WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.759 --> 00:00:07.799 Hey, everyone, it's Daily Hope with Pastor Rick Warren. So we're continuing 2 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:11.679 with this series called Daring Faith, The Key to Miracles. And in this 3 00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:16.719 series you're learning how to have a bold, unshakable faith. And so far 4 00:00:16.839 --> 00:00:21.800 this series is giving all of us powerful tools to share our faith, a 5 00:00:21.879 --> 00:00:26.039 faith that gives you courage to impact the world around you. Now, let's 6 00:00:26.079 --> 00:00:30.920 join Rick as he shares the final part of a message called what Happens when 7 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:35.039 you have Faith. The first thing that I do when I began to open 8 00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:38.920 the eyes of my heart Lord, and I began to see what God is 9 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:42.079 doing around me, and I begin to look at things from God's viewpoint, 10 00:00:42.280 --> 00:00:45.000 it shrinks my problem. It gives you a new perspective. See, when 11 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:49.320 you see your problem from God's point of view, well, then everything gets 12 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:53.039 a whole lot more manageable. If you have a big God, problems get 13 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:58.920 small. If you've got a small God, problems get big. Now when 14 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:02.359 you come to the Lord and you sayd Lord, You're a big God, 15 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:04.519 and you can handle this problem, and I'm going to give it to you, 16 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:08.760 and I'm going to just let you work it out. I'm trusting you. 17 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:11.120 I'm seeing with the eyes of it. Let you work it out. 18 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:15.280 Then you can relax and you say, well, how's it going to be 19 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:19.640 solved? And you say, well, that's God's problem. It's not my 20 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:25.200 problem, it's God's problem. Faith shrinks my problem. Genesis eighteen fourteen says, 21 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:30.840 is anything too hard for the Lord? And the answer is obviously no, 22 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:34.799 nothing's too hard for the Lord. Luke one thirty seven. Jesus says, 23 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:41.879 for nothing is impossible with God. You know, if you were to 24 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:45.640 come to my office and you were to go into my library and pull out 25 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:49.640 my dictionary and look up the word impossible, you would find that the word 26 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:53.760 impossible is not in my dictionary because thirty five years ago I cut it out. 27 00:01:56.439 --> 00:01:57.920 I said, if it's not in God's vocabulary, it's not in mind. 28 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:04.239 The Bible says nothing thing is impossible with God. Faith shrinks my problems. 29 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:09.039 Number two. Faith opens the door for a miracle. Faith opens the 30 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:15.120 door for a miracle. Faith can move mountains. You know, if you 31 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:20.719 study the Bible and if you study history, you find that every time God 32 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:27.759 moves out on earth and does a miracle is because somebody believed. Faith opens 33 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:30.319 the door to miracles, Mark eleven Jesus said this, have faith in God. 34 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:35.479 If you have faith in God and you don't doubt, you could tell 35 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:39.960 this mountain to get up and jump into the sea and it would. Whatever 36 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:46.280 you ask for in prayer will be yours if you only have the faith. 37 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:49.400 Now, what's he talking about here telling them mountain to jump in the sea. 38 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:54.319 God has set up the universe in a hierarchy of laws, and the 39 00:02:54.479 --> 00:03:00.199 law of faith is actually a higher law than the law are the laws of 40 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:06.599 nature. And that's where miracles come in because when faith is used, the 41 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:09.000 law of faith goes into practice, and God set up the fact that the 42 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:14.879 law of faith can actually do more than the laws of physics. You know, 43 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:16.879 if you actually had the real faith, you say, go jump into 44 00:03:17.240 --> 00:03:22.719 an ocean and the mountain wood. And does God still perform miracles today? 45 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:29.159 Of course he does. Every time you stretch your faith, God does miracles 46 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:32.159 every single time. So my question is, we're getting ready to start this 47 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:38.759 series, what's the mountain in your life? What's the mountain that needs to 48 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:43.439 be moved? What's the thing You look at that thing, and that thing 49 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:46.800 it's never moved, It hasn't moved, It's not gonna move. It never 50 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:53.280 will move. What is the mountain in your life that you were saying it's 51 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:59.800 never gonna change. Well, you've already decided that's a self defeating and so 52 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:03.639 fulfilling prophecy. How do you know, maybe God wants to do a law 53 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:10.120 of faith superseding the law of nature. He has, he has in the 54 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:13.199 past, he has in the present, He's done it all around the world. 55 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:17.839 Faith opens the door for miracles. God is in the mountain moving business. 56 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:24.000 But you must not doubt. Look at this verse on the screen. 57 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:29.600 Matthew thirteen fifty eight says Jesus did not do many miracles. He's talking about 58 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:36.279 that town there because of their lack of faith. Their lack of faith caused 59 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:40.160 Jesus to not do many miracles. You say, I don't see any miracles 60 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:45.120 in my life. I wonder why are you seeing with eyes of fear? 61 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:49.560 Are you seeing with the eyes of faith? Faith shrinks my problems. That 62 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:54.519 opens the door to miracles. The number three. Faith moves God to act 63 00:04:54.759 --> 00:05:00.120 on my behalf. Faith moves God to act on my behalf. Now, 64 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:03.319 don't get me wrong when I say this, it moves God to act on 65 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:10.000 my behalf. I do not believe. I do not subscribe to the health 66 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:17.079 and wealth theology where God really ends up being a servant and that God serves 67 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:21.839 you rather than you serving God. And in many versions of this, God 68 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:27.439 becomes a genie where you rub the bottle and you pray the prayer, or 69 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:32.000 you drop the you know, fifty cent piece into the slot machine whatever, 70 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:35.759 and then you hit the jackpot. No, God is not your genie. 71 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:41.360 God is God, and you're not, and he is not there to cater 72 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:46.879 to your every whim. He's not. He's just not. But at the 73 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:51.879 same time Matthew nine twenty nine, Jesus said this, according to your faith, 74 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:57.079 it will be done to you. God says, you get to choose 75 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:00.600 how much I bless your life. According to your faith, it will be 76 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:03.639 done to you. Do you want to know why God has blessed my life? 77 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:09.639 Not because I deserve it because I don't, Not because I'm smarter than 78 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:15.639 everybody else, because I'm not. Maybe because I'm better looking, but no, 79 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:20.480 just kidding, Not because of any human thing at all. God has 80 00:06:20.519 --> 00:06:28.439 worked in my life because I humbly expect him to. I expect him to 81 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:33.160 use me. And God does exactly what you expect him to do according to 82 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:36.839 your faith, it will be done unto you. If you expect God to 83 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:40.120 do a little in your life, he'll do a little. If you expect 84 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:42.480 God to do a lot, he'll do a lot. If you don't expect 85 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:46.720 God to do anything, he won't do anything. This is why I'm going 86 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:49.519 to push you on your faith in this series. This is why I'm going 87 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:54.480 to stretch you and challenge you because I don't want you to be satisfied with 88 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:59.920 playing in Kitty Beach in the shallows of life. I want you to put 89 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:03.800 on your big boy swimsuit and dive in the deep end. And I want 90 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:08.959 you to challenge yourself to believe God more than you've ever believed him. For 91 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:14.480 I have believed God for some really big things in my life. But it 92 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:17.600 didn't start there. It started by developing the muscle of faith a little at 93 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:21.519 a time. And when I saw God did that, well, then God 94 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:28.319 could do that. And I just keep pressing and pushing and stretching. And 95 00:07:28.360 --> 00:07:30.519 the Bible says, according to your faith, it will be done to you. 96 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:35.240 Any of you, as a parent knows that is a mom or dad. 97 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:44.199 Fathers love to bring pleasure to their kids and even more to their grandkids. 98 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:48.480 And when they do that, it brings them pleasure. It gives God 99 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:57.680 pleasure providing for you. It gives God pleasure watching you succeed. And he 100 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:01.000 goes, that's my girl. She's being ex exactly who I made her to 101 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:03.000 be. That's my boy. He's being exactly who I made him to be. 102 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:07.759 And the Bible says God takes pleasure in the success of his saints, 103 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:13.120 and so according to your faith, it will be done unto you. See 104 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:18.920 the problem with us is we think the wrong thing moves God. God is 105 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:22.839 not moved by my complaints. God is never moved by my griping, my 106 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:30.199 complaining, my grumbling, my whining. None of that moves God. But 107 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:33.000 God is moved. And I said, God, I'm trusting you, and 108 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:39.000 I'm expecting you to keep your promise. You put your name on that promise, 109 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:43.000 and I'm expecting you to do it. That brings me to the fourth 110 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:48.440 benefit of faith. Faith unlocks all the promises of God. Faith unlocks all 111 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:54.759 the promises of God. You know, we've talked about this many times here 112 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:58.720 at Sadovak Church. There are over seven thousand promises in this book. In 113 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:05.039 the Bible from cover to cover, over seven thousand promises, and they're like 114 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:09.360 blank checks waiting for you to claim them. And if you want to be 115 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:11.200 a person of faith, a man of faith, or a woman of faith, 116 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:16.679 you must learn to become a promised person. Memorize the promises of God 117 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:22.279 so that you can claim them in your life when you need them. And 118 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:24.960 what does God have to say about all seven thousands of those promises? Tewo 119 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:30.559 Corinthians, Chapter one, verse twenty. For no matter how many promises God 120 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:37.120 has made, they are all yes in Christ. Circle that yes in Christ. 121 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:41.559 All of the promises that God has made in his Bible, in his 122 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:48.240 word, in the scripture are yes in Christ. And faith unlocks the promises 123 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:52.240 of God. Now let me just try to put it this way. What 124 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:56.080 if you were to find you were going through an old attic that you'd bought 125 00:09:56.080 --> 00:10:00.840 a house and people had died and nobody claimed to the the leftovers. You're 126 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:07.639 going through the attic and you you find a letter promising a million dollars to 127 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:15.399 anybody who finds the letter? Would you be interested? Yes, yes, 128 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:20.120 you would be interested. But would it be useful if you didn't know who 129 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:26.360 wrote it? No? It'd be worthless. You could be holding on to 130 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:30.559 a promises. I will give whoever has this this letter one million dollars. 131 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:35.480 No, you'd have to You could only use it claim the promises if you 132 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:41.759 knew the name and the address of the person making the promise. The promises 133 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:48.840 of the Bible only apply to those who know the author, to those who 134 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:54.759 know the name of Jesus. All the promises are yes in Christ. And 135 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:58.600 when you know him personally, now you know the guaranteur of all the promises 136 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:05.279 of scripture. And faith unlocks the number five. Faith terms dreams god given 137 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:13.799 dreams into reality. Faith turns God given dreams into reality. Now this is 138 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:16.679 so important We're going to spend an entire session on it during this campaign. 139 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:22.879 On daring to dream, because nothing happens to somebody starts dreaming. And I 140 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:28.519 want to challenge you to dream about your relationships, to dream about your marriage, 141 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:35.679 a family, your career. The Bible is full of people who had 142 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:39.320 God given dreams. Abraham dreamed of being the father of a great nation. 143 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:45.279 Moses dreamed of setting the people free. Joseph dreamed of saving the nation and 144 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:50.840 his own family. Daniel and Paul and David and over and over and over 145 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:56.080 all through scripture, all kinds of people who are inspiring dreamers. But they 146 00:11:56.080 --> 00:12:00.480 didn't even have a verse that we have today, And it's this verse Ephesians 147 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:07.159 three twenty. Glory be to God, who, by his mighty power, 148 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:16.240 his mighty power at work within us, is able to do far more than 149 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:22.320 we would ever dare to ask or even dream of, infinitely beyond our highest 150 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:28.960 prayers and desires and thoughts or hopes. Now, if therever there was a 151 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:33.159 blank check verse in the Bible, that's it. He says, God is 152 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:37.559 able to do far more than we would dare to ask. What are you 153 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:41.679 afraid to ask? God? For God is able to do far more than 154 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:46.200 we could even dream of. I don't know about you, but I'm a 155 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:52.279 pretty big dreamer. I can think of some pretty big dreams I have in 156 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:56.240 my lifetime. And God says Warren, you think of the greatest thing you 157 00:12:56.279 --> 00:12:58.440 could ever dream of, the greatest thing you think I could do in your 158 00:12:58.519 --> 00:13:05.159 life? And guess what I can top that. We limit God by our 159 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:11.919 unbelief. I think one of the biggest if there were tears in heaven, 160 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:13.759 it would simply because we would get there and we realize all the things that 161 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:16.320 could have done if we would just believe God for a little bit more. 162 00:13:18.279 --> 00:13:24.600 To me, that would be hell. Hell would be to be shown everything 163 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:30.840 I could have accomplished and done and become and been as a husband, as 164 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:33.200 a father, as a man, as a pastor, all that I could 165 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:37.480 have been, and all that I could have done good in the world if 166 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:43.440 I had just believed God a little bit more. I want to push you 167 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:50.840 to believe God a little bit more than you ever have before, because God's 168 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:52.679 able to do far more, and we would dare to ask or even dream 169 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:56.120 of number six. Let me just end with this one. Faith gives me 170 00:13:56.279 --> 00:14:03.799 power to hold on in tough times. This is why we are doing during 171 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:09.080 Faith for ten weeks, because it unlocks the promises of God, and it 172 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:13.919 shows us the power of God, and it turns dreams to reality, and 173 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:20.600 it gives me the power to hold on in tough times. Why is this 174 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:28.440 one important? Because faith doesn't always take you out of the problem. You 175 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:33.679 know that faith often takes you through the problem. Faith doesn't always take away 176 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:39.399 the pain. Faith gives you the ability to handle the pain. Faith doesn't 177 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:43.320 make life heaven on earth, this world is never going to be heaven on 178 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:46.600 Earth. Things are never going to go perfectly on this planet. You will 179 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:50.799 always have pain, and you will always have suffering in your life. But 180 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:54.360 faith gives you the ability to handle it. It doesn't take you out of 181 00:14:54.399 --> 00:15:01.440 the storm, it calms you in the storm. I remember reading the stories 182 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:05.480 of Corey ten Boom, who was in a young woman sent to the Nazi 183 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:11.279 death camps, the prison concentration death camps Buchenwalden Auschwitz, and she said that 184 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:16.600 the people who lasted in those camps were those who had the deepest faith. 185 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:20.200 Why. Because faith gives me the power to hold on in tough times. 186 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:26.440 It produces persistence, It gives you the ability to bounce back. Study after 187 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:35.159 study after study after study has shown that probably the most important characteristic you could 188 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:41.919 teach a child, and probably the most important characteristic you need in your own 189 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:48.799 life if you're going to make it in life, is actually resilience. Resilience 190 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:54.200 it's the ability to bounce back, it's the ability to keep going. Why 191 00:15:54.320 --> 00:16:00.559 Because nobody goes through life with an unbroken chain of successes. Everybody has failures, 192 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:06.960 flops, duds, mistakes. We all embarrass ourselves. Nobody goes through 193 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:11.759 life scot free. We all have pains, we all have problems, we 194 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:18.480 all have pressures. The people who make it in life have resiliency. I've 195 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:21.039 told this to pastor anytimes. You don't want to know how many times I've 196 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:26.960 wanted to resign as pastor of Saddleback Church. Just every Monday morning. They 197 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:30.159 go, God, it's too big, it's too many people, too much 198 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:33.799 responsibility. I'm not smart enough. What am I supposed to say to that? 199 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:36.960 Many people get somebody else who can do a better job than this, 200 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:41.360 And yet God says, keep on, keeping on? And where do you 201 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:45.840 get that keeping on? Keeping on? There's so many times over thirty five 202 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:48.759 years I wanted to just give up. There are a lot of things I 203 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:53.360 could have done, you know, easier, And after purpose driven life came 204 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:59.879 out, I effectively retired. I don't take a salary, so nobody pays 205 00:16:59.879 --> 00:17:04.160 me to stay here. What is if it keeps me going faith? I 206 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:07.559 want to see what God's going to do next. I don't want to miss 207 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:11.960 out on it. So I don't like to miss really any week at church 208 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:14.920 because I want to think, is that going to be the week that could 209 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:19.039 change my life? I just never know if that's going to be the message 210 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:22.200 that might just set the new direction for the next five or ten years. 211 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:30.200 I just want to be there and be there and listen. The Bible says 212 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:33.880 in the Second Corinthians four, eight and nine Paul's testimony, we're pressed on 213 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:41.079 every side of troubles, but we're not crushed and we're not broken. He 214 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:45.400 said. We're perplexed. I means we're confused. We don't know why why 215 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:49.440 this happened. We're perplexed, but we don't give up and quit. We're 216 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:55.880 attacked, but God never abandons us, and we get knocked down, but 217 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:59.000 we're not knocked out, he says. We get up and we keep going. 218 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:04.480 Where do you get resilience like that? Faith? Now do you see 219 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:08.599 why you need to work on strengthen your faith, probably more than anything else, 220 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:12.039 and why we're going to spend ten weeks on it, Because it is 221 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:18.000 faith that does these six things. Strengths my problems, opens the door for 222 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:22.880 miracles, moves God to act on my behalf, unlocks all the promises of 223 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:26.759 God, turns dreams into reality, and gives me the power to hold on 224 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:30.599 in tough times. And by the way, faith is the way we get 225 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:37.599 to know God. John three point sixteen says God so loved the world that 226 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:40.680 he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in Him, that means 227 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:45.200 has faith in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. It's 228 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:51.559 how we get to know God. Now, as I said earlier, you 229 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:53.839 can't claim the promises of God unless you know the man who made the promises, 230 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:57.039 and his name is Jesus Christ. And there might be somebody listening this 231 00:18:57.079 --> 00:19:00.880 weekend who has not stepped across a line and giving their lives to Christ. 232 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:06.920 If you don't do that, you're not going to get any of this. 233 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:10.680 It's going to be a total waste the next ten weeks. It starts with 234 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:14.079 a relationship, you know. I remember when I was a little boy and 235 00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:19.519 America started the space race and we were racing the Communists or the Russians to 236 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:22.920 see who's going to get to the Moon first. And for a while Russia 237 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:27.519 was actually ahead, and they were sending up cosmonauts before we were traveling, 238 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:33.119 all before our astronauts went out into space. And I remember Yuri Gagarin, 239 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:38.920 who was a very famous Russian cosmonaut atheist, and he was the first man 240 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:44.319 to go up and circle the earth, and when he came down he said 241 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:48.839 this. He said, I was an eagle. He said, I searched 242 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:53.200 the heavens and I found no God. I didn't look. I looked for 243 00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:56.559 God in the heavens when I was up there, and I did not see 244 00:19:56.640 --> 00:20:00.160 him. There is no God. And all the Fathist applauded and said, 245 00:20:00.759 --> 00:20:07.920 yeah, Yuri, you just proved there is no God. A few months 246 00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:11.640 later, John Glenn, who by the way as a Christian and later served 247 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:15.160 as a Senator, but was an astronaut, and the Gemini program went up 248 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:19.599 and circled the Earth three times. When John Glenn came down, his first 249 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:25.319 words in his interview were, I saw God everywhere. I said. I 250 00:20:25.319 --> 00:20:27.599 felt his glory in the heavens. I saw his presence in the stars. 251 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:34.920 I felt his power in the sun. I saw God everywhere. Which one 252 00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:41.920 was telling the truth? The answer is they both were. They both were 253 00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:48.240 because Jesus said in John chapter three, unless you're born again, you cannot 254 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:55.319 see the Kingdom of God. You can't see what God is doing behind the 255 00:20:55.359 --> 00:21:00.440 scenes. You can't see the miracles, you can't see the mighty things he's 256 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:03.160 doing. You just can't see it because you're not tuned in. You can't 257 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:07.319 see the promises. So you need to give your life to Christ. Today 258 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:15.559 as we start this series, let's bow our heads, and I've got two 259 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:19.640 prayers that I want you to pray. First. If you already know Jesus 260 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:25.960 Christ and he's a part of your life and you're serving him as best you 261 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:30.720 know how, I want you to just say this simple prayer, Dear Jesus, 262 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:33.920 help me to see with eyes of faith, not fear. Help me 263 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:41.400 to see with eyes of faith not fear. You might even say, open 264 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:45.839 the eyes of my heart. Lord, I want to see you and say, 265 00:21:45.880 --> 00:21:52.519 Lord, use this series to challenge and to stretch my faith so that 266 00:21:52.559 --> 00:21:56.119 I might be more of the person that you want me to be. I 267 00:21:56.160 --> 00:22:02.400 want to bring pleasure to your life. If you've never opened your life to 268 00:22:02.519 --> 00:22:06.960 Jesus Christ, then your simple step is to say, Jesus, Yes, 269 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:11.039 Yes. As much as I know how, I open my life my heart 270 00:22:11.319 --> 00:22:14.960 to you, just say that Jesus Christ, as much as I know how, 271 00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:18.200 I open my life to you. I want to learn to love you 272 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:22.599 and trust you and follow you. I want to put my faith in you, 273 00:22:23.720 --> 00:22:36.599 strengthen my faith in your name. I pray Amen. Hey, if 274 00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:40.880 you've just prayed along with Rick to accept Jesus in your life, Rick would 275 00:22:40.920 --> 00:22:45.839 love to hear from you. Just email Rick at Pastorick dot com. I 276 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:48.880 want you to take just a second and think, is there anybody I know 277 00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:52.480 that is graduating this year? Could be a son or daughter, or a 278 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:56.799 grandchild, or maybe a neighbor or a family friend. Well, as you 279 00:22:56.920 --> 00:23:03.079 celebrate this important milestone and they begin the next phase of their journey, they 280 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:07.279 really need to know that God created them, loves them, and has a 281 00:23:07.319 --> 00:23:12.000 plan for their lives. So Rick created a special resource just for graduates called 282 00:23:12.359 --> 00:23:18.319 The Purpose Driven Life. Selected Thoughts and Scripture for the Graduate. This is 283 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:22.119 a beautiful book that I've given to my own kids. It's filled with inspirational 284 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:29.000 scripture, biblical wisdom from Pastor Rick, and some really beautiful imagery. It's 285 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:33.519 a really unique hardcover gift book that they'll want to keep, and it provides 286 00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:37.559 an awesome reminder of the great life that God has planned for your graduate. 287 00:23:37.839 --> 00:23:42.720 I'm telling you it will inspire them to seek His unique plan and purpose for 288 00:23:42.839 --> 00:23:48.880 their life. Please don't miss this great opportunity to minister to the graduate in 289 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:52.759 your life. Today. We'll send you a copy to say thanks when you 290 00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:56.720 give a gift to Daily Hope. To share the hope of Jesus Christ with 291 00:23:56.880 --> 00:24:00.519 people all around the world, just go to Pastrick dot com. Or you 292 00:24:00.559 --> 00:24:06.079 could text the word hope to eight hundred, six hundred five thousand and four 293 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:10.720 to get this great study tool. Again, that's Pastorick dot com. 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