Speaker 1: Hello, everybody. This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope with Rick Warren.
Speaker 1: I'm really glad you're here today. We're continuing our series
Speaker 1: from Psalm twenty three called Living in the Goodness of God.
Speaker 1: It's all about how God's goodness meets you right where
Speaker 1: you are and brings hope even in difficult seasons. Right now,
Speaker 1: here's the final part of a message called living an
Speaker 1: Anointed Life.
Speaker 2: Fifth thing that we learn in the scriptures is this
Speaker 2: that God anoints my life.
Speaker 3: To bless others.
Speaker 2: God blesses you, not just so you can feel good.
Speaker 2: God blesses you so you could be a blessing to
Speaker 2: other people. Now, we've done an entire series on this
Speaker 2: at Saddleback, where we talked about we're blessed to be
Speaker 2: a blessing. God doesn't give you money, talent, good looks, abilities, opportunities, networks.
Speaker 2: None of those things are giving to you simply for
Speaker 2: your benefit. God says, I want you to be a
Speaker 2: blessing to other people. Now you get blessed in the
Speaker 2: same time. There's no doubt about it. You're going to
Speaker 2: enjoy the blessing of being a channel. But when you're
Speaker 2: a channel of God's power and blessing to other people.
Speaker 2: It blesses everybody. You're not the only one who gets blessed.
Speaker 2: God doesn't give you his annoying just so you can
Speaker 2: feel good. God gives you his anoying to help others,
Speaker 2: and when you do, it helps you now. In Isaiah,
Speaker 2: Isaiah was a prophet in the Old Testament. In chapter
Speaker 2: sixty one, Isaiah says, I know I'm anointed by God.
Speaker 2: And he comes up with a list of six different
Speaker 2: kinds of people in pain, and he goes, I know
Speaker 2: this is what God's calling me to do. That I'm
Speaker 2: going to use my anoying just not to make a
Speaker 2: name for myself. God is giving me this anointing to
Speaker 2: help six kinds of people in pain. Let me read
Speaker 2: it to you. Isaiah says, the spirit of the Lord
Speaker 2: is on me, and he has anointed me. There's that phrase,
Speaker 2: you might circle it. He has anointed me to bring
Speaker 2: good news to the suffering and the afflicted.
Speaker 3: That's number one.
Speaker 2: Number two, he's anointed me to comfort the broken hearted.
Speaker 2: Number three, he's anointed me to announce freedom to.
Speaker 3: People who are captives.
Speaker 2: You know, they're in a prison, maybe a self imposed
Speaker 2: prison of resentment or an addiction, or a compulsion, or
Speaker 2: a fear or an anxiety. A lot of people are
Speaker 2: in self imposed prison. He says, He's anointed me to
Speaker 2: bring good news, the suffering, comfort to broken hearted, a
Speaker 2: lot of broken hearts. To announce freedom to people who
Speaker 2: are enslaved to an addiction or habit. He's annointed me
Speaker 2: to open the eyes of the blind. What's he talking
Speaker 2: about there? Help people see stuff that they've never seen before.
Speaker 2: Help them see God. Maybe they've never seen God in
Speaker 2: their life, they don't even know.
Speaker 3: See God at work.
Speaker 2: He sent me to tell those who mourn that the
Speaker 2: time of God's favor to them has come. And he
Speaker 2: says the number six. He says, he has anointed me
Speaker 2: to tell all who mourn, and everybody has.
Speaker 3: Losses in life, you're gonna have him.
Speaker 2: If you haven't already, you'll have major losses in your life,
Speaker 2: which means you're gonna mourn. He says, God sent me
Speaker 2: to use the annoying I've got to tell these people
Speaker 2: who are who've had a loss that God will give
Speaker 2: beauty for ashes, joy instead of mourning, and praise instead
Speaker 2: of heaviness. Those who are depressed. What an amazing God
Speaker 2: we have that. God is interested in your emotional needs.
Speaker 2: God is interested in your hurts, in your habits, in
Speaker 2: your hang ups. God is interested in all the stuff
Speaker 2: that pulls you down. He says, when you get annointed,
Speaker 2: God wants you to help other people in pain. And
Speaker 2: when you do that, God helps you in your pain.
Speaker 2: He helps you in your pain. By the way, this
Speaker 2: passage Isaiah sixty one is the text that Jesus read
Speaker 2: for his very first public sermon publicly recorded sermons. In
Speaker 2: Luke chapter four, Jesus goes back to his hometown of Nazareth.
Speaker 2: He picks up the scroll of the Old Testament. He
Speaker 2: opens to this passage Isaiah sixty one, and Jesus.
Speaker 3: Reads it and says, the spirit of the Lord.
Speaker 2: Is upon me because He's appointed me to preach good
Speaker 2: news to the suffering and the afflicted and the poor,
Speaker 2: and he sent me to comfort the broken hearted. And
Speaker 2: he reads this, he rolls the scroll up. He goes
Speaker 2: over and he sits down. Shortest sermon on record, certainly
Speaker 2: not one of mine.
Speaker 3: And he sits down.
Speaker 2: And he says, today this passage is fulfilled right in
Speaker 2: front of you. I am the answer, I'm the savior.
Speaker 2: I'm the guy who's come to comfort the afflicted and
Speaker 2: the broken hearted, and the people who are enslaved to habits,
Speaker 2: and the people who don't know how to get out
Speaker 2: of debt, and the people who are blind and can't
Speaker 2: see the way out of where they are, and all
Speaker 2: these different things. Jesus says, I'm it, I'm it, But
Speaker 2: he says, I'm anointed to do this. Let me show
Speaker 2: you on the screen Acts chapter ten. Here's another verse.
Speaker 2: God anointed Jesus with the Holy Spirit's power.
Speaker 3: By the way, there's a trinity.
Speaker 2: In one sentence, father, Son, Holy Spirit, one sentence. God
Speaker 2: anointed Jesus with the Holy Spirit's power, and he, Jesus,
Speaker 2: went around doing good. That's the purpose of anointing, to
Speaker 2: make the world a better place. When you get anointed,
Speaker 2: you start helping other people. You get blessed by it.
Speaker 2: But you're helping other people. And he went around doing
Speaker 2: good and healing people who were beaten down by the devil.
Speaker 2: And when you get anointed, guess what God's going to
Speaker 2: do that with you? Why? Yeah, you you you're a priest,
Speaker 2: you're anointed it. God wants to work in your life
Speaker 2: this same way. To go around doing good, healing people
Speaker 2: who've been beaten up by by the devil. Number six.
Speaker 2: The sixth thing we learned about anointing as I summarize
Speaker 2: all the Bible, is that for every new challenge, I
Speaker 2: need afresh anointing. For every new challenge, I need a
Speaker 2: fresh anointing. Anointing by the Holy Spirit in your life cannot.
Speaker 3: Be stored up.
Speaker 2: You can't go, oh yeah, I remember way back in
Speaker 2: like nineteen ninety two, I went to service and oh, man,
Speaker 2: I really felt close to God. I got a quiver
Speaker 2: in my liver and I even cried, and I like, ooh.
Speaker 2: It was like an emotional experience, and you go, you're
Speaker 2: still living on that thing.
Speaker 3: That doesn't work that way. You can't store it up.
Speaker 2: God's anointing, his blessing on your life is kind of
Speaker 2: like manna, that bread that God fed him in the
Speaker 2: wilderness for forty years. It only lasted a day and
Speaker 2: then it's spoiled. Because God wants you to depend on
Speaker 2: Him every day for his anointing, every day for his
Speaker 2: power in your life. The prayer is not to pray
Speaker 2: give us this day our monthly bread.
Speaker 3: No, it's daily.
Speaker 2: He gives you just enough for that day, and tomorrow
Speaker 2: you're gonna need a fresh annoying, And the day after
Speaker 2: that you're gonna need a fresh annoying, and the day
Speaker 2: after that you're gonna need some fresh oil.
Speaker 3: In your lamp.
Speaker 2: You're gonna need fresh And by the way, you can
Speaker 2: lose the anointing. We've all seen people who are greatly
Speaker 2: used by God and they are on fire and they're
Speaker 2: gifted and they're talented, and then two years later they're
Speaker 2: on the shelf doing nothing. How did in the world
Speaker 2: did they lose God's blessing on their life? How did
Speaker 2: they lose the anointing on their life? You canna lose
Speaker 2: it lots of ways by taking it for granted, by
Speaker 2: not depending on God, by not spending time alone with
Speaker 2: God every day. You can lose the anoying through pride,
Speaker 2: through greed. You can lose the annoying by refusing to
Speaker 2: forgive somebody you need to forgive. You can lose it
Speaker 2: from gossip. You can lose it from out of control anger.
Speaker 2: You can lose it from all kinds of different things
Speaker 2: that you let become a god in your life that
Speaker 2: you begin to idolize, and all of a sudden, that
Speaker 2: person or that thing, or that job or that money
Speaker 2: is more important than God, and you could lose God's
Speaker 2: blessing on your life. History is littered with people who
Speaker 2: had God's anointing and God's blessing and we're seeing success
Speaker 2: and results in their life, and then all of a sudden, bam,
Speaker 2: they're nothing because they took it too lightly and too loosely.
Speaker 2: For every new challenge, I need a fresh anointing. And
Speaker 2: that annoying that you had last year or ten years ago,
Speaker 2: or a youth camp, it's not any good for today.
Speaker 2: It doesn't do any It doesn't do you any good today.
Speaker 2: You need a fresh refilling. God wants to fill you
Speaker 2: with his power, with his love, with his spirit, with
Speaker 2: his grace. You know the problem is we all leak.
Speaker 2: He get filled, but you leak, and you can lose
Speaker 2: the passion and lose the power, and lose the grace,
Speaker 2: and lose your vision and lose your passion like a
Speaker 2: balloon that's been blown up for a birthday party and
Speaker 2: three days later it's losing it all and going flat
Speaker 2: over in the corner.
Speaker 3: And we leak.
Speaker 2: So you need a fresh filling of God's spirit on
Speaker 2: a regular basis. You cannot handle today's problems with yesterday's anointing,
Speaker 2: and you certainly can't handle the problems you're gonna have tomorrow.
Speaker 3: And next week and next year with yesterday's annoying.
Speaker 2: You got to stay in touch with God so that
Speaker 2: he's filling you constantly with his grace, with his love,
Speaker 2: with his p He said, well, how do I do that?
Speaker 2: How do I stay filled? How do I get afresh
Speaker 2: in morning?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: Hoseiah chapter ten is one example. Verse twelve. Hoseah ten
Speaker 2: twelve says this, so new seeds of righteousness. That's a
Speaker 2: metaphor by the way for prayer, and you'll reap the
Speaker 2: fruit of my love and break up your old hardened ground.
Speaker 2: He's talking about if you're a farmer. You got some
Speaker 2: ground out there hadn't been plowed in years. It's gotten hard,
Speaker 2: it's gotten dry, it's gotten crusty, and maybe your heart
Speaker 2: has gotten cold and dry and crusty, and you don't
Speaker 2: feel the joy of the Lord anymore, and you don't
Speaker 2: feel close to God anymore, and your heart is hard
Speaker 2: toward other people, and your heart is hard even maybe
Speaker 2: toward God. He says, you need to do a little plowing.
Speaker 2: You need to do a little spade work, break up
Speaker 2: the hardened, the fallow ground, the hardened ground in your life.
Speaker 2: It's time to turn to me and seek the Lord.
Speaker 2: And then he says, I'll come and I'll shower new blessings.
Speaker 2: That's anoying, I'll shower new blessings on you. How does
Speaker 2: God turn hard ground into soft ground so something can
Speaker 2: sprout fro him? He sends a storm. You got any
Speaker 2: storm going on in your life? God may breaking up
Speaker 2: the dirt clods in your heart, the hardened soil that's
Speaker 2: gotten dry and bearing and can't bear a fruit of anything.
Speaker 2: And in that passage he says four things. He says,
Speaker 2: you want you want my annoying because you gotta pray
Speaker 2: so so the seeds of right to spend some time
Speaker 2: talking to God. And he says, you need to break
Speaker 2: up the hardened ground. That's that's humility and confession to God.
Speaker 2: I haven't been close to you. I haven't been connected
Speaker 2: to you like I used to be. He says, turn
Speaker 2: back to God. That's clear. He says, seek God. That's clear.
Speaker 2: And he says, as a result, I'll come and shower
Speaker 2: new blessing, new anointing on your life.
Speaker 3: How do you.
Speaker 2: Get God's anointing back in your life or maybe for
Speaker 2: the very first time? The number one way you get
Speaker 2: it Listen, you ask, you ask. The Bible says you
Speaker 2: have not. Because you ask not, you do not have
Speaker 2: James four two.
Speaker 3: You do not have because you don't ask God.
Speaker 2: If you don't have God's power in your life, if
Speaker 2: you don't have God's blessing and anointing in your life,
Speaker 2: you're not waiting on God.
Speaker 3: He's waiting on you. You just haven't asked.
Speaker 2: When was your last time you asked God to make
Speaker 2: your career successful and then you said, I'll do it
Speaker 2: anyway you tell me to do it. When was the
Speaker 2: last time you asked God to make your marriage, or
Speaker 2: your relationships or your friendship successful? And then you said, God,
Speaker 2: I'll do it anyway you tell me to do it,
Speaker 2: even if it doesn't make sense. When was the last
Speaker 2: time you said, God, my finances are so messed up
Speaker 2: and I need you to bless my finances, and I'm
Speaker 2: willing to do the way.
Speaker 3: You tell me to do it.
Speaker 2: That is to break up the clauds and to say God,
Speaker 2: you have not because you're asked. I'm asking you right now.
Speaker 2: You see, God wants to bless your life in ways
Speaker 2: you have not even imagined. If God were to show
Speaker 2: you what he could have done with your life to
Speaker 2: this point that hadn't been able to you'd be sad.
Speaker 2: But if God were to show you what he could
Speaker 2: do with the rest of your life, however many years
Speaker 2: you got left, would blow your mind. If you just say, God,
Speaker 2: I'm asking for your anointing, I want you to I
Speaker 2: want to do it your way. We're not waiting on
Speaker 2: God for a revival of our hearts. He's waiting on us.
Speaker 2: Saw eighty four, Verse eleven says this look up here
Speaker 2: on the screen. The Lord generously gives. By the way,
Speaker 2: God is the most generous person in the universe, and
Speaker 2: he teaches us to get because he's generous. The Lord
Speaker 2: generously gives us his favor. Favor is another word for anointing.
Speaker 2: It means his blessing, his favor, his grace is anointing.
Speaker 2: The Lord generously gives us his favor. When you have
Speaker 2: the favor of God, you're a favorite. God says, She's
Speaker 2: my favorite. Have you ever felt that? Have you ever
Speaker 2: felt the favor of God in your life. I have,
Speaker 2: and there's nothing compared to it. When you know God
Speaker 2: has shown favor on you, and you go, I'm a
Speaker 2: favorite of God. I'm a friend of God. I don't
Speaker 2: deserve it, but it's just God's grace, he says. The
Speaker 2: Lord generously gives us his favor and honor. God wants
Speaker 2: to affirm you. God wants to applaud you in front
Speaker 2: of other people.
Speaker 3: Favor and honor.
Speaker 2: No good thing will he withhold from those who live right.
Speaker 2: He said, there's nothing that's good for you that I'll
Speaker 2: hold back. Anything you could possibly think of that would
Speaker 2: be good for you. I'm gonna give it. It's all there,
Speaker 2: it's all yours. I looked up that word all. It
Speaker 2: means all.
Speaker 3: No good thing will God hold back from you if
Speaker 3: you will just trust Him and live in his anointing.
Speaker 2: Now, am I write this down that when God anoints
Speaker 2: your business, it brings success. When God anoints your business,
Speaker 2: it brings success. I could give you one hundred examples
Speaker 2: out of the Bible of this. Let me just give
Speaker 2: you one. Genesis thirty nine, verse two talks about Joseph,
Speaker 2: who was a businessman and it says because the Lord
Speaker 2: was with Joseph. That phrase was with Joseph. He is
Speaker 2: under the anointing and blessing of God. It says, he
Speaker 2: was greatly blessed so that everything he did succeeded. You
Speaker 2: might underline that everything he did succeeded. Now, let me
Speaker 2: ask you how many of you would like that to
Speaker 2: be true in your career, that every single thing you
Speaker 2: did succeeded. Can I see your hands? Okay, oh, some
Speaker 2: of you don't want that. Let me try that again.
Speaker 2: How many of you would like to be known that
Speaker 2: everything you did in life succeeded. Yeah, that ought to
Speaker 2: be unanimous. And where does that come from? It comes
Speaker 2: from the anointing of God. Let me close in just
Speaker 2: the last two minutes about the second area, and that's
Speaker 2: your body.
Speaker 3: You might write this down.
Speaker 2: When God anoints your body, it brings health. It brings
Speaker 2: health in your body over and over again. Anointing for
Speaker 2: healing is one of the most common practices in the
Speaker 2: entire Bible. Not only did Jesus do it everywhere he went,
Speaker 2: he modeled.
Speaker 3: It for us.
Speaker 2: He authorized his followers to do the same. To anoint
Speaker 2: with oil as a symbol of God's anointing and to
Speaker 2: pray the prayer of faith for people who are sick.
Speaker 3: Jesus did it.
Speaker 2: The Bible tells us Jesus went into every village in town, preaching, teaching,
Speaker 2: and healing. One third of his ministry was healthcare, helping people.
Speaker 2: He cares not just about your soul going to heaven.
Speaker 2: He cares about your mind, education, and he cares about
Speaker 2: your body, your health. And Jesus, as I said, not
Speaker 2: only modeled anointing with oil as a symbol of God's blessing,
Speaker 2: but he actually taught the disciples and commanded us to
Speaker 2: do so. Also, look here on the screen. The Bible
Speaker 2: says in Mark six thirteen that his followers, the Disciples,
Speaker 2: anointed with oil those who were sick.
Speaker 3: And people were healed.
Speaker 2: Now I need to explain to you very quickly, there
Speaker 2: are three kinds of healing, three kinds of zuscum me,
Speaker 2: three kinds of illnesses. Now, there are a lot of
Speaker 2: illness in the world that sip because we make bad choices.
Speaker 2: If I eat wrong, I don't exercise, I don't take
Speaker 2: care of my body, I'm going to reap what I
Speaker 2: saw if I get sick. I have too much sugar
Speaker 2: and I get diabetes or whatever. That's my fault. And
Speaker 2: a lot of the illnesses we bring on ourselves from
Speaker 2: not enough rest, too much stress, not eating right exercise.
Speaker 3: Things like that.
Speaker 2: But the Bible talks about three kinds of illnesses. The
Speaker 2: first is for learning. God allows illness to teach us
Speaker 2: things that we would never learn any other way. And
Speaker 2: so some illness actually is allowed in our lives by
Speaker 2: God when God wants to teach us something. And one
Speaker 2: of the MANI verses on this is Psalm one, nineteen
Speaker 2: verse seventy one. So I'm one nineteen verse seventy one
Speaker 2: here on the screen says this, it was good for
Speaker 2: me to be afflicted so I could learn your truth. Okay,
Speaker 2: here's the true confession time. How many of you have
Speaker 2: learned some things in life through pain? Can I see
Speaker 2: your hands? Yeah, that's one hundred percent of us. In fact,
Speaker 2: some things we only learn through pain. And David, who
Speaker 2: wrote The Lord as My Shepherd, said it was good
Speaker 2: for me to be afflicted that I might learn your statutes.
Speaker 2: I've learned a lot of things through illnesses in my life.
Speaker 2: So sometimes God allows the illness for learning. Okay, The
Speaker 2: second way, a reason or for illness is actually for death.
Speaker 2: You say, well, that's not a very positive one. Well,
Speaker 2: here's what I'm saying. If every illness you had was healed,
Speaker 2: you'd never go to heaven, and neither would anybody else.
Speaker 2: So there is a sickness unto death, and the purpose
Speaker 2: is to end your life here so you can go
Speaker 2: on to the real life in the ever after. You
Speaker 2: will only get the sickness under death.
Speaker 3: One time in your life. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2: Okay, You're not going to get it over and over
Speaker 2: and over, the sickness on if you get well, it
Speaker 2: wasn't the sickness under death, okay, But there is an
Speaker 2: illness that everyone us get, Otherwise we'd.
Speaker 3: All stay on earth.
Speaker 2: Thank God, I don't have to stay on earth for eternity,
Speaker 2: where there's suffering, sorrow, sickness, sadness, stress, rape, wars, violence,
Speaker 2: racial prejudice, you know, all of the different isms in
Speaker 2: the world that put people down.
Speaker 3: Thank God, we do not stay here.
Speaker 2: So there is a sickness under death when God says
Speaker 2: it's time for you to come be with me. And
Speaker 2: then there's a third kind sickness for learning, sickness for
Speaker 2: death and sickness for bringing glory to God. Bringing glory
Speaker 2: to God. Jesus talked about this third kind of illness
Speaker 2: or sickness in John, chapter eleven, he says, and in
Speaker 2: verse four John eleven four, Jesus says this. They brought
Speaker 2: a sick man to Jesus, and he said, now the
Speaker 2: purpose of his illness is not for death. That's the
Speaker 2: second kind sickness under death. Instead, the purpose of this
Speaker 2: illness is so that God will receive glory from this situation.
Speaker 2: You say, how in the world can God get glory
Speaker 2: from my sickness, from my illness, Well, there's two different ways.
Speaker 3: One is you get healed and.
Speaker 2: There's a miracle and there's a testimony of God's healing power.
Speaker 2: The other way God can get glory is you're not healed,
Speaker 2: but you, with strong moral character and commitment and faith,
Speaker 2: stay true to Christ in spite.
Speaker 3: Of all your pain.
Speaker 2: If you know anything about Christian history, the greatest saints
Speaker 2: of all times were the ones who endured basically.
Speaker 3: Chronic pain throughout their entire lives.
Speaker 2: It shaped their character in such a way that they
Speaker 2: were far deeper than the shallow people who never had
Speaker 2: much pain in their life. So God can get glory
Speaker 2: in your illness either way through a miraculous healing. And
Speaker 2: who cares if he does it through medicine or a miracle.
Speaker 3: I don't care.
Speaker 2: They're both healings of God. And the other way is
Speaker 2: if you're not healed, but you stay true to God
Speaker 2: and you let that suffering and deepen, You build your character,
Speaker 2: grow your soul, develop your dependence on God. Become a
Speaker 2: woman of depth, become a man of character that brings
Speaker 2: glory to God too. Now we know that when we
Speaker 2: pray for people, not everybody gets healed. Not everybody I've
Speaker 2: prayed for gets healed. Why I don't know. When I
Speaker 2: get to heaven, we'll know. That's in God's book. We
Speaker 2: know that God determines when people get healed, He determines
Speaker 2: how people get healed, and he determines where people gets there.
Speaker 2: His job is to figure out the wind, where and how,
Speaker 2: And God has all of eternity.
Speaker 3: To answer his promises.
Speaker 2: But my job and your job is to do what
Speaker 2: He commanded us to do and over and over. In scripture,
Speaker 2: we're commanded to pray for each other, and we're commanded
Speaker 2: to pray for each other's healings, and the Bible tells
Speaker 2: us in James chapter five, verse fourteen to sixteen, that
Speaker 2: we are to pray for each other and anoint each
Speaker 2: other with oil as a symbol of God's anointing. James
Speaker 2: five fourteen says this, if you're sick. If you're sick,
Speaker 2: ask your church leaders to pray for your Literally, elders,
Speaker 2: ask your church leaders to pray for you and anoint
Speaker 2: you with oil in the name of the Lord. Now
Speaker 2: there's nothing magical or mystical about the oil. There's nothing supernatural,
Speaker 2: nothing properties that make it.
Speaker 3: It's just oil.
Speaker 2: It's olive oil. But it is the faith anoint with
Speaker 2: oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer
Speaker 2: that is offered in faith will bring healing. Notice not
Speaker 2: the oil, but the prayer and faith will bring healing.
Speaker 2: And the Lord will restore your health, he says, And
Speaker 2: pray for each other so that you will be healed.
Speaker 2: The prayer of a godly person is powerful and effective.
Speaker 2: Heavenly Father, it's amazing that many people will be within
Speaker 2: inches of a miracle and will walk away from it
Speaker 2: out of fear. And I pray nobody will leave here
Speaker 2: missing out on it. An opportunity to receive your anointing,
Speaker 2: your blessing, your power, whether it's in their business or
Speaker 2: in their body, whether it's in their family or their finances.
Speaker 3: Wherever they need, you know what that needs is.
Speaker 2: And you are healing God, whether physical, relational, financial, mental, emotional,
Speaker 2: or any other area. You've brought us to this moment.
Speaker 2: The question is will we trust you to do what
Speaker 2: you told us to do.
Speaker 3: Lord. It's all in your hands.
Speaker 2: We're just going to do what you tell us to
Speaker 2: do as an evidence of trust. And I ask your
Speaker 2: blessing on every person in the name of the Father
Speaker 2: and the Son and the Holy Spirit. And everybody said, Amen,
Speaker 2: God bless everybody.
Speaker 1: What a special message from Pastor rec And now let's
Speaker 1: hear how lives are changing through Daily Hope.
Speaker 3: Rick.
Speaker 1: With a letter from one of our listeners.
Speaker 2: Today, I want to introduce you to Agatha, who's translating
Speaker 2: Daily Hope into German for her husband. She writes, Pastor Rick,
Speaker 2: your preaching is bringing many souls to God. My husband,
Speaker 2: who is an unbeliever, is drawing closer and closer to
Speaker 2: God every day. I translate what I hear and Daily
Speaker 2: Hope into German because he can't speak and understand English.
Speaker 2: Pastor Rick, your teaching has changed his life and I
Speaker 2: can see his progress and eagerness to follow Jesus.
Speaker 3: Agatha.
Speaker 2: Well, Agatha, thank you so much for sharing your story
Speaker 2: with me. This is a wonderful story to hear that
Speaker 2: you're translating what you hear on Daily Hope for your
Speaker 2: husband and that he's growing closer to Jesus. I'm so
Speaker 2: happy for that. We're always looking for translators to help
Speaker 2: us in new languages as we take the message of
Speaker 2: God to more people around the world. So you will
Speaker 2: keep praying for your husband, and you keep praying for
Speaker 2: us that God allows us to take the good news
Speaker 2: of God's hope all around the world.
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