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Speaker 1: Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren. Today,
Speaker 1: Rick continues teaching a series called Connecting with God the
Speaker 1: Lord's Prayer. In these lessons, Rick shows you what it
Speaker 1: means to truly be spiritually connected to God and to
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Speaker 1: with part two of a message called the Prayer of Dependence.
Speaker 2: Matthew seven, verse eleven says this, if you were asked
Speaker 2: by your son for bread, would you give him a stone?
Speaker 2: The answer obviously is, of course not. How much more
Speaker 2: likely is it that your heavenly Father will give good
Speaker 2: things to those who ask him. If my kids come
Speaker 2: to me and say, Daddy, I'm hungry, what am I
Speaker 2: gonna do? Give him a piece of rubber at you on, No,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get them some food. If they're genuinely hungry,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna help him out. And if I know how
Speaker 2: to do this, then I'm imperfect. Certainly, God, who is
Speaker 2: perfect in his love towards you, wants to meet all
Speaker 2: your needs. He says. God is waiting. He wants to
Speaker 2: meet your need. And that's the fourth thing. He's waiting
Speaker 2: on me. He's waiting on me. If you have needs
Speaker 2: in your life that are not being met, it's not
Speaker 2: God's fault. You're not waiting on God. He's waiting on you.
Speaker 2: Look at this next verse. Let's read it aloud together.
Speaker 2: You do not have because you do not ask God.
Speaker 2: The problem is not that God doesn't want to meet
Speaker 2: your need. Problem is you never ask him for it.
Speaker 2: God says you don't have because you don't ask. Over
Speaker 2: twenty times in the New Testament, God says, ask me
Speaker 2: as a father. I love you, and I'm waiting for
Speaker 2: you to ask, and I want you to ask. And
Speaker 2: he says ask and it shall be given. Seek and
Speaker 2: you will find. Knock and the door will be opened. Ask, ask, seek, knock.
Speaker 2: That spells ask. He's just saying it three different ways.
Speaker 2: He says, whatever you ask in my name, I will
Speaker 2: do it. He said, ask that the Father may be
Speaker 2: glorified in the sun. Over and over we're told to ask.
Speaker 2: God says, I want you to look to Me as
Speaker 2: the source for all your needs in life. That's the
Speaker 2: way I designed it. So here's my very blunt question.
Speaker 2: Who's your source? You know, law enforcement, if they're picking
Speaker 2: up some money launderers or some drug addicts, they don't
Speaker 2: care about the small fries, the user en user. They
Speaker 2: want to know who's your source, who's your supplier? They
Speaker 2: want to get to the source. And my question to
Speaker 2: you is for your safety, for your security, for your
Speaker 2: financial stability. Who's your source? Washington? I hope not. I
Speaker 2: hope you're not looking to Washington to be your source
Speaker 2: of stability. Wall Street again, I hope not. Your job.
Speaker 2: You're look into your job to be your source of security. Friend,
Speaker 2: I may tell you this, you could lose your job
Speaker 2: this next year. You need to look to God as
Speaker 2: your source. Now, who are you looking to to meet
Speaker 2: your needs. No man will ever be able to meet
Speaker 2: all your needs. No woman will ever be able to
Speaker 2: meet all your needs. So many people go into marriage saying, oh,
Speaker 2: I found the perfect person. They're gonna meet all my needs.
Speaker 2: You get married, then you find out they got bigger
Speaker 2: needs than you do, and you're gonna be severely disappointed
Speaker 2: anytime you look to anybody else. Your parents can't meet
Speaker 2: all your needs. Your spouse can't meet all your needs.
Speaker 2: Your girlfriend, your boyfriend can't meet all your needs. In fact,
Speaker 2: you're setting yourself up for profound disappointment. Only God can
Speaker 2: meet all your needs, and you need to look to
Speaker 2: him as the source of your supply. You don't look
Speaker 2: to your IRA, you don't look to your four oh
Speaker 2: one K, You certainly don't look to Social Security for security.
Speaker 2: You look to God for your security. And if one
Speaker 2: door closes, God can open another door. And if the
Speaker 2: faucet turns off here, God can turn off. I want
Speaker 2: to fascet over here. And if during this next year
Speaker 2: you lose your job and fifteen doors closed, God can
Speaker 2: open a window. You look to him as your source.
Speaker 2: That's what it means to depend on God. I see
Speaker 2: him as my source. Number two. Second thing it means
Speaker 2: to depend on God is it means trusting him for today,
Speaker 2: for today, not for next week, not for next year,
Speaker 2: not for next month, just one day at a time.
Speaker 2: God says, I want to make this real simple. I
Speaker 2: want you to take life and bite sized pieces twenty
Speaker 2: for our increments. I want you to trust me just
Speaker 2: for today. Notice the Bible does not say give us
Speaker 2: this day our monthly bred. It doesn't say give us
Speaker 2: this day our annual bread. It doesn't even say, like
Speaker 2: a paycheck, give us this day our weekly bread. And
Speaker 2: it's interesting that a since the fifties, bread has been
Speaker 2: a synonym for money. You got any dough? Oh you
Speaker 2: got any money, You got any bread? Okay, so bread
Speaker 2: and dough. Give us this day our daily dough. You
Speaker 2: know it's to be daily, not monthly, annually weekly. God says,
Speaker 2: I want you to trust me one day at time.
Speaker 2: I'm not asking you for to trust me for the
Speaker 2: rest of your life, just one twenty four hour increment.
Speaker 2: We'll worry about tomorrow tomorrow, and we'll worry about next week,
Speaker 2: next week, and we'll worry about next month, next month.
Speaker 2: I don't want you worrying about that. In fact, I
Speaker 2: don't want you worrying at all. I want you to
Speaker 2: take it one day at a time. Now, how do
Speaker 2: you do that? How do you trust God just for today?
Speaker 2: Give us today our daily bread? How do you do that? Well,
Speaker 2: there are four things that you do to trust God
Speaker 2: on a daily basis. And it just so happens that
Speaker 2: those four things are all covered in one scripture. It's
Speaker 2: Philippians four, six and eight. It's on the back of
Speaker 2: your outline. It's very important verse. So I want us
Speaker 2: to read it aloud together. Don't worry about anything. Instead,
Speaker 2: pray about everything. Tell God what you need, thanking him
Speaker 2: for all he has done. And fix your thoughts on
Speaker 2: what is true and honorable and right. Think about these
Speaker 2: things that are pure and lovely and admirable and excellent
Speaker 2: and worthy of praise. Now, in this passage he gives
Speaker 2: us the four steps to trusting God for today, and
Speaker 2: here they are. The first thing you might write this down,
Speaker 2: he says, worry about nothing. That's the first step. Worry
Speaker 2: about nothing, he said, I don't want you worrying about anything.
Speaker 2: Don't worry about anything. Now, let me be very frank
Speaker 2: with you, very blunt, friends, this is the hardest command
Speaker 2: in the Bible to obey. Don't worry about anything. It's
Speaker 2: the hardest command in the Bible to obey don't worry
Speaker 2: about anything. You know, there's some commands in the Bible.
Speaker 2: I just don't find that hard, you know, to obey.
Speaker 2: When the Bible says don't murder, that's not a big
Speaker 2: deal to me, you know. I just I don't find
Speaker 2: that very difficult to obey. Okay, I don't murder. It's
Speaker 2: just not that hard. When the Bible says don't commit
Speaker 2: adult treat I don't find that particularly hard. I mean,
Speaker 2: when you're married to Kay Warren, you know. But this one, yeah,
Speaker 2: don't worry. You break this one six or eight times
Speaker 2: a day, Okay, you get all worried about it. Now,
Speaker 2: Why is worry such a big deal? And why does
Speaker 2: God say I don't want you worrying. You may have
Speaker 2: never realized this worry is not just a bad habit,
Speaker 2: it's a flat out sin. Worry is a why because
Speaker 2: it is an insult to God. Every time you worry,
Speaker 2: you're saying God, I don't believe your promises. God, I
Speaker 2: don't really believe you love me. God, I don't believe
Speaker 2: you'll take care of me. God, I don't believe you'll
Speaker 2: meet all my needs. Father, I don't believe you're gonna
Speaker 2: take care of me and do all the things you've
Speaker 2: promised to do. It is an insult to God. If
Speaker 2: my kids, when they were small, came to me and said, Dad,
Speaker 2: we're worried about the house. You guys don't have worry
Speaker 2: about it. I'm gonna pay for the house. Dad. We
Speaker 2: don't think you can do that, And we're worried about
Speaker 2: whether we're gonna have a meal tonight. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: I gotta take Dad. We don't think you're competent to
Speaker 2: take care of that. That would be an insult to me.
Speaker 2: If my kids worried that I couldn't take care of him,
Speaker 2: I would be insulted. And God is insulted. When you worry,
Speaker 2: it's saying God, I don't really believe you. When you worry,
Speaker 2: you are acting like an orphan. You're acting like you
Speaker 2: don't have a spiritual father in heaven who cares. Who
Speaker 2: said I will give you whatever you need if you'll
Speaker 2: trust me, and you'll ask, if you'll depend on me.
Speaker 2: You're acting like a spiritual orphan. Do you know what
Speaker 2: worry is. Worry is the practical expression of atheism. You're
Speaker 2: acting like an atheist. Every time you worry. I don't
Speaker 2: believe God will keep his promises. I don't believe that
Speaker 2: God will take care of me. I believe I have
Speaker 2: to figure this out myself. You're acting like an atheist,
Speaker 2: and God is offended, and so he says, don't worry
Speaker 2: about anything. In fact, look at this verse. The Bible says,
Speaker 2: don't be anxious about tomorrow. God will take care of
Speaker 2: your tomorrow. To live one day at a time. Now,
Speaker 2: every time God gives a negative, don't do this, he
Speaker 2: always follows it with a positive. Do this instead. Don't
Speaker 2: do this, do do this. And when he says worry
Speaker 2: about nothing, the next thing he says is this, pray
Speaker 2: about everything. He says, here's the alternative. I don't want
Speaker 2: you worry. I want you praying. Worry about nothing, pray
Speaker 2: about everything everything. Yep, every single thing. God says, here's
Speaker 2: what you can do in life. You got two choices.
Speaker 2: You can worry or you can pray. And every day
Speaker 2: you're doing one of the others. And every time you
Speaker 2: worry you're not praying, and every time you pray, you're
Speaker 2: not worrying. So you got two choices. You can either
Speaker 2: pray or panic, or you can worry, or you can worship.
Speaker 2: And you're always going to be doing one or the
Speaker 2: other in life, talking to God about it or talking
Speaker 2: to yourself. Now, worry has never solved the problem. It's
Speaker 2: never solved a single problem. It's doing without doing. It's
Speaker 2: like in a rocket share, a lot of motion but
Speaker 2: no forward action. Worry has never solved any any problem.
Speaker 2: It is the most useless emotion. The prayer can change things.
Speaker 2: If you prayed as much as you worry, if you
Speaker 2: prayed about all the things you worry about, you'd have
Speaker 2: a lot less to worry about. Those are your alternatives,
Speaker 2: he says, worry about nothing instead, pray about everything everything. Yeah, literally,
Speaker 2: there's nothing you can't pray about.
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Speaker 3: Perhaps the most important role you can play in the
Speaker 3: life of a child is teaching them to trust God
Speaker 3: through prayer. It's the key to living with hope. Jesus said,
Speaker 3: we should always pray and never give up. That's why
Speaker 3: it's important to strengthen the hope of children by introducing
Speaker 3: them to Jesus's model for prayer at an early age.
Speaker 3: And we're excited to tell you about a very special
Speaker 3: resource to help you do just that. It's called The
Speaker 3: Lord's Prayer Words of Hope and Happiness. This book brings
Speaker 3: the poetic scripture of the King James version of the
Speaker 3: Bible to life. Readers young and old will enjoy thoughtful
Speaker 3: insights from New York Times best selling author Pastor Rick
Speaker 3: Warren and stunning illustrations by award winning artist Richard Jesse Watson.
Speaker 3: It's sure to become a meaningful bedtime ritual, a treasure memory,
Speaker 3: and a lasting legacy that bears good fruit for generations
Speaker 3: to come. This wonderful book is a perfect way to
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Speaker 2: Look at this Firse Romans eight thirty two. Since God
Speaker 2: did not spare even his own son for us. In
Speaker 2: other words, he sent Jesus to die for us. Since
Speaker 2: God did not spare even his own son to die
Speaker 2: for us, but he gave him up for all of us,
Speaker 2: won't he also surely give us everything else? God solved
Speaker 2: your biggest problem when he sent Jesus to die for you.
Speaker 2: Your biggest problem was getting you into heaven, paying for
Speaker 2: all your sins, righting all your wrongs, earning your forgiveness,
Speaker 2: And when Jesus died for you. If God loved you
Speaker 2: enough to send Jesus die for you, don't you think
Speaker 2: he loves you enough to take care of all these
Speaker 2: other problems? Every other problem in your life is small potatoes.
Speaker 2: After salvation, once He's come and saved you. Everything else
Speaker 2: is insignificant by comparison. So he's saying, don't worry, pray
Speaker 2: about everything. In and God cared enough to die for you,
Speaker 2: then he's going to care enough to take care of
Speaker 2: all your needs. Pray about everything. Third thing he says
Speaker 2: in this verse is he says, thank God in all things.
Speaker 2: Thank God in all things. In all things, he says,
Speaker 2: give things. Now circle the word in because remember we
Speaker 2: talked about this two weeks ago. It doesn't say for
Speaker 2: all things, give thanks. It says, in all things, give thanks.
Speaker 2: You don't have to be thankful for bad things in
Speaker 2: your life. You should never be thankful for evil. You
Speaker 2: don't have to be thankful for cancer or a car accident,
Speaker 2: or rape, or a war or abuse, or any of
Speaker 2: those other bad things in life that would be sick.
Speaker 2: God doesn't say be thankful for everything. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of things that we hate in life, we dislike in life.
Speaker 2: But God says, in everything, give thanks. Why Because I
Speaker 2: know God's going to take care of me. I know
Speaker 2: he's going to meet my needs. I know he's going
Speaker 2: to help me. I know that if I don't worry,
Speaker 2: but I trust him, I see him as my source,
Speaker 2: and I trust him one day at a time, He's
Speaker 2: going to take me through this. So I thank God
Speaker 2: in all things. And then there's the fourth thing that
Speaker 2: you do, And what I'm giving you is the strategy
Speaker 2: for stress reduction. Think about the right thing, worry about nothing,
Speaker 2: pray about everything. Thank God in all things, think about
Speaker 2: the right thing. Whatever you put your mind on is
Speaker 2: what's going to get you. You fill your mind with worries,
Speaker 2: you're going to be down, depressed, discourage, defeated. You feel
Speaker 2: your mind with the right things, you're going to be
Speaker 2: lifted up, hopeful and couraged positive. Think about the right things. Now,
Speaker 2: Notice he tells us. It gives us a list of
Speaker 2: things to think about. He says, fix your thoughts on
Speaker 2: what's true, honorable, right, what's pure and lovely and admirable,
Speaker 2: what's excellent, what's worthy of praise? Where do you find
Speaker 2: things that are pure and lovely to think about? At
Speaker 2: the movies? I don't think so. No, that's not pure
Speaker 2: and lovely at the movies. On television, No, I don't
Speaker 2: think so. Where are you going to find pure and
Speaker 2: lovely and honorable thoughts? Right here in the truth of God.
Speaker 2: The more you fill your mind with this book. The
Speaker 2: more you're going to be at peace. You need to
Speaker 2: read it, study it, memorize it, buy the Bible on CD,
Speaker 2: listen to it, any way you can get it into
Speaker 2: your life. You fill your mind, You flood your mind
Speaker 2: because in your mind you've got this scale. And on
Speaker 2: one side it's all the bad things that the world
Speaker 2: is telling you, and on the other side is all
Speaker 2: the good things that the Word is telling you. And
Speaker 2: you're going to base your life on the world or
Speaker 2: the word. The world or the Word. And if you
Speaker 2: listen and all, if you spend more time reading the
Speaker 2: paper than God's word, guess what you're gonna do. You're
Speaker 2: gonna be more negative because it's filled with bad news.
Speaker 2: You read the bad news or the good news. God says,
Speaker 2: fill your mind with the Word of God. You've got
Speaker 2: to get into the Word. The Bible says this up
Speaker 2: here on the screen Isaiah twenty six. He God will
Speaker 2: keep in perfect peace all those who trust in Him
Speaker 2: whose thoughts turn often to the Lord? Do your thoughts
Speaker 2: turn often to the Lord? Or do you only think
Speaker 2: about him on Sundays? Where do your thoughts turn most
Speaker 2: often to sex? To people? Magazine, to making money, to
Speaker 2: impressing other people. What do you think about the most?
Speaker 2: God says, if you want to have peace in the
Speaker 2: middle of tough times, you got to think about the word. Now.
Speaker 2: There's a third key to depending on God. I see
Speaker 2: him as my source. It all comes from him. It's
Speaker 2: all a gift. I trust him one day at a time.
Speaker 2: I worry about nothing. I pray about everything. I thank
Speaker 2: Him in all things that I keep my ariund on
Speaker 2: the right thing. And the third thing, this is very important.
Speaker 2: I share whatever he supplies. Trusting God. Depending on God
Speaker 2: means sharing whatever he supplies, sharing whatever he supplies. When
Speaker 2: God gives you something, I'm telling you he always wants
Speaker 2: you to share it with everybody else. Everything God gives
Speaker 2: to you, he wants you to share it. Notice it
Speaker 2: doesn't say give me this day my daily bread. It
Speaker 2: said give us this day our daily bread. Where to
Speaker 2: share it? We are to share it? Why does God
Speaker 2: want you to share it? He wants you to learn
Speaker 2: to be like him. God shares everything he's got with you.
Speaker 2: God is generous. God so loved the world that he gave.
Speaker 2: You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
Speaker 2: And God says, I want you to become like me.
Speaker 2: I want you to be loving, and I want you
Speaker 2: to learn how to share. Now, how do you spell love?
Speaker 2: You spell love, giv e. Love is all about giving.
Speaker 2: Lust is all about getting. Love is all about giving.
Speaker 2: When you say to somebody in a Valenhein's card, I
Speaker 2: need you, I want you, I've got to have you. Sorry,
Speaker 2: that's not love, that's lust.
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Speaker 1: But first, perhaps the most important role you can play
Speaker 1: in the life of a child is teaching them to
Speaker 1: trust God through prayer. It's the key to living with hope.
Speaker 1: Jesus said we should always pray and never give up.
Speaker 1: That's why it's so important to strengthen the hope of
Speaker 1: children by introducing them to Jesus's model for prayer at
Speaker 1: an early age. With this in mind, we're excited to
Speaker 1: tell you about a very special resource to help.
Speaker 2: You do just that.
Speaker 1: It's called The Lord's Prayer Words of Hope and Happiness.
Speaker 1: This book brings the poetic scripture of the King James
Speaker 1: version of the Bible to life. Readers young and old
Speaker 1: will enjoy thoughtful insights from New York Times best selling
Speaker 1: author Pastor Rick Warren and stunning illustrations by award winning
Speaker 1: artist Richard Jesse Watson. It's sure to become a meaningful
Speaker 1: bedtime ritual, a treasured memory, and a lasting legacy that
Speaker 1: bears good fruit for generations to come. The Lord's Prayer
Speaker 1: Words of Hope and Happiness is the perfect way to
Speaker 1: share the beauty and richness of the Lord's Prayer with
Speaker 1: the children. The Lord has placed in your life and
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Speaker 1: to Daily Hope to help take the good news to
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