WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:06.440 Hello, everybody. This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope with Rick Warren. 2 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:10.279 I'm really glad you're here today. We're continuing our series 3 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:14.279 from Psalm twenty three called living in the Goodness of God. 4 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:17.320 It's all about how God's goodness meets you right where 5 00:00:17.399 --> 00:00:21.600 you are and brings hope even in difficult seasons. Okay, 6 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:24.800 now here's the final part of a message called from 7 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:28.120 Overwhelmed to Overflowing. 8 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:32.479 First Corinthians, Chapter four, verse seven. Who says you're better 9 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:36.280 than others? What do you have that was not given 10 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:38.719 to you by God? Everything you've got is a gift 11 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:41.960 of God's goodness. The air you're breathing right now, the 12 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:43.960 heart that is beating right now, is a gift of 13 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:44.679 God's goodness. 14 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:46.359 And if it wasn't given to. 15 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:49.799 You, why do you brag as if you didn't receive 16 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:54.719 it as a gift. It's all a gift, folks. Let 17 00:00:54.759 --> 00:00:59.240 me ask a real serious question. You want to be healthy, 18 00:00:59.399 --> 00:01:02.399 you want to live longer. Look at the next verse. 19 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:06.359 Proverbs fourteen thirty. The Bible says it's healthy to be content, 20 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:11.000 but envy will eat you up. And the more you 21 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:13.280 go out there and you look at what other people doing. 22 00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:15.560 The more envious you get, the more jealous you get, 23 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:18.280 and the more resentful you get. He said, it will 24 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:22.760 eat you up Ecclesiastes four to six. It's better to 25 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:26.519 be content with what you have than to always be 26 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:31.879 struggling for moral more. That's like chasing the wind. In 27 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:35.000 the New Testament, Paul says, I've learned to be content. 28 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:39.000 It has to be learned. You see, by nature, I'm 29 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:40.560 not a naturally contented person. 30 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:42.120 Neither are you. 31 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:45.680 By nature, you are not a naturally contented woman. You're 32 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:50.120 not a naturally contented man. By nature, you are naturally discontented. 33 00:01:50.599 --> 00:01:52.879 And that creates a lot of overwhelmingness in your life. 34 00:01:54.280 --> 00:01:56.120 But if you listen and do it what God says 35 00:01:56.200 --> 00:01:59.280 you learn to be content, that's a good thing. You see, 36 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:08.520 all those negat the things that stress you out, worry, jealousy, resentment, anger, fear, insecurity, 37 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:14.560 feeling unloved, feeling unworthy, feeling ashamed, feeling guilty. 38 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:17.400 All those different things. Guess what they're all learned now. 39 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:21.879 Anything you can learn, you can unlearn, and the stuff 40 00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:25.479 you need to learn, like learn to be content is 41 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:29.599 what life's all about. Learn to be unselfish, learn to 42 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:34.400 be grateful, learn to connect to God every day of 43 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:38.240 your life. He said, that's going to help you learn contentment. 44 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:41.080 Get your eyes off other people. You know, the richest people. 45 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:41.199 In the world. 46 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:43.360 I know a lot of people who are very rich. 47 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:48.159 I probably know a dozen or so billionaires, and they 48 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:52.199 would tell you themselves, there is no amount that will 49 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:54.479 bring you at happiness because you always want just. 50 00:02:54.479 --> 00:02:57.840 A little bit more, just a little bit more. 51 00:02:58.599 --> 00:03:01.919 And the wealthiest this person in the world is not 52 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:05.719 the one with the most money. The wealthiest person in 53 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:08.639 the world is the one who's most contented with. 54 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:09.199 What they've got. 55 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:12.439 Because you can have a ton of money and still 56 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:17.719 be miserable. God says, I want you to stop griping 57 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:20.159 and start being grateful. And I want you to stop 58 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:24.400 comparing and start being contented. And then there's one more. 59 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:27.879 This one's the hardest of all. Stop being stingy and 60 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:31.400 start being generous. If you want to move from the 61 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:34.520 overwhelmed lifestyle, I can't tell you how important this key 62 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:36.479 is in your life. If you want to move from 63 00:03:36.520 --> 00:03:39.759 being overwhelmed all the time to being overflowing all the time, 64 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:44.479 you must move from being stingy to being generous and 65 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:46.719 I'm not just talking about money. I'm talking about your time. 66 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:52.520 Generous with your energy, generous with your compliments. Stinginess is 67 00:03:52.680 --> 00:03:57.879 evidence of a shortage mentality. Stinginess is evidence of a 68 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:03.000 shortage mindset. I only enough, and if I give it away, 69 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:05.919 I'm not gonna have enough for me. That's a shortage mentality. 70 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:09.280 It means you don't trust the goodness of God when 71 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:12.560 you say I can't afford to tithe, I can't afford 72 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:14.719 to be generous with the guy on the street. I 73 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:18.519 can't afford to give money away to other people. I 74 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:23.360 needed all for me. You don't understand how the universe 75 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:29.120 operates because God wired a universal law into the universe, 76 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:31.639 and it's this, the more you give away. 77 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:33.920 The more you're gonna get. 78 00:04:34.199 --> 00:04:36.680 And God wired the universe in that way that the 79 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:39.319 more you give, the more you get. He did that 80 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:42.319 because he wants you to become like him. God is 81 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:46.319 a giver. The most generous being of all is God. 82 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:50.680 Everything we have is a gift of God's generosity, and 83 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:52.680 God wants you to learn to be like him. 84 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:54.680 Like father, like son, like father like daughter. 85 00:04:55.519 --> 00:05:00.279 God so loved the world that he gave. You can 86 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:04.399 give without loving but you cannot love without getting. This 87 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:07.519 really upsets some people when you hit the stingy nerve 88 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:11.079 in them. It just irritates them because they don't understand 89 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:15.279 the universe is. The more generous I am, the more 90 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:19.399 God is gonna bless me in every single area of life. 91 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:24.639 You're gonna overflow. When I'm afraid to give away, it 92 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:27.920 means I'm living a shortage mentality. I'm not living a 93 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:30.720 surplus mentality. It's like, well, if I give away my 94 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:33.680 piece of the pie, then then you get more. No, 95 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:36.120 that's not what it's that about at all. Look at 96 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:40.879 what the Bible says Two Corinthians, Chapter nine. Remember this, 97 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:45.680 A stingy planner will only reap a small crop. You know, 98 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:46.920 I grow vegetables. 99 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:47.680 I'm a farmer. 100 00:05:48.120 --> 00:05:50.399 Last year I grew fifty six kinds of vegetables and 101 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:52.800 eighteen kinds of fruit. Now, how about if I got 102 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:54.879 a package of tomato seas, I gotta well, I got 103 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:57.079 two hundred seed this pact, I'm only gonna plant one 104 00:05:57.160 --> 00:06:01.319 seed because I bet I better hold onto these. I 105 00:06:01.399 --> 00:06:06.040 might lose them. The only way I'm gonna benefit from these, 106 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:08.120 I'll lose them if they keep and see they'll just die. 107 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:10.560 But if I plant them in the ground, I'm going 108 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:13.720 to get far more back than I plant it. You 109 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:16.680 plant one kernel of corn, do you get back one kernel? No, 110 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:20.720 you get back stalks of corn with thousands of kernels 111 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:21.079 on them. 112 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:24.040 You always get back more than you put out. He says. 113 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:27.839 Remember this, A stingy planter will only reap a small crop, 114 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:32.759 But anyone who sows generously will also reap generously. So 115 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:37.439 each of you should give serious consideration to what you 116 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:40.040 want to give God, he says. Don't ever give emotionally. 117 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:43.839 He says, think about it, be rational, Give serious consideration 118 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:48.319 what you want to give God, not reluctantly or under pressure. 119 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:50.759 For God loves a cheerful giver. Now you heard me 120 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:54.040 say this many times. Never give under pressure. If anybody 121 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:57.199 ever pressures you to give, don't give because you don't 122 00:06:57.199 --> 00:06:59.120 get any credit for it. If you felt pressure for me, 123 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:02.319 don't give because you don't get any credit for it. 124 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:04.480 God loves cheerful giver. You only get it when you. 125 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:08.560 God doesn't need my money. God doesn't need your money. 126 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:11.079 He's got He's the source of all his supply. He 127 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:15.759 wants what it represents your heart. Do you trust him. 128 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:17.759 Do you have a shortage mentality or do you have 129 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:20.959 a surplus mentality? Do I think if I give away anything, 130 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:23.879 I've got my energy, my time. If I give away compliments, 131 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:25.519 maybe I won't get complimented. 132 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:28.759 He says, you can be sure. 133 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:32.279 Here's the promise that God is able to bless you 134 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:37.839 with all grace, so that in all things, at all times, 135 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:43.279 you will always have all you need, and you'll also overflow. 136 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:46.800 That's the overflowing life, so that you can give to 137 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:47.759 every good work. 138 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:51.519 Good night. That's like seven alls. Let's circle him. 139 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:56.439 Okay, this is a pretty cut and dried promise from God. 140 00:07:56.639 --> 00:07:59.000 Those He says, God is able to bless you with 141 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:03.160 all his grace. Circle that all is grace, so that 142 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:07.199 in all things. Circle that at all times. Circle that 143 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:12.279 you will always circle that have all you need. Circle 144 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:17.040 that you'll also overflow that circle that so that you 145 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:20.079 can give to every good work. Circle that that's a 146 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:21.560 pretty amazing promise. 147 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:22.480 He said. 148 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:26.439 If you'll learn to be generous with your time, if 149 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:28.639 you'll learn to be generous with your money, that's the 150 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:31.920 acid test of do you trust God? You have a 151 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:36.279 shortage mentality or surplus mentality? Most of you know, Kay 152 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:39.720 and my testimony on this. Forty two years ago and 153 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:44.679 can I got married, we started tithing. Tithe means ten percent. 154 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:46.679 God says first ten percent goes back to God. So 155 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:51.559 we when we're just really young, forty two years ago, 156 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:55.440 we start giving ten percent. I was only making like 157 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:58.559 two hundred dollars a week. I was in school, and 158 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:01.600 so if we made two hundred, twenty bucks went to God. 159 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:04.679 We made one thousand dollars, one hundred bucks went to God. 160 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:06.639 We said, we may be in debt to other people, 161 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:09.519 we're not gonna be in debt to God, Okay, because 162 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:13.320 we trust him. He's gonna He's our source, not us. 163 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:17.600 He's not We're not the faucet. He's the source. And 164 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:19.679 at the end of our first year marriage, we raised 165 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:21.960 our giving to eleven percent. Nobody told us to do this, 166 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:23.399 doesn't even stay in the Bible do it. We just 167 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:26.960 wanted to do it to be more generous. Second year 168 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:29.879 of marriage, we raised our giving to twelve percent. Third 169 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:33.000 year we raised it to thirteen percent. Now, we weren't 170 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:35.720 bragging on this. We never told anybody about for thirty years, 171 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:38.399 and we weren't trying to show off we're just I 172 00:09:38.559 --> 00:09:40.360 wanted to grow in generosity. 173 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:42.440 Every time I. 174 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:45.759 Give, it breaks the grip of materialism in my life. 175 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:49.000 The antidote to get get, get, get get is give, give, give, 176 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:49.559 give get. 177 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:53.840 Every time I give, my heart grows bigger. Every time 178 00:09:53.879 --> 00:09:57.320 I give, I become more loving. Every time I give, 179 00:09:57.480 --> 00:10:01.200 I become more like Jesus. And so every year we 180 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:03.480 just raise our giving. Now some years I'm out of 181 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:06.879 work or I'm in graduate school, the cupboard is bear, 182 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:10.360 we'd still raise our giving quarter of a percent because 183 00:10:10.360 --> 00:10:12.240 we wanted to be more generous the next year, the 184 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:15.360 new were the previous. Some years we've had a landfall. 185 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:18.120 I'd get a job, or get a raise, or have 186 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:20.879 a royalty or something, and we'd raise our givings sometimes 187 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:24.840 three or four percent. And I can't tell you what 188 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:27.600 a joy that is. I don't take a salary from 189 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:29.679 this church. You know that I've served this church for 190 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:34.679 free for thirty eight years. But I've trusted God, and 191 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:36.919 I've played this game with God for thirty eight years 192 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:39.399 where God are at forty two years, where God says, rick, 193 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:42.120 you give to me, and I'll give to you and 194 00:10:42.159 --> 00:10:48.879 we'll see who wins. And I've lost that game for 195 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:54.519 forty two years. You cannot outgive God. I remember one 196 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:57.159 time Kay and I took Matthew, you and our son 197 00:10:57.200 --> 00:10:59.960 who had the mental health issues, took him up to 198 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:02.919 Pasadena for counseling to a doctor. And in Ca said, 199 00:11:02.919 --> 00:11:04.759 I'll go in with a doctor, and I said, well, 200 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:08.159 I'm just gonna go get some deep. So it's downtown Pasadena, 201 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:10.240 and I walked a little burger shack and I got 202 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:12.720 a burger and some fries, something to drink, and I 203 00:11:12.759 --> 00:11:17.200 went over and I sat down on the steps of 204 00:11:17.639 --> 00:11:21.799 an old church church downtown right off Colorado Boulevard. I'm 205 00:11:21.799 --> 00:11:23.559 just sitting there on the steps, start to eat my lunch, 206 00:11:23.639 --> 00:11:25.799 and all of a sudden they turn around and realize 207 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:28.519 there are three homeless people sitting on these same steps. 208 00:11:30.320 --> 00:11:31.799 So I look around and go, hey, would you guys 209 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:33.559 like to share my lunch? What am I doing? I'm 210 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:36.320 just trying to be generous, a simple thing. 211 00:11:36.879 --> 00:11:38.720 You guys want to share my lunch? Yeah? 212 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:41.080 So I took my lunch and I divided into the 213 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:44.080 burger into four pieces and handed him there and handed 214 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:46.120 each one in equal number fries. I did not share 215 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:49.799 my drink, but I shared all of that, and we 216 00:11:49.799 --> 00:11:51.679 had a good time. We just told a bunch of jokes, 217 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:55.000 had a good time talking, having fun, And about thirty 218 00:11:55.039 --> 00:11:56.879 minutes later I got afraid to leave and I started 219 00:11:56.879 --> 00:11:59.600 walking away. One of the guy goes, I know who 220 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:04.279 you are? And I go, how do you know who 221 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:04.600 I am? 222 00:12:04.919 --> 00:12:07.720 He goes, you're pastor. Rick said, how do you know 223 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:08.240 who I am? 224 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:12.840 He said, because five years ago, on the other side 225 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:15.919 of town in Santa Monica, about forty five to fifty 226 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:19.519 minutes from here, he said, I was sitting outside a 227 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:24.399 taco joined at midnight, and you were up at UCLA 228 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:27.399 visiting somebody in the hospital, and you'd gone out to 229 00:12:27.399 --> 00:12:30.039 get some meals and you stopped and as you got 230 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:32.120 out of the car, you saw me sitting there by myself, 231 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:34.480 kind of huddled, and you go, hey, can I buy 232 00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:35.000 you lunch? 233 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:35.960 Can I buy you dinner? 234 00:12:36.759 --> 00:12:38.720 And you brought me in a toll stranger and bought 235 00:12:38.759 --> 00:12:45.080 me food and drink. He says, I've never forgotten that. Now, 236 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:48.440 what's the likelihood of me meeting the same homeless guy 237 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:53.039 five years later, fifty minutes away on the other side 238 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:56.360 of la As I walked away, I said, God, what 239 00:12:56.399 --> 00:12:58.159 are you doing here, He goes, I just want you 240 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:03.559 to know I notice, I noticed the little stuff, and 241 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:06.240 the more generous you are, the more I'm going to 242 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:11.120 be generous with you. Have you ever wondered why you 243 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:15.240 don't have enough? You remember the story of Daniel. We 244 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:18.440 studied Daniel for about twelve weeks when God took the 245 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:20.759 nation of Israel and they were taken captive in Babylon 246 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:24.080 for seventy years. And then later God said you can 247 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:25.919 go back home. But he said this here's the key. 248 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:28.600 I want you to put me first in your time, 249 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:32.000 in your life, in your money, in your day. And 250 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:33.840 he goes, when you go back home, just to prove it, 251 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:34.879 the first thing I want you to do is I 252 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:37.440 want you to rebuild the temple which was destroyed, which 253 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:40.120 is a symbol that worship comes first. God comes first 254 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:45.399 in my life. All those people went back home to Israel, 255 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:47.840 and you know what they did. They forgot it and 256 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:50.039 they didn't put God first. They didn't build a temple. 257 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:52.240 And there's a whole book in the Bible about this 258 00:13:52.559 --> 00:13:55.039 mixed priorities. God says, if you put me first, I'll 259 00:13:55.080 --> 00:13:57.559 bless you. It's called the book of Hagi. Look up 260 00:13:57.559 --> 00:14:00.879 here on the screen. Here's what hag I said. You know, 261 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:02.720 you spend a lot of money, but you don't have 262 00:14:02.799 --> 00:14:05.240 much to show for it. You got food, but you 263 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:07.840 don't have enough to fill you up. You have drink, 264 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:11.000 but not enough to satisfy your thirst. You have clothes 265 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:14.279 but not enough to stay warm. You earn money, but 266 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:16.519 it disappears as fast as if you had holes in 267 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:20.080 your pocket, he said, in the income that you bring home, 268 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:23.480 it just gets blown away. Consider Have you considered why 269 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:26.960 this is happening because you're too busy building your own 270 00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:29.840 fine house that you haven't built my temple, the house 271 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:32.960 of worship, And that's why I'm withholding your blessing. 272 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:37.159 WHOA, We'll just. 273 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:42.759 Let that one set there, Okay. Could this be the 274 00:14:42.799 --> 00:14:46.240 reason that I don't have that I'm overwhelmed instead of overflowing, 275 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:50.159 that I don't have enough? Have you ever read God's 276 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:53.320 challenge versus the Bible? I call it the Pepsi challenge verse. 277 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:56.360 Look at this verse Malachi three to ten. This is 278 00:14:56.360 --> 00:14:58.960 bring your full tide to my storehouse, so there will 279 00:14:58.960 --> 00:14:59.639 be food. 280 00:14:59.360 --> 00:14:59.919 In my house. 281 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:03.440 Talking about where you worship, test me in this he says, 282 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:05.960 I dare you I dare you test me in this, 283 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:08.639 says the Lord. And see if I won't open up 284 00:15:08.679 --> 00:15:12.080 for you the windows of heaven and pour out for 285 00:15:12.200 --> 00:15:15.120 you a blessing until it read the word with me 286 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:20.000 over flows. That's the overflowing life, he says, I dare 287 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:22.279 you put me first in your time? See if I 288 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:25.039 don't bless your time, put me first in your relationship. 289 00:15:25.080 --> 00:15:27.120 See if I don't bless that, Put me first in 290 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:29.879 your money. See if I don't bless that. Whatever you 291 00:15:29.879 --> 00:15:33.399 want God to bless you, put him first in you 292 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:36.919 trust Jesus, he said, Well, I trust him to get 293 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:39.440 me to heaven. Do you trust him for anything else? 294 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:42.559 How much we'll close to this verse here on the screen. 295 00:15:42.960 --> 00:15:46.879 Jesus says this words of Jesus, if you give, you 296 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:50.480 will receive back. Your gift will be returned to you 297 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:54.000 in full measure. Pack down, shaking us like when you're 298 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:55.960 shaking a thing to get all the air out of it, 299 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:59.080 shaken to make room for more, and running over that 300 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:01.919 phrase right there, running it's the same phrase as David 301 00:16:01.919 --> 00:16:03.879 in the Lord's in the Psalm twenty three. 302 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:08.720 My cup runs over. It's the overflowing life. How do 303 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:10.559 you get that? Life. He just says it. 304 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:14.039 Whatever measure you use in giving, large or small, it'll 305 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:17.879 be used to measure whatever is given back to you. 306 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:21.360 And finally, Jesus says this on the screen, Matthew nine 307 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:24.360 twenty nine, according to your faith, it would be done 308 00:16:24.600 --> 00:16:29.879 to you. Let's bow our heads. Are you tired of 309 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:36.480 being overwhelmed? Have you had a shortage mindset? Then I 310 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:38.559 won't have enough time. I won't have enough money, I 311 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:42.840 won't have enough energy, I won't have enough contexts. Let 312 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:46.799 me ask you, what are you lacking? What do you 313 00:16:46.840 --> 00:16:54.279 need more of? More time, more money, more energy, more knowledge, 314 00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:57.960 more opportunity. I want to challenge you to commit to 315 00:16:58.039 --> 00:17:04.640 the four daily habits of an overflowing life. Would you say, 316 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:10.759 right now, Dear God, I will connect with you every day. 317 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:12.759 I'm going to be like the vine in the branch. 318 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:15.759 I want to bear fruit. I gotta stay connected. I 319 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:20.200 gotta spend time with Jesus every day through prayer and meditation. 320 00:17:20.359 --> 00:17:21.920 There's not going to be a day of my life 321 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:23.640 that I don't spend some time with you. How can 322 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:25.680 I have a relationship to God if I never spend 323 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:30.160 any time with him? You say, I will connect, I 324 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:34.160 will do that habit of daily connecting with God. I 325 00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:37.640 have a class on it, Class two oh one. Will 326 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:41.160 you say I'm going to stop complaining and start being 327 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:45.799 more grateful every day? Say God, I want to start 328 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:49.079 every day with a list of ten, twelve, fifteen things. 329 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:52.599 I just get up and start by being grateful, not grumpy, 330 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:59.759 grateful not griping, grateful, not complaining, And then say God, 331 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:03.200 I want to develop this habit of stop comparing myself 332 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:10.359 and start being contented. Stop comparing, start being contented every day. 333 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:12.440 Stop living my. 334 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:15.160 Life for the approval of others, whether in the neighborhood, 335 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:20.079 at school, or on the internet. Help me to be me, 336 00:18:20.920 --> 00:18:24.799 not somebody else. And God, I'm going to stop being 337 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:29.839 stingy and start being generous every day, Generous with my 338 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:35.160 words of praise, generous with my time, generous with my talent, 339 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:40.440 generous with my treasure, generous in every area of my life. 340 00:18:40.440 --> 00:18:43.079 Maybe I need to start tithing Lord, just to trust 341 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:47.880 you and your goodness. If you've never opened your life 342 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:50.039 to Christ, say Jesus Christ, I want to learn to 343 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:55.720 trust you. I'm tired of living an overwhelmed life. Don't 344 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:59.279 want to live an overflowing life. Help me to do 345 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:02.319 it your way because you are a good God and 346 00:19:02.359 --> 00:19:05.759 you want what's best for me. And I pray this 347 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:08.759 in your name. Amen. 348 00:19:13.599 --> 00:19:16.039 Hey, if you've just prayed along with Rick to accept 349 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:19.119 Jesus in your life, Rick would love to hear from you. 350 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:23.279 Just email Rick at Pastorick dot com. Right now, here's 351 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:26.039 Pastor Rick with a letter from one of our listeners. 352 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:29.559 Hi, everybody, today, I want to share a very powerful 353 00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:31.440 letter from a listener named Michael. 354 00:19:31.799 --> 00:19:34.359 Michael experienced terrible trauma. 355 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:37.079 As a child, but he says that Daily Hope is 356 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:40.279 helping him overcome his past and now he's looking to 357 00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:42.160 the future with his kids. Let me read you just 358 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:46.119 a little bit of Michael's story. Dear Pastor Rick, you 359 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:49.799 and Daily Hope have brought God into my life and 360 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:52.960 it has saved me. I am a twenty nine year 361 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:55.400 old father of five children, and I try my hardest 362 00:19:55.799 --> 00:19:58.319 to teach my children to know God and to love 363 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:00.759 Jesus and how to pray. I do my best to 364 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:03.119 be a good example and be worthy of all the 365 00:20:03.160 --> 00:20:06.039 good gifts that God has given to me. But you know, 366 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:10.559 because of my childhood and the insecurities and abandonment issues 367 00:20:10.599 --> 00:20:14.680 that were created in my life from years of mental abuse, 368 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:19.039 physical abuse, verbal abuse, and yes, even sexual abuse. I've 369 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:22.200 always had a hard time trusting God. I woke up 370 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:25.599 every day feeling unworthy, and I suffered from feelings of 371 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:29.200 anxiety and depression, and I felt like God couldn't possibly 372 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:32.480 love me because no one else had ever loved me. 373 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:37.160 And I carried that pain inside of me for so long, 374 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:42.720 craving for a close, better intimate relationship with God. Now 375 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:45.839 listening to Daily Hope has helped me achieve. 376 00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:46.680 That and more. 377 00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:51.039 I'm not only better, but I'm now better for everybody 378 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:54.160 else around me. Spreading all that I've learned and the 379 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:56.960 good news of Jesus Christ. I know God better than 380 00:20:57.000 --> 00:20:59.839 ever and I now have more faith than I ever 381 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:02.319 new possible because I feel His love. 382 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:04.960 Thank you so much. 383 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:08.160 Daily Hope does such a great work in the name 384 00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:10.759 of Jesus, and I will forever be in your debt 385 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:14.160 for bringing the fire of faith into my heart and 386 00:21:14.279 --> 00:21:18.200 helping me know God. I love you, and I hope 387 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:21.440 you continue to bring change in the world through the 388 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:27.799 message of Jesus Christ. You know, Michael, I absolutely love 389 00:21:28.160 --> 00:21:31.640 how you're teaching your five kids to know Jesus that 390 00:21:32.079 --> 00:21:34.119 is a real man, a real dad, a real father. 391 00:21:34.359 --> 00:21:37.079 It's so important to pass it on to the next generation. 392 00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:40.920 And I'm encouraged that Daily Hope is helping you with 393 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:45.079 the trauma of all your past and helping you work 394 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:48.200 through those issues and keeping you growing in the love 395 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:51.000 of Jesus Christ. You know, stories like the one you 396 00:21:51.039 --> 00:21:53.799 wrote to me are what keep me going. It's why 397 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:57.119 we do this change lives now. I want to pray 398 00:21:57.680 --> 00:22:01.039 for you. I want to pray, Dear Lord, pour out 399 00:22:01.200 --> 00:22:06.119 your love on Michael, help him to sense your love 400 00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:08.839 so that he never doubts it. Pour out your blessing 401 00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:12.039