Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome to Daily Hope with Pastor Rick Warren.
Speaker 1: So we're continuing with this series called Daring Faith The
Speaker 1: Key to Miracles. And in this series you're learning how
Speaker 1: to have a bold, unshakable faith that gives you courage
Speaker 1: to impact the world around you. And I know we
Speaker 1: all want that. I'm excited to hear what Rick shares
Speaker 1: today with a message called how to get Ready for
Speaker 1: a Miracle.
Speaker 2: Let me show you three verses from the Bible. First,
Speaker 2: God wants you to grow in faith, the Bible says
Speaker 2: and Colossians too. Let your roots grow down deep into
Speaker 2: Him and draw up a nourishment from Him, so that
Speaker 2: you will grow in faith. Circle that grow in faith,
Speaker 2: strong and vigorous. God wants you to grow in your faith.
Speaker 2: It wants you to be a spiritual baby. And then
Speaker 2: God says, I want you to sew in faith. I
Speaker 2: want you to learn to become generous. You cannot become
Speaker 2: like God without becoming generous. You can'tnot become like Christ
Speaker 2: without becoming generous, the Bible says and tewod Corinthians nine.
Speaker 2: Remember this, whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. And
Speaker 2: whoever sows generously, will also reap generously. This is the
Speaker 2: law of you reap what you sow, and it's true
Speaker 2: in every life. If you sow criticism, you're going to
Speaker 2: reap criticism. If you sow love, you'll reap love. If
Speaker 2: you sow kindness, you will reap kindness. But you always
Speaker 2: reap more than you sow. When you plant one corn
Speaker 2: kernel in the ground, you don't get one colonel back,
Speaker 2: you get a whole stalk. You always get more back,
Speaker 2: either positively or negative, of what you put out in life.
Speaker 2: And the Bible says, if you sew generously, you will
Speaker 2: reap generously. So grow in faith, so in faith, and
Speaker 2: then God wants you to go in faith. I could
Speaker 2: have used many examples, but here's an example of Abraham.
Speaker 2: Hebrews eleven eight says it was by faith that Abraham
Speaker 2: obeyed God's call to go. You know this story how
Speaker 2: he left er to go to the promised land God's
Speaker 2: called the goat to another place that God had promised
Speaker 2: to give him. He left his own country without knowing
Speaker 2: where he was to go. Would you do that? Abraham
Speaker 2: was up in years, he was at retirement, saved, it
Speaker 2: is time to hang it up and settle down. And
Speaker 2: God said, no, get it down, dust it off. You're
Speaker 2: unready for the greatest journey of your life. And God says,
Speaker 2: when you live by faith, it involves going off into
Speaker 2: places you hadn't any idea you were planning to go to.
Speaker 2: In fact, you weren't planning. So we're going to look
Speaker 2: at faith in the areas of your growing, in ularias
Speaker 2: of your giving, and in the areas of your lifestyle.
Speaker 2: Now why are we doing this Because everything that God
Speaker 2: does in your life he does because of his mercy
Speaker 2: and grace and your faith. He does it by grace
Speaker 2: through faith. I could give you one hundred different verses.
Speaker 2: Let me just give you a few. Hebrews eleven six
Speaker 2: says this, without faith, it is impossible to please God. Well,
Speaker 2: that's enough to study it for ten weeks, right there.
Speaker 2: Romans fourteen twenty three says this, anything that is not
Speaker 2: done in faith is sin. That's another reason to study
Speaker 2: faith for ten weeks. Matthew nine twenty nine Jesus said,
Speaker 2: according to your faith, it will be done to you.
Speaker 2: I love that verse because Jesus says you get to
Speaker 2: choose how much God blesses your life, a lot of faith,
Speaker 2: a lot of blessing. Little faith, little blessing, no faith,
Speaker 2: no blessing. According to your faith, it will be done
Speaker 2: to you. Now, let me explain to you what you
Speaker 2: can expect in the next ten weeks. Four things you
Speaker 2: ought to expect. Write these down en daring faith. Number one.
Speaker 2: The first thing is you can expect to see some miracles.
Speaker 2: I guarantee it. You count on it. Because when people
Speaker 2: trust God, when people take risks, when people dream great dreams,
Speaker 2: when people go for it in faith, God moves. God
Speaker 2: is not impressed with my complaining. God is not impressed
Speaker 2: with my griping. God is not impressed with my criticizing
Speaker 2: all the things I don't like about my life. It
Speaker 2: doesn't move God to act at all when I complain,
Speaker 2: when I whine, when I'm moan. But God moves according
Speaker 2: to faith. And when he looks down and he sees
Speaker 2: a child of God, a son of God, a daughter
Speaker 2: of God, believing and trusting him. All throughout Scripture we
Speaker 2: see this over and no going. God moves. Every time
Speaker 2: you see God did a miracle in the Bible's and
Speaker 2: moved out of heaven, moved on earth because somebody believed,
Speaker 2: and because a lot of people are going to be
Speaker 2: taking risks and steps of faith during daring faith, you're
Speaker 2: going to see some flat out miracles. I guarantee it.
Speaker 2: It's going to happen. Some of you will get promoted,
Speaker 2: It just happens. Some of you will get engaged me God,
Speaker 2: me me me me me me, me, me me God,
Speaker 2: me mey me God. Some of you will get engaged.
Speaker 2: Some of you will have unexpected income come in. Some
Speaker 2: of you will have windfalls, some of you will have
Speaker 2: physical healing. I have seen this seven times. When people
Speaker 2: start to believe God and trust Him in ways they've
Speaker 2: never done before, they see some really neat stuff happen
Speaker 2: in their lives. So you can expect to see miracles.
Speaker 2: Number two. The second thing you can expect is you
Speaker 2: can expect to grow spiritually. As I said, you're probably
Speaker 2: going to grow more in the next ten weeks or
Speaker 2: eight weeks now than you will in all of the
Speaker 2: rest of the year because we're going to be focusing
Speaker 2: on your spiritual growth. Number three. The third thing you
Speaker 2: can expect. I hate to tell you this, but it's
Speaker 2: part of the deal. You can expect to be hassled
Speaker 2: by Satan, You're going to have some difficulties in the
Speaker 2: next ten weeks. Satan's going to try to distract you
Speaker 2: to keep you from growing. Do you think Satan wants
Speaker 2: you to learn how to live by faith? No? Do
Speaker 2: you think he wants you to learn how to be generous? No?
Speaker 2: Do you think he wants you to learn how to
Speaker 2: go in ways and places that you've never gone before
Speaker 2: with your life? Absolutely not. So He's going to throw
Speaker 2: everything at you. And I've again seen this seven different times.
Speaker 2: And you may have unexpected illnesses and your car make breakdown,
Speaker 2: and some of you may get fired during this, and
Speaker 2: some of you may go through a real crisis of
Speaker 2: grief and lose a loved one, and some of you,
Speaker 2: in fact, this is a high probability you may have
Speaker 2: a fight with your husband or wife. Okay, that's a
Speaker 2: high probability. Conflict is Satan's favorite way to get you distracted.
Speaker 2: So when you get in a fight, just stop and go.
Speaker 2: Rick told us this would happened. Okay. Put me right
Speaker 2: in the center of your fight, okay, and I'll be
Speaker 2: right there smiling and it'll calm me down. Okay. So
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to tell you this but you're going to
Speaker 2: have Satan's going to try to distract you and get
Speaker 2: you off task and get you to forget this. The
Speaker 2: fourth thing you can expect is you can expect to
Speaker 2: experience joy. It's because when people learn to trust God
Speaker 2: in deeper ways, it makes them happy. When people learn
Speaker 2: how to set great dreams, dream great dreams, and set
Speaker 2: big goals and take risks and live by faith and
Speaker 2: make the sacrifice and invest their lives, you just get
Speaker 2: happy when people give, they get happy. Now, I want
Speaker 2: to spend the rest of my time, the last few minutes,
Speaker 2: just talking to you about how do you prepare for
Speaker 2: a miracle. And we're going to look at the most
Speaker 2: famous miracle of Jesus Christ. It's the Jesus feeding the
Speaker 2: five thousand. How he took one little boy's lunch and
Speaker 2: was able to feed the five thousand and really this
Speaker 2: story is all about how God turns a little into
Speaker 2: a lot. You need to know these principles because many
Speaker 2: times for the rest of your life, you're going to
Speaker 2: need God to turn a little into a lot in
Speaker 2: your life. You got a little energy, you need a
Speaker 2: lot of energy. You got a little bit of talent,
Speaker 2: you need God to turn it into a lot of talent.
Speaker 2: You got a little opportunity, you need God to turn
Speaker 2: it into a big opportunity. You got a little connections, relationships,
Speaker 2: you need God to turn it into some big relationships,
Speaker 2: some big connections. You got a little bit of money,
Speaker 2: You need God to turn it into a lot of money.
Speaker 2: Many times in your life, God is going to need
Speaker 2: to turn a little into a lot. I got a
Speaker 2: little bit of help, but I really need great help.
Speaker 2: How does God turn a little into a lot. That's
Speaker 2: what this story and that's what this miracle is all about. Now,
Speaker 2: Jesus never did miracles just to show off, Like, hey,
Speaker 2: look at this miracle. I learned this one at the
Speaker 2: Magic Castle's really cool. You can impress your friends with
Speaker 2: it and so use it at your next cocktail party.
Speaker 2: Do this little miracle. Jesus never did a miracle to
Speaker 2: show off. Every miracle is to teach a spiritual truth.
Speaker 2: And the spiritual truth of Jesus or the Feeding of
Speaker 2: the five Thousand is to show us how to prepare
Speaker 2: for a miracle where God turns a little into a
Speaker 2: lot in your life. Very important as we start daring faith. Now,
Speaker 2: this miracle is so important. It's the only miracle of
Speaker 2: Jesus told four times in the New Testament. It's in
Speaker 2: the Book of Matthew, It's in the Book of Mark,
Speaker 2: in the Book of Luke, and it's in the Book
Speaker 2: of John. All four authors were so impressed with this miracle,
Speaker 2: and you couldn't deny it. I mean, there were five
Speaker 2: thousand people who saw it that it makes all four. Now,
Speaker 2: anytime God tells you something four times, he's saying, you
Speaker 2: really should pay attention to this one. You should really
Speaker 2: pay attention to this one. Now here's the story. Jesus
Speaker 2: goes out into the Judean desert and he's out there
Speaker 2: and he's teaching, and about five thousand people follow him
Speaker 2: out into the Judean desert and he's teaching all day.
Speaker 2: And at the end of the day, five thousand people
Speaker 2: are hungry, and they're twenty five miles from the nearest
Speaker 2: McDonald's or actually in israeli b be McDavid's, and there's
Speaker 2: no fast food nearby, and everybody's hungry, and the disciples
Speaker 2: come to Jesus going, hey, Lord, it's late in the
Speaker 2: day and everybody's hungry. And Jesus says, you feed him.
Speaker 2: I love this line. We'll get to it a minute.
Speaker 2: You feed him, Lord, that's impossible physically, practically, you know,
Speaker 2: humanly impossible for us twelve to feed these guys. What
Speaker 2: is going on here? Jesus is performing a miracle to
Speaker 2: teach us the four steps to preparing for a miracle.
Speaker 2: And I told you that during daring faith you're going
Speaker 2: to see some miracles in this church. They're just going
Speaker 2: to happen. And I literally have not hundreds, but thousands
Speaker 2: and thousands of letters of people who have miracles in
Speaker 2: previous campaigns. So what is Jesus telling us to do.
Speaker 2: He's telling us the four keys to getting ready for
Speaker 2: a miracle. Write these down. Here's the first step. Step
Speaker 2: number one to a miracle in your life is admit
Speaker 2: I have an unsolvable problem. I must admit that I
Speaker 2: have an unsolvable problem. Now, let me be a real blunt.
Speaker 2: If you don't have an unsolvable problem, you don't need
Speaker 2: a miracle. That's kind of obvious, right, it's not unsolvedle,
Speaker 2: you don't need a miracle. If you have a solvable problem,
Speaker 2: solve it. Just solve it. I mean, people going to me, Rick,
Speaker 2: I've really gotten overweight. I need a miracle. Stop eating.
Speaker 2: It's not like a miracle. You don't need a miracle.
Speaker 2: You need a diet. And a lot of times we
Speaker 2: want miracles when God says no, no, you're just overspending.
Speaker 2: The reason you're in so much Betty, you're overspending. You
Speaker 2: need a plan. You don't need a miracle, you need
Speaker 2: you need a spending plan. But the first step is
Speaker 2: to admit I have an unsolvable problem. Now in Mark
Speaker 2: chapter six, here's the story when Jesus solved a large crowd.
Speaker 2: He had compassion on them, so he began to teach them,
Speaker 2: teaching them. By this time it was late in the day,
Speaker 2: so his disciples came and said, this is a remote place.
Speaker 2: Send the people away so they can go and buy
Speaker 2: something to eat. But Jesus answered, you give them something
Speaker 2: to eat. And they said, Lord, that would take eight
Speaker 2: months of a man's wages unless they go all economics
Speaker 2: on Jesus. Here Now in that verse, in that passage,
Speaker 2: I just read, we have the three typical responses when
Speaker 2: we have an unsolvable problem in our life. You do this,
Speaker 2: everybody does this. I do it. We procrastinate, We passed
Speaker 2: the buck, and we worry. All three of those things
Speaker 2: are in that passage right there. First, we procrastinate when
Speaker 2: we have a problem we can't solve, we just keep
Speaker 2: putting it off. We know we need to solve it,
Speaker 2: but we don't know how to solve it, so we
Speaker 2: just keep putting it off. We delay, We pretend it
Speaker 2: doesn't exist. We look the other way. The phrase in
Speaker 2: this passage says, by this time it was late in
Speaker 2: the day they were procrastinating. They had all day to
Speaker 2: figure out food service for five thousand people. Let's call
Speaker 2: up dominoes or something. They had all data figure it out,
Speaker 2: but they'd done nothing. Now, procrastination only makes a problem
Speaker 2: worse in your life. If you got cancer, you deal
Speaker 2: with it now, not tomorrow, not next week. You deal
Speaker 2: with it now. Procrastination has never solved any problem. It
Speaker 2: only makes it worse. I wonder what problem you have
Speaker 2: been procrastinating over. I wonder what problem you know is
Speaker 2: there and you're pretending isn't a problem. What problem are
Speaker 2: you pretending isn't in your marriage? What problem are you
Speaker 2: pretending isn't in your body? What problem are you pretending
Speaker 2: isn't in your finances? We procrastinate, and then we pass
Speaker 2: the buck. And what we do is we blame other
Speaker 2: people say, well, it's not really my problem, it's your problem,
Speaker 2: it's their fault. And we blame others. And you've heard
Speaker 2: me say many times you spell blame, be blame. Every
Speaker 2: time you blame, you are being lame. And so the
Speaker 2: disciples say, send the people away. What are they doing?
Speaker 2: They're passing off responsibility to say, Hey, we didn't invite
Speaker 2: these guys out here. We didn't ask them to come eat.
Speaker 2: We didn't ask them, we didn't promise some food. We
Speaker 2: didn't even invite them to come here. Jesus teach, I said,
Speaker 2: just send them away, out of sight, out of mind.
Speaker 2: We didn't ask them to come. Let them find their
Speaker 2: own food. We passed the buck on our problem. And
Speaker 2: the third thing we do is we worry and we fret,
Speaker 2: and we stew, and we get anxious and we get
Speaker 2: stressed out, and we say, Lord, it would take eight
Speaker 2: months wages to pay for these guys. And then disciples
Speaker 2: anxiety goes into overdrive. And you know, I can just
Speaker 2: imagine Peter doing this cost analysis. Imagine the expense five
Speaker 2: thousand people. You know, how are we ever going to
Speaker 2: import the food, How are we going to keep it hot?
Speaker 2: How are we going to distribute it? How are we
Speaker 2: going to do the cleanup? Who's going to get the
Speaker 2: health permits? What about liability insurance? And their minds are
Speaker 2: just going in overdrive, and we worry, worry, worry, And
Speaker 2: notice I love what Jesus says. He looks at these
Speaker 2: twelve guys and he says, you feed him, you feed him,
Speaker 2: And they go, whah me. Peter's going, are you kidding? Lord?
Speaker 2: He said that? Why we can't do that? Now, here's
Speaker 2: the point. They're procrastinating, they're passing the buck, and they're worrying.
Speaker 2: What's the problem with this picture. They're standing next to Jesus,
Speaker 2: the guy who could easily turn stones to bread if
Speaker 2: he wanted to, who could easily feed everybody instantly if
Speaker 2: he wanted to. They're standing in the presence of the
Speaker 2: Son of God, and they're going, what's going on here?
Speaker 2: And Jesus says, you feed him? And they say, Lord,
Speaker 2: that's practically financially and humanly impossible. Question, has God ever
Speaker 2: asked you to do something impossible? He loves to do that.
Speaker 2: God loves to ask you to do something possible possible,
Speaker 2: And you go, Lord, I don't have the time, I
Speaker 2: don't have the money, I don't have the energy, I
Speaker 2: don't have the education. I just you got the wrong guy, Lord, Moses,
Speaker 2: I want you to do this, not me, you know,
Speaker 2: you know, Jeremiah, why me? You know you know you
Speaker 2: gotta say, like Isaiah, use me here? Am I send me?
Speaker 2: And God says, I want you to do the impossible?
Speaker 2: Why does he ask that? Why does God ask you
Speaker 2: to do the impossible? He wants to stretch your faith.
Speaker 2: Every time when God asks you to do something you
Speaker 2: think is physically and financially impossible, he wants to stretch
Speaker 2: your faith. And this is the first principle of a miracle.
Speaker 2: I have to admit that the problem I'm facing right
Speaker 2: now is unsolvable. Okay, principal number two, here's the second
Speaker 2: step to a miracle. Give God what little I already have.
Speaker 2: I give God what little I already have. And now
Speaker 2: Jesus says to the disciples, I want you to do
Speaker 2: a little reconnaissance. Go out and see if anybody's got
Speaker 2: any lunches. He says, how many loaves do you have?
Speaker 2: Jesus asked, go and see. He sends them out on
Speaker 2: a little reconnaissance to five thousand people. And when they
Speaker 2: found out, they said, five small loaves of bread and
Speaker 2: two fish, one little boy has a sack lunch wit
Speaker 2: a minute. Out of five thousand people, only one guy
Speaker 2: brought a lunch. I'm thinking a lot of rich people
Speaker 2: are hiding the picnic basket under their robe because they
Speaker 2: don't want to share it with anybody else. In five
Speaker 2: thousand people, it is highly doubtful to me that only
Speaker 2: one boy brought a lunch. His mom has packed them,
Speaker 2: you know, three or four or five little barley rolls
Speaker 2: and a couple of you know, dried fish. Okay, he's
Speaker 2: the only one, but he becomes the hero the story
Speaker 2: because he's willing to offer up what he's got and
Speaker 2: he gives God what little he had. Now, why did
Speaker 2: Jesus do this? Why did Jesus said, find out how
Speaker 2: many lunches are out there, find out how many loaves
Speaker 2: of bread are among this crowd? Why did he didn't
Speaker 2: need anything to do a miracle. He just goes bread
Speaker 2: for everybody. Manifals a million different ways. You get another.
Speaker 2: Why did he do this? The second principle of the
Speaker 2: miracle is this. God always starts with what I have.
Speaker 2: God always starts with what I have. It may not
Speaker 2: be much, but I give it to God. I said, God,
Speaker 2: I don't have much time, but here's my time. God.
Speaker 2: My finances aren't much, but here's what I've got. God.
Speaker 2: My talent isn't much, but here's my talent. God. My
Speaker 2: sex life isn't much. But there's a little nervous laughter
Speaker 2: on that one. Okay, But I give you. I give
Speaker 2: you everything in my life. I give you my reputation.
Speaker 2: I give you my heart, my soul, my past, my present,
Speaker 2: my future. It didn't much, but I'm going to give
Speaker 2: you my five loaves and two fish. Now that's interesting
Speaker 2: that when God always starts with what I have. John
Speaker 2: chapter six, verse six tells us a little detail this story.
Speaker 2: It said, Jesus asked this, how many loads do we
Speaker 2: have out there? Only to test them? For you already
Speaker 2: hadn't mind what He's going to do. He wasn't sweating it.
Speaker 2: When God asked you to do the impossible. He's not
Speaker 2: sweating it. He already has in mind what he knows
Speaker 2: to He's seen the need long before they did, and
Speaker 2: he had a plan. I want you to write this down,
Speaker 2: this important truth. God always has the answer before I
Speaker 2: even know the problem in your life. God always knows
Speaker 2: the answer before you even know what the problem is.
Speaker 2: He saw the long. It's not late in the day
Speaker 2: for Jesus. He saw it long before he knew it
Speaker 2: was coming. He's already has a plan for it. God
Speaker 2: already knows the solution to your problem before you even
Speaker 2: recognize it's a problem. So why are you worrying? That's
Speaker 2: one of the principles of a miracle. I admit I
Speaker 2: have an unsolvable problem, and then I give God what
Speaker 2: little I have. Number three, The third thing I do
Speaker 2: is I put it all in the hands of Jesus.
Speaker 2: I put it all in the hands of Jesus. And
Speaker 2: in John's account of this miracle, it tells us this
Speaker 2: little detail that the disciple Andrew finds this one little
Speaker 2: boy who'd brought a sack lunch, and his mom had
Speaker 2: packed him. It wasn't much had packed him, you know,
Speaker 2: five little barley loaves or muffins, and maybe a couple
Speaker 2: of sardines or something. I don't know, but he's got
Speaker 2: fish and little loaves of bread. It's not much. Now,
Speaker 2: I imagine that a lot of other people probably bought
Speaker 2: bigger lunches. But this boy becomes a hero because he
Speaker 2: gives God whatever he's got. It isn't much, but he says,
Speaker 2: I'm giving it to you. And the Bible says in
Speaker 2: verse forty one, Jesus took the five loaves and the
Speaker 2: two fish, and he blessed the food, and he broke
Speaker 2: the loaves. And as he kept breaking them, he kept
Speaker 2: giving them to the disciples to set before the people.
Speaker 2: And here's the third principle. God will use whatever I
Speaker 2: give him. God will use whatever I give him. It
Speaker 2: may not be much, but if I give him what
Speaker 2: little time, energy, effort, whatever I've got, I give it
Speaker 2: to God, he will use it. Now. I don't have
Speaker 2: time to get into this, but we could do in
Speaker 2: detailed study looking at the other verses of how this
Speaker 2: little boy gave. He gave willingly, cheerfully, and immediately. Which
Speaker 2: are the keys to a miracle? He gives willingly? Matthew
Speaker 2: tells us that he volunteered. Let me ask you this,
Speaker 2: would you share your lunch? You're in five thousand people,
Speaker 2: crowd of five thousand. Everybody's hungry and you're the only
Speaker 2: one who's gonna say, hey, I got something to eat?
Speaker 2: Would you do that? Took a great faith. He did
Speaker 2: it willingly, did it cheerfully, didn't grumble, he didn't complain,
Speaker 2: didn't worry, and he did it immediately. And as soon
Speaker 2: as he saw there was need, he said, Jesus, take
Speaker 2: my lunch. And he gives his lunch no hesitation. Now
Speaker 2: because of that, we come to the fourth key to
Speaker 2: a miracle. Write this, dim expect God to multiply it.
Speaker 2: I give God whatever I have, I put it in
Speaker 2: the hands of Jesus, and then I expect God to
Speaker 2: multiply it. Now, notice what happens in Mark chapter six,
Speaker 2: verse forty two and forty four. It says, everybody eight,
Speaker 2: that's all five thousand. They all had enough. And it
Speaker 2: said afterwards, they collected twelve basketfuls of leftovers. I love this.
Speaker 2: They're going home with doggie bags. Jesus doesn't even just
Speaker 2: fill satisfied, right, he makes a spiritual lesson. Obviously, the
Speaker 2: twelve is a symbol of the twelve tribes and his fulfillment.
Speaker 2: But he said, the twelve basketful and they're going home. Now,
Speaker 2: I love this Imagine this kid goes home and he
Speaker 2: walks home, walks in with twelve baskets full of loaves
Speaker 2: and fishes, and his mom says, Jacob, where'd you get
Speaker 2: all that food? He goes, Mom, I gave it to
Speaker 2: I gave me a lunch of Jesus and he multiplied it.
Speaker 2: Go to your room and you stay there until your
Speaker 2: father gets home, and you stay there till you're ready
Speaker 2: to tell me the truth. Really, mom, I gave Jesus
Speaker 2: my lunch and he he multiplied. You just stay there,
Speaker 2: wait till your father gets home. I mean, would you
Speaker 2: believe that story? I mean, it's it's mind boggling. That's
Speaker 2: why they call it a miracle. Now here's the fourth principle.
Speaker 2: You might write it down. Whatever I give, I always
Speaker 2: get back more. Whatever I give out, I always get
Speaker 2: back more. This little boy's lunch not only blessed five
Speaker 2: thousand other people, but he ends up being richer himself.
Speaker 2: I could give you a lot of testimonies on that one.
Speaker 2: How God blesses you as you try to bless others
Speaker 2: that you cannot outgive God, and he ends up with
Speaker 2: more than he started with. Now here's the point for
Speaker 2: the big lesson. God likes to do miracles through people,
Speaker 2: not independently. He likes to work through the ordinariness of people.
Speaker 2: And what we wait for God to do for us,
Speaker 2: God is waiting to do through us during Daring Faith
Speaker 2: this ten week series. God wants to turn you into
Speaker 2: miracle machine. He didn't want to just do a miracle
Speaker 2: for you. He wants to do a miracle through you
Speaker 2: like He did through this little boy who gave him
Speaker 2: wasn't much, but is all he got, how he had
Speaker 2: and he gives it to Jesus and God takes it,
Speaker 2: breaks it, blesses it, and multiplies it. God wants to
Speaker 2: do that in so many worries in your life.
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Speaker 2: tremendous blessing to me. I've been a Christian for ten years,
Speaker 2: but I didn't feel like I was growing spiritually. Reading
Speaker 2: the Bible was difficult and I didn't get what I
Speaker 2: was reading. But through your Daily Hope messages and the devotionals,
Speaker 2: I've experienced the Word like never before. This year, I'm
Speaker 2: joining a small group for the first time, and every
Speaker 2: time I listen to Daily Hope, I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: in the room with some friends listening to you. Your
Speaker 2: message is irrelevant and funny and engaging, and I'm now
Speaker 2: reading purpose driven life and I pray for God to
Speaker 2: reveal his purpose for me. Signed Rose Rose, thank you
Speaker 2: so much for writing. I love getting letters and you've
Speaker 2: encouraged me. You know, I started Daily Hope tell people
Speaker 2: just like you help you grow closer to God. So
Speaker 2: I'm praying for you, and I'm going to ask you
Speaker 2: to pray for me and continue supporting this ministry.
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