Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the
Speaker 1: Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren. Now, as we wrap
Speaker 1: up this powerful New year series, we're coming back to
Speaker 1: one of life's most important truths, that you matter to
Speaker 1: God and He created you for a purpose. And today
Speaker 1: is the final message in rick series, Live Your Calling?
Speaker 1: What on Earth am I here for? If You've ever
Speaker 1: longed for direction, clarity, or a deeper sense of meaning,
Speaker 1: this message will remind you that God's plan for your
Speaker 1: life is bigger and better than you think. So let's
Speaker 1: join Rick for his final teaching in the series called
Speaker 1: Why God Made You Now.
Speaker 2: God says I've shaped you to serve me. And then
Speaker 2: the last thing he says, I give you experiences sahape.
Speaker 2: Every experience in your life shapes you, the good ones
Speaker 2: and the bad ones.
Speaker 3: And God you uses family experiences you had growing.
Speaker 2: Up, even bad ones and painful ones. He uses them
Speaker 2: for good. He uses family experiences, He uses vocational experiences,
Speaker 2: the job you've had, educational experiences, the stuff you learned
Speaker 2: in school and outside of school. He spiritual experiences, personal experiences,
Speaker 2: emotional experiences. But the number one thing God uses in
Speaker 2: your life to shape you for serving him is painful experiences.
Speaker 2: God whispers to us in our pleasure, but he shouts
Speaker 2: to us on our pain. Pain is God's megaphone. Pain
Speaker 2: is how God gets your attention. We don't change when
Speaker 2: we see the light. We change when we feel the heat.
Speaker 2: And God says, so, yes, I even use the painful experiences.
Speaker 2: I don't plan them, I don't need. We're living a
Speaker 2: broken planet. You're gonna have plenty of painful experiences caused
Speaker 2: by other people and by yourself. But God says, I
Speaker 2: can even use that to shape you to serve me.
Speaker 2: Ephesians chapter two, verse ten says this God made us
Speaker 2: what we are. He shaped us and in Christ Jesus,
Speaker 2: God made us to watch TV all day. Well, that's
Speaker 2: not what it says, play video games. No, it doesn't
Speaker 2: say that God made us to what what? I can't
Speaker 2: hear you? Would you circle that phrase? God made us
Speaker 2: to do good works. This is the fourth purpose of
Speaker 2: your life. God made you to do good works. Now,
Speaker 2: the word for do good works in the Bible is
Speaker 2: called ministry. You have a ministry on earth. Not everybody's
Speaker 2: a pastor, but everybody has a ministry. Your ministry is
Speaker 2: anytime you use your shape, that's your talent, your abilities,
Speaker 2: all your personality to help other people in God's name.
Speaker 2: That's called ministry. God wants you to practice on earth
Speaker 2: what you're gonna do in heaven. Okay, now let's just review. Remember,
Speaker 2: you're gonna love God in heaven. You're gonna worship in heaven,
Speaker 2: so God wants you to practice here. You're gonna love
Speaker 2: other people in heaven, in fellowship with God's family. So
Speaker 2: God wants you to practice loving people in the good
Speaker 2: family of God.
Speaker 3: Here, real people.
Speaker 2: You're gonna grow in heaven, so God wants you to grow,
Speaker 2: learn to grow like Jesus here in heaven. You're gonna
Speaker 2: serve God. What he wants you to do here practice
Speaker 2: so again, when you get there, you already know how
Speaker 2: to serve God. See a lot of people have this
Speaker 2: false idea about heaven.
Speaker 3: They think that you're.
Speaker 2: Gonna sit around and do nothing in heaven. You're just
Speaker 2: gonna sit around and do nothing boring. No, you're gonna
Speaker 2: do steff in heaven. You're gonna serve God in heaven,
Speaker 2: but you're gonna love to do it. In fact, let
Speaker 2: me just say this, everything you've learned about Heaven in
Speaker 2: movies is one hundred percent wrong. There has never been
Speaker 2: a movie ever made that God Heaven right, none, zero,
Speaker 2: not a zip. Every movie that has ever been made
Speaker 2: of about Heaven is wrong.
Speaker 3: Not one is right. How do I know that?
Speaker 2: Because the Bible says nobody understands how cool Heaven is.
Speaker 2: The Bible says it's so cool you can't even imagine it.
Speaker 2: The Bible says it like this eye has not seen,
Speaker 2: no eye has seen, no ear has heard, neither has
Speaker 2: entered into the heart of man, the wonderful things that
Speaker 2: God has prepared for those who love him. You can't
Speaker 2: even imagine how cool Heaven's going to be because it's
Speaker 2: like an ant trying to understand the Internet. You don't
Speaker 2: have the brain capacity here on Earth. We're limited to
Speaker 2: three dimensions, and we understand three dimensional thinking. What if
Speaker 2: there's four dimensions five, six, seven, eight nine. What if
Speaker 2: their dimensions you don't even know about because your brain
Speaker 2: isn't big enough in a human body to understand that.
Speaker 3: How do you explain that.
Speaker 2: That's why in the Bible, when they try to explain
Speaker 2: in Heaven that he uses metaphors like streets paved with gold.
Speaker 2: They're not going to be paved with gold.
Speaker 3: They were just.
Speaker 2: Thinking of the biggest, most expensive way, the coolest thing
Speaker 2: they could think of. When you go when you see
Speaker 2: a movie about heaven, first, heaven is always white.
Speaker 3: Everything in heaven is white? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: The God had created rainbows, sunrises, sunsets, the colors of
Speaker 2: all the clothes we're wearing, and the ability to see color.
Speaker 2: He's gonna make heaven total white. Not a chance, Not
Speaker 2: a chance. And then it's on clouds. Where did that
Speaker 2: one come from? That's not in the Bible. And you
Speaker 2: walk around like in fog up to your feet, so
Speaker 2: you know what I'm talking about. So you can't even
Speaker 2: see your feet. How do you tie your shoes in heaven?
Speaker 2: You know? If the FOG's up to your knees, that's stupid.
Speaker 2: And then then you wear a white robe, you have
Speaker 2: white wings, and you play a harp.
Speaker 3: That would be hell. I can't if that's heaven.
Speaker 2: No thanks, I don't want to go, really, no thanks,
Speaker 2: I'm not interested.
Speaker 3: I like to beach a whole lot better. Now.
Speaker 2: This world is broken, it's full of sin, and it's
Speaker 2: still cool. There are some waterfalls and I mean unbelievable sights.
Speaker 2: I've seen him around the world and the God who
Speaker 2: made this and this is broken. Imagine the perfection. We
Speaker 2: can't imagine what heaven is going to be like. But
Speaker 2: you're not gonna sit around and do nothing in heaven.
Speaker 2: You're gonna serve. So as I said, God wants you
Speaker 2: to practice serving God, so you're not a dufus when
Speaker 2: you get there, you know how to do it. Now,
Speaker 2: he said, well, how in the world do I serve
Speaker 2: a God who's invisible?
Speaker 3: I can't see him.
Speaker 2: Good point, You're gonna see God in heaven, but we
Speaker 2: don't see him here. So how in the world do
Speaker 2: I serve an invisible God?
Speaker 3: How do I do that?
Speaker 2: Well, the Bible says we serve God by serving others.
Speaker 2: Here on earth. The way to serving God is by
Speaker 2: serving other people. And Jesus said, if you've done it
Speaker 2: to the least of these, you've done it to me.
Speaker 2: And the Bible says, even if you give a cup
Speaker 2: of cold water to somebody, and Jesus he says, that's
Speaker 2: like you just did it to me. We serve God
Speaker 2: by serving others. Jesus said, you can't say you love
Speaker 2: God and hate your brother. The Bible says, if you say, well,
Speaker 2: I don't want to serve other people, you aren't really
Speaker 2: serving God. You cannot say I don't need these people,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to help these people, and then say
Speaker 2: I love God at the same time.
Speaker 3: It's just not true. It's a lie, he says.
Speaker 2: So God made us to serve God by serving other people.
Speaker 2: Now notice this next verse one Peter four to ten.
Speaker 2: It is talking about using your talents to make a
Speaker 2: difference in the world, to make a contribution, to make
Speaker 2: an impact.
Speaker 3: This is your.
Speaker 2: Ministry or your service in life. God has given each
Speaker 2: of you, the Bible says, some special abilities to use
Speaker 2: them to make a lot of money. No, to help
Speaker 2: each other, passing on to others. God's many kinds of blessing.
Speaker 2: God has given you your shape best hape to use
Speaker 2: to benefit the world, to make it a better place,
Speaker 2: and to practice serving God by serving others.
Speaker 3: So write this down.
Speaker 2: The fourth purpose of my life is to serve God
Speaker 2: by serving others. And when you do what you're good at, mechanically, musically,
Speaker 2: preparing a meal, whatever you're good at, whatever you love,
Speaker 2: to do it, and you do it in Jesus' name
Speaker 2: to help others. God says, you're practicing serving me. The
Speaker 2: purpose is to serve God by serving others. One of
Speaker 2: the most traumatic examples of serving God by serving others,
Speaker 2: or serving what I call the undeserving, is the story
Speaker 2: of Ashley Smith.
Speaker 3: Some of you don't even remember.
Speaker 2: This because you're too young when it happened, But in
Speaker 2: two thousand and five, on March eleventh, two thousand and five,
Speaker 2: there was a guy, a criminal in Atlanta named Brian
Speaker 2: Nichols who was on trial. He'd been arrested and was
Speaker 2: on trial for rape, and he was in an Atlanta
Speaker 2: courthouse and somehow in the courthouse he grabbed the gun
Speaker 2: of the deputy in the courthouse, shot the judge and
Speaker 2: killed him in front of everybody, shot a court reporter
Speaker 2: and killed him, shot the deputy, and then shot later
Speaker 2: shot a federal agent, killed four people, and escaped, and
Speaker 2: there was a massive manhunt all over Atlanta trying to
Speaker 2: find Brian, and Brian Nichols was his name, and they
Speaker 2: were searching.
Speaker 3: It was world news.
Speaker 2: I was in Africa working in an AIDS hospice when
Speaker 2: I heard about Brian Nichols and how they We're doing
Speaker 2: this massive manhunt trying to find this guy for days.
Speaker 2: And one of the one of the ways he avoided
Speaker 2: being found out is he took a young woman hostage.
Speaker 2: He kidnapped her, took her to her house and tied
Speaker 2: her up and put her in the bathtub. And her
Speaker 2: name was Ashley Smith.
Speaker 3: I know her.
Speaker 2: And Ashley Smith thought I'm going to be raped and
Speaker 2: I'm going to be killed and started this ordeal. Now,
Speaker 2: it just so happened that Ashley had just started attending
Speaker 2: a church in Atlanta that was using Saddleback's Celebrate Recovery program,
Speaker 2: and she was she was a methadict and she had
Speaker 2: started going to celebrate recovery in a church and somebody
Speaker 2: had given her a copy of Purpose Driven Life, and
Speaker 2: so she was reading it, was laying around the house,
Speaker 2: and over the hours and hours and hours that she
Speaker 2: was held captive by this Brian Nichols, she began to
Speaker 2: talk to him and he saw the book and she said,
Speaker 2: can I.
Speaker 3: Read it to you?
Speaker 2: And he said sure, and so she opened to the
Speaker 2: chapter she was reading, which was chapter thirty four. Thinking
Speaker 2: like a servant, You're shaped to serve God. Thinking like
Speaker 2: a servant, and she began to read it, and he
Speaker 2: asked her to read it aloud to him. And as
Speaker 2: she read it, she made a decision in her mind,
Speaker 2: i may lose my life, but I'm going to serve
Speaker 2: this guy. I'm going to serve the undeserving. And as
Speaker 2: it began to talk about it, he began to soften
Speaker 2: in his approach. He untied her, he led her out
Speaker 2: of the bathtub, and then she fixed him breakfast, made
Speaker 2: him pancakes, and he commented on, you gave me real butter,
Speaker 2: and then he kind of wanted to do something for her,
Speaker 2: and so he hung her curtains. And this whole time
Speaker 2: he's holding her captive, and he kept saying, read me more,
Speaker 2: read me more of purpose driven life. And finally, in
Speaker 2: reading this book to her, she convinced him to let
Speaker 2: her go, and to let she called the police. They
Speaker 2: came outside the house and he came out and turned
Speaker 2: himself in without incident. Imagine you're a young Christian woman
Speaker 2: Ashley's age. You get kidnapped by a guy who's just
Speaker 2: murdered four people.
Speaker 3: He ties you up in the bathtub.
Speaker 2: You're more likely to be thinking about your fear rather
Speaker 2: than serving this guy cooking in pancakes. But it was
Speaker 2: in her servant heartedness serving the undeserving that she was
Speaker 2: most like Jesus. She gained your own freedom and protected
Speaker 2: her life. There's one more purpose that God has you
Speaker 2: here on earth. For you were planned for God's pleasure,
Speaker 2: so you to learn to love and know God. You
Speaker 2: were formed for God's family to learn to love other
Speaker 2: people in the family of God, in the Church family.
Speaker 2: You're created to become like Christ, so you're to grow
Speaker 2: up spiritually your shape to serve God. So you are
Speaker 2: to serve God by serving others. There's one other thing
Speaker 2: God wants you to do on earth. God made me
Speaker 2: for a mission. God made me for a mission. God
Speaker 2: puts you on earth first to know Him, then to
Speaker 2: learn some things, then to become some things, then to
Speaker 2: do some things. And the doing part is called your mission.
Speaker 2: Jesus says in John seventeen, verse eighteen. In the same
Speaker 2: way that the Father gave me a mission in the world,
Speaker 2: I give them a mission in the world. God puts
Speaker 2: you on this planet to make a unique contribution. It
Speaker 2: is my job as your pastor to help you get
Speaker 2: prepared for your ministry and your mission. In the world,
Speaker 2: because one day you're going to stand before God and
Speaker 2: he's going to say, what did you do with what
Speaker 2: I gave you? You're going to answer to God one day
Speaker 2: for what you did with your life.
Speaker 3: What did you do with the talent, the ability?
Speaker 2: Well, I made a lot of money, retired and died
Speaker 2: wrong answer Acts twenty verse twenty four. Paul says this,
Speaker 2: I consider my life to be wasted unless I use
Speaker 2: it to complete my mission and finish the assignment that
Speaker 2: the Lord Jesus has given to me to tell me
Speaker 2: the good news about God's grace.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I don't have time to get into this, but the
Speaker 2: bottom line is that God has a mission and a
Speaker 2: message that he wants to explain through you to the world.
Speaker 2: You have a unique life message and a unique life mission.
Speaker 2: Proverbs nineteen twenty one says this, we can make all
Speaker 2: kinds of plans, but only God's purposes will last forever.
Speaker 2: Question what are you following right now? Your plan for
Speaker 2: your life or God's plan for your life?
Speaker 3: Huh?
Speaker 2: You follow on God's plan or you following your plan?
Speaker 2: You follow on your plan? How's that working for you?
Speaker 2: If feel pretty fulfilled, pretty satisfied, feel like man, I'm
Speaker 2: really My life is exactly what was supposed to be.
Speaker 2: The Bible says, only God's purposes will last forever. You
Speaker 2: know what the problem with most people is today. Their
Speaker 2: dreams are too small. Their dreams are too small. The
Speaker 2: biggest dream that most people have is I just want
Speaker 2: to be happy. I just want to live the good life. Really,
Speaker 2: and we define the good life in southern California as
Speaker 2: looking good, feeling good, and having the goods. There's only
Speaker 2: one problem with the good life. It isn't good enough.
Speaker 2: It doesn't satisfy. There are thousands of people in southern
Speaker 2: California who look good, feel good, and have the goods
Speaker 2: and are miserable. I talk to them all the time,
Speaker 2: because you were made for more. And at some point
Speaker 2: you put your head down on a pillow at night
Speaker 2: and you go, there's got to be more than this.
Speaker 2: There's got to be more than the good life. And
Speaker 2: the reason you think that is because there.
Speaker 3: Is there is.
Speaker 2: You were made for so much more than you're living
Speaker 2: right now, so much more than you're living right now.
Speaker 2: You were made for more than the good life. You
Speaker 2: were made for the better life. The Bible says, this
Speaker 2: second Corinthians five. Jesus included everyone in his death, so
Speaker 2: everyone could be included in this life, a far better life.
Speaker 2: There's that word, better life, not the good life. The
Speaker 2: better life, a far better life than people ever lived
Speaker 2: on their own. The good life isn't good enough. You
Speaker 2: were made for more. You're made for the better life,
Speaker 2: the step up of fulfilling God's purposes for your life.
Speaker 2: You say, how do I get that? How do I
Speaker 2: get to the better life? The Bible says this in
Speaker 2: wrote Psalm thirty four to eight. Open your eyes, Open
Speaker 2: your eyes and see how good God is, how much
Speaker 2: He loves you. Blessed are you who run to I
Speaker 2: like that word run, because here's the point. If all
Speaker 2: of a sudden somebody told me that there was a
Speaker 2: better life than I'm living.
Speaker 3: Right now, I'm in. I'm in. I'm not gonna wait.
Speaker 2: I don't think about it, I don't procrastinate, I don't delay.
Speaker 2: I don't say one day I'll check it out that
Speaker 2: there might possibly a better be a better life that
Speaker 2: I'm mar right now. No, I'm gonna run if somebody
Speaker 2: tells me there's a better way to live than I'm
Speaker 2: living right now, I'm gonna run to it because I
Speaker 2: decided a long time ago I'm not gonna waste my life.
Speaker 2: You may waste your life, but I'm not gonna waste mine.
Speaker 2: And if there's a better way to live, then I'm
Speaker 2: gonna run to it. And how do you run to it?
Speaker 2: Open your eyes and see how good God is. Now,
Speaker 2: if I could only teach you one thing, if I
Speaker 2: only had one message to preach in my entire life,
Speaker 2: it would be this. When your eyes open your eyes,
Speaker 2: open your eyes to the goodness of God, Receive the
Speaker 2: love of God. No man will ever love you, no
Speaker 2: woman will ever love you like your creator does well
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ does. And to go entirely through your entire
Speaker 2: life disconnected from your Creator, who loves you that much.
Speaker 3: Makes no sense at all.
Speaker 2: If somebody was willing to die for you, wouldn't you
Speaker 2: want to know about it? If somebody loved you so
Speaker 2: much they died for you, wouldn't you want to know them.
Speaker 2: Somebody did die for you. His name is Jesus Christ,
Speaker 2: and he died for you to pay for all the
Speaker 2: things you've done wrong so you could live a life
Speaker 2: of purpose formed for God's family, plan, for God's pleasure,
Speaker 2: created to become like Christ's shape, to serve God made
Speaker 2: for a mission, and might plead to you, as your pastors,
Speaker 2: do not waste your life. Decide right now that for
Speaker 2: the rest of your life, you're gonna give the best
Speaker 2: of your life, not to your girlfriend, not to your boyfriend,
Speaker 2: not to your job, not to something else.
Speaker 3: But to God and his kingdom.
Speaker 2: Because you weren't put here for all those other things.
Speaker 2: You were put here for these purposes, and to ignore
Speaker 2: them is an enormous waste of your life. There's no
Speaker 2: accident that you were here this weekend. God knows that
Speaker 2: you've been frustrated with your life. He knows your hurts,
Speaker 2: he knows your sadnesses, he knows your fears. He knows
Speaker 2: the turmoil that goes inside of you. He knows the
Speaker 2: loneliness you feel when you put your head down on
Speaker 2: the pillow at night. He knows the insecure that you
Speaker 2: feel that you don't want to admit to anybody else.
Speaker 3: He knows all of that. And you may have thought,
Speaker 3: there's got to be a better way to live.
Speaker 2: There is.
Speaker 3: I just taught it to you. There is. I call
Speaker 3: it a purpose driven life. I don't care what you
Speaker 3: call it, Just do it.
Speaker 2: Become what God made you to be, the man God
Speaker 2: bade you to be, the woman God made you to be.
Speaker 2: Matthew eleven. Jesus says, are you tired? Are you worn out?
Speaker 2: Are you burned out on religion? Then come to me
Speaker 2: for a real rest. He's not talking about religion. He
Speaker 2: says a relationship. Come to me for a real rest,
Speaker 2: and you'll recover your life, and you'll learn to live
Speaker 2: freely and lightly. And who is this invitation available to
Speaker 2: next Verse Acts ten thirty five. It makes no difference
Speaker 2: who you are or where you're from. If you want
Speaker 2: God and you're ready to do as he says, the
Speaker 2: door is open. Doesn't matter who you are, where you
Speaker 2: are from, what's your background, doesn't matter what you've done,
Speaker 2: who you've done it with, or how long you've done
Speaker 2: It makes no difference what your religious background is. You
Speaker 2: may be Buddhist or Baptist, or Muslim or Mormon or
Speaker 2: Methodist or Catholic or Christian or Jewish or Hindu. You
Speaker 2: may be an atheist and agnostic. I don't care what background,
Speaker 2: no background at all. It says, this offer is available
Speaker 2: to you. And it says don't even matter. If you
Speaker 2: have doubts, bring your doubts with you. Doubt your doubts
Speaker 2: and believe your beliefs. At the bottom of your message notes,
Speaker 2: I have written a prayer to start living the life
Speaker 2: that God created you to live the life of purpose.
Speaker 2: And here's what I want us to do. I want
Speaker 2: us to read this aloud together. So here's what I'd
Speaker 2: like to ask you to do. Bow your head right now,
Speaker 2: but keep your eyes open, and I want you to
Speaker 2: look at your notes and read it now. If you
Speaker 2: don't have the notes in front of you, look up
Speaker 2: here on the screen and read it. We're going to
Speaker 2: preyate this prayer aloud together, so you can bow your
Speaker 2: head and read it on the notes so you can
Speaker 2: look up here on the screen.
Speaker 3: Let's say it together.
Speaker 2: Dear God, everything you created has a purpose, including me.
Speaker 2: I don't want to miss my purpose or waste my
Speaker 2: life or live it disconnected from you anymore. Instead, I
Speaker 2: want to become what you design me to be. Starting today,
Speaker 2: I want to follow your plan for my life, not
Speaker 2: my plan. You made me for a relationship with you,
Speaker 2: so I want to get to know you and love
Speaker 2: you and trust you.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: For sending Jesus to pay for my sin. Help me
Speaker 2: to understand that. I humbly ask that you accept me
Speaker 2: into your family forever. I want to grow more like
Speaker 2: Jesus every day, and I want to use my life
Speaker 2: on earth to serve You by serving others. Help me
Speaker 2: to share this good news with others and to fulfill
Speaker 2: my life mission. I invite you into every area of
Speaker 2: my life.
Speaker 3: Amen.
Speaker 2: You know if you just prayed that prayer for the
Speaker 2: very first time, or you just recommitted your life to
Speaker 2: Jesus again today, would you let me know about it.
Speaker 2: There's something real about sharing your commitment. So write me
Speaker 2: Rick at pastor Rick dot com and say, Rick, I
Speaker 2: prayed that prayer of commitment, I gave my life to
Speaker 2: christ and I'll send you some material that will help
Speaker 2: you on your journey with Jesus, and I'll also pray
Speaker 2: for you. God bless you.
Speaker 1: That was such an encouraging mesas from Pastor Rick. And
Speaker 1: now to encourage us more, here's Rick with a letter
Speaker 1: from one of our listeners.
Speaker 2: Hello everybody, today, I want to share with you the
Speaker 2: story of Christine who wrote to me. She says she
Speaker 2: lost everything, but I want you to listen how God
Speaker 2: is working in her life now. Christine wrote this to me,
Speaker 2: Pastor Rick, Daily Hope has brought me out of some
Speaker 2: truly dark times. Three and a half years ago, my
Speaker 2: marriage of thirteen years ended. My husband was an atheist,
Speaker 2: and I decided early on in our relationship that he
Speaker 2: would be my number one priority, not God. And for
Speaker 2: thirteen years I tolerated being lied to and cheated on
Speaker 2: and told of, believing that God was stupid and foolish.
Speaker 2: And then he ended it all and I was left
Speaker 2: alone with nothing, no friends, no home, no family. And
Speaker 2: as I was facing a new life on my own,
Speaker 2: a coworker recommended that I listened to the Daily ho podcast,
Speaker 2: and after a few weeks of listening, I got up
Speaker 2: the nerve to return to church for the first time
Speaker 2: in over thirteen years. It's been challenging starting my life
Speaker 2: all over again, and I still encounter obstacles almost daily,
Speaker 2: but I have also grown and I've healed a lot
Speaker 2: over the last three years. Now, I continue to listen
Speaker 2: to the Daily Hope podcast, and I just purchased your book,
Speaker 2: A Purpose Driven Life. I've been going to church deadly
Speaker 2: and I even sing now on our worship team. Had
Speaker 2: it not been for Daily Hope, I don't know if
Speaker 2: I would have ever returned to church or to God,
Speaker 2: but I'm so glad that I did. Thank you Daily Hope. Well,
Speaker 2: you know, thanks for writing Christine. Your story is a
Speaker 2: great reminder that God can use any pain in our
Speaker 2: lives to draw us closer to Him if we'll give
Speaker 2: it to him, and then He can bring good even
Speaker 2: out of all the bat if we will just trust him. Now,
Speaker 2: notice that Christine found out about Daily Hope and the
Speaker 2: podcast because a coworker shared it when she was facing
Speaker 2: dark days. It was just a simple act by a friend,
Speaker 2: simply forwarding a podcast that helped Christine start her journey
Speaker 2: back to God, and it helped her reconnect with a
Speaker 2: church family. What a simple step to make such a
Speaker 2: major change in someone's life. Can you think of somebody
Speaker 2: in pain right now that you could forward on the
Speaker 2: Daily Hope podcast too. Can you think of somebody who's suffering,
Speaker 2: somebody who is questioning, somebody who's in despair. Would you
Speaker 2: do that for a friend? Would you share Daily Hope
Speaker 2: with someone in your family or someone at work. I'd
Speaker 2: like you to just pray and ask God say, God,
Speaker 2: show me the people around me that you want to know.
Speaker 2: You show me the people that I should share daily
Speaker 2: Hope with. If you do that, I am certain God
Speaker 2: will show you. He'll bring names and faces to mind.
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