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Speaker 1: of Pastor Rick Warren. Today we begin a series called Transformed.
Speaker 1: In these lessons, Rick uncovers key principles found in God's
Speaker 1: Word that will completely transform our lives from the inside
Speaker 1: out in every area including spiritual, physical, mental, emotional, relational, financial,
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Speaker 1: part one of a message called setting Personal Goals by Faith.
Speaker 2: Romans twelve to two. Do not conform to the pattern
Speaker 2: of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of
Speaker 2: your mind. Okay, let's read it again. Do not conform
Speaker 2: to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by
Speaker 2: the renewing of your mind. God wants you to be
Speaker 2: a non conformist. He wants you to be a non conformist.
Speaker 2: Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but
Speaker 2: be transformed. You'll be either be conformed or you're going
Speaker 2: to be transformed. You see, God created you to be unique.
Speaker 2: God created you to be special. God created you to
Speaker 2: be like nobody else. You have a unique voice print, thumbprint, handprint, heartbeat.
Speaker 2: God doesn't make clones. Man does. But God doesn't make clones.
Speaker 2: And God says, I want you to be unique, not
Speaker 2: conformed to anybody else's idea of what you should be.
Speaker 2: But the problem is we all start off as originals,
Speaker 2: but we end up as copies of other people, and
Speaker 2: we get conformed, and we get pressured and we get
Speaker 2: pushed into a into a mold. Now, during the next
Speaker 2: seven weeks, we're going to look at seven key areas
Speaker 2: of your life and the changes that you need to make,
Speaker 2: want to make, and can make because of God's power
Speaker 2: in your life. We're going to look at your spiritual health.
Speaker 2: We're going to look at your physical health, mental health,
Speaker 2: emotional health. We're going to talk about transforming the way
Speaker 2: you think, transforming the way you feel. We're going to
Speaker 2: talk about financial health, transforming the way you look and
Speaker 2: use look at and use money, relationships, relational health, vocational health,
Speaker 2: your career, and where you're going for the rest of
Speaker 2: your life. Now, let me explain to you where we're going.
Speaker 2: We're going to look at seven key areas of your life,
Speaker 2: but we also have seven key features that are going
Speaker 2: to help you grow. What I want to do today
Speaker 2: is explain to you why you must set goals for
Speaker 2: your life and God says it. It's very clear in
Speaker 2: the Word of God why you must do it and
Speaker 2: the changes that will make in your life and the
Speaker 2: power that it will do. So this is all about
Speaker 2: the future. A lot of times we talk about problems
Speaker 2: and pressures in your life. This series is about your potential.
Speaker 2: This series is about your possibilities. This series is about
Speaker 2: your future making the best of the rest of your life.
Speaker 2: So I'm very excited about it. Now, I want to
Speaker 2: begin by giving you the six reasons why you need
Speaker 2: to learn how to set goals in your life. Number one,
Speaker 2: the Bible says six things about goal setting. Number one,
Speaker 2: the Bible says that goal setting is a spiritual responsibility.
Speaker 2: Goal setting is a spiritual responsibility. Did you know that
Speaker 2: God sets goals? God has goals for the universe. God
Speaker 2: has goals for planet Earth. God has goals for history,
Speaker 2: God has goals for eternity, and God certainly has goals
Speaker 2: for your life. The Bible tells us that Jesus set goals.
Speaker 2: In fact, he often announced publicly what his next goal was.
Speaker 2: I'm going to do this now, I'm going to do
Speaker 2: this now, and I'm going to do this now. He
Speaker 2: publicly would announce in advance what his goal was for
Speaker 2: the next phase of his ministry. Every person who walked
Speaker 2: with God in the Bible, you can find examples of
Speaker 2: being goal directed. But let me just give you one example.
Speaker 2: The apostle Paul Philippians, chapter three. It says this, I
Speaker 2: know that I'm not yet what God wants me to be.
Speaker 2: Hang on, anybody agree with that. I know that I'm
Speaker 2: not yet what God wants me to be. I haven't
Speaker 2: reached that goal, but I keep moving toward it to
Speaker 2: make it mine because Christ made me and saved me
Speaker 2: for this. Now I know that I haven't reached my goal.
Speaker 2: But there is one thing I always do forgetting the
Speaker 2: past and straining toward what is ahead. I keep my
Speaker 2: eyes focused on the goal, so that I may one
Speaker 2: day win the prize that God has called me to
Speaker 2: receive through Christ in the life above. Now all of
Speaker 2: you who are spiritually mature should think this same way too.
Speaker 2: I want you to circle three things. That goal, my goal,
Speaker 2: and the goal. Paul was goal oriented. He says, I
Speaker 2: haven't reach that goal. I haven't yet reached my goal.
Speaker 2: And my focus, my eyes are focused on the goal.
Speaker 2: Why is it important for you to set a goal?
Speaker 2: Because it's a spiritual responsibility. You're gonna go through life
Speaker 2: either by design or by default. You're either gonna set
Speaker 2: goals and you're gonna decide what's important for your life,
Speaker 2: or other people are gonna decide it for you. If
Speaker 2: you don't have goals for your life, you are abdicating
Speaker 2: control of your life to somebody else and other things.
Speaker 2: If you don't have goals for your life, you're not living.
Speaker 2: You're just reacting. You're just existing. If you don't have
Speaker 2: clear goals for your life, you're just coasting through life.
Speaker 2: You are drifting through life, and whenever you're coasting, you're
Speaker 2: always going downhill. If you don't have goals for your life,
Speaker 2: you have already decided to let other people run your
Speaker 2: life because you don't know what's important. So you're gonna
Speaker 2: let them decide, and you react to circin cumstances, and
Speaker 2: you go through your whole life wasting your life because
Speaker 2: you have it clarified what's important.
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Speaker 1: Once again, here's Rick.
Speaker 2: If you don't have goals for your life, you have
Speaker 2: already decided to let other people run your life because
Speaker 2: you don't know what's important, so you're gonna let them decide,
Speaker 2: and you react to circumstances, and you go through your
Speaker 2: whole life wasting your life because you haven't clarified what's important.
Speaker 2: You're allowing others direct your life. The Bible says to
Speaker 2: be spiritually mature. He says, all of you are spiritually mature,
Speaker 2: should think the same way. I set my goal, I
Speaker 2: strive to my goal, I move toward my goal. I
Speaker 2: keep my eyes focused on the goal. That's what Paul said,
Speaker 2: probably the greatest Christian who ever lived, next to Jesus himself.
Speaker 2: Number two, goals are statements of faith. Goals are statements
Speaker 2: of faith. A lot of people, well, goal, isn't that
Speaker 2: like a business thing? Isn't that like a secular thing?
Speaker 2: Isn't that a like something athletes do. No no, no no.
Speaker 2: This is a spiritual habit that you need to develop.
Speaker 2: And goals are statements of faith. In other words, if
Speaker 2: you're a believer in Jesus Christ, when you set a goal,
Speaker 2: what you're saying is I believe that's faith. I believe
Speaker 2: that God wants me to accomplish such and such by
Speaker 2: such and such a time. That's a statement of faith.
Speaker 2: A goal is a statement of this is what I
Speaker 2: believe God is going to do in my life. Goals
Speaker 2: don't just aren't just a statement of faith. They stretch
Speaker 2: your faith. And the bigger your goal, the more your
Speaker 2: faith will be stretched, and that pleases God. The Bible says,
Speaker 2: without faith, it is impossible to please God. So if
Speaker 2: you don't have any goal, you don't need any faith.
Speaker 2: And if you don't need any faith, the Bible says
Speaker 2: it's impossible to please God. In fact, in Romans fourteen,
Speaker 2: it says, whatsoever is not a faith is sin. So
Speaker 2: if I'm going through life without having to need any faith,
Speaker 2: if I don't have any goals, I don't need to
Speaker 2: take any risks. And if I don't take any risks,
Speaker 2: I don't need any faith, and if I don't have
Speaker 2: any faith, I am being unfaithful. You see how important
Speaker 2: it is for you to have a goal in every
Speaker 2: area of your life. Now here's a goal stretching verse Ephesians,
Speaker 2: chapter three, Verse twenty. God can do anything far more
Speaker 2: than you could ever imagine. I don't know. I can
Speaker 2: imagine some big things, far more than you could ever
Speaker 2: imagine or guess or dare to request in your wildest dreams.
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but I can imagine some
Speaker 2: pre big things. I'm a pretty big dreamer. Nobody has
Speaker 2: ever accused me of being a small thinker. I've always
Speaker 2: had big dreams. And yet God says Rick, you think
Speaker 2: of the greatest thing, of the greatest dream I could
Speaker 2: do in your life, And guess what I can top that?
Speaker 2: I can beat that. I am. I can do anything
Speaker 2: far more than you would ever imagine or guests or
Speaker 2: dare to request in your wildest dream. Let the size
Speaker 2: of your God determine the size of your goal. You
Speaker 2: let the size of God determine the size of my goal.
Speaker 2: Many years ago, when Saddleback decided to buy this land,
Speaker 2: it's one hundred and twenty acres to buy one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty acres in Orange County would seem like nonsense
Speaker 2: to most people. And when we as a church decided
Speaker 2: to buy this one hundred and twenty acres because we
Speaker 2: weren't we were just not a very big church at
Speaker 2: the time. And I remember the word God on the
Speaker 2: comunity is this little group of people called Saddleback was
Speaker 2: buying one hundred and twenty acres, And the question was
Speaker 2: going through the community, who do they think they are?
Speaker 2: And I thought, that's the wrong question. The question is
Speaker 2: not who do we think we are? The question is
Speaker 2: who do we think God is? Who do we think
Speaker 2: God is? Big? God? Big goal, tiny God, tiny goal,
Speaker 2: No God, no goal. Let the size of God determine
Speaker 2: the size of your goal. I guess what I want
Speaker 2: to say to you as your pastor, as somebody who
Speaker 2: loves you and I want the best for your life
Speaker 2: and I want you to succeed in life, is during
Speaker 2: the next fifty days, I dare you to dream great dreams.
Speaker 2: I dare you stop your puny, little thinking, stop being
Speaker 2: in a little bitty box. Well I'm too young, or
Speaker 2: i'm too old, or I'm not pretty enough, or I'm
Speaker 2: not handsome enough. Or I'm a woman, or I'm a
Speaker 2: guy or whatever. Stop all your arguments and start dreaming
Speaker 2: what God could do in your life if you would
Speaker 2: just trust him to me Hell would be if God
Speaker 2: were to show me all I could have accomplished in
Speaker 2: my life, if I just believed him a little bit more,
Speaker 2: that would be hell. We limit God by our unbelief. Now,
Speaker 2: there are two common mistakes we make in goal setting.
Speaker 2: We set them too low, and we try to accomplish
Speaker 2: them too quickly. As your pastor, I am urging you
Speaker 2: in the next it's fifty days, and each week we're
Speaker 2: going to set a goal in each of the seven areas.
Speaker 2: You'll set one for your area. I challenge you to
Speaker 2: dream big dreams for God, and I challenge you to
Speaker 2: think bigger than you ever thought before, so that you
Speaker 2: have to trust God. See. I live my life in
Speaker 2: such a way that I am bound to fail unless
Speaker 2: God bails me out. I can't tell you how many
Speaker 2: times I've painted myself into a corner when everybody goes,
Speaker 2: who does he think he is? I mean, look at
Speaker 2: what he's trying to do. Like one time we said, hey,
Speaker 2: let's be the first church in two thousand years to
Speaker 2: go to every nation nobody had ever done that. We
Speaker 2: did it. Why because we set a goal and God
Speaker 2: helped us. And I have spent my life dreaming great dreams.
Speaker 2: And it's amazing what God can do in your life
Speaker 2: if you will do that. Now here's the cool thing.
Speaker 2: Dreaming doesn't cost anything, doesn't cost you any money, doesn't
Speaker 2: cost you a penny. You can dream great dreams. What
Speaker 2: do I dream about in my relationships? What do I
Speaker 2: dream about in my career? What do I dream about
Speaker 2: in my finances? What do I dream could happen in
Speaker 2: my relationship with God? How would I want to look?
Speaker 2: How healthy would I want to be? On all these days?
Speaker 2: Dream great dreams. You see, we overestimate what we can
Speaker 2: do in a year, and we underestimate what you can
Speaker 2: do in ten. Instead, yet is thinking puny, little tiny
Speaker 2: goals and trying accomplishing them instantly. My challenge is get
Speaker 2: a big goal for your life and then spend the
Speaker 2: rest of your life going after it. I did when
Speaker 2: I was twenty five years old and I moved here.
Speaker 2: It started this church with no member, no money, nobody,
Speaker 2: and I set a forty year goal for this church.
Speaker 2: When I was twenty five that seemed like an eternity.
Speaker 2: Goals are statements of faith. By the way, the difference
Speaker 2: between a goal and a dream is you put a
Speaker 2: deadline on it. Now, if you don't have a date
Speaker 2: a deadline on your goal, it's not a goal. It's
Speaker 2: just a dream. A dream is good, but you need both. Now,
Speaker 2: here's what the Bible says Matthew nine nine. According to
Speaker 2: your faith, it will be done to you. According to
Speaker 2: your faith, it will be done to you. God says,
Speaker 2: you get to choose how much I bless your life,
Speaker 2: how much I transform your life. Great faith will be
Speaker 2: great transformation. Nothing happens in your life till you start dreaming.
Speaker 2: God says, you get to choose, according to your life,
Speaker 2: your faith, it will be done. So I'm going to
Speaker 2: encourage you that when we start setting one goal a
Speaker 2: week over the next seven weeks, don't miss any of
Speaker 2: these that you you ask the question, will this require
Speaker 2: me to have faith? Is it such a big dream
Speaker 2: that I'm bound to fail unless God helps me? I'm
Speaker 2: really going out on a limb. Don't ever be afraid
Speaker 2: to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.
Speaker 2: The fruit is not at the trunk. You don't get
Speaker 2: the fruit by playing it safe. It's out on the limb,
Speaker 2: and never be afraid to rock the boat of Jesus
Speaker 2: as your captain. I'm sharing your life experience tonight because
Speaker 2: I'm looking out on the next generation of saddleback right here,
Speaker 2: and I'm going I want you to know God like
Speaker 2: I do, and I want you to trust Him like
Speaker 2: I do. And I want you to be used by
Speaker 2: God in ways that you've never ever imagined. I never
Speaker 2: imagined all of this, but God did. Goals are statements
Speaker 2: of faith. Number three goals focus my energy. Well, another
Speaker 2: one of the reasons why you need to set goals
Speaker 2: in every air of your life is they focus your energy.
Speaker 2: They keep you from wasting time, money, reputation, energy. They
Speaker 2: keep you focused. Selection is the name of the game.
Speaker 2: Focus is the key to an effective life.
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