Speaker 1: You know, we really live in a world that's full
Speaker 1: of competing beliefs and values and choices, and what you
Speaker 1: believe shapes how you live and ultimately who you become.
Speaker 1: But the good news is God hasn't left us to
Speaker 1: figure it all out alone.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: In fact, today, on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, we're going
Speaker 1: to continue our series Reframing Your Worldview, where Rick Warren
Speaker 1: unpacks powerful truths from God's Word to help you see
Speaker 1: life clearly and live it with confidence and purpose. And
Speaker 1: now here's Rick with the final part of a message
Speaker 1: called What's the Solution.
Speaker 3: Now, there's a third incredible benefit of jesus death, and
Speaker 3: it's called reconciliation, replacement, redemption, reconciliation. It's the third reason
Speaker 3: Jesus died on the cross, and reconciliation says this that
Speaker 3: means hesh my relationship to God. Now, reconciliation is your word,
Speaker 3: you know. It means when you bring two parties together
Speaker 3: who have been distanced by conflict. There can be reconciliation
Speaker 3: obviously between nations, between parties, between governments, between people. It's
Speaker 3: when we've been apart from each other and we're brought
Speaker 3: back together, you know, whenever I do anything that hurts
Speaker 3: my wife, there is a break in our relationship. And
Speaker 3: isn't an amazing Have you ever noticed? This's how you
Speaker 3: can live in the same house and feel so distant
Speaker 3: from somebody.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: You're in the same house, you might even be in
Speaker 3: the same room, you may even slept in the same bed,
Speaker 3: but you just feel distant from them. And what needs
Speaker 3: to take place is because there's been a hurt on
Speaker 3: one or both sides, there needs to be reconciliation to
Speaker 3: bring us back together.
Speaker 4: To span the distance.
Speaker 3: Now, the truth is most people in the world feel
Speaker 3: distant from God. They don't feel God is close. They
Speaker 3: think he's watching us from a distance, and that he's
Speaker 3: not involved in my life. And when I pray, if
Speaker 3: you like, my prayers just bounce off the ceiling. They're
Speaker 3: not getting anywhere. They feel like God is a million
Speaker 3: miles away, that God is not close, that God is
Speaker 3: not near, that he's far away.
Speaker 4: Well, I would say this to you.
Speaker 3: If you feel that God is far away from you,
Speaker 3: Guess who moved Okay, guess who moved. It wasn't God
Speaker 3: who moved away. You did you moved away? And the
Speaker 3: Bible says, our sin separates us from God. But here's
Speaker 3: the cool thing. God doesn't wait for you to take
Speaker 3: the initiative. You know, sometimes when k hurts me, she
Speaker 3: waits for me to take the initiative, or when I
Speaker 3: hurt her, she waits for me. And either way she
Speaker 3: waits for me. Now that's not true, But the bottom
Speaker 3: line is in your relationship to God, God always takes
Speaker 3: the initiative. He you blow it, you walk away from God,
Speaker 3: and God says, I'm not gonna wait until they realize
Speaker 3: it and they come back.
Speaker 4: No, God says, I'm gonna take.
Speaker 3: The initiative to restore the relationship that you broke.
Speaker 4: And that's what Jesus did.
Speaker 3: The Bible says this, and Ephesians two up on your
Speaker 3: on the screen here now in Christ, Jesus, you who
Speaker 3: were far away from God are brought near to the
Speaker 3: blood of Christ's death. In other words, he took the initiative.
Speaker 3: One of the most amazing truths in the Bible is this.
Speaker 3: So it's gonna blow your mind. God wants you for
Speaker 3: a friend, not as a servant, not as a slave.
Speaker 4: God wants you as a friend.
Speaker 3: Jesus said it he said, I no longer call you servants.
Speaker 3: I call you my friends. And God says, I want
Speaker 3: a friendship. I want a relationship with the creatures that
Speaker 3: I made. I want you to know me and love
Speaker 3: me the way I know and love you. I want
Speaker 3: you to be a friend. It is amazing to me
Speaker 3: that the God of the universe would want me as
Speaker 3: a friend. It's even more amazing to me that he'd
Speaker 3: want you. I mean, not me, I can understand, but
Speaker 3: God wants you you.
Speaker 4: You for a friend. Look at the next verse.
Speaker 3: The Bible says this, We were God's enemies, but he
Speaker 3: made us his friends through the death of his son.
Speaker 3: Now how does that work. Well, Jesus Christ became the mediator.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: The mediator is the guy who brings the two together.
Speaker 3: We all know about divorced mediation. When a husband and
Speaker 3: wife are so mad and so bitter and so angry
Speaker 3: at each other that they can't even work out their divorce,
Speaker 3: you get somebody to come together and say, Okay, I'm
Speaker 3: going to bring the two parties together. We're going to
Speaker 3: deal with this and we're going to have some kind
Speaker 3: of mediation. Here happens all the time, and the Bible
Speaker 3: tells us, let me read a verse to you. God
Speaker 3: is on one side, and all the people on the
Speaker 3: other side, and Christ, Jesus himself man is between them
Speaker 3: to bring them together. He was the mediator. What am
Speaker 3: I saying. When Jesus Christ was on the cross. One
Speaker 3: of the things he did was, you know, take your place.
Speaker 3: Another thing he did was buy your freedom. And another
Speaker 3: thing he did is restore the relationship to God by saying,
Speaker 3: I will be the mediator. I'm going to be the
Speaker 3: bridge builder between you and God. The Bible says this,
Speaker 3: look here on the screen. Christ changed us from his enemies,
Speaker 3: from enemies into his friends and gave us a task
Speaker 3: of making others his friends. Also our message, here's the message,
Speaker 3: is that God is making all human beings his friends
Speaker 3: through Christ. God did not keep an account of their sins,
Speaker 3: Thank God, and he has given us the message which
Speaker 3: tells us how he makes.
Speaker 4: Them his friends. What is that message what we're talking
Speaker 4: about today? You know, in the Old.
Speaker 3: Testament, before Jesus Christ, the only way you had access
Speaker 3: to God was through a priest. In fact, only the
Speaker 3: Jewish priest was allowed into the Holy of Holies.
Speaker 4: He had to represent all of the.
Speaker 3: People before God because we were imperfect and God was perfect,
Speaker 3: and only one person was allowed. On the day of atonement,
Speaker 3: Yan Kaper he was going to make atonement for the
Speaker 3: sins of everybody, and Jesus said, you know what, I
Speaker 3: took that idea and it's now out of the way.
Speaker 4: Now you can have direct access.
Speaker 3: I have been the mediator and through Jesus Christ, I
Speaker 3: have direct access to God.
Speaker 4: You know what that means.
Speaker 3: You don't have to go pray through a priest. You
Speaker 3: don't have to go pray through a saint. You don't
Speaker 3: have to go pray through any other person. You can
Speaker 3: talk directly to God. You don't have to come confess
Speaker 3: to me as a pastor. The Bible says, Jesus is
Speaker 3: our priest. He is the mediator, and you can go.
Speaker 3: That's why we pray in Jesus' name. You hear people
Speaker 3: say at the end of a prayer, and I pray
Speaker 3: this in Jesus name. What's that mean? It means I
Speaker 3: don't have the worthiness on my own to come directly
Speaker 3: to God. But I'm coming directly to God because I'm
Speaker 3: coming in Jesus name, because of what he did on
Speaker 3: the cross. That's what the phrase in Jesus name means.
Speaker 3: And when you pray a prayer, then you say in
Speaker 3: Jesus's name, which means I'm doing this because he's the mediator,
Speaker 3: He's the go between, he's the bridge between man and God.
Speaker 3: And because of that, I can come directly to God.
Speaker 3: I can have direct fellowship with God. I can have
Speaker 3: direct communion with God.
Speaker 2: The fourth benefit of Jesus's death on the cross is
Speaker 2: called rebirth. That means that he gave me a new identity.
Speaker 4: He gave me a new identity. Are there some things.
Speaker 2: About your past you wish you could forget? I know
Speaker 2: there's some things about my past I wish I could forget.
Speaker 4: This past week, I.
Speaker 2: Googled in the phrase changing my identity, and to my surprise,
Speaker 2: forty one million, three hundred thousand websites popped up, all
Speaker 2: dealing with the subject of changing your identity. I also
Speaker 2: found some interesting books as well. One was titled Modern
Speaker 2: Identity Changer, How to Create and Use a New Identity
Speaker 2: and my personal favorite, this one's a real winner. Changing
Speaker 2: my identity and disappearing Forever. I think we've all been there,
Speaker 2: had those moments one time or another. Why is it
Speaker 2: we're so preoccupied with identity, the discovery of it, the
Speaker 2: changing of it, escaping from it. Our culture basically defines
Speaker 2: our identity on four levels. First, it defines our identity
Speaker 2: on what we do. It's our careers. Second, it's on
Speaker 2: what we have our possessions. Third, it's on what we know,
Speaker 2: our education. And finally it's on how we look our appearance.
Speaker 2: But our identity is so much deeper than that. Who
Speaker 2: we are is really truly on a core spiritual level.
Speaker 2: The best our world can offer us an identity change
Speaker 2: is an extreme makeover, and that's it. Possibly a new
Speaker 2: skill someplace, or possibly even a new name. But the
Speaker 2: change that Christ offers us is so radical and so
Speaker 2: profound that the Bible actually calls it becoming a new
Speaker 2: person a new creation. When you become a believer, you
Speaker 2: experience a new birth, a fresh beginning.
Speaker 4: Everything changes.
Speaker 2: Titus three five, on the outline, says God saved us
Speaker 2: because of his mercy, and not because of any good
Speaker 2: things that we have done. He washed us by the
Speaker 2: power of the Holy Spirit and gave us new birth
Speaker 2: and a fresh beginning. Two Corinthians five, p. Seventeen says,
Speaker 2: anyone who belongs to Christ becomes a new person. The
Speaker 2: past is forgotten and everything is new. See, when you
Speaker 2: become a believer, you don't all of a sudden look
Speaker 2: different to yourself in the mirror. It's still the same
Speaker 2: old you that you see yourself.
Speaker 4: And for some of us that's unfortunate.
Speaker 2: You don't get a new house, you don't get a
Speaker 2: new car, a new job. All that stays the same.
Speaker 2: Even your personality pretty much stays the same. Once you
Speaker 2: become a believer in Christ.
Speaker 4: If you are a.
Speaker 2: Quiet person before you you came to know Christ, you're
Speaker 2: still probably gonna be a quiet person afterwards. You don't
Speaker 2: all of a sudden become the life of the party.
Speaker 2: But what does happen is a spiritual metamorphosis. Let me
Speaker 2: ask you a real theological question here.
Speaker 4: It's deep, So hang on with me here.
Speaker 2: Okay, can a butterfly go back into a cocoon after
Speaker 2: it's come out as a caterpillar? No, from the mouths
Speaker 2: of babes, great wisdom, great wisdom, of course not. It
Speaker 2: can't happen once it becomes a butterfly. It is what
Speaker 2: it is, a butterfly. And when you become a believer,
Speaker 2: you're like a butterfly and that you've come out of
Speaker 2: your cocoon. It may take you some time to fly spiritually.
Speaker 2: But once you become a new creation in Christ, you
Speaker 2: are what you are. You are a new creation. Now
Speaker 2: we're not talking about mere positive thinking, because positive thinking
Speaker 2: would be like a caterpillar deciding to glue on wings
Speaker 2: to try to fly.
Speaker 4: That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: God gave us a new nature when we became a Christian,
Speaker 2: and reminding yourself of who you are in Christ is
Speaker 2: truthful thinking. The greatest step of faith that we can
Speaker 2: take in our lives is when we accept Jesus in
Speaker 2: our life and believe what God said about who Jesus is.
Speaker 2: But I believe the second greatest step of faith we
Speaker 2: can take is believing God about what He says about
Speaker 2: who we are. You are new creation in Christ. Look
Speaker 2: at dirversary here on the outline Romans six three through
Speaker 2: four sins power over us was broken when we became Christians,
Speaker 2: and we're baptized to become a part of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: Through his death, the power of your sinful nature was shattered.
Speaker 2: And when God the Father, with glorious power brought him
Speaker 2: back to life again. You were given his wonderful new
Speaker 2: life to enjoy. Circle that whole phrase, his wonderful new
Speaker 2: life to enjoy. You notice there, it doesn't say a
Speaker 2: new life that's important. It says his new life, his
Speaker 2: wonderful new life to enjoy. Because a true life, the
Speaker 2: better life, a wonderful life, is only found in Christ,
Speaker 2: and when you become a Christian, you have a new
Speaker 2: life in him. Baptism is just an outward symbol of
Speaker 2: that inward change. In Revelation, it talks about how they
Speaker 2: sang a new song about what Christ did for us
Speaker 2: on the cross. Revelation five nine says they sang a
Speaker 2: new song. You are worthy for you were killed, and
Speaker 2: by your sacrificial death, you bought for God people from
Speaker 2: every tribe, language, nation, and race.
Speaker 3: Now, friends, this is the greatest news in the whole world.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna get this anywhere else except from God's word.
Speaker 3: Jesus took my punishment, replacement. Jesus bought my freedom, redemption.
Speaker 3: Jesus restores my relationship to God, reconciliation. Jesus gives me
Speaker 3: a whole new identity, and he wipes out all the
Speaker 3: things I've done wrong, says, let's start over rebirth. And
Speaker 3: then finally, number five, the fifth doddible benefit of Jesus
Speaker 3: dying the cross is repudiation, and that means this, he
Speaker 3: defeated death. In fact, he defeated death and the devil.
Speaker 4: And the Bible says this. In one John three.
Speaker 3: Eight, it says, the son of God came for this
Speaker 3: purpose to destroy the devil's work. That's why Jesus came
Speaker 3: to earth to destroy the devil's work. What is the
Speaker 3: devil's work? Messing up your heart, filling it with worry,
Speaker 3: filling it with guilt, filling it with resentment, filling it
Speaker 3: with anger, filling it with fear, filling it with confusion,
Speaker 3: helping you feel worthless and helpless and hopeless and aimless.
Speaker 4: Where do you think that comes from?
Speaker 3: Not God and Satan's biggest tool in your life is fear.
Speaker 3: Fear does not come from God. The Bible says there
Speaker 3: is no fear in love. Perfect love casts out all fear.
Speaker 3: And the Bible says God is love. So when you're afraid,
Speaker 3: that's not from God. There is no fear in love
Speaker 3: and God is love. Now, the number one fear that
Speaker 3: people have is the fear of death, and that Satan uses,
Speaker 3: the Bible says, to keep us enslaved. You see the
Speaker 3: acid test of your faith, of your religion, of your worldview,
Speaker 3: your philosophy. The acid test of it is not how
Speaker 3: you act at the weddings or the baby births, or
Speaker 3: the dedications, or the parties or the graduations. Are all
Speaker 3: the happy times in life. The acid test of what
Speaker 3: you believe is how do you react in the funerals
Speaker 3: of life.
Speaker 4: I have been in a lot of funerals.
Speaker 3: Being a pastor, and I have seen the difference of
Speaker 3: those with hope and those with no hope, and those
Speaker 3: with no hope who don't know God and don't know Jesus.
Speaker 3: Have looked into their eyes and seeing the terror in
Speaker 3: their eyes when they have no hope for those loved
Speaker 3: ones who just died, and I have seen the difference
Speaker 3: that it makes when somebody knows the Lord. And the
Speaker 3: fact is Christians grieve. We have mixed emotions, but we
Speaker 3: don't grieve for the person who has died. We grieve
Speaker 3: for ourselves. We grieve with hope. We agreeve because we're
Speaker 3: going to miss him. We agrieve because we don't get
Speaker 3: to see him againuntil we get to heaven. But we
Speaker 3: don't certainly grieve for the people who die who know
Speaker 3: the Lord, because they're going to a better place anyway,
Speaker 3: where we were all designed to go eventually in the
Speaker 3: first place.
Speaker 4: This last week we lost.
Speaker 3: One of the great saints at Saddleback Church who spent
Speaker 3: the last twenty years being an usher. And he would
Speaker 3: stand right back there, and that's in eleven thirty service
Speaker 3: on Sunday morning, back in the corner, and I could
Speaker 3: see him. He'd stand through the entire service. And about
Speaker 3: a month and a half ago, as I was finishing
Speaker 3: speaking at the eleven fifteen Sir, I watched Hugh take
Speaker 3: his offering out of his jacket and lean it over
Speaker 3: and put it in the offering plate right there, because
Speaker 3: we were getting ready to give our offerings.
Speaker 4: And then he collapsed.
Speaker 3: And never fully recovered, went into a coma and he
Speaker 3: died on Friday. I thought, what a way to go
Speaker 3: if you're an usher, I'm going You're in church, you've
Speaker 3: just given your last offering. It's the last thing you
Speaker 3: do on earth, and you go to have it.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, that is a way to go. Okay, all right,
Speaker 4: I mean we're all gonna die. Why not die in
Speaker 4: a cool way?
Speaker 3: Okay, I mean the very last thing he did was
Speaker 3: giving my gift back to God.
Speaker 4: What a cool thing.
Speaker 3: And I was talking to Larita's wife for forty eight
Speaker 3: years because I was over there the night at his
Speaker 3: home before he died and he was in a coma,
Speaker 3: and LaRita said, you know, we were married forty eight
Speaker 3: years and when we got married, Hugh made me three promises.
Speaker 3: He said, Honey, you can always count on these three things.
Speaker 3: Number One, we will never ever get divorced, no matter
Speaker 3: what happens, no matter what we do, no matter how
Speaker 3: angry we get, We're never getting divorced. Number Two, we're
Speaker 3: always gonna find some church home and.
Speaker 4: We're gonna get in it.
Speaker 3: We're gonna love God and serve God there no matter
Speaker 3: where we live. And number three, we are always gonna
Speaker 3: tithe the first ten percent back to God. And she
Speaker 3: said he kept all three of those promises. Today he
Speaker 3: is celebrating in heaven with a lot of other people
Speaker 3: that I know and love. And honestly, the more people
Speaker 3: who get on that side, the more eager I am
Speaker 3: to get there, because I'm really kind of tired of
Speaker 3: some of the problems on this earth, some of the
Speaker 3: problems that I look around, the rapes and the wars,
Speaker 3: and the violence, and the abuse, and the pornography and
Speaker 3: the incest, and all of the diseases and all all
Speaker 3: of this.
Speaker 4: Is a broken planet.
Speaker 3: And we weren't meant to be here, as we talked
Speaker 3: about last week forever.
Speaker 4: The Bible says this.
Speaker 3: On the screen with the cross, God won the victory
Speaker 3: and defeated spiritual powers.
Speaker 4: He showed the world that they were powerless.
Speaker 3: I'm not afraid of the devil, not at all, because
Speaker 3: greater is he that is in me, that is in
Speaker 3: the world. And the Bible says this because God's children
Speaker 3: are human beings made of flesh and blood. Jesus also
Speaker 3: became flesh and blood by being born in human form,
Speaker 3: for only as a human being could he die. And
Speaker 3: only by dying could he break the power of the devil,
Speaker 3: who has the power of death, that was his one tool.
Speaker 3: Only in this way could he deliver those who have
Speaker 3: lived all their lives as slaves to the fear of dying.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm not afraid of dying. I told another
Speaker 3: service a while back. I was on a plane trip
Speaker 3: to Tokyo out and halfway over the Pacific Ocean. In
Speaker 3: the middle of the night, one of the engines on
Speaker 3: the plane I was on burned out, and people got
Speaker 3: a little bit of nervous.
Speaker 4: We had half the trip still to go.
Speaker 3: It was twelve hour trip, and then a little bit later,
Speaker 3: with one engine out, we went through some serious I
Speaker 3: mean serious turbulence and people were freaking out. I'm sitting
Speaker 3: there going I'm ready. I think I was the only
Speaker 3: calm guy on the plane. You know I'm ready.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: This next part I made up. I'm just telling you
Speaker 3: the other part was true. So they look around for
Speaker 3: a pastor and they find They said, anybody pastor or here,
Speaker 3: and so I raise my hand. They say, we'll do
Speaker 3: something spiritual. So I took an offering. I made that
Speaker 3: part up.
Speaker 4: I'm not afraid to die.
Speaker 3: Why Because when you know where you're going, and you
Speaker 3: know who's there, and you're a friend of God who
Speaker 3: is there, you're not afraid to meet him. I'm not
Speaker 3: afraid to meet God. I've been his friend for forty years.
Speaker 3: I talked to him this morning. We had a great
Speaker 3: little conversation this morning.
Speaker 4: Me and God.
Speaker 3: We're like this Okay, now here's the cool thing. You
Speaker 3: can be like this with God. It's not some special relationship.
Speaker 3: It's not like God said, well, only pastors or priests
Speaker 3: or missionaries can be like.
Speaker 4: This with God. God says, I want you to be
Speaker 4: my friend.
Speaker 3: I want you to have a constant, ongoing conversation. I
Speaker 3: don't say the end of amen, at the end of
Speaker 3: all my prayers. I just talked to God all day,
Speaker 3: talked about this and that. Whatever's on my mind just
Speaker 3: comes out, and I just have a running conversation all
Speaker 3: the time. You see, you're not really ready to live
Speaker 3: until you're ready to die. In fact, you can't live.
Speaker 3: You're just existing until you're ready to die. And only
Speaker 3: a fool would go all through life totally unprepared for
Speaker 3: something you know is inevitable.
Speaker 4: We're all gonna die. I mean, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 3: You may not want to talk about it, but we're
Speaker 3: all gonna die at some point. Well, why not be prepared.
Speaker 3: You become a friend of God, so then it's not
Speaker 3: a big deal. You're not scared. You know you're gonna
Speaker 3: be with your friend. The Bible says this, We know
Speaker 3: that when Jesus was raised from the dead. It was
Speaker 3: the signal of the end of death as the end.
Speaker 3: Never again will death have the last word. Jesus' death
Speaker 3: guaranteed the death of death. It just isn't that scary anymore.
Speaker 3: He neutralized Satan's only tool, the fear of death, because
Speaker 3: Easter was a total surprise to Satan. Anytime you're afraid,
Speaker 3: you're afraid of something, you run to God.
Speaker 4: Why because when God is near, you lose your fear.
Speaker 3: Here's the point when you understand these things that Jesus
Speaker 3: did that we just went over tonight, and I hope
Speaker 3: you go home and review them instead of feeling worthless
Speaker 3: and hopeless and helpless and powerless and aimless in life.
Speaker 3: The Cross says this about you. You are valuable, you
Speaker 3: are lovable, you are forgivable, you are capable, and you
Speaker 3: are usable for God's purpose in your life.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: Some powerful words from pastor Rick today. And now this
Speaker 1: is really one of my favorite parts of the broadcast.
Speaker 1: This is letters from our listeners and now here's Rick.
Speaker 3: One of the greatest joys of my day is reading
Speaker 3: letters from our listeners. It truly is inspiring to see
Speaker 3: how God is working in your lives and it encourages
Speaker 3: me just as much as I hoped to encourage you.
Speaker 3: So today I want to share a note from Heather,
Speaker 3: who has been discovering the incredible benefits of studying God's
Speaker 3: Word every day. Heather wrote to me, she said, Hi,
Speaker 3: Pastor Rick, a friend of mine recently sent me your podcast,
Speaker 3: and I've been feeling lost and helpless and I didn't
Speaker 3: I wasn't sure what to pray, or how to pray,
Speaker 3: or when to pray. And it's like I hit a
Speaker 3: wall and I haven't been sure how to get back
Speaker 3: on track. Well, your message really spoke truth to me,
Speaker 3: and it made me realize the missing pieces I had
Speaker 3: in my life because I was not in God's Word daily.
Speaker 3: I was basically living my life without God, and I
Speaker 3: was trying to do everything on my own. Well, Pastor Rick,
Speaker 3: it goes without saying that doing life without God has
Speaker 3: been miserable failure. So thank you for stirring the Holy
Speaker 3: Spirit in my heart with the words that I needed
Speaker 3: to hear. I have now made the commitment to read
Speaker 3: God's Word every day and to pray daily, and I
Speaker 3: even start praying in the cars I go about my day,
Speaker 3: just like you. It's hard for me to close my
Speaker 3: eyes and not fall asleep. You were listening. Please keep
Speaker 3: doing what you're doing and reaching people who really need
Speaker 3: to hear about Jesus and God's love. Well, Heather, I
Speaker 3: am so glad to hear that you're back in God's
Speaker 3: Word and that you're making it a part of your
Speaker 3: daily life. There really isn't anything more important than deepening
Speaker 3: your relationship with Him, and I love the fact that
Speaker 3: you are praying every day, especially keeping your eyes open
Speaker 3: while you're driving. Do you or somebody know or even
Speaker 3: feel lost yourself like Heather once did? Well, the best
Speaker 3: way to find hope and strength is by staying connected
Speaker 3: to God every day.
Speaker 4: That's the purpose of Daily.
Speaker 3: Hope and that's why I started it, to help people
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