Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for joining us today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope,
Speaker 1: the Bible Teaching Ministry of Rick Warren. And today we're
Speaker 1: continuing our series called the Habits of Happiness. In this series,
Speaker 1: Rick dives into the Book of Philippians and helps you
Speaker 1: discover God's path to true and lasting happiness. And now
Speaker 1: the final part of a message called the Humble Path
Speaker 1: to Happiness.
Speaker 2: This morning, I went to pick up my mother in law,
Speaker 2: K's mom. Sweet mom. She's in her eighties. She's an
Speaker 2: assisted living place. And when I pulled up, I got
Speaker 2: out of my car and she walked out and helped
Speaker 2: get her in. And as I got back around to
Speaker 2: the other side to get in the car, an aid
Speaker 2: was pushing an elderly woman down in front of the
Speaker 2: car in a wheelchair. Well, I just paused, and you know,
Speaker 2: it's not a rocket science, So I just walked over
Speaker 2: and said, how are you today, patted her and you know,
Speaker 2: on thing, and I said, you look really great, and said, ma'am,
Speaker 2: can I say you look beabelicious?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: As a ninety year old, she probably had no idea
Speaker 2: what I was saying. I didn't even know what the
Speaker 2: word meant, but she kind of figured out it was
Speaker 2: a compliment, and she smiled, and you know, it was tough.
Speaker 2: It was no big heroic act. It was just the
Speaker 2: kind thing. I just started getting in the car, walked
Speaker 2: over and said that. I got in the car and
Speaker 2: my mother in law said, thank you, Rick, I said,
Speaker 2: what mom, She goes. Most people are too wrapped up
Speaker 2: in themselves to notice us. I thought that took me
Speaker 2: a whole eight seconds. There was nothing to it. It
Speaker 2: was just being nice to the people around me. It
Speaker 2: was no skin off my back. I took nothing, but
Speaker 2: it might have brightened that lady's day. Maybe her kids
Speaker 2: don't live in the nation in America, don't live in
Speaker 2: the state, or maybe don't pay attention to her.
Speaker 3: How many people do.
Speaker 2: You up every day? And you have lost the art
Speaker 2: of paying attention because it's all about you, and it's
Speaker 2: all about your agenda. And I got to get to
Speaker 2: my next meeting. And if as a good Samaritan, some
Speaker 2: of whos lying on the slider road, you might not
Speaker 2: even see them. If you're going to be humble, you
Speaker 2: got to learn the lost art of paying attention.
Speaker 3: Here's what the Bible says. It's the next verse, verse four.
Speaker 2: Don't be interested only in your own life, but be
Speaker 2: interested in what others care about too. In other words,
Speaker 2: don't just be interested in your agenda, your career, your
Speaker 2: favorite hobbies. Be interested in what other people are interested in.
Speaker 2: Be interested in their needs.
Speaker 3: Let me say.
Speaker 2: Dads particularly, this is a simple but powerful tool in
Speaker 2: helping raise your kids. You just got to be interested,
Speaker 2: not in what you want them to be interested in,
Speaker 2: but have them be interested. Be you be interested in
Speaker 2: what they are interested in. There's a word for that,
Speaker 2: it's love. There's another word for it, humility, And the
Speaker 2: Bible says those are the kind of things that build relationship.
Speaker 2: Don't be interested only in your own life, but be interested.
Speaker 2: Are you interested in what your wife says? Are you
Speaker 2: interested in what your kids say? Are you interested in
Speaker 2: what your husband says? See again, this is not natural
Speaker 2: because by nature, I couldn't care less what you think.
Speaker 2: By nature, I really don't care what you're interested in.
Speaker 2: I'm only interested in what I'm interested in. And if
Speaker 2: you're not interested in what I'm intered in, why should
Speaker 2: I even pay attention to you. Let me give you
Speaker 2: an example. If I were to stand up here right
Speaker 2: now and take a picture of the thousands of people
Speaker 2: sitting right here, right now, and then I gave each
Speaker 2: of you a copy of the picture. Who is the
Speaker 2: first person you'd look for? Oh yeah, there's no doubt
Speaker 2: you'd go straight to where am I? Where am I?
Speaker 2: Where am I wearing it? And you and you need
Speaker 2: to go, Wow, my hair looks good today? Or I
Speaker 2: look fat in that color? Or you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Do you have all these comments? And if you thought
Speaker 2: you looked good, it's a great picture, all right, all right?
Speaker 2: And if you don't look good at that picture sucks?
Speaker 2: You know, it's just terrible.
Speaker 3: It's so good.
Speaker 2: Well, that is the human nature. You think about you
Speaker 2: more than anything else. God says you want to really
Speaker 2: be happy, you got to change your frame of reference.
Speaker 2: Because harmony doesn't come from you thinking about you all
Speaker 2: the time. It comes from you being interested in what
Speaker 2: other people are interested in, and caring about what they
Speaker 2: care about, and being concerned with what they're concerned about.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you a very blatant, frank question.
Speaker 2: Are you interested in only what concerns you? Do you
Speaker 2: get bored when you talk to friends and they talk
Speaker 2: about things they are interested in, and you couldn't care
Speaker 2: less about wow?
Speaker 3: Wow wow wow? Wow? Why and why?
Speaker 2: And something in your mind goes, get me out of
Speaker 2: this place. You find your attention drifting. You need to
Speaker 2: learn the lost art of paying attention. That's an act
Speaker 2: of love. The greatest gift you can give somebody is
Speaker 2: there is your attention. Because your attention is your time,
Speaker 2: and your time is your life. You're never going to
Speaker 2: get it back. If I give you money, I can
Speaker 2: always get more money. But if I give you my attention,
Speaker 2: I'm never getting that back. When I look you in
Speaker 2: the eye, it is saying to you you matter to me.
Speaker 2: What you're saying to me is important. Now you can
Speaker 2: listen without paying attention. In fact, you can get real
Speaker 2: good at it as a parent, as a partner, as
Speaker 2: a friend. You know you're listening, and you can even mmmmmmmm,
Speaker 2: and you're thinking about a million other things yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2: And they're telling you all about your day and you're
Speaker 2: already thinking about something else. That's paying attention. That's listening.
Speaker 2: It's not paying attention. Learn the lost art of paying attention.
Speaker 2: Don't be interested in just your own life, but others.
Speaker 2: What others care about? To the number four, the fourth
Speaker 2: thing you need to do is you ask what would
Speaker 2: Jesus do?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: I know this sounds like a trite question, but it's
Speaker 2: really true, and it comes from this verse Philippians two,
Speaker 2: verse five. Your attitude should be the same as that
Speaker 2: of Christ Jesus.
Speaker 3: And so if I really.
Speaker 2: Care about relationships, if I want to lower the conflict,
Speaker 2: then I want to raise the harmony in my life
Speaker 2: so we can have more happiness in our lives. I
Speaker 2: got to never let my pride be my guide. I've
Speaker 2: got to always be humble or a stumble. I've got
Speaker 2: to learn the lost art of paying attention. And then
Speaker 2: the fourth thing I have to ask myself in this situation,
Speaker 2: in this conflict, what.
Speaker 3: Would Jesus do in this problem?
Speaker 2: What would Jesus do in this time when somebody's feeling guilty?
Speaker 2: What would Jesus do in this time where somebody's worried?
Speaker 2: What would Jesus do? What would Jesus do at the
Speaker 2: office in this situation? What would Jesus do out out
Speaker 2: on the golf course? What would Jesus do As I'm
Speaker 2: driving down the freeway and somebody just tried to run
Speaker 2: me off the road, what would Jesus. Do you ask
Speaker 2: that over and over again and you'll always come up
Speaker 2: with a humble answer. You always come up with the
Speaker 2: one that builds harmony and happiness rather than difficulty, defeat, bitterness,
Speaker 2: and resentment. Now he said, well, I don't know what
Speaker 2: it means to act like Jesus. How would Jesus act
Speaker 2: at my school? How would Jesus act in my marriage?
Speaker 2: How would Jesus treat my wife? How would Jesus treat
Speaker 2: my husband? Well, fortunately, we have three examples in the
Speaker 2: next couple verses as me in this passage, Acting like Jesus.
Speaker 3: Means three things. To write these down.
Speaker 2: Number one, it means I don't demand what I think
Speaker 2: I deserve.
Speaker 3: That's acting like Jesus.
Speaker 2: I don't I never demand what I think I deserve. Now,
Speaker 2: we go through life thinking we deserve a whole lot,
Speaker 2: and when we don't get it, we get demanding, and
Speaker 2: if some clerk doesn't meet our needs and we think
Speaker 2: that clerk's a jerk, then we start getting demanding. But
Speaker 2: Jesus didn't do that. Philippians two six and seven says this,
Speaker 2: though he was God, he did not demand and cling
Speaker 2: to his rights as God. He emptying himself of all
Speaker 2: he had. Now, notice is here. Jesus is God, he
Speaker 2: comes to earth, he becomes a human being, and even
Speaker 2: though he's God, he doesn't demand his rights.
Speaker 3: He empties himself.
Speaker 2: All he had. Now, do you realize how counterculture that is?
Speaker 2: Because you were brought up, if you're brought up here
Speaker 2: in America, you were brought up with this.
Speaker 3: Well, I have my rights. It's my right to do this.
Speaker 2: Yes it is, but it doesn't mean you demand it.
Speaker 2: It's my right to do this, and I demand my rights,
Speaker 2: then you're not like Jesus. There's a better way to
Speaker 2: do it. There's a better way to get your needs
Speaker 2: met than demanding your rights. They are better ways. In fact,
Speaker 2: demanding just makes people more resistant. It makes a more
Speaker 2: retaliatory towards you. The Bible says, though he was God,
Speaker 2: he did not demand and cling to his rights as God.
Speaker 2: He said, I have this right as a husband, Yes
Speaker 2: you do. I have this right as a wife, Yes
Speaker 2: you do. But you're not going to get what you
Speaker 2: need by demanding your rights. The christ Like thing to
Speaker 2: do is I don't demand what I think I deserve.
Speaker 2: You know, I actually use this verse as a test
Speaker 2: when I'm hiring staff here at Saddleback Church, I'll take
Speaker 2: a potential staff member out to lunch, and then what
Speaker 2: I'll do is I will watch how they treat the waitress.
Speaker 2: Are they understanding or are they demanding? And if they're demanding,
Speaker 2: that they don't deserve to be here. This is not
Speaker 2: a place for them. Are they You can be You
Speaker 2: can be tender without surrender, and you can be understanding
Speaker 2: without demanding, and you can get your needs met without
Speaker 2: blowing people away, and you can do it by being
Speaker 2: nice with them. Are you understanding or are you demanding?
Speaker 2: So if I want to be like Jesus, I don't
Speaker 2: demand what I think I deserve. Number two, I look
Speaker 2: for ways that I can serve. I don't just demand
Speaker 2: what I think I deserve. I don't demand. I look
Speaker 2: for ways that I can serve. Verse seven says this,
Speaker 2: and Jesus took on the nature of a servant, becoming
Speaker 2: a human just like a If you want to be
Speaker 2: like Jesus, you're going to have to learn to serve. Now,
Speaker 2: that's the exact opposite of our culture, because our culture
Speaker 2: says the whole goal in life is to get other
Speaker 2: people to serve you, and the more people you have
Speaker 2: serving you, the more important you are. That's what the
Speaker 2: world says. But God's value system is the exact opposite.
Speaker 2: It's not the more people serving you, the more important
Speaker 2: you are.
Speaker 3: It's the more people you serve.
Speaker 2: The more important you are. Self esteem does not come
Speaker 2: from your salary. Self esteem does not come from your status.
Speaker 2: Self esteem does not come from your stuff. Self esteem
Speaker 2: comes from service. And the more you give your life away,
Speaker 2: the more God blesses you with honor. I call it
Speaker 2: the Mother Teresa principle. Mother Teresa gave her life hoping
Speaker 2: the least influential people in the world, beggars, dying in Calcutta,
Speaker 2: and God raised her up to a position of influence
Speaker 2: that she had influence over the United Nations.
Speaker 3: And the US Congress and all kinds of things.
Speaker 2: Why because God says the way up is down, and
Speaker 2: God says before honor is humility. And God says, if
Speaker 2: you want to be great, learn to be the servant
Speaker 2: of all. Now you can practice this. It's a habit
Speaker 2: you can develop, and you develop the habit not in
Speaker 2: the big things in life, but in the little things.
Speaker 2: God tests your humility every single day of your life.
Speaker 2: When you walk out of this service and you walk
Speaker 2: across the campus and you see a piece of trash.
Speaker 3: That's a test. Will I pick it up? Oh?
Speaker 2: No, that's for other people to pick up. That's beneath me.
Speaker 2: I'm too good for that. I should now to pick that.
Speaker 2: They pay staff to pick that stuff up. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: can make up all the reasons, but this is a test.
Speaker 2: How humble are you? Are you a servant? Do you
Speaker 2: see a piece of trash? Do you pick it up?
Speaker 2: That's a test. You're tested in the little things of life,
Speaker 2: and then it's shown in the big things in life.
Speaker 2: Character is revealed in the Great Crisis, but it's built
Speaker 2: in the little day to day things, liked returning the.
Speaker 3: Grocery cart to the lot.
Speaker 2: How many times do you walk out of a grocery
Speaker 2: store and you brought the grocery here and then you're
Speaker 2: tired and.
Speaker 3: You go, oh, I don't really want to take it back.
Speaker 2: I'll just put it right here because other people will
Speaker 2: do this. This is a test, and you just failed.
Speaker 2: It's a test of your pride, it's a test of
Speaker 2: your humility. It's a test of whether you are genuinely
Speaker 2: have a servant and have a servant heart or not
Speaker 2: so well, I'll let other people do that. Well, you
Speaker 2: have just proven my point. You think you're better, and
Speaker 2: if everybody did what you did, nothing would ever get
Speaker 2: put back. I'll never forget one time, my friend true
Speaker 2: At Kathy's son Dan Kathy. The Kathy's founded Chick fil
Speaker 2: A and they're a great Christian family, and they were
Speaker 2: opening a Chick fil A restaurant in Foothill Ranch and
Speaker 2: Dan was here one day and we went over there
Speaker 2: and it wasn't open yet.
Speaker 3: We were looking at the building and while.
Speaker 2: We're there, we were hungry, so we went next door
Speaker 2: to I think it was a Taco Bell, but it
Speaker 2: was some other fast food in competition with Chick fil A.
Speaker 2: And we'd been out and our hands were all sweating
Speaker 2: and dirty. We went into the end of the restroom,
Speaker 2: used the restroom, washed our hands, and then I watched
Speaker 2: Dan take out extra sheets.
Speaker 3: This is the CEO of a chain of restaurants.
Speaker 2: And I watched him pull us out and I watched
Speaker 2: him hand clean the sinks of the Taco Bell bathroom.
Speaker 3: We were just den and I looked at him and said,
Speaker 3: thank you for doing that. Dan he said, Rick.
Speaker 2: We teach our staff to always leave any place they
Speaker 2: are better than it was when they found it, whether
Speaker 2: it's our place or not. And I thought, nobody in
Speaker 2: that Taco Bell, and nobody at Taco Bell Corporate will
Speaker 2: know that the CEO of their competition just cleaned their
Speaker 2: bathroom for free. That's called the heart of a servant,
Speaker 2: and it's why God blesses Chick fil A. They have
Speaker 2: a whole book on it. It's called of Course, It's
Speaker 2: good Food Do. But they're a book called second Mile Service,
Speaker 2: How we go the extra mile? And that is if
Speaker 2: somebody asked you to do a one mile, you go
Speaker 2: with them too. If they ask for your coat, you
Speaker 2: give him your shirt. You go the second mile. God
Speaker 2: blesses that. And when you do good, God does good
Speaker 2: to your business. So I look for ways that I
Speaker 2: can serve. Then finally, number three, I do what's right,
Speaker 2: even when it's painful. That's what it means to do.
Speaker 2: To act like Jesus. What would Jesus do? He doesn't
Speaker 2: demand what he thinks he deserves. He's understanding, not demanding.
Speaker 2: He looks for ways that he can serve. He's a
Speaker 2: servant in every situation. That's what Jesus did, and I
Speaker 2: do what's right even when it's painful. Verse eight says this,
Speaker 2: while living as a man, Jesus humbled himself even more
Speaker 2: by being fully obedient to God, even when that meant
Speaker 2: his death on the cross. He did the right thing,
Speaker 2: even though it is excruciatingly painful to him. That's what
Speaker 2: it means to do what's right, even when it's painful. Now,
Speaker 2: because Jesus is the ultimate model of humility, is there
Speaker 2: a reward? Oh, yes, there's a reward. And God, because
Speaker 2: Jesus was the greatest example of humility, God has given
Speaker 2: Jesus the greatest honor in the universe. The last couple
Speaker 2: of verses say this because of this, the example of
Speaker 2: humility that Jesus showed. Because of this, God exalted Jesus
Speaker 2: to the highest honor and made his name greater than
Speaker 2: every other name. That at the name of Jesus, every
Speaker 2: knee will one day bow in heaven and on earth
Speaker 2: and under the earth, and every tongue will confess one
Speaker 2: day that Jesus Christ is Lord and give glory to
Speaker 2: the Father. Now, it says, Jesus has a name greater
Speaker 2: in every other name. Have you ever wondered why people
Speaker 2: use Jesus's name to swear?
Speaker 3: Thought about that.
Speaker 2: I mean, nobody ever says oh, Rick Warren, Nobody ever
Speaker 2: uses your name to cuss. Why because we don't matter
Speaker 2: that much? Why do people use Jesus name? Because there
Speaker 2: is no other name higher in the universe. People who
Speaker 2: swear don't even realize when they're swearing why they're using
Speaker 2: Jesus name. There is no higher name. There is no
Speaker 2: greater name, and this is why they use it. If
Speaker 2: there was, they'd be using that name. There is no
Speaker 2: greater name. They don't even realize that when they're swearing,
Speaker 2: they're actually affirming that Jesus name is unlike anybody else's name,
Speaker 2: and that's why it's the one that gets used as
Speaker 2: the cuss word. Nobody says, oh Buddha. They say Jesus
Speaker 2: when they say God because there are no higher and
Speaker 2: greater names. Now, notice it says one day, one day
Speaker 2: in heaven that everybody is going to be gathered at
Speaker 2: the Judgment day. Every person who's ever lived will be
Speaker 2: gathered before God, every human being has ever lived. And
Speaker 2: it says at that time, every knee one day will
Speaker 2: bow every human being has ever lived going to bow
Speaker 2: before Jesus. This is the highest honor. And every tongue
Speaker 2: will confess, in other words, will finally admit that Jesus
Speaker 2: Christ is Lord and give glory to God the Father.
Speaker 2: Every day, one day, even atheists, they're going to acknowledge
Speaker 2: the truth. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess.
Speaker 2: At that judgment day. When people say to you sometimes
Speaker 2: what is the world coming to, you can say it's
Speaker 2: coming to this?
Speaker 3: What is the world coming to?
Speaker 2: One day, every knee will bow and every tongue will
Speaker 2: confess that Jesus is who he said he was, that
Speaker 2: he's the Son.
Speaker 3: Of God, that he is the Lord.
Speaker 2: And it is encouraged to me that someday all of
Speaker 2: the arrogance and all the idolatry, and all the denial
Speaker 2: will end. And at that scene when every person who's
Speaker 2: ever been created by God bows before Jesus and confesses
Speaker 2: who he is, every nationality will be there, every age
Speaker 2: will be there, every religion will be there, every political
Speaker 2: strife will be there.
Speaker 3: Everybody is going to be there, all.
Speaker 2: The politicians and all the rock stars, and all the
Speaker 2: businessmen and all the scientists, and all the homemakers and
Speaker 2: all the athletes, they'll.
Speaker 3: All be there saying Jesus's Lord.
Speaker 2: It's not a matter of if you're ever going to
Speaker 2: admit this, It's just a matter of when. You will
Speaker 2: either do it now in love, or you will do
Speaker 2: it later in judgment. One day you will acknowledge you
Speaker 2: are not God. Only God is God, and he sent
Speaker 2: his son to die for you, and you don't have
Speaker 2: any way of getting into Heaven except through the grace
Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ. And if there was any other way,
Speaker 2: believe me, God would have used it and he wouldn't
Speaker 2: have wasted his son. You're not God. Jesus is Lord.
Speaker 2: When you say Jesus is Lord, that is a humbling
Speaker 2: statement means I'm not Lord. I'm not the master of
Speaker 2: my faith. I'm not in control of my life.
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: You didn't choose when you were born, where you were born,
Speaker 2: how you were born, where you die. You didn't choose
Speaker 2: your natural giftedness, most of the things that make you you.
Speaker 2: You had nothing to control. You're not in control. Your
Speaker 2: control of your choices, but you're not in control. You
Speaker 2: didn't get God gave you the brain, He gave you,
Speaker 2: gave you the body he gave you. One day, everyone
Speaker 2: will confess Jesus is Lord. Now when we remember that
Speaker 2: Jesus is Lord, you know what means, we stop pridefully.
Speaker 3: Pretending that we're God.
Speaker 2: So I want to urge you as a close to
Speaker 2: discover the power of this phrase. Discover the power of
Speaker 2: this phrase. When you're discouraged, say Jesus's Lord. When you
Speaker 2: are tempted, say Jesus is Lord. When you are worried
Speaker 2: and fearful and stressed out, say Jesus is Lord. When
Speaker 2: you are fatigued, say Jesus is Lord. When you're lonely,
Speaker 2: say Jesus is Lord. When you are grieving, say Jesus
Speaker 2: is Lord. It may look like the wrong side is winning,
Speaker 2: but Jesus is Lord. It may look like your problems
Speaker 2: are insurmountable and you're never going to get out of debt,
Speaker 2: but Jesus is Lord. It may look like you feel
Speaker 2: you can't cope with one more day, but Jesus is Lord.
Speaker 2: It may look like we're never going to resolve these
Speaker 2: marriage problems, but Jesus is Lord. It may look like
Speaker 2: circumstances are against me and people want to defeat me.
Speaker 3: But Jesus is Lord, he is God, and I'm not.
Speaker 2: That's called humility, and it's the path to happiness. Power heads,
Speaker 2: but you pray this prayer. Dear God. I want to
Speaker 2: be what you want me to be, and I want
Speaker 2: to live a happy life, and I want to live
Speaker 2: with harmony in my relationships, and I certainly don't want
Speaker 2: to live with conflict. Help me to do it your
Speaker 2: way instead of the world's way. Help me to remember
Speaker 2: to never let my pride be my guide. To not
Speaker 2: let the attitude of it's all about me or I'm
Speaker 2: always right get in the way of what you want
Speaker 2: to do. Help me to be humble so I don't stumble.
Speaker 2: Help me to be honest about my weaknesses. Help me
Speaker 2: to think not less of myself, but less about myself.
Speaker 2: Help me to think more about others and more about you.
Speaker 2: To not be so self obsessed with what do other
Speaker 2: people think about me? And Dear God, help me to
Speaker 2: learn the lost art of paying attention. To not just
Speaker 2: be interested in my sports and my hobbies, my school,
Speaker 2: my career, my interest, my family. Help me to be
Speaker 2: interested in what other people are interested into, and to
Speaker 2: show it in love by paying attention by listening. And
Speaker 2: when I am in the tough times of life, help
Speaker 2: me to ask what would Jesus do? Help me not
Speaker 2: to demand what I think I deserve, but to be
Speaker 2: like Jesus. And when I think life is unfair, help
Speaker 2: me to remember the Cross and how unfair that was.
Speaker 2: And help me to look for ways around me every
Speaker 2: day where I can serve in this leak this week. Lord,
Speaker 2: when I'm tested on the these principles and these habits
Speaker 2: in conflict with others, help me to do what's right
Speaker 2: even when it's painful. To be understanding, not demanding, to
Speaker 2: be tender without surrender, to be forgiving, to be willing
Speaker 2: to compromise. Help me to be humble and willing to
Speaker 2: back down, to willing to say I was wrong. Please
Speaker 2: forgive me, Lord. I know that if I walk in
Speaker 2: humility and dependence for you, you have promised to reward
Speaker 2: me with the promises of your word. And so I
Speaker 2: say to you, Jesus, I want you to be the
Speaker 2: lord of my life. I want you to be the manager.
Speaker 2: I want you to be the director. I want you
Speaker 2: to call the shots. You are God, and I'm not.
Speaker 2: Help me to remember that I humbly ask you to
Speaker 2: save my life in your name. I pray Amen. You know,
Speaker 2: if you just prayed that prayer for the very first time,
Speaker 2: or you just recommitted your life to Jesus again today,
Speaker 2: would you let me know about it. There's something real
Speaker 2: about sharing your commitment. So write me Rick at Pastorick
Speaker 2: dot com and say, Rick, I prayed that prayer of commitment.
Speaker 2: I gave my life to Christ. And I'll send you
Speaker 2: some material that will help you on your journey with Jesus.
Speaker 2: And I'll also pray for you. God bless you.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: Some powerful words from Pastor Rick today. And now this
Speaker 1: is really one of my favorite parts of the broadcast.
Speaker 1: This is letters from our listeners, and now here's Rick.
Speaker 2: Have you ever noticed that your day goes better when
Speaker 2: you start with God's Word. That's been true in my life,
Speaker 2: and I'm certain it'll make a difference in your life.
Speaker 2: To you when you choose to get into God's Word
Speaker 2: first thing every day. It's one of the most important
Speaker 2: habits you can develop. Here's an email from a man
Speaker 2: named Jeremy who says connecting with God every morning has
Speaker 2: made such a big difference in his life. He says
Speaker 2: you know, Rick, Daily Hope fills my mind with truth.
Speaker 2: When I begin each day at three a m. Wow,
Speaker 2: I realize that Daily Hope helps fill my mind with
Speaker 2: the good stuff and crowds out all the negative because
Speaker 2: truth and hope have really changed my attitude throughout the day.
Speaker 2: So you can take it from Jeremy, God's word at
Speaker 2: the start of your day will change your day in
Speaker 2: a positive way. Thanks for listening today, everybody. I love you,
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