WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:06.919 Hello, and thanks for joining us here on Pastor Rick's 2 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:12.000 Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren. Today, 3 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:16.320 Rick continues teaching a series called Connecting with God the 4 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:19.760 Lord's Prayer. In these lessons, Rick shows you what it 5 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:23.600 means to truly be spiritually connected to God and to 6 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:27.480 each other through the power of God's Love and God's Word. 7 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:30.440 In just a little while, we're going to tell you 8 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:33.640 how to get the Lord's Prayer Words of Hope and 9 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:37.679 Happiness gift book. This life giving resource will help you 10 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:41.600 strengthen the hope of the children you love by introducing 11 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:44.840 them to the Lord's Prayer. Go to Pastorick dot com 12 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:48.079 to find out more, or text the word Daily to 13 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:52.479 eight hundred six hundred five thousand and four. That's Pastorick 14 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:56.320 dot com. Or the word Daily to eight hundred six 15 00:00:56.399 --> 00:01:00.520 hundred five thousand and four. Right now, here's Pastor Rick 16 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:03.920 with part two of a message called the Prayer of Cleansing. 17 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:10.480 When my sister was young growing up, I used to 18 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:15.079 steal her money all the time. I knew where she 19 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:17.959 kept it. I'd go into her room, find her money, 20 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:20.480 take it. Go buy an album, Go buy comics, Go 21 00:01:20.519 --> 00:01:23.879 buy some candy. She probably wondered where all her money went. 22 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:27.439 But I even figured out how you could take two 23 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:29.400 forks and stick into her piggy bak and shake it 24 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:34.680 upside down and the money would fall out. And I 25 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:37.519 had a great collection of comic books from all of that. 26 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:39.920 And God said, you know what, You've never confessed that 27 00:01:39.959 --> 00:01:41.200 to her, and you need to get that right, and 28 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:44.640 you need to repay her. The second thing on that 29 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:49.200 list is I had been in an unreported accident as 30 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:51.079 a high school student. I had been with a couple 31 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:52.879 of friends of mine and we had been in a 32 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:55.200 parking lot one day at a store, and as we 33 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:57.680 were backing out, I backed into a car behind me 34 00:01:57.719 --> 00:01:59.959 and smashed in the front of it. We got scared 35 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:04.040 and left. I didn't leave a note. I didn't tell anybody. 36 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:07.079 God said, you know that's wrong. You need to go 37 00:02:07.079 --> 00:02:09.759 to the police department and you need to admit that 38 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:11.439 you were the one who bashed that in. See if 39 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:15.000 it's on the records, so you can repay whoever that 40 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:17.960 was for the damage it was done to their car. 41 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:22.520 The third thing was I was a member of a 42 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:27.479 small church and at that time I had really long hair, beautiful, 43 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:34.159 flowing blonde hair. I was in northern California in the 44 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:35.280 sixties and seventies. 45 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:37.000 What do you expect? Okay? 46 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:39.560 And my dad never had a problem with He said, son, 47 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:42.759 grow it while you got it, cause you ain't gonna 48 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:44.919 have it for long. So he never had a problem with. 49 00:02:45.319 --> 00:02:48.919 But my pastor, this small church was kind of conservative, 50 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:52.479 didn't like guys wearing long hair in those days, and 51 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:56.840 he regularly talked about it and put me on the defense. 52 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:59.800 And I didn't like him, and so I told everybody 53 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:03.879 like him. I gossiped about him, and I just did 54 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:06.840 not do anything to build him up. I undermined him. 55 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:11.280 And God said, I don't care what he's done, what 56 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:13.639 his part is. You need to go and confess you've 57 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:18.080 had a bad attitude. You need to ask forgiveness. So 58 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:20.240 I finished that and I got in bed and God said, 59 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:28.439 you're going to do it. I said, nope, not a chance, Nope. 60 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:31.800 And God said, oh, really, have you thought about the 61 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:32.719 consequences of this. 62 00:03:33.560 --> 00:03:38.120 Yep, you're going to do it? Nope? 63 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:41.759 And I began a battle in my mind with God 64 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:42.240 that night. 65 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:45.120 God, I really don't want to do this. 66 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:49.039 In fact, I'll do anything if you just forgive these 67 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:51.840 three things. It would be humbling, it would be embarrassing. 68 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:54.520 I would feel bad about it. I don't even want 69 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:58.879 to do it. It's going to cost me. God said, Rick, 70 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:04.120 this is a test. This is a test of your integrity. 71 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:08.080 Will you do what I tell you to do? And 72 00:04:08.199 --> 00:04:11.280 let me tell you what integrity is. Integrity isn't being perfect. 73 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:15.319 Integrity is not never sinning. If that is, nobody's got 74 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:20.759 integrity because nobody's perfect. Integrity means being open and honest 75 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:24.480 and willing to confess where you are weak, where you sin, 76 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:27.959 and when you do wrong and get right. That's integrity. 77 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:31.560 It's not being perfect. Nobody's perfect. It means being honest 78 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:37.879 and authentic about your imperfections. I tried to do everything 79 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:40.720 with God. I tried to bargain with God. God, if 80 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:44.160 you'll forgive me, I will never do it again. God said, 81 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:46.759 don't make promises. Just go get it right. God, if 82 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:49.959 you will forgive me, I will never sin again. 83 00:04:51.639 --> 00:04:51.839 Right. 84 00:04:52.759 --> 00:04:54.959 Just go get it right, God, if you will forgive me, 85 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:57.120 I tried to bargain with God. I will read my 86 00:04:57.279 --> 00:05:00.279 Bible every day the rest of my life. I will 87 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:03.439 tell somebody about Jesus every day. God said, domain promises, 88 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:07.199 go get it right. And I said, I don't want to. 89 00:05:07.279 --> 00:05:10.000 He said, Rick, if you won't be real with me, 90 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:12.759 I won't be real with you. I want to bless 91 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:16.160 your life. I want to use your life. But if 92 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:18.720 I can't trust you in the little things of life, 93 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:22.720 how can I trust you in the big things of life. 94 00:05:22.959 --> 00:05:24.720 This is a test. 95 00:05:25.920 --> 00:05:28.519 I tossed and turned all night, from about midnight to 96 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:30.480 about five am in the morning, and finally I just 97 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:34.720 go okay, And I just finally said I would do 98 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:35.480 it so I. 99 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:39.079 Could go to sleep, but I didn't really mean it. 100 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:42.639 And I got up the next morning and it was 101 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:47.279 a Saturday, and I did everything except go make those 102 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:52.000 sins right. I did all my homework, I cleaned up 103 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:58.040 my room, I washed both of my parents' cars, I 104 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:02.160 cleaned up the patio, I offered to do errands for 105 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:02.839 my mom. 106 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:05.720 I was doing. 107 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:10.959 Everything except that which I really needed to do. That night, 108 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:13.800 I had been invited to be a guest speaker to 109 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:17.079 a youth meeting, a youth rally at a small church 110 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:20.279 about thirty miles away. I got in the car, drove 111 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:23.079 over to that church, and I spoke. That night, I 112 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:25.319 shouldn't have spoken. I was out of fellowship with God, 113 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:29.240 out of fellowship with other people myself. God's power and 114 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:31.920 presence wasn't there. God's blessing was there. The words were 115 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:34.920 just bouncing off the wall. And I went home very 116 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:39.720 discouraged and very defeated, knowing that God was withholding his 117 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:44.480 blessing in my life. My dad, who was a pastor, 118 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:47.759 asked me, said, Rick, can you go tomorrow up to 119 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:52.600 a little town about sixty miles from here and can 120 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:55.279 you fill in there for the pastor there who's sick. 121 00:06:55.319 --> 00:06:59.920 And I said sure, So I drove an hour north 122 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:02.480 and I went to this little church and I spoke 123 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:05.000 that morning, and I spoke that evening, and all afternoon 124 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:09.600 I just wrestled with God, knowing that there is something 125 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:12.040 intentionally between me and God that I was refusing to 126 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:14.480 get right. I knew it was wrong, but I would 127 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:19.959 not give in. And to speak to this group was 128 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:22.360 a waste of their time and a waste of my time. 129 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:28.199 And there was no blessing, no power, no grace. And 130 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:31.120 I was discouraged and depressed and defeated, and I knew 131 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:35.480 this wasn't working. I got in the car and as 132 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:38.000 I was driving back home that night in the dark. 133 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:41.839 I finally just broke down and said, Okay, God, I 134 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:45.480 am so sorry. I'm never going to allow any little 135 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:48.000 thing to get between me and you if I know 136 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:51.680 it willingly. I will confess it when I make mistakes, 137 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:55.319 when I sin, when I blow it, and I commit 138 00:07:55.560 --> 00:08:01.720 to getting this right. I got home and my parents 139 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:05.279 and my sister were sitting in the living room watching television. 140 00:08:05.399 --> 00:08:08.160 Now to show you how long ago this happened, my 141 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:11.920 parents were watching Bonanza. 142 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:15.480 Okay, so it's that old, all right. And I walked 143 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:16.839 in and I didn't even say anything. 144 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:18.879 I just walked over to the television in front of 145 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:21.839 them and flipped it off, turned it off like that, 146 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:25.199 and I turned it around and said, I don't need 147 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:28.120 you to do anything, but I need somebody to just 148 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:30.240 confess this to and I need to get it off 149 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:33.240 my chest. I've already confessed it to God, I need 150 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:36.200 to confess it to somebody else. And I need to 151 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:37.879 ask you to pray for me that I will have 152 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:38.639 the courage to. 153 00:08:38.559 --> 00:08:40.120 Go get these three things right. 154 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:44.240 And I admitted those three things there to my parents 155 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:50.080 and my sister. I have this scar from my sister no. 156 00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:50.440 I made that part up. 157 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:54.120 And so I just a minute, and I got on 158 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:56.000 my knees in the living room, and I bowed, and 159 00:08:56.039 --> 00:09:00.480 I began to cry and weep and weep profusely, and 160 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:02.960 my parents and my sister began to pray for me. 161 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:08.840 And I felt the power of God fall on my 162 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:15.080 life like I have never experienced before or since. And 163 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:18.720 I could feel the blessing of God flowing into my life. 164 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:21.039 And I could feel the power of God flowing into 165 00:09:21.039 --> 00:09:27.200 my life, and God saying, you pass the test, and 166 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:30.360 I'm going to use you. I'm going to bless you 167 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:32.799 and make you a blessing to other people. And that 168 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:36.799 power flowing into my life was the turning point in 169 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:43.519 my life. I want this so badly for you. You 170 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:47.960 have no idea how much God wants to use your life. 171 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:51.279 You have no idea how much God wants to bless 172 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:54.559 your life. The things He could do in your life 173 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:56.799 would astound you if your. 174 00:09:56.759 --> 00:10:01.240 Life was a clean vessel. But you've got to do 175 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:06.279 business with God. You've got to pray the prayer of cleansing. 176 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:11.519 This is Pastor Rick's daily hope. We're so glad you're 177 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:14.159 with us today. Rick will be back in a moment, 178 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:18.919 but first, recently, Pastor Rick had our graphic designers create 179 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:22.679 a beautiful, frameable version of The Lord's Prayer that you 180 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:27.639 can download for free right now by visiting Pastorick dot com. 181 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:29.720 That's Pastorick dot com. 182 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:32.480 Perhaps the most important role you can play in the 183 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:35.559 life of a child is teaching them to trust God 184 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:39.679 through prayer. It's the key to living with hope. Jesus said, 185 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:43.200 we should always pray and never give up. 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Here's 210 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:08.879 Pastor Rick Warren. 211 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:14.200 I want to give you now, very simply, real quickly, 212 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:18.360 the six steps on the path to a clear conscience. 213 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:22.679 There is no reason you should leave this building with 214 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:24.679 any guilt in your life. 215 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:26.519 Whatever guilt you've. 216 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:29.840 Been caring for weeks or months or years, you need 217 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:33.879 to deal with it. Now make business with God and 218 00:12:34.039 --> 00:12:38.480 go out with a clear conscience and be guilt free. 219 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:41.399 How do you do it? Six steps on the back 220 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:45.039 of your outline. There here's the steps. Number one, I 221 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:49.399 review every area of my life. That's the first step. 222 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:55.120 I review every area of my life. We call this 223 00:12:55.279 --> 00:13:00.720 making it a personal moral inventory or a a personal 224 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:04.120 spiritual assessment. And what you do is you sit down 225 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:08.600 with God in a quiet space, by yourself, all alone, 226 00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:11.360 when you're unhurried, and you do what I just told 227 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:12.759 you about I did. 228 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:13.159 God. 229 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:15.159 I'm gonna do business with you, and I'm going to 230 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:17.320 make a list of anything that's between me and you 231 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:19.799 that's wrong in my life that I feel guilty about, 232 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:23.039 consciously or unconsciously. Help me to know the things that 233 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:25.240 I know that are wrong and the things that I 234 00:13:25.279 --> 00:13:29.120 don't know that are wrong. The Bible says in Lamentations 235 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:33.519 Chapter three, let us test and examine our ways. 236 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:35.080 Now you get off by. 237 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:38.440 Yourself with a pen and a notepad, where you're totally disturbed. 238 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:42.399 You ask God to reveal your sins, and you say, Lord, 239 00:13:42.600 --> 00:13:44.879 in clearing clear my mind, let me give you a 240 00:13:44.919 --> 00:13:48.120 verse to write down. Psalm one thirty nine, twenty three 241 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:51.480 and twenty four. Psalm one thirty nine, twenty three and 242 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:54.840 twenty four says this search me O, God. 243 00:13:55.120 --> 00:13:59.240 And know my heart, test me and know my thoughts. 244 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:04.039 Point out anything in me that offends you, anything, and 245 00:14:04.120 --> 00:14:06.840 lead me along the path of everlasting life. That is 246 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:10.000 the prayer saying, God, turn your spotlight on my innerside 247 00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:13.320 to find the stuff that's entangled me, that's hindering me, 248 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:16.039 that's holding me back. Now you take your time. You 249 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:17.759 don't rush it. You don't say, God, I got five 250 00:14:17.759 --> 00:14:19.639 minutes for you to reveal every sin I've ever done. 251 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:22.320 Now you take your time, and you. 252 00:14:22.679 --> 00:14:25.039 Say write it all down, and say, well, couldn't I 253 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:28.200 just think it? Might have to write it down. You 254 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:31.720 have to write it down. Writing makes it specific. Thoughts 255 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:34.720 disentangle themselves through the flips and the fingertips. You talk 256 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:36.720 it and you say, and you write it. If you 257 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:38.840 haven't written it down, you haven't really thought about it. 258 00:14:38.840 --> 00:14:41.840 It makes it specific. By the way, it's also cathartic. 259 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:45.039 It helps get it out of you and onto the paper. 260 00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:49.159 You want to get the gunk out of you. Now 261 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:51.799 you're gonna burn this paper later on, but you just 262 00:14:51.879 --> 00:14:55.159 get it out of you. The Bible says this, if 263 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:58.039 we judged ourselves in the right way, God would not 264 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:03.360 judge us. Now to get you started. I've written here 265 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:06.840 a personal spiritual assessment, and if you open it up 266 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:13.200 inside it's a sin list. Here's a personal spiritual assessment too. 267 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:17.799 The following is a list of common sins that prevent 268 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:21.960 God from blessing and using our lives. As you prayerfully 269 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:29.080 read this, examine yourself and circle or highlight or underline 270 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:32.120 the areas that apply to you. You don't even have 271 00:15:32.120 --> 00:15:34.000 to write them down. I'm making this easy. You just 272 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:36.480 read it, go yep, that's me, yep, that's me, yep. 273 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:39.519 You underline it, you circle it, you highlight it, and 274 00:15:39.559 --> 00:15:41.600 then when you get to get at the end, you go, now, God, 275 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:44.039 is there anything else? And you write down those things too. 276 00:15:47.679 --> 00:15:49.879 And nobody else is going to see this. It's just 277 00:15:49.879 --> 00:15:53.320 between you and God. It's a personal spiritual assessment. By 278 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:55.399 the way, we'll put it on the website too, so 279 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:56.720 those of you are watching. 280 00:15:56.559 --> 00:15:58.840 On the internet can download it, and those. 281 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:02.679 Of you who would like other copies can download it too. Now, 282 00:16:02.679 --> 00:16:04.080 nobody else is going to see this. Now, let me 283 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:07.000 ask you a very important question. How serious are you 284 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:12.039 about God blessing your life? How badly do you want 285 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:13.960 God's blessing in your life? Oh, I'd like to have 286 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:16.759 it enough that you're willing to be gut level honest. 287 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:20.279 Are you willing to be honest to God? Are you 288 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:23.360 willing to be honest with yourself? Are you gonna lie 289 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:25.320 to yourself? Are you going to be willing to be 290 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:27.279 honest with other people? Are you going to just live 291 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:30.360 in denial? Denial in God's blessing do not go hand 292 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:37.440 in hand. Friend, You are seconds away from liberation. You 293 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:41.440 are seconds away from a feeling of cleanness and joy 294 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:48.080 and purity that you haven't had ever, that you've never experienced. 295 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:51.919 You are seconds away from a total freedom in your 296 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:54.480 life that could set you free from some habits and 297 00:16:54.519 --> 00:16:57.600 hurts and hang ups that are messing up your life. 298 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:02.720 I want to ask you to do this today. Don't procrastinate. 299 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:05.119 There's nothing more important than your life than to have 300 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:09.759 the blessing of God. Go home today, get alone by yourself, 301 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:14.039 read through this and do a personal moral inventory. That's 302 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:17.839 step one. Now, once you've done that, you do step two. 303 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:23.160 Here's the second step. I repent of every sin. First, 304 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:28.119 I review every area, and then I repent of every sin. 305 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:32.039 What does it mean to repent? It means three things. 306 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:35.359 It means, first, I take responsibility for my sin. 307 00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:37.960 Yep, I'm not going to blame anybody else for this. 308 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:41.559 Second, it means I turn away from those things. And 309 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:44.839 third it means I turn toward God and his grace 310 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:47.799 and say, God, I don't want to be that anymore. 311 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:53.039 I take responsibility, I turn away, and I turn. 312 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:57.519 Two. That's what it means to repent. Now what do 313 00:17:57.599 --> 00:17:58.279 you do on that? 314 00:17:58.640 --> 00:18:02.359 The Bible says this, let us turn again in repentance 315 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:06.799 to the Lord. Let us lift our hearts and hands 316 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:11.519 to God in heaven and say we have sinned and rebelled. 317 00:18:13.480 --> 00:18:16.839 You write it down, you accept responsibility. What does it 318 00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:20.200 mean to repent? Well, first, I don't rationalize it. I 319 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:22.400 don't say, well it was no big deal. Well it 320 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:25.000 was a big deal. You wouldn't have remembered it. I 321 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:27.359 don't minimize it. I don't rationalize it. I said, well, 322 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:29.920 it happened so long time ago, or it was just 323 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:33.279 a stage I went through, or everybody does. 324 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:34.680 It doesn't matter. 325 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:37.839 You don't rationalize, you don't minimize, you don't accuse, you 326 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:41.720 don't excuse. You don't blame others, Well it was mostly 327 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:44.839 their fault. Well it may the ninety nine point nine 328 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:47.880 percent their fault. God says you accept responsibility for your 329 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:50.000 one percent or point one percent? 330 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:52.480 What am I saying? 331 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:58.079 Listen very closely. The greatest hold up to the healing 332 00:18:58.240 --> 00:18:59.359 of your hang up. 333 00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:03.880 Is you. 334 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:06.519 You're not waiting on God. You're not waiting on anybody 335 00:19:06.519 --> 00:19:09.279 else the hang ups in your life. The greatest hold 336 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:14.000 up to your hang up is you. God wants to 337 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:16.160 heal it in your life. 338 00:19:16.839 --> 00:19:17.000 Now. 339 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:19.240 The Bible says this up here on the screen. If 340 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:24.160 we claim to be without sin, we're just deceiving ourselves. 341 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:27.079 We're living in a world of illusion. 342 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:30.200 What the Bible says, we're acting in a fantasy world 343 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:31.480 where we're pretending. 344 00:19:31.559 --> 00:19:32.319 We're faking it. 345 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:35.519 If we claim to be without sin, we're just deceiving ourselves. 346 00:19:35.640 --> 00:19:38.359 We're certainly not deceiving God, and we're not even deceiving 347 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:41.920 anybody else, because everybody else knows you've blown it. We 348 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:46.039 just deceive ourselves. It's self deception and the truth is 349 00:19:46.079 --> 00:19:54.000 not in us. Now, listen very closely to this. The 350 00:19:54.039 --> 00:19:57.799 things that defeat you in your life, the self defeating 351 00:19:57.839 --> 00:19:59.880 habits in your life that you don't like about you. 352 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.279 Who would you like to get rid of them. 353 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:09.000 You will stop defeating yourself when you stop deceiving yourself. 354 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:14.519 This is Pastor Rick's daily Hope. We're so glad you're 355 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:18.640 with us today. Recently, Pastor Rick had our graphic designers 356 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:22.640 create a beautiful frameable version of The Lord's Prayer that 357 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:26.839 you can download for free right now by visiting Pastorick 358 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:31.000 dot com. That's Pastorick dot com. 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Here's Pastor Rick with a letter from 387 00:22:16.119 --> 00:22:17.319 one of our listeners. 388 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:20.440 You know I love getting these letters from you when 389 00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:22.880 you write in from all around the world. My prayers 390 00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:25.480 at Daily Hope will bring that hope that we find 391 00:22:25.519 --> 00:22:29.799 in God's Word to people in every nation. Here's a 392 00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:32.400 note from one of our listeners who actually lives in India. 393 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:36.039 Dear Pastor Rick, it's a great honor for me to 394 00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:39.200 share how I get blessings from the Daily Hope Devotional 395 00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:42.160 every day. It's already been a year and a half 396 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:44.920 that I've been reading the Daily Hope Devotional and I 397 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:48.839 thank God for these I also share these devotionals through 398 00:22:48.880 --> 00:22:53.200 social media like Facebook and WhatsApp, and I send the 399 00:22:53.279 --> 00:22:57.039 daily devotions to forty different pastors and fifty different lay 400 00:22:57.119 --> 00:22:59.920 leaders and to some of my church members and friends. 401 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:03.000