Speaker 1: Hello, and thanks for joining us here on Pastor Rick's
Speaker 1: Daily Hope. Well today we continue in our series called
Speaker 1: God's Prescription for a Healthy Life. In it, Pastor Rick
Speaker 1: will show you how to improve your health physically, spiritually,
Speaker 1: relationally and emotionally by applying the five essentials needed for.
Speaker 2: A more vibrant life.
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Speaker 1: Right now, here's Pastor Rick with part three of a
Speaker 1: message called winning with the hand your dealt.
Speaker 3: The freedom of choice is your greatest blessing, it is
Speaker 3: also your greatest curse, because we make stupid choices all
Speaker 3: the time. We make self defeating choices, We make harmful
Speaker 3: choices that harm ourselves, our bodies, our circumstances, and everybody
Speaker 3: around us, and so it becomes a negative thing in
Speaker 3: our lives. It's a blessing, but it's also a curse.
Speaker 3: But here's the good news about this card, this one
Speaker 3: right here. God says it's a wild card. It's the
Speaker 3: wild card. And this card can change the suit and
Speaker 3: the number of any of the other cards you're dealt.
Speaker 2: This is the wild card.
Speaker 3: Your choices can determine these other cards. Now, I didn't
Speaker 3: get to choose my chemistry, but I can choose what
Speaker 3: I do with my body and how I make the
Speaker 3: most of what I've got. That's my choice, and I
Speaker 3: can choose to do the best I can with what
Speaker 3: I've got. I didn't choose all of my relationships, but
Speaker 3: I can choose how I respond to them, and I
Speaker 3: can choose new relationships, and I can choose to learn
Speaker 3: relational skills, and I can choose a lot of things
Speaker 3: that will change my connections. I don't choose my circumstances,
Speaker 3: but I certainly can choose how I respond to them.
Speaker 3: I am response able. That means I'm responsible. I'm able
Speaker 3: to respond. God has given us responsibility, which means we
Speaker 3: have the ability to respond. And I don't control everything
Speaker 3: that happens to me, but I control everything that happens
Speaker 3: in me.
Speaker 2: By what I choose to do in that response.
Speaker 3: Even on my consciousness, I didn't control what people said
Speaker 3: to me, those old tapes that went in my mind
Speaker 3: and I started believing them, believing them. But I can
Speaker 3: choose to stop believing them, and I can choose to
Speaker 3: think differently, and I can choose a different consciousness, and
Speaker 3: I can control my thoughts, and I can.
Speaker 2: Change the rudder of my.
Speaker 3: Boat by simply changing the way that I think. This
Speaker 3: is the good news, and if you use it, you
Speaker 3: can change the number and the suit of every card.
Speaker 3: And your life and your destiny and eternity is determined
Speaker 3: by this card. Ultimately, your identity is based on your choices,
Speaker 3: and it's the wild card that.
Speaker 2: Can change everything else.
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Speaker 4: The truth is most of us don't pay much attention
Speaker 4: to our health until something goes wrong. We put on
Speaker 4: a couple of pounds every year and think no big deal, right,
Speaker 4: But a few pounds over five or ten years really
Speaker 4: adds up and it can even lead to major illnesses
Speaker 4: like diabetes and heart disease. That's why Pastor Rick work
Speaker 4: together with medical and fitness experts to create the Daniel
Speaker 4: Plan Study. The sixth session DVD and workbook study kit
Speaker 4: from Rick Warren, doctor Daniel Aman, and doctor Mark Hyman
Speaker 4: is an out of the box approach to a healthy
Speaker 4: lifestyle based on five essentials faith, food, fitness, focus and friends.
Speaker 4: The Daniel Plan Study gives individuals in small groups the
Speaker 4: encouragement and accountability he needed to succeed. If you've been
Speaker 4: watching the scale go up lately, or your health is
Speaker 4: in trouble because of your weight, it's not too late.
Speaker 4: Join the thousands of people who've lost weight, improve their
Speaker 4: health and improved their relationships through the Daniel Plan. We'll
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Speaker 1: Once again, here's Rick.
Speaker 2: Now, there are five.
Speaker 3: Winning choices that you can make with the hand you've
Speaker 3: been dealt, and each of them has to do with
Speaker 3: each of these cards. With this first card, my chemistry,
Speaker 3: my biology, my chromosomes, my makeup, my physical being number
Speaker 3: one first choice, I can choose to get healthier. I
Speaker 3: don't care what handicap you have in your life. You
Speaker 3: can be healthier than you are right now. I can
Speaker 3: choose to get healthier. There are things that I can
Speaker 3: do that will increase my energy. There are things that
Speaker 3: I can do that will lower my stress. There are
Speaker 3: things that I can do that will cause me to
Speaker 3: have more power, more health in my life. I can
Speaker 3: eat better, get more sleep, reduce the stress. They're all
Speaker 3: kinds of things that I can do, and that's totally
Speaker 3: in my control. And instead of bemoaning the fact that
Speaker 3: you don't have an Olympic body, the fact is, instead
Speaker 3: of bemoaning what you don't have, you need to do
Speaker 3: a better job of making the most of what you've got.
Speaker 3: And the fact is you're not. You're not making the
Speaker 3: most of the body you've been given. So I'm one
Speaker 3: nineteen Verse thirty seventy three says this, You made my body.
Speaker 2: Lord.
Speaker 3: Now give me sinse to heed your laws. Give me
Speaker 3: sense to heed your laws. There are certain things you
Speaker 3: can learn if you have chronic pain in your life.
Speaker 3: You need to learn principles of pain management. There are
Speaker 3: things we know about pain today that we didn't even
Speaker 3: know ten years ago. You might write this down, The
Speaker 3: pain is in my brain. Write that down. The pain
Speaker 3: is in my brain. Yeah, it starts in your rear
Speaker 3: end or wherever you're back, your knee, whatever. But that's
Speaker 3: sending signals to a certain place called your brain, and
Speaker 3: pain is processed by the brain. You can change your
Speaker 3: pain level by changing your brain. That's controllable, that is
Speaker 3: flat out controllable, and so improving the controllables reduces the
Speaker 3: impact of the uncontrollables in my life.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: The things in your life you can't change about your body,
Speaker 3: You're never going to be one inch taller, you're never
Speaker 3: going to be as handsome as me.
Speaker 2: But there are a lot of things you can't change.
Speaker 3: But you can change the controllables, and you could have
Speaker 3: more energy than you've got, and you could be in
Speaker 3: better shape, and you could probably extend your life some
Speaker 3: simply by eating right, doing right, being right, things like that.
Speaker 3: So that's in your control. Maybe you need to go
Speaker 3: get a checkup, Maybe you need to go get some
Speaker 3: blood work, Maybe you need to go see a dentist.
Speaker 3: Maybe you need to get a supplement or get on
Speaker 3: some kind of hormone replacement or whatever. I don't know,
Speaker 3: but the fact is there are some steps you can
Speaker 3: do medicine, exercise, controllable things. Daniel plan And so you
Speaker 3: start with the physical. The first card, What do I
Speaker 3: need to do physically? Shakespeare said, it's impossible to be
Speaker 3: a philosopher with a toothache, and it's true, and it's
Speaker 3: hard to feel close to God when you're in pain.
Speaker 3: So deal with the pain. Number two. Second choice has
Speaker 3: to do with my connections. And the choice I make
Speaker 3: here is I can choose to deepen relationships. That's an
Speaker 3: intentional choice to make my relationships better.
Speaker 2: They can be better than they are right now.
Speaker 3: I can choose to deepen my relationships. I can learn
Speaker 3: some communication skills. I can build some new healthy relationships
Speaker 3: and replace some bad, unhealthy relationships. I can reach out,
Speaker 3: I can work on my relationships. I can risk connecting.
Speaker 3: And I don't say that word risk arbitrarily, because any
Speaker 3: connection you make is going to be a risk. If
Speaker 3: you're going to build some new, healthy relationships, you're going
Speaker 3: to have to risk some connecting. Would you write this down?
Speaker 3: The fear of rejection prevents connection. The fear of rejection
Speaker 3: prevents connection. And really the reason why you feel disconnected
Speaker 3: is your fear of being rejected, your fear of being disapproved,
Speaker 3: your fear of being hurt, your fear of others. Let's
Speaker 3: go back to this issue of marriage. A lot of
Speaker 3: you have said, you know, I really, in my heart
Speaker 3: of hearts, i'd like to be married or I'd like
Speaker 3: to be remarried, but I'm not. And you're telling yourself
Speaker 3: no one would ever want.
Speaker 2: To marry me.
Speaker 3: Are you sure that's a feeling, not a fact. I
Speaker 3: could ever get remarried at my age. Are you sure
Speaker 3: that's a feeling not a fact. We had a wedding
Speaker 3: the other day with a guy who's nearly one hundred
Speaker 3: years old. I'm too old again. Are you sure that's
Speaker 3: a feeling not a fact? And as long as you believe,
Speaker 3: of course that's going to be true. But you're basing
Speaker 3: it on feelings, not fact. Nobody would ever want to
Speaker 3: marry me the way I look at my age. I
Speaker 3: need to invite you to some of the odd weddings
Speaker 3: I do, because you're not nearly as odd as some
Speaker 3: of the.
Speaker 2: Weddings I have done.
Speaker 3: You say, but I'm just not good at social interaction.
Speaker 3: I don't like that dating stuff. It's so icky. I'm
Speaker 3: just not good at that, And that's the fear of rejection.
Speaker 3: Would you write this down? Awkward won't kill me. Feeling
Speaker 3: awkward won't kill me. Of course, it's awkward in developing
Speaker 3: a new Really, I've never met anybody who didn't feel
Speaker 3: awkward in developing a new Really, welcome to the human race.
Speaker 3: But you move against that awkwardness and you find out
Speaker 3: feeling awkward won't kill me.
Speaker 2: How do I get rid of fear? How do I
Speaker 2: get rid.
Speaker 3: Of that fear first? John four eighteen. Look here on
Speaker 3: the screen. There is no fear in love. On your
Speaker 3: outline circle that no fear. There is no fear, There
Speaker 3: is no fear. There is no fear in love. Perfect
Speaker 3: love casts out all fear. Now why it does love
Speaker 3: take away fear? Because love takes the focus off me
Speaker 3: and puts it on somebody else. It's not about me,
Speaker 3: my needs, my help, my heart, my hurt. It's about you.
Speaker 3: Love has no fear because it's not about me. You see,
Speaker 3: this is why you get up tight in social settings.
Speaker 3: You go to a party and you walk in, and
Speaker 3: the first thing you think.
Speaker 2: Is, how do I look to everybody else?
Speaker 3: What is everybody else thinking about me? Do I have
Speaker 3: spinach in my teeth or my legs crossed just appropriately,
Speaker 3: there's any toilet paper dangling from back behind me?
Speaker 2: How do I look? What does everybody think of me?
Speaker 3: I'll tell you they're not thinking about you. No one
Speaker 3: in that party is thinking about you. You know why,
Speaker 3: because they're all thinking how do I look to everybody else?
Speaker 2: They're not even thinking about you.
Speaker 3: This is the fallacy of single adult parties. We go
Speaker 3: in thinking everybody's I've got to worry about everyone. How
Speaker 3: everybody's gonna look at me? Nobody's looking at you. They're
Speaker 3: all uptight about themselves.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Self centeredness walks into the room saying, how do I
Speaker 3: look at everybody else? Love walks into room, going who
Speaker 3: here needs my help? Who needs a word of encouragement?
Speaker 3: Who needs a pat on the back? Who could use
Speaker 3: a little affirmation? Who at this party looked like they're
Speaker 3: a little on the outside and uncomfortable, and I could
Speaker 3: put them at ease?
Speaker 2: Love.
Speaker 3: Humility is not thinking of yourself less. I'm no good,
Speaker 3: I'm nothing, I'm junk, I'm no Humility is thinking of
Speaker 3: yourself less. Humility isn't thinking of yourself as not good.
Speaker 3: Humility is just not thinking about yourself. You're so focused
Speaker 3: on thinking about other people, you're not thinking about yourself.
Speaker 3: If I walked out here week after week and I
Speaker 3: worried about how I looked to you and to the
Speaker 3: thousands of people who have come to saddle Back I
Speaker 3: walk it, I'd be scared to death. But if I
Speaker 3: come out there and I going, Lord, what do these
Speaker 3: people need? And I'm thinking about you, your needs, your hurts,
Speaker 3: your interests. I'm not thinking about me. Perfect love casts
Speaker 3: out all fear. The antidote to your social phobia is
Speaker 3: to get your eyes off you, to stop being so
Speaker 3: self centered, and to think about somebody else, and to
Speaker 3: think about their needs, their hurts, their interests, and how
Speaker 3: you could help them.
Speaker 2: Perfect love cast out all fear.
Speaker 3: I'm not an authority on a lot of things, but
Speaker 3: i am an authority on fear because I've dealt with
Speaker 3: it my entire life. And fear is fea r false evidence,
Speaker 3: appearing real. It's not real. So how do you get
Speaker 3: rid of the fear in your life? The fear of
Speaker 3: making that connection, of making a commitment, the fear of
Speaker 3: getting to know a stranger, the fear of getting in
Speaker 3: a small group, all of these things.
Speaker 2: How do I get rid of that?
Speaker 3: You can't talk yourself out of it because fear isn't logical,
Speaker 3: it isn't rational, and so you can rationalize it all
Speaker 3: you want, but it isn't gonna go away. There's only
Speaker 3: one way to get rid of fear. Do the thing
Speaker 3: you fear the most. Move against your fear. Fear does
Speaker 3: not go away from logic, Fear goes away from action,
Speaker 3: and you walk up to the Red Sea and the
Speaker 3: and the Egyptians are behind you, and you go, God,
Speaker 3: I'm I'm gonna I'm in a no place.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna cull the sack. I'm himmed in And you
Speaker 2: step in and water parts.
Speaker 3: And you go to the Jordan River and the water
Speaker 3: is there, and you got to go across the Jordan
Speaker 3: and you step in and the water backs up. You
Speaker 3: move and the fear vanishes. Fear is always worse than
Speaker 3: the reality. Why because fear torments you twenty four hours
Speaker 3: a day and the reality that party might even only
Speaker 3: last an hour. And it's the fear is always worse
Speaker 3: than the reality. And so you have to say, Okay,
Speaker 3: what am I gonna do? I'm gonna let look at
Speaker 3: this next verse First Corinthians fourteen to one. Let love
Speaker 3: be your highest goal, that ought to be the goal
Speaker 3: for the rest of your life. It's not about accomplishments.
Speaker 3: It's not about achievement, it's not about fame. It's about love.
Speaker 3: Love is going to be my high school life is
Speaker 3: all about learning how to love. Sib or Rick, I
Speaker 3: loved and I got burned so bad. I gave my
Speaker 3: heart on a platter and they took it and stomped
Speaker 3: on it and tore it up into a grinder and
Speaker 3: made hamburger out of it. And I am still hurting
Speaker 3: from that. And and you think that excuses you to
Speaker 3: not love again. Show me that in the Bible where
Speaker 3: it says you get hurt by love, that allows you
Speaker 3: to no longer love anybody. Nonsense, nonsense, You are not
Speaker 3: allowed to not love. Love means risking connections, It means
Speaker 3: stepping out. So what happens when I really tried to
Speaker 3: love this person and it was blocked?
Speaker 2: What do you do with a block love? You always
Speaker 2: redirect it.
Speaker 3: If you try to love somebody and they reject your love.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you, friends, there are billions of people
Speaker 3: in this world who are dying for your love, and
Speaker 3: they're all around you. And when your love is blocked
Speaker 3: and you can't love in that direction, then you love
Speaker 3: in this direction.
Speaker 2: And there are plenty of people like.
Speaker 3: The elderly who need your love, like orphans who need
Speaker 3: your love, like little girls and little boys growing up
Speaker 3: without daddies who need your love. There's people all around you.
Speaker 3: There's people on your row who are starving for your love.
Speaker 3: Right now, you do not get to say I'm not
Speaker 3: going to love because I got hurt once. You ought
Speaker 3: to pray ifhes in three seventeen, I pray that Christ
Speaker 3: will live in your hearts by faith, and that your
Speaker 3: life will be strong in love. Circle that your life
Speaker 3: will be strong in love and be built on love.
Speaker 3: So circle that strong in love, built on love. You
Speaker 3: ought to pray that every morning. Get up in the
Speaker 3: morning and say, God today, here's what Jesus Christ. I
Speaker 3: want you to fill my heart by faith and Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 3: I want to be strong in love and I want
Speaker 3: to be.
Speaker 2: Built on love.
Speaker 3: By the way, where do you learn connection techniques? The
Speaker 3: church was designed to be the laboratory for love. Now
Speaker 3: you can't love a The only way you can learn
Speaker 3: love in this church get in a small group.
Speaker 2: That's why we.
Speaker 3: Insist everybody, everybody, everybody be in a small group. The
Speaker 3: very reason you're afraid to get in a small group
Speaker 3: is the very reason you need it.
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Speaker 1: the truth is that most of us don't pay much
Speaker 1: attention to our health until something goes wrong.
Speaker 2: We put on a.
Speaker 1: Couple of pounds every year and think no big deal, right,
Speaker 1: But a few pounds over five or ten years can
Speaker 1: really add up. That's why Pastor Rick Warren has put
Speaker 1: together the Daniel Plan DVD Study Kit. This sixth session
Speaker 1: video based study by Rick Warren, doctor Daniel Ahman and
Speaker 1: doctor Martin Kayman is an out of the box approach
Speaker 1: to a healthy lifestyle based on five essentials faith, food, fitness,
Speaker 1: focus and friends. The Daniel Planned Studykit gives individuals the
Speaker 1: encouragement and accountability needed to succeed. If you've been watching
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Speaker 1: trouble because of your weight, it's not too late to
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Speaker 2: Here's Pastor Rick with a closing thought.
Speaker 3: God has five purposes for your life. He wants you
Speaker 3: to know and love Him. That's called worship. He wants
Speaker 3: you to belong to his family that's called fellowship. He
Speaker 3: wants you to grow in character to be more like Christ.
Speaker 3: That's called discipleship. And he wants you to learn to
Speaker 3: serve using your gifts and talents, serve God by serving others.
Speaker 3: That's called your ministry. Finally, he wants you to share
Speaker 3: the good news and your life message with other people
Speaker 3: around the world. That's called your mission. I'd like to
Speaker 3: close today to talk to you for just a second
Speaker 3: about your personal mission. Did you know that the Bible
Speaker 3: says every time somebody accepts the Lord, they throw a
Speaker 3: party in heaven. Did you know that it's right there
Speaker 3: in Luke fifteen, verse seven, where the Bible says there's
Speaker 3: more joy in heaven over one sinner who changes his
Speaker 3: heart and life than over ninety nine who don't need
Speaker 3: to turn to Christ, who are already there. The day
Speaker 3: that you accepted Jesus Christ, there was a party in
Speaker 3: heaven for you. And by the way, the day that
Speaker 3: you help somebody else come to know the Lord, there's
Speaker 3: going to be a party in heaven. But there's also
Speaker 3: going to be a party in your heart. I want
Speaker 3: to encourage you today to look outward, to look around
Speaker 3: you and see the people who need to hear about
Speaker 3: the love of God, about the message of Christ, about
Speaker 3: the purpose of life, about the daily hope that we
Speaker 3: have in our hearts. The Bible says, always be ready
Speaker 3: to share the hope that is within you. Could I
Speaker 3: pray for you, and as we bow in prayer, you
Speaker 3: might want to pray this prayer with me. Say, Father,
Speaker 3: I want the joy that you've given me to be
Speaker 3: shared with other people. And a lot of times I'm
Speaker 3: afraid or hesitant to talk about you to others. Would
Speaker 3: you give me so much love for other people that
Speaker 3: love overcomes my fears and gives me the right words
Speaker 3: to say as I share the hope that's in me,
Speaker 3: Allow me to help others find you, to find real hope,
Speaker 3: to find joy through knowing you. Thank you Lord so
Speaker 3: much for trusting me to help bring others to you.
Speaker 3: I want to accept my mission, and I want to
Speaker 3: use it for your glory and in the power of
Speaker 3: your spirit. Thank you, Jesus, put somebody in my life
Speaker 3: today that I can tell about you. In your name,
Speaker 3: I pray Amen.
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