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Speaker 1: Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren. Today,
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Speaker 1: Lord's Prayer. In these lessons, Rick shows you what it
Speaker 1: means to truly be spiritually connected to God and to
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Speaker 1: with the final part of a message called the Prayer
Speaker 1: of Dependence.
Speaker 2: I once did a study on VH one and on
Speaker 2: the Rolling Stone magazine the top five hundred love songs,
Speaker 2: and I went through the list, and about half of
Speaker 2: them aren't even love songs. They're lost songs. You gotta
Speaker 2: give it to me, Give it to me now. I
Speaker 2: want it. I gotta have it, And if you don't
Speaker 2: give it, I'm gonna take it. Rock on. You see,
Speaker 2: I'm really just a frustrated rock star. I know that's
Speaker 2: not a love song. Hey tell you that, But you
Speaker 2: know we're gonna party all night and you're gonna give it,
Speaker 2: give it, give it, give it, give it to me.
Speaker 2: That is a lust song. Has nothing to do with
Speaker 2: the other person, has all to do without meeting your needs. Now,
Speaker 2: God says, I want you to learn to love, and
Speaker 2: love is all about sharing. Give us today our daily bread. Now.
Speaker 2: God wants you to learn to trust him. And one
Speaker 2: of the ways you learn to trust him is by sharing.
Speaker 2: You see, God is testing you every day of your life.
Speaker 2: God puts you on this planet and the entire time
Speaker 2: you're on this planet, God is testing you to see
Speaker 2: your reaction, and he's testing you in many different ways.
Speaker 2: But one of the things he's testing you for is
Speaker 2: how much will you trust God? How much will you
Speaker 2: depend on God? And the number one way God trust
Speaker 2: tests your faith. You know what it is, money finances.
Speaker 2: It's the number one way God tests are you gonna worry.
Speaker 2: Are you gonna trust me? Are you gonna worry about
Speaker 2: your finances or are you gonna trust me? Are you
Speaker 2: gonna be stingy? Are you gonna share? Are you gonna
Speaker 2: hold on and hoard because you're afraid you're not gonna
Speaker 2: get anymore? Are you gonna be open and generous with
Speaker 2: people around you who are in need? God is testing you.
Speaker 2: He wants you to learn to be like him. Now.
Speaker 2: The problem is the more money you've got. I hate
Speaker 2: to tell you this, but it's true. The less you
Speaker 2: depend on God. You see, you don't depend on God
Speaker 2: when you can just go charge it. You don't ever
Speaker 2: pray about it, You just go buy it. You got
Speaker 2: a big bank account. The more money you've got, the
Speaker 2: less you depend on God. You depend on your bank account,
Speaker 2: you depend on your checkbook, you depend on your investments.
Speaker 2: It's why the Bible says it is more difficult for
Speaker 2: a rich man to get into Heaven than for a
Speaker 2: camel to go through an eye of a needle. Why
Speaker 2: does he say that because money is bad? No, not
Speaker 2: at all. Some of the greatest saints in history were
Speaker 2: quite wealthy. Why is it because the more money you
Speaker 2: have the less you tend to depend on God, you
Speaker 2: tend to depend on your bank account. That's why the
Speaker 2: Bible says that the poor God has chosen to be
Speaker 2: rich in faith. Why because you don't know God's all
Speaker 2: you need t God's all you got. The greatest people
Speaker 2: of faith that I've met in life, none of them
Speaker 2: live in America. None of them. Because when you don't
Speaker 2: have anything, you're dirt poor. You don't have a house,
Speaker 2: you don't have clothes, you don't have food. You're dependent
Speaker 2: on God for your daily bread. We not at that
Speaker 2: level of dependence. And yet God says, I want you
Speaker 2: and to trust me, and I'm testing you to see
Speaker 2: how much you'll depend on me. And I'm testing to
Speaker 2: see whether you will share. I supply to you. Three
Speaker 2: things you need to remember. Number one, what God gives
Speaker 2: to me, he wants to give through me. Very important principle.
Speaker 2: I had to learn this many years ago and it
Speaker 2: changed my life. Whatever God gives to me, he wants
Speaker 2: to give through me. God is looking for people that
Speaker 2: he can bless the world with. And he looks around
Speaker 2: and said, will you be a cup or will you
Speaker 2: be a straw? If you're a cup, you just give
Speaker 2: us this day or day to bread, and you fill
Speaker 2: up my cup and that's it, and I'm going to
Speaker 2: keep it all. But if you'll say, God, I'll be
Speaker 2: a straw and you can channel through me to other
Speaker 2: people blessing, physical materials, special blessing. God says, that's the
Speaker 2: kind of person I want to bless. My life is
Speaker 2: an example of that truth that the more you give
Speaker 2: in your life, whatever you give in your life, the
Speaker 2: more God blesses you and blesses you. Because the more
Speaker 2: you care about other people, the more God cares. He says,
Speaker 2: whatever I give to you, I want to give through you. Now,
Speaker 2: let me give you an example of this. Look up
Speaker 2: here on the screen. Very important verse tewod Corinthians, chapter nine.
Speaker 2: God who supplies seed for the sower. That means the
Speaker 2: farmer who's out sowing seed. God who supplies seed for
Speaker 2: the farmer and bread to eat. Notice that God says,
Speaker 2: I don't want to just give you daily bread. I
Speaker 2: want to give you daily seed. I'm going to give
Speaker 2: you enough that you can eat it bread to eat,
Speaker 2: but I'm also going to give you more than enough
Speaker 2: so that you can plant some of it. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: give you more than enough, so you have bread to
Speaker 2: eat yourself. But you also can use some of it
Speaker 2: to give away, and you can use some of it
Speaker 2: to invest, and you can use some of it as seed.
Speaker 2: I'm not just gonna give you bread. I'm gonna give
Speaker 2: you seed. God who supplies seed for the sower and
Speaker 2: bread to eat, will also supply you with all the
Speaker 2: seed you need, and he will make it grow. This
Speaker 2: is amazing promise, and he will make it grow, and
Speaker 2: he will produce a rich harvest from your What generosity
Speaker 2: this whole promise is built on. Are you willing to
Speaker 2: share what He supplies with you? Are you willing to
Speaker 2: pass on the blessing others that God blesses you with.
Speaker 2: He'll make it grow and produce a rich harvest from
Speaker 2: your generosity. He will always make you rich enough to
Speaker 2: be generous at all times. He said, Wait a minute,
Speaker 2: I'm not rich enough to be generous. Oh, yes, you are.
Speaker 2: No matter how much you've got, you can be generous.
Speaker 2: There's the story of a Bible a woman in the
Speaker 2: Bible who only had two pennies, and yet she gave
Speaker 2: him away. You can always give something. It's a myth
Speaker 2: that you, oh I don't have enough to give. You
Speaker 2: can always give something. And God is testing you. He says,
Speaker 2: a rich harvest for a generalisity. He will make you
Speaker 2: rich enough to be generous at all times, so that
Speaker 2: many will give thanks for your gifts the people you help,
Speaker 2: the poor, your neighbors, your friends, whoever. And he says,
Speaker 2: this service you perform, in other words, being generous with
Speaker 2: what God has given you. This service you perform will
Speaker 2: not only meet the needs of God's people, but will
Speaker 2: also produce an outpouring of gratitude to God. And he
Speaker 2: says this when you're going through a tough time and
Speaker 2: you say, God, I don't have much, but whatever I've got,
Speaker 2: I'm willing to share it. I only got a little
Speaker 2: food here, but I'm willing to invite somebody over for dinner.
Speaker 2: I'm willing to share whatever I've got. God says, I'll
Speaker 2: do three things. One you grow spiritually, Two other people's
Speaker 2: needs get met, and three God gets thanks. He gets praised.
Speaker 2: God says, when you do that, I Am going to
Speaker 2: open the door of blessing in your life like you
Speaker 2: cannot believe. And that leads me to the second truth,
Speaker 2: very important truth. When I meet others' needs. God takes
Speaker 2: care of mine. When I meet others' needs, God takes
Speaker 2: care of mine. This is a test. When I meet
Speaker 2: others' needs, when I focus, even though I don't have
Speaker 2: much at all, I've just got a little. When I
Speaker 2: work on helping others, God says, that's kind of person
Speaker 2: I'm gonna bless. And he takes care of my needs.
Speaker 2: And let me show you an amazing verse. It's there
Speaker 2: on your outline, and I want you to notice what
Speaker 2: it says. And I'm gonna have you number the five benefits. First,
Speaker 2: he says, share your bread with the hungry. Okay, I
Speaker 2: can do that. I got it. Then he says, open
Speaker 2: your homes to the homeless poor, got it, Give clothes
Speaker 2: to those who have nothing to wear. Got it. And
Speaker 2: do not refuse to help your own relatives. Oh come on,
Speaker 2: I was with you, Lord till you got to that one.
Speaker 2: Do not refuse to you mean I gotta help, oh
Speaker 2: uncle so and so, our aunt so and so. Yep,
Speaker 2: God says, this is a test.
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Speaker 3: Perhaps the most important role you can play in the
Speaker 3: life of a child is teaching them to trust God
Speaker 3: through prayer. It's the key to living with hope. Jesus said,
Speaker 3: we should always pray and never give up. That's why
Speaker 3: it's important to strengthen the hope of children by introducing
Speaker 3: them to Jesus's model for prayer at an early age.
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Speaker 2: When you're going through a tough time and you say, God,
Speaker 2: I don't have much, but whatever I got, I'm willing
Speaker 2: to share it. God says, I'll do three things. One
Speaker 2: you grow spiritually, two other people's needs get met, and
Speaker 2: three God gets thanks, he gets praised. God says, when
Speaker 2: you do that, I am going to open the door
Speaker 2: of blessing in your life like you cannot believe. And
Speaker 2: that leads me to the second truth, very important truth.
Speaker 2: When I meet others' needs, God takes care of mine.
Speaker 2: This is a test when I work on a helping others.
Speaker 2: God says, that's kind of person I'm gonna bless. And
Speaker 2: he takes care of my needs. And let me show
Speaker 2: you an amazing verse. It's there on your outline, and
Speaker 2: I want you to notice what it says. And I'm
Speaker 2: going to have your number the five benefits. First, he says,
Speaker 2: share your bread with the hungry. Okay, I can do that.
Speaker 2: I got it. Then he says, open your homes to
Speaker 2: the homeless poor, got it, Give clothes to those who
Speaker 2: have nothing to wear. Got it. And do not refuse
Speaker 2: to help your own relatives. Oh, come on, I was
Speaker 2: with you Lord till you got to that one. Do
Speaker 2: not refuse to have you mean, I gotta help old
Speaker 2: uncle so and so, our aunt so and so. Yep.
Speaker 2: God says, this is a test. Doesn't matter whether they
Speaker 2: deserve it or not. This is a test. Now, he says,
Speaker 2: when I meet others' needs, he'll take care of mine.
Speaker 2: And God makes five amazing promises. I want you to
Speaker 2: number them there on your outline. Put a number number
Speaker 2: one one, he says. Then number one, My favor will
Speaker 2: shine on you like the morning sun. That's good. I
Speaker 2: get God's favor in my life. Number two, he says,
Speaker 2: your wounds will be quickly healed. WHOA, my financial wounds, yeah,
Speaker 2: my emotional wounds, yeah, my relation of wounds.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He says your wounds will be healed quickly because you
Speaker 2: help somebody else. Then number three, he says, I will
Speaker 2: always be with you to save you. That's a good thing.
Speaker 2: Number four right, number four, My presence will protect you
Speaker 2: on every side. WHOA? And number five, And when you pray,
Speaker 2: I will answer you. Oh. The best time to learn
Speaker 2: to be generous. The best time to start tithing is
Speaker 2: in the middle of a drought, of a difficult time.
Speaker 2: There's a third principle. You write this one down. Whatever
Speaker 2: I give to God God, he multiplies. Whatever I give
Speaker 2: to God, he multiplies. If I give God my talent,
Speaker 2: he'll multiply my talent. If I give God my energy,
Speaker 2: he'll multiply my energy. If I give God my time
Speaker 2: and I start my day with the daily quiet time
Speaker 2: with him, he will multiply my time. If I give
Speaker 2: God my money, he will multiply my money. If I
Speaker 2: give God my relationships, he will multiply my relationships. Whatever
Speaker 2: I give to God, he's going to multiply and give
Speaker 2: it back. This is the story example in the Bible
Speaker 2: of the feeding of five thousand people. There's a miracle
Speaker 2: in the Bible, and Jesus did it to teach this truth.
Speaker 2: Five thousand people had followed Jesus out in the middle
Speaker 2: of the desert and he teaches them for all day.
Speaker 2: And at the end of the day, they're hungry and
Speaker 2: there's no McDonald's anywhere, and the disciples, the twelve guys,
Speaker 2: come to Jesus that Jesus them all away. They're all hungry.
Speaker 2: And Jesus looks at these twelve guys says, you guys
Speaker 2: feed him. I'm sure they swallowed hard on that one.
Speaker 2: What's he doing, He's testing their faith? Will you depend
Speaker 2: on me? You guys feed it? It's likely if he
Speaker 2: says the Saddleback Church, there's millions of people in southern
Speaker 2: California are spiritually hungry. I want your church to feed him. God,
Speaker 2: we can do that. We're just one church. You have
Speaker 2: it with me. I can do it. And they go
Speaker 2: out and they find in this entire crowd of five
Speaker 2: thousand people, one little boy brought a sack lunch and
Speaker 2: he's got his little lunch pale, and inside his lunch
Speaker 2: pale are five little loaves of bread, little tiny rolls,
Speaker 2: and to fish, to dried fish. He's the only God
Speaker 2: who's got a lunch. And a little boy brings his
Speaker 2: lunch to Jesus, said, Lord, you have this. Whatever I
Speaker 2: give to God, he multiplies. And Jesus took that bread
Speaker 2: and those loaves, and it says he prayed and he
Speaker 2: broke it, and he blessed it, and he multiplied it.
Speaker 2: And as he began to tear it apart and break
Speaker 2: it apart, it began to feed everybody. And it fed
Speaker 2: all five thousand people, with five thousand witnesses to this miracle.
Speaker 2: And then it says when they picked up all of
Speaker 2: the leftovers at the end, there were twelve basketfuls of
Speaker 2: leftovers of fish and loaves that weren't eaten. He always
Speaker 2: gives you more than you can handle. He took it,
Speaker 2: he broke it, he blessed it, and he used it.
Speaker 2: That's what God does in your life. The hard part
Speaker 2: is the breaking part. When God takes you and then
Speaker 2: he breaks you, and then he blesses you, and then
Speaker 2: he uses you. It's whatever I give to God, he multiplies.
Speaker 2: Look at this verse on the screen we talked about
Speaker 2: give us this day our daily bread. The Bible says,
Speaker 2: then cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days,
Speaker 2: you'll get it back. What in the world does that mean,
Speaker 2: cast your bread on the west. It sounds like I
Speaker 2: have a soggy loaf of bread if I throw it
Speaker 2: on the water. It's just an old expression, you know.
Speaker 2: It's like when we have the expression you're pulling my leg.
Speaker 2: It doesn't mean you're pulling my leg. I mean you're
Speaker 2: you know, you're kidding me. You're putting me on And
Speaker 2: cash your bread upon the waters and then you'll get
Speaker 2: it back. It's just this old principle that says whatever
Speaker 2: you give the God, he's going to multiply and give
Speaker 2: back to you. Let me give you another example of it.
Speaker 2: Look at this verse. It's possible to give freely and
Speaker 2: become more wealthy. It's possible to be generous and become
Speaker 2: more wealthy, but those who are stingy will lose everything. Now,
Speaker 2: the First Church in Jerusalem was very famous for this.
Speaker 2: They were world famous for their generosity, world famous for
Speaker 2: their compassion, helping each other out. I want you to
Speaker 2: be that way. I want this church to be world
Speaker 2: famous for its compassion, for its generosity, for its trust
Speaker 2: in God. Now, friends, I don't know where you're hurting today. Okay,
Speaker 2: you may be hurting financially already. Some of you are.
Speaker 2: I know some of you are hurting from something way
Speaker 2: long in the past, or emotional hurt or physical hurt.
Speaker 2: You're going through a tough time right now. Regardless of
Speaker 2: what you're going through, I want to invite you to
Speaker 2: become a part of a movement, a movement that says
Speaker 2: we're gonna trust God even in tough times. But I'm
Speaker 2: gonna call it the STS Club. I'm gonna see God
Speaker 2: as my source. I'm gonna trust God for today, and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna share what He supplies STS. How do you
Speaker 2: do that? Two things? You first, accept Jesus Christ into
Speaker 2: your life. Last verse on the screen, Jesus said, the
Speaker 2: true Bread of God is the one who comes down
Speaker 2: from heaven, and he gives life to the world. Sir,
Speaker 2: they said, give us this bread every day of our lives.
Speaker 2: Jesus said, I am the bread of life. No one
Speaker 2: who comes to me will ever be hungry again, and
Speaker 2: those who believe in me will never thirst. No matter
Speaker 2: how much you eat in a few hours, you get
Speaker 2: hungry again. No matter how much you drink in a
Speaker 2: few hours, you get thirsty again. Spiritually, there's a hunger
Speaker 2: in your heart that only God can feel. No woman
Speaker 2: will ever feel that hunger in your heart. No man
Speaker 2: will ever fill that hunger in your heart. There is
Speaker 2: that man does not exist. It is a hole in
Speaker 2: your heart and it's a hunger for God. And you
Speaker 2: don't know it. But it's God you're looking for and
Speaker 2: you need him. And when you let Him feel that hunger, huh,
Speaker 2: you never thirst again. You never hunger again. Now, I
Speaker 2: challenge you to open your heart to Christ and then say,
Speaker 2: we're gonna see God as our source, not Washington, not
Speaker 2: Wall Street, not my job, not anybody else. And I'm
Speaker 2: gonna trust God on a daily basis, not for monthly bread,
Speaker 2: for daily bread. And I'm going to share whatever He
Speaker 2: gives me, even if it's a little, I'm gonna share it,
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna watch God multiply it. Jesus, today, i
Speaker 2: want to take the STS challenge and this next year,
Speaker 2: I'm going to see you Lord as my source, and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna trust you for today, and I ask you
Speaker 2: to help me to worry about nothing and pray about everything,
Speaker 2: and help me to thank you in all things and
Speaker 2: to keep my mind on the right things. And then
Speaker 2: I want to share whatever you give me that what
Speaker 2: you give to me, you want to give through me.
Speaker 2: I want to focus on meeting others needs so you
Speaker 2: can take care of mine. Me to learn that whatever
Speaker 2: I give to you, you're going to multiply. And I
Speaker 2: pray this in your name. Amen.
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Speaker 1: But first, perhaps the most important role you can play
Speaker 1: in the life of a child is teaching them to
Speaker 1: trust God through prayer. It's the key to living with hope.
Speaker 1: Jesus said we should always pray and never give up.
Speaker 1: That's why it's so important to strengthen the hope of
Speaker 1: children by introducing them to Jesus's model for prayer at
Speaker 1: an early age. With this in mind, we're excited to
Speaker 1: tell you about a very special resource to help you
Speaker 1: do just that. It's called The Lord's Prayer Words of
Speaker 1: Hope and Happiness. This book brings the poetic scripture of
Speaker 1: the King James version of the Bible to life. Readers
Speaker 1: young and old will enjoy thoughtful insights from New York
Speaker 1: Times best selling author Pastor Rick Warren and stunning illustrations
Speaker 1: by award winning artist Richard Jesse Watson. It's sure to
Speaker 1: become a meaningful bedtime ritual, a treasured memory, and a
Speaker 1: lasting legacy that bears good fruit for generations to come.
Speaker 1: The Lord's Prayer Words of Hope and Happiness is the
Speaker 1: perfect way to share the beauty and richness of the
Speaker 1: Lord's Prayer with the children. The Lord has placed in
Speaker 1: your life and will send it to you when you
Speaker 1: give a gift to Daily Hope to help take the
Speaker 1: good news to people everywhere. Call eight hundred six hundred,
Speaker 1: five thousand and four to support Daily Hope and will
Speaker 1: send you this powerful resource. Or you can visit Pastorick
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