267 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:25.200 Tuesday, so any gift you give today will be matched up to twenty five 268 00:21:25.279 --> 00:21:30.279 thousand dollars, but only till midnight tomorrow. That's eight hundred six hundred five 269 00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:36.960 thousand and four or Pastorrick dot com. Here's Pastor Rick with a letter from 270 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:40.920 one of our listeners. I want to take a minute and tell you how 271 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:45.319 important your support is to Daily Hope. Your generosity. When you give to 272 00:21:45.400 --> 00:21:48.519 Daily Hope, you're helping us take the message of Jesus Christ literally all around 273 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:53.720 the world in the many places where there aren't missionaries or churches. These are 274 00:21:53.720 --> 00:21:59.400 called unreached tribes. Now, I'm sure you're familiar with the refugee crisis around 275 00:21:59.440 --> 00:22:03.880 the world. Literally millions of people have been displaced from their homes, particularly 276 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:07.599 in the Middle East and in North Africa because of civil wars and violence. 277 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:12.640 One of those places is South Sudan, where over two hundred thousand people are 278 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:19.039 living in refugee camps. Now, when people are under tension and in transition, 279 00:22:19.799 --> 00:22:23.319 they are more open to the Gospel than in any other time. These 280 00:22:23.400 --> 00:22:29.720 people who are living in refugee camps right now need the hope of Jesus Christ 281 00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:33.440 and the Gospel. Now, when you help Daily Hope Radio and Daily Hope 282 00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:40.880 Broadcast, we're not only broadcasting across America, but in places like South Sudan, 283 00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:45.880 where the station airs our program three times a day, and we are 284 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:49.759 told that many, many people are coming to Christ in this war zone as 285 00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:55.160 they listen to these Daily Hope broadcasts. So thanks, thanks to you. 286 00:22:55.720 --> 00:22:59.559 Now let me just read you one testimony that we've received. Here's a note 287 00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:03.519 from a woman who's living in a refugee camp there in South Sudan. She 288 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:08.359 said, my name is Joyce and I'm from the Central Equatorial State in South 289 00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:15.160 Sudan. I lost all five of my children and my beloved husband. This 290 00:23:15.240 --> 00:23:18.079 is in the civil war that was going on there, as well as our 291 00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:22.680 family possessions during the recent fighting in the capital of Juba. She said, 292 00:23:22.759 --> 00:23:27.480 I had planned to commit suicide. There's somebody who needs hope. When I 293 00:23:27.559 --> 00:23:33.440 listened to Rick Warren's broadcast, the one called when you feel Like giving Up, 294 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:37.559 I got inspired and I dropped the idea of taking my life that very 295 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:44.640 night. And I'll continue to pray God to bless this great preacher, and 296 00:23:44.720 --> 00:23:48.720 thank you for giving me hope. Joyce, We're happy to do that, 297 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:52.920 and I want to say it's because of the listeners who are giving faithfully every 298 00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:56.720 month to Daily Hope. Do you realize that when you give to Daily Hope, 299 00:23:56.799 --> 00:24:00.680 you're helping reach people like Joyce? She was, it's going to commit 300 00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:04.359 suicide in a refugee camp. Now, isn't God amazing? How when you 301 00:24:04.559 --> 00:24:08.720 just give what you can give, God takes it and he multiplies it and 302 00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:14.039 we reach out to people that none of us could reach on our own. 303 00:24:14.680 --> 00:24:17.960 Here's what I want you to do. I want you to pray for Joyce 304 00:24:18.559 --> 00:24:21.200 and today I want you to pray for all of the people who are in 305 00:24:21.240 --> 00:24:26.319 refugee camps and pray that we'll be able to continue to broadcast on these stations, 306 00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:30.799 taking the good news of Jesus Christ and hope to people who need it 307 00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:36.519 the most desperately. It's your sacrificial giving, it's your prayer support that makes 308 00:24:36.680 --> 00:24:41.240 this possible. So thank you for whatever you can do, and God bless 309 00:24:41.319 --> 00:24:45.039 you. My friends. Be sure to join us again next time as we 310 00:24:45.079 --> 00:24:49.759 look into God's Word for our daily hope. This program is sponsored by Pastor 311 00:24:49.839 --> 00:24:53.319 Rick's Daily Hope and your generous financial support.