Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope with Rick Warren.
Speaker 1: We are so glad you're here with us.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: We're going to continue our series called The Keys to
Speaker 1: a Blessed Life.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: In these messages, Rick walks through Jesus' Sermon on the
Speaker 1: Mount and shows us how to live a truly hopeful
Speaker 1: and purpose filled life. And now Rick brings you the
Speaker 1: final part of why you need to stay hungry.
Speaker 2: The Bible says the wages of sin is death. That
Speaker 2: means somebody's got to pay for all the things I've
Speaker 2: done in life that hurt other people, hurt myself, hurt
Speaker 2: God and all you know, all of the things that
Speaker 2: I've done wrong in life, Somebody's got to pay for him,
Speaker 2: either me or somebody else. And the judge says, I'll
Speaker 2: be the Savior, and I'm going to come to earth
Speaker 2: in human form, and I'm going to die for your sins, Rick,
Speaker 2: So you don't have to go to hell, you don't
Speaker 2: have to pay for it. You can be with me forever.
Speaker 2: Do you understand? And why the Gospels called good news, Hello,
Speaker 2: It means everything you've ever done wrong in life, or
Speaker 2: ever will do wrong in life has already been paid
Speaker 2: for by Jesus Christ on the cross. He said, it
Speaker 2: is finished, not I'm finished. It's finished. What paying for
Speaker 2: all the sins of everybody? That's such good news. You see,
Speaker 2: this is the difference between Christianity and every other worldview, philosophy,
Speaker 2: or religion. Every other religion can be summed up in
Speaker 2: one word. It is the word do. And everybody just
Speaker 2: has their own to do list. And one religion says
Speaker 2: you got to do these things and God will think
Speaker 2: you're cool, and another religion says you got to do
Speaker 2: these things and God will think you're cool. Christianity is
Speaker 2: not summed up in the word do. It's summed up
Speaker 2: in the word done. It was done for you twenty
Speaker 2: and thirteen years ago on across by Jesus Christ. It
Speaker 2: is finished. It has all been done for you. Now
Speaker 2: load us. There's a book in the Bible that explains
Speaker 2: us in quite detail. It's the Book of Romans, and
Speaker 2: there are ten chapters that deal with this very issue.
Speaker 2: But Romans chapter three really gives a synopsis. Let me
Speaker 2: read you a little bit of it. There on your outline,
Speaker 2: for all has sinned, and all falls short of the
Speaker 2: God's glorious standard. In other words, we're none perfect. None
Speaker 2: of us measure up to God's standard. We don't even
Speaker 2: measure up to our own. Okay, now that's not good news.
Speaker 2: The fact, it's not even news because we all know
Speaker 2: that we're imperfect. Yet it says, here's the good news. Now, God,
Speaker 2: in his gracious kindness, that's his grace, declares us not guilty.
Speaker 2: Unrighteous becomes righteous. I'm now declared not guilty. He has
Speaker 2: done this not because of what I've done. He has
Speaker 2: done this through Christ, Jesus, who has freed us by
Speaker 2: taking away our sins. For God sends Jesus to take
Speaker 2: the punishment for our sins and to satisfy God's anger
Speaker 2: against us. We are made right with God. That's righteous.
Speaker 2: We're made right with God when we believe that Jesus
Speaker 2: shed his blood, sacrificing his life for us. That is
Speaker 2: the good news. Jesus gave us two symbols, and he said,
Speaker 2: I never want you to forget the sacrifice that I've
Speaker 2: done for you, so you can go to heaven. And
Speaker 2: he gave us two symbols. One's called baptism and one's
Speaker 2: called the Lord's Supper or communion. Baptism is a symbol
Speaker 2: of Jesus dying, being buried in the ground and raised again.
Speaker 2: That's why in the Bible, every baptism in the Bible
Speaker 2: is you're buried underwater and raised again, because it's the
Speaker 2: symbol of jesus death, burial, and resurrection. Jesus goes down
Speaker 2: to the Jordan River, is baptized by John, and comes
Speaker 2: back up. The other symbol is communion, where Jesus takes
Speaker 2: bread and wine and says, this is going to represent
Speaker 2: my body and my blood. And when he said it,
Speaker 2: he hadn't even gone to the cross yet. He said,
Speaker 2: this is my body and this is my blood which
Speaker 2: is given for you. Let me show you a couple
Speaker 2: of other verses. Two Corinthians, chapter five says this verse
Speaker 2: twenty one. God made Christ, who never sinned, to be
Speaker 2: the offering for our sin, so that we could be
Speaker 2: made right with God through Christ. And in the Old
Speaker 2: Testament there's an entire sacrificial system of the scapegoat and
Speaker 2: the sacrificial lamb who take the sins of the nation.
Speaker 2: It's the symbol of what Jesus would do for us.
Speaker 2: One day. Look at this verse on the screen Titus three,
Speaker 2: verse five. God saves us not because of righteous things
Speaker 2: we've done. In other words, Wow, I'm really impressed with that.
Speaker 2: God doesn't save us because of what we've done, but
Speaker 2: because of his mercy. So this is the good news. First,
Speaker 2: I can't make myself righteous. I can't make myself there's
Speaker 2: not a snowballs chance in hell you're getting into heaven
Speaker 2: on your own effort because you're not good enough, and
Speaker 2: neither am I. But good news, God sent Jesus to
Speaker 2: pay for my sins. Now here's the third part of
Speaker 2: the gospel. Write this down. I accept by faith what
Speaker 2: God did for me. I accept by faith what God
Speaker 2: did for me. That's all you have to do. That's
Speaker 2: all I'm required to do. I simply. All I do
Speaker 2: is accept God's grace, his mercy. I accept God's forgiveness,
Speaker 2: and I say, I believe that what Jesus did on
Speaker 2: the cross paid for my sins. So I can go
Speaker 2: and be a part of God's family. I can live
Speaker 2: the way he wants me to live now, and I'm
Speaker 2: going to have an eternity that is righteousness. Let me
Speaker 2: show you a couple verses Romans chapter three. We are
Speaker 2: made right in God's sight. That's righteousness when we do
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of good things. And that doesn't say
Speaker 2: that we're made right in God's sight when we trust
Speaker 2: in Jesus Christ to take away our sins. And I
Speaker 2: love this part. And here's the cool part. We can
Speaker 2: all be saved. That's everybody in the same way, no
Speaker 2: matter who we are or what we've done. All right,
Speaker 2: I like that part. I want to say hallelujah to
Speaker 2: that part. We can all be saved, nomember who we are,
Speaker 2: what we've done, who we've done it with, how long
Speaker 2: we've done it. All be saved now. I don't care
Speaker 2: what religious background you are. Your background may be Catholic,
Speaker 2: your background may be Baptist or Buddhist. Your background may
Speaker 2: be Muslim or Methodist, or Mormon or Pentecostal or Presbyterian.
Speaker 2: You and background may be atheist or agnostic or secularist,
Speaker 2: or no faith at all, or mix up of everything.
Speaker 2: I really couldn't care less about that, because religion, no religion,
Speaker 2: can get you to heaven. Only God's grace can get
Speaker 2: you to heaven. No amount of works can make you righteous,
Speaker 2: whether it's this guy's list or this guy's list or
Speaker 2: that guy's list. None of those religious lists can get
Speaker 2: you to heaven because you can't be righteous enough. It's
Speaker 2: just simply a relationship to God, to his son Jesus.
Speaker 2: And here's what the Bible says Romans chapter ten. If
Speaker 2: you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord. In
Speaker 2: other words, he is who he claimed to be. He's
Speaker 2: the Son of God, the savior of the world. He
Speaker 2: came to die for you. If you confess with your
Speaker 2: mouth that, yeah, I believe Jesus's Lord, and you believe
Speaker 2: in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
Speaker 2: That's what Easter is all about. You will be saved
Speaker 2: for you believe him. For you believe with your heart,
Speaker 2: resulting in righteousness, and you confess with your mouth, resulting
Speaker 2: in salvation. Now, I want you to say this issue
Speaker 2: this morning, as your friend, as somebody cares about you,
Speaker 2: as your pastor. I don't want you to ever doubt, ever, ever, ever,
Speaker 2: ever again that you're going to heaven when you die.
Speaker 2: I don't want you to worry about it. I don't
Speaker 2: want you to be concerned about it. I don't want
Speaker 2: you to have any doubts about it. So we're gonna
Speaker 2: do what Romans tends says to do. Confess with your
Speaker 2: mouth and believe in your heart you will be saved.
Speaker 2: Would God lie? Know why? Because God cannot lie? People
Speaker 2: haven't ask me is there anything God can do? There
Speaker 2: are a lot of things God can't do. One of
Speaker 2: them is he can't deny his character. So it means
Speaker 2: God cannot lie. God can only tell the truth. And
Speaker 2: what's true is always true, and what's false is always false.
Speaker 2: If truth wasn't always true, the universe wouldn't work. If
Speaker 2: law of gravity was only true on Tuesdays and Thursdays,
Speaker 2: that would be a problem. The universe operates because some
Speaker 2: things are always true and some things are always untrue.
Speaker 2: The moon is not made of cheese. You might want
Speaker 2: to think that, but it's not true. And so the
Speaker 2: Bible says, I am true. She's that I am the way,
Speaker 2: I am the truth, and I am the life. No
Speaker 2: one comes to the Father but by me. So I
Speaker 2: want you to settle this. I want you to have
Speaker 2: this assurance and never doubt again. Am I going to
Speaker 2: heaven when I die? What do you do? You accept
Speaker 2: the good news that we just talked about. So let's
Speaker 2: bow our heads right now. You may have been in
Speaker 2: church your entire life, for this may be the very
Speaker 2: first time you've ever been in a service. I want
Speaker 2: you to pray this prayer in your heart. Just say
Speaker 2: something like this, Dear God. I know I'm imperfect, and
Speaker 2: I know I never can be perfect. I can't be
Speaker 2: righteous on my own. And yet I thank you for
Speaker 2: loving me in spite of myself. I thank you that
Speaker 2: you made me, that you created me. I thank you
Speaker 2: that you have a plan and purpose for my life
Speaker 2: and you made me to know you. Thank you for
Speaker 2: the choice that you've given me to accept or reject,
Speaker 2: to love or not love you. And today I humbly
Speaker 2: ask you, humbly ask you to save me because of
Speaker 2: what Jesus Christ did for me. Not on the basis
Speaker 2: of what I have done or haven't done, but because
Speaker 2: on the basis of what Jesus came to do. Dear God,
Speaker 2: I don't understand it all, but as much as I
Speaker 2: know how, I want to put my trust in your son,
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. I want to get to know you. I
Speaker 2: want to learn to love you. I want to hunger
Speaker 2: and thirst for being right with you the rest of
Speaker 2: my life. And so I simply say that I put
Speaker 2: my trust not in my works, not in the good
Speaker 2: or the bad that I've done. But I put my
Speaker 2: trust in your grace and in your forgiveness. Jesus Christ,
Speaker 2: I want you to be the lord of my life. Amen.
Speaker 2: You know doctors say that a loss of appetite is
Speaker 2: a symptom that you're sick. You know that when you're sick,
Speaker 2: When you're ill, you don't feel good. The last thing
Speaker 2: you think about doing is eating. If you've got a fever,
Speaker 2: your stomach's upset. A loss of appetite indicates something's not
Speaker 2: right in your life. The same is true spiritually. If
Speaker 2: you don't have a hunger to know God. If you're
Speaker 2: not thirsty to know God, you're sick spiritually. You're not
Speaker 2: healthy spiritually. How do I maintain my spiritual hunger for
Speaker 2: God the rest of my life? I mean for the
Speaker 2: rest of my life, so that tomorrow I want to
Speaker 2: know God better than today. Week I want to be
Speaker 2: closer to Him than I am now, and next year
Speaker 2: I want to be wiser and closer to God than
Speaker 2: I am today. How do I maintain a spiritual appetite?
Speaker 2: Five things? Number one remind myself how much God loves me.
Speaker 2: And you need to do this every day you get
Speaker 2: up in the morning, say Lord, help me to remember
Speaker 2: how much you love me, because the more you understand
Speaker 2: how much God loves you, the more you're going to
Speaker 2: love him. I was talking to a guy one time
Speaker 2: and he said, I don't really feel close to God.
Speaker 2: But here's the problem, Pastor, I don't feel like I
Speaker 2: want to be close to God. And he said, I
Speaker 2: guess my problem is I just don't love Jesus enough.
Speaker 2: And I told him, I said, no, that's not your problem.
Speaker 2: Your problem is not that you don't love God enough.
Speaker 2: Your problem is you don't understand how much He loves you,
Speaker 2: because if you did, you couldn't help but love him.
Speaker 2: You want to hang out with somebody who's head over
Speaker 2: heels in love with you. The Bible says this. Ephesians three,
Speaker 2: pray that you have the power to understand how wide,
Speaker 2: how long, how high, and how deep God's love really is.
Speaker 2: May you experience this love of Christ, though it's so
Speaker 2: great you're never going to fully understand it, he says,
Speaker 2: Then then you're going to be filled with the fullness
Speaker 2: of life and the power that comes from God, hunger
Speaker 2: and thirst, righteousness, you'll be filled. First, you got to
Speaker 2: know how much God loves you. Remind yourself, God, help
Speaker 2: me to feel how much you love me. Number two
Speaker 2: second key to having a spiritual appetite. Stop filling up
Speaker 2: on junk food. Stop filling up on spiritual junk food.
Speaker 2: You're a spiritual being with a God shaped hole in you,
Speaker 2: and only God can fill that hole in your heart.
Speaker 2: And when you try to fill it with salary or
Speaker 2: status or success or sex or passion, possession in position, power, prestige,
Speaker 2: or anything other than God, it's not going to be fulfilling.
Speaker 2: If you're not hungry for God, it's because you're full
Speaker 2: of yourself, it's the truth or something else. And when
Speaker 2: you're full of yourself or full of something else, you're
Speaker 2: obviously not going to have a hunger for God. Proverbs
Speaker 2: fourteen fifteen fourteen says a wise person is hungry for truth,
Speaker 2: while the fool feeds on what. Sure, maybe you need
Speaker 2: to take some trash out of your life now. If
Speaker 2: you're always thinking about something else instead of God, you're
Speaker 2: not gonna have any time for God. If I'm always
Speaker 2: thinking about my sport or my favorite team. I don't
Speaker 2: have any hunger for God. If I'm always thinking about politics,
Speaker 2: I don't have any hunger for God. If I'm always
Speaker 2: thinking about work or making money or anything, I don't
Speaker 2: have any hunger for God because I'm feeding on other things.
Speaker 2: I'm filling my mind with other things. Okay, and I
Speaker 2: have this old routine every Thanksgiving. She says, No, honey,
Speaker 2: don't fill up on the appetizers before the big meal.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm talking about. You ever done that?
Speaker 2: You fill up on the appetizer in the big banquet
Speaker 2: and you're not even hungry for the banquet because you
Speaker 2: filled up on the little sausages or something. You've gone, really,
Speaker 2: I eat carrot sticks instead of this. You've done this
Speaker 2: in a restaurant where you fill up on you know,
Speaker 2: chips and salsa or bread and butter before the real
Speaker 2: meal gets there, and then you're not hungry. You got
Speaker 2: to stop feeding yourself, filling yourself on junk food. I
Speaker 2: love this Isaiah fifty five. God says this, all of
Speaker 2: you who are thirsty, come to me. Notice you didn't
Speaker 2: say come to religion, come to rules, regulations, Riche says,
Speaker 2: come to me. If you're thirsty, Come to me and
Speaker 2: drink God says those of you don't have any money
Speaker 2: to buy food, Come and eat free. Why do you
Speaker 2: spend your money on something that isn't real food and
Speaker 2: doesn't really satisfy you. Why are you wasting all your
Speaker 2: life on that. Come to me and eat what is good,
Speaker 2: and your soul will enjoy the stuff that really satisfies.
Speaker 2: When I see that phrase, most of the time, we're
Speaker 2: not eating real food. I read an article recently about
Speaker 2: how people are starving to death eating worthless food, and
Speaker 2: it gave it several illustrations. One of them was in China,
Speaker 2: in the Great Famine of China, there was no food
Speaker 2: and people were starving to death, and so they actually
Speaker 2: used a kind of edible soil. It was actually dirt,
Speaker 2: an edible kind of soil that they began to make
Speaker 2: bread out of and they would bake it and they
Speaker 2: would eat it, and it filled them up and they
Speaker 2: feel temporarily satisfied. Only it had no nutritional value to it,
Speaker 2: no vitamins, no mennerals, no carbohydrates, no proteins, no fats,
Speaker 2: and so it had no value. It filled them up,
Speaker 2: but they were still starving to death. Same thing happened
Speaker 2: in Australia when they had a great depression there and
Speaker 2: people had no food, and they went out to the
Speaker 2: they started making porridge out of the spores of navoo ferns.
Speaker 2: Now navoo ferns are very common, They're all over Australia.
Speaker 2: And they would take these pods or these spores and
Speaker 2: the nardoux plant, they would take it and make porridge
Speaker 2: out of it. The only problem was it had again
Speaker 2: no nutritional value, no fats, no carbohydrates, no proteins, no minerals,
Speaker 2: no vitamins, and so people were dying of starvation with
Speaker 2: full stomachs. Friends. That is a metaphor for America today.
Speaker 2: We are a nation of full stomachs and people are
Speaker 2: spiritually starving to death because they're eating junk food spiritually
Speaker 2: and has no nutritional value. And their stomachs may be
Speaker 2: full and they may be temporarily satisfied, but they're starving
Speaker 2: to death and they're gonna die. Number three. And by
Speaker 2: the way, you know this real food thing. Kay and
Speaker 2: I have this ritual. My Monday's my day off, so
Speaker 2: we like to go out to lunch or dinner on
Speaker 2: Monday and we play this game every week. It's the
Speaker 2: ritual of what are you hungry for? You ever had
Speaker 2: this ritual? Let's go out to eat. Okay, what are
Speaker 2: you hungry for? Mexican, Chinese food? You know, Indian food, tie,
Speaker 2: you know, Mediterranean? You know, you know you're hungry, but
Speaker 2: you don't know what you want. I want to ask
Speaker 2: you that question right now, what are you hungry for?
Speaker 2: Because whatever you're hungry for is determining the destined of
Speaker 2: your life. If you're just hungry to go play golf,
Speaker 2: it's not a big enough hunger to satisfy you. If
Speaker 2: you're just hungry to go make another deal, that's not
Speaker 2: enough to satisfy you. Go ask Solomon. You need to
Speaker 2: hunger and thirst after God to be right with God
Speaker 2: and to live right with God. Number three, make knowing
Speaker 2: God my number one goal. This is how you maintain
Speaker 2: a spiritual hunger. You make knowing God your number one
Speaker 2: goal in life. Not success, not happiness. You seek God,
Speaker 2: not those things. Those are the byproducts. Happiness is a
Speaker 2: byproduct of knowing God. And you go read the Psalms,
Speaker 2: how David says God, I really got to know you,
Speaker 2: and how passionate David is about knowing God. He says,
Speaker 2: I long for you God. I thirst for you. God.
Speaker 2: I hunger for you, God. I beg I plead, I
Speaker 2: cry out. I must have you God, Psalm sixty three.
Speaker 2: Oh God, I earn it, seek you. My soul thirst
Speaker 2: for you, my body longs for you as I travel
Speaker 2: through this parched and weary desert where there's no water.
Speaker 2: He wrote this in the Desert of Judah. Some of
Speaker 2: you are going through a desert right now. You're in
Speaker 2: a desert. In your marriage, it's all dried up. You're
Speaker 2: in a desert. In your career, it's all dried up.
Speaker 2: You're in a desert in a relationship. You're in a desert. Financially,
Speaker 2: it's all dried up. What do you do when you're
Speaker 2: in the desert. You hunger and thirst for God because
Speaker 2: he can fill you. Matthew six thirty three. Jesus said,
Speaker 2: the thing that you should want most is God's kingdom
Speaker 2: and doing what God wants, then all these other things
Speaker 2: you need will be given to you as well. Make
Speaker 2: knowing God my number one goal. Number four. Get into
Speaker 2: God's word every day. Get into God's word every day.
Speaker 2: This book, the Bible is your soul food. It's food
Speaker 2: for your soul. The Bible calls itself bread. The Word
Speaker 2: of God is milk. The Word of God is meat.
Speaker 2: The Word of God is food. The Word of God
Speaker 2: is honey. The Bible uses metaphors saying, you can't live
Speaker 2: without man shall not live by bread of loan, but
Speaker 2: by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
Speaker 2: Jesus said first Peter two, you must crave the pure
Speaker 2: spiritual milk of the Word so you can grow into
Speaker 2: the fullness of your salvation. Cry out for this nourishment
Speaker 2: like a baby cries for milk. When we did the
Speaker 2: series on forty days in the Word, I showed you
Speaker 2: this verse. Second Timothy says, this all scripture is God
Speaker 2: breed that is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and notice,
Speaker 2: training in righteousness, hunger and thirst righteous. How do you
Speaker 2: learn righteous by getting into this book? Now, I noticed
Speaker 2: I said get into the book every day. I didn't
Speaker 2: say read it every day. Some of you don't like
Speaker 2: to read, Fine, listen to it. You can listen to
Speaker 2: it every day. You can get it on CD or
Speaker 2: MP three, or you can get daily. Hope that I'm
Speaker 2: teaching the Word of God every day. You can hear
Speaker 2: it on the radio, you can listen on the web
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Speaker 2: getting into the Word every day. Eating a meal once
Speaker 2: a week won't keep you healthy. You need to feed
Speaker 2: on the truth every day. Now, here's the last thing
Speaker 2: I want to say, and we'll close of this. Appetite
Speaker 2: is influenced by association. For instance, you get a bunch
Speaker 2: of kids together and one kid says, I'm hungry. What
Speaker 2: are all the kids say I'm hungry? Yeah? You know.
Speaker 2: If I say to you man, I'm really hungry for
Speaker 2: and I say a sinnabon, some of you get hungry
Speaker 2: for a Cinnabonka. Appetite is influenced by association. So if
Speaker 2: you want to keep a spiritual appetite for God the
Speaker 2: rest of your life, here's the last thing. Join a
Speaker 2: small group for support. Join a small group for support,
Speaker 2: because whoever you get around with is what you're going
Speaker 2: to be hungry for. Proverbs two twenty. Join the company
Speaker 2: of good men and women who will keep you on
Speaker 2: the path of the righteous. Now, if you hang out
Speaker 2: with people who All they care about is politics. That's
Speaker 2: all you're going to care about. If you hang out
Speaker 2: with people all they care about is sports, that's what
Speaker 2: you're going to care about. If you hang out with
Speaker 2: people all they care about is a stock market, that's
Speaker 2: what you're going to care about. But if you hang
Speaker 2: out with people who are hungry to know God, that's
Speaker 2: what you're going to care about. You need to get
Speaker 2: in a small group that's power heads. And let's close
Speaker 2: with a simple prayer. It simply says this, God, I
Speaker 2: want you, I need you, and I must have you
Speaker 2: in my life. Would you say that God, I want you,
Speaker 2: I need you, and I must have you in my life. Father,
Speaker 2: this week, I pray a blessing on everyone here that
Speaker 2: we would sense your closeness, that would realize how much
Speaker 2: you love us, that we would make knowing you the
Speaker 2: number one goal of our lives. That we would stop
Speaker 2: feeding on junk food. Help us to get into God's
Speaker 2: word every day, help us to get around people who
Speaker 2: put us on the path of righteousness rather than distracting
Speaker 2: and deterring us. And I pray this blessing in Jesus' name. Amen.
Speaker 2: You know if you just prayed that prayer for the
Speaker 2: very first time, or you just recommitted your life to
Speaker 2: Jesus again today, would you let me know about it.
Speaker 2: There's something real about sharing your commitment. So write me
Speaker 2: Rick at pastor Rick dot com and say, Rick, I
Speaker 2: prayed that prayer of commitment, I gave my life to Christ.
Speaker 2: And I'll send you some material that will help you
Speaker 2: on your journey with Jesus, and I'll also pray for you.
Speaker 2: God bless you.
Speaker 1: Hey, thanks so much for being with us today and
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Speaker 2: You know, when I started Saddleback Church over forty years ago,
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Speaker 2: a God's love, his unconditional love for you, and his
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Speaker 2: a few minutes a day in the morning with the Lord,
Speaker 2: it can bring so much more clarity, more purpose, more
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Speaker 2: five minutes of your day pretty much sets the tone. So, friend,
Speaker 2: you were never meant to go through life alone. I
Speaker 2: want to personally invite you to just sign up for
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Speaker 2: going to bring fresh encouragement to your walk in God.
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Speaker 1: we look into God's word for our daily hope. This
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