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Pastor Rick Warren often says you were
made by God and for God, and

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until you understand that, life will
never make sense. Welcome to Pastor Rick's

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Daily Hope Today. In our series
called God's Vision for the Rest of your

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Life, Rick continues in his effort
to help you discover the unique purpose and

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vision that the Lord has for your
life. Now, in just a few

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moments, we're going to tell you
how to get a copy of the brand

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new Daily Hope twenty twenty one Prayer
Journal based on the theme God's Great Adventure

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for You, a great resource to
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daily to eight hundred six hundred five thousand

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and four. Right now, here's
Pastor Rick Warren with the final part of

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a message called Enabling the Vision,
Purpose Driven Giving. Imagine this. I

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want you to get this. Let's
say you had a father who was a

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multi multi billionaire and one day your
dad brings you in and he says,

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I've got this huge fortune that I
want to give to you. I want

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to share it with you, but
I need to know if you're capable of

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handling it. And I need to
test you to see if you can handle

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this amount of wealth. So here's
what I'm going to do. I'm going

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to give you a set amount of
money to live on, and then I

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want you to learn to live on
less than the amount I give you.

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And I want you to live on
less than the amount I give you so

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you can give some of it away
to help other people. Now, I'm

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going to be watching you to see
how you manage and distribute my money.

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Remember it's mine. I'm just gonna
give it to you, and I'm gonna

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watch and see how you manage and
distribute it, and if you do well,

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I'm gonna give it all to you. Now, what would you do

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with that money? You'd be very
very careful in how you used it.

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God has said the same thing to
you. He said, I want to

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bring you to heaven one day,
and I want you to share my wealth

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in heaven forever and ever and ever. But this is a test, folks.

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Life is a test, and God
is watching you to see are you

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gonna just spend it all on yourself. Wrong answer. I can't trust you

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with it. Are you gonna be
generous with what I give to you?

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Says God? Are you gonna pass
it around, spread it around? Are

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you just gonna hoard it? God
says, I'm watching and I'm testing.

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The Bible makes very clear that this
life is a test in preparation for the

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next how to use your time,
how you use your money, your relationships,

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and everything else. That's why the
Bible says this in Proverbs eleven twenty

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four. The world of the generous
gets larger and larger. The world of

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the stingy gets smaller and smaller.
Here's the point. The more you give

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to others, the more God gives
to you. I could give you a

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personal testimony that would take the rest
of the day on that one. The

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more you give to others, the
more God gives to you. Now,

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why does he do that? Because
God wants you to learn to be like

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him. God. Probably the number
one quality, or one of the main

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qualities of God is He's generous.
Everything you have in your life is because

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of the generosity of God. You
would have zip nothing, nada if it

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weren't for God's generosity. You wouldn't
even be alive if it weren't for God's

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generosity he created you. He said, what about all the things I worked

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for and I earn? Where do
you think you got the ability to work?

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Who gave you your mind, who
gave you your hands, who gave

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you your health, who decided to
have you born here and give you the

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freedom, who gave you all.
Everything you have in your life is a

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total gift from God. You'd have
nothing without God. And God is generous,

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And he says, you know what, I want my children to be

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like me, like father, like
son. So I'm going to set up

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the universe that every time you're generous, I'm going to reward you because I

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want you to learn to be like
me. I want you to learn to

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be giving and generous. And so
the world of the generous gets larger and

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larger, the world of the stingy
gets smaller and smaller. Now, there's

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one group of people that God really
especially wants us to be generous with,

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you know it is It's the poor. It's the poor. Over and over

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in the Bible, God said,
I'm watching how you handle the poor.

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How do you react to the homeless, to the poor, that people have

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nothing, and so he gives us
promises. Here are just a couple of

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them. Proverbs twenty eight says,
give to the poor, and you will

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never be in need. That's God's
promise. But if you close your eyes

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to the poor, many will curse
you. And Proverbs nineteen says, when

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you give to the poor, it's
like lending to the lord, and the

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Lord will pay you back. Do
you remember last fall during forty days of

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community and our church decided that we
would feed every homeless person in Orange County

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three meals a day for forty days. That was the task we took on

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during forty days community, feed every
homeless person in this county three meals a

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day for forty days. And then
we found out it was forty two thousand

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people homeless, and we did it. And you gave and collected over two

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million pounds of food and it took
nine thousand, two hundred volunteers in this

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church to collect the sort and to
distribute and we fed them all for forty

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days. You know what you were
doing, those you participated in that,

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you were investing in the Equity Service
Fund. And God says, I'm banking

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that in heaven The Bible says this
that when I give to help the needs

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of others, it's a test.
Look at the next verse. Suppose you

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see a brother or sister who needs
food or clothing, and you say,

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God, bless you, stay warm, eat well, But then you don't

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give them any food to clothing.
What good does that do. Faith that

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doesn't show itself by good deeds is
no faith at all. It's dead and

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useless. You know, the Bible
calls the church the body of Christ,

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the body of Christ. But today
most churches have their hands and their feet

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amputated, and all they are is
to big mouth. And people know what

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they're against, but they don't know
what they're for. And in this church,

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we've reattached the hands and the legs
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You're listening to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope
once again. Here's Pastor Rick Warren.

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Now, God has a fifth purpose
for your life. First, your plan

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for his pleasure. You were formed
for his family. You were created to

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become like Christ, you were shaped
to serve him. And number five,

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you were made for a mission.
God has a mission for you in the

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world. He has a unique thing
he wants you to fulfill. We're going

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to talk about that next week.
God's mission for your life. But because

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He has a mission for your life, the fifth fund is he said,

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I want you to invest in what
I call the Global Fund. The Global

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Fund. God says, I want
you to use some of your money to

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take the good news to the whole
world. God has always cared about the

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whole world. The Bible says this, I'm setting you up as a light

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for the nations so that my salvation
becomes global. Now, how do I

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invest in this fund, the Global
Fund? By using some of my money

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to extend my mission? By using
some of my money to extend my personal

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life mission. God says, I
want you to take part of it,

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and I want you to invested in
what I want you to do on this

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earth. This is investing in yourself
for the life mission God created you for

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now. Luke sixteen nine is probably
one of the most misunderstood versus in the

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entire Bible. Jesus says, this, use worldly wealth to gain friends for

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yourselves, so that when it is
gone, you will be welcomed into eternal

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dwellings. What in the world does
he mean by that? And I look

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at that again. He says,
I want you to use worldly wealth to

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gain friends for yourselves, so that
when it is gone, you will be

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welcomed into eternal dwellings. What does
that mean. Well, here's what it

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means. He says, I want
you to take some of your money and

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I want you to use it to
help other people get into heaven, so

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that when you die and you get
to heaven, they will welcome you there

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and they'll say thank you for investing
in me. I'm in heaven because of

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you. And I'm not your friend
for life, man, I'm your friend

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for eternity because I'm in heaven because
you cared enough. You bought me a

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Bible, you bought me a ticket
to event, you gave me a Christian

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book. You did something with your
money. You helped spread the news around

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the world in some village that you'd
never even been to. And because you

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gave I'm now a follower christ and
I'm in heaven because of you, and

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i am eternally indebted to you.
Friends, that is the greatest possible use

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of your money. Is anybody going
to be in heaven because of you?

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Have you ever used any of your
money to get anybody there to help spread

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the good news, to help get
the word out, to know the good

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news and not share it. If
I knew the cure for aids and I

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didn't share it, that would be
criminal. If I knew the cure for

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cancer and I didn't spread it as
fast as I could, that would be

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criminal. But I know how people
can have purpose in life, their past

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forgiven, and a future in heaven, and to not share that would be

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criminal. So God says, invest
in getting people into heaven. It's the

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highest use of your money to reach
one more for Jesus, As I said,

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is anybody going to be in heaven
because of you? Now, let

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me give you a little instant.
If you don't get anything else I say

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today, get what I'm saying next. If you invest your treasure on earth,

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all you do is pile up treasure
on Earth. Guess what, Every

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day, you're getting further and further
away from it. Because I hate to

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tell you this, but we're all
terminal. Okay, we're all terminal.

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Nobody's going to live forever. You're
going to get eighty at the most one

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hundred years. And if you store
up treasure on Earth every day of your

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life, you're moving further and further
away from it because you're going that direction.

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On the other hand, if you
store up treasure in heaven for eternity,

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where you're going to get to enjoy
them forever and ever and ever.

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Every day you're moving closer and closer
to it, because that's where you're going

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to spend trillions of years, not
here. So where do you want your

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treasure to be? On earth or
in heaven? It's your choice. Now,

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God doesn't force you to do anything. Shoot, you can blow it

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all on yourself. You can spend
every single bit of it on your own

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comfort. Just realize that every day
of your life you're moving further and further

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away from your treasure. But if
you invest it in Heaven, every day

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of your life, you're moving closer
and closer to it, and you're going

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to get enjoyed for eternity. I
didn't say that. Jesus Christ said it,

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and he is not a liar.
God says it. It's a matter

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of perspective. Now, last week
we talked about the Global Peace Plan taking

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the good news all around the world. I want to recommend that you in

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this church, if you're part of
this family, you set up a personal

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Peace Plan savings fund, and every
week you start putting a buck or five

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bucks or ten bucks or whatever you
can into that savings fund for you and

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for your family if you have a
family, so that at some point your

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and your whole family can go on
a piece trip somewhere in the world and

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start saving for that. Why well, look at these verses. The Bible

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says this, we must support believers
who go on trips like this so we

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can work together with them and spreading
the truth. Look at the next verse.

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You will honor God through this genuine
act of service because of your commitment

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to spread the good news of Christ, and because of your generosity and sharing.

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You honor God every time you help
spread the good news. Psalm two

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eight, God says, ask and
I will give you all the nations.

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The whole earth will be yours.
Now what does that verse mean, Ask

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and I'll give you the nations.
Here's what it means. If you want

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God's blessing on your life, you
want God to bless your life, bless

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your career, bless your family.
You want God's blessing on you, then

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you must care about what God cares
about most. And what does God care

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about most? He wants everybody in
the world to know him. He wants

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every nation, every country, every
person to have the opportunity to say I

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accept your love. I accept your
forgiveness, I accept your grace. I

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accept what Jesus did for me.
He wants everybody to know him. Now

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listen, if you make God's primary
concern the primary concern of your life,

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God's gonna bless your socks off.
He's gonna bless you in a way that

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you cannot imagine, because God is
looking for people who will care about the

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whole world as much as he does. And when he finds somebody says,

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you know, God, okay,
you care about the whole world, then

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I'm gonna care about the whole world. I'm gonna care about every nation.

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When he finds people like that,
he blesses them. There is no greater

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cause on the universe, folks,
than to live for the purposes that God

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puts you on this planet, and
then spread that news to as many people

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around the world as fast as you
can. I invite you to be a

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part of the greatest cause in the
world, which will be more significant than

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any thing else you'll ever do.
You say, how can I afford to

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do this? Look at these last
few verses, Luke sixteen. Jesus said

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this, If you're untrustworthy about handling
worldly wealth, who will trust you with

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the true riches of heaven. Remember, life is a test, And God

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says, I'm watching to see what
you do with what I gave you.

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What are you doing with what God
gave you? Now? Your reward and

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your responsibility to heaven, not your
salvation, but your reward and responsibility for

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eternity is going to be based on
how you managed what God put in your

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hands while you're here on earth.
And it would be foolish and shortsighted to

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spend it all on myself now in
light of eternity. Now, the Bible

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says this on the next page.
God gives seed to the farmer to plant.

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He'll also give you seed and multiply
what you generously plant in your lives.

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Read this with me. He will
increase the things you do that have

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his approval. My life is living
proof of that verse that God will increase

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the things you do that have his
approval. God will multiply whatever you give

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him. And God says, I
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You see, we make a living
by what we get, but we make

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a life by what we give.
Nobody's ever remembered for anything they ever got.

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They're remembered for what they gave away. I would encourage you to remember

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the prayer of Agar. You've all
heard of the prayer Jabez. Forget that

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one and read this one. It
says this, Lord, don't let me

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become too poor or too rich,
just give me what I need for If

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I have too much, I might
forget about you, And if I don't

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have enough, I might steal and
disgrace your name. Now that's what I

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call a bounce perspective. You know, most people I know are willing to

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pray the first half of this prayer
out of the Bible. Lord, don't

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let me become too poor. We'll
all pray that one, but we don't

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want to pray the rest of it. Or too rich. The bottom line

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is either extreme can cause you to
forget God. Wealth can make me prideful

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and arrogant, and poverty can make
me bitter. It's not about money,

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folks. Life is not about the
acquisition of things. That's not what life

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is about. Money is a tool
to do good. And I can do

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good by investing it in the Treasury
Fund and the Mutual Fund, and the

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Growth Fund and the Service Fund and
the Global Fund. And then I'm storing

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up treasure for eternity. But I
want you to know that for over forty

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years, I have been investing in
the Treasury Fund and the Mutual Fund,

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and the Growth Fund, and the
Service Fund and the Global Fund. And

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when I get to Heaven, I'm
going to enjoy the returns and the investment

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for eternity, and I invite you
to do the same. I recommend that

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you use these five funds as a
template in budgeting you're giving. This is

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Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. We're so
thankful that you've chosen to spend some time

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with us today. If you've missed
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anytime. Rick will be right back
to close out our time today. But

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first, if you want to make
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for You, will help you tap
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how to pray with passion and per
Right now, here's Pastor Rick to tell

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you more. Do you ever feel
like your prayers get stuck in a rut?

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Would you like to know what God
told me to do? When my

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prayer life got stuck in a rut. It was a time when I just

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felt like I was praying the same
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fact, I was beginning to wonder
if God was even answering my prayers or

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even listening. Maybe you felt that
way sometimes, or maybe you feel that

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way right now. So what did
God tell me to do? Well,

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here's what he told me. It
was such a powerful way to re energize

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my prayer life, and it was
so simple that I want to pass it

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on to you. God told me
to do this, he said, Rick,

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start writing down what you're saying to
me, and then I want you

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to write down what I say to
you, write down what you say to

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me, and then write down what
I say to you. You see,

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it's really not that complicated. God
just said I should start by writing down

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what I'm feeling, and then I
should write down what he tells me after

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I've read his word. It's really
just a form of journaling, and spiritual

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journaling is a spiritual habit that will
help your prayers stay fresh and effective.

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If you've never tried it, I'm
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two and see if it doesn't reinvigorate
your prayer life. Journaling has many many

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benefits to your spiritual life. It'll
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It'll give you a permanent reminder of
how God answers your prayers because you re've

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written them down. It shows how
God is working in your life. You

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can go back and review it.
It'll even help you worship God more and

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more as you speak to him.
God speaks to people who care enough to

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write it down. So write down
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to have a place to do that. Now. I want to encourage you,

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and I want to help you take
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spiritual habit in your prayers, of
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