Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope with Rick Warren.
Speaker 1: I'm 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. In today's program, we begin with
Speaker 1: part one of a message called from Overwhelmed to Overflowing.
Speaker 2: Time Magazine has said that today we live in an
Speaker 2: age of fomo. Fomo stands for fear of missing out,
Speaker 2: and about seventy percent of millennial generation, because they're on
Speaker 2: social media a lot say they struggle with fomo, the
Speaker 2: fear of missing out, and in a desire to keep
Speaker 2: up with everybody, people have overbooked their calendars, overspent their money,
Speaker 2: overdrawn the credit, overloaded their emotions, over work their bodies,
Speaker 2: overcrowded their days, and overvalued the approval of other people.
Speaker 2: And as a result, you may feel overstressed, over anxious,
Speaker 2: and overwhelmed. Now, why do people do this? Why do
Speaker 2: we do overkill? It's the fear of missing out. They
Speaker 2: don't want to fear it, feel inferior or inadequate, or
Speaker 2: unloved or left out. Today, I want us to look
Speaker 2: at the subject of moving from being overwhelmed to overflowing.
Speaker 2: I want to begin by explaining two different, fundamentally different
Speaker 2: approaches to life. You can approach life with a shortage mindset,
Speaker 2: or you can approach life with a surplus mindset. Big,
Speaker 2: big difference. A shortage mindset, if you might write this down,
Speaker 2: means I never have enough and I never will. I'll
Speaker 2: never have enough and will. That's going to leave you
Speaker 2: feeling overwhelmed. I don't have enough time, I don't have
Speaker 2: enough money, I don't have enough energy, I don't have
Speaker 2: enough contacts, opportunities, knowledge, education, or whatever. It's the feeling
Speaker 2: that you're always a little bit short in a day
Speaker 2: late that causes you to feel overwhelmed by life. In
Speaker 2: the Bible, words like lacking, wanting, needing are used for
Speaker 2: this lifestyle, this shortage mindset. Good examples in the Bible.
Speaker 2: There was a famine in Israel, and Elijah and his
Speaker 2: servant he had a discussion about this. Said notice up
Speaker 2: here on the screen. The Bible says, a man brought
Speaker 2: Elisha the profits some loaves of bread. No, remember, this
Speaker 2: is a famine going on in the land. Elisia said,
Speaker 2: give it to the people so they can eat. And
Speaker 2: Elisha's servant said, there's not enough here for one hundred people.
Speaker 2: Not enough. That's a shortage mindset, shortage mentality. Just give
Speaker 2: it to them. Elisha said, the Lord has promised there'll
Speaker 2: be more than enough. That it's a surplus mindset. So
Speaker 2: the servant gave the bread to the people, and sure enough,
Speaker 2: it says, they ate until they were full, and they
Speaker 2: still had some left over, just as God had promised.
Speaker 2: Shortage lifestyle, I'm never gonna have enough. Surplus lifestyle. I've
Speaker 2: got more than enough now. The focus, if you want
Speaker 2: to write this down, the focus of a shortage mindset
Speaker 2: is I focus on my limited resources. My limited resources,
Speaker 2: I look at all the things that I'm lacking. I
Speaker 2: don't have enough money, I don't have enough time, I
Speaker 2: don't have enough energy. And the result of a shortage
Speaker 2: mindset is an overwhelmed life. I just feel so overwhelmed
Speaker 2: by everything that's going on in my life. I just
Speaker 2: am always behind, I'm always in competition. When you have
Speaker 2: a shortage lifestyle, you think that life is like a pie.
Speaker 2: And if somebody takes a bigger piece. That means a
Speaker 2: smaller piece for you. That there's a limited number of resources,
Speaker 2: and if they get more, then you're gonna get resentful.
Speaker 2: Are you gonna get worried? Are you gonna get anxious?
Speaker 2: Because there's only so much of the pie to go around.
Speaker 2: That's a shortage mentality, and it leads to envy at least,
Speaker 2: to jealousy at least, the resentment at least, to worry,
Speaker 2: at least insecurity. If you have any of those things
Speaker 2: in your life, you're living on a shortage mentality that
Speaker 2: there's not enough to go around, and if you get more,
Speaker 2: then I should resent it now. Instead, God wants you
Speaker 2: to have this other kind of lifestyle, which is the
Speaker 2: surplus mentality. And the surplus mentality is this. Write this down.
Speaker 2: God has more than I'll ever need, and he'll never
Speaker 2: run out. God doesn't give us one pie. He's a
Speaker 2: pie factory, and there'll always be more pies because God
Speaker 2: will keep creating them. And in the Bible we have
Speaker 2: words like abundance and plentiful and abounding and bountiful. God
Speaker 2: has more than enough to meet all your needs and
Speaker 2: everybody else that needs the same time. Well, let me
Speaker 2: give an example, have you ever worried that the person
Speaker 2: breathing next to you was stealing your air? No, of
Speaker 2: course not why Because God created more than enough air
Speaker 2: for everybody to have plenty of air all you need,
Speaker 2: and everybody else can have all they need to. Now,
Speaker 2: the result or the focus of a surflus mindset is,
Speaker 2: instead of focusing on my limited resources, I focus on
Speaker 2: God's limitless resources. That changes everything. God's unlimited, limitless resources,
Speaker 2: and He's got plenty, and the result is an overflowing life. Now,
Speaker 2: with that understanding, we can go to where we're going
Speaker 2: to go today. In Psalm twenty three, we've been studying
Speaker 2: the Lord is my Shepherd's palm now for many, many weeks,
Speaker 2: and we come to the next phrase where David says,
Speaker 2: you fill my cup to overflowing. You fill my cup
Speaker 2: to overflowing. ICB translation says, you give me more than
Speaker 2: I can hold. The new English or the new version says,
Speaker 2: my cup overflows. And if you memorize this years ago
Speaker 2: in the old King James, you memorize it my cup
Speaker 2: runneth over. What's he talking about there? He's talking about
Speaker 2: the overflowing life rather than the overwhelmed life. Now I
Speaker 2: want you to compare. We've been in this song for
Speaker 2: a long time. It's only six verses. In Verse one,
Speaker 2: he says, the Lord's my shepherd. I have everything I need.
Speaker 2: He gives me everything I need. I shall not want now.
Speaker 2: In verse five he says, my cup runs over. He's
Speaker 2: taking it to the next step. Verse one, God gives
Speaker 2: me everything I need. Verse five, God gives me more
Speaker 2: than I need. My cup runs over. I can't keep
Speaker 2: it all. My cup runs over. He gives me more
Speaker 2: than I need. Now, what's your cup? What's the metaphor here?
Speaker 2: Write this down? My cup is my life. And when
Speaker 2: David says my cup runs over, he's saying my life
Speaker 2: is overflowing. I'm not overwhelmed anymore because I don't have
Speaker 2: enough time, energy, or whatever. But instead I'm overflowing. There's
Speaker 2: like a river coming out of me. My cup overflows.
Speaker 2: Jesus talked about this in John chapter seven. Jesus two
Speaker 2: thousand years after David said this. On the last day
Speaker 2: of the festival, it's the most important day. This is
Speaker 2: at the temple in Jerusalem. Jesus stood up and he
Speaker 2: shouted to the crowds now there's probably fifty thousand people
Speaker 2: on the last day of the festival outside the temple.
Speaker 2: Fifty thousand. Imagine the drama. This Jesus Christ stands up
Speaker 2: and he shouts to the people. And what he shouts
Speaker 2: is this, if you are thirsty, come to me. Everybody's
Speaker 2: looking around. If you're thirsty, come to me. Everyone who
Speaker 2: really believes in me will have river of living water
Speaker 2: flowing out of their lives. What's he talking about. He's
Speaker 2: talking about the same ding David talking about. My cup
Speaker 2: runs over. My life is not overwhelmed. My life is overflowing.
Speaker 2: I'm not worried about running short of anything because God
Speaker 2: is the source of my life. He can turn on
Speaker 2: one faucet, turn off another. I can lose one job,
Speaker 2: he can turn on another. When the fawcet runs out
Speaker 2: of water. I don't think, oh, there's no more water
Speaker 2: in the world. I just get a new faucet. Here
Speaker 2: is an overflowing life. And he says, anybody who believes
Speaker 2: in me, really believes me, will have rivers of living
Speaker 2: water flowing out of their lives, living an overflowing life. Now,
Speaker 2: he says, there who believes in me circle that phrase
Speaker 2: really believes that word in Greek is the word pistuo,
Speaker 2: and it actually means more than just having a head
Speaker 2: knowledge like I believe Jesus is the son of God.
Speaker 2: It means to trust in. It means to cling to.
Speaker 2: It means to rely on. It means to depend on.
Speaker 2: He says, if you really, really, really depend on me,
Speaker 2: your life's not going to be overwhelmed. Your life's going
Speaker 2: to be overflowing. He said, well, okay, fine, what is
Speaker 2: an overflowing life? Let me give you a definition. Write
Speaker 2: this down. An overflowing life means to be filled beyond capacity,
Speaker 2: to be filled beyond capacity with an endless supply of
Speaker 2: God's goodness. That's what I want in your life as
Speaker 2: your pastor somebody who loves you, as your spiritual coach.
Speaker 2: I want you to be filled beyond capacity. It's overflowing
Speaker 2: with an endless supply of God's goodness in your life.
Speaker 2: That is what an overflowing life's all about. Now, this illustration,
Speaker 2: this example, this metaphor that the cup is your life,
Speaker 2: My cup overflows. The Bible uses this all through scripture
Speaker 2: and it talks about having a cup of joy, having
Speaker 2: a cup of blessing God's blessing, having a cup of hope,
Speaker 2: having a cup of peace, having a cup of salvation.
Speaker 2: He said, I want your life to overflow with joy
Speaker 2: and hope and blessing and salvation. Why Because God is
Speaker 2: a good God. Now, remember we've been in this series
Speaker 2: for now ten weeks and we've been looking at how
Speaker 2: good God really is. And I want you to write
Speaker 2: this sentence down, okay, and if you really get it,
Speaker 2: it'll change your life. Because God is good. Because God
Speaker 2: is good, everything he does in my life is for
Speaker 2: my good. Anytime you doubt that you're gonna get in trouble,
Speaker 2: anytime you doubt God's goodness in your life, You're gonna
Speaker 2: get in trouble, You're gonna worry, you're gonna have all
Speaker 2: kinds of problems. Because God is good. Everything he does
Speaker 2: in my life is good. Even the tough stuff he
Speaker 2: does in my life is for my good. Now, there's
Speaker 2: lots of verses in the Bible to talk about this.
Speaker 2: In Isaiah chapter forty eight, it says this, I am
Speaker 2: the Holy God who rescues yous you for your own good.
Speaker 2: I teach you and I lead you along the right path.
Speaker 2: The reason we have the Bible with all these principles
Speaker 2: in it. He says, for your own good, for your
Speaker 2: own good, I teach you. I don't do this to
Speaker 2: make life tough or rough for you. I do it
Speaker 2: for your own good. I do it so you can
Speaker 2: live a good life, live a better life. He says,
Speaker 2: for your own good, I teach you, and I lead
Speaker 2: your long, rine right path. And he says, how I
Speaker 2: wish man, how I wish that you'd obeyed my commands,
Speaker 2: the ones I told you, thought that I led you in?
Speaker 2: How I wish you'd obeyed my commands? Then listen, Your
Speaker 2: success and your good fortune would have overflowed like the
Speaker 2: flooding river. Did you know that God wants you to
Speaker 2: succeed to an overflowing way? That God wants your life
Speaker 2: to overflow with good fortune and success. Everybody wants to
Speaker 2: be a successful he says. There, if you would have
Speaker 2: just observed the commands I gave you, your success and
Speaker 2: good fortune would have overflowed like a flooding river. Did
Speaker 2: you notice the key to success in life? It's not
Speaker 2: going to self help seminar. It's not watching some TV show,
Speaker 2: he says, If you just do what I told you,
Speaker 2: If you just read the owner's manuel, I did this
Speaker 2: for your good. If you just treat your body the
Speaker 2: way it tells you to treat it, it'd be for
Speaker 2: your own good. If you just treat sex the way
Speaker 2: I tell you, it'd be for your own good. If
Speaker 2: you would just treat money the way I tell you,
Speaker 2: it's for your own good. And every time you don't
Speaker 2: listen to me, you just messing it up. You abuse
Speaker 2: and misuse and pervert the good gifts I've given you, sex, money, energy, reputation,
Speaker 2: everything else you got. He goes, I want you to
Speaker 2: succeed in life. God is a good God. I have
Speaker 2: good plans for your life, he said. If you would
Speaker 2: just do what I tell you to do, you'd succeed
Speaker 2: in life. He said, well, I'd rather go on my
Speaker 2: own plan. How's that working out for you? Have you
Speaker 2: had the over flowing success in life that you thought
Speaker 2: you were going to have? No? Has your life been
Speaker 2: overflowing with good fortune? Know why? Because he says, if
Speaker 2: you would just do it the way I told you,
Speaker 2: I'll listen to this. Anytime I disobey God. God says
Speaker 2: do it this way, and I'd do it that way.
Speaker 2: At that moment I'm doubting the goodness of God. That's
Speaker 2: the fundamental problem. Anytime God says do it this way
Speaker 2: to go, well, I think I know better. I think
Speaker 2: I know what will make me happy more than God does.
Speaker 2: In fact, I'll just be my own God. At that point,
Speaker 2: I am doubting of God. And anytime you doubt the
Speaker 2: goodness God, you are making a fatal mistake. Friend, because
Speaker 2: God knows so it'll make you happy more than you do.
Speaker 2: You don't even know what will make you happy. You
Speaker 2: think you do. And that's why we get off. When
Speaker 2: I think I know I'm gonna make myself happy by
Speaker 2: doing something different than God says they do, it causes
Speaker 2: all kinds of problems in my life. Stress, over stress
Speaker 2: and overstrain and overburdening and over anxiety and overwhelming because
Speaker 2: I'm doing it my way, He says, Look, I do
Speaker 2: this for your own good. I'm a parent who loves you.
Speaker 2: I'm the loving, heavenly Father. And anytime you disobey me,
Speaker 2: you're just saying I don't trust your goodness God. I
Speaker 2: really don't. I think no, what's good for me is
Speaker 2: more important than what you think is good for me.
Speaker 2: You know two thousand years later, Jesus said the same
Speaker 2: thing John ten, verse ten. I love this. In the
Speaker 2: amplified notice a verse, Jesus said, I've come that you
Speaker 2: may have real life. That means we're not really living
Speaker 2: till we know him. We're just existing. And he says,
Speaker 2: and enjoy it in abundance to the fullest until it overflows.
Speaker 2: Jesus says, that's what I want you to have. I
Speaker 2: want you to have a full life. I want you
Speaker 2: to have an abundant life. I want you to have
Speaker 2: an overflowing life.
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