Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. If you're
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Speaker 1: So we're continuing with this series called Daring Faith the
Speaker 1: Key to Miracles. And in this series you're learning how
Speaker 1: to have a bold, unshakable faith that gives you courage
Speaker 1: to impact the world around you.
Speaker 2: And if you're like me, you'd really like to be.
Speaker 1: More bold and have more courage to share your faith
Speaker 1: in Christ. And now here's Rick with the final part
Speaker 1: of a message called Daring to Plant in Faith.
Speaker 3: You know, a couple of years ago, PBS was doing
Speaker 3: a series of family histories of famous Americans. Hey, Oprah
Speaker 3: Winfrey and just a bunch of different people. And the
Speaker 3: guy who did it came and said, we want to
Speaker 3: do a pastor.
Speaker 2: We want to do you. Is it fine?
Speaker 3: So they actually took a swab of DNA out of
Speaker 3: my mouth and they went back and traced my family
Speaker 3: tree back a thousand years. I'm a king and you
Speaker 3: should all bow down to me. I'm just teasing, just easing,
Speaker 3: But they, you know, they found all kinds of interesting
Speaker 3: things and did a TV special on my family tree.
Speaker 3: One of the things I discovered is the amount of
Speaker 3: godly ancestors I had in my family. I am reaping
Speaker 3: the benefit and blessings from grandparents and great grandparents who
Speaker 3: were praying for their great grandchildren. I'm reaping that in
Speaker 3: my life because I had some people who parents, grandparents,
Speaker 3: great grandparents who loved God and were praying for their
Speaker 3: future generations. Now I know many of you say, well,
Speaker 3: you know I didn't have a family like that.
Speaker 2: I'd like to have a legacy like that. Well, you started.
Speaker 3: You started started with your family name that you determine that.
Speaker 3: But the future generations of your family name are going
Speaker 3: to be blessed because you're going to plant seeds of
Speaker 3: prayer and love and godliness and generosity and faith and
Speaker 3: all these other things. And the people that you come
Speaker 3: out of your family tree have a blessing and heritage.
Speaker 3: You're not the only sower. Jesus said this John four
Speaker 3: thirty eight. I sent you to reap where you did
Speaker 3: not plant, and others had already done work before you,
Speaker 3: and you will now gather the harvest. I would say
Speaker 3: to you that if you have children at home during
Speaker 3: this time, involve them in the process of your generosity discussion.
Speaker 3: Talk about this what you're going to sew and what
Speaker 3: you're going to reap with them. I remember during the
Speaker 3: time to build, sitting around with my three kids and
Speaker 3: praying about what we were going to give, and my
Speaker 3: two boys, Matthew and Josh deciding that they were going
Speaker 3: to give their.
Speaker 2: Baseball card collections.
Speaker 3: And so they had quite a collection and we put
Speaker 3: it all together and we took it out and we
Speaker 3: sold it. And I think their contribution for this building
Speaker 3: was five hundred dollars because of their commitment. That is
Speaker 3: leaving a legacy, that is leaving a heritage. Are you
Speaker 3: leaving a legacy of generosity or stinginess? Are you leaving
Speaker 3: a legacy of faith or doubt or fear. I'm not
Speaker 3: the only one sewing number six. It always I always
Speaker 3: reap in a different season than I sow. I always
Speaker 3: reap in a different season than I sow. You know,
Speaker 3: plants take time to grow. There's no instant maturity, and
Speaker 3: so you don't plant today and this afternoon get the fruit.
Speaker 2: There's always a delay.
Speaker 3: And that's true when you plant anything in life, there's
Speaker 3: no such thing as instant success. There's instant fame, but
Speaker 3: no instant success. It takes time together wisdom. The Bible
Speaker 3: says in Ecclesiastes three, there's a time for everything. There's
Speaker 3: a season for every activity under heaven. There is a
Speaker 3: time to plant, which is now, and there's a time
Speaker 3: to harvest. There's a time to scatter, there's a time
Speaker 3: to gather. In other words, there's a time to sew
Speaker 3: and a time to reap. Fruit ripens gradually, and by
Speaker 3: the way, it doesn't all ripe. And at the same time,
Speaker 3: do you know the difference between a vine ripened tomato
Speaker 3: and a gased tomato?
Speaker 2: Which one tastes better? Yeah? The vine?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you miss the flavor when you get in a hurry.
Speaker 3: You just need to understand when you plant. When you
Speaker 3: plant a seed, if you don't get the harvest immediately,
Speaker 3: there's always a delay, and the better the you know,
Speaker 3: grapefruit takes two years. It takes two years before you
Speaker 3: get a grapefruit. I got a grapefruit tree in my yard.
Speaker 3: And some things take time, but they're worth it. Okay,
Speaker 3: Number seven, I must be patient and not give up.
Speaker 3: As you're waiting on the seed you are planted. You planted,
Speaker 3: don't become impatient. I must be patient and not give up,
Speaker 3: because you reap in a season that's different than the
Speaker 3: one you sowed. In Galatians six' nine tells us. This
Speaker 3: we let us not get tired of doing what is,
Speaker 3: right for after a, while we will reap a harvest
Speaker 3: of blessing if we don't get discouraged and give. UP
Speaker 3: i have to be. Patient number eight this is a big.
Speaker 3: ONE i will always reap more THAN i. Sow now,
Speaker 3: again this can work for you or against. YOU i
Speaker 3: will always reap more THAN i. Sow this is the
Speaker 3: law of. MULTIPLICATION a couple of weeks, AGO i planted
Speaker 3: giant sunflowers in my. Backyard take a little sunflower seed
Speaker 3: from the giant the. Sun giant flint sunflowers grow to
Speaker 3: about twelve feet, tall and the flowers about almost a foot.
Speaker 2: Wide.
Speaker 3: Enormous one little seed doesn't give me back one little.
Speaker 3: Seed one little seed will give me.
Speaker 2: Back a thousand.
Speaker 3: Seeds you always reap more than you sow in the parable.
Speaker 3: Soils jesus said it this. Way mark four. Eight some
Speaker 3: seed fell on good, soil and it came, up and it,
Speaker 3: grew and it produced a clop, crop multiplying circle that
Speaker 3: thirty sixty and even one hundred. Times now, again this
Speaker 3: will work for you against you depends on what kind
Speaker 3: of seed you're. Planting you plant, gossip you're going to
Speaker 3: get a lot more gossip about. You you plant, criticism
Speaker 3: you're going to get a lot more criticism about. You
Speaker 3: there is an exponential potential in every, seed as that old,
Speaker 3: line that old cliche, says anybody can count the seeds
Speaker 3: in an, apple but Only god can count the.
Speaker 2: Apples in a.
Speaker 3: Seed because one seed can produce an awful lot of,
Speaker 3: Apples i'll always reap more THAN. I so number, nine
Speaker 3: the ninth law of suing, HARVESTING i can increase my
Speaker 3: harvest by planting more. SEED i can always increase my
Speaker 3: harvest by planting more.
Speaker 2: Seed and this is.
Speaker 3: The law of, proportion that we always reap in proportion
Speaker 3: to what we sow Two corinthians, nine six and. Seven
Speaker 3: we actually looked at this verse last week and it says.
Speaker 3: This remember, this whoever sows sparingly will reap, sparingly and
Speaker 3: whoever sows generously will reap. Generously each one should give
Speaker 3: what he's decided in his heart to, give not, reluctantly
Speaker 3: not under pressure or under, compulsion For god loves a cheerful.
Speaker 3: Giver now what that verse says is, This you get
Speaker 3: to choose how big the harvest is in your. Life
Speaker 3: you get to choose how Much god blesses your. Life
Speaker 3: don't blame anybody. Else you get to choose how Much
Speaker 3: god is blessing your. Life you so, sparingly you will reap.
Speaker 3: Sparingly you so, generously you will reap. Generously that is
Speaker 3: the word Of. God that is the law of the,
Speaker 3: universe and it applies.
Speaker 2: In every single area of your. Life it.
Speaker 3: Works the law of generosity works for anybody who follows.
Speaker 3: It it works for non believers Because god is just like.
Speaker 3: Gravity works for believers and non. Believers it's just a
Speaker 3: law of the. Universe proverbs eleven twenty. Four the world
Speaker 3: of the generous gets larger and, larger and the world
Speaker 3: of the stingy gets smaller and. Smaller number, ten the
Speaker 3: tenth law of the. Harvest the more SEED i, plant
Speaker 3: this is. Amazing the more SEED i, plant the More
Speaker 3: god will give.
Speaker 2: Me.
Speaker 3: Hello the more SEED i, plant the MORE i give
Speaker 3: away the More god gives. Me god is looking forgivers to,
Speaker 3: bless and he looks. Down he hadn't looked for stingy
Speaker 3: people to. Bless he looks forgivers to, bless and looks
Speaker 3: than he. Goes is there anybody on earth like me
Speaker 3: who wants to be, generous who wants to be, unselfish
Speaker 3: who wants to think of other? People is there anybody
Speaker 3: who trust? Me he's always looking for people to, use
Speaker 3: and he blesses people who are. Generous my life is
Speaker 3: a testimony of this. Verse you know my story on
Speaker 3: giving that the more SEED i, plant the More god
Speaker 3: will give. Me The bible says that Second corinthians nine,
Speaker 3: ten For god who supplies seed to the farmer and
Speaker 3: breaks and bread to, eat will give you more and
Speaker 3: more seed to, plant and will make it grow so
Speaker 3: that you can give even more and, more get, more
Speaker 3: give away more and more fruit from your. Harvest that
Speaker 3: verse is a promise about being generous with. Money it's
Speaker 3: specifically about. Money that's What god. Says number, eleven the
Speaker 3: eleventh law of. HARVESTING i plant by, faith not by my.
Speaker 3: Feelings it's a very important. POINT i plant by, faith
Speaker 3: not by my. Feelings people aren't generous because they don't
Speaker 3: feel like being, generous and so they go by their. Feeling,
Speaker 3: no you plant by, faith not by. Feeling when the
Speaker 3: farmer gets up in the, morning do you think every
Speaker 3: farmer expects to feel good about going and working on his. Farm,
Speaker 3: no it's just hard. Work if a farmer only worked
Speaker 3: his crops when he felt like, it not much would get.
Speaker 3: Done he doesn't want to get up. Early you don't
Speaker 3: want to, go you, know a harvest and plant and
Speaker 3: weed and do all those. Things, no he does what
Speaker 3: he doesn't feel like, doing and he's planting when he
Speaker 3: doesn't feel like. It you don't go by your, Feelings
Speaker 3: you go by your. Faith let me look give your little.
Speaker 3: Confession confession is good. RESULTS i don't always feel like
Speaker 3: being nice to. PEOPLE i hate to admit. That don't
Speaker 3: think less of, Me BUT i don't always feel like
Speaker 3: being nice to. People SOMETIMES i want to be. Cranky
Speaker 3: SOMETIMES i just want to say leave me. Alone you,
Speaker 3: KNOW i don't always feel like being. KIND i don't
Speaker 3: always feel like being. GENEROUS i don't always feel like
Speaker 3: giving people. Hope and this is a, SERIOUSLY i don't
Speaker 3: always feel like. Preaching BUT i don't happen to live
Speaker 3: by my. FEELINGS i happen to live by. Faith SOMETIMES
Speaker 3: i plant When i'm. Tired SOMETIMES i plant When i'm,
Speaker 3: distracted sometimes i'm PLANT i plant When i'm stressed. Out
Speaker 3: SOMETIMES i plant When i'm.
Speaker 2: In, deep deep.
Speaker 3: Grief AND i move ahead and faith in spite of my,
Speaker 3: feelings Expecting god to ask. ACT i told YOU i
Speaker 3: didn't want to be here For. Easter it was a
Speaker 3: second anniversary Of matthew's, death my youngest. SON i really
Speaker 3: didn't want to be. Here AND i, said What i'd
Speaker 3: rather do is just celebrate the resurrection at home with my,
Speaker 3: wife My, lord my, kids and just get through the second.
Speaker 3: Anniversary but all that, week BECAUSE i was crying all,
Speaker 3: WEEK i was in tears most of that. Week AND
Speaker 3: i Claimed psalm one five as a promise the next,
Speaker 3: verse those who plant in tears will harvest with shouts of.
Speaker 2: Joy they weep as.
Speaker 3: They go to plant their, seeds but they sing as.
Speaker 2: They return with the.
Speaker 3: Harvest and you know, What AS i was planting seeds
Speaker 3: in Fourteen easter, Services god gave a harvest of two
Speaker 3: thy six hundred and four people came To.
Speaker 2: Christ that's a. Deal that's.
Speaker 3: You those who so in tears will reap in. Joy
Speaker 3: and all those people are gonna be in heaven BECAUSE
Speaker 3: i didn't do WHAT i felt like.
Speaker 2: DOING i did WHAT i did by.
Speaker 3: Faith and Sometimes god's gonna call you to make a sacrifice, money,
Speaker 3: yes but also time and also talent and maybe your.
Speaker 3: Life And god's gonna call you to, sacrifice and you're
Speaker 3: gonna GO i don't feel like, it and you will
Speaker 3: miss the blessing That god wants to do in using.
Speaker 3: YOU i plant by, faith not by my. Feelings and,
Speaker 3: finally number, twelve the twelve point is. This the best
Speaker 3: time to plant is. Now the best time to plant is,
Speaker 3: Now and you don't wait for a better.
Speaker 2: Time the, sooner the, better people.
Speaker 3: Say you, know WHEN i, Retire i'm gonna get serious About.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 3: Now then you'll be. Worthless you, know you won't have
Speaker 3: any energy to do. Anything ecclesiastes eleven. Four those who
Speaker 3: wait for perfect weather will never plant, seeds and those
Speaker 3: who look at every cloud will never reap a. Harvest
Speaker 3: perfection paralyzes. Potential one of these days is none of these?
Speaker 3: Days that's power. Heads, okay you're going to do.
Speaker 2: Anything about this.
Speaker 3: Message if you don't like the kind of life you are,
Speaker 3: reaping change the way you're. Planting whatever you need more
Speaker 3: of you need to give. Away when you have a
Speaker 3: need in any, area plant a. Seed would you pray
Speaker 3: this Prayer Your, God thank you for the universe on universal.
Speaker 3: Laws you have said that no one makes a fool of,
Speaker 3: you that whatever person, plants he will. Harvest And, LORD
Speaker 3: i REALIZE i can use that negatively or positively in my.
Speaker 3: Life help me to practice these twelve laws of the.
Speaker 3: Harvest help me to plant good seed in abundance in
Speaker 3: every area of my.
Speaker 2: Life help me.
Speaker 3: To be patient and realize THAT i reap in a
Speaker 3: season different than the ONE i sow, in but that
Speaker 3: is inevitable that the fruit will. Come help me to
Speaker 3: remember THAT i always reap more THAN i. Sow THAT
Speaker 3: i can increase my harvest by planting more, seed and
Speaker 3: that the more SEED i, plant the more you will give.
Speaker 3: Me help me to not live by my, feelings but
Speaker 3: to live by. Faith help me to realize the best
Speaker 3: time to plant is right. Now if you've never opened
Speaker 3: your life To Jesus, christ Say Jesus, christ come into
Speaker 3: my life and make me the person you want me to.
Speaker 3: BE i want to know you and love.
Speaker 2: You trust.
Speaker 4: You.
Speaker 3: Father as each of us face the kind of lives
Speaker 3: we're going to, live help us to realize that we
Speaker 3: are leaving a legacy for future, generations that everything we
Speaker 3: do has an impact on people we don't even, know
Speaker 3: and just as we've been influenced by good and bad
Speaker 3: in our, past that our lives will make it harder
Speaker 3: or easier for somebody. ELSE i thank you for the
Speaker 3: people who sacrificed and lived in faith and planted in
Speaker 3: this church for thirty five.
Speaker 2: YEARS i thank.
Speaker 3: You for those who will have the faith to do
Speaker 3: so in the. FUTURE i thank you in advance for
Speaker 3: the answer to all of our, prayers AND i thank
Speaker 3: you in advance for the achievement of all of the
Speaker 3: goals that we've set in. Face we give you honor
Speaker 3: and glory In jesus's. Name. Amen, hi, Everybody this Is,
Speaker 3: rick AND i hope you enjoyed today's. Broadcast you, know
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Speaker 3: time or you just recommitted your life To jesus again,
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Speaker 1: You what a fantastic message From Pastor. Rick you Know
Speaker 1: Daily hope is changing life every. Day Here's Pastor rick
Speaker 1: with a letter from one of our.
Speaker 2: Listeners.
Speaker 3: TODAY i want to share with You marty's. Story marty
Speaker 3: had been abused by his, stepfather who was actually a,
Speaker 3: minister but thanks in part To Daily, Hope god helped
Speaker 3: him renew his relationship With. God he wrote, This Dear Pastor,
Speaker 3: rick it's through your teachings on The Father's word THAT
Speaker 3: i have renewed and rebuilt my. FAITH i left the
Speaker 3: church AND i turned my back On god because of
Speaker 3: the abuse of my, stepfather a. MINISTER i reasoned in my,
Speaker 3: youth how could a Loving god allow this to happen
Speaker 3: to me and my. FAMILY i learned from you That
Speaker 3: god's gift to free will is one of the most
Speaker 3: powerful gifts we've received From, him and how we use
Speaker 3: that gift is up to. US i needed to be
Speaker 3: shown the reality of abuse in my family suffered at
Speaker 3: my stepfather's hand was Not god's. Will it was my
Speaker 3: stepfather's exercising his free. Will now the fact THAT i
Speaker 3: didn't understand as a boy of, ten but you've taught
Speaker 3: me THAT i needed to forgive, him AND i have
Speaker 3: now done that because of your teachings On God's, Word
Speaker 3: i've been rebuilding and renewing my faith over the last three,
Speaker 3: years and at the urging of a close, FRIEND i
Speaker 3: started listening to you On Daily. Hope from your, TEACHING
Speaker 3: i started to pray every, night and THEN i added
Speaker 3: prayers every morning and thanksgiving to The. FATHER i knew
Speaker 3: that the biggest challenge in my journey of faith would
Speaker 3: be returning to The body Of, christ The. Church but
Speaker 3: through your, TEACHING i was able to overcome my, fear
Speaker 3: understood the basis of, it forgive my, stepfather and move.
Speaker 3: Forward i've read three of your, books Including Purpose Driven,
Speaker 3: life and they've all helped me in my. Journey i'm
Speaker 3: overjoyed beyond words to have found a great. Church i'm
Speaker 3: in a Good bible study with my brothers and sisters In,
Speaker 3: christ And i've become active in some other small groups
Speaker 3: in support of our church and of Our. FATHER i
Speaker 3: now know greater peace Than i've ever known SINCE i
Speaker 3: was a young. Boy so thank, You Pastor. Rick thank
Speaker 3: you for all you do in ministry Through Daily.
Speaker 2: Hope.
Speaker 3: Marty, Well, marty thank you so much for sharing this
Speaker 3: painful but very moving. Story i'm so glad to hear
Speaker 3: that you've been able to forgive your, stepfather to let it.
Speaker 3: Go he doesn't deserve, it but none of us. Forgiveness
Speaker 3: we do it for our, sake not for their, sake
Speaker 3: and Because jesus said it's the.
Speaker 2: Right thing to.
Speaker 3: Do you, know the person who won't forgive is burning
Speaker 3: the bridge that they have to walk across to get into.
Speaker 3: Heaven i'm going to need forgiveness the rest of my,
Speaker 3: life and so will. You. Now i'm grateful that you've
Speaker 3: learned to rediscover your faith and learn to come back
Speaker 3: to the church that has become a support for. You you
Speaker 3: just are putting a big smile on my face. Today
Speaker 3: god bless, You.
Speaker 4: Marty if you'd like to Bless Pastor rick by letting
Speaker 4: him know how much this broadcast has helped, you please
Speaker 4: send him an email At rick At pasastrick dot. Com
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