Speaker 1: Hello, and thanks for joining us here on Pastor Rick's
Speaker 1: Daily Hope. Well today we continue in our series called
Speaker 1: God's Prescription for a Healthy Life. In it, Pastor Rick
Speaker 1: will show you how to improve your health physically, spiritually,
Speaker 1: relationally and emotionally by applying the five essentials needed for.
Speaker 2: A more vibrant life.
Speaker 1: If you want to have what it takes to live
Speaker 1: out your calling in life, stay with us for this
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Speaker 1: Here's Pastor Rick with the final part of a message
Speaker 1: called winning with the hand you are.
Speaker 2: Dealt Number three. The third.
Speaker 3: Are the circumstances of life, the trauma, the trouble, the pain,
Speaker 3: the pressure, the problems, the stress, you know, the.
Speaker 2: Suffering in my life. What do I do this? Number three?
Speaker 3: I can choose to trust God no matter what happens.
Speaker 3: I can choose to trust God regardless of my circumstance,
Speaker 3: and that gives you an identity nobody else is going
Speaker 3: to have Romans eight, twenty seven to twenty nine. I
Speaker 3: love this in the message. God knows us far better
Speaker 3: than we know ourselves. That's why we should trust him,
Speaker 3: not our own judgment. God knows us far better than
Speaker 3: we trust ourselves, so he knows better for.
Speaker 2: Me than I do.
Speaker 3: He knows us far better than we know ourselves. That's
Speaker 3: why we can be so sure that every detail in
Speaker 3: our lives of love for God circle, every detail, every
Speaker 3: detail in our lives of love for God is worked
Speaker 3: into something good. It's not all good, but it can
Speaker 3: be worked into something good. God knew what he was
Speaker 3: doing from the very beginning. I didn't, but he decided
Speaker 3: from the outset to shape the lives of those who
Speaker 3: love him, that's you and me, along the same lines
Speaker 3: as the life of his son. God's goal is to
Speaker 3: make me to make you like Jesus, his son. The
Speaker 3: son Jesus stands first in the line of humanity. He restored,
Speaker 3: and we see the original and intended shape of our
Speaker 3: lives there in him. God wants to use every circumstance
Speaker 3: in my life to make me like Jesus. So psal,
Speaker 3: I'm thirty four to one. I will praise the Lord
Speaker 3: no matter what happens. My friends, when you get to
Speaker 3: that point, that's a choice. When you could say I
Speaker 3: will praise the Lord no matter what happens, it's the consisses.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Come on, hit me, hit me with your best shot.
Speaker 2: I will praise the Lord no matter what happens.
Speaker 3: That is a confidence that is not built on money
Speaker 3: or sex, or status or passion, possession, position, or it's
Speaker 3: built on my relationship to God. And that can't be
Speaker 3: taken from me. And I will praise the Lord no
Speaker 3: matter what. And that is a confidence you can't get.
Speaker 2: Anywhere else in the world.
Speaker 3: And when you have that kind of confidence, you are
Speaker 3: an amazing woman and you are an amazing man, because
Speaker 3: most people never get that kind of confidence. But it's
Speaker 3: an identity you're not gonna get anywhere else. I want
Speaker 3: you to write this down on your outline. I am
Speaker 3: a product of my past, but I'm not a prisoner
Speaker 3: of it. I am a product of my past. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it has influenced me. My chemistry, my connections, my circumstances,
Speaker 3: They've all influenced me. I'm a product of my past,
Speaker 3: but I am not a prisoner of it, and I
Speaker 3: can be different. That leads me to number four, And
Speaker 3: this is a big one, the fourth choice.
Speaker 2: I can choose what I think about now.
Speaker 3: I can't choose what other people say about me or
Speaker 3: what they say to me, But I can't choose what
Speaker 3: I continue to allow in my mind. Yourself is created
Speaker 3: by your memories. You know, I've studied this for years.
Speaker 3: I'm fascinated with the brain since I was born with
Speaker 3: a brain dysfunction and has forced me to be dependent
Speaker 3: upon God. Your memories actually come from two different parts
Speaker 3: of your brain.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: The badful memories, the painful memories, the memories of shame,
Speaker 3: the memories of guilt, the memories of anger, the memories
Speaker 3: of embarrassment, they're all up there in the amygdala. Your
Speaker 3: happy memories are in another part. You know what those
Speaker 3: other memories they're never going away. But you can overwrite them.
Speaker 3: You can overwrite them, and I can choose what I
Speaker 3: think about. Yourself is created by your memories, and your
Speaker 3: memories are created by your mental habits, the way you
Speaker 3: choose to think. Every time you think a thought, it
Speaker 3: creates an electrical current across your brain. It's kind of
Speaker 3: like if I were able to take the top of
Speaker 3: my head off and show you if I think of
Speaker 3: thought every time I think that same thought.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like this.
Speaker 3: Okay, kind of looks like me, doesn't it. Okay, that thought.
Speaker 3: The electrical current goes across your brain when you think
Speaker 3: of it creates a pattern. You think it again, a
Speaker 3: bigger pattern. When you think a thought a thousand times,
Speaker 3: it creates a rut. Some of you have a grand
Speaker 3: canyon of doubt in your mind. Some of you have
Speaker 3: a grand canyon of depression in your mind. Now, for years,
Speaker 3: there wasn't a whole lot of hope that anything could happen,
Speaker 3: because for years science has taught, in fact, the entire
Speaker 3: twentieth century, everybody thought that the adult brain could not
Speaker 3: be changed. This is a standard you read any science
Speaker 3: textbook that your brain was pretty much formed as a
Speaker 3: child in infancy and then became much more a little
Speaker 3: more formed in childhood, and by the time you got
Speaker 3: to be an adolescent, your brain was pretty much shaped
Speaker 3: and formed. And for the entire twentieth century people basically
Speaker 3: believed the adult brain cannot be changed. But then a
Speaker 3: guy won the two thousand and two Nobel Prize in Neurobiology,
Speaker 3: reproving that you can rewire the adult brain. You can
Speaker 3: change your brain. It is elastic, it is not in concrete,
Speaker 3: and your brain can change, and it can be rewired
Speaker 3: regardless of what's happened in your past. You can change now.
Speaker 3: It's great that science finally caught up with the Bible,
Speaker 3: because two thousand years earlier, in Romans twelve, God said this,
Speaker 3: don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, the
Speaker 3: habits and their pattern of thinking. But let God transform you.
Speaker 3: Change your mind, change your brain, transform you. You know
Speaker 3: what that word transform is in Greek metamorphosis. It's a
Speaker 3: Greek word metamorphosis. It's what a cocoon goes through to
Speaker 3: become a butterfly. Let God turn you from a caterpillar
Speaker 3: to a butterfly. Let God metamorphosize your brain. Let him
Speaker 3: transform you into a new person by changing the way
Speaker 3: you think, change your brain, change your life.
Speaker 2: How do you do that?
Speaker 3: You must feed your brain with truth. Whatever you feed
Speaker 3: your brain garbage in, garbage out. Now in your brain,
Speaker 3: you've got this scale between the negative and the positive,
Speaker 3: and everything in the world is putting negative in your life.
Speaker 3: You're no good, you're worthless, you don't amount to much,
Speaker 3: you're not sexy, you're not coordinated, you're not smart, you're
Speaker 3: not athletic.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah wow wah wow,
Speaker 2: wah whah.
Speaker 3: And it's adding all these things. And on this scale,
Speaker 3: you're putting pebbles of truth, positive pebbles of truth on
Speaker 3: one side of your brain, or you're putting negative pebbles
Speaker 3: of the world's lies on Satan's lies in your life. Now,
Speaker 3: when you get more negative thoughts in your life than
Speaker 3: positive thoughts, the truth of God's word and the scale
Speaker 3: tips like this, the negative got up the most. That's
Speaker 3: called depression. You gotta change it.
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Speaker 5: The truth is most of us don't pay much attention
Speaker 5: to our health until something goes wrong. We put on
Speaker 5: a couple of pounds every year and think no big deal, right,
Speaker 5: But a few pounds over five or ten years really
Speaker 5: adds up and it can even lead to major illnesses
Speaker 5: like diabetes and heart disease. That's why Pastor Rick work
Speaker 5: together with medical and fitness experts to create the Daniel
Speaker 5: Plan Study. The sixth session DVD and workbook study kit
Speaker 5: from Rick Warren, doctor Daniel Amen, and doctor Mark Hyman
Speaker 5: is an out of the box approach to a healthy
Speaker 5: lifestyle based on five is cent faith, food, fitness, focus,
Speaker 5: and friends. The Daniel Plan Study gives individuals in small
Speaker 5: groups the encouragement and accountability needed to succeed. If you've
Speaker 5: been watching the scale go up lately, or your health
Speaker 5: is in trouble because of your weight, it's not too late.
Speaker 5: Join the thousands of people who've lost weight, improve their
Speaker 5: health and improved their relationships through the Daniel Plan. We'll
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Speaker 1: Once again, here's Rick.
Speaker 3: Now, when you get more negative thoughts in your life,
Speaker 3: then positive thoughts the truth of God's Word and the
Speaker 3: scale tips like this. The negatives got the most. That's
Speaker 3: called depression. You got to change it. Now, how do
Speaker 3: you change it? By putting pebbles of truth in your mind?
Speaker 3: And I'm not just talking about coming on Sunday. You
Speaker 3: feed your mind in the Word of God. You read it,
Speaker 3: you memorize it, you meditate it, You do the forty
Speaker 3: days in the words stuff we talked about, and you
Speaker 3: write little cards down and you memorize the Word of God,
Speaker 3: and you write out affirmations based on the Word, and
Speaker 3: you feed your mind. And the more you every time
Speaker 3: you put these pebbles, suddenly the.
Speaker 2: Scales start telthing.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: And when you get here where they're equal and you
Speaker 3: have as many negatives as you have positive. You know
Speaker 3: how you feel, you don't you feel nothing? You say
Speaker 3: I feel empty, I feel blah. Well, congratulations, you've moved
Speaker 3: from depression. Okay, you say I don't feel anything. I'm
Speaker 3: not happy, but I'm just not sad anymore. Fine, you've
Speaker 3: moved to hear. That's called blah. But the more you
Speaker 3: keep feeding your mind with the word of God, that's
Speaker 3: a technical term, it's in the dictionary. The more you
Speaker 3: feed your mind with the world of God, all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, when you get like this, that's called happiness.
Speaker 3: And happiness is a choice. Don't blame anybody else for
Speaker 3: your unhappiness. You're as happy as you choose to think.
Speaker 3: You're as happy as you choose to believe. You're as
Speaker 3: happy as you choose to fill your mind with the
Speaker 3: right things Philippians four eight. Here on the screen, dear
Speaker 3: brothers and sisters, let me say one more thing as
Speaker 3: I close this letter. Fix your thoughts. That means intentional.
Speaker 3: It's an intentional focus. Fix your thoughts. Fix your thoughts
Speaker 3: on what is true and honorable and right. You need
Speaker 3: to fill your mind with the truth, not lies. You
Speaker 3: need to mind fill your mind with what's honorable, with
Speaker 3: the right thing, not the wrong thing. Think about things
Speaker 3: that are pure and lovely and admirable. That doesn't sound
Speaker 3: like television. Not many admirable, pure and lovely things on television.
Speaker 3: Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.
Speaker 3: That means you get the garbage out of your life.
Speaker 3: You don't watch junk TV. There's some movies you don't
Speaker 3: go to, and there's a lot of books you just
Speaker 3: don't read because you think about things that are excellent
Speaker 3: and worthy of praise. Now, let me give you a
Speaker 3: suggestion on how.
Speaker 2: To do this.
Speaker 3: Those of you who are interior decorators are going to
Speaker 3: hate me for this. Don't put stuff on your walls
Speaker 3: that doesn't inspire you. Don't put stuff on your walls
Speaker 3: that doesn't mean anything to you. Surround yourself visually and
Speaker 3: orally with things that create good memories that tell you
Speaker 3: who you are and tell you whose you are, so
Speaker 3: you see it.
Speaker 2: All the time.
Speaker 3: Put the Word of God on your walls. Put promises
Speaker 3: on the wall, Put beautiful sunsets on the old. Put
Speaker 3: whatever inspires you. Put things that create the positive memories
Speaker 3: in your life. To reinforce those things the best of
Speaker 3: both worlds is to take a positive memory from your
Speaker 3: past and put a scripture on it. I was talking
Speaker 3: to the guy I work out with every day, and
Speaker 3: he was showing me that he grew up on a
Speaker 3: farm in Nebraska, and he took this beautiful picture of
Speaker 3: the pathway down from his old house, and at the
Speaker 3: bottom he wrote a scripture on I will follow your paths,
Speaker 3: O Lord. That's combining a beautiful memory with the word
Speaker 3: of God, and that double reinforces it in his mind.
Speaker 3: You can rewire your brain.
Speaker 2: You can. It's a choice.
Speaker 3: I can choose what I think about. I can choose
Speaker 3: my consciousness. Now there's one more choice that I can make,
Speaker 3: and remember, the fifth card is the wild card. This
Speaker 3: is the wild card that can change the number and
Speaker 3: the suit of the color of every other card that
Speaker 3: I've been dealt. And the fifth choice that I can
Speaker 3: choose is this. I can choose Jesus as my savior.
Speaker 3: And when I talk about savior, I'm not just talking
Speaker 3: about saving you out of hell and into heaven. I'm
Speaker 3: not just talking about saving you from your sins and
Speaker 3: forgiving you. You ought to have done that. If you
Speaker 3: haven't done that, you need to settle that one today.
Speaker 3: That's the first thing. But I'm talking about letting Jesus
Speaker 3: be your savior every day. This changes everything because when
Speaker 3: I choose Jesus as my savior every day, I get
Speaker 3: the power to follow through on these choices. I can
Speaker 3: make these choices, but I'm not going to stick with
Speaker 3: them on willpower. I've got to make choices and then
Speaker 3: depend on Jesus to give me the power to do
Speaker 3: these things.
Speaker 2: I choose them as my savior.
Speaker 3: And I said, hey, Jesus, I need you to save
Speaker 3: me from my chemistry. I need you to save me
Speaker 3: from my physical, emotional, mental defects.
Speaker 2: I need your.
Speaker 3: Salvation in my heart, body, mind. Jesus, I need you
Speaker 3: to save my relationships. They're going south. I need you
Speaker 3: to save me to have healthy relationships, not hurtful harmfulness.
Speaker 3: And Jesus, I need you to save me from my circumstances,
Speaker 3: from the problems, from the pressures, from the trauma, from
Speaker 3: the trouble. And Jesus, I need you to save my
Speaker 3: mind and help put a guard up there, help me
Speaker 3: put on the helmet of salvation.
Speaker 2: What's a helmet for? To guard your mind?
Speaker 3: So you've protected you from the thoughts that come in
Speaker 3: and influence because your mind controls your life. I need
Speaker 3: you to save me, Jesus, I need you to save me.
Speaker 3: Not from sin, I need you to save me from myself.
Speaker 3: The Bible says this on the screen. When someone becomes
Speaker 3: a Christian, he becomes a brand new person. Inside. He's
Speaker 3: not the same anymore. A new life has been done.
Speaker 3: It's like being born again. It's like starting over. That's
Speaker 3: a whole new identity. Now you think that you're waiting
Speaker 3: on God to change something in your life. God, I've
Speaker 3: really wanted to be married.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 3: I've really wanted to get healthier. God, I've really wanted.
Speaker 2: To have that job.
Speaker 3: God, all those things that you think you're waiting on
Speaker 3: God for God says, I'm waiting on you to use
Speaker 3: the wild card I gave you, because according to your faith,
Speaker 3: it will be done unto you.
Speaker 2: Pray this prayer, Dear God.
Speaker 3: There are some things in my hand that you've dealt me,
Speaker 3: and that life has dealt me, and that others have
Speaker 3: dealt me that I don't like. But I thank you
Speaker 3: for the wild card that you made me in your image,
Speaker 3: and I can make choices. So today in your power
Speaker 3: and in your strength, I choose to get healthier. I
Speaker 3: choose to do the things that will give me more
Speaker 3: energy and a healthier body, and a healthier mind and
Speaker 3: healthier emotions.
Speaker 2: You made my body.
Speaker 3: Lord, Now give me sense to heed your laws, and
Speaker 3: you think about what you need to do in a
Speaker 3: practical way to get healthy or healthier. Then say, Lord,
Speaker 3: I choose to build healthy relationships. I am so scared
Speaker 3: to death, but I'm going to risk building some new
Speaker 3: healthy connections.
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3: I want my heart to be filled with you by faith,
Speaker 3: and I want to be strong in love, and I
Speaker 3: want to.
Speaker 2: Be built on love.
Speaker 3: Dear God, thank you that I can choose, and I
Speaker 3: do choose what I think about. No more garbage in
Speaker 3: my mind, no more junk, no more pornography, no more
Speaker 3: gross stuff. I choose to think about what you want
Speaker 3: me to think about. Most of all, Jesus, I choose
Speaker 3: you as my savior, and I pray this in the
Speaker 3: name of my Savior, Jesus.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 3: Hi, everybody, this is Rick and I hope you enjoyed
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Speaker 1: the truth is that most of us don't pay much
Speaker 1: attention to our health until something goes wrong. We put
Speaker 1: on a couple of pounds every year and think no
Speaker 1: big deal, right, But a few pounds over five or
Speaker 1: ten years can really add up. That's why Pastor Rick
Speaker 1: Warren has put together the Daniel Plan DVD study kit.
Speaker 1: This sixth session video based study by Rick Warren, doctor
Speaker 1: Daniel Ayman and doctor Mark Hyman is an out of
Speaker 1: the box approach to a healthy lifestyle based on five essentials, faith, food, fitness, focus,
Speaker 1: and friends. The Daniel Planned Study Kit gives individuals the
Speaker 1: encouragement and accountability needed to succeed. If you've been watching
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Speaker 1: trouble because of your weight, it's not too late to join.
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