Speaker 1: This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast Ministry
Speaker 1: of Pastor Rick Warren. Today we continue with a series
Speaker 1: called how God Turns Setbacks into Comebacks. We're so glad
Speaker 1: that you've joined us today. Now, if you know someone
Speaker 1: who needs some encouragement right now, be sure to invite
Speaker 1: them with a text or a phone call to listen
Speaker 1: along with you. But first studies have shown the more
Speaker 1: grateful a person is, the happier they are. But it's
Speaker 1: not always easy to be thankful. That's why Pastor Rick
Speaker 1: developed the Power of Gratitude. It's a special interactive Bible
Speaker 1: study to help you grow your gratitude. You can find
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Speaker 1: here's Pastor Rick with the final part of a message
Speaker 1: called when You're setback seems Irreversible.
Speaker 2: Philippians Chapter one in the Bible Verse nineteen Paul talks
Speaker 2: about the benefit of having people pray for you in
Speaker 2: a small group. And he says this to the Philippian Christians.
Speaker 2: Because you're praying for me and the spirit of Christ
Speaker 2: is helping me. I know that this trouble will bring
Speaker 2: my freedom circle that word freedom. What is Paul saying here,
Speaker 2: He's saying that prayer is the pathback to your comeback.
Speaker 2: Prayer is the pathback to your comeback. So you want
Speaker 2: to join a small group where you've got people praying
Speaker 2: for you when you're going through tough times. Now, you know,
Speaker 2: here at Saddleback Church and our family, we pray specifically
Speaker 2: for people in pain in all of our seven thousand
Speaker 2: plus small groups hoops. Sometimes we like to do it
Speaker 2: right here on the weekends and all of our campuses
Speaker 2: together as a large group. And I'd like to do
Speaker 2: that right now. So what I'd like everybody to do
Speaker 2: is just bow your head in all of our campuses
Speaker 2: if you buy it for a minute, and if you're
Speaker 2: going through a time of grief, or you're going through
Speaker 2: a big conflict, or you've had a big loss, are
Speaker 2: you're feeling lonely, or you're dealing with chronic pain, whatever
Speaker 2: stress you might be facing right now. A health setback,
Speaker 2: a financial setback or any kind of setback. I want
Speaker 2: to lead our entire saddle backed church family in all
Speaker 2: of our four different continents to pray together for you
Speaker 2: right now. And what I want to do as a
Speaker 2: statement of your faith with our heads bowed, no matter
Speaker 2: what campus you're at, if you are going through a
Speaker 2: major problem right now and you need prayer from your
Speaker 2: church family, I'm going to ask you to right now
Speaker 2: to just quietly stand with your head bowed. You don't
Speaker 2: have to say anything, just quietly stand with your head bowed
Speaker 2: as our entire church family prays together for you. Now.
Speaker 2: People are standing up in all of our campuses right now,
Speaker 2: and if you're sitting next to someone who stood up
Speaker 2: just now, you might want to just reach over and,
Speaker 2: you know, pat them on the back, or grab their
Speaker 2: hand and squeeze their hand, just to say we're with you.
Speaker 2: We're a family, we're in this together, and we're supporting you.
Speaker 2: Let's pray together as a church family for all of
Speaker 2: our brothers and sisters who are standing right now. Heavenly Father,
Speaker 2: we don't know all the needs that are being represented
Speaker 2: by those standing, but you do, and just as you
Speaker 2: care about them, we care about them our brothers and sisters.
Speaker 2: So thank you for creating these who are standing right now.
Speaker 2: Thank you for bringing them to be a part of
Speaker 2: our church family. We ask for.
Speaker 3: The things that the Job asked for, asking you to
Speaker 3: give these people wisdom in their situations, give them strength
Speaker 3: in their setbacks.
Speaker 2: For those who are in pain right now, give them relief.
Speaker 2: For those who are having a hard time sleeping because
Speaker 2: they're worrying, help them to sleep better. Together, as a
Speaker 2: church family, we pray that you would encourage the hearts
Speaker 2: of our friends and our family members who are standing
Speaker 2: right now, and we ask your blessing on them turn
Speaker 2: their setbacks into comebacks in Jesus's name. Amen, you may
Speaker 2: be seated if you're facing a setback. I will just
Speaker 2: say it this way. If you're facing a setback, you
Speaker 2: got to join with other people who are going to
Speaker 2: support you. Now. Here's the fourth letter of our trust, acrossteache,
Speaker 2: which is the S and that stands for surrender. Here's
Speaker 2: the fourth step, I surrender my future to God. This
Speaker 2: is exactly what Job did in his comeback. Anytime you
Speaker 2: have a loss, anytime you have a failure or set back,
Speaker 2: what paralyzes you after that is actually not grief. Grief's
Speaker 2: a good thing. What paralyzes you is fear. It's fear
Speaker 2: of the future. And sometimes when you've had a setback,
Speaker 2: people will give you the wrong advice, and that makes
Speaker 2: you even more fearful. Sometimes that wrong advice will come
Speaker 2: from friends that you've trusted, or even family members who
Speaker 2: love you can sometimes give you the wrong advice. In
Speaker 2: Job's case, he got some bad advice from his wife,
Speaker 2: and in Job chapter two, verse nine and ten, it
Speaker 2: says this Job's wife said to Job, are you still
Speaker 2: trying to maintain your integrity? Why don't you just curse
Speaker 2: God and die? Just end it. Job replies to his wife,
Speaker 2: you talk like a godless woman. Should we accept only
Speaker 2: good things from the hand of God and never accept
Speaker 2: anything bad? So in all of this Job said nothing wrong.
Speaker 2: Now notice Job's response to the problem, the setback in
Speaker 2: his life that seems irreversible, his total surrender. He says,
Speaker 2: I don't like it, I don't understand it, but God,
Speaker 2: I surrender my future to you after this major loss.
Speaker 2: In fact, he says in Job thirteen fifteen, one of
Speaker 2: the most famous verses in the Bible, where he says,
Speaker 2: even if God takes my life, I will still trust
Speaker 2: him though he slay me, I will trust him. That
Speaker 2: is surrender. That's surrender no matter what happens in my life.
Speaker 2: I may not understand it, but I belong to God
Speaker 2: and I know those things that are true that God
Speaker 2: made me, He loves me, He has his best interest,
Speaker 2: my best interest in his heart. I know that God
Speaker 2: is in control. I know that this life is not
Speaker 2: all there is. I know there's more to life than
Speaker 2: just here. And now I know that one day I'm
Speaker 2: going to eternally be with God in heaven. These are
Speaker 2: things that give me hope and comfort when I've lost everything.
Speaker 2: I know God is a good God, and I don't
Speaker 2: understand it, and it doesn't look good and it's not good,
Speaker 2: and I'm in a lot of pain. But even if
Speaker 2: God allows my life to be taken, I'm still going
Speaker 2: to trust him because I know the kind of God
Speaker 2: he is, and I know what He's got planned for
Speaker 2: me in heaven. Friends, that is the ultimate expression of
Speaker 2: a mature faith. How mature is your faith? It is
Speaker 2: like a fair weather faith that you only trust God
Speaker 2: when things are going good, Or is it a wimpy
Speaker 2: faith like a washed out baby diaper faith. Or do
Speaker 2: you have the mature faith of a man of God
Speaker 2: or a woman of God that can handle setbacks? Or
Speaker 2: do you just flip out and flake out when things
Speaker 2: go wrong?
Speaker 3: Do you?
Speaker 2: By the way, how do you know when you've got
Speaker 2: a weak faith? Do you know what the sign of
Speaker 2: a weak faith is? One word worry? Worry is the
Speaker 2: warning light that your faith is weak. Matthew six thirty
Speaker 2: two in the CEV translation says this, people who don't
Speaker 2: know God are always worrying when you have a setbacks
Speaker 2: in your life. Listen, you're either gonna worry or you're
Speaker 2: gonna worship. Worry or worship. And the more you focus
Speaker 2: your life on God, the less worry you're gonna worry
Speaker 2: during the during the setback. Now, I want you to
Speaker 2: see the fifth and final step, and uh, you've got
Speaker 2: to do this if you've had a setback that seems irreversible. Okay,
Speaker 2: here's the last way that you show your trust in
Speaker 2: God that you're relying on him. The last ty in
Speaker 2: trust is this, Well, let's first review him. Tell God
Speaker 2: exactly how you feel. That's tea. Are refuse to be bitter,
Speaker 2: You unite with people who help me focus on God
Speaker 2: as surrender every detail of my future to God and
Speaker 2: Tea is trust Jesus for every detail of my comeback.
Speaker 2: Trust Jesus for every detail of my comeback. You have
Speaker 2: to trust Jesus with every detail of your life for
Speaker 2: him to turn that setback into comeback.
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Speaker 4: Did you know experts have discovered that gratitude is the
Speaker 4: healthiest human emotion. It makes you more resistant to stress
Speaker 4: and increases your overall happiness and satisfaction. In fact, study
Speaker 4: show the more grateful a person is, the happier they are.
Speaker 4: That's the power of gratitude. The Bible tells us to rejoice, always,
Speaker 4: pray continually, and give thanks in all circumstances. So it's
Speaker 4: clear that God wants us to develop an attitude of gratitude.
Speaker 4: But we all know it's not always easy to feel grateful.
Speaker 4: That's why Pastoric developed a Bible study called the Power
Speaker 4: of gratitude. This innovative study is filled with scripture, teaching exercises, quotes, prayers,
Speaker 4: and journal pages. As you go through the study, you'll
Speaker 4: discover the many and often unique things you have to
Speaker 4: be grateful for every day. You'll develop the lifelong habit
Speaker 4: of expressing gratitude to God, a habit that leads to
Speaker 4: true happiness and satisfaction. Will send you Pastor Rick's Power
Speaker 4: of Gratitude Bible Study to say thanks when you give
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Speaker 1: Now let's get back to today's lesson. Here on Pastor
Speaker 1: Rick's Daily Hope.
Speaker 2: Listen, you're either gonna worry or you're gonna worship. Worry
Speaker 2: or worship, And the more you focus your life on God,
Speaker 2: the less worry you're gonna worry. During the During the setback,
Speaker 2: now I want you to see the fifth and final step.
Speaker 2: And you've got to do this if you've had a
Speaker 2: setback that seems irreversible. Okay, here's the last way that
Speaker 2: you show your trust in God that you're relying on him.
Speaker 2: The last t is trust is this, Well, let's first
Speaker 2: review him. Tell God exactly how you feel. That's Tea R.
Speaker 2: Refuse to be bitter. You unite with people who helped me,
Speaker 2: focus on God as surrender every detail of my future
Speaker 2: to God. And Tea is, trust Jesus for every detail
Speaker 2: of my comeback. Trust Jesus for every detail of my comeback.
Speaker 2: You have to trust Jesus with every detail of your
Speaker 2: life for him to turn that setback into comeback. Now,
Speaker 2: you know some of you are around when this happened,
Speaker 2: but many of you were not. Many many years ago
Speaker 2: here in the saddle Back Valley, we had a devastating
Speaker 2: wildfire that spread all across the saddle Back Valley and
Speaker 2: many of our members had homes that burned down. And
Speaker 2: what was puzzling is that most of those homes that
Speaker 2: burned down actually had fire resistant roofs, so they thought
Speaker 2: that they were safe from the fiery embers. You know,
Speaker 2: when there's a fire going on, embers float through the
Speaker 2: sky and the winds take them, and when those embers
Speaker 2: land on the roofs, they set the roof on fire,
Speaker 2: and then the house burns down. In this area, many
Speaker 2: of the roofs were fire resistant and fire retardant roofs,
Speaker 2: but it still burned down. Why. Well, what happened is
Speaker 2: that many of those hot embers landed in the roof gutters,
Speaker 2: and the roof gutters were filled with dry leaves that
Speaker 2: had not been cleaned out and had piled up and
Speaker 2: piled up and piled up for months and months and months,
Speaker 2: and those leaves ignited instantly, and the fire got so
Speaker 2: hot in those roof gutters that it melted those gutters
Speaker 2: on those houses, and that fell down and burned the
Speaker 2: entire house down. Now, really, that's a parable of life.
Speaker 2: And as your pastor who loves you and does want
Speaker 2: to see your life go up and smoke, let me
Speaker 2: ask you a straightforward question. What's in the gutter of
Speaker 2: your life that's waiting for just one little spark to
Speaker 2: burn you down? What's in the gutter of your life
Speaker 2: that's waiting for just one little spark that will burn
Speaker 2: you down. On the outside, you may be look looking
Speaker 2: like you got it all together, like your front yard.
Speaker 2: It's perfectly manicured. You got great curb appeal in your life.
Speaker 2: Outwardly you look great, you look successful. But in the
Speaker 2: gutter of your life, there's some stuff that's been piling up.
Speaker 2: And it may be bitterness, and it may be worry,
Speaker 2: and it may be loneliness or confusion or tension or
Speaker 2: guilt or fear. But it's just waiting for one of
Speaker 2: those little embers to ignite, and it could burn you down. Friends,
Speaker 2: you need to give what's in that gutter, in the
Speaker 2: gutter of your life, to Jesus Christ right now, and
Speaker 2: you need to ask him to clean it out so
Speaker 2: when the fires and the storms come along, you're not vulnerable.
Speaker 2: I want you to look at what Jesus promises in
Speaker 2: John sixteen thirty three. He says, by trusting me, you
Speaker 2: will be unshakable and assured, deeply at peace in this world.
Speaker 2: You will continue to experience difficulties, but take heart, because
Speaker 2: I have conquered the world. That's the promise of Jesus Christ,
Speaker 2: and that is the path back to your comeback. Now,
Speaker 2: this is what job did when he lost everything. He
Speaker 2: lost his family, he lost his health, he lost all
Speaker 2: his wealth, he lost his prestige, he lost his power,
Speaker 2: his influence. But he trusted God, and God engineered the
Speaker 2: greatest comeback imaginable. Look at the last verse on your outline.
Speaker 2: It's Job, Chapter forty two, verse ten. The story ends
Speaker 2: like this. After Job prayed for his friends. Why was
Speaker 2: doing that? Because he knew God was going to take
Speaker 2: care of him, So he's prayed for his friends. After
Speaker 2: Job prayed for his friends, the Lord gave him success again.
Speaker 2: That's the comeback. In fact, the Lord restored to Job
Speaker 2: twice as much double of everything that he had been
Speaker 2: blessed with before. That's a comeback. God doubles what he
Speaker 2: had lost in the setback in the comeback because God
Speaker 2: is a faithful God, and Job betrusted God's goodness. Would
Speaker 2: you like to have double for your trouble? That's what
Speaker 2: happened to Job. He got double for his trouble. Well,
Speaker 2: there's only one person gonna do that, Jesus Christ. So
Speaker 2: I want to lead you in a comeback prayer. Would
Speaker 2: you bow your heads as we close together, and all
Speaker 2: of our campuses and those of you watching out line.
Speaker 2: Just bow your head and first tell God exactly how
Speaker 2: you feel about what's going on in your life. Tell
Speaker 2: him God, I'm sad, or I'm lonely, or I'm mad,
Speaker 2: or I'm frustrated, or I'm doubting. Tell God, I'm angry,
Speaker 2: I'm starting to get resentful. Tell God whatever you're feeling
Speaker 2: right now. Just do that. Be honest to God about
Speaker 2: the setback, the problems that you're facing. And with your
Speaker 2: head still a bout, I want you to now tell
Speaker 2: God that you're going to refuse to be bitter, that
Speaker 2: you're going to be better, not bitter, and that you're
Speaker 2: going to trust God for the things that you don't
Speaker 2: understand that have happened in your life. Say God, I
Speaker 2: know that was not good, but you're good and I'm
Speaker 2: going to trust your goodness even in the bad that's happened.
Speaker 2: Just do that now. Now, tell God that you're going
Speaker 2: to get serious, and I mean really serious about the
Speaker 2: you in trust, uniting with people who will help you
Speaker 2: focus on God. You need more worship in your life.
Speaker 2: You need more fellowship in your life. You need a
Speaker 2: small group in your life. You need to be more
Speaker 2: faithful in your attendance at worship, because that's where you're
Speaker 2: going to get the wisdom and the strength and the
Speaker 2: encouragement that you need. Say God, I haven't been faithful
Speaker 2: to you in worship. I haven't been faithful in fellowship,
Speaker 2: but I want to be. I want to unite with others.
Speaker 2: If you're not a member of Saddleback Church, we invite
Speaker 2: you to join us. Sign up for the next class
Speaker 2: one oh one, which is discovering my place in the
Speaker 2: Body of Christ, in the Family of God, discovering my role.
Speaker 2: We welcome you to join the membership of this church. Now.
Speaker 2: The as in trust is surrender. Say in your prayer,
Speaker 2: Dear God, I surrender my future to you. I surrender
Speaker 2: my future to you. I don't know what it is,
Speaker 2: but I surrender. I'm not going to worry about it.
Speaker 2: And finally, the last key is trust. Say Jesus, I'm
Speaker 2: going to trust you with every detail of my comeback.
Speaker 2: I trust Jesus for my comeback. I trust Jesus for
Speaker 2: my future. I trust Jesus to get me out of
Speaker 2: this mess. I'm giving every area of my life to you. Father.
Speaker 2: You hear these prayers and I ask you to bless them.
Speaker 2: And give them a sense that you have heard the
Speaker 2: prayers as they began the next step to their comeback
Speaker 2: in Jesus' name. Amen. Hi everybody, this is Rick and
Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed today's broadcast. You know, if you
Speaker 2: just prayed that prayer for the very first time, or
Speaker 2: you just recommitted your life to Jesus again today, would
Speaker 2: you let me know about it. There's something real about
Speaker 2: sharing your commitment. So write me Rick at pastor Rick
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.
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Speaker 1: But first, did you know that experts have discovered that
Speaker 1: gratitude is the healthiest human emotion It makes you more
Speaker 1: resistant to stress and increases your overall happiness and satisfaction.
Speaker 1: In fact, studies show the more grateful a person is,
Speaker 1: the happier they are. That's the power of gratitude. The
Speaker 1: Bible tells us to rejoice, always, pray continually, and give
Speaker 1: things in all circumstances. So it's clear that God wants
Speaker 1: us to develop an attitude of gratitude. But we all
Speaker 1: know it's not always easy to feel grateful. That's why
Speaker 1: Pastor Rick developed a Bible study called The Power of Gratitude.
Speaker 1: This innovative study is filled with scripture, teaching, exercises, quotes, prayers,
Speaker 1: and journal pages. As you go through the study, you'll
Speaker 1: discover the many and often unique things you have to
Speaker 1: be grateful for every day. You'll develop the lifelong habit
Speaker 1: of expressing gratitude to God, a habit that leads to
Speaker 1: true happiness and satisfaction. Will send you Pastor Rick's Power
Speaker 1: of Gratitude Bible Study to say thanks when you give
Speaker 1: a gift, to help daily hope, take God's word to
Speaker 1: people around the world. Go to Pastorick dot com right
Speaker 1: now to get your copy, or you can just call
Speaker 1: eight hundred six hundred five thousand and four. That's Pastorick
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Speaker 1: Here's Pastor Rick with the closing thought.
Speaker 2: Jesus told his disciples that they should live their lives
Speaker 2: according to five specific purposes. He said, You've got to
Speaker 2: love God with all your heart. That's worship, and love
Speaker 2: your neighbors yourself. That's ministry. That's called the Great Commandment.
Speaker 2: And then Jesus said, go make disciples. That's evangelism. Baptize
Speaker 2: them into the Family of God. That's fellowship, a sign
Speaker 2: of fellowship. And then he said, teach them obay everything
Speaker 2: I've taught you. That's discipleship. And we call that the
Speaker 2: Great Commission. We believe it daily hope that a great
Speaker 2: commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will
Speaker 2: produce a great Christian, a great church, a great company,
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Speaker 2: know as well as I do, that the Word of
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