Speaker 1: Hi, this is Rick Warren, Bible teacher of the Daily
Speaker 1: Hope Broadcast. Did you know that because of Easter, your
Speaker 1: past can be forgiven, you get a purpose for living,
Speaker 1: and you can have a home in heaven. That's good news.
Speaker 1: Where else can you get that kind of news? Nowhere else?
Speaker 1: And did you know that at Easter, studies have shown
Speaker 1: people are more open to an invitation to go to
Speaker 1: church than at any other time of the year. Don't
Speaker 1: go to church by yourself, but bring somebody who doesn't
Speaker 1: know Jesus Christ, a family member, a friend, a coworker,
Speaker 1: a neighbor, a relative. And if you bring them to
Speaker 1: that church service and they come to know Christ, You're
Speaker 1: going to be making a friend for eternity. It'll be
Speaker 1: the most important investment you can ever make in their lives.
Speaker 1: And by the way, if they come to Christ, would
Speaker 1: you let me know about it. I'd love to hear
Speaker 1: that story that you brought somebody to Easter and they
Speaker 1: found Jesus. You can write to me Rick at Pastorrick
Speaker 1: dot com. That's rickat Pastorrick dot com. I would love
Speaker 1: to hear from you. God bless you and Happy Easter.
Speaker 1: Hello and thanks for joining us. Today on Pastor Rick's
Speaker 1: Daily Hope.
Speaker 2: This is the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren, and
Speaker 2: today we are continuing in a series called the.
Speaker 3: Miracle of Mercy.
Speaker 2: Rick will show us how God's mercy can lift your guilt,
Speaker 2: heal your wounds, and transform the way you live. And
Speaker 2: here's the final part of a message called Easter Means
Speaker 2: It's a new day of mercy.
Speaker 1: We know that on earth, not everybody gets healed, not
Speaker 1: every prayer gets answered. That's on my list of questions
Speaker 1: to ask Jesus when I get to heaven. I don't
Speaker 1: know that. Sometimes what I've prayed for people, they got better.
Speaker 1: And I've prayed for some people and they died.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. All I do know is this.
Speaker 1: This is Earth, not Heaven. In heaven, everything is perfect
Speaker 1: on earth. Nothing is perfect in heaven. There's no sadness, sorrow, sickness,
Speaker 1: sin suffering.
Speaker 3: On earth.
Speaker 1: We got all of that. And that's why we're to
Speaker 1: pray that I will be done on earth as it
Speaker 1: is in heaven. Because in Heaven God's will is always done,
Speaker 1: and on earth it's almost never done. Somebody goes if
Speaker 1: I go out here and I got drunk and I
Speaker 1: had an accident and killed somebody.
Speaker 3: And people say that must.
Speaker 1: Be God's will. That's not God's will, that's my will.
Speaker 1: I made a stupid choice. I mean, people all the
Speaker 1: times say, how why doesn't God just get rid of
Speaker 1: all the evil in the world? Fine, kill us, who
Speaker 1: do you think does evil? It'd be very easy for
Speaker 1: God to get rid of all the evil in the world,
Speaker 1: take away our freedom of choice. Because the fact is
Speaker 1: a lot of times I'm selfish a lot of times,
Speaker 1: I'm mean a lot of times, I'm only thinking to me.
Speaker 1: A lot of times I couldn't care less about you,
Speaker 1: and you do the same thing too, and we hurt
Speaker 1: each other intentionally and unintentionally. And God can easily get
Speaker 1: rid of all the evil in the world by taking
Speaker 1: away our freedom to choice and making us all puppets.
Speaker 1: But he wants us to choose to love him, a
Speaker 1: voluntary choice, not be a puppet. And so I know
Speaker 1: that we live with imperfection. I know that many godly
Speaker 1: people live with chronic pain, live with chronic pain. But
Speaker 1: I do know this, and I want you to write
Speaker 1: this down. And I've seen it in hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of cases. I do know this that when I ask
Speaker 1: for God's help, God's mercy makes the impossible possible. He
Speaker 1: can do things that I cannot do. He has power
Speaker 1: I don't have. He has resources I have never even
Speaker 1: thought of, and he makes the impossible seem possible. He
Speaker 1: makes it possible. What's the impossible problem.
Speaker 3: In your life? You know, man, that one's never going
Speaker 3: to happen.
Speaker 1: I've been waiting by the pool for thirty eight years
Speaker 1: and still don't have a husband double meaning in pool
Speaker 1: right there. Well, hey, you know hadn't happened by now,
Speaker 1: it ain't gonna happen. Anytime you use the word impossible,
Speaker 1: listen for laughter from heaven, because it's not in God's book.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this, Luke eighteen, what is impossible with men?
Speaker 1: This is Jesus talking. What is impossible with men is
Speaker 1: possible with God. Now that problem you think is impossible
Speaker 1: in your life, sometimes God doesn't remove it, but he
Speaker 1: gives you supernatural power to handle it. Some problems in
Speaker 1: life you're going to have the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: They're just not gonna go away, and you're just gonna
Speaker 1: have to learn to manage them. But God will give
Speaker 1: you the power to make the impossible possible and you'll
Speaker 1: be able to handle it. Well, why didn't God just
Speaker 1: take away all of our problems? Because God's more interested
Speaker 1: in your character than he is in your comfort. The
Speaker 1: comfort comes in heaven. But right now you're in school
Speaker 1: and wants you to grow up. And some things you
Speaker 1: only learn through tough times, like persistence, determination, diligence, patience,
Speaker 1: things like that if you always got your way, you'd
Speaker 1: never learned patience. God wants to grow character in your life.
Speaker 1: But what's impossible with men is possible with God. Now,
Speaker 1: I want to be clear. As a pastor, I love you,
Speaker 1: I care about you. My job as a pastor's like
Speaker 1: to be your spiritual coach, help you make smart decisions,
Speaker 1: help you think through the decisions of your life.
Speaker 3: And I want to be clear with you.
Speaker 1: Some of you you haven't yet stepped across the line
Speaker 1: and opened your life, committed your life to Christ.
Speaker 3: You're thinking about it.
Speaker 1: That's okay, you know, take the time to make the
Speaker 1: smart decision.
Speaker 3: But I will tell you this. If you open your.
Speaker 1: Life to Jesus Christ, you give your life to God.
Speaker 1: So God, I want to go with your plan from
Speaker 1: now on instead of my plan, you're not going to
Speaker 1: have a problem free life. And anybody who tells you
Speaker 1: that is lying to you. A follower of Jesus has
Speaker 1: the exact same problems as a non believer, the exact
Speaker 1: same problem.
Speaker 3: The difference is.
Speaker 1: We have a power that comes from God to handle
Speaker 1: it in ways that we can never handle on our own.
Speaker 1: And you don't get that power until you accept.
Speaker 3: The mercy of God in your life. So I have
Speaker 3: the same problem.
Speaker 1: I just have a power and an energy that allows
Speaker 1: me to handle stuff in far greater ways, and that's
Speaker 1: what He wants to do in your life.
Speaker 3: But God does promise you this. Look at this next verse.
Speaker 1: It's from the book of Second Peter, and here's a
Speaker 1: promise from God to you.
Speaker 3: As you get to know Jesus.
Speaker 1: Better, he will give you, through his great power, everything
Speaker 1: you need for living a truly good life. Now circle
Speaker 1: everything you need. Notice it says if you trust Jesus
Speaker 1: Christ with your life, he will give you everything you
Speaker 1: need for a good life. It doesn't say everything you greed,
Speaker 1: It doesn't say everything you want.
Speaker 3: I mean, you might want to go play it, Bentley.
Speaker 1: God's not gonna give that to you, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to buy that one on your own. But he says,
Speaker 1: I will give you everything you need for living a
Speaker 1: truly good life.
Speaker 3: And that is a promise of God.
Speaker 1: And when I don't have what I need, when I
Speaker 1: give myself for the mercy of God, he makes the
Speaker 1: impossible possible. Now, let's look at a third way real quick.
Speaker 1: And this is a problem that all of us have,
Speaker 1: and it is the problem of fear. Everybody has secret fears.
Speaker 1: You have secret fears, and you know anybody else to
Speaker 1: know about them. Now, my fears are perfectly reasonable, logical
Speaker 1: and rational.
Speaker 3: Your fears are dumb. That's always what we feel.
Speaker 1: And we always try to talk our spouse out of
Speaker 1: their fears because we don't have them. But our fears
Speaker 1: are perfectly normal, make a lot of sense. And you
Speaker 1: ought to be fearful about this too. Now, there is
Speaker 1: one fear that is universal among everybody, men and women,
Speaker 1: in all ages, and it is the fear of death.
Speaker 1: And so write this third thing down. I need God's
Speaker 1: mercy when facing death. Now, only a fool would go
Speaker 1: all the way through life unprepared for what you.
Speaker 3: Know is inevitable. Death is universal.
Speaker 1: Last time I checked, the mortality rate in the world
Speaker 1: is still one hundred percent. We're all going to die
Speaker 1: at some point. Death is inevitable, death is unpredictable. You
Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen, and without faith, it's fearful.
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid to die, and I haven't been afraid
Speaker 1: of dying for decades.
Speaker 3: But if you.
Speaker 1: Don't know God, and you don't have made peace with God,
Speaker 1: and you don't have the mercy of God your own,
Speaker 1: you're going to be fearful about death. You probably don't
Speaker 1: even like to talk about it. In Luke, chapter twenty three,
Speaker 1: we have the story of a dying man, and it's
Speaker 1: actually the story of a thief dying on the cross.
Speaker 1: Besides you, Jesus, you remember that when Jesus was nailed
Speaker 1: to across, they nailed them between two criminals.
Speaker 3: We don't know anything about.
Speaker 1: Their lives, except that they were evident that lifelong criminals
Speaker 1: had committed the capital offence and were given the death penalty.
Speaker 1: So Jesus is dying between two criminals. One of these
Speaker 1: criminals turns to Jesus and ridicules him and puts him
Speaker 1: down and blasphems him and the other guy turns to
Speaker 1: Jesus and asked for mercy.
Speaker 3: Here's the story.
Speaker 1: One of the criminals being executed on the cross besides Jesus,
Speaker 1: ridiculed him, saying, if you're supposed to be the Messiah,
Speaker 1: you know, the savior of the world, why don't you
Speaker 1: save yourself and by the way, us two. Now, by
Speaker 1: the way, Jesus is not going to save himself because
Speaker 1: he didn't come to Earth to save himself. He came
Speaker 1: to save us, and so he's not going to save himself.
Speaker 1: He's going to hang there and pay and died for
Speaker 1: my sins and for your sins. He didn't come to
Speaker 1: save himself. Certainly, Jesus could have taken himself off the cross.
Speaker 1: He created the universe, he could have done that. But
Speaker 1: he's it was not nails that held him to cross.
Speaker 1: It was love, love for you. And he said, if
Speaker 1: you're supposing the Messiah, save yourself and us too. But
Speaker 1: the second criminal, this is a guy on the other side,
Speaker 1: rebuked the first guy and said, man, don't you even
Speaker 1: fear God when you're dying. We deserve to die for
Speaker 1: our evil deeds. But this man hadn't done anything wrong. Now,
Speaker 1: he says buddy, don't you realize the series of your situation.
Speaker 1: You are about to go face to face with God
Speaker 1: in a matter of seconds. You're in your dying minutes,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna Blasphema. You're gonna put down Jesus Christ. Buddy,
Speaker 1: do you not realize what's about to happen? The reason
Speaker 1: why a lot of people disc God, make fun of God,
Speaker 1: reject God, or just live their life ignoring God is
Speaker 1: because in their heart of hearts, they think death is
Speaker 1: the end. That's it, it's over it, there's nothing to it,
Speaker 1: and that's it. But they're wrong. There is life after death.
Speaker 1: You say, how do you know that? Because Jesus proved it?
Speaker 1: He said, Rick, how do you know? Why do you
Speaker 1: believe in life after that? Because I'm betting my life
Speaker 1: that Jesus Christ wasn't a liar? What are you betting
Speaker 1: your life on? Well, I just think it just ends.
Speaker 1: Oh you're just betting your life on a supposition. That's
Speaker 1: a pretty big gamble, buddy, to be wrong for all
Speaker 1: of eternity, to think it just ends at death and
Speaker 1: then realize, uh, it was, it didn't end. Oh, can
Speaker 1: I have a mulligan? Can we do a do over
Speaker 1: here a little late now, Bud. Sorry, one day you're
Speaker 1: going to stand face to face before God and you're
Speaker 1: going to give an account of your life. You can
Speaker 1: run from God the rest of your life, but you
Speaker 1: can't run from him anymore. You can ignore him all
Speaker 1: your life, but one day you're going to see him
Speaker 1: face to face.
Speaker 3: Death is the start of eternity.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna spend more time on that side of
Speaker 1: death than you do on this line. You get sixty years,
Speaker 1: eighty years, maybe at the most one hundred years.
Speaker 3: That's not very much.
Speaker 1: On this side of eternity, you're gonna spend trillions and
Speaker 1: trillions and trillions of years in eternity. Now, this guy
Speaker 1: says we deserve to die for what we've done. There's
Speaker 1: a word for that. It's called confession. You know, he's
Speaker 1: not saying, hey, you got the wrong guy here, you're killed.
Speaker 1: You know you're killing the wrong guy. I'm innocent. He's
Speaker 1: saying he's saying we deserve to die. But he says,
Speaker 1: this man between us, this Jesus Christ, he has never
Speaker 1: done anything wrong. Now, I looked up that word anything.
Speaker 1: It means we dace in Greek, not nothing zero's zip,
Speaker 1: no way, never, ever, nothing. Have you ever met anybody
Speaker 1: in your life that you could say that about She's
Speaker 1: never done anything wrong in her life. No, you can't
Speaker 1: say that, But your mom or dad, or your brother's
Speaker 1: sister you can't say about yourself. Why Because there's only
Speaker 1: one perfect person in the universe.
Speaker 3: It's God.
Speaker 1: He's the only perfect one, Which is why you need
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ to get to heaven, because you need a
Speaker 1: perfect savior to get into a perfect place. Heaven is perfect,
Speaker 1: and I'm not. There's no way I can get to
Speaker 1: Heaven on my own effort. I'm never going to be perfect.
Speaker 1: And if God let him perfect people into a perfect heaven,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be perfect anymore. So somehow I got to
Speaker 1: get in on somebody's perfect ticket. That's why Jesus came
Speaker 1: to earth to be the savior. And so this guy turns,
Speaker 1: this criminal turns to Jesus. He's dying on the cross
Speaker 1: in his last few seconds, and in verse forty two,
Speaker 1: then he said to Jesus, Jesus, remember me when you
Speaker 1: come into your kingdom. That's all he says. And Jesus replied,
Speaker 1: I guarantee you that today you will be with me
Speaker 1: in paradise. Hello, friend, that's last minute mercy. That's getting
Speaker 1: in by the skin of your teeth, in the last
Speaker 1: few seconds of your life. He simply says, Jesus, remember me.
Speaker 1: Two words mimnisako and Greek.
Speaker 3: Remember me.
Speaker 1: Now, what's implied in these words? I can't save myself.
Speaker 1: I've made a mess of my life. I've wasted a
Speaker 1: lot of time. It's getting pretty late. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to blame anybody else. I can't say I'm better than
Speaker 1: so and so because I'm not perfect. A lot of
Speaker 1: things I've messed up in He's hanging there on the
Speaker 1: cross with no hope, and he throws himself on the
Speaker 1: mercy of God and he.
Speaker 3: Says, Lord, remember me, remember me. That's it. That's all
Speaker 3: he's going to say.
Speaker 1: That's the shortest salvation prayer in history.
Speaker 3: Two words remember me. Now.
Speaker 1: Now, let me tell you something, you guys, there are
Speaker 1: some churches you can go to and they're going to
Speaker 1: tell you that you have to have a certain script
Speaker 1: and say certain words and recite certain things in order
Speaker 1: to get into heaven.
Speaker 3: And they've got their.
Speaker 1: Theological terms, and you've got to pray a certain prayer
Speaker 1: a certain way. This guy just goes, Lord, remember me,
Speaker 1: and Jesus goes.
Speaker 3: That's good enough. See in heaven.
Speaker 1: That's called mercy because it's not about what you say.
Speaker 3: It's about humility.
Speaker 1: There's only one thing that will keep you out of
Speaker 1: heaven your pride. Your pride, Your pride will keep you
Speaker 1: out of heaven. Your will unwillingness to accept the mercy
Speaker 1: of God, because that's the only way you're going.
Speaker 3: To get there.
Speaker 1: You're never going to get there by being good enough.
Speaker 1: It's only by the mercy of If you could get
Speaker 1: to heaven without Jesus dying for you, God wasted a
Speaker 1: lot of energy.
Speaker 3: There was no other way.
Speaker 1: There was no other way, and so he believes he's God.
Speaker 1: He says, remember me, when you come to your kingdom.
Speaker 3: He said this.
Speaker 1: This guy's he's not a poser. This guy is not
Speaker 1: a fake. This guy is not an impostor. He's the
Speaker 1: real deal.
Speaker 3: This is God.
Speaker 1: This is the Son of God dying here between us.
Speaker 1: That's interesting to me. Everybody in Jerusalem by this time
Speaker 1: knows Jesus can do miracles.
Speaker 3: He's been doing them for years, raising.
Speaker 1: People from dead, healing the sick, blind, and here's the
Speaker 1: guy on the cross. He doesn't ask Jesus to take
Speaker 1: away his pain, which he could have. He doesn't ask
Speaker 1: Jesus to keep him from dying, which you could have.
Speaker 1: He just says, remember me when you get new your king.
Speaker 1: He realized his greatest need was forgiveness for his sins,
Speaker 1: not relief of his pain. Now I know some of
Speaker 1: you here this goes. This is a great idea. You
Speaker 1: can do it the last second. That's what I'm gonna do. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out and live for myself, make a
Speaker 1: ton of money, be a selfish and self centered and
Speaker 1: sow my wild oats, and in the last second of
Speaker 1: my life, I'm gonna go remember me. That's a really
Speaker 1: dumb idea. I mean, in the first place, what if
Speaker 1: you get Alzheimer's for ten years.
Speaker 3: And you can't remember anything?
Speaker 1: Okay, a little too late then buddy or or you
Speaker 1: go out and you know, you get hit by a
Speaker 1: semi mac truck on the train, and you go, oh,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say it next Thursday, But really, it
Speaker 1: doesn't even It's not even rational. When the God who
Speaker 1: created you and loves you and has a plan for
Speaker 1: your life offers you mercy. Now, why would you say,
Speaker 1: I think next week? What's the logic in that one.
Speaker 1: There's only one thing that's that's called pride. It's arrogance,
Speaker 1: it's ego, and that's the thing that will keep you
Speaker 1: out of heaven rejecting the mercy of God. What happens
Speaker 1: when I accept God's mercy? When I say, God, I
Speaker 1: admit it, I've messed up and I've missed out on
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. Well, God's mercy will save me
Speaker 1: for eternity. You might write that down when I come
Speaker 1: to God humbly and said God, I need your mercy.
Speaker 1: God's mercy will save me for eternity. This is what
Speaker 1: Jesus promised. Jesus replied, I guarantee you that today you're
Speaker 1: going to be with me in paradise. He said, it's immediate.
Speaker 1: Today you go straight to heaven. If you accepted the
Speaker 1: mercy of God, he said, you will, it's certain be
Speaker 1: with me. It's a relationship in paradise. It's a place forever.
Speaker 1: Here's the good news. Let me wrap it up. You're
Speaker 1: made by God to last forever, and he wants you
Speaker 1: in his forever family. But you have to ask, look
Speaker 1: at this verse. This is what Easter is all about.
Speaker 1: This is why we're celebrating it. Jesus said, I am
Speaker 1: the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, even
Speaker 1: though he dies, will live again. I'm betting my life
Speaker 1: that Jesus Christ is not a liar. What are you
Speaker 1: betting your life on?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: If Jesus had not risen from the dead, I would
Speaker 1: have no reason, no valid logical reason to believe that
Speaker 1: I would be raising from the dead one day, that
Speaker 1: there would be life after death. But because he did it,
Speaker 1: if he raised himself, then I believe he can raise me.
Speaker 1: What's the condition? What's the condition for receiving the mercy
Speaker 1: of God?
Speaker 3: You just ask? Look at the next verse, Acts two.
Speaker 1: Anyone who asks for mercy from the Lord shall have
Speaker 1: it and shall be saved. You want to be saved,
Speaker 1: You ask for the mercy from the Lord. Now circle
Speaker 1: the word anyone. Doesn't matter what your background is, what
Speaker 1: your racist what your ethnic group is, doesn't matter what
Speaker 1: you've done, who you've done it with, or.
Speaker 3: How long you've done it.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter what your religious background is. You may be
Speaker 1: Baptist or Buddhist, or Methodist or Mormon or Muslim, or
Speaker 1: Hindu or Jewish or atheist or agnostic, or no religion
Speaker 1: background at all.
Speaker 3: It really doesn't matter, he says.
Speaker 1: Anybody who asked for mercy from the Lord shall have
Speaker 1: it and shall be saved. Do you realize, Do you
Speaker 1: realize that for your entire life, God has been preparing
Speaker 1: you for this very moment, this moment, right now. Before
Speaker 1: you were born, he knew that on Easter you'd be
Speaker 1: sitting in Saddleback Church, just long enough that he could
Speaker 1: say this to you. I have loved you all your life.
Speaker 1: I made you, I have a plan for your life.
Speaker 1: I created you, and I want to show you mercy
Speaker 1: and kindness, even the places where you've missed out and
Speaker 1: you've messed up. And I've been waiting waiting to do
Speaker 1: this in your life. God's message to you this Easter
Speaker 1: is the last verse on your outline. The Lord is
Speaker 1: waiting to show you some of you who's been waiting
Speaker 1: a long time. The Lord is waiting to show you
Speaker 1: how he is and to have mercy on you. The
Speaker 1: Lord always does what's right, and he blesses those who
Speaker 1: trust him. So I want us to close with a
Speaker 1: prayer to receive God's mercy.
Speaker 3: And if you have never.
Speaker 1: Ever done this, I highly recommend you pray this prayer.
Speaker 3: Let's power heads. Now.
Speaker 1: It really doesn't matter what the words you say are.
Speaker 1: As I said, it's more a matter of humility. But
Speaker 1: as I say this word, you can just say me
Speaker 1: to God, I agree with what Rick's saying, and make
Speaker 1: this your prayer. You might just start off by saying
Speaker 1: Dear God, and just say, Dear God, I need your mercy.
Speaker 3: Just say it in your mind. I need your mercy.
Speaker 1: I've messed up, I've missed out, and I know that
Speaker 1: one day I'm going to die and face you.
Speaker 3: And I admit that for much of my life I've
Speaker 3: ignored you.
Speaker 1: I have loved other things more than I have loved
Speaker 1: you God, and I've lived my life by my plan,
Speaker 1: not yours. I want that to change starting now. Jesus Christ,
Speaker 1: thank you for being so merciful. I know that I
Speaker 1: don't deserve your forgiveness. I don't understand it all, but
Speaker 1: thank you for dying on the cross for me.
Speaker 3: I know that only your mercy could save me.
Speaker 1: I could never be good enough to get into a
Speaker 1: perfect place like heaven. So just like that, thief on
Speaker 1: the Cross, I humbly say to you, remember me, Remember me.
Speaker 1: I ask you to save me. Save me, not just
Speaker 1: from Hell, but save me from hell on earth. Save
Speaker 1: me from the hurts and the habits and the hang
Speaker 1: ups that mess up my life. Save me from the
Speaker 1: mistakes and the sins and the attitudes that just keep
Speaker 1: causing me to stumble over and over. In the same way,
Speaker 1: I thank you for your mercy, and I humbly ask
Speaker 1: you to accept me into your family. And I do
Speaker 1: this because of what Jesus Christ did for me on
Speaker 1: the Cross and at Eastern.
Speaker 3: Amen.
Speaker 1: You know, if you just prayed that prayer for the
Speaker 1: very first time, or you just recommitted your life to
Speaker 1: Jesus again today, would you let me know about it.
Speaker 1: There's something real about sharing your commitment. So write me
Speaker 1: Rick at pastor Rick dot com and say, Rick, I
Speaker 1: prayed that prayer of commitment, I gave my life to Christ.
Speaker 1: And I'll send you some material that will help you
Speaker 1: on your journey with Jesus, and I'll also pray for you.
Speaker 1: God bless you.
Speaker 2: What a fantastic message from Pastor Rick. You know, daily
Speaker 2: hope is changing lives every day. Here's Pastor Rick with
Speaker 2: a letter from one of our listeners.
Speaker 1: I want to thank all of you who've taken the
Speaker 1: time to write me and to share your story. I
Speaker 1: absolutely love these stories. Your letters and your notes really
Speaker 1: encourage me. Here's a note from a listener that I
Speaker 1: just want to share with you. It said, Pastor Rick,
Speaker 1: I want to thank you for your ministry of the
Speaker 1: Daily Hope podcast. They've been especially helpful as my wife
Speaker 1: and I are working through a painful time in our
Speaker 1: marriage and healing our relationship. It's a blessing to be
Speaker 1: challenged to love the Jesus kind of love and to
Speaker 1: build up trust once again where it's been broken. You know,
Speaker 1: as I work through a very busy time of year,
Speaker 1: I stream your podcasts and find myself praying and nodding
Speaker 1: all day long. Now I hope you're nodding in agreement,
Speaker 1: not nodding off in sleep. Your preaching speaks directly to
Speaker 1: my heart, and I'm praying for the courage to rebuild
Speaker 1: the trust and love to love her the way that
Speaker 1: God built me to love her. Thanks again for your
Speaker 1: work and the transformative change it brings out. I truly
Speaker 1: don't know where I'd be without Daily Hope Podcast, Sincerely Nathan.
Speaker 1: Thanks for writing, Nathan. I want you to know that
Speaker 1: I'm going to be praying specifically for you and for
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