Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for joining us today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope,
Speaker 1: the Bible Teaching Ministry of Rick Warren, and today we're
Speaker 1: continuing our series called the Habits of Happiness. In this series,
Speaker 1: Rick dives into the Book of Philippians and helps you
Speaker 1: discover God's path to true and lasting happiness. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to dive into today's message. So here's the final
Speaker 1: part of a message called happiness can be learned.
Speaker 2: Number two. Not only do I live with integrity, I
Speaker 2: keep my promises. This is the other way you learn
Speaker 2: this second quality, keep my promises. Psalm fifteen four talks
Speaker 2: about they are always these people always do what they promise,
Speaker 2: no matter how much it may cost them. I actually
Speaker 2: like this verse better in the King James English, where
Speaker 2: it says God blesses the person who sweareth to his
Speaker 2: own hurt swear it to his own What does that mean?
Speaker 2: He means you keep a promise and then you find
Speaker 2: out it's going to cost me more than I thought
Speaker 2: I was gonna cost me, but I still keep my promise.
Speaker 2: I said I'd do it for that price, and I'm
Speaker 2: going to take a bath on it. But I'm going
Speaker 2: to do it because I keep my word, and I'm
Speaker 2: going to keep my promise no matter how much it costs.
Speaker 2: So if I want to be happy, then I've got
Speaker 2: to first shift the focus away from myself. It's not
Speaker 2: about me. And second, I've got to become somebody that
Speaker 2: people trust. And we see those from Timothy. Now, Paul
Speaker 2: is a superstar. I mean, this is the guy who
Speaker 2: wrote most of the New Testament part of the Bible.
Speaker 2: Paul is a superstar. Yet Paul knows that we get
Speaker 2: more done by working together. So here's the third skill
Speaker 2: that you got to learn in order to be happy
Speaker 2: in life, and that is this number three. Learn how
Speaker 2: to work well with others. And you know what, they
Speaker 2: don't teach you that anymore. And if parents don't teach
Speaker 2: their kids this, they may not learn it in school.
Speaker 2: You must learn how to work well by the way parents.
Speaker 2: These are four things you need to teach your kids.
Speaker 2: If you want your kids to be happy, they've got
Speaker 2: to learn to switch the focus away from themselves. They've
Speaker 2: got to learn to become someone that is trustworthy, and
Speaker 2: they've got to learn how to work well with others.
Speaker 2: What am I talking about here, I'm talking about the
Speaker 2: skill of being a team member. The skill of collaboration,
Speaker 2: the skill of working together. If you don't know how
Speaker 2: to work with other people, you're going to be unhappy
Speaker 2: much in your life. Well, what do I need to
Speaker 2: learn in order to work with other people? You need
Speaker 2: to learn two things, the Bible says. Write these down. First,
Speaker 2: learn to cooperate. I need to learn how to cooperate,
Speaker 2: and that's not something you automatically do. That's one of
Speaker 2: the goals of parenting is teaching your children how to
Speaker 2: share their toys, teaching your children how to put away
Speaker 2: the toys together, teaching your children how to cooperate, often
Speaker 2: with people who are very different in personality. Learning to
Speaker 2: cooperate and Paul gives the second guy a paphorditis as
Speaker 2: an example of this quality. In verse twenty five, he
Speaker 2: says this, I send back to you a paphorditis, my brother,
Speaker 2: my fellow worker, and my fellow soldier. Circle those three terms.
Speaker 2: We're going to come back to it. Brother, fellow worker,
Speaker 2: and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger, whom you
Speaker 2: sent to take care of my needs. Remember this is
Speaker 2: the guy that the church in PHILIPI sent with an
Speaker 2: offering a gift of money, financial support to tell Paul
Speaker 2: while he was in prisoner Rome. Paul says, he's my brother,
Speaker 2: my fellow worker, my fellow soldier. He's worked and fought
Speaker 2: by my side. What is Paul Singer? This guy knows
Speaker 2: how to be a team member. This guy knows how
Speaker 2: to work in a group. He's not a lone ranger.
Speaker 2: He's not a prima donna. He's not a he's not
Speaker 2: a a you know, a maverick. This is a guy
Speaker 2: who knows how to work with other people. Now, I
Speaker 2: just want to tell you real surely, the better you
Speaker 2: learn this skill, the happier you're going to be in life.
Speaker 2: If you don't know how to work with people different
Speaker 2: from you, you're in You're in deep, deep guacamole. Because
Speaker 2: let me tell you something, most of the world is
Speaker 2: different from you. And if you don't know how to
Speaker 2: work with people who are different from you, then you
Speaker 2: don't You just shut yourself off to most of the world. Now,
Speaker 2: Paul uses here in this passage three relational metaphors their
Speaker 2: their teamwork terms, and he says, my brother, my fellow worker,
Speaker 2: and my fellow soldier. What does he say? He's saying
Speaker 2: that life and ministry. Life is a family. It's a fellowship,
Speaker 2: and it's a fight. It's a family. It's a fellowship
Speaker 2: and it's a fight. It's family, he says, He calls
Speaker 2: him my brother. The church is the family of God.
Speaker 2: That means every one of you are related to each other.
Speaker 2: If you know the Lord, the people you're sitting next
Speaker 2: to are your brothers and sisters. In fact, for thousands
Speaker 2: of years, when people went to church, they used to
Speaker 2: call each other brother and sister, brother so and so,
Speaker 2: brother Bob, sister Sue, brother Tom, sister Janice. You know,
Speaker 2: maybe we ought to bring that back because we've kind
Speaker 2: of lost the attitude of we are family. One hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty three times in the Bible, God uses family
Speaker 2: terms to refer to the church. So we're a family,
Speaker 2: he says, my brother. Then he says, all, we're a fellowship,
Speaker 2: a fellow worker. We're to work together, to serve together.
Speaker 2: We've been given the same tasks, we have the same
Speaker 2: great commission, we have the same common goal. Where a family,
Speaker 2: we're a fellowship and wear a fight. He says, my
Speaker 2: fellow soldier. Would you agree that life's a battle? Would
Speaker 2: you agree that sometimes you feel like you're at war, yeah,
Speaker 2: and that forces are against you. Yeah. Well, he says,
Speaker 2: you know what, it's a battle, and we all have
Speaker 2: the same enemy, Satan, and we need to support each other,
Speaker 2: we need to defend each other, we need to encourage
Speaker 2: each other. And there's a word for that. It's called
Speaker 2: small groups. Where do I learn to be a family,
Speaker 2: a fellowship and to fight for each other in a
Speaker 2: small group. You don't learn it in a big meeting
Speaker 2: like this. You learn them in a small group. We support,
Speaker 2: and we defend, and we encourage each other. I love
Speaker 2: what Jesus said. I love this message. Paraphrase of one
Speaker 2: of the beatitudes. Jesus said, you're blessed when you can
Speaker 2: show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight.
Speaker 2: Why if you learn to cooperate with others, your happiness
Speaker 2: is going to go up exponentially. Now, Not only do
Speaker 2: I need to learn to cooperate, here's the second one.
Speaker 2: I need to learn to be considerate. The more considerate
Speaker 2: you are of other people in life, the happier you're
Speaker 2: going to be. The more inconsiderate you are of people
Speaker 2: in your life, and learning clerks and people who serve
Speaker 2: it fast advice. The more inconsiderate you are of waiters
Speaker 2: and waitresses and people who serve you, the more unhappy
Speaker 2: you're going to be. When you see somebody in a
Speaker 2: restaurant being inconsiderate to a waiter or waitress at that point,
Speaker 2: are they being happy? No, they are not. They are unhappy.
Speaker 2: It's because those two things don't go together. And he's saying,
Speaker 2: Paul saying, you got to learn to be thoughtful. You
Speaker 2: got to learn to be kind, sympathetic and understanding of others.
Speaker 2: And again he gives epaphorditis as an example. Verse twenty six.
Speaker 2: There in your outline, he says, now I must send him,
Speaker 2: that's a paphorditis. I' must send him back to you
Speaker 2: because he longs to see all of you. And he's
Speaker 2: been worried about your distress. That's called consideration. He's worried about,
Speaker 2: not his distress, worried about your distress since you heard
Speaker 2: that he was sick. Now, notice in this verse we
Speaker 2: see two examples of consideration. Paul is considerate of his
Speaker 2: coworkers concern and he said it paphridiitis. Really, he's homesick.
Speaker 2: He wants to come back home. He longs to see you.
Speaker 2: Paul is considered if his coworker's concerned, and the Paphroditis
Speaker 2: is considerate of the philippians concern. They had heard that
Speaker 2: the Paphroditis on the way to Rome had gotten sick
Speaker 2: and nearly died, and they were afraid their friend had died.
Speaker 2: And the Bible says in the message, he wants to
Speaker 2: get back and reassure you that he's fine. This is
Speaker 2: a key to happiness. The more considerate you learn to
Speaker 2: be of other people's needs, other people's doubts, their fears.
Speaker 2: The more considerate you learned to be as a husband
Speaker 2: as a wife, the happy or your marriage is gonna be.
Speaker 2: If you are inconsiderate, you're gonna have an unhappy marriage. Now,
Speaker 2: First Corinthians one to ten says this you must this
Speaker 2: is not an option. You must get along with each other.
Speaker 2: You must learn to be considerate. Circle the word learn.
Speaker 2: You must learn to be considerate of one another, cultivating
Speaker 2: a life in common. I think every marriage ought to
Speaker 2: learn that verse. We all want to memorize that one.
Speaker 2: You must learn to be considerate because you were about
Speaker 2: nature not not naturally considerate, and you have to cultivate
Speaker 2: circle that word, cultivate a life in common. He's saying
Speaker 2: it takes work. You know, I grow a garden of
Speaker 2: vegetables every year, and it takes cultivation. They don't just
Speaker 2: grow on their own. I have to go out and
Speaker 2: prepare the soil, you know, break up the dirt cloths.
Speaker 2: I have to add in the nutrients, after water, after weed,
Speaker 2: feed I cultivate. And he's saying it takes work to
Speaker 2: cultivate a life in common. You know what the problem
Speaker 2: with most marriages today. They've stopped working. They've stopped working
Speaker 2: on the marriage, So the marriage stops working. When you
Speaker 2: don't work on the marriage, then the marriage doesn't work.
Speaker 2: That's obvious, and a lot of people would rather give
Speaker 2: up on a marriage than work on a marriage. He says,
Speaker 2: you got to cultivate a common life together. And what
Speaker 2: is it? He says, it's through consideration. We have to
Speaker 2: be thoughtful of the effect of our words and the
Speaker 2: effect of our actions. That does not come natural to me.
Speaker 2: Maybe it comes natural to you, It doesn't come natural
Speaker 2: to me. I don't naturally think about how my words
Speaker 2: are gonna affect you, or how my actions are gonna
Speaker 2: affect you. Now, sometimes you'll hear people say, well, I
Speaker 2: just believe in I just say what I think. Well,
Speaker 2: there's a word for you, rude. You're proud of that
Speaker 2: a parent can say what it thinks. It takes intelligence,
Speaker 2: and it takes character to be considerate, to not just
Speaker 2: run off at the mouth, to not just say whatever
Speaker 2: you think, but to stop and before you say go,
Speaker 2: how will this affect somebody else? Paul is an example
Speaker 2: one Corinthians ten thirty three. He says that don't just
Speaker 2: do what I like. I don't just do what I
Speaker 2: like or what's best for me, but I do what's
Speaker 2: best for everyone so that they may be saved. Paul says,
Speaker 2: I put the conversion of others before my comfort. I
Speaker 2: put the conversion their conversion before my comfort. This is
Speaker 2: the fourth quality. If I want to be happy, I've
Speaker 2: got to learn these things. I've got to learn how
Speaker 2: to shift the focus away from me to others. I've
Speaker 2: got to learn to become the person, a person that
Speaker 2: people trust by doing what I say, I do keeping
Speaker 2: my promises. Then I got to learn how to work
Speaker 2: well with others, learning to cooperate, learning to be considerate
Speaker 2: at work, at home, in the neighborhood, whatever, and that'll
Speaker 2: increase my happiness. There's one other one, and this is
Speaker 2: a really big one. If I genuinely want to be
Speaker 2: happy in life, the fourth choice you need to make
Speaker 2: to be happy in life is to live for something
Speaker 2: worth dying for. Until you have that, you will not
Speaker 2: have ultimate happiness in your life. I must learn to
Speaker 2: live for something worth dying for. Most people are giving
Speaker 2: first class allegiance to second class causes, and those causes
Speaker 2: are betraying them. I talked to one time to a
Speaker 2: guy who said I climbed the ladder of success. When
Speaker 2: I got to the top, I found it was leaning
Speaker 2: against the wrong wall. And a lot of times we
Speaker 2: give big time commitment to small time causes that aren't
Speaker 2: going to last. The question you need to ask yourself
Speaker 2: that you're given all your time, all your energy, all
Speaker 2: your thoughts, whatever you think about most, and you're given
Speaker 2: all your time and energy and money to these things.
Speaker 2: Ask how much is this going to matter five years
Speaker 2: from today? How much is it going to matter ten years?
Speaker 2: How much matter is it going to end up matter
Speaker 2: in a thousand years? The best use of your life
Speaker 2: is to invest it in that which outlasted. You need
Speaker 2: to live for something worth dying for, and you are
Speaker 2: not ready to live. You're not ready to live, to
Speaker 2: really live until you know what's worth dying for. If
Speaker 2: you've never figured that out, you're coasting. You're not really living,
Speaker 2: you're existing. You're not ready to live till you know
Speaker 2: what's worth dying for. Now, Paul ends with these words
Speaker 2: about Epaphroditis verse twenty seven and verse thirty. He says, indeed,
Speaker 2: talking about paphard isis, he was very ill, and he
Speaker 2: almost died. He risked his life. That's lived for something
Speaker 2: we're dying for. Risked his life for the work of Christ.
Speaker 2: And it was at the point of death while trying
Speaker 2: to do for me the things you you, my friends
Speaker 2: back in Philippi couldn't do because you were far away.
Speaker 2: Now let me give you the background again. This Paul
Speaker 2: is in prison in Rome. The Philippian Church is in Greece.
Speaker 2: It's eight hundred miles away. Okay, The Philippian Church decides
Speaker 2: to send a care package to Paul in prison. There
Speaker 2: are no planes, there are no trains, there are no automobiles,
Speaker 2: and it's eight hundred miles and there's only one way
Speaker 2: you can get to roam walk. It's going to be
Speaker 2: an eight hundred mile walk to deliver this offering that
Speaker 2: the Philippians have decided to take. Pafford, a member of
Speaker 2: that church raises it, I'll do it. I'll do it.
Speaker 2: I'll walk eight hundred miles through thick and thin, through robbers, thieves,
Speaker 2: battling armies, and all kinds of things that I'll walk
Speaker 2: eight hundred miles just to take a gift from our
Speaker 2: church to a guy who's in prison eight hundred miles away.
Speaker 2: It says he risked his life. The Greek there literally
Speaker 2: says he hazard his life. It's a gambling term. Epaphroditis
Speaker 2: is God's godly gambler. He gambled his life for Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: Now on this eight hundred mile walk to take this
Speaker 2: offering to Rome. Doesn't tell us what he got, what
Speaker 2: kind of disease, whatever. But he got so sick he
Speaker 2: nearly died, and that's what everybody was worried about. He
Speaker 2: nearly died. But in spite of persistent pain, he completes
Speaker 2: his mission and he finishes what he starts. Now, let
Speaker 2: me ask you two very personal questions for you this
Speaker 2: year two thousand years later. Here are my two questions
Speaker 2: of you. What commitment have you started that you haven't
Speaker 2: yet finished? What if the paphroditis in the middle got sick?
Speaker 2: It does that? I give up? I'm going back to Philippi.
Speaker 2: He wouldn't have completed his mission. What commitment have you
Speaker 2: made that you need to keep? Maybe it's a commitment
Speaker 2: to your spouse, a commitment you made to your husband,
Speaker 2: A commitment you made to your wife that I'm going
Speaker 2: to do this, I'm going to work on this, but
Speaker 2: you haven't. Maybe a commitment you made to one of
Speaker 2: your children or to a friend. Maybe it's I don't know,
Speaker 2: a commitment you made to God. What have you started
Speaker 2: that you need to complete? What have you begun? You
Speaker 2: made a commitment to God and you need to keep
Speaker 2: that commitment. You need to finish it. You need to
Speaker 2: be consistent and you need to be reliable. Let me
Speaker 2: ask a second question. Is your commitment to Christ deep
Speaker 2: enough to cause you to risk your life? This is
Speaker 2: why these people, Timothy and a Paraphroditis are so rare.
Speaker 2: There aren't many people like this. I mean, if your church,
Speaker 2: if Saddleback Church asked you to walk eight hundred miles
Speaker 2: to deliver a gift. Would you do it? Would you
Speaker 2: do it? There are many people like this. Guy, Sure,
Speaker 2: I'll do it. I'll go walk eight hundred miles to
Speaker 2: take a gift to a guy in need. Would you
Speaker 2: do that? There aren't many people like this, It's rare.
Speaker 2: That's why the Bible says honor them. He says, you're
Speaker 2: to honor Timothy, You're to honor men like this. See.
Speaker 2: Most people say, well, I'll live for as long as
Speaker 2: it's convenient, But right now there's a good game on.
Speaker 2: Excuse me. Most people will be happy to live for
Speaker 2: Christ as long as it's convenient and it's comfortable. Are
Speaker 2: you willing to live for Christ at work when it's
Speaker 2: inconvenient and it's uncomfortable. Well, no, then you're not much
Speaker 2: of a Christian. This is why God says honor people
Speaker 2: like this. God says, honor those who take risks sharing
Speaker 2: the gospel. I want to honor you. If you went
Speaker 2: on a peace plan anywhere, would you stand up right now?
Speaker 2: I want us to honor you. Just stand up. If
Speaker 2: you've gone on a peace plan trip anywhere. God bless
Speaker 2: you and all of our campuses. I want you to
Speaker 2: stand up in all of our campuses too, people who
Speaker 2: have gone on a peace trip. God bless you, and
Speaker 2: I honor you for that. And let me give you
Speaker 2: a little secret. Whether you stood or you didn't, God
Speaker 2: is not finished testing your faith. So get ready. You
Speaker 2: think God's gonna let you just coast the rest of
Speaker 2: your life. Really, you think God's gonna say, oh, all
Speaker 2: of the big risks in your life are behind you, now,
Speaker 2: are you kidding me? As long as you're alive, God's
Speaker 2: gonna keep testing you with risky decisions for his sake.
Speaker 2: To test your faith. God is going to call you
Speaker 2: to be a part in some way, to play some
Speaker 2: role of what He wants to do through this church.
Speaker 2: I'm absolutely certain of it, or he wouldn't have called
Speaker 2: you here. And all I'm ask you to do is
Speaker 2: to pray this week, say God the most dangerous prayer
Speaker 2: in the world. Remember it's two words. Use me. I
Speaker 2: dare you to pray the most dangerous prayer in the world.
Speaker 2: Use me. I'm afraid to pray that. Pray it because
Speaker 2: it is the secret of happiness. You don't know really
Speaker 2: how to live until you know what's worth dying for
Speaker 2: I want you to write this down, the last thing
Speaker 2: to write down. Happiness comes from putting service before security.
Speaker 2: Happiness comes from putting service before security. God blesses those
Speaker 2: who serve Him even when it's inconvenient and uncomfortable. Happiness
Speaker 2: comes from putting service before security. Not doing the safe thing,
Speaker 2: but doing the thing that stretches your faith. And if
Speaker 2: you say God, use me, he'll figure out what that
Speaker 2: is for you, and he'll let you know. Now we'll
Speaker 2: end with Jesus' secret of happiness, which sums up what
Speaker 2: we've looked at this weekend mark eight thirty five. Jesus
Speaker 2: said this, Only those who give away their lives for
Speaker 2: my sake and for the sake of the good News
Speaker 2: will ever know what it means to really live. Only
Speaker 2: those who give away their lives live for something we're
Speaker 2: dying for for my sake and for the sake of
Speaker 2: the good News, we'll ever know what it means to
Speaker 2: really live. You're just existing until you have a purpose
Speaker 2: greater than yourself to get out of bed for in
Speaker 2: the morning. Now, let me summarize it. The happiest people
Speaker 2: in earth are caring, consistent, cooperative, considerate, and courageous. That's
Speaker 2: what we just looked at. They're caring, they get the
Speaker 2: focus off themselves. They're consistent, they learn to be trustworthy,
Speaker 2: they're cooperative and considerate. They know how to work with
Speaker 2: other people on a team. And they're courageous. They're willing
Speaker 2: to take risks in faith. Let's bower heads. If you
Speaker 2: want to be happy, I invite you to pray this
Speaker 2: prayer with me. Dear God, I want to be like
Speaker 2: these guys. I want to learn to be happy. I
Speaker 2: realize that happiness isn't a matter of luck, it's a
Speaker 2: matter of learning that I can choose to be happy.
Speaker 2: I can make decisions to be happy. I can develop
Speaker 2: character that will make me happy. Help me to get
Speaker 2: the focus off myself. Lord, I'm really sick and tired
Speaker 2: of looking at me. Help me to become somebody that
Speaker 2: people can trust, reliable, dependable, trustworthy. Help me to do
Speaker 2: what I say I do. Help me to keep my promises.
Speaker 2: And Lord, I need to learn how to get along
Speaker 2: better with others. I need to learn how to cooperate,
Speaker 2: and I need to learn how to be considered. I
Speaker 2: need to learn how to be a team member, how
Speaker 2: to work with people, who are different from me. I
Speaker 2: want to be like Paul, who said, I don't just
Speaker 2: do what's best me, what's best for everybody. If you're married,
Speaker 2: say Lord, help me to cultivate a life in common
Speaker 2: with my spouse. Say Lord, help me to learn to
Speaker 2: be considerate of my spouse and my kids. And Lord,
Speaker 2: help me to live for something worth ying for. I'm
Speaker 2: going to pray the most dangerous prayer right now. Lord,
Speaker 2: use me. I don't know what that means, but I'm
Speaker 2: open and I trust it. You'll show me what you
Speaker 2: want to do in my life that will stretch my faith.
Speaker 2: Use me the way you plan, not the way somebody
Speaker 2: else plan, but your plan. If you've never invited Jesus
Speaker 2: Christ in your life, say Jesus Christ, come into my
Speaker 2: life and save me and forgive my sense, change me,
Speaker 2: and make me the person you want me to be. Father,
Speaker 2: I thank you for these who've prayed this prayer today.
Speaker 2: We know that holiness leads to happiness, that happiness actually
Speaker 2: comes from holiness, and as we become more like you,
Speaker 2: we become more happy. I pray a blessing on every
Speaker 2: person here that whatever you've called us to do, we
Speaker 2: will do. Whatever commitments we've made we will keep. And
Speaker 2: I pray this blessing in the name of the Father
Speaker 2: and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. You know,
Speaker 2: if you just prayed that prayer for the very first time,
Speaker 2: or you just recommitted your life to Jesus again today,
Speaker 2: would you let me know about it. There's something real
Speaker 2: about sharing your commitment. So write me Rick at pastor
Speaker 2: Rick dot com and say, Rick, I prayed that prayer
Speaker 2: of commitment, I gave my life to Christ. And I'll
Speaker 2: send you some material that will help you on your
Speaker 2: journey with Jesus. And I'll also pray for you. God
Speaker 2: bless you.
Speaker 1: What a moving message from Rick, and I'm also so
Speaker 1: moved when we hear from you. In fact, here's Rick
Speaker 1: with a letter from one of our listeners.
Speaker 2: Have you ever taken a step of faith with no
Speaker 2: idea what's next? Well, with the help of Daily Hope,
Speaker 2: Nicole did just that. She wrote this note to me, Hello,
Speaker 2: Pastor Rick. A close friend of mine suggested I listened
Speaker 2: to Daily Hope four years ago, and while I had
Speaker 2: faith and I loved the Lord, I was lost. But
Speaker 2: Daily Hope rescued me. My relationship with Jesus grew in
Speaker 2: ways and I never knew possible. I was soon baptized,
Speaker 2: and over the next four years I grew in boldness
Speaker 2: and in faith in the Lord, and I even left
Speaker 2: a high powered and high salaried position to follow a different,
Speaker 2: purpose driven path with the Lord's guidance. It's been a
Speaker 2: literal step forward in faith without knowing the next steps,
Speaker 2: certainly not something I was capable of years ago. And
Speaker 2: already God is showing me his goodness. You know, as
Speaker 2: my husband explores his own relationship with Jesus again, your
Speaker 2: ministry is literally a God's sin. Your ability to teach
Speaker 2: the good news and ways that are easy to understand
Speaker 2: and apply, it is just amazing. We also follow your
Speaker 2: suggestion to find a good local church. So thanks for
Speaker 2: all you do for believers and those who are seeking
Speaker 2: Christ around the world. Rick You're loved and appreciated and
Speaker 2: no doubt a vessel of God's grace and mercy. Signed Nicole, Well, Nicole,
Speaker 2: I'm so glad that you've grown in your relationship with
Speaker 2: Jesus and you've taken the important step of getting baptized.
Speaker 2: What an important step this is. Finding a church home,
Speaker 2: really listening to the Lord and living a purpose driven life.
Speaker 2: All of that happens when you take time to listen
Speaker 2: to God's word. I love how your friend shared daily
Speaker 2: hope with you, and now you've shared it with your husband.
Speaker 2: You know, any of you can do this. Anybody can
Speaker 2: do this. You can share daily hope with your friends,
Speaker 2: and with your relatives and with people you don't even know.
Speaker 2: And well, then watch how God brings life to others
Speaker 2: through his words.
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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