Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible
Speaker 1: teaching ministry of Rick Warren. And today we're continuing with
Speaker 1: this powerful series called the Jesus Model. In this series,
Speaker 1: Rick will walk you step by step through the process
Speaker 1: of true biblical discipleship. Rick's giving you practical tools to
Speaker 1: grow spiritually, experience God's peace, live with greater purpose, and
Speaker 1: become more like Jesus in every area of your life. Okay,
Speaker 1: and now here's the final part of a message called
Speaker 1: helping others like Jesus.
Speaker 2: Now, the second thing Jesus said I came to do,
Speaker 2: and he said I want you to do is I
Speaker 2: want you to heal, help, comfort the broken hearted, heal
Speaker 2: the broken art Now, hurting people friends are all around you.
Speaker 2: And as a pastor for over thirty years now I
Speaker 2: know one thing for certain.
Speaker 3: Everybody has a hidden wound.
Speaker 2: Everybody everybody has a hidden wound, a hurt, a broken heart.
Speaker 3: They're all around you. Let me give you a little secret.
Speaker 2: One of the ways to find people who are hurting
Speaker 2: around you is look for people who are hurting others.
Speaker 2: When people are hurting others, they are revealing their own hurt.
Speaker 2: Hurt people hurt people. Hurt people, hurt people. So the
Speaker 2: people who hurt you are just crying out because they
Speaker 2: need massive doses of love themselves. They're hurting others because
Speaker 2: they're hurting themselves. Now, maybe you're overwhelmed, maybe you feel
Speaker 2: a little broken hearted. I want you to watch a
Speaker 2: second video.
Speaker 4: This year has held a lot of different things for
Speaker 4: our family. There's been just a lot of hardship and
Speaker 4: a lot of struggle, a lot of desperate moments, and
Speaker 4: I'd kind of come to the end of myself in
Speaker 4: the last couple of months, and we'd have had so
Speaker 4: little sleep. Our kids have had a lot of health problems,
Speaker 4: and I think Tommy and I were saying that maybe
Speaker 4: there was four nights in the last year that we've
Speaker 4: had eight hours of sleep, and just a sleep factor
Speaker 4: has warn us completely just threadbare.
Speaker 5: One of the toughest times in my life was when
Speaker 5: within three weeks time, I found out that my husband
Speaker 5: and my daughter both had cancer. And this was unbelievable, unbelievable,
Speaker 5: and I didn't know that maybe both of them were
Speaker 5: going to be taken from me within a period of time.
Speaker 4: And I was praying and I was crying out to
Speaker 4: Lord of saying, God, I just can't handle this.
Speaker 5: And I remember that Kay said when she was lying
Speaker 5: there in the clinic room when she learned that she
Speaker 5: had cancer, that a scripture came to her. And it's
Speaker 5: been my scripture ever since. He knows the way I take,
Speaker 5: and when he's through with me, I shall come forth
Speaker 5: as pure girl. It was Job talking and Kay was
Speaker 5: saying the same thing. He knows what's happening. It's not
Speaker 5: unknown to him. It'll be okay.
Speaker 4: This place of brokenness, you know, Paul talks about when
Speaker 4: I'm weak, he is strong. And it's in this place
Speaker 4: of utter desperation that God's spirit comes in, invades their
Speaker 4: life and strengthens us.
Speaker 6: And God's power is made great in our weakness.
Speaker 7: Jesus does not minimize our pain. He is there and
Speaker 7: he enters into it and he's with us. And I'm
Speaker 7: so grateful that he's a God who feels what we feel.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I don't know what hurt you're going through, what broken heart,
Speaker 2: what wounds you're hiding, But I do know that what
Speaker 2: Bobby and Kay and Amy said is true. God knows
Speaker 2: what you're going through. He's not aloof He cares about
Speaker 2: it when you're at your weakest point. God will be
Speaker 2: strong and will give you the strength if you will
Speaker 2: turn to him. And the Jesus is not some removed
Speaker 2: person minimizing your pain. He is entering it with you
Speaker 2: and feeling it with you at that moment. Now, I
Speaker 2: want you to take your pencil, and I want you
Speaker 2: to write down the name of somebody in your life
Speaker 2: who's hurting. Okay, write down the name somebody a family member,
Speaker 2: a friend, a relative, somebody, a coworker who has a
Speaker 2: broken heart, who's been dealing with disappointment, discouragement, defeat, despair, whatever.
Speaker 2: Write down the name of somebody who's felt rejection or
Speaker 2: resentment or regret or hurt, and write that name down.
Speaker 2: We're going to pray for him in just a minute.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: The third thing Jesus said I came to do, and
Speaker 2: he says, I want you to do this too. I
Speaker 2: want you to be involved in this is he said,
Speaker 2: I came to proclaim freedom to those who feel imprisoned. Now,
Speaker 2: he said, well, I don't know body anybody in prison.
Speaker 2: Let me use a different word. Have you ever heard
Speaker 2: anybody say I feel trapped? That's called a prison. There
Speaker 2: are people who feel trapped in a relationship. There are
Speaker 2: people who feel trapped by a habit. There are people
Speaker 2: who feel trapped by their finances. There are people feel
Speaker 2: trapped by their health. There are people who feel trapped
Speaker 2: by their secrets, people who feel trapped by their past.
Speaker 2: And there are few people who feel trapped by their
Speaker 2: circumstances and the problems that they're facing.
Speaker 3: They're all over. Everybody feels this.
Speaker 2: We're all in different prisons, and so God says, I
Speaker 2: want you to proclaim freedom to them.
Speaker 3: What do you do? Well? First, I want you to
Speaker 3: watch this, and then I'll explain.
Speaker 5: I've been imprisoned probably most of my life, I could say,
Speaker 5: with fear of being alone and unprotected, and I certainly
Speaker 5: never wanted to spend a night alone in my house.
Speaker 6: I've struggled for the last fifteen years with panic attacks,
Speaker 6: and although they're not a daily part of my life now,
Speaker 6: they were a massive part of my adolescence and somewhat
Speaker 6: a part of my adulthood, and it was crippling, absolutely crippling.
Speaker 5: And when my husband died about three years ago, some
Speaker 5: of my first thoughts were, how am I going to live?
Speaker 5: I don't know how to live without someone in the
Speaker 5: house with me. It really bothered me. I felt imprisoned
Speaker 5: by it, that I didn't have a growth that I
Speaker 5: needed in spiritual values and spiritual closeness to Christ, and
Speaker 5: I was always a little bit ashamed about it.
Speaker 6: It was one of the most humbling experiences, and I
Speaker 6: remember just crying out to God, going, I just want
Speaker 6: to be normal, I just want to feel normal. I
Speaker 6: want to do all the normal stuff. God just free
Speaker 6: me up.
Speaker 5: And I spent my first night alone in that house
Speaker 5: and thought I would die, but I didn't.
Speaker 6: He didn't make it go away that night, but I
Speaker 6: did feel God whispered into my heart that He was
Speaker 6: present and he was there, and that the freedom was
Speaker 6: around the corner. And it has been a process and
Speaker 6: a journey and a lot of three steps forward, two
Speaker 6: steps back. But I have definitely learned so much about
Speaker 6: how God wants to walk through the pain with me,
Speaker 6: how God wants to empower me with his spirit, how
Speaker 6: I am not alone.
Speaker 5: God was a very present help in time of trouble,
Speaker 5: one of my favorite verses. So that's what I did.
Speaker 5: And now three years later, no problems, I felt like
Speaker 5: God had let me out of that prison of fear.
Speaker 3: Now you've got fears.
Speaker 2: What do you do when you feel captive to a fear?
Speaker 2: And how do you help other people get over their fears? Well,
Speaker 2: the Bible is filled with truth, and the Bible says
Speaker 2: the truth will set you free. And the Bible gives
Speaker 2: us at least a dozen major ways. That's a whole
Speaker 2: nother series of seminar on fear. But let me just
Speaker 2: give you a couple of quickies right up front. One
Speaker 2: way is you must learn to practice the presence of Christ.
Speaker 3: What does that mean.
Speaker 2: You need to learn the habit of reminding yourself every
Speaker 2: single moment of the day, God.
Speaker 3: Is with me.
Speaker 2: You need to practice talking to Him all the time,
Speaker 2: a running conversation. When you're walking down the street, you're
Speaker 2: getting in your car, you're taking a bath, you're going
Speaker 2: to the bathroom, doesn't matter what you're doing, you talk
Speaker 2: to God all the time. You just have this running
Speaker 2: conversation with God and you tell him how you're feeling,
Speaker 2: and you realize that He's always with you. A lot
Speaker 2: of times you say I'm going to go spend some
Speaker 2: time with God. Well, let me tell you something, All
Speaker 2: time is God time.
Speaker 3: He's with you. All the time you're just not aware
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 2: But when you become aware of it, the more aware
Speaker 2: you become, the more your fear is going to go down.
Speaker 2: Because when He is near, you lose your fear. When
Speaker 2: God is near, you lose your fear. Why God is love,
Speaker 2: and the Bible says this, there is no fear in love.
Speaker 2: Perfect love cast out all fear. The more you feel
Speaker 2: loved by God, the less fearful you'll be. The more
Speaker 2: fearful you are, the less you understand the love of God.
Speaker 2: And so the more you get God's love in your life,
Speaker 2: and the more you practice talking to a moment by moment,
Speaker 2: the less afraid you're gonna be. You're just gonna be
Speaker 2: afraid of things. And let me give you another thing.
Speaker 2: You want to break the fear out of your life.
Speaker 2: You want to break through that prison. You must move
Speaker 2: against the fear. That's called faith. What does it mean
Speaker 2: you do the very thing you're most afraid to do.
Speaker 2: It's the only way to get rid of fear. You're
Speaker 2: not going to go around it, over it, under it,
Speaker 2: and no, the only way you break through fear is
Speaker 2: go straight at it, and you go you do the
Speaker 2: thing you fear the most. And when you do that
Speaker 2: thing you fear the most, that's called faith. You open
Speaker 2: the door of the closet and the boogeyman isn't as
Speaker 2: big as you thought he was. You see, the fear
Speaker 2: is always worse than the reality. The fear of failure
Speaker 2: is worse than failure.
Speaker 3: Failures no big deal. You just get up and do it,
Speaker 3: stort over.
Speaker 2: The fear of rejection is worse than rejection. The fear
Speaker 2: of embarrassment is worse than embarrassment. Why because it goes
Speaker 2: on for hours and days and years, the embarrassment just
Speaker 2: a few seconds. The fear is always worse than reality.
Speaker 2: Fear is fea r false evidence appearing real. It's a fake,
Speaker 2: it's a cop out. It's a conjob. And it's spiritual
Speaker 2: oppression from Satan. He's putting those thoughts in your mind
Speaker 2: to try to make you afraid. I want you to
Speaker 2: write down the name of a person who you know
Speaker 2: is trapped by a fear or an addiction, or a compulsion,
Speaker 2: or a secret or a habit or a relation. Somebody
Speaker 2: you know they're really in prison, they're stretched out, they're trapped.
Speaker 2: And I want you to begin praying for them. Jesus says,
Speaker 2: that's what Christians come to do. Then number four, he says,
Speaker 2: I came toclaim recovery of sight to the blind.
Speaker 3: I love that word.
Speaker 2: Recovery, circle it because we believe and celebrate recovery. At
Speaker 2: Saddleback Church, God says part of jesus ministry is the
Speaker 2: ministry of recovery. And he says, I want to help
Speaker 2: people recover their site. Now what does that mean. It
Speaker 2: means you must be willing to offer insight to people
Speaker 2: who are spiritually blind or relationally blind, and remember the
Speaker 2: truth will set you free. How do you help blind
Speaker 2: people see the faults in their life? How do you
Speaker 2: help people see how they're messing up their life? You
Speaker 2: tell them the truth And let me tell you something.
Speaker 2: This is the hardest thing to do, but it's the
Speaker 2: most loving thing to do. Sometimes a surgeon has to
Speaker 2: cut yet to heal you. It doesn't do it good
Speaker 2: for surgeon to say, oh, you got cancer, just think
Speaker 2: happy thoughts. It'll all work out in the end.
Speaker 3: No, it won't.
Speaker 2: If you got cancer, you're gonna die of it unless
Speaker 2: somebody helps you. You're gonna die unless somebody cuts it
Speaker 2: out or does something with it. How many times have
Speaker 2: you seen a friend, a loved one, a brother, a sister,
Speaker 2: a parent, a friend at work and you see them
Speaker 2: making a stupid mistake like I'm gonna leave my husband.
Speaker 2: I'm going to leave my wife, but because God wants
Speaker 2: me to be happy, and you said nothing. Love tells
Speaker 2: the truth. Love cares enough to get in the face
Speaker 2: and say, I am not going to let you ruin
Speaker 2: your life. I am not gonna let you blow your life.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna make don't you make this stupid mistake.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna you're marrying the wrong person. Do not
Speaker 2: take those drugs, Do not accept that decision. Do not
Speaker 2: move in with that person. He said, it's none of
Speaker 2: my business. It is your business if you care. It
Speaker 2: is apathy. It is unlove that says silent. Love helps
Speaker 2: the blind to see by telling them the truth. And
Speaker 2: sometimes the most loving thing you can do is go
Speaker 2: to that person in your family who's manipulating everybody for
Speaker 2: several generations and say stop it. We're not gonna let
Speaker 2: you do this anymore. You're not gonna manipulate. There's gonna
Speaker 2: be some boundaries here, and I don't like it.
Speaker 3: And you don't like it.
Speaker 2: And this is painful, and it's painful, but we're not
Speaker 2: gonna let this go on. That's called love. Jesus said,
Speaker 2: I came to provide recovery of sight to the blind.
Speaker 2: I want you to write down the name of a
Speaker 2: person you need to tell the truth to. Who do
Speaker 2: you need to tell the truth to?
Speaker 3: Somebody?
Speaker 2: You know who's blind to the effect of their actions.
Speaker 2: They don't see it. They don't see what they're doing
Speaker 2: to the kids. They don't see what they're doing to you.
Speaker 2: They don't see what they're doing self defeating ways. They're
Speaker 2: in a fog. They're confused about which way to go.
Speaker 2: And you can invite them to your small group. You
Speaker 2: can invite them to church. You can give them a
Speaker 2: Christian book. You help them get the truth. By the way,
Speaker 2: speaking of Christian books in blindness, thought i'd show you
Speaker 2: this to you.
Speaker 3: This is the purpose driven life in braille. Isn't that cool? Yeah?
Speaker 3: In braille?
Speaker 2: And this part right here, I really like this part.
Speaker 2: It's really inspirational. I can feel I can feel the
Speaker 2: inspiration coming off that page. Recovery of Sight to the Blind. See,
Speaker 2: we're all blind in different areas. We need to invite
Speaker 2: people to help us.
Speaker 3: The truth will set us free. Watch this video.
Speaker 7: When I think of blindness, I don't automatically think of
Speaker 7: spiritual blindness. I think for me. I remember being in
Speaker 7: a school for the blind in Rwanda, and I'd never
Speaker 7: been in a place like this. It was just this
Speaker 7: basic little building and it was full of probably fifty
Speaker 7: mostly young men and women, who were blind.
Speaker 5: I'm an eighty five year old woman, and so my
Speaker 5: health is declining naturally, and my eyes aren't quite as
Speaker 5: good as they used to be. I don't walk quite
Speaker 5: as steadily as I used to walk.
Speaker 7: And what was so impactful to me about this was
Speaker 7: realizing that in our country, people who are blind have
Speaker 7: accesses and access to resources and braille and braille education
Speaker 7: and books. It's difficult. I don't mean to minimize it,
Speaker 7: but there's access. But suddenly, sitting in another place where
Speaker 7: they really had nothing, I saw them as forgotten. They
Speaker 7: were already and now they were struggling with being blind,
Speaker 7: and in the country that they lived in, that put
Speaker 7: them at the bottom of the rung of people who
Speaker 7: were cared for. They were forgotten.
Speaker 5: And I know that Jesus he met every need he
Speaker 5: could meet. If he saw those who were blind, he
Speaker 5: wanted to heal them. He saw those who were weak,
Speaker 5: he wanted to help them.
Speaker 7: Jesus took special pains to be with people who were blind,
Speaker 7: people who were deaf. I mean he intentionally. Yeah, lots
Speaker 7: of times they came to him, but he sought them
Speaker 7: out and he never pushed them away, and they were
Speaker 7: not forgotten ones to him. And it just cementted in
Speaker 7: my mind the fact that I believe our lives are
Speaker 7: to be about caring for the forgotten ones.
Speaker 5: I'm thankful that Jesus cares about all who were hurting
Speaker 5: in some way, and so I want to hurt for them.
Speaker 5: I want to hurt in that way that I can
Speaker 5: help them. I just have a tender heart for people
Speaker 5: who are hurting in those ways.
Speaker 2: There's a fifth theory that God says, I want you
Speaker 2: to care about fifth people, and he said that is
Speaker 2: I want you to release the oppressed. He said, that's
Speaker 2: what I came to do, release the oppressed. And God
Speaker 2: is saying here, I want you to care about the
Speaker 2: people in life who are kicked around, who are knocked around,
Speaker 2: who are picked on, who are put down. Do you
Speaker 2: know anybody like that at work? Of course you do
Speaker 2: you know anybody like that at school or in your neighborhood.
Speaker 2: Of course you do you know anybody like that in
Speaker 2: your family? Yes, where everybody piles on them, there's the
Speaker 2: easy target. They're joked about, either in their presence or behind.
Speaker 2: They're ridiculed, maybe for the language they have or the
Speaker 2: way they look different from you. Racial prejudice is real
Speaker 2: and it needs to be confronted and dealt with. The
Speaker 2: Bible says we are to release the oppressed. We are
Speaker 2: to help people who are who are you know, tend
Speaker 2: to be put down and taken for granted and made
Speaker 2: fun of, and things like that. God says, I want
Speaker 2: you to release the oppressed. And by the way, spiritual oppression,
Speaker 2: as I said, which is depression. You certainly know somebody
Speaker 2: who's depressed and they need your help.
Speaker 3: I want you to watch this last video.
Speaker 7: When I think of oppression, I think of some of
Speaker 7: the people I've met around the world. I think of
Speaker 7: the little girls that have been rescued from the sex
Speaker 7: trade that I met in Cambodia. I think of the
Speaker 7: women who were sold into prostitution in India and the
Speaker 7: hopelessness in both of them, the women saying, how could
Speaker 7: I leave this? What would I do differently? I have
Speaker 7: no hope, There's nothing, There's nothing else I know how
Speaker 7: to do. In our country, in even our church, there
Speaker 7: are women who are living in oppressive relationships. And as women,
Speaker 7: we need to take responsibility to make sure that we
Speaker 7: speak out God's message that that's not okay. And as men,
Speaker 7: as fathers raising your boys and raising your girls for
Speaker 7: the next generation, you need to make sure that you
Speaker 7: are modeling to them that that is not okay with God.
Speaker 7: That God treats women and children with dignity and with
Speaker 7: respect and with kindness, not with oppression. He is all
Speaker 7: about releasing oppression and helping us to live with the
Speaker 7: kind of a freedom that can only come when we
Speaker 7: are in relationship with Him.
Speaker 5: One of the saddest days of my life, I think
Speaker 5: was in my husband's life, was when we found out
Speaker 5: that our son was into drugs, and so we thought,
Speaker 5: you know, if we can't raise our own son right,
Speaker 5: then we don't have the right to be up teaching
Speaker 5: other people how to raise their kids, how to teach
Speaker 5: and live. And this was very hard for us. But
Speaker 5: the wonderful thing. The thing is that our friends in
Speaker 5: the church told us that's not right. You can still
Speaker 5: teach us. Go ahead and live your life and be strong,
Speaker 5: and we still believe in you. Failure doesn't have to
Speaker 5: be the end of things. The good thing is that
Speaker 5: he changed, he was able to break that and now
Speaker 5: has become a wonderful dad and a wonderful person. He's
Speaker 5: raising his son in a good way. And so the
Speaker 5: good part is that he's back.
Speaker 3: Now. Friends.
Speaker 2: What we've talked about today is the heart of Christianity.
Speaker 2: It's the core of our faith. It is what God
Speaker 2: wants us to do. The Bible tells us in Matthew
Speaker 2: twenty five that at that judgment, the one thing you're
Speaker 2: going to be judged on, at that particular judgment is
Speaker 2: how you treated other people. Yeah, you're gonna be judged
Speaker 2: on that, how you treated other people. Jesus said, I'll say,
Speaker 2: I was hungry and you fed me. I was thirsty
Speaker 2: and you gave me drink. I was naked and you
Speaker 2: clothed me. I was sick and in prison, and you
Speaker 2: visited me. And will say, when did we do that?
Speaker 3: Lord?
Speaker 2: And Jesus will say, when you did it to any
Speaker 2: of the least of my brothers. You did it to me.
Speaker 2: Who did Jesus come for, he said, I came. The
Speaker 2: doctor doesn't come for the healthy. The doctor comes for
Speaker 2: those who need who need help. I made a list
Speaker 2: of who Jesus came for. The chewed up, the crossed off,
Speaker 2: the crying out, the dropped out, the edged out, the
Speaker 2: freaked out, the have nots, the held back, the hungover,
Speaker 2: the knocked around and left out, the loaded down and
Speaker 2: looked over. Jesus came for the locked up, the led astray,
Speaker 2: the laid off, and the let down. He came from
Speaker 2: the messed up and the mixed up, and the passed
Speaker 2: over and the picked on, the penned down, the pushed around,
Speaker 2: the put down and the ripped off.
Speaker 3: It came down. The came for the runover and the rundown.
Speaker 2: The screwed up, the shrugged off, the shut in and
Speaker 2: the shutout. He came for the smashed up and the
Speaker 2: stacked against and the strung out. He came for the
Speaker 2: thrown away and the turned off, and the used up,
Speaker 2: and the walked over, the washed out, the worn out,
Speaker 2: the wiped out, and they're written off. He came for
Speaker 2: you now saddleback. We call doing these five things the
Speaker 2: Peace Plan. The peace plan that we're doing is not
Speaker 2: something that we do overseas. In fact, the last thing
Speaker 2: I want you to write this down is this peace
Speaker 2: is a lifestyle. Would you write that down? Peace is
Speaker 2: a lifestyle. It's not a project. It's not something you
Speaker 2: go somewhere and do and then you come back. Projects
Speaker 2: are good, that's good. But peace is a lifestyle. It
Speaker 2: is a lifestyle of doing these five things. Sharing the
Speaker 2: good news, healing the broken hearted, offering freedom, offering insight
Speaker 2: to those who need it, releasing the oppressed, giving justice.
Speaker 2: And that's what we do in the Peace Plan. To
Speaker 2: bring the good news to the spiritually poor and to
Speaker 2: heal the broken hearted. We promote reconciliation, get right with God,
Speaker 2: get right with other people. That brings healing to broken heartedness,
Speaker 2: and it brings spiritual bounty to spiritually poor people. Promoting
Speaker 2: reconciliation to release the oppressed and to empower the kicked around,
Speaker 2: and to offer insight to the blind and confused. We
Speaker 2: equip servant leaders who don't abuse, and don't oppress, and
Speaker 2: don't distress to bring good news to the materially poor.
Speaker 2: We assist the poor to heal the hurting, both physically
Speaker 2: and emotionally. We care for the sick and to release
Speaker 2: those who are oppressed by ignorance and imprisoned by a
Speaker 2: lack of education. We educate the next generation. What are
Speaker 2: we doing here at Satava? We just do what Jesus
Speaker 2: told us to do. It's a lifestyle wherever you are,
Speaker 2: and my challenge to you is that you will decide today.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be intentional about this and I'm going
Speaker 2: to be intense about this with the people God brings
Speaker 2: into my life this week, because these five categories.
Speaker 3: They're all around you. That's power. Heads.
Speaker 2: You're going to go on leading a self centered life
Speaker 2: and think only about yourself? Are you going to develop
Speaker 2: the kind of life where God says I'll take care
Speaker 2: of your needs when you take care of the needs
Speaker 2: of others. I want you to look. You look with
Speaker 2: your head bowed at your outline and look at the names.
Speaker 2: If you haven't filled a name in in any one
Speaker 2: of those, just fill it in. And I want us
Speaker 2: to pray for these people right now. Would you say, Lord,
Speaker 2: for this person who needs the good news.
Speaker 3: Help me to share it with them. And Lord.
Speaker 2: For this person who's broken hearted and down and discouraged
Speaker 2: and disappointed and feels rejected, feels hurting, help me to
Speaker 2: heal their hurt by offering love and comfort. And Father,
Speaker 2: for this person who needs freedom. They're trapped, they feel
Speaker 2: trapped in a relationship, trapped in an addiction, trapped by
Speaker 2: a secret, trapped by their fears. Help me to show
Speaker 2: them that the truth will set them free. For those
Speaker 2: who are confused, who are blind, who don't know which
Speaker 2: way to go, who don't know what to do with
Speaker 2: their lives, help me to point the way, to point
Speaker 2: them to the light of the world. Jesus, For the
Speaker 2: friends and the people in my life who are obviously
Speaker 2: kicked around. For the person who's unliked at work, who
Speaker 2: everybody makes fun of, who's put down and knocked around,
Speaker 2: help me to provide love and acceptance.
Speaker 3: And relief and release.
Speaker 2: Father, I want to practice the Peace Plan in my family,
Speaker 2: in my work as a lifestyle every day of my life.
Speaker 2: And then pray this prayer. Jesus Christ, thank you for
Speaker 2: doing these things with me. I need the good news
Speaker 2: in my life. I need you to replace my spiritual
Speaker 2: poverty with your spiritual blessing. I need you to heal
Speaker 2: my brokenness and my broken heart. I need you to
Speaker 2: give me freedom from the things that tie me down
Speaker 2: and trap me. I need you to give me insight
Speaker 2: when I'm blind and I don't see the truth.
Speaker 3: And I need you to release me.
Speaker 2: And help me recover from the things when I feel
Speaker 2: put down and kicked around. I want to be your
Speaker 2: instrument of peace in the world.
Speaker 3: Today. In your name, I pray Amen.
Speaker 1: What a great message from Pastor Rick today. There's something
Speaker 1: I always take away from his message. Here's Rick to
Speaker 1: tell you how you can help support this ministry.
Speaker 2: Jesus told his disciples that they should live their lives
Speaker 2: according to five specific purposes. He said, you've got to
Speaker 2: love God with all your heart. That's worship, and love
Speaker 2: your neighbors yourself. That's ministry. That's called the Great Commandment.
Speaker 2: And then Jesus said, go make disciples. That's evangelism. Baptize
Speaker 2: them into the Family of God. That's fellowship, a sign
Speaker 2: of fellowship. And then he said, teach them obey everything
Speaker 2: I've taught you. That's discipleship. And we call that the
Speaker 2: Great Commission. We believe it daily. Hope that a great
Speaker 2: commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will
Speaker 2: produce a great Christian, a great church, a great company,
Speaker 2: a great community. You know, I started Daily Hope so
Speaker 2: I could spread the good news about Jesus, not just
Speaker 2: across America, but all around the world. And we want
Speaker 2: people to know that God's word is filled with hope
Speaker 2: and truth and the power that we need to follow
Speaker 2: him every day is available to every single one. You
Speaker 2: know as well as I do, that the Word of
Speaker 2: God changes lives. It's a live it's active, and it
Speaker 2: breathes new life and new love into all of our lives.
Speaker 2: So wherever you listen to this, whether you listen on
Speaker 2: the website, whether you listen on a radio station, or
Speaker 2: whether you listen to a podcast, you're a part of
Speaker 2: the Daily Hope family, and I need your help. We
Speaker 2: could not do this without your support. We're one hundred
Speaker 2: percent listener funded. Would you continue to pray for this
Speaker 2: broadcast and would you continue to support us.
Speaker 3: And let write to me, let me hear from you.
Speaker 2: I absolutely love reading the stories that are sent to me.
Speaker 2: So write me, pray for me, and support this ministry,
Speaker 2: and God will bless it, and God will bless you
Speaker 2: and we'll get to heaven and we'll thank God for
Speaker 2: all the people going to be in heaven because you cared.
Speaker 1: Hey, if you'd like to support Pastor Rick's Daily Hope,
Speaker 1: just go to Pastorrick dot com. That's Pastor Rick dot com,
Speaker 1: or you can text the word hope to seven oh
Speaker 1: three oh nine.
Speaker 3: That's the word.
Speaker 1: Hope to seven oh three oh nine. And really, from
Speaker 1: the bottom of our hearts, we thank you so much
Speaker 1: for your support, your gift to Daily Hope. It helps
Speaker 1: us share the hope of Christ with people everywhere. Hey,
Speaker 1: be sure to join us next time when we look
Speaker 1: into God's word for our daily hope. This program is
Speaker 1: sponsored by Pastoris's Daily Hope and your generous financial support.