Speaker 2: Hello, everybody.
Speaker 1: This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope with Rick Warren. I'm
Speaker 1: really glad you're here.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: We're continuing our series from Psalm twenty three called Living
Speaker 1: in the Goodness of God. It's all about how God's
Speaker 1: goodness meets you right where you are and brings hope
Speaker 1: even in difficult seasons. Okay, so let's jump in for
Speaker 1: part one of a message called living an Anointed Life.
Speaker 2: If you take out your message notes, we're going to
Speaker 2: continue in the series we've been in. Now it's a
Speaker 2: twelve part series, Living in the Goodness of God. We're
Speaker 2: looking at the most important or famous chapter in the Bible,
Speaker 2: Psalm twenty three, The Lord is My Shepherd. It's only
Speaker 2: six verses, but it's taking as twelve sessions to get
Speaker 2: through it because there's so many rich twelve different metaphors,
Speaker 2: twelve different pictures of the way God is good to us.
Speaker 2: And today we come to the fifth verse. So I'm
Speaker 2: twenty three verse five, and we're just looking at one
Speaker 2: phrase where he says, talking about the goodness of God,
Speaker 2: you anoint my head with oil. Now, what in the
Speaker 2: world does that mean? You anoint my head with oil?
Speaker 2: This was written three thousand years ago. How in the
Speaker 2: world could it possibly have any relevance to my life
Speaker 2: today and the goodness of God. Well, you've got to
Speaker 2: understand what anointing is. What does it mean to be anointed? Well,
Speaker 2: that depends on who's doing the anointing. If you had
Speaker 2: your next door neighbor come over to you tomorrow, to
Speaker 2: your house and walk in and they had some oil
Speaker 2: and they anointed you and they said, I now proclaim
Speaker 2: you the king of the universe, would that change your life? No?
Speaker 2: Why because they don't have any authority to do anything
Speaker 2: about it. They could say you're the king of rock
Speaker 2: and roll or whatever, and it wouldn't make any difference
Speaker 2: because it depends on who's doing the anointing. Now I'm
Speaker 2: putting down a definition here, and there's anointed by God,
Speaker 2: which is internal, and there's anointed by people, which is external.
Speaker 2: Explain this so we can unwrap it and see all
Speaker 2: the benefits to your life. Anointed by God is something
Speaker 2: that happens internally, and I've written here when God's Holy
Speaker 2: Spirit gives you insight or ability, this is a supernatural insight, ability,
Speaker 2: or stamina, or authority or protection that you don't normally
Speaker 2: have in order to do a job that he God
Speaker 2: has chosen you to do. That's anointing. When you are
Speaker 2: anointed by God, God gives you supernaturally ability that you
Speaker 2: don't have, or insight wisdom you don't have stamina to
Speaker 2: hold up under something, you don't have, authority or even
Speaker 2: protection that you don't normally have, in order to do
Speaker 2: a job that God has chosen you to do. That's
Speaker 2: called anointing in the Bible. Now, anointing by people is
Speaker 2: something different. It's an outward symbol of the inward thing
Speaker 2: we just talked about. It's the external symbol. And anointing
Speaker 2: by people means when somebody prayerfully applies some oil to
Speaker 2: your skin as an outward sign of what God is
Speaker 2: doing inside you. Now, God often does this. He gives
Speaker 2: us an external symbol of an internal process. The Lord's
Speaker 2: Supper communion is an external symbol of the death and
Speaker 2: crucifixion of Jesus Christ. This is my body and this
Speaker 2: is my blood, using you know, bread and wine, crackers
Speaker 2: and juice, using symbols that say this is an outward
Speaker 2: sign of an inward spiritual truth. Baptism is an outward
Speaker 2: sign of an inward truth. It says I have died
Speaker 2: to my old way of living. We put them under
Speaker 2: the water, we bring them back up, and I'm beginning
Speaker 2: a brand new life. It's a new life. I've been
Speaker 2: born again, not turn over a new leaf. I got
Speaker 2: a new life. All my sins have been forgiven, washed away.
Speaker 2: That's an outward symbol baptism of an inward commitment. Now,
Speaker 2: neither communion nor baptism save you. It's like I call
Speaker 2: them the wedding ring of the Christian life. This ring
Speaker 2: was given to me many years ago, forty two years specifically,
Speaker 2: when I said two words at a ceremony that changed
Speaker 2: my life. Two words I do. When I said those
Speaker 2: two words, I had no idea what I was doing
Speaker 2: when I said I do. And the rest of my
Speaker 2: life I'm working out the implications of two words I do.
Speaker 2: And Kay will often tell me this is in the
Speaker 2: fine print. If I do and I go, oh, that's
Speaker 2: included too. Yeah, Okay, I did, and I still do.
Speaker 2: She gave me this ring. Now I could lose this
Speaker 2: ring and I'd still be married. Kay would be upset,
Speaker 2: and I would actually too. But this doesn't make me married.
Speaker 2: It's just a symbol. When someone anoints you with oil.
Speaker 2: There's nothing mystical or magical properties in the oil. It's
Speaker 2: simply like the water in baptism is not a special
Speaker 2: kind of water. It's just water and an oil and
Speaker 2: anointing is just olive oil. But it is the symbol
Speaker 2: of something far more significant and the faith in the
Speaker 2: fact that God has anointed you on the inside. Now,
Speaker 2: in the Bible, olive oil specifically is used as a
Speaker 2: symbol of a lot of things. It's a symbol of
Speaker 2: God's spirit, the Holy Spirit. It's a symbol of God's presence.
Speaker 2: It's a symbol of God's blessing on your life. When
Speaker 2: someone is anointed with oil, it's a symbol that God
Speaker 2: approves of you. It's a symbol of God's presence, of
Speaker 2: God's protection, of God's promises. It's a symbol of prosperity.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of different meanings to being anointed
Speaker 2: with oil. It's comfort, it's healing, it's joy. The Bible
Speaker 2: talks about the oil of joy, the oil of gladness,
Speaker 2: the oil of salvation, the oil of deliverance, and so
Speaker 2: it's a symbol of many different things. Now in the Bible.
Speaker 2: In the Old Testament, the old part of the Bible,
Speaker 2: only three kinds of people got anointed with oil. You
Speaker 2: had to be a priest, you had to be a prophet,
Speaker 2: or you had to be king. And even today, kings
Speaker 2: are still anointed with oil, even thousands of years later,
Speaker 2: as a symbol of God's blessing, God approval, God's giving
Speaker 2: them authority and things like that. And the only people
Speaker 2: who could actually do it were the priest. Nobody else
Speaker 2: was allowed to anoint in the Old Testament. In fact,
Speaker 2: you weren't even allowed to have anointing oil in your home.
Speaker 2: It was supposed to be that sacred. But when Jesus
Speaker 2: Christ came and died on the cross, he broke up
Speaker 2: the old system, and the Bible says the veil in
Speaker 2: the temple was torn in half, which means you can
Speaker 2: go directly to God. Now you don't need a priest.
Speaker 2: In the Old Testament, you had to go through a
Speaker 2: priest to get to God. You had to pray through
Speaker 2: a priest. You had to have him confess your sins
Speaker 2: for you. You confess to the priest, they confessed to God.
Speaker 2: You don't have to go to a priest anymore. You
Speaker 2: don't have to confess to a priest. You can confess
Speaker 2: correctly to God. You don't have to pray through a
Speaker 2: priest anymore. You can pray directly to God. That's what
Speaker 2: Jesus did on the cross. In fact, the Bible says
Speaker 2: this may shock you. If you're a follower of Jesus,
Speaker 2: you're a priest. It says it over and over and over.
Speaker 2: It's called the priesthood of the believer. It'sattle we use
Speaker 2: the phrase every member is a minister. It's the same
Speaker 2: thing that you don't need somebody between you and God.
Speaker 2: You now, because of what Jesus did, have direct access
Speaker 2: and because you you may have never thought about this,
Speaker 2: or a priest, whether you're a man or a woman,
Speaker 2: old or young, if you're a follower of Christ, you
Speaker 2: have the authority to anoint people with oil. You have
Speaker 2: the authority to pray for people's healing. You have the
Speaker 2: authority to do all the things that the priest used
Speaker 2: to do in the Old Testament. Now to understand what
Speaker 2: it means to live an anointed life, and that's what
Speaker 2: we want to look at you. You anoint my head
Speaker 2: with oil. What is the meaning of that what is
Speaker 2: the blessing of being anointed by God? We need to
Speaker 2: go back to the very basic. You're not an accident.
Speaker 2: You were made by God and for God. Till you
Speaker 2: understand that, life won't make sense. We've talked about this
Speaker 2: many times. God has a plan for your life, a
Speaker 2: purpose for your life, and the significance and meaning of
Speaker 2: your life comes from figuring out God's plan on your life.
Speaker 2: God has a purpose, and the Bible says before you
Speaker 2: even born, God planned what he wanted to do with
Speaker 2: your life. It's called your calling, your calling. And the
Speaker 2: word in Latin is or a Greek is caleo means
Speaker 2: to call out and we get our vote, say in Latin,
Speaker 2: which is we get vocal vocalize voice. It is God
Speaker 2: calling you. Did you know that you're called by God
Speaker 2: to do something with your life. You may be called
Speaker 2: to be a marine biologist, but it's a calling. You
Speaker 2: may be called to be a taxi driver or a banker,
Speaker 2: or an investor, or a homemaker or a teacher or
Speaker 2: a nurse, or an artist or a musician. Everybody who's
Speaker 2: alive has a calling by God on their life. Now
Speaker 2: many people miss that calling and they go off and
Speaker 2: do their own thing, and that's why they're unhappy. That's
Speaker 2: why they're unsatisfied. That's why they're unfulfilled. Because you'll never
Speaker 2: be fulfilled doing your plan. You're only going to be
Speaker 2: fulfilled if you figure out what is God calling me
Speaker 2: to do. Some people think that God only calls missionaries
Speaker 2: and priests and you know, nuns and pastors and people
Speaker 2: who do church work. No, no, no, no, no. Everybody
Speaker 2: has a calling on their life. You could be called
Speaker 2: to be a businessman. You could be called to be
Speaker 2: a politician. You could be called to be a salesperson.
Speaker 2: And what God calls you to do? Listen, He wants
Speaker 2: to anoint you to do. Let me show you some verses. First,
Speaker 2: look up here on the screen. The Bible says this
Speaker 2: in the Book of Ephesians, that God made us what
Speaker 2: we are. He wired yous. You like sales, you like math,
Speaker 2: you like music, you like instrumentation, you like organizing. Your administrator,
Speaker 2: God made you what you are, and in Christ Jesus,
Speaker 2: God created us, each of us to do good works,
Speaker 2: which He planned in advance for us to live our
Speaker 2: lives doing. Do you realize that before you're even born,
Speaker 2: God planned the calling on your life. He planned the
Speaker 2: purpose on your life. Now that's very very important, and
Speaker 2: this is where fulfillment and meaning and purpose come from.
Speaker 2: But here's the catch. You cannot fulfill your calling the
Speaker 2: way God wants you to on your own power. You
Speaker 2: need what is called God's anointing. And anointing is the
Speaker 2: power and the insight and the energy and all those
Speaker 2: things that I mentioned earlier that allow you to do
Speaker 2: what God wants you to do. If God has a job,
Speaker 2: He's going to give you the ability to do it.
Speaker 2: And so what I want to do real quickly is
Speaker 2: summarize the entire Bible and what it has to say
Speaker 2: about anointing an anointed life in about six statements. Can
Speaker 2: you write fast? This is a cliff notes on the
Speaker 2: Bible on anointing, So take your notes down. This is
Speaker 2: very important because until you understand your calling and until
Speaker 2: you get your anointing, you're not going to be fulfilled
Speaker 2: in life. Okay, Number one, here are six things I've
Speaker 2: learned about God's anointing on my life. Number one, when
Speaker 2: God appoints me, he anoints me. That's the first thing
Speaker 2: we learn. When God appoints me, he anoints me. God
Speaker 2: never asked you to do something without providing what you
Speaker 2: need to do it. When he gives you assignment, he's
Speaker 2: going to give you the empowerment. When he gives you
Speaker 2: a plan, he's going to give you the power to
Speaker 2: do it. When he gives you a strategy, he's going
Speaker 2: to give you his spirit. God's anointing comes with God's
Speaker 2: appointing and the anointing that God wants to give you
Speaker 2: in your life. New power, new energy, new insight only
Speaker 2: happen when you start doing using it for what He
Speaker 2: wants to give it to you. For God has promised
Speaker 2: to help you out. If God calls you to do
Speaker 2: something and you're scared to death, you feel incompetent or
Speaker 2: incapable or inadequate, God says, that's okay. Look at these
Speaker 2: verses first, Thessalonians five twenty four. The one who calls you,
Speaker 2: that's God is faithful. God is faithful, and he will
Speaker 2: do it. What does that verse mean? Whatever God calls
Speaker 2: you to do, He's going to give you the ability
Speaker 2: to do. He's going to help you do it. He's
Speaker 2: going to put his spirit in you. And if God
Speaker 2: says to do it, you can count on his anointing. Faithful,
Speaker 2: the one who calls you, he's going to do it.
Speaker 2: A good example of this would be when God gave
Speaker 2: the very first assignment to his very first followers, the
Speaker 2: first twelve Disciples. Look up here on the screen Acts
Speaker 2: Chapter one, verse eight says this, you will receive power
Speaker 2: when the Holy Spirit comes on you. That's anointing, and
Speaker 2: you will be my witnesses to the ends of the earth.
Speaker 2: Now that when Jesus gave that assignment to disciples was
Speaker 2: an impossible assignment. There was no way they could possibly
Speaker 2: go to the end of the earth. There were no planes, trains, automobiles,
Speaker 2: no ocean bearing vessels. How now were they going to
Speaker 2: get to Australia from the Middle East. How are they
Speaker 2: going to get to South America or North America. It
Speaker 2: was physically impossible. God will often give you an assignment
Speaker 2: that physically looks impossible, but he says, I'm gonna make
Speaker 2: it possible, and We're going to figure out a way
Speaker 2: to do this, and I'm going to empower you. So
Speaker 2: God says, my appointment comes, or my assignment comes with
Speaker 2: an anointing that goes right along with it. Okay, Number two.
Speaker 2: Here's the second thing we learned. God's anointing makes me
Speaker 2: a better person. If you think you're good now, it's
Speaker 2: nothing compared to what you could be with God's anointing
Speaker 2: on your life. God's anointing transforms you. It changes you
Speaker 2: from the inside out. It gives you abilities you did
Speaker 2: not have on your own. Now again, there are many,
Speaker 2: many examples of this when somebody is anointed as a
Speaker 2: king or prophet or whatever that all of a sudden
Speaker 2: they got new abilities and their life was turned around
Speaker 2: and changed because of the anointing. Here's a good example.
Speaker 2: In First Samuel, chapter ten, Samuel is a prophet and
Speaker 2: the first king of Israel is a guy named Saul.
Speaker 2: Saul felt very inadequate. He thought I could never be
Speaker 2: a king, and in verse one, it is chapter ten,
Speaker 2: it says this. Then Samuel took oil and poured it
Speaker 2: on Saul's head, and he said, God has anointed you
Speaker 2: this outward symbol of an inward commitment. God has anointed
Speaker 2: you to be the leader of his people. Now Saul
Speaker 2: is annointed, but he still doesn't believe it. He's still insecure.
Speaker 2: And so Samuel goes, I'm going to give you several signs,
Speaker 2: and over the next several verses, says this is gonna happen,
Speaker 2: and this is gonna happen, and this is gonna happen.
Speaker 2: And then down in verse six he says, here's the
Speaker 2: thing that's going to confirm your calling. Verse six of
Speaker 2: Fir Samuel tin God's spirit will come on you in power,
Speaker 2: and you're going to speak like a prophet. He said,
Speaker 2: you're actually going to be walking with some prophets when
Speaker 2: this happened, So spiritual men, and he says you will
Speaker 2: be changed into a different person. Circle that you're going
Speaker 2: to be changed into a different person. And after this happens,
Speaker 2: you whatever you do, whatever you think is best, Do
Speaker 2: whatever you think is best, because God will be with you. Well,
Speaker 2: what is this first teaching us that when God actually
Speaker 2: anoints your life, when you receive God's anointing on your life,
Speaker 2: it changes you. You See, how does it change me? You're
Speaker 2: going to be more competent, You're going to be more confident,
Speaker 2: and you're going to be more calm. You're going to
Speaker 2: be more confident about what God's called you to do.
Speaker 2: You're going to be more competent about what God's called
Speaker 2: you to do, and you're going to be more calm
Speaker 2: about it. When you are worried, when you're nervous about
Speaker 2: your job, about your calling, about your vocation. Then guess what.
Speaker 2: You don't have the anointing of God on your life
Speaker 2: at that moment. You don't feel competent, you don't feel confident,
Speaker 2: and you don't feel calm. When God comes into your life,
Speaker 2: it changes you, and all of a sudden, you've got
Speaker 2: a whole lot more confidence about what you know you're
Speaker 2: supposed to do with your life. Okay. Number three. Third
Speaker 2: thing we learn in the Bible is that God's anointing
Speaker 2: makes difficult tasks easier. This is a good one. It
Speaker 2: makes the difficult tasks in your life easier because now
Speaker 2: you're not just doing it on your own power, You're
Speaker 2: doing it on God's power. And the difference between serving
Speaker 2: God and your power versus serving God and His power
Speaker 2: is night and day. Let me show you the difference
Speaker 2: between an anointed life and an unanointed life. Look up
Speaker 2: here on the screen. Ephesians chapter three, verse sixteen says
Speaker 2: this from his unlimited resources, God will give you mighty
Speaker 2: inner strength through his Holy Spirit circle mighty inner strength. Now,
Speaker 2: my resources are limited, my energy is limited, my knowledge
Speaker 2: is limited, my wisdom is limited, my talent is limited,
Speaker 2: and so is yours. But God is not. And when
Speaker 2: you have God's anoying on your life, he puts mighty
Speaker 2: strength in you that you didn't know you had. You
Speaker 2: can handle things better, you can last longer, you can
Speaker 2: go farther because you have God's annoying on your life.
Speaker 2: How do you know when you don't have God's annoying
Speaker 2: on your life. You're tired all the time. You're tired
Speaker 2: all the time. Why Because you're trying to solve your problems.
Speaker 2: You're trying to live your life. You're trying to fulfill
Speaker 2: your purpose on your own power. Now, he says, God
Speaker 2: will give you mighty strength through his Holy Spirit. One
Speaker 2: of the Holy Spirit's job is to anoint you. That's
Speaker 2: his job to give you the power and the energy
Speaker 2: and the wisdom and the resources and all the stuff
Speaker 2: you need to get it done, to get done what
Speaker 2: God puts you on this planet to get done. Philippians
Speaker 2: four thirteen is one of the moost famous verses in
Speaker 2: the Bible. You could probably quote it. I can do
Speaker 2: everything with the help of Christ. Who gives me the
Speaker 2: strength I need now. If you don't have, if you're
Speaker 2: not depending on Christ, you depending on yourself, and you're
Speaker 2: gonna end up fadig. Let me ask you a very
Speaker 2: personal question. Are you trying to do everything you need
Speaker 2: to do in life based on adrenaline or based on
Speaker 2: anointing HM? Because you're adrenaline runs out and you get tired,
Speaker 2: and you get fatigued, and you get worn out and
Speaker 2: you want to give up. When you're walking in the anointing,
Speaker 2: when God's powers going through, it's limitless. It is limitless.
Speaker 2: It gives you supernatural energy. I can do everything with
Speaker 2: the help of Christ. I wonder what you're filling in
Speaker 2: that blank. I can do everything with the help of
Speaker 2: my medication. I can do everything with the help of
Speaker 2: my team. I can do everything with the help of
Speaker 2: my bank, passport and my savings account. No, no, there's
Speaker 2: only one thing that doesn't run dry. Every other well
Speaker 2: in your life is gonna run dry. If you ask
Speaker 2: or expect other people to meet needs in your life
Speaker 2: that only God can meet, You're gonna be disappointed, They're
Speaker 2: gonna be frustrated, and you're gonna have conflict because nobody
Speaker 2: could possibly meet all the needs in your life. Your
Speaker 2: wife can't, your husband can't, your best friend can't, your
Speaker 2: boyfriend can't. Nobody can meet all your emotional, physical, spiritual needs.
Speaker 2: Only God can. And if you look to him, he says,
Speaker 2: then I will give you my anointing. I can do
Speaker 2: everything with the help of Christ, who gives me the
Speaker 2: strength I need. By the way, do you know what
Speaker 2: Christ means? That word Christ? Some people think Christ is
Speaker 2: Jesus last name, Jesus' first name, Christ's last name. No, no,
Speaker 2: do you even know? You may have been a Christian
Speaker 2: thirty years. Do you don't even know what Christ means.
Speaker 2: It's the Greek word for anointed one. That's what Christ
Speaker 2: means anointed one. It is the anointed one who gives
Speaker 2: you your anointing that gives you the power to do
Speaker 2: all the things God wants you to do with your life.
Speaker 2: Christ means anointed one. By the way, do you know
Speaker 2: what the word anointed one is in Hebrew, the other
Speaker 2: language in the Bible. It's the word Messiah. Messiah means
Speaker 2: anointed one. So Christ and Messiah are the exact same
Speaker 2: wordy just in Hebrew or in Greek and he says,
Speaker 2: it is the Messiah, It is the anointed one who's
Speaker 2: gonna give you the anointing to get done everything you
Speaker 2: need to get done in life that God wants you
Speaker 2: to do. Now, God doesn't give you his anointing to
Speaker 2: do things you want to do. He gives you the
Speaker 2: things He puts you on. He gives you the ability
Speaker 2: to do what He wants you to do. Okay, number four,
Speaker 2: and now let's review. When God appoints me. He anoints me.
Speaker 2: God's anointing makes me a better person, and it makes
Speaker 2: difficult tasks easier. Number four. God's anointing makes the impossible
Speaker 2: possible because God can do stuff you would never would
Speaker 2: be able to do, and now I would never be
Speaker 2: able to do. This is a big deal because in
Speaker 2: your business you're gonna come up against insurmountable problems. You're
Speaker 2: gonna need the anointing of God. When you're gonna have
Speaker 2: problems in your marriage that seem insurmountable. You're gonna have
Speaker 2: problems with your health that seem insurmountable. What do you
Speaker 2: depend on there? Not your own power, You depend on
Speaker 2: God's anointing. Look at these verses Luke eighteen twenty seven.
Speaker 2: Jesus says, what is impossible for men is possible with God.
Speaker 2: I can't do everything, but God can Ephesians three twenty
Speaker 2: God's power at work within us is able to accomplish
Speaker 2: infinitely more than we could ever dare to ask for
Speaker 2: or even imagine. Now. I don't know about you. I'm
Speaker 2: a pretty big dreamer. Nobody's ever accused me of being
Speaker 2: a small thinker or a small dreamer. And yet this
Speaker 2: verse says, God says to me, hey, Rick, think of
Speaker 2: the greatest thing I could do in your life. Just
Speaker 2: blow the top off. What are you afraid to even ask?
Speaker 2: What are you afraid to even imagine? What's the greatest
Speaker 2: thing you could imagine happening in your life? And God says,
Speaker 2: I can top that. I can top that. I'm better,
Speaker 2: I'm bigger. My annointing can do more than you even think.
Speaker 2: What's the greatest thing you'd like to see done in
Speaker 2: your life? You go, man, I'm even afraid even imagine.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid evening think of it. It would might be
Speaker 2: too over. Think of the biggest thing God could do
Speaker 2: in your life. And God says, with my anointing, I
Speaker 2: can do bigger than that. He says, God's power at
Speaker 2: work within us is able to accomplish infinitely more than
Speaker 2: we could ever dare to ask or even imagine, for
Speaker 2: our families, for your business, for your career, for your education,
Speaker 2: for your dream. God's annoying makes the impossible possible.
Speaker 1: Hey, thanks so much for listening to today's show. Rick
Speaker 1: wants to encourage you with a closing thought.
Speaker 2: God has five purposes for your life. He wants you
Speaker 2: to know and love him. That's called worship. He wants
Speaker 2: you to belong to his family that's called fellowship. He
Speaker 2: wants you to grow in him. That's called discipleship. He
Speaker 2: wants you to serve Him with your gifts and talents.
Speaker 2: That's your ministry. And he wants you to share the
Speaker 2: good news with other people. That's your mission. Now Today,
Speaker 2: as we close, I want to talk to you about
Speaker 2: the third purpose, discipleship or personal growth. How do we
Speaker 2: grow well? We grow through the nourishment of God's Word.
Speaker 2: It's how we get to know God. To know God's
Speaker 2: word is to know God's will. God's word is the
Speaker 2: source of God's will. And God's ultimate goal for your
Speaker 2: life is for you to become like Jesus Christ. To
Speaker 2: do that, you have to fill your life with the
Speaker 2: word of Jesus Christ. Two Timothy three seventeen says through
Speaker 2: the Word, we're put together and shaped for the tasks
Speaker 2: that God asked for us. I remember in the Old Testament,
Speaker 2: the Bible says that joe Zbe treasured God's Word more
Speaker 2: than his daily bread. That's how I want you to
Speaker 2: treat God's Word. That's how you grow in discipleship. Get
Speaker 2: into his word every day, study it, memorize it, and
Speaker 2: meditate on it. Apply it. Never take it for granted.
Speaker 2: God's word is as essential to your soul as food
Speaker 2: is to your body. So get into the Word today.
Speaker 2: God bless you.
Speaker 1: Be sure to join us next time as we look
Speaker 1: into God's Word for our daily hope. This program is
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